Sentences with phrase «decade of false starts»

«After nearly a decade of false starts and broken promises, including three years under the current administration, it's understandable, if reports are correct, that someone on the governor's staff is frustrated and anxious.»

After decades of false starts, the e-book revolution is finally upon us.

One is on Afghanistan, where — after decades of false starts — officials have announced the formal establishment of the country's first national park, Band - e-Amir, which encompasses a series of spectacular lakes.

After two decades of false starts and dead ends, including the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, the task has become to work steadily at limiting the odds of worst - case outcomes rather than «solving the climate crisis» — which was once the central meme of climate campaigners.

Not exact matches

James Ransone The Baltimore - born James Ransone «s had a few false starts along his decade - long career so far, but hopefully a recent run of success will mean more people start taking notice again.

This coming of age produced the most complex tangle of art styles, false starts and movements that had been seen since Paris in the first decade and a half of this century when Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Dada and Surrealism collided.

We need to be careful focussing upon «trends» — it can lead to serious errors of context — and this underlies the entire «global warming» thesis which relies upon computer models with entirely false (i.e. non-natural) notions of an equilibrium starting point and calculations of trend — this conveniently ignores cycles, and it has to because a) there are several non-orbital cycles in motion (8 - 10 yr, 11, 22, 60, 70, 80, 400 and 1000 - 1500) depending on ocean basic, hemisphere and global view — all interacting via «teleconnection» of those ocean basins, some clearly timed by solar cycles, some peaking together; b) because the cycles are not exact, you can not tell in any one decade where you are in the longer cycles.

Now, after a decade of planning and false starts, the effort to rebuild a thriving 24/7 neighborhood in the old downtown is gaining traction.