Sentences with phrase «made decades before»

GORP is basically your typical raunchy sex - comedy except it was made decades before the genre came too have the big box - office success that most have today.

Published in 1844 and recounting a journey in the Middle East made a decade before, it is a masterpiece of the wry and elliptically self - mocking English travel memoir; only Eric Newby improved on the model in any respect.

Not exact matches

The most recent projections, granted their tentativeness, nonetheless make clear that the highly desirable goal of paying off the federal debt is in reach before the end of the decade.

I've served as a leader in business and studied leadership for decades, and I've never seen someone make such an outlandish, impractical, and downright persecutory comment before.

Wonder Woman's symbolic value has been equivocal from the character's inception, decades before she first made the cover of Ms. Magazine.

«Automakers have been working to mitigate distraction in vehicles since we developed the first set of distraction guidelines in 2003 — years before this issue entered the broader public debate and a full decade before NHTSA published its guidelines for vehicles,» said the Alliance of Automotive Makers, an automotive trade group made up of 12 car and light truck manufacturers including BMW, Chrysler, Ford, GM and Toyota.

Today there are more Airstreams on the road than ever before, and, remarkably, most of those were made in the past decade or so.

Angell founder and mechanical engineer Paul Angell spent two decades designing big - brand tennis rackets before launching his own business to custom - make them.

Still, outside of cities, car ownership will remain sensible, the company noted: «It'll take much more than a decade before it makes sense for someone in Wyoming, for example, to ditch their car.»

Common Cause filed a similar complaint about a $ 150,000 payment made shortly before the election by American Media Inc., owner of The National Enquirer, to Karen McDougal, a former Playboy Playmate who has said she had an affair with a married Mr. Trump about a decade ago.

It's the one Quebec made when it suddenly demanded to be reimbursed for the pains it had endured two decades before: simple fairness.

But what's strangely forgotten is that last decade's housing bubble was just an attempt to make up for the gains that had been lost in the decade before that.

He notes they'll be continually looking at how the brand is received and how it can be improved, swearing (literally stating, «read my lips» before laughing) that it won't be another four decades before changes are made again.

Unfortunately, a sad fact is that public perception rarely makes the direct link between new therapies and the painstaking basic scientific discovery work that took place decades before and fuelled their development.

A woman used forged documents to pose as an estate lawyer for a decade and made partner at her small firm before her fraud was discovered, according to charges announced yesterday.

Advisers say that millennials, who are decades away from retirement, will need to save more — in some cases twice as much as they were saving before — to make up the difference.

As it turned out, the parishioner who had made that insulting remark so many decades earlier got the very same service, and her nice casket was covered at the door of the church by the same pall that covered dear Bernice's very lowly casket.I look forward to the day when Bernice and the other lady stand side by side before the throne of heavenly grace.

You would think that God would bestow this information on Christians decades, nay, centuries before the scientific discovery is made.

The fact is, it simply makes sense, to anyone with the most elementary notion of how the Catholic tradition alwaysworked before the distortions of recent decades (which please God, after another decade or two of the current mopping up operations, and the retirement of a few dozen more bishops, will soon be a distant memory).

Recently, I told a friend that, if Paul and I had been married for over two decades before I found out that he was gay, the decisions I would make might well be different.

I have made the case from the description of the 144,000 that they represented the Jews who made up the Church for a decade before the conversion of Cornelius (first Gentile).

I've been able to observe this reality somewhat impartially over the last decade, so it seemed wise to make this resolution before sleep deprivation, hormones, fear, and the comparison game kick in and make it so much harder to keep.

Neil Armstrong's achievement was made all the more remarkable because it was predicted and planned almost a decade before by President Kennedy.

My whole life — well, since I started baking damn - near a decade ago, anyway — I've been making peanut butter cookies with store - bought peanut butter and it took nine years before I realized the store - bought variety isn't doing peanut butter cookies any favors.

(unfortunately banks do nt buy in to we will win the league for the next decade to give out money) from the cub before they lend then shed lots of cash, and this unfortunately leads to clubs putting up there ticket prices to reflect the cost of big progress, so people sometimes have to realize that the club has to find a way to make club grow, and if they do nt have deep pocketed owners then they have to pitch to the banks for a loan, like we did all those years ago an we are just over the worst of it now we have paid our dues and are now getting back among the big boys again.

Also I must say Roy Keane is the only footballer past or present that has had the ability to make all others around them up their game, ive never known anybody else like him past or present, for a decade he was the first name on SAF team sheet before Cantana, scholes, giggs, beckham stam and the rest, the reason why he was the first name on the team was because he was the most important player, probably in the whole of the Sir Alex era, and to say Carrick was more important than Keane and Scholes does not surprise me with you Opik (You claimed we should sell RVP and Rooney to play Bebe and Welbeck) but it once again proves you talk complete bollocks

Rat was a player of some repute having won honours galore during a decade - long stint at Shakhtar Donetsk, however, he made just 15 top - flight appearances before his contract was mutually terminated after six months.

Before founding Willow, CEO Naomi Kelman spent more than a decade in leadership positions at Johnson & Johnson, including five years as president of Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, which makes contact lenses.

If you were a party girl before, or used to be the life of every event you went to, you might as well say goodbye to them for the next few months (or years, no wait, make that a decade or two).

Arabella is a sweet name that had been used in the United Kingdom for quite some time before making it onto North American baby lists a decade ago.

A question I raised before is what to make of the contention that increased benefits and tax credits in the past decade have successfully raised many people from just beneath the poverty line (60 % of median income) to just above it; However, these gains are said to disguise real and more entrenched increases in poverty - if the poverty line were 40 % of median income rather than 60 %, three quarters of a million more people would now be in poverty than in 1997 -LRB-?)

A case can surely be made for Indira Ghandi, for instance, who redrew the map of South Asia by providing vital support to the fledgling state of Bangladesh and, as a result, initiated, some have argued, perhaps the first humanitarian intervention in the 20th Century; a full two decades before the Americans intervened in the Balkans to prevent similar atrocities.

Cuomo said the slogan «Make America Great Again» is code for the nation before immigrants came here over the past few decades.

-- The Times Union reported in 2017 that seven of those $ 25,000 donors had not made a contribution in a New York election for at least a decade before giving the large and identical sums to Cuomo, according to state Board of Elections records.

They say that's a remnant of when the system was created decades ago, before advances in medicine which have made certain types of injuries far less serious and life - changing.

Huge strides have been made over the past two decades and today, more women than ever before are surviving breast cancer, many of whom have benefited from early detection through routine breast screening.

«We have opportunity before us right now, to make historic progress on issues where we have been at a standstill for decades on water quality and our economy,» Bellone said.»

McCollum served in House for two decades before making two unsuccessful bids for the Senate in 2000 and 2004.

Cuomo says the slogan «Make America Great Again» is code for the nation before a diversity of immigrants came here over the past few decades.

WOMEN IN SCIENCE Progress has been made on closing the gender gap in science - related fields, but it may be decades or even centuries before some disciplines have equal numbers of men and women, a new study suggests.

«It is very clear that industrial lead contamination was pervasive throughout Antarctica by the late 19th century, more than two decades before the first explorers made it to the South Pole,» he added.

People have talked about making private space stations for decades, even before on - orbit construction began on the ISS.

«If we were to begin to reduce man - made emissions this year,» NOAA's Feely says, «it would take decades before we'd see CO2 levels and acidity start to go down instead of up and hundreds or thousands of years to return to preindustrial levels.»

«I made it so it was all simple components that could easily be assembled,» says David, who served in Her Majesty's Army on a helicopter maintenance crew before his roughly 2 decades as a police officer.

Researchers in Norman have made only one - panel systems operable for weather surveillance, and it is likely to be at least a decade before phased arrays become the norm across the country.

By the time the DNA sequencer made the Human Genome Project possible in the late 1990s, scientists were mapping genes at thousands of times the rate that they had done two decades before.

In response to the 1993 failure of the Mars Observer mission — a billion - dollar, decade - in - the - making probe that mysteriously lost contact with ground controllers just before it was scheduled to go into orbit around the planet — NASA administrator Daniel Goldin decided to shift to smaller, less expensive spacecraft and create a sustained exploration campaign by sending one or two probes to Mars at every launch opportunity.

SunShot Catalyst takes a new approach in support of the SunShot Initiative's aim to boost solar deployment by making it cost competitive with traditional energy sources before the end of this decade.

The U.S Department of Energy SunShot Initiative is a collaborative national effort that aggressively drives innovation to make solar energy fully cost - competitive with traditional energy sources before the end of the decade.

In the decades before that, the Sun brightened a bit, making things warm especially fast.