Sentences with phrase «took decades of work»

It took decades of work from genre masters to build up horror's reputation as an art form.

It took decades of work to prove that gravitational waves are real.

«If you had to test all of these thousands of compounds experimentally, it would take decades of work,» Fourches continues.

«It took a decade of work to determine all the steps of lignin biosynthesis and find ways to manipulate genes.

It took a decade of work before Schaal and Kenneth M. Olsen, then a graduate student, reported finding the wild progenitor of the cassava plant in a region along the southern border of the Amazon basin.

It took me a decade of working to get here to get here and I'm really happy I stuck it out.

Not exact matches

The movie brings viewers inside the dedication, obsession, and decades of hard work it takes to achieve perfection.

[Hofstadter] might know what needs to be done for things to be intelligent, but it has taken someone, unfortunately me, the decades of time to drag that mattress out of the road so we can do the work.

Instead of providing massive giveaways to the wealthy and well - connected, Trump and Congress should be taking bold steps to raise the wages of hard - working Americans whose real wages have been stagnant or in decline for decades.

Higher growth rates are not impossible, of course, but to get the arithmetic to work for me it would take some fairly implausible assumptions — mainly that Beijing engineers the transfer of 2 - 3 % of GDP every year from the state sector to the household sector — for China to achieve growth rates anywhere near 6 % for the next decade.

There are a variety of reasons for this gap in understanding: The time gap between discovery research and the translation of that discovery into a therapeutic or a commercial product can take decades, and public and political attention spans are short; the natural human inclination is to pay more attention to things that don't work rather than things that do.

While it is true that great strides have been taken in furthering the equality of men and women over the past decade, feminists believe there is much work yet to be done.

In the first decades of his remarkably busy career, Greeley did serious academic work in sociology, taking down a number of shibboleths about Catholic culture and Catholic schools and demonstrating empirically the educational, professional, and financial upward mobility of white Catholic ethnics in the United States.

I'm not entirely sure what has happened to him, perhaps a decade of only targeting the top four has taken its toll, perhaps that is all he now knows and he can't return to his winning ways — they no longer work, the game has moved on.

Both decades of experience working with new families and science indicate that essentially moms dump dads when the baby arrives, and the way moms fall back in love with dad is by seeing him taking care of their baby.

There is a wide range of experience and knowledge in Peer Counselors, from those who have taken 20 hours of classroom education to those who have worked for WIC for decades.

The Common Foreign and Security Policy is moribund, the police and judicial cooperation (the former third pillar) does not work too well and the Euro has been in an almost continuous state of crisis for half a decade now (which should be obvious no matter your take on the responsibilities and the way forward).

A real - time electronic poll of BME teachers attending the seminar found that: 78 % do not think the work and contribution of BME teachers is recognised and valued by schools; 58 % do not think treatment of BME teachers has improved in the last decade; Only 36 % feel outcomes for BME pupils have improved in the last decade; 98 % feel that racism continues to be a serious problem in the UK today; 53 % do not see themselves still being in the teaching profession in the next five years, with 31 % saying they are planning to change career and the rest saying they plan to retire or take a break from the profession.

A man from upstate New York told me workplace issues are key for people he knows who have taken financial blows in the past decade and who are either out of work or unable to retire.

In any case, even if the libertarian - minded succeed in taking control of the debate on the Right, it still won't guarantee the long - term success of their ideology: the real world is dangerously messy, and we've seen a lot of evidence over the past few decades that perfect ideas don't always work as planned when they're applied to actual people (see: markets, free).

«This study reaffirms the previous work done by the New York State Department of Transportation and what many in our community have long suspected: a tunnel option would take nearly a decade to build and have an outsize price tag,» Miner said in a statement.

Mark's decades of public service and great work leading Hobart and William Smith Colleges will be of tremendous value in this new role, and I thank him for taking the time to serve on the Gaming Commission.»

«This study reaffirms the previous work done by the New York State Department of Transportation and what many in our community have long suspected: a tunnel option would take nearly a decade to build and have an outsize price tag.»

By working together, we put to an end the decades of litigation and vitriol that have previously strained relations between the Oneidas, its neighbors and the State of New York, and took a huge step toward shared prosperity.»

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

«This study reaffirms the previous work done by the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) and what many in our community have long suspected: a tunnel option would take nearly a decade to build and have an outsize price tag,» Miner said on Monday.

And, in an effort to reverse decades of discrimination against blacks and Latinos, Mr. Cuomo pushed the government - sponsored banks, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to buy more home loans taken out by poor and working - class borrowers.

Instead, Keller took advantage of a mid-1960s program to produce better - educated cops by paying tuition costs in exchange for a commitment to work in law enforcement (Keller would fulfill his desire for military service a decade later when he enlisted in the Army Reserve and spent the next 20 years serving part - time with an elite Special Forces unit on training missions in Europe and Latin America).

«I am endorsing Diana Ayala for City Council because she is a tough, tireless fighter,» said Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. «During her decades of public service in her community and with the Speaker's office, Diana Ayala has proven that she has what it takes to fight for our working families in the Bronx and in East Harlem.

Emerging from a district where socially conservative Evangelical Christianity has taken hold in recent decades — making it, in Torres» words, the Bible Belt of New York City — his ability to win over leaders across the spectrum, including most major unions, the Working Families Party, and politicians from reformer Gustavo Rivera to political dynasty scion Ruben Diaz, Jr., was striking.

Jon: Well, as we traveled down the western side of the peninsula, we stopped at several science bases, [the] American base of Palmer, the Ukrainian base of Vernadsky; we met Brits and Russians who worked and liv [ed] ing down there for a decade and each one of them would take us out and show us a glacier then say «Well, look at that glacier over there, look at that new island over there and that new land bridge.

It took decades of painstaking work, but research geneticist Ram Singh managed to cross a popular soybean variety («Dwight» Glycine max) with a related wild perennial plant that grows like a weed in Australia, producing the first fertile soybean plants that are resistant to soybean rust, soybean cyst nematode and other pathogens of soy.

Scientists are still working to understand the causes of this change, as it takes close to a decade to establish the pace of post-fire regeneration at any given site, and Western wildfires have been growing progressively more severe over the past 25 years.

This summary work alone, he estimates, could take at least a couple of decades.

Miller - Struttmann and her colleagues then compared other decades - old data about plants visited by the bees with recent work on bee visits, and discovered that these two species had acquired broader tastes than their recent ancestors, taking nectar from many more kinds of flowers than before.

«We came to take a half a degree Celsius out of future warming, and we won about 90 percent of our climate prize,» said Durwood Zaelke, president of the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development, who has worked toward the agreement for more than a decade.

In 1984 Brown's affinity for the working class took hold again when he arrived in the town of Woburn, Massachusetts, 12 miles north of Boston, along with a scientific team looking into an alarmingly high rate of leukemia in both children and adults: 19 cases in one decade, with only two survivors.

A decade ago, in the midst of a 5 - year NIH doubling, administrators took a close look at «fat cats,» or researchers who had six or more grants, and concluded there was no problem with overextended researchers or duplicated work.

Sorting out the tangle of physical senses and psychological expectations in species recognition will be the work of decades, but Kaplan and Miklósi made a start by looking at what it took for their test dogs to make a few basic distinctions: Is this object alive?

A similar New York City team assigned to review building codes in order to enhance the city's energy efficiency and cut greenhouse gas pollution took over a year to complete its work, and implementation of its plan is expected to occur gradually over the next decade.

Kay Diederichs, professor of protein crystallography and molecular bioinformatics at the University of Konstanz, has worked with Kabsch and XDS for over two decades and will continue to evolve XDS when Kabsch starts taking his retirement more seriously.

Jim Eckles worked for decades for the White Sands Missile Range Public Affairs Office, managing open houses and tours of the Trinity site, where the world's first nuclear test took place.

Then, I took my first laboratory course as a biology major, where I discovered new feelings of excitement and pleasure in lab work and in setting up experiments — a feeling that has remained the same with every experiment I have done for almost a decade now.

He continued, referencing the alternative approaches to healing he's taken over the last decade in the face of knee injuries, staph infections, and ACL and MCL tears: «I've chosen a different approach, and that approach works for me.

Over these nearly three decades, Esther and I have developed a working relationship that takes advantage of both our differences and our similarities.

Here at the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, our Eating Psychology Coach Certification Training not only offers a solid grounding in nutritional science and a coaching toolkit developed through decades of work with clients, but we take your depth of knowledge in nutrition one step further.

Alt.com deserves a lot of credit for taking a stand back in 1996 and working so hard to stay relevant with millions of sexy BDSM dating enthusiasts decades later.

The hunt for Bin Laden took two decades and a lot of hard work, and Manhunt is a compelling, in depth documentary about this interesting subject.

Brennan was fitted for a set of false teeth that worked fine, and wearing them allowed him to play lean, lanky, virile supporting roles; but when he took them out, and the reedy, leathery voice kicked in with the altered look, Brennan became the old codger with which he would be identified in a significant number of his parts in the coming decades.

After all, the 71 - year - old French auteur, whose film Beau Travail remains one of the great works of the last few decades, has taken an especially grim turn as of late, with movies like Bastards, White Material and The Intruder exploring some of the darker sides of contemporary humanity.