Sentences with phrase «invested decades of effort»

The Kim dynasty has invested decades of effort in their pursuit of nuclear weapons; it is unlikely that they will negotiate them away.

Not exact matches

For more than three decades evolutionary psychologists have advanced a simple theory of human sexuality: because men invest less reproductive effort in sperm than women do in eggs, men's and women's brains have been shaped differently by evolution.

I want to keep working at solving the problem that, notwithstanding the great efforts we've made in Massachusetts over a couple of decades in setting high goals, measuring progress, holding people accountable, and investing and building the capacity of the system to deliver, we've still been — however successful we've been comparatively — unsuccessful at: closing persistent achievement gaps.

Or what if the government required the industry to do this as part of an effort to help our economy recover from the crisis resulting from the insane overvaluation caused by the heavy promotion of Passive Investing (possibly in exchange for an amnesty from civil liability for the bad investing advice that advocates of Passive Investing have been advancing for decaInvesting (possibly in exchange for an amnesty from civil liability for the bad investing advice that advocates of Passive Investing have been advancing for decainvesting advice that advocates of Passive Investing have been advancing for decaInvesting have been advancing for decades now).

After some initial stumbles, the club ended up handily beating the S&P 500 over the next decade, mostly because the club make a specific effort to copy the investing mantra of Warren Buffett, buying companies with strong competitive advantages.

«Although mate choice studies in humans have routinely recorded pill use during the last decade to control for its confounding effects, little effort has been invested in understanding the consequences of such effects of the pill,» said study author Alexandra Alvergne from the University of Sheffield.

Neglect asset protection and all your disciplined efforts and sacrifices expended over a decade of investing could all have been for naught.