Sentences with phrase «decades of my life just»

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But, Jason said, for the next decade they plan to restrict themselves to just living on the cash flowing from investments and ignore any capital or market increases in the value of properties, pensions, and shares.

«I spent over a decade of my life working at the issue [of prison reform], including half a decade at the NAACP, and yet here you have a former inmate turned entrepreneur who's been able to bring relief to almost a quarter of federal inmates in just a couple of years,» Jealous says.

A decade ago, author Scott Shane estimated that only 30 % of startups live longer than 10 years, fewer than 10 % ever grow, and just 3 % grow substantially.

But if their wife lives to 96, they have just burdened her with decades of lower benefits.

«sensible Austin, we don't know what christ did, we just have partial accounts of his life wriiten decades after the supposed facts in a book written by anybody's guess that contains myths and fairytales.

Austin, we don't know what christ did, we just have partial accounts of his life wriiten decades after the supposed facts in a book written by anybody's guess that contains myths and fairytales.

Decades of instability have undermined the economy and life expectancy is just 39...

The writer, Bill Sakovich, is a professional translator of Japanese to English who's lived in Japan for two decades or so, who married a Japanese woman, and who just loves Japanese culture in general — in many of his cultural posts, for example, he suggests that the more typical Japanese approach to religion, while seemingly shallow, contradictory, and form - obsessed, makes a lot of sense to him, and indeed, is superior to Western ways.

And to be honest, I do not care how much God deserves glory — if the last decade of my life was just for that purpose, I have no desire to serve, love or worship that god.

He spoke from just a few notes, and sometimes none at all, pulling together effortlessly all the threads he had so carefully spun out in his decades of work on religion and public life.

I can't help but wonder what convictions I might have held had I lived in my hometown of Dayton, Tennessee just five, ten, or fifteen decades ago.

If he keeps up his current pace, he might just get to celebrate his turn into the third decade of life at home — while trying to run down another major title in his own backyard.

Raymonde has lived in America for just under seven decades now, but she's French by birth, and something of Marie Antoinette and Josephine Bonaparte has drifted down through the years into her bearing.

In real life Madrid bought lots of stars from 2002 and have only just won the champions league over decade after their silly spending.

In just the last decade, social media has become a constant in the lives of billions.

In terms of individual awards, players such as Iniesta and Sergio Ramos have lived in the shadow of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo for the past decade while often contributing just as much.

Her Modern Love essay in the New York Times was not only one of the most - read in the decade the column has been running, but it also lead to her publishing a just - released book, Love, Again: The Wisdom of Unexpected Romance, in which she shares stories of other couples that found love late in life, too.

Nearly two decades later and having created more than 500 books for children, we think of Barefoot Books as more than just a publisher, but really a way of life.

«Every community across New York felt the impact of the senseless acts of terrorism that claimed thousands of lives just one decade ago,» Governor Cuomo said.

ICYMI: In our «Live Fix» chat yesterday, we offered our list of the Senate races that just missed our top 10 of the decade.

And as David Miliband's commission on youth unemployment highlighted, the cost of today's unemployment must be counted not just in immediate benefit payments, but in a long term legacy of lower life chances, that will cost our economy and the Treasury billions more for decades to come.

It is not just about western propounded indexes but how policies rolled out, would impact directly on the lives of the people present and posterity.The Ivorian economy for decades is dependant on dictates from France hence the challenges Gbagbo encountered when he tried to deviate from the status quo.

In addition to her teaching and research, Conway - turner has traveled to Haiti regularly over the past decade, performing humanitarian work as a member of H.O.P.E., a not - for - profit, volunteer organization based in Rochester, N.Y., assisting the people of Borgne, Haiti, in achieving equitable, just, and sustainable living conditions.

«We could be just a few decades from proving if there is life elsewhere,» says Heller, a post-doctoral fellow at McMaster's Origins Institute who worked with Pudritz, a professor of physics and astronomy and director of the Origins Institute.

«There are plenty of reasons to be optimistic that we will find hints of extraterrestrial life within the next few decades, just maybe not on an Earth - like planet around a Sun - like star.»

You've survived decades of evaluation, testing, and metrics, but before we can guarantee your spot in academia for life, there's just one teensy little thing: tenure review.

But we can surely all agree that for decades the man has been writing fiction about science, and that his visions of the dangers of as - yet - uninvented, or only - just - invented technologies have influenced the way we think more than those of any other living novelist.

That's just one question marine researchers hope to answer through the Census of Marine Life, a decade - long initiative to tally global ocean life that today released its first figures at a conference in Washington, DLife, a decade - long initiative to tally global ocean life that today released its first figures at a conference in Washington, Dlife that today released its first figures at a conference in Washington, D.C..

For decades, thinking about the best way to search for extraterrestrials has centered on a «Goldilocks» zone where temperatures are «just right» for liquid water, a key ingredient for life, to wet the surface of an Earth doppelgänger.

Beyond offering further proof that single genes can have dramatic influences on longevity, an idea that drew skepticism just a decade ago, the new finding may help scientists explain how severely reducing calorie intake extends life span in a variety of animals (SN: 11/25/00, p. 341: Low - cal diet may reduce cancer in monkeys).

So over decades, I had read all sorts of stories about people who had gone out into the wilds and explored the unknown, and I thought that if we could just focus on the central experiences of their lives, I could condense all sorts of stories into just chapter length tales and put a bunch of them together, sort of show the whole arc of the discovery of the idea of evolution and really where we stand today, right up to very recent things like Neanderthal DNA and the discovery of some recent transitional fossils.

In the past three decades, the linguist from the University of Manchester, UK, has spent a total of seven years living with the Pirahã in the Amazon rainforest and is one of just three outsiders, along with his ex-wife and a missionary who spent time with them in the 1960s and 1970s, who is fluent in their language.

Why are you starting to «lose it» just when you're entering your prime of life and possess decades of hard - won wisdom?

After sharing my personal story of living with undiagnosed celiac disease last spring, my father brought a series of frightening events that occurred just over a decade ago to my attention and asked why I didn't mention them in my post.

Dr. Joe Kahn: CoQ10 is a very powerful antioxidant and because oxygen is being used in the mitochondria in the process of producing ATP energy molecule, the mitochondria is very sensitive to oxidant stress and CoQ10 is an anti-oxidant and about age forty we just start producing dramatically less and less CoQ10 every decade of our lives.

(I just added years to the life of a 2 + decades - old cashmere, classic, double - breasted coat by having the tattered lining replaced by a local tailor — and I will continue to wear this coat often!)

As I lived the single - again life for most of the last decade, I realized just how sex - saturated our world had become... even in the Christian circles in which I ran.

The prevailing understanding of online dating just a meager decade ago was that it was reserved strictly for desperate people, who couldn't possibly book a date in real life.

The movie brims with life, the battles look spot - on authentic, and a sense of history is revived in the audience just as current battles with ISIS and Al Queda have driven the decades of IRA - British hostility to the inactive files.

Starting as just a child, the film spans two decades of Marjane's life as she struggles to cope with all of the difficulties that come with adolescence, the teenage years and early adulthood; coupled with the strife of her nation.

His personal life a shambles — his marriage to singer / actress Michelle Phillips lasted just eight days — Hopper spent much of the decade in a haze, earning a notorious reputation as an unhinged wild man.

Although Adaline's story isn't fully fleshed out across the decades of her life, if you are a history buff, a fan of great cinematography and production design, or just looking for a good «date - nite» fantasy romance to experience on your home theater, definitely give Age of Adaline a look.

I suppose Rauch's sense of humor just veers in a different direction than mine, and she gets a kick out of the violently unfunny material that she offers up for herself here as Hope Ann Greggory, a former wild child bronze medalist turned washed - up has - been who spends her days milking whatever glory she can from her fifteen minutes in the spotlight over a decade ago while living in the one horse town of Amherst, Ohio.

In the 1960s, his feature film debut, he plays the haunted and pale Boo Radley in To Kill A Mocking Bird; in the 1970s he immortalized his love for the smell of napalm in the morning as a general who like to surf and plays Wagner when going into battle; in the 1980s he plays a quiet, down - on - his - luck country singer who does odd jobs for room and board while trying to put his life back together; and in the 1990s his turn as the bombastic Apostle E.F. might just be the best single performance of that decade.

Lisa is trapped in the last day of her life with her family in a sort of Groundhog Day conceit, except that she's a ghost who eventually figures out that the same evil ghost dude guy has been killing young girls just like her for decades, and that it's up to her to break the cycle.

However, just as it's a predictable response that the majority of people who saw Up were viscerally impacted by the first 10 minutes, the reaction to the film as a whole has also become slightly stereotypical, summed up as follows: the so - called «Married Life» montage, in which we watch the lead character, Carl Fredricksen, and his wife, Ellie, as they live their lives over multiple decades, culminating in her death at an old age, is excellent.

At just a little less than 2 hours, Wolf Children spans nearly over a decade through the lives of these characters.

Cushing passed away in 1994, but computer animators do an eerie job of bringing him back to life, with just a touch of the uncanny valley issues that plagued Robert Zemeckis» motion capture flicks from last decade.

But it is not just the passing years that are the problem — or so discovers Pete (Paul Rudd) when his wife (Leslie Mann) reaches the beginning of this critical decade and decides on a list of resolutions destined to reinvent their lives.

April and the Extraordinary World Year: 2015 Director: Christian Desmares, Franck Ekinci Keeping real life global history straight in narratives that leapfrog across decades and centuries is tough enough — making sense of alternate history when it's articulated at breakneck speed throughout multiple eras of European cultural advancement is just downright strenuous.