Sentences with phrase «come a long way from»

Amazon has come a long way from selling books and AmazonBasics is a true testament to that.

Rogoff has come a long way from those days in the»70s when he and his colleagues couldn't imagine central banks even considering negative rates.

Regardless, Laliberté has come a long way from his origins as a busker: He used to earn money juggling, fire eating and playing accordion on the streets of Quebec.

If that intense three - day course (in which each trainee makes eight videotaped presentations and gets a private critique) is any measure, Dale Carnegie Training has come a long way from the days of winning friends and influencing people.

With eye - popping graphics and innovative gameplay, we've come a long way from Pong.

We'd say the pair, tight since childhood, have come a long way from tinkering with toy robots and Legos, wouldn't you?

She has come a long way from the day she fled Cuba with her parents in 1967 at five years of age.

Campbell, at $ 12 million in sales, has come a long way from the mysterious stacks of prospects that Colby first faced; the company has recently been coming within 10 % of its annual sales target.

She turned a small real estate venture into a multimillion dollar industry in Manhattan, and has come a long way from humble beginnings.

John Sculley's Misfit has come a long way from just being a wearable company.

He's come a long way from steamy porn sets and peddling hot sandwiches on the sidewalk.

«I have come a long way from the life I had in the late»90s, when, flush with cash from an Internet start - up sale, I had a giant house crammed with stuff — electronics and cars and appliances and gadgets,» he wrote.

Further, professional space has come a long way from jobseekers waiting in long queues of employment exchanges to recruiters now seeking out hires through professional social networks.

VCs have come a long way from the suit - clad bankers and lawyers who didn't appear to have any idea of what your industry was all about.

Five years later, the company has come a long way from those creepy black curtains: Sales in 2016 reached more than $ 150 million.

St. Pierre says pot might not determine the election, but marijuana has come a long way from its murderous rep in Reefer Madness and its fight - the - man role in the 1960s, to its current status as the sexiest industry in the U.S.

As Chris points out in his post, we've come a long way from the dotcom bubble of the nineties.

It has come a long way from its beginnings as an online bookstore — it is now not only a one - stop shop where you can buy Tuscan milk, underwear, and an array of Amazon - built gadgets, but also an incredibly profitable technological services company that is making inroads into health care, banking, and brick - and - mortar retail.

We have come a long way from our view of Asia as a region at the very edge of our awareness in 1984.

Having come a long way from its humble beginnings in 2011, Snapchat has transformed into a tool that's no longer proprietary just to smartphone - savvy teens sending scandalous photos — it's now a way for innovative and forward - thinking marketers who want a creative way to reach their audience to do just that.

Store brands have come a long way from their copycat days, when they confined themselves mostly to yellow boxes of faux Cheerios and black - and - white cans labeled «beans.»

Online businesses, since they started seeing the light of day in mid-2000, have come a long way from being a mere marketplace to one that goes a step ahead in walking the last mile with a customer.

We started calculating our personal savings rate two years ago and have come a long way from saving little.

«We have come a long way from the free trade boogeyman of the 1980s,» Oliver said in a prepared text.

We've come a long way from burning witches and shunning atheists.

Again, sadly, the church is trailing far beyond society in equality for women, though we have come a long way from the women as property upheld in the Old Testament and still prevalent in many other parts of the world today.

This great country has come a long way from when Jews had to choose between their jobs and the Ten Commandments.

Sorry friend, America might have started as some English colonies, but we've come a long way from that and there's a reason why we don't have a national language, furthermore our schools are going to sh.it because the government is cutting funding, NOT because people have stopped reading.

We have come a long way from the catacombs to the basilicas, from the brush arbors to the cathedrals.

As the dominant mythmaker of our time, television has come a long way from what Newton Minow called the «vast wasteland» of the 1960's.

Like I said high and mighty and sure we came a long way from the early 19th century to place judgment on others thats another reason why we are still lost as Isrellites.

Outlook Group has come a long way from its origins printing baseball and Trivial Pursuit cards during the early 1980s.

Coca - Cola Consolidated has come a long way from the humble beginnings of its 1902 founding by the current chairman «s great - grandfather, J.B. Harrison.

I've come a long way from my days of being a picky eater, but still appreciate basic meals like this one My recent post Raspberry Streusel Pancakes

I've come a long way from how I used to originally prepare my skirt steak and a little seasoning plus a quick cook to toss in some tacos is my preferred method these days.

As I cleaned and soaked the cannelinis and referred to Jerry Traunfeld's recipe in The Herbfarm Cookbook, I thought that my beans had come a long way from that farmhouse table.

B Roberts Foods has come a long way from that home oven.

«We have come a long way from our original counter service concept,» Vice President of Marketing Danny DiGiacomo says.

Keith Richards has come a long way from frying chicken, slicing tomatoes and making salad when he was 18 years old working for a café in the local Kmart.

Charley & Sons has come a long way from selling and cutting meat.

Chocolate bars have come a long way from their milk - heavy origins.

Walker & Sons» Slap Ya Mama has come a long way from its origins as a brand with a memorable name representing some of the most authentic Cajun products on the market.

But I got lured in by the fact that this recipe called for non-standard ingredients like vanilla bean and coconut oil, and I already had both of them on hand; I've come a long way from the days when I had to check to see if I had baking powder before I made anything.

I have come a long way from my childhood

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We've come a long way from our beginnings in 1868.

We have definitely come a long way from our freezer meal days.

I'm thankful for my hippy parents because they taught me the importance of living healthy and eating clean... although we have come a long way from those bran muffin days into grain - free lifestyles!

Charlotte Willis gives us her ultimate guide to choosing your ideal plant - based protein powder... Protein powders have come a long way from the odd - looking, milk - based chalks found pre-mixed into the workout More...

Either way you spell it, these fluffy (or cakey) little rings of love are a classic American breakfast treat and have come a long way from plain glazed.