Sentences with phrase «of a few decades ago»

Today's work environment bears hardly any resemblance to that of a few decades ago.

To those who profess this suspicion J.S. Haldane's reflections of a few decades ago on the uniqueness of biology would be embarrassingly out of date:

In other words, Pentecostals and charismatics are growing and influencing, but they also look a lot less like the Pentecostals and charismatics of a few decades ago.

Not only has this research produced evidence that well - known nutrients such as vitamins A, C, E, and B complex, can prevent ageing, but new compounds found in foods which we were not aware of a few decades ago, are constantly being added to the anti-ageing arsenal.

It was one of the biggest news stories of a few decades ago.

It is very obvious there is an overpopulation problem with these breeds and many of the issues we see can be linked back to that overpopulation (as similar problems have been linked to other breeds in previous decades when this happens; the Boxer is a prime example of this both a few decades ago and with some problems we see as their popularity goes on the rise again).

The economic losses were of course large, but they were much below the level of a few decades ago, and this improvement is expected to continue.

Upstream someone mentioned tobacco, and there are parallels to the tobacco - science wars of a few decades ago.

Seen from this perspective, restoring family stability to levels of a few decades ago could dramatically affect the lives of many children.

Not exact matches

Over a decade ago, when government deficits led The Wall Street Journal to list Canada an «honorary member of the Third World,» more than a few observers insisted our currency was destined to be worth less than half a U.S. buck.

Mexico declared war on drug cartels and organized crime a decade ago, a conflict that claimed more than 200,000 lives and shows few signs of slowing up.

Over the last few years, China's debt - to - GDP has ballooned to more than 300 percent from 160 percent a decade ago, causing many people, including Chinese officials, to warn of a financial - sector debt bubble that's waiting to burst.

A few decades ago, having a high school diploma meant you at least had the education, background and ambition to complete the «bare minimum» of educational expectations.

But it's not just size that matters — the average cost of fighting fires per acre burned is also much higher than it was a few decades ago.

But a few short decades ago this was, of course, unimaginable.

Mariano notes that roughly 75 percent of sellers within the industry are women, down from about 90 percent a few decades ago, but more men and married couples are joining the ranks and finding a better work / life balance than the corporate world provided.

A decade ago, author Scott Shane estimated that only 30 % of startups live longer than 10 years, fewer than 10 % ever grow, and just 3 % grow substantially.

Few younger readers will remember how popular hydrogen fuel cells were in the media a couple of decades ago.

That means the stock market rally can only directly benefit around half of all Americans — and substantially fewer than it would have a decade ago, when nearly two - thirds of families owned stock.

Today is definitely not the same world as it was just a few decades ago and the financial industry in particular has embedded extremely high levels of manipulative psychology into their attempts to control us and to keep us passive.

Much like the way 401 (k) plans revolutionized the world of retirement savings a few decades ago, 529 college savings...

Today, 21 percent of first - timers do this, up from 12 percent a few decades ago.

Territories that includes creating new social interaction models, new roles as members of a social ecosystem, and advancing social business models that may very well alter the structure and business operations they have been wedded to for decades — in ways they could not have dreamed of just a few short years ago.

Much like the way 401 (k) plans revolutionized the world of retirement savings a few decades ago, 529 college savings plans have revolutionized the world of college savings.

In our Special Energy Report: An American Energy Renaissance, we highlight that just a few years ago investors were contemplating the supply constraints facing the petroleum industry, but with the disruptive technology in shale oil and gas in the U.S., we could now be looking at decades of drilling ahead.

I didn't buy «Japan is Number One» when that was the mantra two decades ago, because Japan had severe demographic problems» as in, very few children; its lack of the most basic form of people power in the most elementary form, I thought, would soon become evident in economic weakness (as it has).

Such an event would have been unthinkable just a few decades ago» but so would the election of someone like Frank Page during the long years of the Controversy that roiled the Southern Baptist Convention.

And even the number of meteorite falls is about one hundred times what it was only a few decades ago.

Christianity has been the conscience of the Western Civilization until a few decades ago.

Ironic that it was the Christian right that intiated commercial boycotts as a form of expression a few decades ago.

Opposition movements have sprung up in sectors of the religious community that only a few decades ago seemed to have bargained away their political soul.

His four remarkable days in the United Kingdom were an historic event that would have been impossible to imagine even a few short decades ago, to say nothing of a few centuries ago.

That was the truly ugly slogan of lefties a few decades ago and, it is to be feared, the belief of many, on both the left and the right, today.

I had the privilege a few years ago of meeting Dr. Cornel West, a man who has been engaged in activism and justice work for decades.

Anthropologists don't know exactly what led to the extinction of Neanderthals, but we know a heck of a lot more than we did just a few decades ago.

But alongside markets you may also find developmental dictatorships of the sort that flourished in places like Brazil, Spain, South Korea, and Taiwan a few decades ago.

But in whose name did the american government dehumanize the women, children, and elderly of Hiroshima and Nagasaki just a few decades ago?

Trilling's error is our own — is that of the famous - to - those - few - who - care spat between Jonathan Franzen and Ben Marcus, a decade ago, that pitted «realist» against «experimental» fiction, and which Ozick recounts, elsewhere, with a barely restrained eye - roll.

We hold to forms of worship designed centuries ago by people very different to us and ignore the massive cultural changes of the last few decades (and I'm not talking about replacing organs and songs with good theology and no tune with guitars and songs with good tunes and bad theology, either) for fear that in attracting anyone new we might alienate imaginary figures we are sure are in the congregation.

You have lost Bob, you are on the wrong side of history once again, much like a few decades ago when you were infuriated that a black man could legally marry a white woman, oh the humanity!!

At a deeper level Lernoux notes the parallels between John Paul II's papacy and Ronald Reagan's presidency: both men are right - wing populists whose few powerful ideas derive from experiences of three or four decades ago.

I've only met a few elderly nuns a couple of decades ago in a retirement home that chose to wear the full habit.

It is not difficult to imagine that within the next few years this pattern will become almost universal in Reformed churches, together with an even wider observance of the Christian Year than is now the case (and the present practice is far more extensive than it was a decade ago).

dear heidi, 101 cookbooks is one of the first food blogs (or any blogs, really) that i came to read on a regular basis over a decade ago, and among the few that i still read, again on a regular basis, to this day.

A few decades ago, the low fat message for heart health was born and has since been adopted as the golden rule of nutrition — but have we got it all wrong?

Aspics were huge a few decades ago and are cornerstone of French cuisine.

This is helpful when you will be away from home for long periods of time because today's slow cookers cook much «hotter» than they did a few decades ago.

These decadent Maple Syrup drenched Blondies are just one of so many recipes that I've tried in the past few months from her newest book «Vegan with a Vengeance» from Da Capo Lifelong Books Born and raised in Brooklyn, Isa Chandra Moskowitz began her vegan cooking journey over two decades ago.

For decades, Bob's has sold domestically grown white sorghum flour as part of gluten - free baking mixes, but a few years ago, it started carrying whole - grain sorghum as a standalone product.

So how and why is the gap not bridged????? The other important thing to remember is that in the last ten years Wenger has won NOTHING of note so his repuatation amongst the world elite players is less than it was a decade ago and there are few of them that actually WANT to play for the club now our reputation for having no ambition is paramount now rather than our repuatation for winning competitions.