Sentences with phrase «given you decades ago»

If you dig the old school days of platformers and hearken to the feelings that games like Metroid, Super Mario, Ninja Gaiden, and other such titles may have given you decades ago, Cave Story is a love letter to players like you.

Not exact matches

The acceptance of the notion that global oil demand will peak within a generation is mind - blowing given that, just a decade ago, the chatter in the energy world was about a coming peak in oil supply.

The world was a very different place 22 years ago when Jobs gave this interview (thanks, in many ways, to the tech Jobs helped build in those decades), but this advice is timeless.

More than a decade ago, Joey Wat at Yum China, was given the chance to take on a massive career challenge that had a high risk of failure — and her decision led Wat into the role she has now.

When Burridge's client first applied a decade ago, the MSC's check mark might have given them a leg up on competitors.

Roughly a decade ago Pfizer (PFE) developed a drug based on an antibody that it, too, licensed from Medarex — but gave up on it, says Allison, when the drug didn't immediately shrink tumors.

There are also concerns that the FDA was pressured into approving Addyi, given that Viagra - the first treatment for male sexual dysfunction - was approved more than a decade ago.

«Barbeque is a labor - intensive undertaking, especially since we commit to using smokers in each of the restaurants and give each menu item the attention it needs to be truly Famous,» Anderson said in a statement «When I founded the concept decades ago, I was on a mission to deliver on the best barbeque in town.

However, the decline in the real neutral rate means that any given setting of our policy rate will be less stimulative today than it was a decade or two ago.

I gave up on a balanced portfolio and asset allocation decades ago.

The primordial ooze is the worst and scientist gave up on it decades ago.

Just this month, two top American cardinals, Roger Mahony of Los Angeles and Timothy Dolan of New York, were called on to give legal testimony over lawsuits related to abuse of children, and the leader of Scotland's Catholic Church, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, resigned after allegations he had acted improperly toward four men studying for the priesthood decades ago.

This is one more gift that the emerging church gave me more than a decade ago: when you don't find it, you simply create it.

Richard Dawkins, in his celebrated book, The Selfish Gene, exemplifies the same position.3 And a similar reduction of biology to a molecular science may be found in the writings of E.O. Wilson, Ernst Mayr, Jacques Monod and numerous other highly respected scientific writers.4 In Chance and Necessity, for example, Monod gives one of the most forceful renditions of the view that biochemical analysis is «obviously» the sole avenue to understanding the secret of life.5 Decades ago Jacques Loeb had already set forth the program of inquiry still emulated today by many biologists:

Brigitte, It has been decades since I read the BOC and I have given it away long ago, so I will state the fundamental disagreements I have with Reformation theology: 1.

I heard a story about farmers in Haiti who, a few decades ago, were given tractors and other farm machinery so they could use new techniques to keep their land from eroding away.

A decade ago I laughed heartily at a CBS commentary on the Ku Klux Klan that showed one scraggly candidate for the Georgia Klan, at an initiation ceremony that called for a military formation, turning right when the order «left face» was given.

The fact that theology is a representation of ourselves and our selfish desires is the basis of something I've said since I left ministry nearly two decades ago: «If given the choice between discussing theology and getting punched in the dick, I'll take the punch in the dick.

I think I had a headache for three days straight when I gave up coffee cold turkey a couple of decades ago.

That might seem steep, given Australia had hardly any store brands just over a decade ago, but we still have a very long way to go.

On Sunday at Reliant Stadium, Manning threw a pair of first - quarter touchdown passes to lead Indianapolis to a 23 - 14 victory over the Houston Texans, giving him 46 for the year — two shy of the single - season record Marino set two decades ago.

(unfortunately banks do nt buy in to we will win the league for the next decade to give out money) from the cub before they lend then shed lots of cash, and this unfortunately leads to clubs putting up there ticket prices to reflect the cost of big progress, so people sometimes have to realize that the club has to find a way to make club grow, and if they do nt have deep pocketed owners then they have to pitch to the banks for a loan, like we did all those years ago an we are just over the worst of it now we have paid our dues and are now getting back among the big boys again.

Here was pro golf's onetime glamour boy living up to a reputation that had been dragging him through the bunkers and the trees for more than a decade, erasing the sorrow in a dashing two hours with a combination of splendid golf and «Little Ben,» the nickname his father had given his magic putter so many years ago.

If not for fantasy baseball I would have given up on a sport that meant the world to me just over a decade ago.

Or should it switch to a more «old school» engine formula which gives us the things we loved about the sport a decade or so ago, but in the process jeopardises F1s image as the pinnacle of motorsport?

AFC board has been failing us for years Wenger has done the best he can and prob deserves more credit than you lot give him, 1st year of no UCL football even though we lost ambition a DECADE AGO!

And that's where Zevin reveals the complications of committing to someone without actually tying the knot, even though, given a complicated and unfair debt Hans brought into the relationship two decades ago, it made sense not to co-mingle expenses — then.

Given Turkey's predominantly Muslim population and its geographic location, the EU does not want to risk an influx of Muslim immigrants, simply put Turkey's accession would open a backdoor to Europe for immigrants from Arabic and African countries, at a time when immigration is an extremely hot issue in European countries and several countries have recently implemented anti-immigration laws that would seem extreme and unjustified a decade ago.

Four years ago Margaret Chin told us she would have said no to the deals to get beloved schools like P.S. 234 decades ago, and Spruce Street School more recently because the community was giving away too much to corporations and developers, and didn't get enough affordable housing.

One of the reasons I left the Lib Dems a decade ago was because of my growing dismay at the bad name their tactics give to politics.

Thus, Turkey may come to demonstrate the problems of dual legitimacy that Juan Linz pointed out more than two decades ago, with Erdoğan representing the will of a «people» that form less than half of the electorate, given the low turnout in the presidential election.

The Office for Technology is a completely redundant and wasteful State bureaucracy and political hack dumping ground which never accomplished a damn thing given its lofty mission well over a decade ago.

Crist is a former newspaper reporter for The Record of Troy who left the news business two decades ago when he was given the politically appointed job, which came with no civil service protections.

Given the flagrant abuses of power, privilege and ignoring the will of constituents like me, I don't ever believe that there will be leadership (that was needed two decades ago), to permanently change the way corruption, misconduct and patronage destroys public trust, before the end of my natural life span.

A decade ago, labor groups and Democratic elected officials staunchly opposed the expansion of big - box retailers like Walmart into New York City given the company's anti-union policies.

Paterson, who in the coming weeks steps down from the chairmanship was appointed to 18 months ago, said in the interview that Fiala has the «fire in the belly» but the race remains an uphill one for any Democrat, given that it has been a «Republican stronghold» for decades.

Town supervisor Sylvia Rozzelle, who roared into office two years ago after decades as the town clerk, asked this week, when first asked about her plans, whether we could «just give us a little break here?»

The Post calls this a «giveback» for a favor Kruger performed for the city — giving the go - ahead for a sewage - overflow storage plant — nearly two decades ago.

It was, after all, Bill Clinton who plucked him from Albany two decades ago, brought him to Washington, and ultimately gave him a Cabinet department to run.

It has also given engineers the tools to manipulate the natural functions of organisms in ways that were unimaginable only a decade ago, opening up rich sources of new biology - based materials.

The rental car itself was a lot like a car from two decades ago: It got similar mileage, had a similar internal combustion engine, and gave me a familiar driving experience.

Then, about a decade ago, FANUC integrated cameras to give robots sight.

More than two decades ago, in one of the first papers using gene sequences to find signatures of natural selection, scientists hypothesized that a molecular change in an enzyme gave the Drosophila melanogaster fruit fly species its superior ability to metabolize alcohol.

Given how often researchers refer to obesity as a disorder of the energy balance, one might assume that the concept had been rigorously tested decades ago.

More than a decade ago, Clevers identified a type of mother cell in the gut that can give birth to all other intestinal cells.

Two decades ago, however, improvements in telescopes and computer simulations began to give astronomers their first detailed understanding of what actually happens when smaller stars die.

A decade ago, this might have been the moment to give up.

Passed four decades ago, the Clean Air Act gave Calif. a «waiver» to petition the federal government for permission to impose its own benchmarks, but the Bush administration had denied the request.

«Empathy may turn out to be a mechanism even more widespread than we think, which is all the more remarkable given that it was thought just one or two decades ago that empathy was uniquely human.»

«Given that disadvantaged children and teens enrolled in Medicaid, a public insurance program, are disproportionately diagnosed with ADHD, these are important policy questions to address: why are there more children taking ADHD drugs today than a decade ago, what benefits do they deliver and at what cost.»