Sentences with phrase «decade fewer backs»

Over the last decade fewer backs have reached that milestone, while QBs and receivers have flourished

Not exact matches

To do this, we'll have to go back a few decades.

Way back in the winter of 2014, when he was sketching the broad strokes of his agenda as the new leader of the then third - place Liberals, Trudeau spoke in Montréal about how pro-free market economic orthodoxy, put into policy by successive governments over the past few decades, was favouring the rich too much.

Let's go back a few decades to illustrate.

But what they didn't do was also noticeable: They didn't threaten to take back the president's authority to set tariffs that Congress had ceded to the White House over the past few decades (regardless of the Constitution's stipulation that the Congress set tariffs).

And looking back a few decades, he's playing it very similarly to other big names in technology.

The function of HR, or «Personnel» as it was called way back when, has changed a ton over the past few decades.

As we look back over the last few decades, it is clear that the foreign sector and the mutual fund complex have played the bulk of the face cards in their hands.

The study has been stretching back over the past few decades, and following the lives of 1500 intellectually «gifted» people.

The precipitous decline of liberal Protestantism is frequently viewed as a phenomenon of the last few decades, but the stereotype of religious liberalism as desiccated and dying goes back much further in time.

And, historically, the evangelical community has taken several steps back from public schools over the last few decades — particularly since prayer was removed from schools.

Yeah, thats why there are fewer catholics now then there were a decade ago, and so on back 30 years.

We had a «Devo» moment of enlightenment a few decades back at a concert, but it we may have just been tripping on too much catnip.

But the one thing that is quite clear is that we do not «go back», as if we could return to the older ideas and concepts, quite unchanged by what has happened during the past few decades.

Not from a few decades ago, but further back.

I still get the end - of - summer blues even though I haven't been back to school in quite a few years (ok, it has been WELL over a decade).

If you were to tell me back then, that I would later relocate half - way across the globe, and settle for a few years in the South American continent, and more specifically in Buenos Aires, which was known for many decades as the «Paris of South America», I would have really scoffed in your face.

It feels like if I didn't say anything — if I ran out of the room right then, sobbing — he'd just tidy up a few papers on his desk and go back about his job of being Barry Alvarez, the former Badgers head coach who took Wisconsin to three Rose Bowls after decades of irrelevance, then signed the check for his own bronze statue as the school's athletic director.

A few years back, I could applaud the city of Cleveland for winning a championship in a professional sport for the first time in decades because it felt like they were due.

In other news, our team seems to be rounding nicely into form, with a productive off - season and several new additions already settling in, there seems to be a renewed sense of confidence in the air... our well - oiled machine has conducted business again early this year, so we can just sit back, kick our feet up and watch all those other suckers scramble to make panic moves in the 11th hour... of course, we need to tie up a few loose ends but our team of savvy negotiators, under the tutelage of our faithful leader, will perform their usual magic with ample time to spare... I have to laugh when I look around the soccer world and see all those teams look upon us with envy and scorn as they struggle to mimic our seemingly infallible business model... thank goodness the powers that be had the foresight and fortitude to resist the temptations of the modern football era... instead of listening to all the experts and simply taking the easy way out by making the necessary improvements on the field and in the front office, we chose the path never traveled... we are truly pioneers in our field... sometimes you just have to have faith in the people that have always conducted themselves in a respectful and honest fashion... most fans aren't so fortunate, they will never know what it's like to follow a team that treats everyone in and around the club as if they were an extended member of the family... all for one I say... so when you wake up this morning, please try not to gloat when you see rival fans pacing back and forth waiting for their respective teams to pull the usual panic buys, just say nothing and be thankful that it isn't you... like I've always said, this is why you stay the course... this is when the real benefits of having someone in charge for over 2 decades really pays off... have a great day fellow Gunners

For your information frustrated gunner Diaby was unlucky with his injuries if he wasn't so injury prone he would have been a better player than either granit or Ramsey, if you ever saw him play or the few times he did he was vieraesque, hope I'm allowed to make up my own word, but injuries destroyed his career so to me you are just someone who is clueless about football... to all you guys asking for dm and Maherz basically you are saying we need to spend another 85 mil min to get those two, we also need to swich to four at the back, ok yeah let's regress we found that 3 at the back Suits our team we have been more solid defensively but no let's revert to the old system that hasn't won us anything major in a decade even tough we won a trophy beating the pl champions with the new system, a system that Many top teams are using for your information!!

Over the past decade, very few East Bay running backs have entered their final season with the type of expectations which faced Mixon this fall.

It's late'ish Monday night here in Australia and I've just had the wildest few days of work in more than a decade and I'm back on a plane at 6 in the morning.

If, however, you want to set womenâ $ ™ s rights back a few decades then pappy McCain is your man and the Republican party is your ticket.

but again, there were too many questions like «where do i start, what is feasible in my district, why did the chocolate milk come back and why is it so hard to get it off the menu (i know the answer to that now), why are there so many excuses and not enough nourishing food for kids, why does it have to take a decade or three to make a few menu reform changes?

Media observers are starting to look back over the last few decades and wonder if the Sun's influence was ever that emphatic.

The GOP has been picking off Southern and Appalachian legislatures systematically for the past few decades: In 2012 alone, it won both the Arkansas state House and Senate for the first time since Reconstruction; Democrats are shooting to win back the House this year.

Talk about setting women back a few decades!

These fellows go abroad all the time and see the way modern societies are run, appreciate these and come back to Nigeria to drag us back a few more decades.

We changed the direction of our country and beat back the demons for a few decades.

Just think back a few decades — the Inner Harbor was an eyesore to our city and region, a toxic waste site that squandered one of our city's most magnificent natural assets.

In an article published in the journal Scientific Reports, the research team estimates that given the rate at which the peatland is now losing mercury back to the atmosphere, it will take just a few decades for all of the mercury pollution accumulated in the peatland to have disappeared, with most of it going back to the atmosphere.

Historical records show that at least as far back as the early 1800s, sizeable quakes have erupted in this region every few decades.

Unfortunately, to puzzle out the new wasp's lifestyle, the researchers could only rely on specimens collected back in 1985, which had spent the past few decades stored in the collections of the Natural History Museum of London before being loaned to the Frost Museum at Penn State for research.

People who are interested in the decline in the diversity of insects, for example, can indeed look back a few decades into the past.

The thinking on how to treat lower back pain has shifted several times in the past few decades.

There are few weather stations, most are on the edge rather than in the interior of the continent and records go back just a few decades.

It could happen in just a few decades unless defences are built to hold back the rising tides.

Over the last few decades, however, as subsequent discoveries pushed back the date for the earliest stone tools to 2.6 million years ago (Ma) and the earliest fossils attributable to early Homo to only 2.4 - 2.3 Ma, there has been increasing openness to the possibility of tool manufacture before 2.6 Ma and by hominins other than Homo.

These results show how difficult it is to get back to 350 ppm if emissions continue to grow for even a few decades.

Athleisure is officially taking it back a few decades by slapping retro stripes all over your favorite pieces, from track shorts and leggings to tees and hoodies.

Since the flawed study a few decades ago on the effects of cholesterol & fats on our hearts & arteries, Americans have been advised to cut dangerously back on both.

Going back a few decades, people who were suffering from back pain were often told to rest and move as little as possible.

Enter into 21st century bodybuilding and there are dozens and dozens of supplement providers and quite a few more bodybuilding magazines (which have survived through the decades of the sometimes brutal and competitive publishing industry) and books than there were back in the»60s.

So you can always freeze yourself and come back in a few decades once you've developed a bit more confidence.

Who'd have thunk after their debut in the 90s, that rubber footwear would be back in a big way a few short decades later?

So then, we've established the fact that literally everyone is a bit of a nerd these days, and that pretty much all of us, we voracious mouse - clickers and status - posters, would be swiftly nipple - tweaked and wedgied by Danny Zuko et al were we to mooch back in time a few decades.

There's always a temptation for cyberdaters in their early - somethings to shave a few years off and slip back into an earlier decade.

A few decades back, the traditional way to meet singles online has been through a bar or nightclub.

If one were to look back a few decades ago, the taboo of older women dating younger men still existed.