Sentences with phrase «most of its long life»

During most of his long life he stood near to political circles in the capital, and he was acutely aware of the public problems, social and international, in which his country was involved.

The enormous, solitary leatherback sea turtle spends most of its long life at sea.

The present time is 1906, and the book covers most of her long life.

British painter Vézelay was neglected and ignored by the British art establishment for most of her long life, but she can claim to be Britain's first abstract artist.

Not exact matches

The 2005 Australian Longitudinal Study of Aging found that close relationships with children and other relatives had very little impact on how long you live, but people with the most friends tended to outlive those with the fewest by 22 percent.

Using longitudinal data from the nine - decade - long Terman life - cycle study, which has followed the lives and career outcomes of a group of gifted children since 1922, researchers Timothy A. Judge of Notre Dame and John D. Kammeyer - Mueller of the University of Florida analyzed the characteristics of the most ambitious among them.

King may not agree that sports is the most valuable appointment programming available today, but the growing trend of longer - term broadcast deals forces him to plan for a future where sport's dominance in delivering a live audience is the reality.

That would cushion the lending banks from shattering hits, and could be combined with a modification of austerity based on longer working lives, a step most countries, including the United States, are going to have to take.

And if you're wondering how much sleep is enough, here's a rough guide: One of the most acclaimed sleep researchers, Daniel Kripke, found in a recent study that «people who sleep between 6.5 hours and 7.5 hours a night, live the longest, are happier, and most productive.»

Most of us don't just want to live longer.

Notwithstanding rising life expectancy and declining workplace pension coverage, most Canadians working today can look forward to a longer retirement with a better quality of life than their parents.

Although most do not have the desired agronomic characteristics — such as high yields of seedless, nonacidic fruits with long shelf life — that would make them a direct substitute for the Cavendish, they are an untapped genetic resource.

Add to that the fact that Honolulu has one of the highest costs of living in the country — due in part to the cost of importing supplies and exporting products from the islands — and it's no wonder that most business owners are quickly lured back to the mainland for anything more than a long vacation.

But for most of us, we work harder and longer hours than ever before, believing that by doing so, we'll find the happiness and success we want in our lives.

Sure, we liked the excitement of making $ 16 an hour, but most of all we just wanted to be part of the magic for longer — and that trade - your - life - away commitment was probably why Disney didn't mind paying out the overtime.

Some of the most common other assets include cash value of life insurance, long - term investment property and compensation due from employees.

We built up some nice savings before these moves so as long as the market goes in the right direction, I should be able to retire much earlier than most based on our current standard of living.

Amazon has steadily expanded its reach into places long considered no - go zones for most people outside of the immediate family, starting with smart speakers in the home that await voice commands to come to life.

The disease is characterized by the accumulation of very long chain fatty acids (VLCFA) leading to a neurodegenerative disorder that is chronically debilitating and life - threatening, where the most affected tissues are the myelin in the central nervous system (CNS) and the adrenal cortex.

We can further confirm the conclusion of «stocks over bonds» for investing in most inflation periods by looking at the real returns of long - term treasury bonds versus the total U.S. stock market starting at the unprecedented and long - lived bond bull market starting in 1982.

Though salarymen worked extremely long hours and were expected to provide the utmost loyalty and sacrifice to their corporation, they were rewarded with thoroughly middle class lifestyles and promises of lifetime employment — a significant step - up from the very humble lives that most Japanese lived before World War Two.

That's not a benefit of investing you hear about often, but perhaps we should, since most of the great investors lived long lives.

You can save money by living outside of San Francisco or Silicon Valley proper, but then your commute will be long, and it will still be more expensive than most other cities.

Most of the content is about them, a mental snapshot of who they are at that point in our lives that often morphs into a painfully long narrative for anyone under 25!

What do many of the most successful (and richest) hedge fund managers have in common with a life - long homeless person?

However, if you are a single doctor making $ 300,000 per year, did not have to address a meaningful debt burden, and only have $ 100,000 in investments at the age of forty, you have done something very wrong (most likely, you either lived at your means or traded stocks instead of thinking like an owner that made long - term investments) even if you have that same $ 100,000 in paper wealth because you had the skill set and personal opportunity costs to do so much more with your hand in life.

Long flights are just apart of the avid traveler's life, but a new flight on Singapore Airlines could be a challenge for even the most experienced...

In general, people are living longer, health care inflation continues to outpace the rate of general inflation, and the average retirement age is 62 for most Americans — that's 3 years before you are eligible to enroll in Medicare.

Historically over long periods of time, equity index funds vastly outperform bonds, so it's important to have a large exposure to them during most stages of your life.

Carol Loomis, long - time Fortune reporter and friend of Buffett's, wrote in a 1997 article that Buffett called the day, «the most important day of my life.»

The most obvious approach to look at how European care for the elderly will evolve is to project technological trends and the costs of people living longer as diagnostic equipment, drug treatments and other medical science continues to improve.

While most leaders or aspiring leaders would agree with this in theory, many life - long Christians, especially those with ministry responsibilities, spend more time pursing a deeper understanding of leadership principles than they do learning to hear God and submitting themselves to following.

Most textbooks will show a live tree of evolution with the groups evolving through a long period of time.

Therefore - at most - it reflects the opinions of someone who lived long after Jesus.

This ignores in the name of autonomy a wealth of evidence that argues that most of those with chronic limits and progressive conditions may, after an initial period of anxiety and depression, find a worthiness to life so long as physical and psychological treatment is provided.

Mastodons and mammoths lived long ago in the New World, however, as with the prehistoric horse, the archaeological record indicates that they became extinct along with most of the megafauna in the New World around 10,000 BC.

Dec. 18, 2013 — The most complete sequence to date of the Neanderthal genome, using DNA extracted from a woman's toe bone that dates back 50,000 years, reveals a long history of interbreeding among at least four different types of early humans living in Europe and Asia at that time, according to University of California, Berkeley, scientists.

Amid all the noise that permeates our homes, giving evidence to the presence of life therein, the beautiful noise we should most long to hear, regardless of our age, is the sound of families singing the gospel together.

The acute sufferings of that time brought to a head the misgivings about God's providence in history which had been aroused by long - continued misfortunes and disappointments; for these sufferings not only fell upon a people which had made sincere and persistent efforts to observe the law of God in its corporate life, but they fell most heavily upon the best members of the community.

Hope faded away; the generation that had lived through the war could no longer believe in anything; a wave of apathy and cynicism engulfed all but the least or the most experienced soul.

In My Time: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life, Abigail Trafford, former health editor and now a columnist for the Washington Post, points out that Americans are enjoying a longer health span as well as lifespan.

He is the author of The End of Nature, The Age of Missing Information, Maybe One: A Case for Smaller Families and, most recently, Long Distance: A Year of Living Strenuously.

If you knew intimate details about my own past and the deep hurt I've endured, you would apologize — or maybe you wouldn't care at all; after all, most never consider that kind of thing, though their past encounters with «Christians» is enough to justify their life - long disdain for them in the eyes of the people that applaud them.

To the collective gasps of their congregations, pastors are misrepresenting the study's findings by making claims like, «most Americans are universalists» or «a majority of evangelical Christians no longer believe Jesus is the only way to eternal life» or «most Christians think all paths lead to God.»

They have the longest life - expectancy, generally the best health, most charitable (According to the IRS) and are heavily recruited by the CIA, FBI etc because of their honesty and knowledge of foreign languages.

Why we can not learn by being told and while we live under their rule is a long question; but, for most of us, we must separate ourselves from our parents in order to learn the hard way, before we can, in returning, step up to take their place.

Elizabeth observes: «Most women religious would admit that, in the quarter century since Vatican II, the rather short - lived euphoria of the «nun in the world» has been replaced by a long - suffering, quiet frustration at the lurking possibility of permanent extinction.

Directly relating my Bible reading with my longing for relationship with Him... sitting alone in my living room, no worship music, no lights, no bulletin, no 3 points... it was really a blessing, and felt a lot more like worship than most of my Sunday morning experiences.

It is interesting, is it not, that most of the things the world longs for — never - ending life, overwhelming joy, unconditional love, satisfaction, power — all of these things are already found... and only found... in the Christian life.

In the hands of director J.J. Abrams, it lived up to the hype to become not only the biggest box office hit of the year, but also one of the most fun action movies we've seen in a long time.