Sentences with phrase «doing her thing for decades»

She's been doing her thing for decades and now we are hearing of all the amazing things she did privately along the way as well.

DETROIT — Brenda Goodman has been steadily doing her thing for decades, moving from early success within the Cass Corridor movement in her native Detroit, to a varied career in New York City, and finally to her current retreat in the relative sanctity of the Catskills.

TYLER ROLLINS FINE ART Up on the 10th floor, quietly doing its thing for a decade, this gallery specializes in contemporary art from Southeast Asia and is one of the most reliably interesting spaces in Chelsea.

Not exact matches

[Hofstadter] might know what needs to be done for things to be intelligent, but it has taken someone, unfortunately me, the decades of time to drag that mattress out of the road so we can do the work.

We know it's not easy to forgo money in your pocket to bulk up a savings account you won't see for decades, but it's the smartest thing you can do with any extra income.

Of course, the Oracle doesn't worry himself with the day - to - day management of companies he owns; his biggest act of participation in four decades was in 2006 when he installed longtime Berkshire insurance man Brad Kinstler to run things after Chuck Huggins, who had been with the company 54 years and was CEO for 33 of them, retired.

And what happened to us was that our salaries stagnated and fell while the cost of the things we couldn't do without went up at rates well beyond that of inflation for decades as the social safety was being pulled out from underneath us.

These things don't change a ton from year to year — there's a shortfall out there in a few decades and the fixes for it are known — which is not to say they're easy.

After reviewing the award winners over the past several years, Clint expressed surprise to see awards given for «new and ground - breaking» products that were things that Black & Veatch had been doing for decades.

But if you want the opportunity to turn 1 % of your net worth into a multiple of what you have today, then the best thing I can advise is to buy that 1 % right away and find the discipline to do nothing with it for a decade.

Michael: So can I ask you, what firm were you doing your Wall Street cold calling thing for a decade, there?

True, some companies, such as Coca - Cola (NYSE: KO), can figure out one thing, do it extremely well and enjoy success for decade after decade.

There are a variety of reasons for this gap in understanding: The time gap between discovery research and the translation of that discovery into a therapeutic or a commercial product can take decades, and public and political attention spans are short; the natural human inclination is to pay more attention to things that don't work rather than things that do.

It took over two decades for Microsoft to «do its thing.»

Waiting to see that «parties coming together» thing that Republicans have kinda sorta not been doing for a couple decades now.

I am also an older person, closer to seventy than sixty, and yet in my mind I am forever twenty (I like to think so, anyway) and have done many things in the last two decades that I ought to have done in my youth, but didn't for various reasons.

For, strangely enough, it has been precisely in this decade, and thus in the course of this change, that I have found time and disposition for things which quite patently have nothing to do with withdrawing behind Chinese walFor, strangely enough, it has been precisely in this decade, and thus in the course of this change, that I have found time and disposition for things which quite patently have nothing to do with withdrawing behind Chinese walfor things which quite patently have nothing to do with withdrawing behind Chinese walls.

What they did not know is that this was not the story they were made to believe... but was rather a broke hulk was all rapped up in protocols and agreements that froze their move and had to plan and allow the happening of some thing big that would allow it break the chains wrapped up with to do what it had done for the last decade...!?

For decades (and even centuries) atheists and even other religions, were quiet and let the Christians do their own thing, the problem is that unfortunately it wasn't a «live and let live» scenario.

For many decades those who don't like something about someone else pretend to know that the young will change things their way.

This, by the way, doesn't mean we are «further along» the path of discipleship than they are, for it is quite likely that there are things which Jesus has taught that other person which we have not yet learned and will not learn for another three decades!

For real, though, adding the yellow and changing up the look of the home unis was the most interesting thing the Padres have done to their uniforms in decades, and they only kept it for a single seasFor real, though, adding the yellow and changing up the look of the home unis was the most interesting thing the Padres have done to their uniforms in decades, and they only kept it for a single seasfor a single season.

We're speaking strictly of the garnish, which restaurants everywhere tossed on their plates for decades before everyone realized that was a stupid thing to do.

@darwin, He fufilled his dream he played for barca and won trophies, yes he did nt start every game like some may point out but being on bench here and there becuase of arguabley 2 of the best players of the past decade (xavi, iniesta) is not a bad thing.

If this has been going on for the past decade, surely something is wrong with the way we do things.

They all leve his great with new talent but won't be with world class players, Pep has been in charge with top players for over a decade now he gets respect which is a difficult thing to do with W / C spoilt children, his name is enough for players to flock to us.

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

Arsenal has done the same thing CONSISTENTLY for a decade... and CONSISTENTLY come up with the same results.

It would take mother lucky or some good fortune for us to win it this bcos Wenger obviously has learn t nothing from his experience in the transfer market over the past decade, he stubbornly holds on to his old ways and does the same old thing over and over again thinking it will work out someday, thats madness if you ask me.

Arsene has done this same thing for more than a decade and its proving not to be tactics anymore but lack of new ideas — common Wenger they are different strokes for different folks.

THATS WHY THE PRESS ARE ALWAYS AFTER HIM and the club cos he's made himself a target and he has» nt won anything of note for a decade, The press are loathsome in many ways but with Arsenal they ask the questions thet we as fans are NOT allowed to and when Wenger does his usual thing they get annoyed and go after him

Last summer, when Rockies righthander Darryl Kile was on pace to become the first pitcher in nearly two decades to lose 20 games in a season, Brian Kingman did a strange thing: He prayed for Kile to win.

All we can do is do the same thing we have done for over a decade.

Sorry, but it's not Wenger's fault that some players can not do a simple pass... and it had nothing to do with two decade in europe, blame him for other thing...

In a time when Manchester United have their weakest team for a decade, Chelsea are «in transition», Citeh are still restricted by the inabilities of Mancini / Platt / Kidd, Liverpool flatter to deceiver - this Arsenal team are incapable of winning any trophy whatsoever.The squad is paper thin as far as real talent is concerned.There are far too many passengers and «dead wood» abounds.Who on earth could do a better job as a manager of a team who are outclassed by Swansea and outplayed by Fulham, cant beat Wolves when almost every other team can!I don't know but sooner rather than later i believe we will find out!But one thing is certain he won't get 7 years of excuses before receiving his marching orders.

With all the negative things we hear about marriage — from sexless, loveless marriages to the high rate of infidelity to the stress of living 24/7 with the same person for decades — and with the high divorce rate, you have to ask (well, at least I do), why do you want to get married?

I love the term beta marriage and wished we had used it in The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels — a reminder that, yes, I am too old to have beta be the first thing that comes to mind when I think of what's new and uncharted — instead of using the name that caused a similar kerfuffle a decade or so ago, a starter marriage.

I've been doing this thing called motherhood for well over a decade now.

I've been doing this blogging thing for a little over a decade now, and it never ceases to amaze me just how many article posts sit in «drafts» mode... forever!

«Don't get me wrong: I think nursing is great for lots of reasons, co-sleeping is fine, and carrying a baby in a sling is great, but you can do all of those things and not be a sensitive parent,» says Alan Sroufe, a professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota Institute of Child Development, who has studied attachment for decadedo all of those things and not be a sensitive parent,» says Alan Sroufe, a professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota Institute of Child Development, who has studied attachment for decades.

«Chuck proved that you could be great in constituent service and still be an effective Democratic senator, and keep your principles, and get things done,» agreed Jonathan Jacobson, who for over two decades chaired the Orange County Democratic Committee.

«We're going to do things that haven't been done in our country for many, many decades.»

Leibell, a Republican from Putnam County who served for more than a decade in the State Assembly before getting elected to the State Senate in 1994, developed a reputation for getting things done in Albany.

«[The teachers] are going to get their classrooms back, and my grandchildren are going to get their teachers back so they can be creative and do the things I want for my grandchildren, and my children had decades ago.»

«We've been doing those for decades, if not centuries, and, as the saying has it, insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome.

As his academic career at Trent evolved over the following 2 decades, Adams became increasingly engaged with the local community: «I became involved in public affairs, like sports and a program called Energy Savers in Peterborough, and I was chair for the United Way — all of those things that you could do in a small community.»

In the developed world, «conservation and energy efficiency will remain for the next several decades the most important thing the world can do to get on a sustainable energy path,» he adds.

«One of the things we've learned over the past decades is for us to have confidence in our results, what we need to do is to have different approaches to analyzing the data and the model results,» Karl said.

«The last thing they want to do is to fail,» said Angel Hsu, a professor at Yale - NUS College and Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies who has been studying China for the past decade.

Researchers have known for decades that if you cool liquid helium just a few degrees below its boiling point of — 452 degrees Fahrenheit -LRB--- 269 degrees Celsius) it will suddenly be able to do things that other fluids can't, like dribble through molecule - thin cracks, climb up and over the sides of a dish, and remain motionless when its container is spun.