Sentences with phrase «stories of a few decades»

It was one of the biggest news stories of a few decades ago.

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Could stand to learn a few things about becoming a recognizable name, a household brand or a leading expert like my clients who have appeared on the major national TV shows, in the most prestigious magazines, radio shows and Internet sites... and have helped sell millions of dollars worth of my clients» books, products, professional services, and promoted causes that have changed the world for the better, using popular media to tell their stories for over two decades?

Unfortunately, he apparently spent a few of those decades harassing women and covering up the stories.

The ability to find and study the remains of animals, plants and other organisms that lived millions of years ago is extraordinary, and as technology has improved over the past few decades, scientists have realized that fossils contain more information about the stories of extinct life forms than even Charles Darwin could have imagined.

At its heart, Black Panther has a fairly standard comic book sort of story: baddie Ulysses Klaue (a rare live - action Andy Serkis: Star Wars: The Last Jedi, War for the Planet of the Apes), one of the few outsiders who knows the secrets of Wakanda, and who had stolen a small quantity of vibranium decades ago, is up to no good again, with a scary dude nicknamed Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan: Fantastic Four, and both of Coogler's previous films) at his side; they must be stopped by T'Challa, Nakia, and the absolute force of nature General Okoye (Danai Gurira), with an assist from CIA agent Everett K. Ross (Martin Freeman: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Sherlock).

The source material is a novel by David Ebershoff, which plunks The Danish Girl somewhere midway between a loosely factual historical drama and a literary adaptation; besides lopping a few decades off the story, it presents Gerda Wegener as strictly straight, whereas her historical counterpart is best remembered for her lesbian erotica, full of pale young women with speck noses, tiny feet, and chicken - leg thighs.

Directing with an even more restless energy than he showed in Kings and Queen, Desplechin sketches out a family tragedy, the untimely death of a first - born, that precedes the story by decades and then only overtly references it a few times, even as the shadow of that death hovers over the film: in the cancer that family matron Junon (Catherine Deneuve) has been diagnosed with, in the fragility of her teenage grandson Paul (Emile Berling), and in the odd sibling dynamics that have caused eldest daughter Elizabeth (Anne Consigny) to, in effect, legally separate herself from her brother Ivan (Mathieu Amalric, in a mesmerizingly manic - depressive performance).

The writers who were brought on board — writers who have been responsible for Michael Clayton, Breach, The Bourne Ultimatum and Lions for Lambs, some of the greatest political thrillers of the past few decades — put together a simple, fluid and admirably neat screenplay which underplays every plot twist and allows the audience to be led by the story and enjoy the ride, rather than the expected Hollywood sucker punches.

Few comic superhero movies of the past couple decades make an origin story seem rather unlike a chore, and combat seem rather unlike a farce.

Murray points to the fact that national gains in educational achievement, particularly for those beginning on the lower end of the distribution, have been very hard to come by in the past few decades: «If we confine the discussion to children in the lower half of the intelligence distribution (education of the gifted is another story), the overall trend of the 20th century was one of slow, hard - won improvement.»

Had Mirel extended his story into the last few decades, I am sure he would also have corrected today's overly narrow view of «assimilation,» which does not require the loss of all distinctive identity, and of «multiculturalism,» which, except in its most excessive forms, also teaches appreciation of American freedoms.

In the Indianapolis warehouse, far from both his office and the schools where the suspect tests were taken, he saw clear evidence of what has become the most widespread episode of cheating ever documented in U.S. public schools, one which has diminished one of the nation's few education success stories of the past decade.

But after nearly a decade of writing annual letters, she reveals a secret that casts the events of that day in a whole new light... The recent New York Times best seller, A Few of the Girls, is a collection of Maeve's beloved short stories that one reviewer called «reminiscent of a letter from an old friend.»

We suspect we'll continue to see a steady stream of these mobile home park demolition headlines and fewer and fewer «New Mobile Home Park Development» stories over the coming decade.

You'll find lots of stories and blog posts on our site to help you maximize your rewards as you start to tackle your bucket list activities that have been on hold for a few years (or maybe decades).

Halfbrick is one of the most polific indie success stories of the last few years, having been working hard on game development for over a decade in Australia before their biggest breakout success with the now world - renowned brand Fruit Ninja, they're also responsible for modern classic arcade titles Jetpack Joyride, Raskulls and Age of Zombies.

The story of androids becoming self - aware and rebelling against their human oppressors has played out numerous times over the past few decades, but Detroit's story has particular reverberations in the context of advances of AI, not to mention TV shows and films like HBO's Westworld and Blade Runner 2049.

The story of SoHo — which was transformed from a bohemian artist's enclave to one of the most expensive zip codes in the country — has remained significant not only because of the now - iconic artworks it helped produce: in just a few decades, the area has become a retail and restaurant capital with upscale homes and hotels.

So, the scary stories you often hear from Hollywood and the media, of cities becoming flooded by several metres of sea level rise in a few decades are not based on actual data.

Study authors Greg Goldsmith and William Anderegg used the Google Trends tool to track web searches related to global warming over the past decade but found that peaks of interest in major stories, such as the release of climate scientists» emails in 2009 - dubbed «climategate» - died down within a few weeks, The Guardian reported.

By the way, this story is an awesome illustration of the point I frequently make — that is, the hubris we have of declaring some weather pattern to be «abnormal» when in fact we only have been observing climate in any depth for a few decades.

Over the last few decades, our society has transformed in how it understands and responds to allegations of sexual assault and similar offences, and the legal process in cases of sex assault has been at the centre of a series of recent high - profile news stories in Canada and abroad.

The story of the jobs market over the last few decade has not just been one of peaks and troughs; Britain's economy has been marked by wage inequality.

(TNS)-- Countless stories over the last few decades, some of which I've written, touted the wide - open office workspace — the «cubicle farm» — as an office tool to increase productivity, communication and morale.