Sentences with phrase «in my quarter of a century as»

«I have seen so many changes in my quarter of a century as a Realtor, most of them incredibly positive,» says Thyssen.

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Internal studies by a group of analysts within Shell known as the «scenarios» team had concluded that global demand for oil might peak in as little as a decade — essentially tomorrow in an industry that plans in quarter - century increments.

As much as the fall of the Berlin Wall or the rise of social media, the astonishing decline in world - wide poverty stands as one of humanity's greatest achievement over the past quarter centurAs much as the fall of the Berlin Wall or the rise of social media, the astonishing decline in world - wide poverty stands as one of humanity's greatest achievement over the past quarter centuras the fall of the Berlin Wall or the rise of social media, the astonishing decline in world - wide poverty stands as one of humanity's greatest achievement over the past quarter centuras one of humanity's greatest achievement over the past quarter century.

But the paperwork has been dusted off in recent months as policy - makers debate whether this old deal — despite its imperfections — might be awakened from its quarter - century coma should Trump pull America out of NAFTA.

As part of its 25th anniversary, CNBC is creating a definitive list of people who have had the greatest influence in business over the past quarter century.

But even as Homer, Marge and their three kids, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, surpassed the Stone Age family's six - season run, no one dreamed the show would continue for a quarter of a century, giving it a second record as the longest - running scripted TV series in American history.

A trade war triggered by safeguard tariffs would open a new wound in the global trading system, because it would unravel almost a quarter of a century of discipline and dethrone the WTO as the arbiter of global trade and a check on protectionism.

Supermarket cost war and Black Friday bargains motivate buyers to bring Xmas paying forward The ongoing grocery store cost war and on - line revenue drove the strongest British isles retail income progress in much more than a quarter of a century this thirty day period, as consumers rushed out to bag...

With 25 years of experience, the Publicis Media chairman says people, empowerment and trust are essential This year marks a milestone in what has been an exciting and fulfilling career for me: a quarter of a century as an industry veteran.

As mainline Protestantism ceased to be a culture - forming force in American public life, the void was filled by a new Catholic presence in the public square and, perhaps most influentially in electoral terms, by the emergent activism of evangelical, fundamentalist, and Pentecostal Protestantism in what would become known as the Religious Right» a movement that has formed a crucial part of the Republican governing coalition for more than a quarter - centurAs mainline Protestantism ceased to be a culture - forming force in American public life, the void was filled by a new Catholic presence in the public square and, perhaps most influentially in electoral terms, by the emergent activism of evangelical, fundamentalist, and Pentecostal Protestantism in what would become known as the Religious Right» a movement that has formed a crucial part of the Republican governing coalition for more than a quarter - centuras the Religious Right» a movement that has formed a crucial part of the Republican governing coalition for more than a quarter - century.

Rejoice with me Jesus paid my frightful price — Took me to Him — Into HIS Mystical Body — That we shared in life the same tormented cry; He had walked in His Way the same streets as I — Insane — I was never at a total loss; I KNEW the Blessed Mother choose my Cross In Her maternal love for me and for us all; THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION — Conceived In LOVE such a Holy Cross for me; Through Mary Jesus was someone I could serve — She knew it was the Cross that I deserved And so did I — for over a quarter of a century I stood with Her at Calvary — a wretched sentry With the Communion of Saints, and Blessed Kateri Till Easter came for mein life the same tormented cry; He had walked in His Way the same streets as I — Insane — I was never at a total loss; I KNEW the Blessed Mother choose my Cross In Her maternal love for me and for us all; THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION — Conceived In LOVE such a Holy Cross for me; Through Mary Jesus was someone I could serve — She knew it was the Cross that I deserved And so did I — for over a quarter of a century I stood with Her at Calvary — a wretched sentry With the Communion of Saints, and Blessed Kateri Till Easter came for mein His Way the same streets as I — Insane — I was never at a total loss; I KNEW the Blessed Mother choose my Cross In Her maternal love for me and for us all; THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION — Conceived In LOVE such a Holy Cross for me; Through Mary Jesus was someone I could serve — She knew it was the Cross that I deserved And so did I — for over a quarter of a century I stood with Her at Calvary — a wretched sentry With the Communion of Saints, and Blessed Kateri Till Easter came for meIn Her maternal love for me and for us all; THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION — Conceived In LOVE such a Holy Cross for me; Through Mary Jesus was someone I could serve — She knew it was the Cross that I deserved And so did I — for over a quarter of a century I stood with Her at Calvary — a wretched sentry With the Communion of Saints, and Blessed Kateri Till Easter came for meIn LOVE such a Holy Cross for me; Through Mary Jesus was someone I could serve — She knew it was the Cross that I deserved And so did I — for over a quarter of a century I stood with Her at Calvary — a wretched sentry With the Communion of Saints, and Blessed Kateri Till Easter came for me -

His influence has grown with the passing of the years and has never been so powerful as in the past century and a quarter.

The issue was clearly focused at the three - quarter mark of the century by such developments as The Christian Century's series on «New Turns in Religious Thought» and an issue of Christianity and Crisis which asked, «Whatever Happened to Theology?century by such developments as The Christian Century's series on «New Turns in Religious Thought» and an issue of Christianity and Crisis which asked, «Whatever Happened to Theology?Century's series on «New Turns in Religious Thought» and an issue of Christianity and Crisis which asked, «Whatever Happened to Theology?»

Thus, even though prisons were among the first places of special need to catch the eye of the churches, it is only in the past quarter - century that the plan of full - time and specially trained chaplains, responsibly related to their churches as well as to their jobs, has become widespread.

And unless the very availability of modern contraceptives by itself stimulates a revolution in attitudes toward family size — as over a quarter of a century of family planning efforts have failed to do in Nepal, and three decades of programs have not done in rural Pakistan — the demographic impact of family planning would be a discrete and self - extinguishing adjustment, as the previously «unmet demand» of motivated users is progressively satisfied.

I recall sitting in a classroom in a huge Southern Baptist seminary a quarter of a century ago, hearing my own favorite Professor John Doe explain all Mullinsism as being not only Southern Baptist but also «conservative [Wilhelm] Hermannian» (after a German theologian we had been taught to call an «I - theologian» more than a «God - theologian»).

Plutarch records «grind» used as a sexual metaphor in the last quarter of the first century A.D., overlapping the probable years when Luke was composed.

The honeymoon, that is, between the now enfeebled and increasingly remote souls who for over a quarter of a century had carped and sneered at Pope John Paul II (and by the same token at «PanzerCardinal» Joseph Ratzinger) but who had nevertheless hoped against hope for a Pope who would be somehow reborn if not as a fully paid - up liberal, as a Pope at least who would go easy on all that counter-cultural JPII stuff about being «signs of contradiction» and about continuity with the pre-conciliar Church and who had breathlessly found (so they thought) that, lo, it was even so, in the wonders of Deus Caritas Est. «On his election last spring,» carolled The Tablet, «the former CardinalRatzinger was widely assumed to have as his papal agenda the hammering of heretics and a war on secularist relativism, subjects with which he was associated as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.»

The acceleration of congregational studies in the last quarter century sprang in part from fresh and troubling inquiry by sociologists who probed the parish as a social organization.

Then Ash remembers, «But against any easy claim of superiority, we have to remind ourselves that most European economies are struggling to generate jobs, innovation, and entrepreneurship as the American economy has succeeded in doing for much of this quarter century.»

Occasionally, mismatched spolia (as these reused pieces are called) give the impression of cost - saving scavenging, but more often sensitive selection has yielded breathtaking results, as in the church of Sant» Agnese fuori le mura (second quarter of the seventh century).

Mary Ann Glendon wrote nearly a quarter century ago that «a new form of rights talk has come into being» in contemporary America, in which rights are «presented as absolute, individual, and independent of any necessary relation to our responsibilities.

Furthermore, in the United States, for over a quarter of a century the writings of Professor Charles Hartshorne, including Beyond Humanism, The Vision of God, Reality as Social Process, The Divine Relativity, The Logic of Perfection, and A Natural Theology for Our Times, as well as many occasional articles and essays, have eloquently argued the case for «process - thought».

As every graduate student in theology would learn in the last quarter of the twentieth century, Lindbeck saw two dominant approaches to religion and theology.

Currently the Academic Dean at the University of Illinois in Chicago (where he cops an annual salary approaching a quarter of a million dollars, making him the highest paid dean in the country), he began his career as a scholar of seventeenth - century English literature at the University of California, Berkeley.

Since Whitehead was nearly forty when the Queen died in 1901, we should see him as a man of the Victorian age whose intellect bore its best fruit a quarter of a century later.

In its gradual development during the last quarter of a century, it has taken up into itself a number of contributory elements, and it must now be reckoned with as a genuine religious power.

McCartney's dabbling in divisive social issues will prevent him from ruling a state as diverse as Colorado — and it reminds us that, over a quarter century, Bryant may have been the only public man in Alabama to transcend the issue of race.

He was known as the Oklahoma Kid coming out of college, but his heart has been in Phoenix for almost a quarter century.

Watch all of the action from an enthralling quarter - final as three goals from Cristiano Ronaldo brought up his century in the UEFA Champions League and helped Real Madrid earn a 6 - 3 aggregate win after extra time in 2017.

Ferguson would later describe Hargreaves» Red Devils career as a «disaster», writing in his autobiography that he considers the midfielder, who made just 27 Premier League starts in four seasons, one of his worst signings in over a quarter of a century as United boss; a sad indictment for Hargreaves when you consider that flops such as Bebe and Anderson had pitched up at the Theatre of so - called Dreams since the turn of the millennium alone.

Moran had his own troubles a quarter of a century ago when he set an unwanted record by going into the history books as the first player to be sent off in an FA Cup Final during Manchester United's 1 - 0 extra time defeat of Everton in 1985.

After a quarter of a century as a defining Hudson Valley restaurant, New World Home Cooking in Saugerties will close after dinner service on Saturday, April 7.

As the chairmanship rotates between the Council of Europe's 47 members every six months, it will be a quarter of a century until Britain is in this position again so it is an opportunity that can not be missed.

But now the country has been running short of dollars as oil revenues have fallen along with the price of crude, pushing the economy into its first recession in a quarter of a century.

The voters could easily switch to the LibDems (Calamity Clegg he may be but he appeals to women whilst Vince Cable comes across as well informed and sensible), the Greens (the fruits of a quarter of a century of green propaganda in our state schools and the Greens are the only party not seen as sleazy), the BNP (as the depression bites and unemployment rises, immigration will become a huge issue) or UKIP (Nigel Farage, the ace communicator, dispenses common sense in a straightforward manner and UKIP will become prominent in the EU Parliament elections next spring).

By the next election, it will be almost a quarter of a century since a Conservative leader walked into Downing Street as a Prime Minister secure in his or her Parliamentary foundation.

A quarter century ago as Niagara County clerk, his election committee pleaded guilty for failure to list the true identity of a campaign contributor discovered by federal and state investigators probing alleged corruption in the county.

David Cameron will on Wednesday set a deadline to hold an in - out referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union by the end of 2017 as he hardens his position on the issue that has bedevilled Tory leaders for a quarter of a century.

Very few of the reforms suggested by the Moreland Commission under Mario Cuomo have been enacted over the past quarter century, and most are still talked about as potential cures for what ails Albany in the aftermath of an unprecedented streak of corruption convictions.

The European Science Foundation has been in existence as an association of the national research funding agencies for more than a quarter of a century concentrating on coordination mechanisms and support.

For more than a quarter of a century, Baltimore has balanced his long hours as a leading scientific administrator — founder of the seminal Whitehead Institute, president of Rockefeller University and later, for nine years, of Caltech — with groundbreaking work in cancer, immunology, and AIDS research.

After working the land locally for a quarter of a century, he watched in despair as Fukushima Prefecture, where Minamisoma is located, licensed an industrial - waste processing plant close to his five - acre farm.

The U.S. program that pays farmers to idle fragile cropland soon will protect the smallest amount of land in a quarter - century, the government said on Monday, the result of several years of sky - high commodity prices that have encouraged farmers to plant as much as possible.

Known as a «Star of David» molecule, scientists have been trying to create one for over a quarter of a century and the team's findings are published in the journal Nature Chemistry.

However, in the last quarter of the 18th century, philosophers, especially Immanuel Kant, looked to classify people by behavior and culture as well as genetics.

The research offers a first - of - its - kind glimpse into the dangers of the two combative sports in Canada, and is the direct result of Karpman's quarter - century of experience as a ringside physician conducting post-fight exams, which are mandatory in both sports.

Set amidst the postwar austerity of early 1950s London, «Vera Drake» offers the viewer a decidedly ambivalent brand of nostalgia, while addressing a subject — abortion — that is still, at least in some quarters, as contentious today as it was half a century ago.

It gives the idea of consumerism run wild the short shrift that it deserves (and the cynicism that an intervening quarter - century demands), touching on the original's explanation of the zombies» affinity for the shopping mall and the human heroes» delight at their newfound material wealth before becoming a bracing action film that, like Marcus Nispel's reworking of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the source of which didn't need updating as much as Dawn arguably did), is more firmly entrenched in the James Cameron Aliens tradition than the Seventies institution of disconcerting personal horror film.

This is all to say that it comes as something of a surprise to come back to the Coens» auspicious debut, Blood Simple, over a quarter - century after it was released and a solid decade since I last saw it, and find that it remains the one true oddity in the Coen canon that I had faintly remembered it as.