Sentences with phrase «several decades of your life»

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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.

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.

During his three decades as CEO of Starbucks, Schultz launched several initiatives aimed at bettering the lives of employees.

For the past several decades, Asia Pacific has been a region of remarkable growth, economic dynamism and rising living standards.

Conoco's president of West Australia, Chris Wilson, described Barossa as «a leading candidate to extend the life of the Darwin LNG facility for another two decades» but noted that several options are still being assessed to «backfill» the plant starting in 2023, when Bayu - Undan is expected to be exhausted.

The detection of melanoma at its most curable stages can result in decades of high - quality life saved, versus the treatment of this terrible disease at late stages, which offers several months of life extension, at best.»

This post looks at how we know we are living in a new Reformation, and seven of the changes that we can expect to see within the next several decades.

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.

J. W. C. Wand, an Anglican theologian, wrote several decades ago that «it is actually possible to regard transfiguration as the fundamental idea in the Christian religion and as placing in a nutshell the whole story of the individual Christian life as well indeed as that of society as a whole.»

The Sisters of the Most Holy and Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary have owned the property for more than four decades but have not lived in the convent for several years.

The United States over the next several decades will face serious economic difficulties and an erosion of living standards even without an all - Out collapse of the world economy.

Writing in 1982, after a decade in which the church as a whole had pursued the inner mechanisms of congregations, several sociologists reported as follows: «We share the conviction that in recent years congregational analysis has over-emphasized the internal dynamics of congregational life and has failed to sufficiently account for the influence of the social and ecological context of the church's inner life.

Though evangelicalism had always been an element in American religious life and had been growing in strength for several previous decades, it was the candidacy and election of a self - proclaimed «born - again» Southern evangelical as American president which brought the phenomenon to widespread public attention.

Most of us have only several decades left to live.

The invaders were called Amorites («Westerners») and for centuries they dominated the life of the Fertile Crescent, with city - states firmly established at such sites as Haran (from whence came Abraham, 11:31), Ugarit, Mari, and Babylon, which was ruled in the decades around 1700 by the renowned Hammurabi, Ugarit and Mari, among other ancient sites, have yielded profuse contemporary information of several kinds.

In the early days of the federal War on Poverty in the 1960s, researchers provided three - and four - year - olds from impoverished Ypsilanti, Michigan, with enriched preschooling, and then compared their life trajectories over several decades with those of Ypsilanti peers who had not received any early childhood education.

Given the current non-marital birth rates and trends, millions of American children over the next several decades will live in families headed by single mothers.

What happened to his wife during those two hours, McCrea and several other notable concussion researchers say, is a microcosm of what has happened in American living rooms throughout the past decade as public perception and media discourse have altered the conversation surrounding concussion.

Over the last several decades, more and more research has suggested that experiences in early life — even prenatal life — can have a disproportionate influence on the development of personality and physical and mental health.

There were scars from minor surgeries, other skin flaws I get for the privilege of living several decades, hairs that don't belong there, and flesh movement that reminded me of Bill Cosby commercials.

In the last several weeks, the governor has made multiple moves on criminal justice reform, announcing that he would overhaul solitary confinement in state prisons as well as conditionally pardoning individuals who committed a non-violent felony or misdemeanor at the age of 16 or 17 and have lived a law abiding life for a decade.

The project is the first new building in the Larkin District, a stretch of Buffalo that runs along Seneca, Van Rensselaer and Hydraulic streets, in several decades and follows a development partner that has seen several historic structures brought back to life with new ownership and investment dollars.

In this study, male cells were found in the brains of women and had been living there, in some cases, for several decades.

Living several decades longer than its shallow - water relatives, Escarpia laminata has the longest known life span for a tube worm, aging beyond 300 years, researchers report in the August Science of Nature.

During the past several decades, the number of live births to women in their early 40s in the United States has increased steadily.

Big bluestem grass can live several decades, so prairie restoration projects will need to consider the form of plants that would thrive at a site several decades into the future, researchers said.

They indicate that particulates are the greatest current environmental risk to human health, with the impact on life expectancy in many parts of the world similar to the effects of every man, woman and child smoking cigarettes for several decades,» says study co-author Michael Greenstone, the director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) and the Milton Friedman Professor in Economics, the College and the Harris School.

«After several decades working on the discovery of the avian Tree of Life, it is still amazing what we are discovering!

Patients with advanced or metastatic melanoma have been able to live longer cancer - free lives because of several new therapies approved over the last decade, such as BRAF and MEK inhibitors.

The five - episode limited series based on the novels by Edward St. Aubyn spans several decades of Patrick Melrose's (Benedict Cumberbatch) life that included physical abuse from his father (Hugo Weaving), a mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh) who did nothing to stop it, alcoholism, drug addiction, recovery, marriage, and fatherhood.

From there, we go through the next several decades, learning of Chips» life, love, and marriage to Katherine (Greer Garson).

Apart from several live recordings of older classics, which feel unnecessary on an album that highlights Clark's late - career work, this collection is a testament to the spectacular consistency of quality and depth in Clark's songwriting genius even as he struggled through declining health in his final decade.

A delightful film about the gossip - filled lives of a group of women in Louisiana (ostensibly set in the year of its release, 1989, though often it seems to be several decades earlier), Steel Magnolias is lovely, with a very fine cast led by Sally Field and featuring Olympia Dukakis, Shirley MacLaine, Dolly Parton, Julia Roberts and Daryl Hannah.

By referencing war and using a multi-tiered narrative that frames several decades of storytelling, Anderson is at the middle of point of his life, considering the uncertainty of the world.

What would be standard rom - com fare was elevated by the period - perfect details, color - coordinated costuming, life - on - the - town montages, and settings that resembled movie sets of several decades earlier, when every cinematic New York apartment had a terrace.

One of the most influential voices from the past two decades of American cinema, it's funny to think that Anderson was endorsed by Martin Scorsese way back in the day when the «Mean Streets» director co-signed onto his then little - cared - for debut «Bottle Rocket» several years before Anderson would blow up into a cultural phenomenon (that wouldn't be until around «The Royal Tenenbaums» and «The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou»).

Not to be confused with Roger Ebert's documentary Life Itself, this feature film stars Oscar Isaac and Olivia Wilde as a couple, and spans several decades of time examining passionate relationships and other interactions connected by a single «random moment.»

WHAT: Set over the course of several decades, the film tells the real - life story of Robert Kuklinski (Michael Shannon), a devoted husband and father of two who secretly worked as a contract killer for the mob, murdering more than 100 people before finally being arrested.

Several decades after the Sexual Revolution swept across the United States (and around the world) during the late 1960s, it's all too easy to gloss over just how earth - shattering a change the movement for greater feminine freedom made in the lives of so many women and their families, and to women's roles in society.

Callow youths may learn something from it that could change their lives even if they are lucky enough to have several decades ahead of them.

Film Stars is based on the 1987 memoir by British actor Peter Turner, who was several decades Grahame's junior, and who became her romantic partner and caretaker in the final years of her life.

The most striking, even shocking, feature of the sociological (and to some degree economic) literature in the several decades following Moynihan's report is the sheer lack of interest in the question of what the breakdown of the family among the poor, which no one could deny was occurring, might mean in the lives of those involved.

When we get down to the very basics of human life we find that we arrive to take a ride on spaceship Earth for several decades and then we leave.

I also know as a woman I may live to 100 and that several of those decades will be on my own.

Over the past several decades the typical conventional standard of practice is to give puppies and kittens multiple viral vaccinations every few weeks starting as young as 3 - 4 weeks of age, up until 4 - 5 months old and then repeating that practice every year of the animal's life.

Experienced: We have several hundreds of hours of education in dog behavior and training, and a decade of experience helping dogs and their people live better lives..

There are several types of moss commonly found on the market: I carry basic whole moss (a standard of horticulture decor for decades), frog moss, which can come back to full life when hydrated and can flourish given slowly dripping water and cooler temperatures, and my favorite, New Zealand sphagnum moss.

While smaller species like canaries and finches may live only a few years, some of the larger parrots can live several decades.

Threats of gang violence permeate the third play in August Wilson's series about the lives of African - Americans over several decades.

I would also like to mention that during our 4 day / 3 night hike, we encountered several other hikers along the trail who were with various other tour companies (some of which I had researched prior to booking with Active Adventures), and were told several stories about various mishaps and / or negative experiences they were having with their tour leaders... perhaps we lucked out with our fantastic tour leader, but I definitely do not regret for a second my decision to ring in the third decade of my life with Active Adventures!