Sentences with phrase «decade upon decade»

Oil and Gas have been producing for decade upon decade.

«We can design and build our packaging machines at a high level of quality and with a number of technical advances because we're drawing on engineering expertise that's been proven over decades upon decades of performance.

I think kids have been doing it for decades upon decades in classrooms worldwide without being in a donkey carrot dangling type atmosphere.

My Mother and Gram used pumpkin in many ways decades upon decades before it was popular, I grew up on it.

Glaciers are created when decades upon decades of snow compact themselves into hard ice and as the ice crystals grow, they push out the air, creating a denser and thicker ice.

Boxing has been a mainstay of cinematic sports movies for decades upon decades, but modern cinematic depictions of the boxing matches themselves are often rife with clichés.

For decades upon decades, Chrysler has been widely known as a brand that focuses on interior comfort and luxury, and for good reason.

This paint comes in several different shades, is free of VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds) and gives any surface an «old world» look like it's been there for decades upon decades.

My Mother and Gram used pumpkin in many ways decades upon decades before it was popular, I grew up on it.

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Indeed, this story of intrigue might be just a salacious distraction were it not taking place at the top of the ruling class of China, which will likely be the world's largest economy by the end of the decade and a place upon which Canada's fortunes increasingly hinge.

Added Salerno: «Mr. Redstone established and maintained for decades a clear estate plan for the governance of Viacom upon his death or incapacity — based on independent control and professional management of Viacom going forward.

But, at least in the venture capital world, funding for companies focused on tackling heart disease, respiratory disease, and other mass population conditions — i.e., those that afflict millions upon millions of people — has dropped sharply in the last decade.

Upon doing their due diligence, the mother - daughter duo discovered that the parent company, Winmark Corp., had more than 1,130 stores (up to 1,154 today) throughout North America and had been franchising resale concepts — five, to date — for almost three decades.

If you're going to live with it for decades, as Keflezighi has, it's mentally healthier to accept it as something you brought into your life to enrich it rather than as something taken from you or inflicted upon you.

«Now, he will lead our team as we expand upon what we have spent decades building — and pave the way for an even stronger future for OSAM and our clients.»

Our mission is to leapfrog our region to participate in the technological revolution that is upon us and is only going to accelerate over the coming decades.

Drawing upon decades of personal experience with hundreds of accomplished entrepreneurs, CEOs, and venture capitalists, Silicon Valley management consultant and former high - tech senior executive Steve Tobak shows you exactly what it takes to become a successful entrepreneur and exceptional business leader in today's highly competitive world.

On assignment in Iran for Fortune two years before, I had stumbled upon Halliburton (HAL), yet another Texas oil - services company, which was operating from a high - rise building in central Tehran, despite decades of U.S. sanctions and intense hostilities between the two nations.

Oh no, the VIX broke 10 this week — a brutal stock - market crash and decade - long bear market is all but upon us.

Not only could such a gift to businesses be looked down upon by American voters, but it would also complicate the GOP's plan to pass tax legislation through budget reconciliation, a process that requires only a simple majority in the Senate but brings with it limitations on adding to the deficit beyond the span of a decade.

Democratic politicians who have received campaign contributions from Harvey Weinstein are being called upon to return the money after the New York Times published an exhaustive story Thursday detailing decades of sexual harassment allegations against the Hollywood super-producer.

Trump has said that one of his first targets for reform upon taking office would be the decades - old North America Free Trade Agreement.

But companies with moats can last generations, building and building upon their successes for decades.

Staring ahead at years upon years of student loan payments can be depressing, and programs that can cancel out that debt — like Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) and income - driven repayment — take a decade or more to forgive the loans.

It is also the logical culmination of a process that began some decades ago when the Court untethered itself from the text of the Constitution and began to sit like an omniscient council of elders uniquely empowered to intuit and act upon the aspirations of the people.

In main of late a decade of republicans in govt / / having a extreme right wing agenda spurned on by their halfbaked crackpot religious ideas / beliefs / having brought upon humanity a river of blood a river of tears / great suffering.

The sentence of political death was imposed upon Judah by Nebuchadnezzar in the first two decades of the sixth century.

It was written more than a decade ago, when theologians in different parts of the world were first realizing the depths of the crisis inflicted upon earth by...

In general, American process theology is consciously dependent upon the process philosophy of either Whitehead or Hartshorne or both; and Hartshorne deserves a large amount of credit for doggedly advocating Whiteheadian - Hartshornian process philosophy during the past four decades when such advocacy was not popular among either philosophers or theologians.

As decades pass, as the memorial retains its «most visited» status, people will look upon this found I — beam cross and see it with the same significance that one looks at the medieval cathedrals of Europe.

He also touches upon the opportunities offered by the translation for healing some of the deep ecclesial wounds of recent decades.

At the same time, I did hear a pastor prophesy about a decade ago for churches to start building because we were heading for this time where all our culture has put their collective faith into will fail to fulfil them and they will come banging upon the doors of churches that are alive and vibrant.

The 1980s may well be looked back upon as a decade of intellectual reformation in the so - called North - South debate.

Menachem Begin: A Life by Avi Shilon translated by Danielle Zilberberg and Yoram Sharett Yale, 584 pages, $ 40 The early decades of Israeli politics were dominated by Labor Zionists, mainly secular Ashkenazis (Jews from central and eastern Europe) whose goal was to create a New Jew based upon a....

Yet it can not be our only task, for the problem of organizing the technical civilization of the western world upon a new basis of economic and international justice, so that the anarchy and decay that have characterized our life in the past three decades will be arrested and our technical capacities will be made fruitful rather than suicidal, is one which must engage our best resources.

You will be surprised when you type the word «terrorist» on google as you will discover pages upon pages of news stories from all over the world describing numerous terrorists» attacks that occurred over decades.

Even so, it is not a little startling to discover that some modern movements which purport to be based upon a new revelation from God have been able in the short space of a decade to claim in excess of a million followers.

If one reflects upon the literature of the last three decades or so in which Christian terms have been employed to suggest the redemptive truth of the Christian faith, he makes an important discovery.

Every year or so, over the last decade, I would happen upon Brett at one literary event or another.

Abuse victims from the Diocese of Chichester in the 1950s and 1960s will give evidence, as well as those who were preyed upon in the 1990s during a scandal which «engulfed the diocese in the first decade of the 21?

Over the past several decades both philosophers and theologians within the academy have participated in a revival of interest in what is generally called «virtue ethics» - an ethic that focuses not so much upon what we ought to do, but upon character, upon the sort of persons we ought to....

Similarly, the status of the human embryo, and the value placed upon it, have come under increasing scrutiny over the past decades, and even since DP in 2008 it has become increasingly normal to assume that it is morally acceptable to destroy embryos or to experiment upon them.12 The increasing sense of a loss of respect for human life in its earliest stages is linked to the abandonment of male - female lifelong marriage as the normal structure in which human life begins and is cherished.13 DP emphasises that «human procreation is a personal act of a husband and wife, which is not capable of substitution» (DP 16).

The early decades of Israeli politics were dominated by Labor Zionists, mainly secular Ashkenazis (Jews from central and eastern Europe) whose goal was to create a New Jew based upon a pioneering socialist ethos and rooted in the Bible and the love of the homeland.

And the Chronicler, who sees only the glories of Solomon's rule, informs us that Uzziah's greatness was the reward of faithfulness to Yahweh (v. 5) Be that as it may, at least two Yahweh prophets, Isaiah and Micah, look out upon the life of Judah in the decades following Uzziah's reign with bitter reproach and with condemnations that must fall, in part, upon Uzziah.

In the public arena, this meant that blacks were not obliged to «work within the system,» given the brutality inflicted upon them by the system over the decades.

The stickiest point for most people is that not only was the doc.ument itself Top Secret for decades, it explictly stated that anybody involved in this type of investigation, including the accuser and potential witnesses, are sworn to secrecy regarding any and all details, upon penalty of excommunication (a fate worse than death for the devout).

In a decade of declining church membership, retrenchment and pastoral surpluses, it is imperative that these expectations be heard and acted upon.

The bad thing about hookup culture, or really the anti-culture beneath it, is that it might suck a decade or two of your life into a smithereens of physical and emotional novelties upon which no intelligible or humanly compelling narrative can be imposed.

I remember no such feeling from my youth; it has grown upon me as my decades have increased.

Many of us are now jumpy, if not panicky, because of the astounding and dramatic form and pace in which it has accelerated and come upon us in the last few decades, and because of the manner in which it has taken place under auspices other than ourselves and outside our political, ideological, and religious control.