Sentences with phrase «of generations ago»

It's different than it was a couple of generations ago, when you bought a home, planted roots, and you were going to be there forever.

A couple of generations ago, these felt rather sharp on the palm of your hand, so this is a welcome improvement.

A Lesson in Skepticism A couple of generations ago (1938) a prominent citizen of Monroe was confronted by his frantic wife, «I have heard on the radio that the Martians are invading.

Moving back to 2D combat was the best move for Mortal Kombat after some clunky efforts at 3D play from a couple of generations ago, as it has allowed the team to focus on linear combos and giving the attacks a brutal characterisation behind them.

There are some games that I just wished I'd played a couple of generations ago when they first released.

BMW's 3 Series infamously lost the sport sedan plot a couple of generations ago by coddling the premium car crowd, leaving the tiny enthusiast segment with an opening big enough to accommodate everything from the Cadillac ATS to the Jaguar XE to the Alfa Romeo Giulia.

We've known for years that GM has benchmarked BMW steering, not in its current models but from a couple of generations ago, cars like the E46 - chassis 3 - series and the E39 5 - series.

Do you realize that what passes for a children's movie today would be considered something bordering on tragedy a couple of generations ago?

A couple of generations ago we may have met people through our local friends and families too, but as we grow older many of our friends get married and lives become distanced and separated and unfortunately our local communities are not as close as in previous decades, leaving us more reliant on using introduction services.

If you go back a couple of generations ago, women knew they could still have children until menopause.

Just a couple of generations ago, people ate real food, in this country, we can do it again here.

The benefits infrastructure of a generation ago was not built to accommodate the reality of work today.

Time, in short, to say that this is a moral issue every bit as compelling as the civil rights movement of a generation ago, and every bit as demanding of our commitment and our sacrifice.

The English preacher of a generation ago, G. A. Studdert - Kennedy, put this truth in unforgettable words when he wrote:

Moms of a generation ago were often sent home from the hospital with a pamphlet (i.e..

That doesn't mean the moms of a generation ago didn't, it just means we have more information at hand.

Child rearing practices of a generation ago were not as child - centered as they are today.

There's a wonderful story about Jimmy Durante, one of the great entertainers of a generation ago.

The result, though, is a chamber which is completely different today, in character and composition from that of a generation ago.

The modern diet is also deficient in omega - 3 fatty acids compared to that of a generation ago because modern farming methods have the effect of increasing the amounts of omega - 6 and oleic acid in vegetables, fruits, fish, eggs, grains and legumes, while decreasing the amount of valuable triple unsaturated omega - 3.

The modern diet contains large amounts of omega - 6 fatty acids compared to that of a generation ago, because high omega - 6 oils from soy, corn, cottonseed and safflower have been introduced into the food supply.

KW: What do you think of today's black kids having a higher high school dropout rates than those of a generation ago?

Acting Out Could Be Sign of Stress Children today live with more uncertainty, stress, and trauma than those of a generation ago, leading many to act out in school.

That's more than on a good German car, but a lot less than on any diesel of a generation ago if you're counting.

Speaking of the brakes, they feel very much like those of a generation ago hybrid system, somewhat wooden and lacking the more blended and natural feel of say, the new 2016 Prius.

Chevrolet calls this a small pickup truck in some advertising, but it is nothing like the Chevrolet - Ford - Mazda - Nissan - Toyota truly compact pickups of a generation ago.

The «stigma» of indie is that whole vanity press issue of a generation ago.

We accept that a public university education should result in a debt that will take half a lifetime to pay off when such a thing was unheard of a generation ago.

It's much easier to picture people like Briffa or Jones as high school teachers than as Oxford dons of a generation ago.

Even the grid of a generation ago could handle big supply and demand shifts, Goggin pointed out.

Its combined 46 pages (imagine the Minnesota Supreme Court of a generation ago expending that kind of ink on a statutory construction case) attest to the influence of textualism in today's legal culture.

Not exact matches

They began the Celebration Arts Academy a year ago with a desire to use their talents and experience to mold the next generation of entertainers.

The acceptance of the notion that global oil demand will peak within a generation is mind - blowing given that, just a decade ago, the chatter in the energy world was about a coming peak in oil supply.

If you look back at those technicalities and the various user interfaces, whether it was chat, AI or voice, you can actually see that these bots have become a lot more powerful, as opposed to what they were capable of doing a generation ago.

What's far less certain, of course, is whether the go - go members of the next Canadian establishment will be exposed to the sort of tech bubble meltdown that waylaid a generation of dot - com entrepreneurs 15 years ago.

Unlike a generation ago, when workers frequently stuck with one company for the majority of their careers, if not their entire career, now people switch jobs frequently, Cook says.

A year ago, the Ontario Power Authority announced 180 renewable projects representing 2,400 MW of generation capacity, enough to power a sizeable city.

Two years ago, the house, constructed from untreated woods and equipped with water - saving laundry equipment and compact lighting, was the subject of a story in the Burlington Free Press under the headline «Greenhouse» — which raised the hackles of many hard - core Vermonters, including more than a few former Seventh Generation employees.

True, many things are cheaper to buy than a generation ago, but the big - ticket items like shelter and post-secondary education are taking a much bigger bite out of household budgets today.

Smith started Vice as a print magazine with Suroosh Alvi and Gavin McInnes in Montreal more than two decades ago; with Smith at the helm as CEO, it's now a multi-platform content mill with a reported audience of between 250 million and 300 million people a month, many of them members of Generation Y. Smith made his money by convincing an older generation that Vice knows millennials better than they could ever hope to, and that pitch has worked: Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox paid US$ 70 million for a 5 % stake of Vice in 2013, and Rogers Communications (which owns Canadian Business) inked a $ 100 million paGeneration Y. Smith made his money by convincing an older generation that Vice knows millennials better than they could ever hope to, and that pitch has worked: Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox paid US$ 70 million for a 5 % stake of Vice in 2013, and Rogers Communications (which owns Canadian Business) inked a $ 100 million pageneration that Vice knows millennials better than they could ever hope to, and that pitch has worked: Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox paid US$ 70 million for a 5 % stake of Vice in 2013, and Rogers Communications (which owns Canadian Business) inked a $ 100 million partnership.

The way most Americans pay for college — a patchwork system of loans, grants, and scholarships from colleges — was largely created generations ago, when fewer people went to college and when the pri...

The industry largely disappeared a generation ago when Schwinn, Trek, Huffy, and other American brands moved most of their manufacturing offshore in the 1980s and»90s.

With many people having long ago converted to the wireless N standard of Wi - Fi, which has better speed, throughput and range than its G predecessor, the next generation of the technology is already on its way.

While Bhakta says that in the earliest days of launching WhistlePig, he toyed with the idea of building a spirits company to sell, he had long ago decided to keep WhistlePig in the family and run it for generations.

And the bulk of that growth has been at the upper end of the market: Over the past five years, reports the Distilled Spirits Council, sales of «value» bourbon — priced below $ 15 — have grown just 13 %, while super-premium bourbons, the category that Elmer T. Lee pioneered a generation ago, are up 97.5 %.

Eclipse Inc., a third generation family owned company founded in Rockford, Illinois 106 years ago, is a global leader in the manufacture of gas combustion components and systems for industrial heating and drying applications.

Just a few years ago, Raj Rajaratnam and Rajat Gupta were two of the most admired business luminaries from the «twice blessed» generation of South Asian immigrants.

by Jeffrey Sommers and Michael Hudson A generation ago the Chicago Boys and their financial supporters applauded General Pinochet's anti-labor Chile as a success story, thanks mainly to its transformation of their Social Security into Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) that almost universally were looted by the employer grupos by the end of the 1970s.

«Five years ago, MaRS set out to build a platform upon which the next generation of technology companies could scale,» said Dr. Ilse Treurnicht, CEO, MaRS Discovery District.

Although the first wave of boomers became eligible for early retirement under Social Security about six years ago, the generation still constitutes about one - third (31 %) of the workforce, similar to percentages for millennials (33 %) and Generationgeneration still constitutes about one - third (31 %) of the workforce, similar to percentages for millennials (33 %) and GenerationGeneration X (32 %).