Sentences with phrase «generations ago»

Chandrasekhar's Thorny undergoes a drastic personality (and biological) transformation after becoming hooked on «Flova Scotia,» a pharmaceutical drug meant to enhance the female libido — but this leads to anachronistic gags in which Thorny acts like a stereotypical housewife from two generations ago: cooking meals for the guys, complaining about how nothing he does is good enough for them, throwing tantrums when he's not appreciated.

Cave drawings elude to the fact that Dug's ancestors invented the sport generations ago.

The sport, it turns out, was invented generations ago by Dug's people.

Unfortunately, Miguel's family banned music generations ago, forcing him to secretly practice.

After all, the Jabari tribe had exiled itself from the rest of the nation generations ago.

But, there's no avoiding the fact that doing so leaves you with visuals that look like they came from two console generations ago.

Miguel is being groomed to join the family business, shoemaking, begun generations ago by his long - departed ancestor Imelda.

Generations ago, Miguel's great great grandfather abandoned the family to pursue his musical dreams, leaving his great great grandmother to raise their baby daughter all by herself.

Do you realize that what passes for a children's movie today would be considered something bordering on tragedy a couple of generations ago?

When our Pilgrim Fathers negotiated their purchases back in the 1600's - a scant 14 generations ago - the natives could not comprehend the idea of land Rio Pinar Country Club.

Since its start generations ago, has been mainly focused to kids.

A couple of generations ago we may have met people through our local friends and families too, but as we grow older many of our friends get married and lives become distanced and separated and unfortunately our local communities are not as close as in previous decades, leaving us more reliant on using introduction services.

Zocorra began three generations ago designing and hand - making luxury jewelry products in one of New York City's five boroughs.

I also wondered if it came about 2 generations ago when moral women didn't wear bright lipsticks?

With a rustic aesthetic and appreciation for tradition, Beyond Bacon recreates the rich and wonderful food perfected generations ago, in a healthful way.

If you go back a couple of generations ago, women knew they could still have children until menopause.

Many generations ago, people relied on seeds and various sprouts for subsistence and nutritional variety.

It's also important to remember that today's vegetables and fruits are quite different from those available even just a couple generations ago.

If you grew up a couple generations ago, you likely would have eaten some protein at every meal, but never more than could fit on the palm of your hand.

Of course, we know that genes alone are not responsible for cancer because we share many of the same genes as our hunter — gatherer ancestors and even just the same genes as our ancestors several generations ago, and yet the rate of cancer keeps going up.

With the average American getting 1 to 2 servings of vegetables and fruits daily, rather than 20 servings our ancestors ate several generations ago — and most Americans eating no legumes in any given week — our main focus should be simply on getting more of these excellent, nourishing foods.

They were considered sacred in many traditional cultures, and common in American recipe books a mere 3 to 4 generations ago.

There was once a time, not too many generations ago, where men and women would «fatten» themselves purposefully in the times of plentiful food — in order to survive the harsh realities winter would certainly hand them.

Agriculture, and it's contributions of slowly increasing quantity of carbs in our diet, started only 500 generations ago.

The way out is to return to eating what people ate since the dawn of time, before these diseases began, just three generations ago.

It spread much more rapidly than hunting and gathering did so many generations before, but essentially followed the same pattern: sweeping into Europe and North Africa, leaving out only the western edges of both continents about 200 generations ago.

But a faulty variant of this gene arose six generations ago in an Amish group, causing the people who carry one copy of the variant to produce half as much of the protein.

Two or three generations ago, great teachers had great reputations, and their students were much envied.

Algonquin Provincial Park is a fisherman's paradise of lakes stocked generations ago with hatchery salmon and trout.

Under the leadership of biology professor Dylan Fraser, the research team — which included Concordia graduate student Andrew Harbicht and research scientist Chris Wilson from the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry — headed to Algonquin Provincial Park, a fisherman's paradise of lakes stocked generations ago with hatchery salmon and trout.

That neutrinos play such a key role in advancing physics would have surprised scientists of a few generations ago.

For instance, deCode Genetics has shown that 107 of Iceland's 1200 asthmatics can trace their ancestry to a single individual who lived 11 generations ago.

«Two generations ago, people were interring waste in different areas of the world, and now climate change is modifying those sites,» said William Colgan, a climate and glacier scientist at York U and lead author of the new study.

The interbreeding between those species probably took place more than 2,500 generations ago, though swordtails in other rivers have hybridized more recently.

Two generations ago the site was an isolated forest in a valley between the Great Smoky Mountains and the Cumberland range.

Hundreds of its members, descended from a couple who emigrated from Switzerland six generations ago, carry «knockout» mutations of the gene, called SERPINE1.

But a faulty variant of this gene arose six generations ago in an Amish group, causing the people who carry one copy of the variant to produce half as much of the age - promoting protein.

two generations ago, the labour front bench had (say 1970) Wilson, Barbara Castle, Roy Jenkins, Denis Healey, Richard Crossman, Tony Benn, Tony Crosland, Michael Foot etc..

He also questioned if justice would be served by having today's institutional leaders trying to defend the actions of those from generations ago.

In light of that, the only person who «stole» the previously shared resource was the first guy who claimed ownership of that resource, more likely than not many generations ago.

«The need for this new 116th precinct was first identified generations ago by the families of Laurelton, Rosedale, Brookville and Springfield Gardens,» Borough President KATZ said.

That Clough could get away with that two generations ago, but would not now?

They recognize what's happening isn't so different than their own story a few generations ago,» said Shelly Callahan, executive director of Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees.

The seeds of the current crisis were sown generations ago in the failure of politicians and intellectuals to address the legacy of the British Empire and to speak positively about the contribution that immigrants make to the country.

The idea behind these cleaning products that are composed primarily of plant ingredients and free of toxins began three generations ago when Van Vlahakis created the formula and started the company.

In addition, contraception and family planning have led to women carrying far fewer pregnancies than two or three generations ago, which means better health over all.

There are many theories as to why food allergies and sensitivities have become so common, especially in children — much more common than generations ago.

While sure, it was the norm for moms to stay home with the kids while dads went out and earned the bacon GENERATIONS AGO, times, they have a-changed.

Two generations ago, families believed that there were exceptional replacements for breastmilk.

After all, generations ago, parents just washed their children in the sink.