Sentences with phrase «taken decades ago»

One of the more striking aspects of «Cuba, January 1981,» Martha Rosler's exhibition of photographs that were taken decades ago from behind the Caribbean iron curtain and are now on display for the first time, is how, to paraphrase Matthew McConaughey's famous line in Dazed and Confused, while the rest of the world has aged, Cuba more or less remained frozen in a continuous revolutionary moment.

Although you are aware that these photographs were taken decades ago, standing in front of them now it seems not much has changed.

by: Leslie Postal Orlando Sentinel September 23, 2015 Florida teachers have about a week left to apply for a $ 10,000 bonus program that has exasperated many because eligibility hinges on their ACT or SAT scores, even if those college - admissions exams were taken decades ago.

The one - semester - hour course I took a decade ago, had 4 required textbooks.

If this approach had been taken a decade ago, perhaps today's policymakers would be delivering measures that cut CO2 in line with a certain probability of avoiding dangerous warming.

This time director Jordan Vogt - Roberts is aiming almost exclusively for amusement park thrills after Peter Jackson's high gloss, Very Serious take a decade ago.

Rob: In fact if you had read my original post carefully, I didn't make any specific claim about WHICH isotope data was the basis for this conclusion; I was referring to a class I took a decade ago, and browsing AR4 a few years ago.

Not exact matches

Will financial services companies wish they had taken a different path all those decades ago, when superannuation nest eggs looked so attractive?

Her journey, which happens to take place in the 90s, showcases how hard it was to be an LGBTQ + teen two decades ago.

When it began expanding globally more than a decade ago, some of those partners «took local tastes a little too far,» according to Don Fertman, Subway's chief development officer.

Wolters Kluwer's stock price has doubled since she took charge a decade ago, and the firm has returned half of its cash to shareholders in 2015 in the form of dividends and share buybacks.

Before taking the helm at Foxwoods two years ago, the industry veteran spent over three decades working in hospitality industry.

More than two decades ago, Ross Drever took over the world's first Gloria Jean's Coffees franchise.

During the economic boom a decade ago when private equity firms were enjoying sky high valuations, they also took money from sovereign wealth funds in Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Singapore, and China.

Yet, as a country, we are probably more vulnerable than we were a decade ago because we failed to take seriously the most important lesson of the crisis: the dangers of housing mania and the perils of household debt.

A decade ago, Nintendo took a big risk with its Wii game console, which emphasized easy - to - play, fun games rather than fancy graphics, and it paid off.

«Four decades ago, I took an oath as a newly commissioned officer.

Taking into account opportunity cost (i.e., lost salary during business school), the total cost today grows to ~ $ 242 thousand vs. $ 149 thousand a decade ago.

«The U.K.'s airspace was designed decades ago and doesn't allow us to take advantage of the technology on board modern aircraft that would raise capacity, and also reduce emissions and noise for communities on the ground.»

An individual's full genome can be sequenced today in a few hours, for $ 1,000 — the first genome sequencing took 13 years and cost $ 3 billion, and that was merely a decade ago.

More than a decade ago, Joey Wat at Yum China, was given the chance to take on a massive career challenge that had a high risk of failure — and her decision led Wat into the role she has now.

A decade ago, when Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz introduced Mellody Hobson to DreamWorks Animation SKG (DWA) chief Jeffrey Katzenberg, it took Katzenberg five seconds to decide that he wanted Hobson on his board of directors.

Take the underrepresentation of women among tech entrepreneurs together with an overwhelmingly male VC population (with their presumably dude - heavy networks and natural affinity for the types of companies that speak to men) and the result has been dismal amounts of investor dollars going to female founders — less than five percent just a decade ago.

FORTUNE — A decade ago, the biggest challenge for retirement savers was resisting the urge to take one ride too many on the stock - market roller coaster.

Over a decade ago, this meant being the home page on every internet browser - but more recently, it's taken the form of internet browser market share (Chrome), mobile OS market share (Android), owning the dominant video platform (YouTube), and even venturing into your dwelling with Google Home.

We began planning for this reduction (and also SS taking a hit) decades ago by pouring a lot of money into our small farm.

But it was Google that prompted real estate brokers, landlords, city officials and economists to sit up and take notice of the burgeoning tech sector a decade ago.

The Wildrose movement took root more than a decade ago, composed in part by disaffected Tories who felt the PCs had abandoned their commitment to fiscal conservatism and grassroots consultation.

It was just a decade ago that millions of Americans took full advantage of no doc mortgages.

Goldman Sachs has earned a reputation for taking risks in trading complicated products as a main player in the subprime mortgage derivatives that created an international financial meltdown a decade ago.

The economy has made a near - full recovery since almost a decade ago when the housing downturn took its toll.

Take, for example, the behind - the - scenes story that preceded the entry of the first African - American player to major league baseball more than six decades ago.

My wife framed a poster decades ago, Take time» picture of a daddy holding a kid.

I do want to add here some basic facts, the article the following is taken from is using facts from the past decade not from 2000 years ago... these facts are what matter now, not that book written by sheep herding men who probably enjoyed the company of their herd (thus the term bestiality??)

Even the chanting monks at the Sant «Antimo abbey are imports — a French brotherhood that took over the church a decade ago.

A church service called the U2charist would seem like liberal Protestantism at its worst: take music from a band that was cutting - edge over two decades ago, sprinkle some religiosity on top and try to reach hip younger people.

Several decades ago, the CDF revised the Profession of Faith to be taken by those identified in Canon Law.

After being contacted for an interview this week about the on - the - record accusations of sexual misconduct — encounters that took place over a decade ago — Louis C.K.'s publicist, Lewis Kay, said the comedian would not respond.

^ =, you almost make me think I could be a believer (of a sort) again — that's the sort of gospel I was looking for when I got hooked into evangelical, charismatic Christianity long ago (and took many decades to leave)...

China, which took over six decades ago, accuses the Dalai Lama of being a separatist.

Being a bigoted heterosexual, I understand his disgust — it took me a while (decades ago) to see behind it.

An opinion that would have been considered a self - evident absurdity and only laughed at a decade or two ago is now taken seriously because it can be exchanged for a high price in outrage» outrage both from those who agree and those who disagree» which is the media's coin of the realm.

Again the other day, one runs across an article that observes in passing, as though it is taken - for - granted knowledge, that the conservative trend in our political culture reflects Americans» rejection of the civil rights movement of three decades ago.

As a victim of anti-Semitism decades ago that killed many members of my own family, I oppose their message and the terror and attempt to take away freedom that they represent.

We were taken over by traitors decades ago.

He doesn't, it's Satan who is running wild in this country because GOD has been taken out of public places and prayer has been taken out of schools etc., when you take GOD out, you let evil in... this nation hasn't learned that yet... there will be more tragedies like this or worse unless GOD is bought back into every facet of the public as he was decades ago when prayer was allowed in school, the commandments were made visible and even on our money his name was present — BRING GOD BACK!!

Up to three or four decades ago, the practice of devotion per se was taken for granted by Catholics.

The fact that theology is a representation of ourselves and our selfish desires is the basis of something I've said since I left ministry nearly two decades ago: «If given the choice between discussing theology and getting punched in the dick, I'll take the punch in the dick.

Decades ago I saw a Scandanavian pine thingey on the Cape that I couldn't take my eye off.

George King, the founder of Appetizer's And, Inc., took a shot on Collias more than two decades ago.