Sentences with phrase «defined by a decade»

John Hughes, who would later be considered a decade - defining director — or perhaps more accurately a director defined by a decade — sees his second directorial feature, The Breakfast Club, hit theater screens.

Will it be defined by a decade issue like climate change or terrorism or genocide.

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None of the great business leaders I've known and worked with over the decades are defined by who they are.

The great success of the Ford class will not be defined by any one innovation on board, but by the foresight displayed by the designers who are boldly creating a carrier to launch planes that haven't even been designed yet, to fire weapons not yet built, and to secure the US's interests at sea for decades to come.

And there is also no doubt that Apple's devices have benefited from group infatuation, a phenomenon that has often favored a product or a class of designs based on an allegiance that the devotees themselves have difficulty defining in coherent terms, as by people willing to pay high premiums for German engineering even after decades of Consumer Reports evaluations have failed to demonstrate any stunning superiority of German cars over Hondas and Toyotas.

But, when we talk about America becoming great again — defined, in a vague way, by a greater degree of upward mobility — what decade most often gets referenced?

Microsoft, for example, has reduced itself to heckling Google with two campaigns: «Scroogled,» about the alleged evils of Google's e-mail advertising policy (something that consumers have met with a shrug ever since Gmail's introduction nearly a decade ago); and the «Bing It On Challenge,» in which people on the street pick the search results they like best (which apes the old Pepsi Challenge — a campaign that defined Pepsi by what it isn't, and thus condemned it to being Coke's bridesmaid forever).

Over the last several decades, however, pensions have rapidly been replaced by defined contribution plans like 401 (k) s, and those that remain are less generous.

Saunders, the president of the Vancouver and District Labour Council, says that Canadian workers and their pensions are more exposed to risk during market trouble because of the successful campaign over the past decades to move from defined benefit pensions, which guarantee a certain monthly amount when you retire, to defined contribution plans, promoted by market enthusiasts.

After a decade of explosive price gains fueled by Chinese demand, often defined as the commodities supercycle, mining companies are contending with slower growth by spurning mergers and cutting costs.

Adams is co-author with Damien Ma of In Line Behind a Billion People: How Scarcity Will Define China's Ascent in the Next Decade, published in 2013 by the Financial Times Press, and translated into Chinese in 2014 by Gusa Publishing (Taiwan).

The marquee name that once called itself «The Standard of the World» and for decades defined American - style luxury automobiles with its large, spacious cars, was outshined by competition on its home turf.

You are exactly right, the process of death is not defined by biology alone, as any real nurse who has decades of caring for the terminally ill konws.

(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

A decade ago humanitarian intervention, defined by Brian Lepard as «the use of military force to protect the victims of human rights violations,» seemed...

By the early decades of the century, exclusivist elements of the heritage were abandoned and Christianity was defined more or less as a moral outlook.

A decade ago humanitarian intervention, defined by Brian Lepard as «the use of military force to protect the victims of human rights violations,» seemed to be a policy whose time had come.

Certain decades were defined by specific food trends, so we're collecting all the classics from the»20s, all the way through the 1970s.

Established in 1996 by San Francisco entrepreneur Charlie Crocker and former Spottswoode winemaker Pam Starr, the winery has spent the last two decades cultivating the land to bring it to its fullest potential, and blending distinct blocks to define their own characteristic style founded on the estate's deep Napa Valley roots.

The one fact of the mighty empiricist in this article is that we were in 4 cup finals in the last 5 years and won 3 the rest of the piece is opinion about the unfair treatment of his supplier... another fact is that we were incapable of getting past the last 16 in the CL in that time and another fact is that we were never at any point serious contenders to win the EPL and another fact is that at the end of that cup run we dropped out of the top 4 and will now drop out of the top 5... Another fact is that for over a decade we haven't been competitive in the two races that define a top flight european club even though the promise was that by building a shiny new stadium and charging the highest gate prices in world football we would... And a million and one other facts that point to one thing WENGER OUT

West Bromwich Albion might be said to be a club defined by parachute payments: too good for the Championship helped by parachute payments; not good enough for the Premier League in the absence of sufficient owner funding, evidenced by repeated promotions and relegations between the two divisions in the past decade.

The graph below displays the number of dedicated pinch hitters — defined as hitters with at least 75 PA in a season who made at least half of those PA as pinch hitters — per team grouped by decade, going back to 1953, when Baseball Prospectus's complete pinch - hit splits start.

I'm interested in analysis across all sorts of groupings - both the more obvious (party membership, or which house they are in) as well as less obvious, such as radicalism / moderation as defined by for example DW - Nominate; or establishment vs. outsiders; pre-congress careers; geography; length of elected service; decade when they were first elected; etc...

In 1945, 1964 and 1997, Labour was a breath of fresh air, defined as a vanguard of national renewal, not by what it had done decades previously.

Carbon intensity, generally defined as carbon produced per unit of gross domestic product, has been falling in developed countries, and some developing countries have pledged to reduce their own levels by as much as 45 percent by the end of the decade.

Over the last few decades, scientists have observed cannibalism — defined by Schutt as eating all or part of another individual of the same species — among all major groups of vertebrates.

The model also offers a solution to a paradox that has perplexed researchers for decades and was first defined at Princeton in 1948 by the late chemistry professor Walter Kauzmann.

Moreover, the annual number of hot days — defined as average temperatures exceeding between 25 and 30 degrees Celsius, depending on location — rose by almost two a decade.

This initiative, today led by an Alliance, including science, donors, sponsors and users, is a unique co-design effort to organize and define the science on global environmental change over the coming decades.

Health is defined by where you will be 1 year or 1 decade from now, not where you will be in 1 week or 1 month.

The decade's defining dress however was introduced for you by Azzedine Alaïa — the «King of Cling» - whose body - conscious dresses were scandalously form - fitting.

What's great about this versatile garment is that they are defined by the rest of your outfit, meaning that no matter what decade you are in, you can make the denim jacket current and modern with what you pair underneath it.

I like different things from different decades so am not really defined by one.

Her tweed jackets and matching skirts would define the decade and were loved by the ultimate style icon, Jackie O.

«The idea of fashion being defined by photography, as it's been for decades, is over,» James told Creative Review.

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.

For decades, schoolchildren have half - jokingly defined themselves by who or what they stuck on their schoolbooks and notepads.

At the end of a decade defined by much bellyaching about «the death of cinema» (including, on occasion, by this critic), Avatar concludes, appropriately enough, with an image of rebirth.

They're often formulaic and follow a well - worn path originally etched out by classic capers such as John Huston's THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950), Jules Dassin's RIFIFI (1955), Alexander Mackendrick's THE LADYKILLERS (1955), Jean - Pierre Melville's BOB LE FLAMBEUR (1955) and Stanley Kubrick's THE KILLING (1956) but the best heist films take unexpected turns and leave their own special mark on a genre that seems to find new ways to define itself every decade.

What begin a decade ago with an unexpected visit by Nick Fury to Tony Stark's home has grown to become a defining, and uniting, element of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

If you didn't live through that decade or have never seen a film by its defining director — Quentin Tarantino — then «Free Fire» may strike you as a fresh, cheeky action - comedy with an outrageous sense of humor.

By contrast, those private employers who have switched over to defined contribution plans in recent decades will be unaffected.

In the past decade or so, a growing number of schools have adopted curricula on social and emotional learning, including an emphasis on growth mindsets (as defined by psychologist Carol Dweck of Stanford) and developing a stick - to - it quality called grit (as explored by Angela Duckworth of the University of Pennsylvania).

Like most market trends, the truck - based SUV craze eventually subsided, replaced largely by car - based crossovers, but the Explorer essentially defined the U.S. automotive market for over a decade.

For decades, the Range Rover was defined by its boxy, upright greenhouse and short front and rear overhangs.

But in 1972, few would have expected that the new SL (code - named «R107» inside Mercedes) would define personal luxury cars for almost two decades, and over that time, be powered by eight different engines.

It is defined by Audi officials as «an interurban shuttle with lounge character — initially in a pilot fleet and around the middle of the decade as a series - production car for automated driving.»

CBGB: Decades of Graffiti by Richard Hell and Christopher Salyers: CBGB, the music club that helped define New York City's punk scene by introducing the world to such bands as Television, the Talking Heads, and the Ramones, shut down in 2006.

Overall, the Israel market as defined by the Tel Aviv 25 returned 161 % including dividends vs. the «lost decade» in much of the rest of the developed world markets.

Activity is expected to pick up again in areas hit by resource sector price slumps, and this will also help diminish the regional differences that have defined Canadian real estate for the last decade.