Sentences with phrase «even decades of their lives»

Unfortunately, most people go on to waste years or even decades of their lives focusing on the tip of the iceberg before realizing that it will never work.

The criminal justice costs of violence are also high: People who repeatedly commit acts of violence may spend several years or even decades of their lives in prison.

Not exact matches

The memory - eating disease, expected to afflict 15 million Americans by 2060 (and tens of millions more around the world as life expectancy increases), has no cure; a new drug for the condition hasn't been approved in well over a decade; initially promising experimental treatments seem to be failing with clockwork regularity; and there's not even a definitive consensus on what, exactly, biopharma companies should focus on while developing Alzheimer's medicines.

Consider the effects of inflation and any changes in your spending habits in the next few decades — if you plan on traveling, moving to a new home, or even relocating, it's likely that you will need extra funds to make those dreams come to life.

A combination of a lost decade and having to sell equities at low prices in order to live can diminish your portfolio — to the point where it won't recover even when the salad days return.

Ten years after his holy death on April 2, 2005, Karol Wojtyla, Pope St. John Paul II, looms even larger than he did when the world figuratively gathered at his bedside a decade ago: tens of millions of men and women around the world who felt impelled, and privileged, to pray with him through what he called his «Passover» — his liberation through death into a new life of freedom in the blazing glory of the Thrice - Holy God.

It turns out that Jeffs, 55 and serving a life - plus -20-year prison sentence, is likely to be replaced as head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) in the relative near term, even if he survives for decades to come.

The experience of the last decade has been sufficient to convince great numbers, if they were not convinced before, that civilized life can not prosper, or even survive, without the undergirding of strong ethical convictions.

A decade after 9 / 11 - even the most intellectually challenged American should have understood that in the part of the world where there is instability and power vacuum - the slightest excuse can be used to rally people for a cause - and the Prophet is a powerful «cause» - that can be misused by political forces... So, any American who irresponsibly puts the lives of his fellow citizens in danger by using such provocation is a traitor to his country.

His will is not what he happens at the moment to want; his faith is not what a present inventory of his religious opinions might discover; his conviction is not the answers he might give even to an omnicompetent poll - taker; his love spans all the decades of the beloved's life.

The United States over the next several decades will face serious economic difficulties and an erosion of living standards even without an all - Out collapse of the world economy.

Similarly, the status of the human embryo, and the value placed upon it, have come under increasing scrutiny over the past decades, and even since DP in 2008 it has become increasingly normal to assume that it is morally acceptable to destroy embryos or to experiment upon them.12 The increasing sense of a loss of respect for human life in its earliest stages is linked to the abandonment of male - female lifelong marriage as the normal structure in which human life begins and is cherished.13 DP emphasises that «human procreation is a personal act of a husband and wife, which is not capable of substitution» (DP 16).

As members of the Kingdom of God, we can (and should) call our human governments to a better and different way of living in relation to others, but we should recognize that change takes decades — even centuries!

George's model clearly predicts that the rise of Hugh Hefner and the Playboy empire was a direct, even if ironic, result of two decades of stable, highly fertile American family life.

Two decades of relentless price slashing by supermarkets has seen them unable to break even — let alone earn a living.

Kevin Lee has: One top 10 win in his entire career that came as a result of a bogus stoppage before the guy even tapped A knockout loss to a ju - jitsu guy Terrible dress sense Poirier has: Been in the top 5 - 10 of two divisions for well over half a decade Has multiple wins over top 10 opponents Has never been knocked out by a ju - jitsu guy Acceptable dress sense, rarely if ever looks like a Persian rug come to life.

DEAR PHIL Let me tell you something: i read carefully what you say, you JON FOX and KEN 1945 since you are our «elder brothers», attending since the sixties (even if you, PHIL, are quit abusive with me, sometimes) therefore i respond to your enquiries: 1 - I believe we» r not progreessing but it's essentially due to the finincial restriction and the spending power of our oppenents (even if Wenger is RESPOSIBLE partly with his dogmatic conception of economics) 2 - Going second to sixth is not of course what we could: should achieve but it been explained by my first answer 3 - I give attention to my fellow arsenal fans, like you, what they are thinking, not to the oppenents (most of the PL clubs fans would give their lives to have a manager with the same success as Wenger over two decades, the first of dominating and the second of re-building the club after the stadium building) Now i am not against another manager if he can do better than the one we have but you must, my friend, respect him for what he has done.....

Everyone at White Hart Lane; management, fans and those at boardroom level are utterly convinced that Spurs are 100 % capable of disrupting the balance of power which has strangled the life out of the Premier League title race for years now, decades even.

Over the past five decades, experts have discovered that even in the first year of life, infants are extremely aware of the world around them.

However, women living today are lucky because a few decades ago, pain management wasn't even half of what it is today.

Over the last several decades, more and more research has suggested that experiences in early life — even prenatal life — can have a disproportionate influence on the development of personality and physical and mental health.

Mostow: Yeah, I mean, I believe that 1,000 years from now, historians will look back at the time we are living in right now, and in distance like this, this decade or maybe even these couple of years as a turning point in the history of mankind; not [unlike the way] we look back on primitive man, when they discovered fire and how that world is changing society.

In addition, neither condition emerges in the first years of life, but rather both appear years or even decades later, says senior author Dr. Arturas Petronis, head of the Krembil Family Epigenetics Laboratory in the Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).

The headline on the cover of the September 10, 1965, issue of Life — alongside a hulking machine whose heavy arm nearly eclipsed the mother under examination — read Control of Life: Audacious Experiments Promise Decades of Added Life, Superbabies with Improved Minds and Bodies, and Even a Kind of Immortality.

A major, decade - long study of thousands of Americans found that people living in areas with more outdoor pollution — even at lower levels common in the United States — accumulate deposits in the arteries that supply the heart faster than do people living in less polluted areas.

There is, thanks to the spread of Internet access and smartphones, more information on our daily lives than could have been imagined even a decade ago: We Google our aches and pains and stalk our former lovers, leaving a virtual trail of our daily movements simply by carrying a cell phone.

Short - lived climate pollutants are so called because even though they warm the planet more efficiently than carbon dioxide, they only remain in the atmosphere for a period of weeks to roughly a decade whereas carbon dioxide molecules remain in the atmosphere for a century or more.

More people in the U.S. are living with heart disease today, compared with decades ago, even though rates of death due to heart disease have gone down.

From 1998 to 2007, Bell collected his emails and scanned documents, photographs, and even continuous audio and video recordings of his day - to - day life into a searchable online database — an attempt to create a digital record of every thought and experience he'd had for a decade.

«Not acting is not an option because the life histories of these flying, nocturnal mammals — characterized by long generation times and low reproductive rates — mean that population recovery is unlikely for decades or even centuries, if at all,» said McCracken.

Even today, the general public, and many scientists, are not aware of decades of research in evolutionary science, molecular biology and genome sequencing which provide alternative answers to how novel organisms have originated in the long history of life on earth.

The ability to find and study the remains of animals, plants and other organisms that lived millions of years ago is extraordinary, and as technology has improved over the past few decades, scientists have realized that fossils contain more information about the stories of extinct life forms than even Charles Darwin could have imagined.

Even without treatment, this chronic stage of the disease can last for a decade, while people taking medications for their HIV can live in this stage even lonEven without treatment, this chronic stage of the disease can last for a decade, while people taking medications for their HIV can live in this stage even loneven longer.

Many people think that the negative effects of antibiotics will be short - lived, but unfortunately, without nutritional and possibly supplemental rehab, too many people suffer for years, or even decades, after antibiotic use.

This may be years or even a decade or more before menopause, but yet many of the symptoms associated with the natural change of life in females are also signs of HGH decline.

You see, I've spent the past decade plumbing the depths of how to make eco-friendly living attractive and accessible to the mainstream, to crush the crunchy and difficult stereotype of being a tree - hugger, and one of the many things I've found is that, when it comes to groceries and our food budgets, more sustainable behaviors can result in big - time money savings (and often even better health and well - being).

My recent trip to New Zealand this past week had me reaching into the recesses of my brain for the kiwi colloquialisms I once knew so well, even though it had been nearly a decade since I'd lived there.

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.

Herpes is more common than you think; actually millions of people live with the infection, some even without any symptoms for years and decades.

Hey, I think it's a cool enough novelty to have this war biopic star the guy it's about, and it would have been really cool if they coupled that with the novelty of making him old as dirt, so I would have dug it if they waited another couple decades to make this... even though Murphy didn't live past 1971 (Poor guy didn't live to see the formation of Metallica).

Apart from several live recordings of older classics, which feel unnecessary on an album that highlights Clark's late - career work, this collection is a testament to the spectacular consistency of quality and depth in Clark's songwriting genius even as he struggled through declining health in his final decade.

This is not surprising: even without knowledge of the material, it's easy to see where corners have been either cut or sanded smooth in the adaptation of a decades - spanning life study.

We can now confirm THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES and ON THE ROAD's Walter Salles will take the directing gig, telling the story of high - roller «Clark Rockefeller», who was able to get an elite job on Wall Street and live amongst the rich and famous for decades, even going on to marry a top - ranking business women.

What's holding Doris back is her lasting devotion to her mom, who dominated much of her life, even ruining a potential marriage some four decades earlier.

Picking up an award from the London Film Critics» Circle, Winslet said, «there are directors, producers, and men of power who have for decades been awarded and applauded for their highly regarded work... As women around the world and from all walks of life marched last weekend, once again joining together to speak out against harassment, exploitation, and abuse, I realised that I wouldn't be able to stand here this evening and keep to myself some bitter regrets that I have about poor decisions to work with individuals with whom I wish I had not.»

Johansson has hosted «Saturday Night Live» an enviable five times over the last decade (her first appearance was in January of 2006, when she wasn't even actively promoting any particular project), putting her in rarefied company that has allowed her to hone her comedic chops.

The original stands out among Disney's live action works as being genuinely and very funny; the subject matter of a broken family (which has only grown more prevalent in the decades since) allows the proceedings to be relevant and even a bit edgy while regularly delivering hearty laughs.

With 45 Years, he's made a mosaic of utterly mundane living that's overlaid with a mystery of nostalgic proportions; from a distance the movie's central proposition, that retiree Geoff Mercer (Tom Courtenay) should be the recipient of notice from the Swiss government about the freshly uncovered remains of his old girlfriend, who perished after falling into a glacial crevasse decades prior, appears ridiculous, perhaps even melodramatic.

Another a showstopper set at the Griffith observatory, brought to life from composer (and best friend to Chazelle since their time as band - mates at Harvard) Justin Hurwitz, with whom he worked on the film for over a half - decade (even before the breakthrough of Whiplash in the theaters), fleshing out a few concepts from an experimental musical film they had made together in 2009 called Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench.

Callow youths may learn something from it that could change their lives even if they are lucky enough to have several decades ahead of them.