Sentences with phrase «decades of his career while»

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While the ideas of a free - agent nation and personal brand building have been with us for a couple of decades, DIY - career building has gotten a big push from the digital (and old - fashioned sharing) infrastructure that fosters this independence.

Al Rifai, whose career with Siemens spans close to two decades, has been a strong proponent of workplace diversity, employee empowerment and culture, while overseeing the company's financial operations in the Middle East.

While a superstar like LeBron James will play in the league for over a decade and earn a great deal of money from personal appearances and endorsement deals, the median NBA player has a career of only three to four years, and generates a relatively modest amount of outside income.

Armed with decades of experience in mobile technology and media, Jeff was inspired to build a mobile platform enabling people to work on things they truly love, while enjoying career independence.

for example, Ronaldinho was probably the most skilled / talented player of all times but he failed to keep his career at elite level while players like Giggs and Paolo Maldini dominated two decades of their career.

After all, Danny Welbeck showed himself to be hard - worker rather than clinical finisher in the Arsenal attack last season while the fact that one can still count on two hands the number of times Theo Walcott has started as a central - striker during his decade long Arsenal career speaks to the fact that the boss still sees him as a wide - forward.

«Levi has dedicated nearly two decades of his career in legal services ensuring his clients» needs are met while navigating difficult bureaucracies,» Murphy said in a statement provided by the Sanders campaign.

While marking the end of this chapter of his nearly four decade career in public service, first as a teacher and administrator with Albany City Schools and then as a common councilmember and mayor, Jennings dispelled any notions of resignation or an otherwise «lame duck» administration to finish his final term.

Over the course of a remarkable career that has so far spanned more than six decades, he has developed innovative yet practical solutions to an exceptionally varied array of scientific and financial problems, while at the same time creating a number of successful businesses with global scope and influence.

While many people think it's pretty cool to see images of features like ice mountains on the most mysterious planet (even if it is a dwarf) in our solar system, imagine the excitement of the scientists that have made a career of studying Pluto having never seen it; or the engineers that built and programmed the craft, the instruments, and the flight path that had New Horizons travel the length of our solar system for nearly a decade.

Cormack spent most of his research career focusing on nuclear and particle physics, while his CT efforts remained an intermittent side project for almost two decades.

So says Hans Feurer, the septuagenarian Swiss lensman, who has turned his admiration for beautiful women into a genre - defining career, all while embracing his irrepressible wanderlust and hunter's sense of adventure, living a life that is the stuff of literature: over the course of five decades, Feurer was almost crushed by a hippopotamus, spent time in a Malawi prison and lived a high - rolling life while working in advertising at the height of one of London's most fabled decades.

While an Oscar would sure put a nice cherry on top of his decade - spanning career, one gets the sense it's hardly required at this point.

By 1939, Ford had won an Oscar for The Informer (1935) but had not directed a western in more than a decade, while John Wayne's career to this point consisted of bit parts and B movies.

But we're here not to bury Sandler — he's years, if not decades away from a career - long obituary — but to praise him in writer - director Noah Baumbach's (Mistress America, While We're Young, Frances Ha, The Squid and the Whale) latest exploration of love, life, and failure among New York City's social, cultural, and artistic elites, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected).

Since I have been ruining my chance at a literary career by not writing my own things for about a decade — to illustrate this specifically, I did not finish a book while a Canadian literary giant who was championing it was still alive — I thought a two week timeframe was about right so that I didn't collapse in a pile of goo.

But while De Niro continued to show at the highly regarded Charles Egan Gallery throughout the 1950s, his career began to slip out of the critical spotlight, and he struggled for recognition in subsequent decades.

Throughout her six - decade career, Los Angeles - based Saar has «crafted compelling, astute and expressive artworks that bravely critique forms of everyday racism, sexism and oppression while simultaneously celebrating the curiosity and beauty to be found in everyday objects.»

While he is well - known for works featuring his own social milieu — often depicting parties, portraits of friends and fellow artists, and, perhaps most notably, his wife Ada, who has been his model and muse for decades — the landscape of Maine, which he first encountered as a resident at the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1949 - 50, has been a central point of reference throughout his career.

He has developed his career deliberately and progressively over the course of several decades while steering clear of prevailing trends.

For most of his artistic career, Flood has created collages, paintings and sculptures, and altered found ephemera that serve to critique and highlight consumer culture and the perversity of the art world.Gratest Hits presents the deep wisdom and humor of three decades of work while ultimately revealing the true achievement of an artist who has produced many highly praised works and had an active career despite remaining barely visible at the museum level.

Towards the end of her five - decade career, she continued to push the boundaries of her practice with the Solstice Series, revisiting and cannibalizing older works and processes, while demonstrating an acute understanding of language as an integral element of the self.

During her career that spanned six decades, Helen Frankenthaler expanded the possibilities of abstract painting, while at times referencing figuration and landscape in unique ways.

While they've exhibited as a group before at Cincinnati, OH's Contemporary Arts Center, the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico; The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, HI and North Carolina's Southeaster Center for Contemporary Art, this Group Exhibition marks the largest to date and the first to celebrate the solo careers of members who've made major strides in the past decade.

Gratest Hits shows the deep wisdom and humor of three decades of Flood's work while ultimately revealing the true achievement of an artist who has produced many highly praised works and has an active career despite remaining barely visible at the museum level.

This inaugural presentation with the gallery celebrates the last, highly productive decade of the artist's life, which saw him return to many of the themes that had occupied him throughout his career, while expanding his repertoire with an array of innovative painting practices.

While his work has been seen in numerous group and solo exhibitions over the past three decades or so, no comprehensive survey of Perehudoff's career has been organized, until now.

You could do that by demonstrating that in the area of logic you have a distinguished career of several decades of published research in logic while I'm a trained circus monkey.

The court considered that the two named inventors both had decades of experience in the design and manufacture of heat tracing cables, while one of the applicants was a career salesman and the other was a mechanical engineer who had never designed a heat tracing cable.

«While my frequent career transitions over the past decade are a direct result of the recession, this afforded me the opportunity to work with many exciting organizations — including both well - established titans of industry and emerging start - ups.»