Sentences with phrase «of decades late»

The shipyards employed as many as 70,000 people during World War 2 and were shuttered a couple of decades later by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.

Were both the optimistic forecasts of 1964 and the positive assessments of a decade later fundamentally misguided?

Obviously Saul was lying... just a couple of decades later there were enough Amalekites to take David and his men's families captive (1 Samuel 30:1 - 2).

The loss of urban factory jobs led to the collapse of the African - American married couple family structure as far fewer men had steady good jobs that allowed them to support a wife and kids economically, (a pattern that less educated whites would follow a couple of decades later), and to the decline of Rust Belt cities across the Midwest and Northeast.

Basically, they were symbols of the reassertion of extralegal white supremacist power over blacks in the South, following the enactment of Jim Crow laws, and then a symbol of resistance to Civil Rights laws striking down the Jim Crow regime a number of decades later.

Cunningham speculates that if her mother had been born just a couple of decades later, «she would be the CEO of an organization,» she says.

A couple of decades later, geochemists found that amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, could survive in fossils for millions of years.

A couple of decades later the German physicist Heinrich Hertz sought, and found, the new waves Maxwell had predicted.

But it is even better than that because to go from generation to generation in the human world is either nine months or 21 years, depending on who you talk to; you've got to get pregnant; you've got to buy baby clothes, the whole thing; the kid goes to school and then college and a couple of decades later, you've got a new generation.

Only a couple of decades later, the political situation in China changed, making it almost impossible for foreign researchers to visit the country, and preventing Chinese scientists from carrying out any research themselves on gibbons.

(as an aside, I found it interesting that a couple of decades later, Hampton Fancher was the co-writer of the screenplay for «Blade Runner»... but I digress).

They captured something unique with Little Miss Sunshine, and they've most certainly captured something special once again, thanks in large part to Stone's breathtaking turn as Billie Jean King, a woman who can still command a room because her star burns that bright, even all of these decades later.

The better part of a decade later, and with considerable film success under his belt, today he seems utterly devoid of arrogance or presumption.

Billie Jean King's star burns that bright even all of these decades later.

Never say die is first cited in the USA in 1814 and would seem to have been in familiar use a couple of decades later when Dickens uses it; but it's believed to have hit maximum popularity in 1939 due to the movie of the same name starring Bob Hope and Martha Raye.

A couple of decades later, in 1976, the breed was recognized by the American Kennel Club and categorized under the herding group.

Just a year shy of a decade later, the game is now making its way over to Android this December.

In Asia, representatives of their own emerged: Shōmei Tomatsu, with his images of vivid Tokyo life, Eikō Hosoe who explored human sensuality and influenced the works of Robert Mapplethorpe a a couple of decades later, and Hiroshi Sugimoto, who redefined the meaning of time with his long exposure shots.

Titles such as Objects Above and Below Horizon and Rococo Figures portend the paintings by his students of a decade later, with their banalities: «things» and «objects» set in incoherent spaces.

«From Abstract Expression to Colored Planes» considers the expressive and abstract style of painting that emerged in early 1940s New York and the more stark color planes that defined practices a couple of decades later.

A couple of decades later, when bipedalism and tool - making had supplanted the large - brain hypothesis, Piltdown Man came under renewed scrutiny and was easily revealed as a fake.

Not exact matches

The ECB, however, said after its latest policy - making meeting Thursday that it still doesn't expect to raise its own interest rates until «well past» September next year — and even then, only if it is absolutely sure that inflation is back on track after a decade of undershooting.

If you wanted to play the latest «Call of Duty» game in the last decade, there were few chances to do that on Nintendo's consoles.

With this new type of warship, and with the advent of aircraft carriers decades later, naval battles saw a new level of intensity and importance, as they defined the course of wars.

In fact, it wasn't until a decade later that Victor Mills, the creator of Pampers, eventually capitalized on her idea.

For almost two decades he'd worked in the lawn - care industry, first for a company bought out by TruGreen, and later with his own business, Lawn Dawg, which grew to seven branches that maintained 25,000 lawns throughout his home base of New Hampshire.

Decades later, the descendants of those entrepreneurs operate Daltco Electric, a 50 - employee wholesale electrical distributor headquartered in Kingston, Ont., that supplies electrical contractors, manufacturing facilities and government institutions.

A decade later, she found herself at the table with some of the world's most powerful people.

In the 1930s, about a decade after Polish biochemist Casimir Funk first recommended people get enough of certain micronutrients called «vitamines» (later found in abundance in citrus fruits and veggies), the first grapefruit diet emerged, followed by a banana - and - skim - milk diet promoted by United Fruit, the planet's leading banana importer.

Five decades later, the privately held company claims annual sales in excess of $ 6 billion and sells in more than 160 countries.

But it is widely held that all such technical hurdles have now been erased and that later this year a challenge that began over a decade ago will finally spell the end for the protection of the Washington Redskin's federal trademark.

In fact, as we approach a decade since the launch of Apple's App Store — followed a few years later by the Android / Google equivalent — it's fair to say that there's an app for everything.

Waugh says the constant travel and punishing hours of the past two decades were not easy on his wife of 38 years, Lynne, or their three sons, now in their late 20s and early 30s.

He said that by the later part of the next decade, Facebook would see notable progress in areas like connecting more of the world's population to the internet, the role of artificial intelligence in Facebook products and the accessibility and quality of virtual reality and augmented reality.

The growth of solar power over the next decade could cut the price of energy in WA, according to a man involved in one of the latest projects to take a step forward.

Yet decades later the majority of the population unknowingly flubs the native tongue, particularly the written form.

Decades later, the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Fla., filmed their own horrific attack at the hands of a heavily armed former student.

What was then called 24 Hour Nautilus grew quickly, and a decade later, the company bought out several of its rivals and rebranded as 24 Hour Fitness.

Five months later, the Pebble team went on to raise $ 15 million in venture capital from Charles River Ventures, a traditional VC house with more than two decades of traction.

After months (well, technically, closer to a decade) of wait for an official Republican plan to replace Obamacare, the House Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means committees unleashed legislation dubbed the American Health Care Act (AHCA) late Monday that would nix the existing health law's unpopular mandate to buy insurance and pare back its far more popular expansion of Medicaid for the working poor, among other provisions.

Spielberg's latest is one of his most entertaining movies in over a decade and is in many ways a celebration of the wonderful characters he's helped bring to the big screen over his career.

Some scientists are reluctant to ring that bell just yet, saying there could be other reasons for the results, but one potential explanation of the latest results from a cosmic ray detector in space is that it is the first detection of the mysterious dark matter material that has eluded scientists» understanding for decades.

Some countries have seen profound changes, with the likes of Spain and Portugal going from essentially no divorces in 1970 to 2.5 per every thousand people a few decades later.

Decades later, Quinn decided to try to locate his child, and went to Ho Chi Minh City in search of the boy he left behind in 1973.

His rough upbringing — which includes a revolving door of stepfathers, an alcoholic mother who chased him around with a knife, and a period of homelessness — makes a compelling origin story, a tale he still emotionally unspools at his seminars decades later.

For decades, business leaders looked to the latest methodology or technology to solve every type of organizational issue — like Six Sigma, Agile, or enterprise resource planning.

In the past year, Smith also became co-director of eConventus Holdings (B.C.) Ltd., the latest venture of one Mohammed (Mo) Jiwani, who has left a trail of hapless investors across the country over more than a decade.

A decade later more than 3,300 specialty stores carry the soups, giving Buckeye 1993 revenues of $ 4.1 million.

The late Steve Sabol, who died this week at the age of 69, not only affected those who knew him personally but most anyone who's been watching football over the past several decades.

«Historically, the bill for these costs has come due many decades later,» Bilmes noted in a recent study, disability expenses for WW I veterans peaked in 1969 and for WW II veterans in the late 1980s, the cost of caring for Vietnam and first Gulf War veterans is still climbing.