Sentences with phrase «decade on end»

Because a company is only able to increase its dividend for decades on end if its underlying profits are rising in kind.

Because you can't pay increasing dividends to shareholders for decades on end if you're not running an increasingly profitable enterprise.

After all, it's incredibly difficult to write ever - larger checks to shareholders for years or decades on end without the underlying supporting growth of profit to support those checks.

An insurance plan — by its very nature — forces you to save over decades on end.

What amazes me is that these hypothetical investors would be considered some of the smartest around, investing steadily every month no matter what the market was doing, for decades on end.

But what I find fascinating about this story is the fact that the trustees of the pension plan had the gumption to stick with a long - term strategy in the stock market for decades on end.

Even someone going out on their own and investing in dividend growth stocks would find it very difficult to lose money with a portfolio of well known multimillion dollar companies that have raised their dividends for decades on end.

While many Christians sit in pews and sing worship songs on Sunday morning for decades on end, some of them remain immature the entire time.

«Accordingly, Pastoralists being major victims of internecine tribal killings across Northern Nigeria for decades on end, we seize this opportunity to call upon the president to as a matter of duty extend his sense of justice to likewise arrest and punish all those who committed the genocidal killings of the over 1000 our men, women and children last June in Mambila, last November in Numan and Kajuru among others.

Baba Usman Ngeljarma, that «Pastoralists being major victims of internecine tribal killings across Northern Nigeria for decades on end, we seize this opportunity to call upon the president to as a matter of duty extend his sense of justice to likewise arrest and punish all those who committed the genocidal killings of the over 1000 our men, women and children last June in Mambila, last November in Numan and Kajuru among others.

Finally, scientists are intensely studying the immune systems of a unique group of people known as elite suppressors, who remain healthy after HIV infection, controlling the virus for decades on end.

The United States keeps as many as 80,000 prisoners in solitary confinement, sometimes for years or decades on end.

Even if you don't live in Hollywood, you've probably wondered how some people manage to stay married for decades on end.

Not even the Urbino family's moving overseas can discourage the pigheaded protagonist from impatiently awaiting, for decades on end, the return of the woman he's convinced is really meant for him.

* Sam Raimi opens up the video talking about how The Wizard of Oz is such a powerful story that's stayed within our culture for decades on end.

Investing isn't rocket science, but behaving in a disciplined way while managing risk for decades on end is, as the record shows, absolutely exceptional.

This is why so many publicly - traded water utilities have paid — and raised — their dividends for decades on end.

(To finance nerds, the market being wrong on inflation for decades on end is a puzzle; in a reasonably efficient market, inflation surprises should be random.)

It thus follows that any business that's good enough to regularly and routinely grow profit enough to send out increasing dividend payments to shareholders for decades on end is a high - quality business.

And by long - term, we mean anywhere from a couple years to decades on end.

So it's highly unlikely that your income or net worth is going to increase every year for decades on end.

WI renters hail from within the state and around the country, with some moving constantly from building to building and others staying put for decades on end.

It is not necessary that an insurer has been around for decades on end, since some relative newcomers have been able to make a major impact on the market with the advent of online insurance.