Sentences with phrase «of times long past»

It presumes you can compare modern scientific consensus with the patently non-scientific consensus of times long past.

Built upon layered interactions, a Wabi Sabi aesthetic idealism, and a rich, broken world of times long past, Fragile Equilibrium invites the player to reflect on their play, their world, their nostalgia, and themselves.

This isn't just an 8 - bit imitator of times long past, Shovel Knight is a true successor to the heritage of the NES.

The entire sequence of Blade Runner 2049 set in Las Vegas is arguably worth a shout out, from the dusty, orange haze hiding decrepit statues of times long past to the initial confrontation between Ryan Gosling's Agent K and Harrison Ford's Rick Deckard, but the climax of the sequence is where Villeneuve and Roger Deakins truly shine.

So I went ahead, collecting official records and sending out countless inquiries, to which the most usual answer was, «I wish I could help you, but I have no letters, and only a few memories of times long past.»

Yet he suggests that such joys are merely relics of a time long past.

Polly Yates culls old photographs from flea markets around Berlin and cuts and weaves abstract forms that force the viewer to come closer and view a fragmented shape interwoven with what once was the representational image of a time long past.

Not exact matches

The vote followed a long day of drama and discord on Capitol Hill that highlighted fraying Democratic unity and featured an uneasy alliance between President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, enemies in past budget battles but on the same side this time in pushing for passage.

This past summer, the record - setting 11 - time World Surf League champion realized a long - held aspiration to helm a designer surfwear startup with the launch of Outerknown, which joins a growing wave of apparel brands and retailers embracing sustainable philosophies.

But as we approach the eighth birthday in March of the second - longest bull market in modern times, recency bias can lull us into a false sense of security, especially given the very good returns of the past three or four years.

Rupert's son James, however, who is CEO of family holding company 21st Century Fox, argued that it was long past time for O'Reilly to leave, in order to try and mitigate some of the longer - term damage done by the allegations and the advertising exodus.

It's long past time we kept track of everything that's coming in from students and faculty and staff, and everything that's going out.»

Buffett's long - time investment partner Charlie Munger responded that IBM is a wonder company and that many of Berkshire's best investments have had reversals in the past.

While it is disappointing that compliance in the realm of cybersecurity practices needs to be regulated, we're long past having time for emotion here.

And while NerdWallet emphasizes that past market performance doesn't guarantee you'll earn the average historical return of 10 % in the future, the value of investing in stocks over a long period of time is still significant.

As a long - time fan, I actually quite enjoyed this year's installment, Call of Duty: Ghosts, more so than the past few releases.

Manning's streak of 210 consecutive starts came to an end this past weekend when then - head coach Ben McAdoo benched the long - time New York Giants quarterback in favor of former New York Jets draft bust Geno Smith.

I don't know exactly what's going to happen, but simple math based on the current level of interest rates leads me to believe that these risk premiums will be much wider in the future over longer time frames than they've been in the recent past.

Interestingly enough, it's actually so simple, and so straightforward, that it would have helped almost any investor make quite a bit of money over the past couple of centuries regardless of market conditions provided he or she had a long enough time horizon.

As broad market conditions have been eroding over the past month, subscribers of The Wagner Daily newsletter who have been following the signals of our market timing system should be quite happy now because they would have been out of all long positions of individual stocks just a few days before last Friday's (October 19) big decline, thereby avoiding substantial losses and the pain that is now being felt by traditional «buy and hold» investors right now.

Numerous times in the past, a cluster of distribution days after an extended rally, combined with the suddenly poor performance of individual leadership stocks, has been enough to prompt us to exit long positions within just a few percent of a market top (check out this actual such example from mid-2012).

Because that large negative force is now essentially past, it is no longer masking the sources of strength that have been at work elsewhere in the economy for some time, particularly the growth in output and employment that is being driven by our growing service sector.

If the speculative bubbles and crashes across market history have taught us anything (particularly the repeated episodes of recklessness we've observed over the past two decades), it's this: regardless of the level of valuation at any point in time, we have to allow for the potential for investors to adopt a psychological preference toward risk - seeking speculation, and no amount of reason will dissuade them even when that speculation has already made a collapse inevitable over a longer horizon.

A company's reputation is earned by consistently doing the right things over a long period of time, and we are pleased that our programs and initiatives continued to earn recognition during the past year.

I have been critical of the Globe «s business reporting practices in the past (especially its tendency to quote Bank economists as «objective» observers of economic events) but on Saturday, it ran one of the best business pieces I've read in a long time.

«It is long past time for Facebook to separate the roles of company CEO and Chairman,» Connor continued, «and for Mark Zuckerberg to resign or be fired.»

One of the most important is the transition we're making from promotions built around a construct that features 1 or 2 specific dishes, which worked well for a long time, but has grown increasingly less effective over the past 2 years to a promotional construct that's built around a culinary or value theme and highlights several dishes or one or more menu categories.

As an aside to this, we have argued in the past that the premium of BTC over BCH should shrink over time; as long as BCH offers lower transaction costs and faster transfer speeds, we believe this trend should continue (or rather resume).

They employ three distinct methods to measure long - run abnormal returns: (1) calendar - time three - factor (market, size, book - to - market ratio) portfolio alpha; (2) three - factor alpha in event time; and, (3) returns in excess of those for control stocks matched on size, book - to - market ratio and six - month past return.

Is a cost - effective solution for short - term projects and business cycle peaks Boosts corporate presence on campus Develops a long - term sustainable recruitment strategy, as you can fill full - time roles with past Co-op students Students are pre-screened and go through a competitive application process Contributes to the development of the future work force Supports continuous learning

Martin Feldstein, a long - time euro skeptic, in this month's Foreign Affairs magazine made the point this way: «During the past year, Germany had a trade surplus of nearly $ 200 billion, whereas the other members of the eurozone had trade deficits totaling $ 200 billion.

The following weekly chart shows that the total speculative net - long position in Comex gold futures hit an all - time high in July of 2016 (the chart only covers the past three years, but I can assure you that it was an all - time high).

Featuring Tony Joe, a man with many titles including: past president of The Victoria Real Estate Board, host of The Whole Home Show, long time Victoria Realtor, real estate coach and president of The Asian Real Estate Association.

The average length of the last 13 bull markets was about 1,500 days, making the current phase two - times longer than average.2 However, the market has a long way to go to extend past the longest bull market on record that started in 1987 and ended in 2000, lasting nearly 4,500 days.

It was frustrating getting push - back on market size from investors, and somehow we knew if we suspended disbelief just a little longer we'd have a breakthrough... it just took time to see past the initial thrill of making money to the even bigger opportunity.

This leaves them without enough money to sustain the living standards of recent years — and they no longer can wipe out their debts by declaring bankruptcy as in times past, because Congress has passed the harsh bankruptcy law that credit - card and bank lobbies paid them to pass.

Even long - time employees we know and love can be capable of employee theft, and handling it correctly can at least ensure the damage doesn't go much past what's already gone.

Looking back through history, whenever value stocks have gotten this cheap, subsequent long - term returns have generally been strong.3 From current depressed valuation levels, value stocks have in the past, on average, doubled over the next five years.4 Not that we necessarily expect returns of this magnitude this time around, but based on the data and our six decades of experience investing through various market cycles, we believe the current risk / reward proposition is heavily skewed in favor of long - term value investors.

First - level thinkers tend to view past price weakness as worriesome, not as a sign that the asset has gotten cheaper» Howard Marks «Money always chases performance, so it tends to mostly show up after you've done really well for a long period of time, probably ten minutes before you're about to look really silly» Chuck Royce

«Today Cardinal Dolan had the long - awaited opportunity to talk about his decision nine years ago in Milwaukee to publicize the names of priests who had abused children and how he responded to the tragedy of past clergy sexual abuse of minors, during the time he was privileged to serve as archbishop of Milwaukee,» Joseph Zwilling, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of New York, said in a written statement.

Instead, he presents his proposal in the terms of a labor - union manifesto: «It is long past time for faculty members to rise above narrow self - interest, give up the doctrine of academic exceptionalism, and agree to the same terms of employment as everyone else in the workforce.»

Plus all long range views are also looking into the past to earlier and earlier periods of time WITHIN our universe.

To have ALWAYS existed, without any definite time of starting in the past, this «life» period of radioactive elements long ago would have run its course.

His long - neglected daughter Florence yields «to the impulse of her affection, timid at all other times, but bold in its truth to him in his adversity, and undaunted by past repulse,» and she tries to comfort him.

Particular past experiences, especially if they were emotionally intense, continue for a long time to affect the emotional tone of subsequent occasions.

to Jake, in every era or times in the past, humans have different perception of reality, because our knowledge improves or changes toward sophistication, For example during the times of Jesus, there was no science yet as what we have today, since the religion in the past corresponds to their needs, it is true for them in the past, but today we already knew many new ideas and facts, so what is applicable in the past is no longer today, like religion, we have also to change to conform with todays knowledge.The creation or our origin for example is now explained beyond doubt by science as the big bang and evolution is the reason we become humans, is in contrast to creation in the bibles genesis,.

Cordwainer Smith's «The Dead Lady of Clown Town» begins in a time when Christianity is no longer even a name, since the Church expired in the ancient, unknown past.

The attitude of Western man to linear time is, generally speaking, naive; time is seen as an infinitely long straight line on which the individual can mark such past and future events as he can ascertain.

It can not know an Angst that derives from a longing for the God who is the transcendence of Being, and it will be free of a nostalgia for a sacred time that is irrevocably and finally past.

It's long past time to be free of the nonsense.