Sentences with phrase «of a long way since»

We've come a heck of a long way since the days of King Gillette and his stamped steel razor blades, as today's new breed of disposable blades is truly a cut above the rest, if you'll pardon my terrible pun.

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Although society has come a long way since a half - century ago, Buffett recalls a time when women were kept out of the workforce and predominantly told to depend on marriage as their path to livelihood.

But it is also true that we have come a long way since Paul Volcker, the iconic former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, induced a recession to break the back of the high inflation that plagued economies through the 1970s.

Business has come a long, long way since the days of secretary pools and bullet bras.

Instant messaging has come a long way since the days of in - network AIM chatting.

This massive keyboard is being billed as the way of the future, since it's a real universal keyboard, but it lacks ergonomic comforts — the keys are reputedly hard to depress, and its flat design won't put your hands in any ideal long - term typing position.

Businesses have argued that the way that Facebook emphasized the importance of «Pages» and «Likes» before decreasing the organic reach of those things felt deceptive, since they had put significant time and effort into something that was no longer as effective.

«Since 2007 I have been working on Drowning World, a long - term global project about flooding as my way of responding to climate change.

Since labor is one of your biggest expenses, maintaining tight cost controls over your payroll will go a long way toward protecting your cash.

While use of these RFRA laws has been part and parcel of the judicial landscape since the 1990s, the controversy over them is part of a long history of discrimination in the U.S. And the attempts to end that discrimination stretch all the way back to the Civil War.

The Berkeley, CA maker of sour and funky beers constantly has a line of 50 or more — and, since the Brewer's Association apparently loathes the idea of smooth egress, they're positioned right next to beer superstar The Lost Abby, meaning people walking the floor will have to make their way through two long lines.

By the postwar period, people in advanced societies had long since shed the old, laborious ways to embrace a sedentary duo of desk work and television watching, hopping into private automobiles to shuttle between the two.

With tech whiz - kids in hoodies and jeans and the very real possibility of your boss strolling into the office in a short suit, we've come a long way since the days when the CEO uniform was a wide tie and wing - tips.

Since 2011, U.S. automakers have been firing on all cylinders, boasting record sales and healthier bottom lines, but in terms of reputation, they still have a long way to go.

That's why, although e-ink readers have come a long way since the original Kindle in 2007, there's still plenty of innovation to be done.

Since a larger share of deposit rates are fixed than are loan rates, this will overstate the effect on cash flows over longer time horizons, though the extent of this bias has not necessarily changed over time in an obvious way.

Since investors can't quickly change the long - term growth rate of earnings, the only way to substantially increase the long - term rate of return offered by stocks is to lower prices vertically.

The most effective way is to chase market share and drive out one's rivals — even if doing so comes at the expense of short - term profits, since the best guarantee of long - term profits is immediate growth.

Since coal is the largest source of US emissions, the move to clamp down on the industry will go a long way toward reducing America's carbon footprint over the next two decades.

The same goes for the food court, where the Orange Juliuses and Pretzelmakers of the world have long since given way to swanky espresso bars and Neapolitan pizzerias.

We've come a long way since then, however, as a resurgence of technological optimism has created pockets of rampant price appreciation over the past few years.

Online businesses, since they started seeing the light of day in mid-2000, have come a long way from being a mere marketplace to one that goes a step ahead in walking the last mile with a customer.

The Facebook CEO has come a long way since then, but he might face his toughest set of critics since going onstage in 2010 with Recode's founders Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, an interview that left Zuckerberg so flustered and sweaty he had to take off his then - famous hoodie mid-interview.

The fact is, there has been a ton of money made / performance driven by, for example, «long Russell 2k» vs «short USTs» / «short ED,» or being long equities «value» against short equities «growth» since back mid 2016 when we began seeing positioning pivot this way (and accelerating post-Trump).

However, seeing a high number shouldn't be all that surprising, especially since almost half of the companies the biotech fund holds don't even have a drug on the market yet, so profits could be a long ways away — and this is just the nature of the industry.

Since then, the SBC has made progress — 50 percent of SBC church plants are churches of color — but has a long way to go.

A long series like this is probably not the best way to use a blog, since readers come and go, and miss a post or two, and since the argument builds from post-to-post, if someone is just jumping in or misses a few post, they won't understand the flow of thought that brought us here.

The change that has come about in theologies that partake of creative and emergent evolution can be described in this way: since mechanism is no longer the base of their evolutionary thinking, idealism is no longer essential as a strategy of thought in resolving the tension between science and faith.

The Van Dusens saw this considered, self - determined act as morally preferable to the customary American way of death, in which disease forces finally overwhelm technical medical management, leaving the dying person and those around him exhausted and resentful — the grace of dying with one's boots on long since gone.

He argues persuasively that the fate of public neighbors who have found their way into Boston's public housing projects in the last 70 years must be imbedded in the longer, wider story of the treatment of such neighbors since the city's initial settlement by the Puritans.

The question of how an inference of a fixed universal proposition from enumerated particulars can be justified no longer needs to be raised, since the relation of particular to universal is no longer construed in quite the same way.

But one such way is evident at a glance: the victims of abortion have long since outnumbered those of all other twentieth - century hecatombs put together.

And while he closes his book by advising America to «show more understanding for the sensibilities of others» and more «generosity of spirit,» since «a little common understanding could still go a long way,» his own theory lacks a place for such diplomacy.

I believe it is not enough to tell Christians to redirect all their sexual longings in a spiritual way, since spirituality and sexuality express distinct and different elements of our lives.

While we have come a long way since Johnson made that historic speech, in 2011, the U.S Bureau of Labor conducted a study and found that 46.2 million Americans (roughly 15 % of the population) lived at or below the poverty line.

Since World War II this fundamental shift of power between the political order and the economic order has gone a long way.

Roger Penrose, the Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at Oxford, has gone a long way toward burying materialism, which is remarkable since Penrose is apparently a materialist himself.

Since the constant in the New Testament is the centrality of Jesus and his message, and not any particular explanation of why and how he is central, we are then free to interpret this centrality in a way that meets the needs of our own day and our own common sense, so long as we remain compatible with the basic thrust of Jesus» teaching.

What you will find is a humanistic Puritan commenting on the work of a radical theologian — in many ways no new situation, since radical theology has important roots in left - wing Puritanism, and there is a long history of bitter controversy between Puritanism and its left wing.

Given the form - critical view of the tradition, it is evident that the way back from the tradition as we have it to the historical Jesus will be a long and arduous way, and there will be many instances where it will simply not exist, since much of the tradition will have been created in the early Church and will lead us at most to an aspect of the Church's understanding of the risen Lord.

Yes, if Abraham the instant he swung his leg over the ass's back had said to himself, «Now, since Isaac is lost, I might just as well sacrifice him here at home, rather than ride the long way to Moriah» — then I should have no need of Abraham, whereas now I bow seven times before his name and seventy times before his deed.

The science of economics has undoubtedly come a long way since the days of Adam Smith, but economic discussions today can often seem downright strange, if not misleading.

Since the rise of science, as a more productive way to construct worldviews, the many, many religious conco «ctions, all competing for primacy, will be gone in another 5000 years, and the «Epoch of Religion» will be long gone.

But have we not long since learned that the great poetic visionaries of the modern West have employed a non-Christian mystical language and symbolism as a way to the center of a uniquely modern immanence?

Quoting your book is pointless as well, since christians have long proven that there is «scripture» that can be interpretted in so many different ways, that no person alive will ever get a true, clear picture of it.

Offered by physicians who, though they have long since renounced the garb and ways of the shaman, are still cast in the role of soter?

Sorry — it's late here, I've been up since 4:15 and I just drove all the way across the state after a full day of work so to take care of my nine mile long wedding to - do list (no really, the thing is comically long)-- my sense of propriety and decorum for discussing dead animals along side a epically delicious pancake has gone completely out the window.

Chia seeds have come a long way since the chia pets of our youth.

My husband isn't into it since a little bit of tamari or soy sauce goes a long way with him, and there's quite a bit of it in that recipe.

I'm trying to figure out how to budget for healthy foods, and I figure if I buy coconut oil, instead of butter for baking, then, this would go a long way towards that goal, and I think butter isn't as healthy in our world, since it is probably from cows that are fed anti-biotics, and milk that is pasteurized and homogenized, what do you think??