Sentences with phrase «end about a decade»

But the destructive cycle came to an end about a decade ago, when she saw an ad to try yoga for $ 30 for 30 days.

For example, the foundation invested hundreds of millions of dollars in promoting small schools, or «schools within schools,» a strategy it ended about a decade ago when Gates concluded that it was not having the far - reaching impact he had hoped.

Not exact matches

The refusal to acknowledge the bad debts incurred by banks during its property bubble plunged Japan into its «lost decade» and ended talk about Japanese global domination.

The interest rate on 10 - year bonds was 1.79 % at the end of 2014 — about half as much as the federal government had to offer to get investors to buy its debt a decade ago.

«When I joined the company in 1992, we used to talk about our mission as putting a PC in every home, and by the end of the decade we have done that, at least in the developed world,» said Nadella.

«It's ludicrous to talk about an end to a supercycle that only started a decade ago,» Gartman told the Financial Times in August.

«The Chelsea Blow Dry is all about bounce and lashings of gloss, with lots of volume and movement through the ends,» says Ward, who's been cutting the Duchess of Cambridge and her family's hair for over a decade.

Failing this sort of bold action, Hofmeister sees North America entering an «energy abyss» by the end of the next decade, the result of land (mis) management, an irrational aversion to nuclear power, and 50 years of ignoring serious questions about our resource base and the infrastructure that powers society.

Much has been written about how to manage this new generation of workers between the ages of 18 and 35, which will constitute more than 35 percent of the workforce by the end of 2013 and more than 50 percent of all workers by the end of the decade.

The company's net debt increased to about 12.5 billion euros ($ 15.6 billion) by the end of March, nearing the level reached a decade ago when former CEO Jean - Marie Messier's acquisition binge left the company close to bankruptcy.

In fact as I started writing more about the outlook for hard commodity prices over the next year, I adjusted my outlook downwards and proposed that iron ore prices would fall below $ 50 a ton before the end of the decade.

We are fairly upbeat about the company's earnings performance out to the end of this decade.

Apparently, I do — for decades) But it's the story at the end that I tell about her, that had her brimming with tears of the gentlest kind.

Jerusalem was taken by Christian forces at the end of the First Crusade in 1099, but Western control of the city was short - lived — lasting only about 90 years — and Muslims consistently routed the crusaders in the decades and centuries to follow.

Hartley felt compelled to speak out against the trafficking to some of the highest - ranking officials in the country and ended up being permanently expelled from the country about a decade ago.

The civil theology of the youthful Hegel in Germany during the decades after the French Revolution shows the yearning for the union of Christian and citizen was still vigorous at the end of the eighteenth century.6 These youthful speculations stand behind Hegel's mature political theory as well as, curiously, behind the thought of Marx about man and citizen.

Another sign of the flourishing of graduate professional theological schools was the discovery that about half of all such schools «had undertaken new construction or major renovation during the decade since the end of World War II».

More than a decade after its end, the editors of the New York Times still can not bring themselves to speak simple truth about the evil of the most murderous movement in human history, or about those who devoted their lives and betrayed their country in serving that movement.

According to Sabia, the high - end segment could add about 500 million more cases of beer in the next decade.

The reference to our decade + without a league was purely in relation to these same recycled end of season comments about us having everything we need to challenge etc.....

-- you are not a real Arsenal fan — you are a wind - up artist — you know nothing about football — you should blame Kroenke — you forgot about the many injuries we have had — you are disrespectful and forgot what he has done for us more than a decade ago — you are ungrateful because he build us a nice stadium — judge him at the end of the season

cut the sentimentality which has nothing to do with this argument... as to statistics i do nt see one in your half baked drivel which amounts to an ill - informed rant about neville (actually one of the more sensible football commentators) and fans who have suffered a decade of decline and underperformance under a dilusional manager who has completely lost the plot about modern football and ended up creating a zombified football team which you can read about here assuming you can canhttps: / / www.theguardian.com/football/2018/feb/26/zombified-arsenal-lack-obligation-to-be-in-love-with-idea-of - winning

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

Just as a guideline, if you had bet on each team, every game, for the past decade, you'd end up at about a -2 % ROI.

It is probably about time to end the Calhoun era (as the empty grandstands in these pictures can attest), but there aren't many suitable replacements out there given that triple option offenses are few and far between, thus Calhoun will likely be around another decade.

; It will be the right and logic end of that story that will continue with Henry who can do same in a decade and do french team, as he would love to one day as Zidane does... Not about injuries nor referee nor anything but spirit in the team and club; confortable brats with daddy Wenger watching over them.

Bonetti and «Chopper» Harris continued at the club but by the end of the decade the club was more about the swing of the late «60s and King's Road than genuine football success.

Though Wheaton's population over the past decade grew by nearly 8 percent, to 55,416 in 2000, mostly because of the mixed - use Danada development on the south end of the city that included about 700 single - family homes, its population has since leveled off, according to census statistics.

Perhaps there is something about both events coming towards the end of a decade.

Moore took on Batman with the seminal A Killing Joke, a Joker story whose vague and haunting ending had more to say about the character, and his relationship with Batman, than the decades of material leading up to it.

Country: Somalia When: 2016 Why you should pay attention: The political instability in Somalia that has characterized the last two decades, spawning militant groups such as al - Shabaab may be about to end.

The verdict was a quick and unceremonious end for Mr. Silver, who, during his more than two decades as the State Assembly speaker, displayed a Teflon - like quality in deflecting questions about his outside income as well as calls for his ouster.

Only the 2011 arrest of Penn State's Jerry Sandusky convinced an upstate sex abuse victim to end decades of silence about his own nightmarish abuse at the hands of a Catholic school janitor in Albany.

«As soon as we became aware that within member items there was long, long standing — about a decade — practice, we put an end to it,» she said.

Savouring a cheap pint the day after the Conservative party ended Labour's eight decade rule in Copeland, the lifetime Labour voters expressed antipathy towards Jeremy Corbyn and deep disillusionment about politics in general.

The end result: an increase in length of the snow - free season, by about one week per decade from 1975 to 2016.

An instrument on Cassini, which has been exploring the Saturn system over a decade, has given scientists crucial new clues about the shape of the heliosphere's trailing end, often called the heliotail.

Kassell estimates that this is a million - word task, but the end result will allow researchers to follow individual patients for decades or to study conditions, historical dates, and other variables to learn about trends.

The world market for high - temperature superconductors is forecast to be about $ 10 billion by the end of the decade and up to $ 200 billion by 2020.

Watching from his garden at Woolsthorpe Manor, Isaac Newton began thinking about the apple's descent: a line of thought that, two decades later, ended with his conclusion that there must be some sort of universal force governing the motion of apples and cannonballs and even planetary bodies.

With only days to go before NASA's Cassini space probe ends its two - decade mission to explore Saturn, what has it revealed about the ringed planet, the second largest in our solar system?

Alan Stern is back to tell us about Golden Spike, his new company that plans to put human clients on the surface of the moon by the end of this decade.

There was a news story in my home state (probably more than a decade ago) about a little girl who had found a wild Belladonna plant and had eaten a small handfull of the sweet tasting berries and ended up passing away due to her heart stopping.

London About Blog We are a group of professionally trained West End actor / singer / musicians and we have been performing as Singing Waiters for almost a decade.

The story, about a man who is kidnapped and held captive for two decades and seeks revenge upon his sudden release, is very similar to the original, but just different enough to keep fans guessing; Lee has suggested that his film has an even darker ending than Park's.

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.

He dropped out of film school in the early»90s to make a documentary about the notorious punk rocker GG Allin, and by the end of the decade he was making his first mainstream comedy, the American Pie - lite college romp, Road Trip.

The pinnacle of the decades - long collaboration between producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory, Howards End is a luminous vision of E. M. Forster's cutting 1910 novel about class divisions in Edwardian England.

If there's ever a question as to what the Sixties are about as a movement in American cinema, Newman's The Hustler and Hud are the thesis statements that launch Warren Beatty's end - of - decade transitional dissertations Bonnie & Clyde and McCabe & Mrs. Miller.

No one at the end of 1917 was debating whether the directing debut of John Ford or the first appearance of Vittorio de Sica augured longer careers to come (in fact, both would be making films for the next five - plus decades) or weighing the industry impact of Mary Pickford's box - office smash Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm or (to the point of my own research) speculating about the future of slapstick star Roscoe «Fatty» Arbuckle's new sidekick, a vaudeville refugee named Buster Keaton.