Sentences with phrase «in final years»

You can imagine Konami handing down a mandate to its development team («Make this thing my kids are into», which, the joke goes, is how Sony Online Entertainment was being run in its final years heyoooooo), but if you're not hellbent on believing Konami is the devil, you can also easily imagine a group of developers taking inspiration from the games they enjoy during the prototyping process.

The documentary also seems determined to settle old scores with Colonel Parker, who died in 1997 and whose management of Presley's career is portrayed here as cruelly constrictive and creatively tragic, choosing for his client a path strewn with cornball movies and, in the final years, Las Vegas servitude.

Largely silenced by illness in his final years, Graham was somewhat eclipsed by his son Franklin, who took his father's ministry in a far more conservative direction.

No one wants to lose their dignity and independence in this way or to become a burden to their spouse or children in their final years together.

In the final years of his nearly 30 - year career in the U.S. Air Force, Slim spent 10 to 12 hours a day in a cool, dark room in the Arizona desert, stationed in front of monitors that beamed back aerial footage from Afghanistan.

The appointment of Whittingdale, who served as Margaret Thatcher's political secretary in her final years in No 10, and of Patel suggests that Cameron is keen to bind the Thatcherite right into his EU referendum plan.

The answer, McKinney said, is fundamental changes in the state pension system that would include placing state employees into a 401 (k) plan and eliminating the ability of state employees to increase their pensions by working a huge number of overtime hours in their final years of employment.

On Wednesday, Bloomberg proposed that future city police and firefighters would no longer be able to boost their pensions by working overtime in their final years on the job, a common practice that inflates publicly subsidized pensions.

It compares highly favourably with the dismal, glacial pace of policy under Labour in its final years — unable to move forward with many decisions as a result of the inevitable exhaustion that sets in following a decade in power.

These are the women who care for your parents and grandparents in their final years, who cook for them, wash and dress them, and hold their hand when they are confused or upset.

The Mayor's Fund — which is run by de Blasio's wife, Chirlane McCray — made less than it did in the final years of the Bloomberg administration, when it raised $ 85.5 million in 2012 and $ 51.7 million in 2013.

In those final years, he admits, too much was spent and the country subsequently did suffer because of it.

Harper voted against all the reform options in the last parliament when Jack Straw made a late attempt in the final years of the Labour government to burnish its reformist credentials.

The Major government recognised this problem, and froze alcohol duties in its final years in an attempt to stem the tide of duty evasion, a policy continued by Labour.

Alan Clark, the politician and diarist, had an ambivalent attitude towards his father, «K», or as Private Eye called him «Lord Clark of Civilisation», a figure of fun to a younger generation in his final years.

The report analyzed data from 50 of 64 employers representing 3,688 retirees from 2009 and indicate employees are boosting their overtime to inflate their pension benefits by wracking up overtime hours in their final years of employment.

Today, it is clear that the experiments fashioned in those final years of the 20th century were better at diagnosing the problems facing the Conservative Party than tackling them.

And you find that if they move on to a more harmonious environment, they do a lot better than they did in the final years of the family relationship.

The author of this post seems to forget that the football Utd played in the final years of SAF's reign was far from cavalier.

Since Southgate's appointment the armband has been rotated with the former Middlesbrough boss reluctant to make any one player bigger than the rest of the squad — a sensible policy given Wayne Rooney «s listless performances in the final years of his England career.

This is all pretty awkward, and even more so since Hill and Jennings are both in the final years of their contracts and have been thrust into new roles on a whim by their fickle boss, owner Jeffrey Loria.

The two players concerned are both in the final years of their respective contracts and as such won't cost a great deal and that may well make them all the more likely candidates to beef up Man United's back - line.

Emirates stadium and huge sponsor deals we finally have had two poor years by his standards at the helm we always havent been so great and are we weak supporters or strong give him a contract i mean hes won with ants for money let him spend for once cause even if we do get new manager inflation has occured and no body else will win with the small amounts we gave him to spend and in 20 years actuall more it seems the club is finally willing to spend give him a contract let him spend and if we do nt improve which i think we will i think that the club is finally willing to spend shows were on an upturn because as long as top four the owner and board weren't and after we spend big or somewhat big for once and auba and mkhitaryan arent the big im hoping for i want more if liverpoodlians can pay 75million for a cb let wenget spend a bit and if we still do bad we can always sack him or ask him to leave wouldnt be uncommon but we owe it to him and do nt say we do not because emirates london colney that will bring in high talent here for years to come and we have never spent for him just gave little and hes always done big things with little i think he can do bigger things in his final years if we give him big i do nt see us in decline but if we sack him we will be for a good three maybe four years

Bobby had some really difficult years in the final years of his life, but I saw him and I'll tell you: he was a trooper.

Both Schez and Ospina can learn a lot from him too plus his in final years of his playing career.

Look how he treated Podolski, Walcott, Perez in their final years with us.

Payet was linked with us in the summer before signing a new deal with the Hammers but he can not have expected them to bomb so badly this season and at the age of 29 he may well be regretting not going for a big club in his final years.

Then the impetus faltered in the final years of Pope Paul VI, and traditional conservatism returned under Pope John Paul II.

But whereas 56 percent of current pastors said they were satisfied with their relations with their leaders, only about 30 percent of the ex-pastors had satisfactory relations with lay leaders in the final years of their pastorates.

Currently polygamist partners are not able to fully exercise their right to handle the legal matters of their dying partner and can not fully be there for them in their final years.

Currently G.a.y partners are not able to fully exercise their right to handle the legal matters of their dying partner and can not fully be there for them in their final years.

On Morning Joe a few minutes ago, Pat Buchanan described the fear behind the death panel debate as the fear that old people without anyone around who loves them will be steered in their final years toward elective euthanasia.

Known for such legendary songs as «Ring of Fire» and «I Walk the Line,» Cash, particularily in his final years of life, brilliantly expressed the Christian mystery of suffering and redemption through his work.

The journal he launched in his final years, however, continues.

Second, people are living longer and often have multiple complex ailments in their final years.

Watching the show reminded me of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's reflections on truth telling written when the German theologian was in prison for conspiring to overthrow Hitler in the final years of the Third Reich.

The United States and China had clashed on issues from cybersecurity to trade in the final years of the Obama administration, although they had struck a landmark climate deal during Barack Obama's 2014 visit to Beijing that served as a prelude to the Paris climate accord.

To return to our example of replacing a # 25,000 salary with passive income, if I invested mainly in shares and rental property and only diversified the portfolio into fixed income such as bonds in my final years of saving, I'd plan on investing around # 7,000 a year into shares for 25 years, assuming a pretty aggressive inflation - adjusted annual return of 7 %.

All her life Jeanne had lived in Arles, France and had no wish to leave the place in her final years.

Whether or not the Colonel's original recipe is in use today, it is clear that Sanders was dismissive of KFC's menu in his final years.

«The injury rate at our Fremont factory is half what it was in the final years of the UAW plant operated by GM / Toyota immediately before us, and we care deeply about the safety and well - being of our people and strive to do better every day.

The $ 5.2 - billion deal is comprised of annual payments, starting at just over $ 300 million next year then increasing gradually to more than $ 500 million in the final year.

The West African country is in its final year of the $ 918 million credit deal signed in April 2015 to fix its economy, dogged by high deficits, inflation and a distressing public debt.

The 25 - year - old right - fielder is in the final year of a two - year, $ 35 million deal with the Washington Nationals and is set to hit free agency at the end of the year.

When Sara and I were in our final year of high school, both of us really struggled with imagining ourselves going to university right away.

In the final year of Scott's first term, Florida ranks 20th overall in America's Top States for Business.

At his age, an injury could affect his game or he could decline quickly, as Peyton Manning did in his final year (though Brady doesn't have Manning's injury history).

Silver's annual average in the final year of the 1970s bull market was $ 21.79.

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