Sentences with phrase «decades catching on to»

Not exact matches

It should have: It was this scrappy, five - man team of mechanical engineers that first caught on to the German giant's emissions - cheating ways, kicking off the biggest business scandal of the year (and possibly the decade).

But new health tech can take a decade to catch on because of regulation, the stakes involved, and the costs.

But the inventor who had first caught Fortune's eye more than two decades earlier was someone else: a rebellious physics genius, not yet 30, who «never took the trouble to graduate from Harvard» and who had started a small company in a cellar on Boston's Dartmouth Street.

A utopian case for Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general, if one even exists, is still struggling to articulate itself as merchant adoption hasn't caught on nearly a decade after the first block of Bitcoin transaction data was generated, and prices continue to fluctuate too wildly for it to be considered a store of value.

The report focuses on the reality of online and connective technologies catching up to the hype that has surrounded this sector for the last decade.

It is not working to just vote in new politicians every couple years, and preach fire and brimstone on a particular group of «sinners» that have caught our attention this decade.

One day after Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told reporters he gets on his knees every day and prays for rain, the Council for Secular Humanism - a leading atheist group - accused the Obama administration of sending the wrong message to farmers caught in one of the worst droughts in decades.

Muslims make up crap that suits them depending on what their stance of the day is, when he was alive 1/2 these nuts were saying he doesn't represent islam, now he's dead and tossed into the sea, he is the poster boy for islam, if they wanted to give him an islamic funeral to their liking they should have caught him and killed him themselves, rather than sheltering and hiding him for a decade.

Don't worry, I caught on to EVERY food trend decades later.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

«After a decade in which we have seen our politicians and officials caught up in the woeful abuses of the «war on terror», the last thing the government should be seeking is to sweep all of this under the carpet.

Astronomers even caught the collision's chemical fingerprints, revealing the creation of 10 to 100 Earths» worth of gold and other heavy elements, ending decades of debate on their cosmic origins.

Fillon wants total spending on research to increase from 160 billion francs (# 20 billion) to 200 billion francs over the next decade, so that France can catch up with Japan and the US.

On the other hand, the case of the northern pintail caught continues to cause alarm since over 70 % have shot in their gizzards, a rate similar to that seen three decades ago.

The following decade - by - decade guide suggests a few steps that every woman can take to protect her breast health, with extra emphasis on monitoring any changes so that problems can be caught early, when cancer is easier to treat.

China has just surpassed the U.S. to become the world's largest ecommerce market in terms of total transaction value, and I think that the Chinese iDating market will catch up with the American one in revenue size before the end of this decade, so I want to focus on our domestic market.

I will be adding each of these pieces to my Decades sub-menu up at the top so if you ever want to go back and catch up on something you missed, feel free to visit that drop - down menu up top.

It's impossible not to get caught up in this ripping courtroom drama that watchably restages an episode early in the career of the legendary civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall, a decade before he worked on landmark segregation cases in the deep south.

by Ian Pugh After decades of legal wrangling, producer Kevin McClory had finally won the right to make an autonomous James Bond flick out of Ian Fleming's Thunderball, and 1983 seemed like the perfect time to capitalize on it, what with resident Bond Roger Moore's age catching up with him and the original series running out of steam as a consequence.

Josie Rourke is on to direct the latest iteration of the film, which has been caught in the development wringer for more than a decade.

Developed by the remnants of Sonic Team after Yuji Naka went to the United States to produce Sonic 2, released on a peripheral that never caught fire, and left out of almost every Sonic the Hedgehog collection or rerelease in the years (decades!)

So a decade ago, he began uploading videos of simple maths lessons to YouTube and they quickly caught on.

This is consistent with a recent study that found, on average, that over the past two decades, public schools» performance has caught up to or exceeded the performance of private schools.53

He also criticized the movement to assign students «just - right» books, a tactic that has caught on in many U.S. schools in the past decade.

She had spent two decades writing books that languished on bookstore shelves, caught in what she believed was a «vicious cycle» common to the publishing world.

A few good calls on where the stock market is going through market analysis can establish an advisor's reputation for a decade or longer - if those calls happen to catch the attention of investors.

I anticipate SBUX, NKE, and others to catch up on a yield - on - cost basis over the next decade or two given their over-sized dividend increases.

Though retail gift cards have been around for well over a decade, airline gift cards took a bit longer to catch on.

For decades these animals visit this particular site to feed on the leftovers from local fishermen who anchor and clean their catch in the area.

His paintings began to catch on almost a decade ago, at a time when ceramics was considered a lesser medium.

Marshall has made significant progress on his mission to integrate the art historical canon, likely propelled by acquisitions that have coincided over the past decade or so with overdue recognition at mainstream institutions seeking to catch up when it comes to representation of African American artists in their collections..

The New York Philharmonic, though, didn't catch on to the composer — who would become in the next few years the leader of the New York School — for two more decades.

That's a question currently facing dealers of art from Brazil, where the market has been internally strong for decades but is only now starting to catch on in other parts of the world.

Photovoltaic panels are catching on, as well, mostly where governments offer rebates or other incentives or wealthy individuals are willing to make a substantial investment up front for benefits that will take decades to accrue.

Well, it seems to have taken a couple decades of consistent proselytizing for formal verification and MMS to catch on in the CFD community (and it still isn't used as widely as it should be) so don't hold your breath!

2) In spite of the title of this email, I'm well aware — as are those who read this blog — that global warming alarmists have been exposed as fearmongering chicken little liars (not to mention hypocrites) for decades, but rarely has it been on a level where you actually have «scientists» and their associates caught on paper attempting to suppress data that is contra to their pre-desired result.

(There's a whiff of hubris about this, it seems to me; but then I prefer that to an alternative such as «An Act to Improve the Mornings of the Ordinary People of this Province Thanks to the Beneficent Leadership of the Current Government,» a tendentious style that seems to have caught on here in the last decade or so.)

If you don't have decades before retirement and your 401 (k) savings aren't where you'd like them to be, the IRS allows people 50 and over another $ 6,000 in annual catch - up contributions on top of the $ 18,500 a year.

A decade on, as Facebook finds itself caught in a debate over Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics firm accused of using the social networking site's user data to influence elections in the US, Zuckerberg might be hoping that his platform didn't grow at the pace he predicted.

Over the last decade, we have seen collectible - centric mobile apps flourish, as more and more entrepreneurs and developers caught on to the fact that something about collecting, and even procuring, almost anything (virtual or otherwise) seemed to trigger primitive elements of human psychology that saw users coming back for more, day after day.

A decades - old treatise called «The Role of the Executive Officer» ends with: «You need to steer the ship but don't get caught with your hand on the tiller.»

But during the four decades of training agents in many aspects of our trade, I found only a few really catch on to the teamwork aspect.