Sentences with phrase «long years in»

There's more than a hint of Honda's long years in motor racing in the engine - transmission combination, and short of competition - level driving, the package delivers more than enough capability and excitement.

Betsy DeVos has dedicated her considerable intellect, determined energies and material resources for long years in the effort to renew and advance American education.

Framed for the murder of her husband, Libby Parsons (Judd) survives the long years in prison with two burning desires sustaining her — finding her son and solving the mystery that destroyed her...

Amazingly, by changing her lifestyle and diet, Dr. Wahls was able to start riding her bicycle to work... after four long years in a wheelchair.

This would be good news for the U.S., which produced three million tons of polystyrene in 2000, according to the EPA, and threw away 2.3 million tons of the stuff, consigning the waste to rest for long years in landfills.

Charles Darwin had spent five long years in the remotest corners of the Earth and observed, described and dissected with inexhaustible meticulousness.

While I seldom agree with Cupp, she has nailed it when she writes that Weiner had no legislative record in his long years in the US House; and he has no administrative experience.

During their long years in opposition, they liked to posture as the pious party, the people who could be trusted to tell it straight.

The responsibility for the crisis is identified in turn with Berlusconi and his failure to deliver on the liberal revolution he repeatedly promised; with the Democratic Party which many saw as hopeless during the long years in opposition; and finally, with Mario Monti, whose technocratic government some perceive as the product of the economic establishment which created the crisis and is now passing the costs on to the middle class.

Licking his wounds just under Jackson is Aiden, bumped down to number 2 on the boys» list after eight long years in the top spot.

Dwayne Bowe — After six long years in Kansas City, Bowe is free to test the free - agent market as an unrestricted free agent.

Dear friends, yesterday we finally told you all about our new cookbook, Simply Vibrant, which has been three long years in the making.

Long years in public view have trained him in the art of maintaining stillness and dignity while speeches are made and greetings are exchanged, but he still doesn't look quite at home with military bands and official formality; he walked nicely along the guard of honour but was much smaller than all of them.

So, after long years in the ministry, let me salute the loyal laymen and laywomen with whom it has been my privilege to work.

I am normally all about cozying up in the dark and stormy weather, but it's carried on far too long this year in the PNW.

Not exact matches

North Korea has long been largely shut to foreign investors, an isolation that deepened when the United Nations ratcheted up sanctions last year in an effort to curb its development of nuclear weapons.

While the term has become popular in recent years, it's built around the idea of subscription - models, which has been around since long before the digital age.

The Mt. Gox collapse precipitated a Bitcoin price crash of more than 70 %, shaking investors» confidence in the cryptocurrency for so long that it took Bitcoin more than two years to recover.

Indeed, the TLT long - dated Treasury ETF is up more than 40 percent in the last 10 years, meanwhile the Emerging Markets ETF, the EEM, is outperforming the S&P in 2017 but has underperformed over the long term.

A year ago, the London - based multinational undertook a study entitled «The World in 2050,» which projected Canada would be the only major developed economy to hold its position in the world — at the No. 10 spot — at mid-century, largely because of the demand for its resources and its ties through immigration to emerging markets (which by that time will no longer be labelled as such).

My dad worked for 35 years at Stelco in Hamilton, before watching a once great company dragged into bankruptcy, in large part because of a pension plan it could no longer fund.

I write these words on April 15, 2018 - exactly 71 years to the day when Jackie Robinson made his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers, ending a long period of segregation in Major League Baseball.

And, that could be anything from, are there other people from the university that I attend who work here, could I talk to them, to what does it look like to change jobs in a couple years after I've been successful on my first project, to how long do people stay in this office?

In this year's letter published Wednesday, Bezos again stressed the idea of long - term thinking, using an anecdote about a friend who visited a handstand coach who told her it would take six months to master the skill:

Tim McCourt had a long career in derivatives, spending 10 years at JPMorgan in sales and trading.

I offered on the spot to buy the next year of his time for $ 5,000 an hour, as long as I got his profits in return.

But our analysis found that this was no longer true: In the last five years, the once - reliable correlation between age and happiness among adults has vanished.

To see this in action, all you have to do is take a look at any of your account balances over the past year, or five years, or longer.

DURING the sustained economic boom that came to a screeching halt one year ago, business leaders were unanimous in advocating a long - term approach to dealing with the big strategic issues.

Even after 30 years in the business, the musician is still sporting his trademark long, curly locks.

CHICAGO / SAN FRANCISCO, April 20 - As the gap between short - and long - term borrowing costs hovers near its lowest in more than 10 years, speculation has risen over whether the so - called yield curve is signaling that a recession could be around the corner.

Similar data for China was not available, but the country's consumption has been growing, Last year, Chinese consumers reportedly spent 840 billion Chinese yuan (just under $ 140 billion) in retail and catering services over the week - long holiday, an increase of 11.4 percent from 2016.

Key criteria are whether the business has been operating for a year or longer and whether it has more than $ 100,000 in annual revenue.

A quick «congrats on the great work» email, thank - you note or pat on the back can go a long way in cultivating improved job performance and a positive company culture for the rest of the year.

Verizon Communications has a long - standing interest in buying Vodafone out of Verizon Wireless, and analysts expect a deal could be reached later this year.

Once years ago while attending a conference in Las Vegas put on by a startup I was working with at the time, I ran into one of the speakers for the day, long - time Vegas resident and Zappos founder Tony Hsieh.

During that first year, the company was in an office «closet» in a Long Island town with its warehouse in the garage of Nesi's parents» home.

We have a trading mentality that should not affect long - term investors, but ETF investors have earned a 5 percent return in the last 12 years and investing in traditional index funds has returned about 8 percent.

In an Entrepreneur article last year defending Donald Trump's long trail of bankruptcies, editor - at - large Ray Hennessey called failure «a badge of honour.»

From social media posts to emoji keyboards, the mobile icons have been popping up all year long in companies» marketing materials and advertisements.

So some analysts and investors with long memories are wary of the promise of using the millimeter wave rights for business cases that sound eerily familiar, despite the obvious advances in technology that have occurred over the past 20 years.

Balsillie and Lazaridis have so badly lost the confidence of the market that investors and analysts no longer seem to care about the billions in revenue or the 35 % increase in subscribers over the past year.

«Financial conditions will tighten this year, and we can no longer say that investor sentiment and positioning is muted,» Mike Wilson, Morgan Stanley's chief US equity strategist, wrote in a client note.

The letter will formally notify the EU of Britain's exit and trigger a two - year negotiation that will lay the foundations for a new chapter of British history — as a European nation no longer in the EU.

And some of the players to watch out for are the same big guys from 10 or 20 years ago (Microsoft, Oracle, AT&T, etc.) who are the long - entrenched stakeholders and «powers - who - be» in your space — not because they're great innovators or disruptors, but because: (a) they're increasingly well - informed about who's doing what very well (damn those demo days); (b) they're fairly fast followers with great gobs of money; and (c) they have the people, resources, and patience to hang around and keep buying and trying until they eventually get things right in the long run.

Unlike in years past, having a job no longer guarantees financial security.

Not long after, in 2007, 24 - year - old Maurice Pulley was gunned down after testifying against a man who had shot him in the face earlier that year.

Acting U.S. Secretary of State John Sullivan called on Moscow to stop creating impediments to peace in Syria and to play a role in ending the seven - year - long conflict.

«For years, I've been saying Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature was the best book I'd read in a decade,» writes Gates, who is clearly a long - time Pinker fan, but he continues, «his new book, Enlightenment Now, is even better.»

With manufacturing already stagnant, the likelihood of falling into a new recession next year increases greatly (remember that interest rates are a long leading indicator, and increases tend to take a year or more to be felt in the real economy).