Sentences with phrase «people each year seems»

The fact that air pollution from the burning of coal kills millions of people each year seems not to bother them, nor does the climate change damage from the burning of fossil fuels.

Not exact matches

Most of these ruminations are just a few pages long — the longest are six pages — and nearly all seem to be brimming with eye - opening factoids: «Between 2003 and 2012, natural disasters killed an average of 106,654 people per year.»

It's a concept that seems to resonate — more than 1 million people have visited the site since it launched in 2013, with 30,000 participating in forums around the topic of divorce and 2,500 couples expected to use the platform this year.

Since most people who haven't been to Burning Man seem to be confused by what it actually is, here are some photos that sum up my trip two years ago.

Yet to my withered hippocampus, a story I wrote two years earlier often seems the work of some other person; the knowledge I gathered in authoring it has ebbed away.

«There is just less fear from people who feel like they might lose their jobs... Our shoppers seem more confident than they did a year ago,» said Reed, 63, whose chain of four stores clocked a roughly 10 percent jump in sales from Thanksgiving to this week, compared to the year before.

Most people seem to think we're in a full recovery, gas prices are down, and more Americans travelled this Memorial Day weekend than have travelled in the past few years.

But what most people seem to have missed is that this year's Berkshire (brk - a) letter also contained some of the best investment advice the Oracle of Omaha has ever written down.

The annual flu «season» to which we've acclimated seems benign compared to that incident — and yet it infects millions of people each year and kills thousands.

It seems inconceivable that management behaved this way and got away with it for so many years because as today's leaders know, the most knowledgeable employees about a process are usually the people who perform it everyday.

As I creep toward that omni - present 40 — an ambivalent milestone I'll hit next year — I can't help but notice that I seem to see fewer and fewer of the people I used to consider close.

Seven years ago the idea of appealing to people who were so unable to digest cow's milk that they couldn't eat their Wheaties didn't seem like a great way to generate buzz or business.

«That gut - wrenching, heartbreaking statement is a reminder of how we felt in the wake of Sandy Hook on December 14 a year and a half ago when it seemed like we were on the verge of potentially legislation that would stop the madness and end the insanity that has killed too many young people, thousands, tens of thousands since Sandy Hook,» Blumenthal said.

These days it seems that people everywhere are more conversant about money and investing than they were just a few years ago.

But there's really no other feeling I've experienced like standing on stage in front of thousands of people who are there to see you, who seem so genuinely thrilled, singing lyrics you wrote in your bedroom years before.

«It might seem like I built my business overnight, but what people don't know is that on the marketing side, It took me years of building a network of food writers, chefs, magazine editors, and other people in the industry,» echoes Luuvu Hoang, founder of Txiki Plaka restaurant.

For him it's a straightforward thought experiment: For people living 100 years from now, «what are they going to see that seems barbaric or abhorrent or just completely wrong?»

Finding ways to calm nervous investors may seem like a good idea after the high emotion of the past two years, but the notion may lose its appeal once the market recovers and advisers revert to analyzing numbers, not people.

I also didn't want to bug our neighbours because we seem to be surrounded by people who don't eat cookies (and they're not just saying that; one neighbour bought a box from us last year and I recently saw it still sitting in her cupboard!).

Usually, the shoes were about $ 1,000 to $ 2,000, but when you considered that she made upwards of 20 % of that person's salary for the first year, suddenly those extravagant shoes seem downright reasonable.

One caveat that people seem to forget, your Roth IRA account needs to be opened for 5 years before you can pull contributions.

Your understanding of Mintz seems to be 100,000 person - years of employment spread over seven years (i.e. 14,300 jobs per year).

There seems nothing to be done about banks impoverishing people by extortionate credit card rates, junk securities and a debt burden so heavy that it will require one bailout after another over the next few years.

The following year, her boss wrote: «You seem to be all over the place taking direction from other people and make extra work for yourself that is not necessary.»

If senior managers take off for three or four weeks each year and don't seem to stress over it too much, the people who work for them won't either.

This is a subject that's been hotly debated over the years, but the most recent data seems to suggest that organic click - through rates (the percentage of people who see your entry in SERPs and click through to your site) does have a direct and significant bearing on the ranking of your site.

Over the years, these people say, Pishevar seemed to take a liking to Geidt, following her around at company events, and at times placing his hand on her leg or lower back.

«One woman, who had been in and out of prison for about 29 years, found support through the app and told me that for the first time it seemed as if there were people who cared,» said Wasilewski.

At this point, the vast majority of people my age — being honest, the dividing line seems to be around 45 years old — roll their eyes and, in a perfectly rational manner, argue that a currency is usually boring and backed up by meaningful institutions such as central banks.

For those who are already employed, things seem hopeful that with earnings rebounding from 2008 and less people to pay, 2009 could be a big year.

(Even the relatively serious denominations in which I've spent the past 10 - 15 years can't seem to produce demanding and engaging Sunday School curricula for young people.)

Like other atheists has often said: People does not seem so troubled about the billions of years of nonexistence before their birth, but most are very anxious about death and the probable nonexistance after that event.

it's comical how religion can take a person with little more than a grade school education — and elevate their mind to the level where they literally believe they can argue subjects for which they are so completely ill - equipped — that virtually everything they posit seems as if it's coming from an 8 year old child.

It seems to me they have much bigger fish to fry like: The Taliban treating women as less than human, stoning people to death, 60 year old men marrying teenage girls, cutting off an 18 year old girl's nose because she left her abusive husband (see TIME magazine a month ago), destroying over 125 schools because girls attend, suicidal Islamic fanatical cowards on every continent killing thousands of INNOCENT people, and these clowns are worried about their precious Koran being burned by a nutjob.

You forgot to mention the hundreds of thousands of innocent people that die every year from disease, natural disaster and such, then that Yahweh guy doesn't really seem to give a flying F.

But it makes me CRAZY when people still, after more than 100 years, seem to refuse to accept that Mormons and Polygamists are not the same thing.

Seems people have been doing that for years and years and all they end up doing is killing each other...

Still, it seems like a racist comment you'd hear years ago how blacks all look alike and I think people should be more offended by that suggestion.

Ten years later, the need for discernment seems no less great, for in every generation the story of Peoples Temple seems to be repeated in some way, leaving in its wake a grieving and confused community of families, friends and loved ones.

To the German people, stunned by the war and the consequences of defeat, their former optimism shattered and spent, shuddering to contemplate the debt - darkened years of the future, Barth in the phase of his dreadful insight into the futility of all search for security must seem a veritable Jeremiah, and his teaching an evilly perfect rationalization of their indigence and perplexity.

So is that what appeals to these people the old ceremonies are cooler than the 80's and 90's christian bands that seem so last year.

But as the spirit continued to work behind the scenes (she's a sneaky little sucker) and within a few years, both brands seemed to have lost their original luster and spaces began to emerge where more people began speaking out — e.g., see the fury over Driscoll's Real Marriage (2012) and Phyllis Tickle's Great Emergence Memphis speech [birthed @emergentdudebro meme](2013).

As logical as it seems to stay away from teachings that cause such debilitating fear (so much so that the thirteen - year - old me created escape plans for the inevitable AntiChrist Army that would march down our street to shoot me after the rest of my family had successfully been raptured), it would be even less logical to believe that God would create a group of strange people created to be forever distanced from Jesus because we can't know Him in the right way.

I looked up the Toni Morrison quote, which seemed to be taken from a profile in The Guardian: ««I'm writing for black people,» she says, «in the same way that Tolstoy was not writing for me, a 14 - year - old coloured girl from Lorain, Ohio.

The problem was that NO ONE ELSE seemed to «get» how destructive this person was in the marriage, and for years afterward.

For example, the concept of an ancient earth seemed incomprehensible to people 500 years ago.

The fact that AA has grown from one person to over 375,000 in thirty years would seem to be ipso facto evidence that it is very effective in producing initial as well as long - term sobriety.

KIM: When I get around people who are 10, 15, 20 years or more younger than me, I am recognizing something in them: It just seems like they have this really incredible ability to see through everything.

I mean, John Calvin really seem to enjoy torturous methods to get people to fall in line, and in his later years, Martin Luther seemed to be quite literally stark raving mad judging by some of what he wrote.

A lot of the people I was running along on the treadmill with seem to have jumped off lately (as did I a few years ago).