Sentences with phrase «over the course of a decade by»

The accusations emerged from the giant scandal in Brazil involving the state oil company there, Petrobras, which was bilked for billions of dollars over the course of a decade by corrupt executives, politicians and contractors — including Odebrecht.

Unless you've been living in a cave for the better part of 2009, you've already heard the buzz surrounding Inglourious Basterds, an ultimate cinematic package filled with enigmatic performances, ultra-violent imagery, and a revisionist World War II narrative created over the course of a decade by director Quentin Tarantino.

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Over the course of a two - decade - long career advising and strategizing with entrepreneurs, I have noticed a trend, particularly amongst those driven by creativity and passion.

That means that if Blackrock's fund managers responded as the research suggests, then they would cut back the number of trades by enough so that the non-tax trading costs for their $ 10,000 account would fall by roughly $ 2,300 over the course of a decade or $ 15,000 in the case of its more actively managed European fund.

Hybels recently announced that he was stepping down early (he'd planned on retiring in October), after the Chicago Tribune published an article detailing accusations by several women of inappropriate conduct over the course of several decades.

In other news, our team seems to be rounding nicely into form, with a productive off - season and several new additions already settling in, there seems to be a renewed sense of confidence in the air... our well - oiled machine has conducted business again early this year, so we can just sit back, kick our feet up and watch all those other suckers scramble to make panic moves in the 11th hour... of course, we need to tie up a few loose ends but our team of savvy negotiators, under the tutelage of our faithful leader, will perform their usual magic with ample time to spare... I have to laugh when I look around the soccer world and see all those teams look upon us with envy and scorn as they struggle to mimic our seemingly infallible business model... thank goodness the powers that be had the foresight and fortitude to resist the temptations of the modern football era... instead of listening to all the experts and simply taking the easy way out by making the necessary improvements on the field and in the front office, we chose the path never traveled... we are truly pioneers in our field... sometimes you just have to have faith in the people that have always conducted themselves in a respectful and honest fashion... most fans aren't so fortunate, they will never know what it's like to follow a team that treats everyone in and around the club as if they were an extended member of the family... all for one I say... so when you wake up this morning, please try not to gloat when you see rival fans pacing back and forth waiting for their respective teams to pull the usual panic buys, just say nothing and be thankful that it isn't you... like I've always said, this is why you stay the course... this is when the real benefits of having someone in charge for over 2 decades really pays off... have a great day fellow Gunners

DEAR PHIL Let me tell you something: i read carefully what you say, you JON FOX and KEN 1945 since you are our «elder brothers», attending since the sixties (even if you, PHIL, are quit abusive with me, sometimes) therefore i respond to your enquiries: 1 - I believe we» r not progreessing but it's essentially due to the finincial restriction and the spending power of our oppenents (even if Wenger is RESPOSIBLE partly with his dogmatic conception of economics) 2 - Going second to sixth is not of course what we could: should achieve but it been explained by my first answer 3 - I give attention to my fellow arsenal fans, like you, what they are thinking, not to the oppenents (most of the PL clubs fans would give their lives to have a manager with the same success as Wenger over two decades, the first of dominating and the second of re-building the club after the stadium building) Now i am not against another manager if he can do better than the one we have but you must, my friend, respect him for what he has done.....

Crucially, this bombastic political culture did not arise overnight, but emerged gradually over the course of many decades — in Parliamentary posturing against the European Commission, and in paranoia over immigration whipped up by the less scrupulous sections of the tabloid press.

«I have government experience earned over the course of a decade under Democratic and Republican administrations,» Beals, 41, said by phone this week.

«I do worry that a return to selection risks undermining the progress that we have seen over the course of the last decades in our schools by throwing something else into the debate», she said.

The Republican tax proposal released yesterday would add $ 1.487 trillion to United States deficits over the course of a decade, according to an evaluation by the Joint Committee on Taxation.

A deeper dive into the media coverage found that depictions of mass shootings by individuals with mental illness increased over the course of the study period, from nine percent of all news stories in the first decade to 22 percent in the second decade.

Under these conditions, a disproportionately rapid retreat of summertime sea ice in the central Arctic Ocean over the course of the next few decades, followed by its complete disappearance — depending on how quickly CO2 levels rise — roughly 250 years from now, is to be expected.

The fragments are carried away by the water and deposited elsewhere, where many of them grow and form new colonies over the course of decades and centuries.

El Niño is a weather pattern characterized by a periodic fluctuation in sea surface temperature and air pressure in the Pacific Ocean, which causes climate variability over the course of years, sometimes even decades.

«The half - degree estimate was the offshoot of a series of papers over a decade by the scientists, research that proved pivotal in the evolving understanding of the ties [Kigali agreement], of course it feels great that people are using your work,» he says.

And even if we assume it's accurate, when we consider that pH naturally rises and falls by about + / -0.5 over the course of a single decade, this means that natural changes in seawater pH occur at rates 100s of times faster than the trend attributed to anthropogenic CO2.

In another study which followed thousands of men in the course of a decade, scientists found that the men who ate more than three meals a day were 15 % more likely to increase their weight by 10 lbs over the decade.

The good news is both diseases typically develop over the course of several decades, giving ample time to reverse the progression that leads to both diseases by following a healthy diet and supplement routine — which includes adequate levels of these important vitamins.

So says Hans Feurer, the septuagenarian Swiss lensman, who has turned his admiration for beautiful women into a genre - defining career, all while embracing his irrepressible wanderlust and hunter's sense of adventure, living a life that is the stuff of literature: over the course of five decades, Feurer was almost crushed by a hippopotamus, spent time in a Malawi prison and lived a high - rolling life while working in advertising at the height of one of London's most fabled decades.

The Pentagon Papers are being exposed by the New York Times, detailing the plans for and failure of intervention in Vietnam over the course of decades.

It helps too, of course, that moviegoers around the world have embraced the superheroes unequivocally they've met over the last decade (key to long - form, serial storytelling regardless of genre), reducing the need for long, drawn - out, character intros and giving plot, plot driven by action and spectacle, the predominant, primary role.

Over the course of the film, she is scrutinized and stereotyped by a detective, who informs her that she's worked with «people — sorry, women like you» for decades, and excised from the narrative of Orlando's life by his ex-wife, who bars her from the funeral, omits her from his obituary, and deems their relationship a «perversion.»

: For all of the body parts that Stephen King has torn asunder in his numerous books and film adaptations, it's ironic that two of the most beloved movies ever about male bonding come from his book «Different Seasons» — a «Body» that spawned the CSI Our Gang of «Stand By Me,» and the prison breakout that lay behind «Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption,» Wisely shortened to the last three titles by writer - filmmaker Frank Darabont, this 1994 classic of an unbreakable man slowly chiseling his way out of a Maine hellhole over the course of decades stands as not only the most soulful film in an understandably macho prison break genre, but also as a film that many rightfully consider to be one of the best movies ever madBy Me,» and the prison breakout that lay behind «Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption,» Wisely shortened to the last three titles by writer - filmmaker Frank Darabont, this 1994 classic of an unbreakable man slowly chiseling his way out of a Maine hellhole over the course of decades stands as not only the most soulful film in an understandably macho prison break genre, but also as a film that many rightfully consider to be one of the best movies ever madby writer - filmmaker Frank Darabont, this 1994 classic of an unbreakable man slowly chiseling his way out of a Maine hellhole over the course of decades stands as not only the most soulful film in an understandably macho prison break genre, but also as a film that many rightfully consider to be one of the best movies ever made.

Of course, we've already seen plenty of would - be kid - friendly franchises fall by the wayside over the last decade or so, but «I Am Number Four» promises more action than most — and if there's one thing Caruso knows how to do, it's keep you on the edge of your seat with a well - timed set piece or twOf course, we've already seen plenty of would - be kid - friendly franchises fall by the wayside over the last decade or so, but «I Am Number Four» promises more action than most — and if there's one thing Caruso knows how to do, it's keep you on the edge of your seat with a well - timed set piece or twof would - be kid - friendly franchises fall by the wayside over the last decade or so, but «I Am Number Four» promises more action than most — and if there's one thing Caruso knows how to do, it's keep you on the edge of your seat with a well - timed set piece or twof your seat with a well - timed set piece or two.

n 1999, M. Night Shyamalan took Hollywood by storm with the supernatural thriller «The Sixth Sense,» but over the course of the past decade, the writer / director has slowly fallen out of favor with many of the same critics who once hailed him as the next Alfred Hitchcock.

In this study, we address these questions by taking an in - depth look at funding differences between and within Texas school districts over the course of a decade, from the 1993 — 94 to 2002 — 03 school years.

She said: «For me, I do worry that a return to more selection risks undermining the progress that we have seen over the course of the last decade in our schools, by throwing something else into the education debate rather than focusing on every school offering an excellent education.»

But in many places, including Los Angeles, Oakland, North Carolina, Oregon and Boston, the more than $ 2 billion spent by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation over the course of a decade didn't move those cities close enough to Gates's goal of 80 percent graduation.

With a sustained focus on these efforts over the course of more than a decade, the district's black - white achievement gap narrowed by 29 percentage points between 2003 and 2009.

Instead, as we have been told many times by many individuals over the course of many decades (a few fingers might have been wagged in our face in the process) the most important thing about a Beetle convertible is its ability to transport you to a place where the handbags and shoes are all snappy, every car has a steering wheel with a white rim, and a young woman feels as if she's the star of her very own fashion photo shoot in the south of France — or California, at least.

Possibly the most mythologized method of travel, the train is celebrated in Starlight on the Rails, a collection of duotone photographs taken by a skilled group of artists over the course of five decades.

That rose by a mere $ 79 (4.6 per cent) over the course of the next decade, with the average carrying cost hitting $ 1,777 in 1990.

By refinancing to a 4 % interest rate, which might not even be the lowest available if you have terrific credit, you can save about $ 150 per month in interest and nearly $ 18,000 over the course of a decade.

«It was effectively a paradise for a zoologist, and then over the course of a decade we were getting less and less in our traps, until by about 2000, 2010, we were coming back with almost nothing.»

A few of the games on the list have been lovingly crafted by small teams and even individuals over the course of a decade or so.

Over the course of the last decade — two gaming generations — and ten main series entries, this venerable franchise, once adored by fans for its re-imagining of some of the most tragic and triumphant events of the Second World War, became little more than a frat boy gadget-fest where K / D ratio is king, and to the gulag with everything else.

Though with the game now being over a decade old, nostalgia of course will be present, but Galaxy is one of those games that actually feels like a timeless classic, and not something that simply feels rose - tinted by nostalgia.

Artist Gary Card gives Prince a proper tribute by showcasing the evolution of his hairstyles over the course of more than three decades.

Over the course of six decades, Johns's art evolved toward more personal imagery, inspired in part by his interest in Munch.

This quality is engendered by the particular monotype technique that Brown has employed and honed at Two Palms, where she has worked over the course of the last decade.

Yet the photos by Stephen Hilger, Joseph Lawton, Paul McDonough, and Sergio Purtell were taken over the course of four decades and are not thematically linked beyond technical approach.

At that time, and largely due to the foresight of Gallery benefactor A. Conger Goodyear - who donated more than two hundred and fifty works over the course of nearly four decades and who, in 1929, went on to become the first board president of The Museum of Modern Art in New York - the institution began to acquire significant works by innovative artists.

Organized chronologically and by series, Andy Warhol: Prints establishes the range of Warhol's innovative graphic production as it evolved over the course of four decades, with a particular focus on Warhol's use of different printmaking techniques, beginning with illustrated books and ending with screen printing.

The partnership includes the loan to the Museum of major paintings by Mark Rothko from their private collection; paintings will be loaned individually in rotation over the course of the next two decades.

The exhibition at the Museum features thirty - four quintessential works, many large in scale, from among the hundreds created by Wardlaw over the course of more than six decades.

The Hernan Bas exhibition presents 38 works collected by the Rubell family over the course of a decade, and represents each of Bas» series completed thus far.

The exhibition will bring together over 100 works by Sherman created over the course of four decades.

«Assembled over the course of five decades by the noted art collector Edmund de Unger (1918 — 2011), the Keir Collection is recognized by scholars as one of the world's most geographically and historically comprehensive, encompassing almost 2,000 works in a range of media that span 13 centuries of Islamic art - making.»

Refined over the course of four decades, Richard Diebenkorn's body of work is distinguished by an effortless elegance that disguises the complexity and sophistication of its creation.