Sentences with phrase «decades before anyone»

Famed Christian ethicist John Howard Yoder had sexual abuse allegations circling for decades before anyone took them seriously.

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The fact is, it simply makes sense, to anyone with the most elementary notion of how the Catholic tradition alwaysworked before the distortions of recent decades (which please God, after another decade or two of the current mopping up operations, and the retirement of a few dozen more bishops, will soon be a distant memory).

«I've been in public service for decades, and I've never seen anyone do something like this before.

When a tree begins to die, it can take years before anyone notices; forests can hide their decline for decades.

A decade ago, a mathematician found one elliptic curve that required a whopping 28 solutions before its complete set of solutions could be known, way more than anyone expected.

It's a collaboration decades in the making, as he can brag about having been a fan of Janney's before pretty much anyone else.

She's never met anyone so attractive — or so mysterious — before this, but Jace's unyielding insistence that they've known each other for decades can't be denied — not given how familiar he feels to her.

This becomes breathtakingly clear to anyone who tours the Joyner - Giuffrida house in San Francisco's Presidio Heights neighborhood, where the 150 - odd works on display run the gamut from Whitten's The Eighth Furrow, a squeegee painting executed more than a decade before Gerhard Richter made the technique famous, to Kara Walker's epic Terrible Vacation, a reimagining in gouache of J.M.W. Turner's Slave Ship, to the young Brooklyn - based artist Jayson Musson's Anticyclonic, which is made from the scraps of innumerable Coogi sweaters.

I hope to be completely wrong, but my observation of world politics, the UN in particular, over the past several decades, is that just when you are certain that the Intergovernmental Panel on Chicken Chit has finaly died, it will be reborn as the World Wide Focus on Poultry Excrement (WWF - PE) and it will take ten years before anyone realizes that its all the same people just with different titles and brand new evidence much stronger than the previous evidence because they have learned from their mistakes.

Well, with around 1mm / decade (iirc) registered at Ft Denison (middle of Sydney Harbour), I guess that's, like, 200 + years at least before anyone has to worry!

Obviously the group is hostile to anyone not «on board» with the message, and Briffa even needed to affirm his stance on recent unusual decades of warmth before protesting.

(And before you brush that off and think, «Well anyone can do that,» let me tell you: I have been working with divorcing people for decades.