Sentences with phrase «in decades past»

With so many singles now turning to technology to find someone special, dating looks more than a little different than it did in decades past.

This may have been the norm in decades past, but it's far from true today.

In decades past nothing was off limits when if you were pregnant.

As a result of the «zero tolerance» approach to school discipline that was popular in decades past, many African - American students attend schools where student behavior is under intense scrutiny.

To be fair to the cars of 2015, they do offer abilities and safety features they lacked in decades past — but they still can't fly.

However, infidelity is not necessarily grounds for divorce, though an instant separation might have been the advice of friends or even counselors in decades past.

When I look around at those half my age, I wonder if many are confused about some business and life basics that were taken for granted in decades past.

Sorry to say I have been this tenant in decades past.

Others believe vaccinations should be performed yearly to keep dangerous diseases like distemper from getting a hold on the pet population like they did in decades past.

A 95 cent loonie is nothing to scoff at either, given that it's still well above the 70 - to - 80 cent range seen in decades past.

Overall, cash returned to shareholders is much lower today — even with the recent surge instigated by activist campaigns — than in decades past when the economy enjoyed much more robust growth.

Their relatives, like thousands of Jews, had been taken captive by an invading army and exiled there in decades past.

Technology and changing priorities have created fields of study that didn't exist in decades past.

The company also claims to beat Hellmann's in taste tests; and Tetrick's overt political agenda — he recently penned an open letter to the 2016 presidential candidates about the food system — makes purchasing mayonnaise a lot more interesting than selecting sandwich spreads in decades past.

The orbits and movements of its particles is powered only by inertia left over by those who played and loved the game in decades past.

Divorce was not a big issue for children in decades past, but they were often abandoned, sold into slavery, indentured into domestic service, orphaned at childbirth by their «normal» families.

It's understandable why temporary marriage might have seem attractive to the West in decades past, when sex and having children outside of marriage was shameful, and when women relied on marriage for financial security.

According to Nichols, school food today is much different from that served in decades past.

«I think we haven't won that big electoral mandate that we did in decades past because sensible isn't enough for people.

Attorneys general from Massachusetts and the Virgin Islands announced they would join Eric Schneiderman, New York's attorney general, in his investigation into whether Exxon Mobil lied in decades past to investors and the public about the threat of climate change.

NASA is currently considering multiple concepts for such mega-observatories that could conceivably fly in a few decades, but these proposed telescopes — like others the agency has evaluated and abandoned in decades past — have no guarantee of becoming reality.

The team is also interested in studying why the taboos, which Jones says have helped save the lemur in decades past, are breaking down.

The cause of widespread fluorosis in cattle in Central Florida in decades past resulted from the creation of phosphate plants in the 1940's.

So why does it seem that so many attempts over the years have tried to lay the blame on saturated fat... do you think it might have anything to do with the muli - billion dollar vegetable oil industry, which has taken over for cooking oils for what used to be mostly animal fats and tropical oils in decades past...

I suspected at first that the gluten - free craze was an attempt by some to find a physical explanation for emotional problems, similar to the «epidemic» of hypoglycemia in decades past.

-LCB- Equal parts practical and polished, the shirtwaist dress was a true wardrobe staple for many women in decades past and its classic lines, wide spread availability, (commonly) inexpensive price tag, and versatility helped to make it one of the most popular and iconic garments of the 1930s — early 1960s.

In fact, one could easily imagine Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson or James Coburn or on the lower end of the scale Jean Claude Van Damme or Steven Seagal inhabiting Carano's role in decades past.

Meanwhile, «Mystery of Love» came closest to being an indie update on the romantic balladry that has been the category's stock in trade in decades past, but obviously, a love song is not just a love song when it's representing for «Call Me By Your Name.»

Way back in the decades past, there were many comedies about the young underdog struggling to beat the snobs.

Easily the winner of the «most evocative title of the festival» award, Granny's Dancing on the Table tells two stories: the present - day struggles of thirteen - year - old Eini (Bianca Engström) who lives alone with her abusive and religious father in rural Sweden, and Eini's accounts of her grandmother's (Karin Bertling) colorful adventures in decades past.

After all, Batman and Superman have reigned supreme at the box office in decades past and there are countless other characters at DC with as much history and familiarity to warrant film treatment.

During the course of his inquiry he stumbles on Catarina's diary and begins to see connections between his case and events that took place in decades past.

They have not been prosecuting anti-trust cases as vigorously as in decades past, assuming that these near monopolies benefit consumers.

It's a wonderful new tool that was not available to authors in decades past, and it tends to create a more egalitarian atmosphere than the old publishing hierarchy, too.

What I found was that the problems Mississippi was facing with animal overpopulation were those that my Oregon community had experienced in decades past.

However programs such as United, and even AA have expiration rules stuck in decades past.

-- Sol Lewitt Operating on logical relationships that rule out unpredictability, seriality, as Jean Baudrillard argued in decades past, is a phenomenon inextricably tied to industrial production and modernity.

Though my position had no precedent, I soon began to notice traces of a like - minded individual in decades past: the foresight in 1979 to collect U-Matic tapes from Castelli / Sonnabend Tapes and Films featuring works by Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci, and Richard Serra from for inconceivably low prices, some for under $ 100.

Just as the trajectory for climate change at the moment is substantially determined by emissions of greenhouse gases emitted in decades past, prospects for climate legislation or a new international treaty are largely determined by bigger political and diplomatic realities shaped over generations.

It's one thing to point to four successful instances in which nuclear explosions were used in the Soviet Union in decades past to seal gas wells after blowouts.

In particular, it means that we will have to both stop emitting carbon into the atmosphere and develop systems to clean up excess carbon that we emitted into the atmosphere in decades past to curtail climate change sufficiently.

OTOH in decades past I know some francophone lawyers would make their oral arguments in English, just because they figured they would be better understood in that language.

The Economist reported the internet faced similar conflicts over core technology functions in decades past.

A scoop of horchata or matcha green tea would have been all but impossible to find in decades past.

While many couples in decades past have been required by clergy to attend, premarital counseling is becoming more popular among the nonreligious as well.