Sentences with phrase «longer than generations»

We're living longer than generations before us did, and «till death do us part» could mean 60, 70 years together instead of 20 or 30 years.
It is conceivable that taste takes longer than a generation to form a consensus, particularly in an era of media manipulation where memory exists by default in the digital overflow of mindless, panic - ridden bits of information.

Not exact matches

Although the decade - long wait for a successor was less than ideal, the second generation NSX is finally here for 2017.
As far as investing is concerned, UBS found in a study that Millennials were more likely to self - identify as conservative investors than their Baby Boomer or Generation X peers, even though they had the longest time window to retirement.
With many people having long ago converted to the wireless N standard of Wi - Fi, which has better speed, throughput and range than its G predecessor, the next generation of the technology is already on its way.
«Thousands of years of men innovating society and a single generation where women start to do better (in school and so forth) and rather than looking at the big picture, we're free to generalize, so long as those generalizations are harmful only to men.»
The battery in the second - generation Kindle lasts much longer than in the first, and the battery charger can just be plugged into my laptop.
For millennials «more than any other generation, social media and the allure to spend beyond their means could have long - term negative effects on their finances if they're not careful.»
Many baby boomers in their late 50s and 60s expect to keep working longer than their parents» generation, but studies show they're hoping to do it on their own terms.
Thiel has pointed out, reasonably enough, that America's political system is stuck in a long period of gridlock and the current generation of young Americans faces dimmer financial prospects than their parents did.
Millennials don't love cities any more than previous generations, the counterargument goes — they've just been stuck there longer, pining for the suburbs all the while.
For Laing, working longer than past generations isn't just about money, but about fulfillment and purpose.
«Taking this generation's diversity into account, our forecast for household formations over the next five years is 6.50 million to 6.75 million, or 1.30 million to 1.35 million per year, which is over 30 % higher than the long - term average rate of household formations,» Tirupattur says.
That may be due to income growth and the fact that millennials have been renting for a longer period of time than previous generations, putting them higher up on the pay scale.
Our successful entrepreneurs overcame reservations about their long - term viability by selling concrete performance characteristics — faster chips and fourth - generation language software, for instance — rather than intangible attributes like a tangier sauce or more evocative perfume.
expected to live longer than previous generations.
To be sure, Zillow has long been a better bet than Redfin, which has admirably IPO'd with a business that basically adds a tech layer (and thus superior lead generation) to a traditional real estate agency; the reality is that simply adding a tech layer doesn't change industries — that requires new business models.
With the youngest boomer age 50 and most of the generation retiring over the next 16 years, making the right investment decision has become more crucial than ever before, as the risk of making speculative gambles can no longer be entertained.
But those future generations will be better off owing lots of money in long - term bonds at low rates in a currency they can print than they would be inheriting a vast deferred maintenance liability.
Every B2B lead generation effort that produces great business leads is also going to produce a certain percentage of «unqualified» sales leads, and as long as your «unqualified» sales leads are less than 10 % of total sales leads (this percentage may be higher, depending on your industry), you should accept this as a cost of doing business and move on to the next thing on your schedule.
This generation continues to prepare for the worst as nearly a quarter (24 percent) have already shifted their retirement timeline and plan to work longer than originally anticipated.
You'll probably be more active, live and work longer, and need to rely more on what you've saved for income than previous generations.
When it comes to their views on marriage and families, Millennials don't quite fit into the same mold as their predecessors, but when it comes to their desire to have stable, long - lasting relationships and families, the generation might prove more traditional than they seem.
Publicly owned corporations are more accountable to their shareholders than tenured bureaucracies, which may explain why it took the Ford Motor Company only two years to cancel its Edsel, and not much longer for Coca Cola to restore its «classic» brand, while the Catholic Church has taken more than a generation of unstopped attrition to try to correct the mistakes of overheated liturgists.
1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)
We live longer, eat better and travel farther than the richest and most blessed people in virtually every other generation in every land in history.
America escaped the worst devastations of the wars and has always been more exclusively shaped by modernity than other nations, and so held on a couple of generations longer; now America too seems slowly to be accepting the evidence.
«My entire team is more committed than ever to introducing a new generation of guests to the Bennigan's and Steak and Ale brands all across the world, and to fulfilling the wishes of so many long - term, loyal fans who pine for a return of these beloved restaurants to their hometowns,» said Mangiamele.
The curse of plentiful rich food may mean that young Australians become the first generation in a long time to live shorter lives than their parents.
Sustainable practices handed down through three generations of Seely family mint farmers allow them to keep the fields healthier and in production longer than others, bringing you the essence of Oregon.
«I feel like once you understand how to get around here it's something that you can keep for a long time, regardless of tire, generation of car, the test of time it really stands up here on this small track more than anywhere,» Johnson said.
One study finds that «despite living in an age of iPads and hybrid cars, young Americans are more like the young adults of the early 1900s than the baby - boom generation: They are living at home longer, are financially insecure, and are making lower wages.»
However, noting that even their increased earnings barely took the participants» income above poverty level, the evaluators recommend that an early focus on education and training rather than on income - generation may be a more productive long - term strategy for these young men and their children (Spaulding et al, 2009).
I'm in the camp of not understanding why people would wait so long (I seriously doubt that children are physically unable to potty train so much longer now than in our generation AND in other parts of the world), but he's your kid.
For many reasons, including financial constraints, career decisions, wanderlust and more, young adults are waiting longer to have children than any generation before them.
Organic wooden baby toys usually have a longer lifespan than plastic, and are often passed down from generation to generation.
Mr Blair accepted that the challenges had proved more difficult than anticipated, saying: «I think we are wiser now to the fact, as I've been saying for the past few weeks, this is a generation - long struggle.»
The NYT determines there is «near - universal agreement,» that though de Blasio is «on more of a glide path to re-election in New York City than any mayor in a generation, he is still struggling to project his political voice in a job that has long produced towering national figures.»
The technical advantage is that local generation eliminates the enormous losses of wasted heat and long transmission that consume more than half the energy used in electricity generation by fossil fuels or nuclear.
Older workers now have the opportunity to work longer to support themselves, rather than allowing future generations to foot the bill for their pensions or long - term healthcare needs.
All these issues face Long Island's community colleges, which together serve more than 40,000 students and are widely regarded as an essential gateway to higher education for nontraditional and first - generation college students.
The John Mahama - led NDC Government has, through the PURC, presented the long - suffering people of Ghana with yet another wicked and insensitive present just when Ghanaians are bracing themselves for probably the worst Christmas in a generation: a more than 60 % increase in the price of electricity and water.
Plus, local generation is more reliable than electricity transported over long transmission lines, a major plus on brutal winter days we often see in February.
Most annoying to young, ambitious scientists like me, a whole generation of physicists seemed determined to keel over at the bench at 80 or 90 rather than retire the way the elderly were supposed to, and the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled, not too long before, that colleges and universities couldn't force them out.
To get as many renewables as possible operating on the grid, these renewables are much different again in characteristic than the current generation mix in that we have primarily base - load plants that are operating over long periods of time that don't vary much, like a coal plant, for example.
«We're not sure whether these stars are holding onto reservoirs of gas much longer than expected, or whether there's a sort of «last gasp» of second - generation gas produced by collisions of comets or evaporation from the icy mantles of dust grains,» said Meredith Hughes, an astronomer at Wesleyan University and coauthor of the study.
For instance, when it comes to victims of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, those who did not die of acute radiation syndrome or the widespread lack of medical care after the attacks lived longer than other members of their generation because they received government - sponsored medical attention for the rest of their lives, Chumak says.
After 22 generations, males in the long - stalk lineage fathered more male offspring than previously, while ones from the short stalk camp sired predominantly daughters.
The resistant insects lived longer and produced more eggs than did those not resistant to the parasite, and after nine generations, some 70 % of the population was resistant.
But of course you can't — and this is also so appropriate in the Darwin year — Create a species with one egg, one jump, but in each succeeding generation, where mutations build up, eventually speciation occurs, so the egg first, the species itself though, took a little while longer than one egg.
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