Sentences with phrase «undo decades»

It's much easier to start out fresh and create a new personality than to undo decades of emotional damage.

Currently there are plans for 25 Liquified Natural Gas export terminals in the US, and the American Petroleum Institute is spending millions of dollars to undo a decades old law that prohibits the export of crude oil.

«I don't want to undo decades of work applying a treatment where the effects on the health of the vines, and the public, are as yet unproved.»

It would take more than one failed generation to undo decades of phenomenal work.

But what I find most frustrating is that those backing common assessments seem to have unforgivably underestimated how difficult it would be to undo decades of state policy and practice on tests.

Star Wars (like so many big genre properties) is known for its dead mothers or mother figures, and we can't undo the decades where they weren't paid much thought.

«New York will not stand by and allow the federal government to undo decades of progress in housing rights,» Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who previously led HUD, said in a statement.

GOWANUS — President Donald Trump's proposed budget cuts would undo decades of progress toward cleaning the toxin - riddled Gowanus Canal and send New York back to the «bad old days of choking smog and rampant pollution,» state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said Tuesday.

weak and divisive.He also helped undo decades of improvements in race relations by using it every chance he gets.As for bin Laden getting a formal Islamic burial at sea..

«They go against the very principles our nation was founded on, and they have the potential to undo decades of progress toward greater equality.»

The one - time windfall should go to address our urgent capital - construction needs, including the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement — and to undoing a decades - old fiscal gimmick that continues to hamstring the Thruway Authority.

I personally am living through the hell that happens when crazy right - wingers get control of municipal government, and start undoing a decade's worth of planning.

It may very well be that without radical reform of the justice system, addressing the needs of the people in gap requires providing them with actual legal services, which in turn might mean undoing a decade and a half of funding cuts to Canada's legal aid programs.

Not exact matches

The challenges that were ultimately Toys R Us» undoing had been decades in the making, according to multiple conversations with industry executives and employees.

This proposal undoes nearly two decades of bipartisan agreement on baseline net neutrality principles that protect Americans» ability to access the entire internet.

Those who created the conditions for Martin's killing - those who, one might say, invited it - were the Florida legislators who voted for a law that undid not only decades of positive law regarding self - defense but also centuries of legal tradition.

And that is how in the span of a decade, phone records and message boards undid two head coaches who were in a Blind Side scene together.

The longer he stays the more he'll undo all the hard work he did this past decade, it's evident he can no longer challenge for top trophies with his outdated views on how we should win games and he should step down before he continues to ruin his reputation.

This, PX continues, «will undo all the real terms spending rises of Labour era for many departments; in some areas spending will be taken back decades.»

Taken together the raft of welfare and other changes will seriously affect disabled people's income and opportunities and risk undoing the momentum towards a more equal society that has taken decades to build.

Nigerians expected him to undo the damage in several decades of misgovernance and naturally, many are already feeling frustrated that he hadn't done that in three years.

This term completes his second decade in the Assembly, and he's grown comfortable in the realization that nothing — not an indignant Andrew Cuomo, not his out - of - fashion decision to simultaneously draw a pension and a salary — can undo the lifetime's worth of good will he's built among the political leadership and people of Albany, who just call him Jack.

Both issues are once again in the news as Republicans take control of the gears of government in Washington and President - elect Donald Trump prepares to name a Supreme Court justice who could play a role in undoing four decades of stalemate on the right to abortion.

Lest we forget that when menswear is concerned, good deeds go undone when we try to profit from a sector of the industry that has been steadily reinventing itself for decades, especially when real life has become, in a way, too real.

Like her work on Blade Runner two decades previously, Hannah brings a balance of panic and confidence to the role, and both Elle and Pris are ultimately undone by acts of violence.

The rule of Mobuto Sese Seko who «for three decades [robbed] his country blind,» is chronicled — a rule that was undone with the takeover of Zaire's capital, Kinshasa, by Laurent Kabila on May 17 and the subsequent renaming of Zaire, now called the Democractic Republic of Congo.

A recent San Francisco Chronicle article points to the nearly 90 charter schools that may open this fall, in part because «flexibility is allowing charter schools to grow as other public schools are undoing a series of education reforms that began more than a decade ago when California's state budget was flush with cash.»

Good Morning Op - Ed from Ann Duplessis & Kevin Chavous — «Undoing «Separate but Equal,» Six Decades After Brown v. Board of Education»

Yet decades of good intentions always have yielded to the understandable obligation to make a profit, and so the Mustang has always been undone by the limited performance that could be delivered at an affordable price.

If you are wondering how to breed bulldogs, today, it means trying to improve the breed by undoing what has been done for decades.

In an interview for the Rolling Stone magazine, the American artist explains that whether our life ends tomorrow or five decades from today, there will always be some things left undone, some unrealized ideas sitting in the back of the mind itching to be shown to the world; he never really feared facing it, as it never really mattered to him: he was doing what he wanted to do until his last day.

For over three decades, Humphries has committed to abstraction at its extreme: building up, scraping away, and reworking her surfaces in a process of perpetual undoing.

Because they're slow, they would require an enormous effort over many decades just to undo what we've already done.