Sentences with phrase «something decades in the making»

It's hard to call something decades in the making disruptive.

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Whatever orthodox believers may think of Kenny's journey over these decades from classical theism to something vaguer, he is at least an equal - opportunity basher: For his aversion to absolutism can equally well be employed against the New Atheists, who affect an apodictic absolutism in their argumentation that makes them as impregnable to counterevidence as anything found in a creationist textbook.

In 1979 Mrs. Thatcher and her government began the return to true capitalism, but even after a decade of common sense reforms and rapid improvements in productivity, we calculate it will still take us another ten years or so to catch up with Germany and France, while the United States and Japan are still further beyond our reach.That is the price of trying to make capitalism do something which is not in its nature to do — promote equalitIn 1979 Mrs. Thatcher and her government began the return to true capitalism, but even after a decade of common sense reforms and rapid improvements in productivity, we calculate it will still take us another ten years or so to catch up with Germany and France, while the United States and Japan are still further beyond our reach.That is the price of trying to make capitalism do something which is not in its nature to do — promote equalitin productivity, we calculate it will still take us another ten years or so to catch up with Germany and France, while the United States and Japan are still further beyond our reach.That is the price of trying to make capitalism do something which is not in its nature to do — promote equalitin its nature to do — promote equality.

Despite my sense that making friendships after school is hard, I've been blessed with several that have lasted more than a decade, something impossible in the short space of school.

Although the present pastor was selected a decade earlier with the hope that he could do something for the young people, and elaborate schemes are made each year to involve the youth, the younger members do not participate as they do in nearby Methodist and Baptist churches.

I came up with a box of manicotti — something I'm quite sure I haven't made in a decade.

Good enough to make me start baking cookies again, something I haven't done in decades.

I think its time to do something about this, over the 2 legs, ireland were clearly the better side, that notwithstanding this particular french team is the worst i've seen in decades, and they have no bussines going to the world cup.It is time for replays to be reviewed in some cases and goaline technology to be applied in other cases, i think we human being have come of age to realise that we humans are not perfect, no matter how hard we try, so for sepp blatter to keep resisting replays and goal line technology is quite baffling to me, i can't really understand why 3 socalled officials could make a decision, a decision in which the whole world saw to be a foul, and its allowed to stand, and a nation is left, heartbroken, cheated and bitter, i am an african, but as a fan of football, i felt terrible seeing this, and i beg the question, if someone other than the team is not benefiting from this, why can't the officials be allowed to take a look at the replays in order to officiate the game better?

It was a moment the 32 - year - old had dreamed about ever since making his Toffees debut way back in August 2002 but, having had to wait after more than a decade at Manchester United, when it came it was something of a gift.

Doyle isn't the only one who thinks it all rests on the woman's shoulders, or so I learned by reading the illuminating book Making Marriage Work by Kristin Celello, newly out in paperback; I now understand why we consider marriage as something to «work» on (although it wasn't always seen that way; it used to be a «duty») and why saving a marriage is «women's work» — that's how it has been presented to women for decades.

«What resulted was overly broad legislation that would prevent the county from reimbursing any municipality in the county for any fees that are on their tax warrants, and so the response from not just myself, but the mayors of Cohoes and Watervliet and Supervisor Paula Mahan was that this legislation changing a decades - old way of making municipalities whole for their tax levies was really thrown in to complete and utter confusion and disarray, with legislative leaders saying that the legislation or the resolution meant something different than the letter of the resolution, and all of it really could have been addressed if the leadership of the county legislature had simply reached out, sent us a letter, picked up the phone to have a conversation about their concerns with respect to the trash fee.»

And these crazy ideas have suggested mainly to a change in the nature of science, [the] most puzzling observation that has been made in the last decade is that the universe seems to be full of this, something called dark energy, empty space, it's full of energy.

However, we made it in our bid to fight for customer success and to optimize for long - term — something we've been successful with for more than a decade.

Daft Punk have somehow taken influence from every decade in pop and made it into something new, as Alexis Petridis said you think the songs sound like something else until you go to your record collection to try and find it and cant.

Not only did the film make all kinds of»80s jokes and references, but John Cusack's character existed as something of a throwback to the many famous roles he had in that aforementioned decade (Better Off Dead, One Crazy Summer, Say Anything, et cetera).

But the motivating factor for the killings is rooted in something more than madness, and it affects a decision made by Diane decades earlier that has now brought that controversial decision back to haunt her.

Ray Bradbury wrote the book Something Wicked This Way Comes in 1962 and two decades later, this screenplay adaptation, which took a few liberties to make things more cinematic.

Steve Smith creator and actor of the Red Green character, has been involved in Canadian television production for decades and — much like Red Green — has learned how to make something out of nothing in the entertainment business.

This is by far the best car I've ever owned, and that's something to be said because I have just about every performance car made in the last decade.

But, these makes have yet to prove themselves in the long run, something the Accord Sedan has successfully been doing for the last four decades.

Gorgeous luxury interiors have been a significant part of Audi's success story of the past decade; the sparse A3 and now this plasticky A5 make me suspect something has changed for the worse in Ingolstadt's purchasing department.

The app is great for editing a photo to look like it's from a decade long gone or to make it seem as if something eerie is about to rise right out of the phone in your hand.

As you mention, Monkeybrain has been in operation as a publisher for more than a decade, but making the shift to comics was something that Allison and I had talked about doing for AGES.

Maybe they just made up a new term or something as nobody has ever said the words «Ordinary income account» in the two decades plus I've been doing this work.

Others say it made them feel something for the first time in decades.

Researchers have been studying dog behavior and cognition for decades, including one important study in the 1960's that showed that unless you are able to catch a dog in the act of an undesired behavior, it's unlikely that your dog will make the connection that he's done something wrong.

A combination of legal trends and the daunting prospect of keeping huge snakes has made giant pythons and anacondas something of a rarity in the past decade.

He is now, for the first time in more than a decade, making a game that he wants to make, not one that he has to, and the fact that a mind as brilliant as his is working on something that it truly cares about, and is passionate about, is incredibly exciting, to say the least.

The maze was rendered in monochrome using a fixed perspective, something that would become incredibly popular with developers wanting to make first person games on the restrictive hardware of the next two decades.

Some of us try and boot it up for the first time in decades, while others look at this brick that we played with in our childhood and make something of it.

And Elaine Sturtevant, a few months after Warhol created his first flower paintings in 1964, borrowed Warhol's silkscreens to replicate those paintings and inserted her renditions into group shows — along with her George Segal and Frank Stella look - alikes — to make Pop into something more conceptual, a decade or more before the word «appropriation» would emerge.

In the first two knockout rooms of the Whitney's show, Haskell gives us O'Keeffe's early works on paper and her uncanny ability to conjure indivisible abstract wholes in which all parts are of equal interest and never decorative — something Donald Judd made good on decades lateIn the first two knockout rooms of the Whitney's show, Haskell gives us O'Keeffe's early works on paper and her uncanny ability to conjure indivisible abstract wholes in which all parts are of equal interest and never decorative — something Donald Judd made good on decades latein which all parts are of equal interest and never decorative — something Donald Judd made good on decades later.

Scott continued to make films for several decades, like the landmark union activist documentary Nightcleaners (1972, as part of the Berwick Street Film Collective), but he achieved something of particular significance with the works featured in tonight's program.

As such, he has situated himself as something of a participant - critic in the dialogue concerning the relevance of painting in recent decades, and has made one of the strongest cases imaginable for its continuing relevance.

No amount of huge work is going to stop it now, or even in the next decade, but if we don't do something to start correcting it and making plans, life is going to be much worse.

However if we have a similar profile of volume loss as in the preceding two years then random variability looks very unlikely and I'll be veering to the following viewpoint — that something new and radical has happened in the seasonal cycle of sea - ice loss, a new factor that in principle could have the power to make a virtually sea ice free state in September plausible this decade.

Since Deming's been a major influence in the leadership and management of much of the business world for decades, and specifically in the science of decision - making (including that of making decisions about climate policy), it seems you've overlooked something.

A comparable example is the difference between being able to predict the exact value of the GDP on a given day (something determined largely by unpredictable day - to - day news) and projecting the average increase in the GDP over three decades (plausible estimates of which can be made using scenarios of long - term economic growth and ongoing innovation).

The rest of the world shouldn't be made to pay for your lack of understanding that burning something that took millions of years to create (fossil fuels) & releasing it back into the atmosphere in the space of a few decades has massive implications.

Our government does not need to be in the business of making decisions for us by giving large subsidies or tax breaks to the energy companies of their choosing, something that costs taxpayers and has not served us well over the last decades.

One can also make the case that building huggers are really treehuggers; there is a lot of life left in these buildings and you don't throw something away that can still work for decades.

Doyle isn't the only one who thinks it all rests on the woman's shoulders, or so I learned by reading the illuminating book Making Marriage Work by Kristin Celello, newly out in paperback; I now understand why we consider marriage as something to «work» on (although it wasn't always seen that way; it used to be a «duty») and why saving a marriage is «women's work» — that's how it has been presented to women for decades.

In her book The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter — and How to Make the Most of Them Now, Dr. Meg Jay writes that she believes twenty - somethings have been misled about how critical this period is.