Sentences with phrase «decades and continents»

Our global footprint and wealth of relationships with investors and capital sources span decades and continents.

Hosfelt Gallery is currently showing «On the Road» by Gideon Rubin and «Tilted Plane» by Jim Campbell, juxtaposing the work of two artists born decades and continents apart.

UBS Art Collection: To Art its Freedom is the first major book on the UBS Art Collection in nearly a decade, presenting a visual essay that captures the essence of the Collection as well as the various impulses that have shaped it across decades and continents.

The artists on view span decades and continents, yet are united by their groundbreaking practices that defied the conventions of a given movement or medium.

As Jens Hoffmann observes in his introduction to the «Other Primary Structures» catalogue: «When it comes to exhibitions... we are only beginning to entertain the question of how they might be restaged and experienced anew, decades and continents removed from their original presentation.»

Durham's exhibition history spans several decades and continents.

Delivered in a non-linear fashion and spanning decades and continents, Jodie's story struck a chord with players when Beyond: Two Souls launched last year.

It spans decades and continents as it unfolds the tale of brilliant short - story writer Joan Ashby, who uncharacteristically sets aside her career to have children.

The author who inspires more schauedenfreud than perhaps any other returns in September with a family drama that spans decades and continents as it follows Purity Tyler's quest to find her father.

Sprawling decades and continents while allowing moments of profound intimacy, Patterson's debut is a clear announcement that she's a writer to watch.

Deftly spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters - assassins, journalists, drug dealers, and even ghosts - A Brief History of Seven Killings is the fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time and its bloody aftermath, from the streets and slums of Kingston in the»70s, to the crack wars in»80s New York, to a radically altered Jamaica in the»90s.

The film centers on a couple (Oscar Isaac and Olivia Wilde) that lead a multi generational love story spanning both decades and continents, from the streets of New York to the Spanish...

The film tells the love story of a couple played by Oscar Isaac and Olivia Wilde, told through multiple generations and spanning both decades and continents.

Dan Fogelman's Life Itself centers on a couple (Oscar Isaac & Olivia Wilde) that lead a multi generational love story spanning both decades and continents, from the streets of New York to the Spanish countryside, and are all connected by a single event.

SAC wrote a letter of protest to Victorian Premier John Brumby and Kim Carr, the federal science minister, noting: «In our collective experience spanning decades and continents, no synchrotron director has ever been removed from office without notice.»

Not exact matches

To illustrate his point, Gladwell zips across continents and decades, telling tales from Nazi - occupied France, elementary schools in Connecticut, and the first exhibition of the impressionists.

Decades ago he decided to try and capture life on the Australian continent in a day — so he sent dozens of photographers into the field for 24 hours, collecting their work into a single book and spawning the Day in the Life series.

They'll be looking to upgrade it here, and ship oil no more toxic or corrosive than what's been crossing the continent for decades across the border.

Professional scouts» routines have been the same for decades — they fly all over the continent, drinking diner coffee and watching small - town games, kibitzing about which boys have a «good face» or fill out their uniforms.

Though Africa has experienced impressive growth for well over a decade now, domestic markets and intraregional economic relations have remained constrained, with national economies driven primarily by mounting foreign demand for the continent's natural resources and commodity exports.

To the surprise of most investors around the globe, yesterday the U.K. voted 52 % to 48 % in favor of leaving the European Union (EU), after more than four decades, in a stunning rejection of the continent's post-war political and economic order.

The continent's consumer and business spending is estimated to be worth $ 4 trillion between now and 2025, and more than 50 million new middle and upper class households will emerge in the next decade,» said Tim Sutton, chairman, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Weber Shandwick.

«After a string of pipeline victories and over a decade of campaigning on at least three different continents, the Alberta government has finally put a limit to the tarsands.

Ephraim is a looming figure, a man who, in the past decade and a half, has founded no less than sixteen additional monasteries on this continent alone.

Yet Latin America has undergone remarkable growth in Pentecostal Christianity in recent decades (see info on p27) and Annacondia sees himself as part of a wider work of God to transform the continent.

The Swiss chain has been feeding meat - free eaters on the continent for a decade, and opened its flagship UK restaurant in Heddon Street, off Regent Street in central London, in 2008.

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.

Three decades later, there are 1,200 Nando's PERi-PERi restaurants spread across five continents — including more than 30 U.S. locations in and around Washington, DC, and Chicago, with many more U.S. cities to come.

He also lamented that over two decades after the continent's contact with the European and 56 years after independence, Nigerian architects have yet to come up with a policy on which material is best and suitable for building plan.

The last decade did see some improvements for Africa's oil producers, especially when compared to the continent's earlier boom in the 1970s and early 1980s.

According to President Buhari, in spite of sustained economic growth on the continent for the past two decades, «public confidence has been eroded by a focus on short - term priorities and payoffs, propelled by corruption, which too often leaves projects uncompleted and promises unfulfilled.»

Acting Nigerian President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, who had earlier opened the AFC's summit on Infrastructure revolution, commended Obasanjo, for his clear vision in conceiving the idea of an African Development Finance Institution that would be birthed on the continent; «the idea of developing a wholly African Finance Institution that was the will of African leaders, nations and institutions, seemed far — fetched a decade ago» he said.

Tedesco warns that as the Antarctic ozone hole heals in the coming decades, the winds that seal the continent from warm air will weaken and it will become much warmer in summer.

After decades of a massive and uncontrollable continent - wide wild breeding experiment, the African - Italian hybrid has morphed into a totally new bee unlike either parent species.

In the last few decades, glaciers at the edge of the icy continent of Antarctica have been thinning, and research has shown the rate of thinning has accelerated and contributed significantly to sea level rise.

A decade in the planning, NEON hopes to collect long - term, continent - wide measurements of the effects of climate change, land usage, and invasive species.

The impacts of climate change have already been felt in recent decades on all continents and across the oceans.

To move from the continent - and century - scale to the Midwest - or Northwest - scale and decade - scale, scientists from computer specialists to geoscientists to biologists will draw on the «petaflop» calculating power of current supercomputers, said Bement.

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.

After decades of riding icebreakers in Antarctica's icy waters hoping to better understand the fragile ecosystem on and around this frigid continent scientists have begun delegating data collection to satellite - guided robotic subs.

After two decades of research on three continents, astrophysicists have produced the largest and most detailed full - sky map of the nearby universe.

The aim is to monitor the continent's ongoing shrinking, bulging, and general deformation, watching changes over timescales ranging from days to decades.

A new study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and the University of California, Irvine, shows that while ice sheets and glaciers continue to melt, changes in weather and climate over the past decade have caused Earth's continents to soak up and store an extra 3.2 trillion tons of water in soils, lakes and underground aquifers, temporarily slowing the rate of sea level rise by about 20 percent.

Temperature changes relative to the corresponding average for 1901 - 1950 (°C) from decade to decade from 1906 to 2005 over the Earth's continents, as well as the entire globe, global land area and the global ocean (lower graphs).

European Union environment ministers officially gave up on a decade - old target to stop the depletion of the continent's animal and plant species on Monday.

For all the hoopla over CCD, the reality is that non-African Apis mellifera on the North American continent has been declining for decades, and that CCD, whatever it may be, is just the latest in a string of challenges.

«Stüssy's brand is heavily built on visuals... We really wanted to highlight the medium of the t - shirt, how inclusive it can be and how it transcends decades, continents and subcultures.»

Leto is one of those movies that whisks us into a world that feels both familiar and fresh, like a sense memory of a life we might have lived if we'd been born in another decade or on another continent.

With The Lost City of Z, he has realized his true epic — a story that spans continents and decades — yet kept his finger on the intimate pulse that's always made his movies work: This is a great movie about ambition, colonization, and audacious dreaming, but even more than that it's a moving (and tragic) story about fathers and sons.

Whilst neither are household names outside their home continent, comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon have enjoyed fruitful careers for over two decades.