Sentences with phrase «figures decade after decade»

The classic cuts and stylish silhouettes of vintage dresses have was the ages, flattering our figures decade after decade.

Not exact matches

After more than a decade of strong interstate migration to Western Australia, the number of people moving to the west coast is being outstripped by the number of Sandgropers heading for the east coast, according to new figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Over the past decade, CLX has grown revenue by 2 % compounded annually while after - tax profit (NOPAT) has grown 3 % compounded annually, per Figure 1.

«This is why people didn't figure out that it was the Great Depression until two years after the worst point in the crisis in the 1930s; and why it took decades, not months, quarters or even years, for the complete transition to the next sustainable economic expansion and bull market.

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.

As a result, the relative wage in mining — that is, resource extraction — has risen by about 10 per cent (by far the largest increase of any single industry), after having trended lower over the decade leading up to the boom (Figure 12).

After the April announcement that the Vatican was taking the Leadership Conference of Women Religious into a form of ecclesiastical receivership, appointing Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain to oversee the LCWR until its statutes and program are reformed, Tom Fox, a major figure at the National Catholic Reporter for decades, had this to say:

UNIQUE GLIMPSES OF BOXING ICONS After shooting Cassius Clay's 1964 win over Sonny Liston, Ken Regan spent four decades taking pictures of the sport's greatest figures.

Thatcher was always going to be difficult because she is still such a divisive figure, even two decades after leaving office.

Consider the time he waited to indict Shelly Silver, the decades - long speaker of the Assembly, a sphinx - like figure who stood as permanent pillar of power over successive governments in Albany, until the day after Silver stood on stage with Cuomo at the annual State of the State address.

Former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who endured for decades as one of the most powerful figures in state government, was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in federal prison after being convicted in November on multiple corruption charges.

Rangel, after all, is the dean of New York's congressional delegation and has been an iconic figure in the city's African - American community for decades.

By the time Labour entered office in 1997 this figure had fallen to just 35 per cent but by 2009, after a decade of increased spending and focus on targets to reduce waiting times, satisfaction stood at a record high of 64 per cent.

Five years ago, Modha concluded that if the world's best engineers still hadn't figured out how to match the brain's energy efficiency and resourcefulness after decades of trying using the old methods, perhaps they never would.

Currently, our robots are little more intelligent than sea slugs, and even after decades of clever research, they can barely distinguish figures from a background at the skill level of an infant.

According to a new study, the Gaia space observatory could help that figure grow by a factor of ten by the end of the decade, reaching 70,000 planets after 10 years.

Over the past few years, after a decade of making inconsistent progress, I cracked the code, and figured out how to finally gain some muscle:

Getting and keeping fitness & metabolism after 50 are challenging before you figure out the tools you were given in the last few decades don't serve you anymore.

So we figure, why not crush the catty speculation and enjoy the faces of Hollywood that stay as beautiful year after year as the first time we saw them — which is sometimes decades ago.

In fact, director Michael Mann — an epochal»80s cultural figure as the creator of «Miami Vice,» who has been almost invisible in this decade — is after something much richer and stranger than the plot of «The Insider» would suggest.

A decade after Slade faked an onstage assassination in a much - maligned publicity stunt, journalist Arthur Stuart (Christian Bale) is tasked with figuring out what happened to the former star.

Disney was an iconic figure and you need an actor that is believable as someone who has built an empire that has lasted decade after decade.

Johnny Depp stars as L.A.P.D. detective Russell Poole (played by Jimmi Simpson in the USA series), who spent years trying to solve the death of Notorious B.I.G.. Two decades after the murder, Poole teams up with a reporter desperate to save his career (Forest Whitaker) to not only try to solve the mystery behind the rapper's death but also to figure out the truth as to why it never got solved in the first place.

No one sneers or snarls quite like Alan Rickman and, looking back on a cinematic decade of «Harry Potter,» his Severus Snape now stands as the franchise's most fascinating figure after being revealed in the eighth film as misunderstood double - agent motivated by long - lost love.

After arresting work as an aimless skinhead in Mike Leigh's Meantime, he delivered two of the most humane, indelible performances of that decade, both as doomed real - life figures: Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious in Alex Cox's Sid and Nancy, one of the most searching films in all of British cinema, and the impish playwright Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears (directed by Frears and written by Alan Bennett).

In the decade after the education reforms began, the average NAEP reading score for Hispanic 4th graders in Florida rose steeply so that by 2007 scores were higher than the average NAEP reading scores of all students (regardless of ethnicity) in 15 states (see Figure 3).

HIGHLANDS, North Carolina — After a couple of decades trying, Buick designers figured out how to properly modernize its classic, toothy chrome grille look with the new - for - 2008 three - row sport / utility flagship, the Enclave.

After nearly a decade in development, Belgian startup Magnax claims it has developed an ultra-high power, lightweight, compact axial flux electric motor with performance figures that blow away everything in the conventional world.

After decades of clashing with her strong - willed mother, the best - selling author of Surrendering to Motherhood decided to write a book about how she finally came to terms with this formidable figure in her life.

A prolific, ambitious and talented writer, Louisa May Alcott was a public figure who nevertheless kept much to herself — so much, in fact, that a large portion of her creative output was not credited to her until decades after her death.

Bookscan data from the US shows Graphic Novels to be the only category to grow year after year for the past decade, but since graphic novel sales in Australia are mostly sold online or in specialty stores, exact figures are difficult to collect.

Almost a decade after investing in expensive mutual funds, these longtime MoneySense readers want to shift to a Couch Potato approach and move their six - figure portfolio to a discount brokerage.

For two decades Bush was an ardent landscape and figure painter after the manner of the Ontario Society of Artists and the Canadian Group of Painters, which succeeded the Group of Seven in 1933.

Eventually, after decades in the wilderness with paintings stacking up four deep against the walls of her Manhattan flat, Neel summoned sufficient courage to approach art - world figures.

More than a decade after that meeting at the gallery, and two years after their Rothko was revealed to be a fake, the De Soles would tell a jury that Freedman and Knoedler had knowingly conned them out of seven figures.

During the brief but highly productive decade that he worked as an artist — and even more so since his untimely death — Gordon Matta - Clark (1943 — 1978) exerted a powerful influence on artists and architects and has emerged as a key figure of the generation that came after minimalism.

That exhibition, which included his symbolic, hooded figures, had a powerful impact on at least three generations of artists who have re-engaged figuration after decades in which abstraction dominated American painting.

Despite the desire of many prominent figures on the interwar New York art scene to throw off the weight of European modernism (some two decades after the hugely successful Armory Show of 1913), the latter's presence grew dramatically in the 1930s.

It's going to be very hard to rebut «misrepresentation» of science when «misrepresentation» carries no cost whatsoever but hopefully after another couple of decades and 175ppm or so we'll figure out a substitute for personal responsibility and full ownership of reputation.

Now, after about a decade of research, Zhongxiang Zhao, an applied physicist at the University of Washington, thinks he's figured out a better way.

Somehow, nearly 3 years after their ballyhooed press conference at the U.S. National Press Club (where all great scientific discoveries overturning decades of scientific consensus are announced), one might think they'd have sufficient time to figure out their error and announce a correction.

If you're looking for climate model - based studies, there are none as far as I know, because climate modelers haven't figured out how to model ENSO yet — even after decades of modeling efforts.

As these figures show, the cash value in a Gerber Grow - Up Plan takes decades to become sizable, and even after it doubles in size, the death benefit is much smaller than an adult would typically need.

The social web has been around for more than a decade now, but even after all that time, no one has quite figured out how to fix online comments.

Approximately two decades after the review by House and colleagues [1], a generation of empirical research validates their initial premise: Social relationships exert an independent influence on risk for mortality comparable with well established risk factors for mortality (Figure 6).

And casting my lot in with management early in my career — after a decade or so I recognized the labour component of my talent was down a quart — I figured out the only way to ensure the office was profitable was to insist that the salespeople follow the same path.