Sentences with phrase «decades before breaking»

New insights and challenges may bounce around theological journals and conferences for decades before breaking into popular discourse.

The former «Parks and Recreation» star — who worked as a waitress for longer than a decade before breaking into the acting business — spoke at The Rockefeller Foundation on Fifth Avenue.

While methane persists for only about a decade before breaking down, other gases, such as the chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), can persist in the atmosphere for hundreds or even tens of thousands years.

Not exact matches

On the form he showed at the Masters, Woods still seems a good bet to break Jack Nicklaus» record of 18 major tournament wins; but the revenue records the tour set in the last decade, before the bursting of the Tiger bubble and the broader American economic bubble, are unlikely to be improved any time soon.

GoldMoney research director Alasdair Macleod has revisited the old correlation in economics between the general price level and interest rates, «Gibson's paradox,» which economists long debated, or at least did before it seemed to break down in recent decades.

We are still very much breaking down barriers and I don't know how many years or decades it will be before we have the strong network of mentors we need to support funding, growth and exports.»

Before becoming a Christian a decade ago, Philippa was plugging away at breaking onto the UK music scene, applying to and receiving what seemed like a never - ending and resounding «no» from talent shows.

I owed 3 decades of broken promises to him, before I kept any to his fatherI was crying it was just four hours then everyone could air their grievances.

It would certainly help: Even before bid - rigging case broke, SUNY Poly faced $ 475 million in debts owed to banks and bondholders for projects over the last decade.

But despite decades of work, researchers could get the blobs of plasma to last only about 0.3 milliseconds before they broke up or melted away.

Before there was Kylie Jenner, there was Kat Von D. Nearly a decade ago, the tattoo artist famous for a career in reality television and a string of Jesse James and Kat Von D have called off their engagement and broken up.

Around the same time, Don receives a letter with no return address from a lover he apparently had two decades before, telling him that she was pregnant with his child at the time they broke up, and that child has now grown into a man.

But if Leigh has a De Niro to his Scorsese, a Kinski to his Herzog, it's probably Timothy Spall, who had a break - out role in 1990's «Life Is Sweet» before starring in «Secrets & Lies,» «Topsy Turvy» and «All Or Nothing» over the next decade or so.

The Montreal - born actress has been working for over a decade — she led «Stardom» in 2000 for «The Barbarian Invasions» director Denys Arcand, and made several films in Canada before breaking into the US with Paul McGuigan «s «Wicker Park» and TV drama «Jack & Bobby.»

Seyfried, whatever wildly uneven career she is pursuing these days, is quite sympathetic as a broken woman whose psychic injuries date from decades before.

The film More than a decade before he made «Gravity» (which could have used a sex scene), Alfonso Cuarón broke out with this hit — one that also marked the arrival of actors Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal as two friends on a delirious, sensual road trip.

Plus, since this takes place in the «90s, it'll be a few decades before Coulson gets stabbed (though it would break the canon a little if he learned too much about the Kree).

Jodie took a break in the late 90's before returning to film at the turn of the new decade with an appearance in the indie film «The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys» and the blockbuster thriller «Panic Room.»

The major principles undergirding charter schooling — choice, deregulation, and so - called accountability — had already attracted significant attention long before 1988, and proposals to break up the «monopoly» of school districts had been building for more than a decade.

Rick Bass was brought up in Houston, Texas and, for about a decade after leaving college, worked as a gas and oil geologist in Jackson, Mississippi (where he started writing short stories in his lunch breaks) before moving to the Yaak Valley in the northern Rockies, near the Idaho - Montana - Canada border in 1987 with his wife, Elizabeth Hughes, who has illustrated some of his more than 20 books.

Having only started up skiing again the winter before after a decade - long break, the tentacles of trails plunging precipitously downward underneath our gondola had me racking my brain as to what level of skier I had told our guide that I was.

Announced ten years ago as a completely different game, then switched to newer hardware and a completely different game engine, before replacing its director and finally breaking ground a decade later?

The news was particularly devastating because Hendricks had just returned to portraiture after a long, two - decade break from painting stylish black men and women in ways the art world had never seen before.

One clear benefit of SRM is that it would begin cooling of the Earth immediately, whereas large cuts in greenhouse gas emissions will take many decades before the climate responds, since time is required for CO2 already in the atmosphere to break down.

Before breaking away from the legislative choices made in recent decades, which have always given priority to the individual wishes of the parties, we need clarification from the Supreme Court.»