Sentences with phrase «over decades of living»

For example, I don't have a huge garage where I can store tools and the kind of stuff that people horde over decades of living in a house.

«I spent over a decade of my life working at the issue [of prison reform], including half a decade at the NAACP, and yet here you have a former inmate turned entrepreneur who's been able to bring relief to almost a quarter of federal inmates in just a couple of years,» Jealous says.

If you look back over every decade of your life, what do you notice you constantly impart?

She suspects that the dying muscle cells release the killer protein, triggering a slow domino killing effect that picks up speed over decades of life.

They should also meet Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, a 12 - year old force of nature, who has already seen too many climate - driven fires in his backyard in just over a decade of living.

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Additionally, the number of people who report having a close confidante in their lives has been declining over the past few decades.

The event immediately killed dozens and scarred the lives of tens of thousands of people over the ensuing decades.

It took her a couple of minutes to get over the shock and start recognizing faces, says Ezon, but the crowd included family and friends from all walks of life, some of whom she hadn't seen in decades.

While a lot has changed in the business world over the past several decades, the fundamentals of building a strong business have not, Branson notes: «The principles are the same and still fit what I am good at: finding markets that need shaking up, coming up with ways to make people's lives better, then finding brilliant people to bring it to life.

Here's the likelihood that a person has been married at least once at some point in his or her life for every year of age over the past few decades:

The memory - eating disease, expected to afflict 15 million Americans by 2060 (and tens of millions more around the world as life expectancy increases), has no cure; a new drug for the condition hasn't been approved in well over a decade; initially promising experimental treatments seem to be failing with clockwork regularity; and there's not even a definitive consensus on what, exactly, biopharma companies should focus on while developing Alzheimer's medicines.

Over the past few decades in the U.S., wages have remained stagnant while the costs of building and living in housing has steadily risen.

Piles of research over the last two decades has shown that emotional intelligence is likely the single most powerful success factor yet discovered, affecting everything from your performance at work, to your mood and the quality of your personal life.

As tax revenues have shrunk, the city's financial obligations have grown — mainly to an ever - expanding pool of 30,000 retirees, promised life - time pensions and health benefits by short - sighted government officials over decades who consistently failed to fund those future obligations.

Much of the truly negative sentiment toward the building has dissipated over the last several decades, but it continues to strike a chord with many Poles, especially the older generation that lived under Soviet rule.

Over the past two decades — since the mainstreaming of the Internet and the fall of communism — the twin forces of rapidly advancing technology and globalization have been reshaping every aspect of life.

Among them is the service's high operational tempo over the last three decades, enticements from private industry, and frustration with elements of Air Force life.

Over the past decade and a half, they and the major insurers have snapped up most of the biggest properties — OMERS bought Brookfield Place in Toronto four years ago, for example, while London Life and Great - West Life jointly spent $ 382 million on Calgary's Gulf Canada Square in 2007 — and today are believed to own almost 90 % of downtown Toronto's commercial space.

Over six decades of public life, Lee preached, berated, pontificated and counseled not only his own people but also those of other countries, whether the advice was solicited or not.

The rising cost of living may be partly to blame, particularly in the spending categories, like health care, that have increased the most over the past decade.

Every popular social media has already passed one decade of its life so the honeymoon period is over and the regular life sets to begin.

Higher productivity growth, sustained over a few decades, would have a profound impact on future living standards, but to expect an economic boom of anything but the short - lived variety is to rely on arithmetic that doesn't add up.

However, because you're stretching your repayment period over two decades or more, you'll likely pay more in interest over the life of your loan.

As we covered before, extending the loan over 30 years might result in lower monthly payments, but ultimately you will be paying more in interest over the life of the loan as that principal balance takes up another three decades to wipe away.

For instance, during the third quarter of fiscal 2014, as we were constructing our first Shack in Chicago, we unveiled six interactive life - size sliding puzzles with illustrated pieces that celebrate Chicago landmarks, while revealing the burgers, hot dogs and frozen custards that Shake Shack guests have enjoyed over the past decade.

Research that I have done over the past decade suggests that a chemical messenger called oxytocin accounts for why some people give freely of themselves and others are coldhearted louts, why some people cheat and steal and others you can trust with your life, why some husbands are more faithful than others, and why women tend to be nicer and more generous than men.

Younger family members with long lives ahead of them can «stretch» mandatory withdrawals over many decades, preserving tax deferral and increasing the ultimate value of the account.

Four - in - five say US made wrong decision in voting to removing internet protections April 4, 2018 — While the internet has grown in scale, influence and importance in the lives of most everyone on the planet over the past few decades,

For nearly two decades, Miles has given hundreds of live presentations throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania in over 20 countries, over 45 cities and 15 universities.

For more than a decade, Miles has given hundreds of live presentations throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia in 15 countries, over 45 cities and 12 universities.

Our experience as one of the fastest growing companies in the country over the past decade gives us a unique perspective, and the TiLT training program is grounded in real - life, practical examples of what works and doesn't work in today's incredibly tough sales environment,» said Henry Schuck, CEO of DiscoverOrg.

As Stelios now lives between the Principality of Monaco and the island of St Barthelemy (aka St Barts) in the French Caribbean, he has invested over the last decade in a substantial real estate portfolio in these two locations.

Raising the growth rate of the economy by 0.3 per cent (the difference between the underlying productivity growth rate in the 1990s cycle and the average of the earlier cycles) makes little difference over a year or two; over a decade or two, however, the cumulated effect on living standards is substantial.

We have seen many early stage VC shops and Angel Groups move out of the early stage life - science sector over the past decade and in particular the past 3 - 4 years.

The study has been stretching back over the past few decades, and following the lives of 1500 intellectually «gifted» people.

She cuts through the two decades of self - deception, bullying, and patronizing since the so - called Sexual Revolution established its tyranny over American social life.

These numbers compare with 69 % of all people surveyed who «believe there is solid evidence that the average temperature on Earth has been getting warmer over the past few decades» and 57 % who «believe humans and other living things evolved over time.»

Embrace the limitations of the medium — these actors aren't growing any younger — and give us a living, breathing universe that grows in unpredictable directions over the next decade and beyond.

These general observations on the universal dilemma is not a wonder or thunder of a day but a simmering trend slowly hotting up, with lucent forces of life and darker forces of death clashing over the decades.

Will traditional marriage follow the path of preborn life — an issue moving from judicial activism and socially elite proclamations that a generational shift was «inevitable» and «the debate is over» to our day decades later where the youngsters are more right minded about abortion than their parents.

Violence between Christian farmers and Fulani herdsmen has claimed thousands of lives across Nigeria's central states over the past few decades.

And over the past couple decades, I think we are finding out the real story... have faith in yourself and live a life of simple Karma... it works...

We could argue that their books were written by several different authors over a period of several decades, all of whom had competing interests and goals, most of which involve self - advancing propaganda and fictional tales of the supposed author's life and ideas.

Most of the people I've encountered over the last decade who work for relief and development organizations tell me of a watershed transformation that happened in their lives.

It's no secret that JAY - Z has been one of the most influential artists in the hip - hop industry for over a decade, but Jay has really been making moves for social justice lately, especially for the Black Lives Matter movement.

She doesn't make much of his personal failings or, as Mr. Ceaser puts it, the way he's made his living over the last decade.

Clashes between the mainly Muslim Fulani ethnic militants - groups of semi-nomadic herdsmen and Christian farmers has claimed thousands of lives across Nigeria over the past few decades.

The nation over the past two decades has lived through a period of its greatest partisan fluctuation, with the presidential majority having changed party hands four times, the House three times, and the senate twice.

That they bring us, indeed, not Jesus «as he was» in some simple objective sense, but Jesus as he was remembered and therefore to some extent interpreted, in the generations immediately following his life is one of the surest results of biblical study over many decades.

As I look over the last couple decades of my life, it is when I am studying, teaching, and writing about Scripture that I feel most content, most fulfilled, most at home, most connected with God and with who He made me to be.