Sentences with phrase «than a generation later»

But less than a generation later (1488) the Cape of Good Hope was reached, and in 1497 Vasco da Gama sailed round it to India.

Yet more than a generation later, the two parties are still battling it out in court over alleged undisclosed assets.

Not exact matches

Perry said that the U.K. was committed to phasing out unabated coal - fire power generation «no later than 2025,» and hoped to inspire others to follow suit.

For example, of the millennial respondents, 45 percent say they chose a more expensive home than they'd planned, compared to 30 percent of «Generation Xers» — those born from the early 1960s to late 1970s — and 19 percent of baby boomers.

Japan's Nintendo said it will release a short video later on Thursday of the next - generation game console it plans to launch globally in March — an announcement that sent its shares up more than 4 %.

From one perspective Isabella McCann may exemplify the desires of a new generation: idealistic and committed to changing the world perhaps more so than any generation that preceded it since the late 1960s.

Many baby boomers in their late 50s and 60s expect to keep working longer than their parents» generation, but studies show they're hoping to do it on their own terms.

The fact that in western Europe between a tenth and a fifth of each generation never married, combined with a relatively late average age at marriage for women, implied that fertility levels were normally lower than in other societies.

Unfortunately, most startup businesses require some form of debt that many millennials just don't want to take,» she said, adding, «Millennials tend to do things later than previous generations — like marriage and kids — and I don't think entrepreneurship is an exception.»

Classifying the current digital generation as «asset light» which frees space, time and money, top venture capitalist Mary Meeker in her latest report said this cycle of tech disruption is materially faster and broader than prior cycles.

Millennials are having children later than previous generations.

But ten years later, the price would be four per cent lower than it will be under continued fossil fuel generation.

Indeed, there is evidence that the founding generation itself expected later generations to apply provisions through a process of interpretation broader than just reliance on the original understanding.

Indeed, Millennials are significantly more unaffiliated than members of Generation X were at a comparable point in their life cycle (20 % in the late 1990s) and twice as unaffiliated as Baby Boomers were as young adults (13 % in the late 1970s).

this just shows that the world is getting weirder by the day... the pope is right, the world is experiencing amnesia nowadays... people especially in the west tends to have this amnesia coz they believe that they can live without God... they believe that they do nt need Him coz, they still able to survive... BUT what they do nt realize what these are all temporary... just look at the crisis going on right now... maybe God is still a mystery coz only FAITH can conquer mystery... can anybody out there lead me to any person who can create simply a tree, a true living tree... we know for sure that there are some who can create furnitures out from a tree... im really bothered that the world will end sooner than later... GOD FORBIDS... history just keeps on repeating itself... what a pity for the small children and the coming generation...

No later generation has held Jesus in higher regard — however different have been the terms used to express it — than Jesus» own generation, the generation of Paul, did.

It may be, as was said above, that at the time of Jesus the practices of the scribal profession were less fixed than two generations later, and it may also be true that Jesus was less bound by forms than other rabbis.

It still means that revenue generation / cost cutting needs to happen regularly in the future so we can expect high paid players (Terry, Lampard and Cole) to be leaving sooner rather than later.

The risk of developing age - related macular degeneration is much less in the Baby Boom (1946 - 1964) and later generations than in earlier generations, for unclear reasons.

Skeen explains that although new diesel vehicles are cleaner than ever before, some of the latest generation gasoline engines emit as much particulate matter as older diesel engines.

The results suggest that women born in the 1980s and 1990s are not just getting married later; they are on pace to stay unmarried at rates substantially higher than previous generations.

After four years, or 2100 algae generations later, the scientists concluded: The cells of adapted populations divided considerably faster than the non-adjusted when exposed to ocean acidification.

But it is even better than that because to go from generation to generation in the human world is either nine months or 21 years, depending on who you talk to; you've got to get pregnant; you've got to buy baby clothes, the whole thing; the kid goes to school and then college and a couple of decades later, you've got a new generation.

This latest - generation RoboBee, which is 1,000 times lighter than any previous aerial - to - aquatic robot, could be used for numerous applications, from search - and - rescue operations to environmental monitoring and biological studies.

Mass cytometers analyze cells labelled with antibodies (or other markers) conjugated to metals, rather than fluorochromes, in a mass spectroscopy - coupled flow cytometer, also known as a CyTOF (latest generation units are known as Helios).

If the recipients of LRPs and early career awards are successful at the next stage of their careers, the average age of physician - scientists should begin to decrease during the next decade (that decrease in age may not be dramatic, however, since research careers now begin later in life than a generation ago because of lengthened training requirements).

If a problem does seem to run in the family, knowing it sooner rather than later can help other family members and future generations lower their risks.

With a longer life expectancy than previous generations, I can get married later in life and still end up celebrating our 45th wedding anniversary.

People tend to marry later in life than previous generations, so when they decide to settle down, they may no longer have access to the social communities of their younger years, such as college, universities, night - clubs, raves and evenings on the town with school friends.

«Throw in the fact that people now get married later in life than ever before, turning their early 20s into a relentless hunt for more romantic options than previous generations could have ever imagined, and you have a recipe for romance gone haywire.»

Very similar to what we've been playing the last few years, F1 2014 is a game that needs a generation leap sooner than later.

Not only is his latest directing gig actually worse than «Let's Go to Prison» (which also co-starred Will Arnett), but it confirms my suspicions that — with the exception of Andy Samberg — the current generation of «Saturday Night Live» players is the least talented group of comedians in the history of the show.

Of course, most people going into the film will know that Wallace would kill himself 12 years later, but rather than spend its time foreshadowing that event, Ponsoldt is more interested in the meeting of these two literary minds and examining the struggle of Wallace to retain his normalcy in the wake of being deemed «the voice of a generation» by seemingly everyone around him.

Maybe they're just coasting through the early years of this generation, shifting their major investments into a mid or late - mid gen release of a console that will perform significantly better than competitors, while timing it so Sony / Microsoft can't respond well?

A wonderful portrait of a family, we get three generations (the little kids here play a larger role than in most of Ozu's later films, Good Morning excepted) dealing with Hara's matrimonial issues.

Mercedes says that the latest generation S63 saves more than 100 kg of weight over the previous model, thanks to lightweight forged AMG alloy wheels, lightweight lithium - ion battery (following on from the SLS Black series) as well as the # 7090 optional carbon - ceramic brake package.

The 5 Series is still ahead of the pack when it comes to sharp dynamics, comfortably out - performing both the Mercedes - Benz E-Class and Audi A6, but if we were to put our hyper - critical BMW fanatic hats on, it's evident that Munich has skewed the overall set - up slightly more towards comfort than outright handling excellence in the latest generation.

The latest generation is wider than ever; gaining more than an inch of breadth compared to a new Carrera 4.

The latest generation is of Lotus Exige is longer and wider than the original, and comes with notably more potent V6 power.

Simply refining conventional technology (and reducing weight) has delivered benefits - on popular economy - tracking site Fuelly, owners of the latest generation MX - 5 are getting 6 - 8mpg more than their counterparts in the previous - generation car, while also benefitting from better performance.

CHICAGO — It was more than two years ago that Volkswagen AG unveiled at the Frankfurt auto show the fifth - generation Golf hatchback, which went on sale in Europe a month later, in October 2003.

Despite the show of, frankly, impressive capability, this latest generation of Tiguan is engineered more for spaciousness and efficiency than slinging dirt and climbing mountains.

The latest generation of carbon - ceramic brakes do a great job, even if the pedal travel is a little long, but the simple fact remains that you enter these braking zones — places with no runoff and minimal margin for error — 20 mph faster than in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 RS.

For the most part, the latest Escalade works better dynamically than the last - generation model, even though it's nearly 200 pounds heavier.

Despite the heavily raked A-pillars, opinions will differ as to how successfully this has been accomplished, and confusingly the design appears to share the front end of the latest, G30 - generation 5 - series rather than bearing any sort of relationship to the old four - door 6 - series, the Gran Coupe.

And, let's face it — if you have # 70k - # 80k to spend on a proper drivers» car and want the Audi badge, then a new to nearly - new RS6 (or, if you don't need the space, a late first - generation Audi R8 V10) would do the trick better than the A8.

That was all true of the previous version, too, but with the more direct steering rack, the lower ride height and the latest generation Pirelli P Zero tyres the 718 feels more agile than ever.

The e-gear transmission is rapidly being left behind by the latest generation double - clutch technology, but it feels less clunky than it used to at low speed.

The engine is good for 174 horsepower (14 horses more than the famous sixth - generation Civic Si of the late 1990s) and 162 lb - ft of torque, with the latter coming in at just 1,700 RPM; in a recent Motor Trend test, it was good enough to propel a Civic Touring sedan from 0 - 60 mph in 7.2 seconds.

Unlike the previous generation car, which offered both the 1.4 twincharged four - cylinder engine (which sounded much better on paper than it was in reality) and later the 1.8 - litre TSI engine, this new car features the well - proven, torque - rich EA888 from the Golf GTI.