Sentences with phrase «decade bore fruit»

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Like his analogy, I was faithfully planting acorns, patiently clinging to the promise that decades later they may bear fruit in the form of an oak tree in the lives of healthy people and healthy churches.

Although I had been teaching Kierkegaard seminars for many years and had lived in constant companionship with his authorship, the perennial Kierkegaardian side of my work did not bear visible fruit until I completed a work on Kierkegaard's parables, which was fully two decades in the making.8 No twentieth century psychologist has influenced my psychology as deeply as Kierkegaard, and I still doubt that the analytical powers and psychological insights of Freud and the post-Freudians have equaled those of Kierkegaard.

Siblings bury decades - old conflicts; warring churches forgive each other and bless their villages and towns; rural areas blossom and bear fruit.

The England team is arguably weaker than it was a decade ago, but maybe Wenger's policy of buying promising youngsters — usually from Southampton where Oxlade - Chamberlain, Chambers and Walcott all flourished before moving to the Emirates Stadium — is starting to bear fruit.

A growing body of rigorous evidence suggests that policy interventions aimed at early childhood bear fruit for decades.

The time is ripe to make the first attempts at this, and hopefully such efforts will bear fruit within the coming decade.

A similar transition is underway internationally, with bilateral and multilateral agreements among major emitters displacing efforts to make a grand bargain to cap global emissions at the United Nations, a shift proposed by a number of critics of the 20 - year effort to cap emissions, including the two of us, over the last decade, that has only to begun to bear fruit since the collapse of international climate negotiations at Copenhagen in 2009.