Sentences with phrase «former times»

Thus our contemporaries begin to suffer from an inner disappointment, an irritation that was impossible in former times because the whole life was different from what it is today.

In my opinion, black - and - white photography is magic and nostalgic because it remembers me of former times when there wasn't any color photography at all.

True, in former times life was often very narrow, as regards one's profession and marriage as well as the education of children and political and cultural activities.

In former times slaves were branded on the back with their master's name.

In former times people didn't allow marriage of black girl with white man and vice versa, however at present time societies have changed their mind set to great extent.

No new idea strikes us as equal in stature to the great, world - shaking concepts of former times.

Thus he must go without many things, which he had to do also in former times, but then he was not actually aware of it.

On Sunday, news broke that Amazon has hired former Time Warner (s twx) Book Group CEO Larry Kirshbaum, who is expected to create a slew of imprints that would put Amazon into young adult, literary fiction, business and general non-fiction.

«iSteve: The Book of Jobs» was number 26 on the Amazon bestseller list on Tuesday on the strength of pre-orders of the book, which is being written by former Time magazine managing editor Walter Isaacson.

Robin Micheli is a best - selling author and former Time Inc. editor who has written about personal finance and public policy.

DUP MP Gavin Robinson said the republican politician should submit to an interview with Neil, the no - nonsense former Times editor and BBC political interrogator - in - chief.

Former Times journalist Nick Wood was a media adviser to Conservative leaders William Hague and Iain Duncan Smith.

Scotland's cultural position within the British context has moved on from former times when issues of small versus large, and inferior versus superior stifled our ability to represent our art and artists properly.

Few towns and villages are without their Mill Lane or Mill Road as a reminder of former times when local farmers would bring their grain to the local mill to be ground into flour for local bakers.

«The Single Take: «Citizenfour» and «Nightcrawler»»: Former Time Out New York critic Keith Uhlich reviews Laura Poitras's much talked - about documentary and Dan Gilroy's new thriller for To Be Cont'd.

«In former times analysts and investors paid considerable attention to the average earnings over a fairly long period in the past - usually from seven to ten years.

Perhaps in former times there was too much and too rash preaching on this subject, motivated by a desire to drive men into the Kingdom of Heaven by fear.

I go back to something that [former Time Warner CEO] Dick Parsons said to me when I was a much younger executive.

This Welsh - born former Time magazine reporter has sought excellence, seized opportunity — and learned from Steve Jobs, of course.

Unlike solicitors, barristers in former times chiefly belonged to social circles where it was considered disgraceful to be «in trade.»

In general, however, antagonism between the two is less acute than at most former times, perhaps less than in any previous period.

When an age matures to a point where it displays a radical transference of interest, and when its very language reveals that what former times felt as fact are no longer so felt, then the central task is clearly exposed.

Assured of the assistance of the Holy Spirit this Tradition, under the guidance of the Magisterium, in former times recognised the canonical writings of the Word of God and has never ceased to meditate on them and search their meaning.

Through sacral acts of the whole Church we get into God's presence, and that conforms an encounter with the earthly Jesus former times.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty than any of which the history of former times tells us.

The intervention was also commended by senior political commentators, including the respected former Times political editor Philip Webster who branded it «speech of the parliament».

In former times recalling the ambassador was a way to guarantee that he could be briefed on current issues and go back on his post with new directions which were too sensitive to entrust to postal services.

The Beringia land bridge, which in former times connected the habitats of these species, might have enabled their encounter.

In addition to Matt Smith, the 50th Anniversary special also stars former Time Lord David Tennant and Jenna Coleman with Billie Piper and John Hurt.

They signed former Time Warner Publishing (the company that is now Hachette Book Group) CEO Larry Kirshbaum to head up a new general trade imprint for them.

«Now,» laments former Times - Picayune reporter Chris Rose in the August issue of the Oxford American (excerpted in the current issue of Utne), «it stops with the tip.

Like many other substances regarding we origin of which there existed some obscurity or mystery, ambergris in former times possessed a value, and had properties attributed to it, more on account of the source from which it was drawn than from its inherent qualities.

• When I wrote about the proposed spinoff of my employer, Time Inc., from Time Warner (TWX), I said that former Time Inc. chief financial officer Howard Averill, who left to become CFO of Time Warner, had forfeited a $ 1.75 million payment that he would have gotten if the spinoff were completed.

Dennis Patrick, former FCC chair and former Time Warner Telecommunication CEO, discusses the likelihood of regulatory approval of the potential deal for Disney to acquire most of 21st Century Fox.

He is an eminent scholar of medieval theology, philosophy and culture of the three main religions bridging knowledge and beliefs of former times with contemporary problems.»

Richard Cork (at one time art critic of The Times) has been a staunch advocate of the artists, as has art writer Louisa Buck, and former Time Out art editor, Sarah Kent.

From page 172: «In former times analysts and investors paid considerable attention to the average earnings over a fairly long period in the past — usually from seven to ten years.

In former times there were women's mosques in some parts of China, used as religious and charitable centers for women and led by women religious teachers.

In the TIME essay written about her by Walter Isaacson, a journalist and former TIME editor, Orange Jones is cited as «one of the critical engines of innovation» in the successful reinvention of schools in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.

In former times when Ashtanga students showed up at Yogachaya's school they frequently expressed how difficult his approach was.

So the 34 - year - old CEO and former time - management consultant reserves 8 a.m. to noon of each workday for calling and e-mailing potential customers and business partners — activities essential to building his online startup, Agent Finder, which matches home buyers and sellers with real - estate agents.

Moritz, a former Time magazine journalist, went on to lament the lower numbers of women studying math and sciences as the reason why it's so difficult for the firm to hire more women — a popular excuse often used by the tech companies with low diversity numbers.

Maybe I'm shortsighted, but today's art seems to lack something of former times.

Norman Pearlstine is a former Time Inc Editor in Chief who covered Japan and South Korea for The Wall Street Journal in the 1970s.