Sentences with phrase «stand up to a decade»

Help us draw on the talent of a variety of professional musicians to create an enticing score that will stand up to a decade's worth of play.

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Not that I'm complaining, as HBO has been a friend to stand - up comedy for decades.

The veteran senior exec, who's clocked up a decade at the company, also as its VP of engineering, is the latest stand - in for CEO Mark Zuckerberg who keeps eschewing repeat requests to appear.

On Sundays, decades later, I still stand with my hands raised up, my spine straight, my ribs wide open, letting the music run right through my veins, grounding me to the place where I am right now.

As the Nazi's raised hell in the Holocaust in Europe in the 1930s and early 40s, his holiness Pius XII stood silently by... Fast forward to the epidemic of priestly pedophilia, covered up and stone - walled for decades by the Holy See.

In that moment when Jimmy Stewart, standing there holding Juju and her petals, smiles that magnificent whole body smile of his and somehow manages across seven decades to communicate to us on a level so deep that the first recognition comes not in cerebral cognizance, but through the base reactions of our own bodies — as our eyes well up and our cheeks flush and our hearts grow; in that moment we know — to our marrow — that life really is wonderful.

For decades, seeing a quality stand - up comedy show meant getting fancied up, going to a local comedy club, seeing a nationally touring headliner and buying at least two menu items.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

How cld we be that negative while we have bn patient for over a decade??? if we do not win anything this season then pple will know my true negativity.it's time to stand up and be on the right side of the club's history!!!

More like this... Sevilla's 2006 UEFA Cup triumph England's U21 epic Ireland - Scotland in 1986 Galatasaray win historic UEFA Cup Benzema and Nasri among 2004 vintage Trezeguet sets up Juve for Madrid win Chelsea's 2005 title winners a decade on When Benfica beat Mourinho's Porto When Monaco stunned mighty Madrid Barcelona silence Madrid at the Bernabéu Ronaldo's Old Trafford standing ovation Liverpool's Istanbul heroes Juve snatch last - eight spot from Werder Batistuta ends Roma's long title wait When Ajax overcame 3 - 1 loss Italy survive to reach World Cup final Maradona's Napoli reign supreme, 1989 When Paris beat Barcelona's dream team

Snap shot: Galatasaray win historic UEFA Cup Snap shot: Benzema and Nasri among 2004 vintage Snap shot: Trezeguet sets up Juve for Madrid win Snap shot: Chelsea's 2005 title winners a decade on Snap shot: When Benfica beat Mourinho's Porto Snap shot: When Monaco stunned mighty Madrid Snap shot: Barcelona silence Madrid at the Bernabéu Snap shot: Ronaldo's Old Trafford standing ovation Snap shot: Liverpool's Istanbul heroes Snap shot: Juve snatch last - eight spot from Werder Snap shot: Batistuta ends Roma's long title wait Snap shot: When Ajax overcame 3 - 1 loss Snap shot: Italy survive to reach World Cup final Snap shot: Maradona's Napoli reign supreme, 1989 Snap shot: When Paris beat Barcelona's dream team

Dean shares about his own experience of not paying taxes for nearly two decades and of standing up to government thugs and even...

If the current administration and Democratic Congress won't stand up against a corrupt system and even attempt reform, attempt structural change or pull us back from the last 3 decades where BOTH parties have moved firmly to the right, they're part of the problem.

Miliband will argue that any reforming politician must deal with doubts about the ability of politics «to address the long - standing pressures on work, family and people's sense of fair play that has been piling up for decades».

«New Yorkers need a Mayor who will stand up to Donald Trump and put forward an honest solution to our city's decades - old homelessness problem.

In a statement signed by the organisations Executive Director, Adetokumbo Mumuni, SERAP called on the Federal Government to «stand up to powerful oil companies that have continued to abuse the human rights of the people of the Niger Delta with impunity for decades if it is to satisfactorily resolve the crisis in the region.»

It ignores the facts - that illicit tobacco has been in sustained decline for more than a decade, and that the claimed relationship with health measures like plain packs or tax hikes do not stand up to scrutiny.

When appropriate, he has stood up to board members and management who have run the co-op for decades with little opposition.

So over decades, I had read all sorts of stories about people who had gone out into the wilds and explored the unknown, and I thought that if we could just focus on the central experiences of their lives, I could condense all sorts of stories into just chapter length tales and put a bunch of them together, sort of show the whole arc of the discovery of the idea of evolution and really where we stand today, right up to very recent things like Neanderthal DNA and the discovery of some recent transitional fossils.

This sent me on a decade - long mission to learn how to stand up straight, and it wasn't just because I wanted to look better.

March 18, 2015 - After decades of shoot»em ups, it's difficult to create one that stands out in the modern age.

Lumley, an actor for five decades, said she had no personal stories to tell, «but I can't tell you the admiration I have for the people who have stood up and the heartbreak for people who felt there was nobody to turn to.»

Picking up an award from the London Film Critics» Circle, Winslet said, «there are directors, producers, and men of power who have for decades been awarded and applauded for their highly regarded work... As women around the world and from all walks of life marched last weekend, once again joining together to speak out against harassment, exploitation, and abuse, I realised that I wouldn't be able to stand here this evening and keep to myself some bitter regrets that I have about poor decisions to work with individuals with whom I wish I had not.»

Professional jackass Johnny Knoxville and Patton Oswalt, widely regarded as one of the best and most transgressive stand - up comedians of the last decade, have signed on to co-star in The Catechism Cataclysm director Todd Rohal's latest film, an outlandish yet poignant comedy about a pair of battling brothers who attempt to honor the memory of their ailing father by taking a troop of boys on a camping trip that goes wildly wrong.

He hops in his private jet and holes up in the Woodcliff Lake Hilton in Jersey while he writes his first music in decades and tries to make things right with the son who was conceived decades earlier in a one - night stand.

Finally, «The Manhunt for Whitey Bulger» (1:01:38) is a self - standing, TV - ready true crime documentary about the 2011 capture of Bulger and the decades of searching leading up to it.

This touching tale that riffs on classic horror history is easily Tim Burton's best film in over a decade, and Martin Landau's science monologues as Mr. Rzykruski made me want to stand up and cheer.

Ghibli refuses to stand pat, recently undergoing its biggest senior - management shake - up in nearly a decade.

After a decades - long stand - up career and multiple canceled shows on the liberal talk - radio network Air America, in 2009 Maron was at his professional bottom, unsure where to turn next.

Remarkably for someone who hasn't directed a film for more than a decade, it's very good indeed, fully deserving of the six Oscar nominations it received last week — including a slightly unexpected but no doubt very welcome Best Director nod for Gibson himself — and standing up to comparison with Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima and even Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter.

«I'm proud to be wearing black to stand in solidarity with the women who have been doing the work for social justice for decades,» said Washington, a member of Time's Up, on the red carpet.

He began performing stand - up in Los Angeles comedy clubs in the 1980s and continued to perform through the rest of the decade and throughout the 1990s when he would also branch off into some acting work (with roles in films like Ski Patrol and Fatal Instinct).

Israeli military and intelligence sources attribute their failure to predict Hamas» ability to stand up to punishing military strikes to a decision in the last decade to focus the country's intelligence resources on gathering tactical intelligence and its military on ensuring weapons and training superiority rather than on understanding the enemy's strategy, mindset and evaluation of the local and international environment in which it operates.

If he was talking about four - year degrees, we will have to increase degree attainment rates by 1 percent a year over the next decade among the population of 25 - to 34 - year - olds just to pull even with the current leader for that age group (Norway), and no one expects the rest of the world to stand still while we try to catch up.

It was the culmination of decades of oppression; countless incidents of people who recognized and courageously stood up to the fact that «separate but equal» statutes were not working; and many years of unsuccessful court challenges.

Over a decade ago New York City's mayor, Michael Bloomberg, and its most powerful union boss, Randi Weingarten, had a showdown over the handling of teachers who weren't... Continue reading NYC Is About To Send Hundreds of Troubled Teachers to Struggling Schools, and Nobody is Standing up for ChildrTo Send Hundreds of Troubled Teachers to Struggling Schools, and Nobody is Standing up for Childrto Struggling Schools, and Nobody is Standing up for Children

Since the folks at Motor Trend managed to test a brand new 1967 GT500 in late 1966 — nearly two decades before Automobile first hit the news stands — we have some data to stack up against the latest Shelby GT500.

But the Swedish brand has drifted and strayed so much from its core brand image for more than a decade as its ownership careened between Ford and its present owner, Chinese automaker Geely, that's what it will stand for in the future as it ramps up to build cars in the U.S. is anyone's guess.

I won't list all the other activities we have carried out across our businesses over the last decade, but from events and print and digital mail - outs, to promotional materials and adverts — and having an author dress up as Lord Lucan and stand on a plinth in Trafalgar Square — we have never been shy about trying absolutely anything to get our books noticed.

The household debt - to - income ratio now stands at 169.4, up 23 per cent from a decade ago, and on par with what the U.S. saw at the peak of its housing bubble.

Paul Cannella, president and founder of PoopBags.com, discusses how his company continues to stand out in the pet industry more than a decade after it first innovated the pick - up bags category.

Written over three decades ago, USDA regulations mandate that a breeding female dog have a cage at least six inches longer than the dog herself and that she be able to stand up and lie down in it.

I stood up to see what else the night had to offer when a gray - haired man of about 70, sitting with a man a few decades younger, glared at me and said, «Young kids like you think they know everything.

It's designed to stand up to rental traffic and remain beautiful for decades.

Some applauded him for taking a stand for something he believes in, while others wondered if it was a stunt to cover up for his less - than - stellar play on the field for the San Francisco 49ers after leading the team to the Super Bowl nearly half a decade ago.

Historians have argued that the work stands as a precedent both for the artist's own performances in the 1960s and for the explosion of performative work in that decade.20 Paul Schimmel astutely places Automobile Tire Print on a trajectory of performative works based on the notion of capturing an indexical trace, reaching back to Pollock's drip paintings, moving up through Rauschenberg's blueprints, and on to Piero Manzoni's Lineas (1959 — 61), Paul McCarthy's video Face Painting — Floor, White Line (1972, fig. 5), and Ulay and Marina Abramovic's 1977 performance Relation in Movement, in which they drove a van in a circle for sixteen hours, leaving a circle of oil drips and tire marks on a public plaza in Paris.21

Stop and meditate on what's behind military warfare dynamics (specially in US's past decades history), and what side do you want to stand up for on this.

LOS ANGELES — A Shape That Stands Up at Art + Practice (A+P) gallery, in partnership with the Hammer Museum, claims to «[examine] the space between figuration and abstraction» — a great starting point unless you have the sneaking suspicion that this space disappeared decades ago.

No politician today is likely to stand up and tell Americans what it might really take to reduce our own CO2 output by 80 % in the decades ahead, to say nothing of also reducing our CH4 emissions by a similar amount.

In many cases, they use an empty field as their starting point, ignoring the fact that to set up a cedar farm you may have to raze a stand of enormous trees that would otherwise have stored large amounts of carbon for decades.