Sentences with phrase «done decades of work»

I do value the views of those who have done decades of work on strategies, approaches and plans for rapidly ending GHG emissions and drawing down excess CO2, over the views of anonymous blog commenters who obviously have given little real thought or study to the issues involved.

Well, maybe your oversized ego gets bumped some because you believed that you could be as good as Stephen King with your first novel and didn't have to do the decades of work and learning that King did.

Not exact matches

I'm proud of all the work we did to turn around Reddit in the last three years, but I think about the impact I could have at one company versus the potential I could have investing in dozens of great, multibillion - dollar companies — and that's the way I want to scale my next decade.

Happily working decades beyond the magical age of 65, here are his words about how anybody can follow suit, and thrive doing so.

The fact is, a higher proportion of teenagers work at a minimum wage job in most provinces across Canada today than a decade ago (49 per cent across Canada, 70 per cent in Ontario in 2016), but a growing proportion of adults have been doing so as well.

[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.

I've worked on creating an optimal way of doing business for more than a decade.

Solutions to the technical challenges in doing so are already in the works, largely thanks to research conducted over more than a decade of continuously inhabiting the ISS, said Jason Crusan, director of advanced exploration systems within NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate.

The partners had the help of leaks from staffers inside the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the entity created by Congress more than a decade ago to make sure auditors are doing work that meets regulatory standards.

For the last two decades, we had been trying to work out the fundamental science of quantum computing, and right now, a lot of the scientific advances are done.

She did not mention monetary policy in her speech, which was solely focused on the world of work, but did note those graduating were entering the strongest jobs market in nearly a decade.

CANA has been a fixture of Alberta's construction industry for decades, slowly forming a reputation for doing excellent work on tight deadlines.

If marketers don't get it right we may end up with another wasted effort like the «voice of the customer» work that was popular a decade ago.

«Hindsight is always 20/20, of course, but I also have to tell you honestly that, after a decade living and working outside the U.S., my only real regret is that we didn't do it sooner.»

After four decades of shareholder advocacy, we are bolstered in the knowledge that as the field of corporate social responsibility which ICCR members helped to promote in the early 1970s continues to evolve, so does the work of our growing coalition of active shareowners as they refine their methodology and design newer and more effective models for corporate engagement.

I spend so little time dealing with my personal finances that it is almost an afterthought, and I can tell you — after a decade of doing it this way — that it works.

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.

The charges against the pair related to nearly a decade of foreign work they did for the Ukrainian government and Ukrainian politicians before they joined Trump's campaign.

Our experience as one of the fastest growing companies in the country over the past decade gives us a unique perspective, and the TiLT training program is grounded in real - life, practical examples of what works and doesn't work in today's incredibly tough sales environment,» said Henry Schuck, CEO of DiscoverOrg.

There are so many jobs that surprise people when they learn they can be done with some form of work flexibility because that often wasn't an option a decade ago.

«I think there will always be a need for people to identify and review the high priority activities but I do think that a substantial amount of work that is done today that is relatively trainable can be replaced via technology over the coming decade,» Sutton said.

All the good works done by religious organizations of all kinds (Christian and otherwise) might get a mention in a human interest story sometimes, but decades of this media treatment have skewed public perceptions of what faith is about.

«As they did through decades of civil war, the churches once again stand as one of the few signs of hope, giving voice to the needs of the people of South Sudan... Their commitment to working for peace and reconciliation is as strong as ever.»

The groundbreaking work that Daniel Patrick Moynihan did in 1965, on the black family, is an example — along with the critical research of psychologist Judith Wallerstein over several decades on the impact of divorce on children; Barbara Dafoe Whitehead's well - known work on the outcomes of single parenthood for children; Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur's seminal book, Growing Up with a Single Parent; and David Blankenhorn's Fatherless America, another lengthy summarization of the bad empirical news about family breakup.

I believe it is the general concensus of scholars who do serious work at determining when the gospels and other New Testament books were written were written many decades after Jesus died.

But, since this is a Democratic Party initiative, perhaps you can kindly ask your Democratic representative if there is no place for people of sincere belief to continue the great work that they do, including the benefits of religious exemption that go back decades.

I think that what we must do is to start running as fast as possible toward that light, working to increase the probability of our survival through the next decade by some measurable amount.

But however influential Schumacher's work may have been a decade ago, Rubin would have done better to offer a detailed analysis of the current strains influencing environmentalism, including «environmental justice» or the animal rights movement.

Although I had been teaching Kierkegaard seminars for many years and had lived in constant companionship with his authorship, the perennial Kierkegaardian side of my work did not bear visible fruit until I completed a work on Kierkegaard's parables, which was fully two decades in the making.8 No twentieth century psychologist has influenced my psychology as deeply as Kierkegaard, and I still doubt that the analytical powers and psychological insights of Freud and the post-Freudians have equaled those of Kierkegaard.

After more than 20 years of professional ministry experience and a decade focused on philanthropy and developing leaders for the nonprofit world, I often get into conversations about how to know if all the work we're doing is actually worthwhile.

While it is true that great strides have been taken in furthering the equality of men and women over the past decade, feminists believe there is much work yet to be done.

And yet: The so - called foolish, brave pastors of the 1980s and «90s spent decades doing the hard work of making New York City a place where the seeds of the Gospel could again be planted.

Indeed, Ryan's radical budget and ideologically driven plan to end Medicare as a guaranteed benefit program did what decades of work by Catholic social justice advocates had never been able to achieve: It activated a gut level Catholic concern for solidarity and the common good.

This passage is steeped in the rot - from - within despair of the 1970s, and it is not a coincidence that King did his best work in the decade of Jonestown and The Exorcist, the Ayatollah Khomeini and The Late Great Planet Earth, the decade that stripped away the confident science - and - progress ethos of the 1950s and early 1960s.

In the first decades of his remarkably busy career, Greeley did serious academic work in sociology, taking down a number of shibboleths about Catholic culture and Catholic schools and demonstrating empirically the educational, professional, and financial upward mobility of white Catholic ethnics in the United States.

I didn't actually weigh myself to begin with as I believe the scales are the work of satan But I'm into a pair of jeans I haven't been in for a decade and I knew what my weight was then, so doing rough calculations in my head, I think I've lost a stone.

And when you look back at the last decade, none of those youngsters have progressed in the way that they were hyped up to and yes I'm talking about the likes of Ramsey, Walcott, Jack Wheelchair and the Ox who all had a one season wonder of some sort, during one point in their Arsenal careers, thus far and We can't keep using this excuse for not buying ready made quality, which would instantly improve our chances of winning a major trophy or two, but No, Wenger wants to stick with a theory which clearly isn't working for us on the pitch, but he doesn't really care, as long as it works out well for saving the penny's and the pounds, in the place where it matters most for Arsenal fc, in the bank.

Fact fans can't see we are only still relevant because of the great work he has done in the last decade is the saddest part of all.

It was one of only a very few issues our opinions differed Jon so I'm pleased your on board with Ivan.I believe he has had to go over Wengers head and straight to Kronke to get his way and this will explain the reported stand off in their working relationship.Wenger did not like being called into question.Shame it didn't happen a decade ago

Now, after a decade of NHS care, she is able to use a needle and thread again and has developed a way of working and a design that doesn't cause too much of a strain on her hands — although she admits that the level of detail in each doll and outfit probably comes from wanting to ensure enough care and attention has gone into it, in case her hands fail her and this is the last one she ever makes.

AG: The shorter version of my story is that I'd been working as a freelance food writer for about a decade but felt called to do something different.

What «being a dad» means has undergone amazing transformation in the last 2 decades, and though there's been a lot of progress, there's still much work to be done.

The experiment is similar to work done decades ago by Harry Harlow, in that it utilizes maternally deprived juvenile monkeys to study the effects of early adversity on young primate brains.

Obviously this is a pretty broad question, and I don't care if these are primary sources, to collaborative works by modern historians, to historical fictions (as I'm sure much of this detail will be left to the imagination as not much evidence will remain), but I'm looking for how humans ran societies, and the issue they dealt with, on a day to day basis, because people live on a day to day basis, and don't, like historians, summarize a decade in a couple of pages of writing.

The Common Foreign and Security Policy is moribund, the police and judicial cooperation (the former third pillar) does not work too well and the Euro has been in an almost continuous state of crisis for half a decade now (which should be obvious no matter your take on the responsibilities and the way forward).

Olney though contends Goldsmith has overegged his role in the «apolitical» anti-Heathrow movement: «For him to say «the only way we can stop Heathrow is to appoint me as MP» is actually ignoring a great deal of work done by thousands of other people over the decades.

A real - time electronic poll of BME teachers attending the seminar found that: 78 % do not think the work and contribution of BME teachers is recognised and valued by schools; 58 % do not think treatment of BME teachers has improved in the last decade; Only 36 % feel outcomes for BME pupils have improved in the last decade; 98 % feel that racism continues to be a serious problem in the UK today; 53 % do not see themselves still being in the teaching profession in the next five years, with 31 % saying they are planning to change career and the rest saying they plan to retire or take a break from the profession.

For his PhD, Ayyaz is aiming to do a genealogy of working class formation in Karachi over the past three decades of neoliberal reforms and globalisation.

In any case, even if the libertarian - minded succeed in taking control of the debate on the Right, it still won't guarantee the long - term success of their ideology: the real world is dangerously messy, and we've seen a lot of evidence over the past few decades that perfect ideas don't always work as planned when they're applied to actual people (see: markets, free).

«This study reaffirms the previous work done by the New York State Department of Transportation and what many in our community have long suspected: a tunnel option would take nearly a decade to build and have an outsize price tag,» Miner said in a statement.