Sentences with phrase «family over several decades»

This novel isn't entirely set during World War I, but it follows the effects of a secret from that time on an English family over several decades.

This three - part tale from Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke imagines what happens to a Chinese couple and their family over several decades — with the final episode set in Australia in the near future.

Not exact matches

The park was founded in 1949, and was owned by several different families and corporations over the decades, until an incident concerning the park's Ferris wheel served as a catalyst for Joyland's eventual demise.

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.

After being in a Calvinist church for over a decade, and witnessing person after person and family after family leaving the church in a more broken condition than which they came, including several divorces, one woman abandoning her family to become a sex slave, and many rejecting the faith altogether, I discovered, to my great chagrin, that it had taken a toll on my family as well.

In other news, our team seems to be rounding nicely into form, with a productive off - season and several new additions already settling in, there seems to be a renewed sense of confidence in the air... our well - oiled machine has conducted business again early this year, so we can just sit back, kick our feet up and watch all those other suckers scramble to make panic moves in the 11th hour... of course, we need to tie up a few loose ends but our team of savvy negotiators, under the tutelage of our faithful leader, will perform their usual magic with ample time to spare... I have to laugh when I look around the soccer world and see all those teams look upon us with envy and scorn as they struggle to mimic our seemingly infallible business model... thank goodness the powers that be had the foresight and fortitude to resist the temptations of the modern football era... instead of listening to all the experts and simply taking the easy way out by making the necessary improvements on the field and in the front office, we chose the path never traveled... we are truly pioneers in our field... sometimes you just have to have faith in the people that have always conducted themselves in a respectful and honest fashion... most fans aren't so fortunate, they will never know what it's like to follow a team that treats everyone in and around the club as if they were an extended member of the family... all for one I say... so when you wake up this morning, please try not to gloat when you see rival fans pacing back and forth waiting for their respective teams to pull the usual panic buys, just say nothing and be thankful that it isn't you... like I've always said, this is why you stay the course... this is when the real benefits of having someone in charge for over 2 decades really pays off... have a great day fellow Gunners

Given the current non-marital birth rates and trends, millions of American children over the next several decades will live in families headed by single mothers.

Several awards were handed out, including the Special Recognition Award, given to Chantal and Stephen Bennett; supporters who have been part of the Five Acres family for over a decade.

«Ticket prices have gone down dramatically over the last several decades and that allows people to go visit their families for Thanksgiving.

«There's been a drive over the last several decades of trying to understand and improve biocatalysts from this key enzyme family,» said Gregg Beckham, group leader at NREL and senior author of the study.

Several decades after the Sexual Revolution swept across the United States (and around the world) during the late 1960s, it's all too easy to gloss over just how earth - shattering a change the movement for greater feminine freedom made in the lives of so many women and their families, and to women's roles in society.

Research over several decades has shown that when families are involved in their own child's education, their child does better in school — regardless of family background (e.g. race, educational level, income, marital status).

What Mason followed this time was an urge to recreate her own upbringing and the history of her family, especially her relationship with her mother over several decades.

The image of the typical American family has changed dramatically over the last several decades.

As our pets have developed into an integral part of our families over the past several decades, the science of veterinary dentistry has evolved to more closely resemble the kinds of human dentistry performed on our children and ourselves.

The majority of the works exhibited come from the Mazzoleni family's personal collection — a prominent collection of works built up over several decades.

Over the decades that followed we shared many adventures and family gatherings with the Carters — in NZ, Australia and the States, and on several occasions we had the three sisters — Anne, Helen and Clare — present with their families.

To begin with, we have several decades of combined legal experience, and we have represented countless accident victims and their families over the years.

Father involvement has increased dramatically over the past several decades, and simultaneously, the role of fathers in their families has evolved from conceptions of fathers as distant breadwinners to a more holistic recognition that fathers are equal co-parents.

Father's Day 2017 - Father involvement has increased dramatically over the past several decades, and simultaneously, the role of fathers in their families has evolved from conceptions of fathers as distant breadwinners to a more holistic recognition that they are equal co-parents.

Father involvement has increased dramatically over the past several decades, and simultaneously, the role of fathers in their families has evolved from conceptions of fathers as distant breadwinners to a more holistic recognition that they are equal co-parents.

Over the several decades since, the concept of Family Mediation greatly expanded to include a wide range of issues.

Many of these communities are often highly heterogeneous, comprising several Indigenous families, clans or language groups with few traditional ties, whose genesis stemmed from successive government policies over many decades which led to many Indigenous groups moving from their traditional lands.

The Toronto Star's great bar graph in early May of this year showed quite dramatically that over the past several decades, single - family home ownership was better than owning most stocks or bonds over the same period of time.