Sentences with phrase «years and decades pass»

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Over the past decade, determining the cause - and - effect relationship between medical debt and bankruptcy has become a political football, particularly during the years the Obama administration was trying to pass the ACA through Congress.

It's totally easy to wake up one day and feel like a year or even a decade has passed in a blur.

Now the installed base of personal computers has passed the 1 million mark and is forecast to grow as much as 50 % a year for the next decade.

This might seem to be the case to us until we remember that days, months, years, and, in some instances, decades passed between one recorded event and the next (see Exodus 2:23; Acts 7:23,30).

Fifty years have passed — five decades of major advances in humanity's ability to enhance life and also to snuff life out swiftly, slowly or horribly.

My mom and I have cooked pumpkin bread from this book since I was 5 years old and I am 27 now and we have made up to 300 small loafs in 3 × 5 pans and passed it out to our neighbors and Co-workers and my teachers and our family I just wish I could get her a new cook book from that decade

With bemused mechanics looking on, the drivers work out over the clanging of tire irons and the hissing of air guns, exhorted by this charismatic Jack LaLanne for the big - rig set, a 43 - year - old who could pass for a decade younger.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

But he's had my back 140, 150 games every year for over a decade now, and it almost feels like I'm getting younger with each passing year, so I don't talk about that much.

Although Daly has had more chances than Darryl Strawberry over the last decade, he has been unable, until this year, to get his addictions under control and lead what passes for a stable life.

No constitutional amendments have been passed for many decades and it's unlikely any would be adopted in the coming years.

Cuomo says even if the public vote is delayed, the casino siting legislation would still need to be passed this year, based on a decades old opinion issued by a former State Attorney General, who said that constitutional amendment votes by the legislature need to happen in consecutive years, and can't skip a year in between votes.

The U.S. Senate early this morning passed a final version of the GOP tax plan, leaving Republicans and President Donald Trump within striking distance of the most sweeping overhaul of the tax code in decades and their top policy goal for the year.

Howie Katz, the gay activist who led the hate crimes bill coalition in New York for more than a decade (and another Impact Award winner this year), and Matt Foreman, who headed the Pride Agenda when the bill finally passed in 2000, both recall that Paterson was one of two African - American legislators who spearheaded the refusal to compromise on the inclusion of sexual orientation in the legislation.

But Adler, who in the past decade has passed the state bar and was named Rockland County's philanthropist of the year in 2011, said his support of de Blasio was strictly borne out of friendship.

NYPIRG's Bill Mahoney counted the number of bills introduced and passed in the Assembly and Senate for the past several decades, and found that's the lowest number since 1914, 98 years ago.

Bill Mahoney of the New York Public Interest Research (NYPIRG) counted the number of bills introduced and passed in the Assembly and Senate for the past several decades, and found it was the lowest number since 1914, 98 years ago.

By cross-correlating the arrival times of all the different pulses to nanosecond precision across decades, astronomers hope to detect gravitational waves with wavelengths measured in light - months and light - years as their passing periodic ripples distort spacetime around Earth.

«Let's pass a bipartisan infrastructure plan that could create more than 30 times as many jobs per year and make this country stronger for decades to come.»

However, like many other such researchers, he has become convinced by the compelling weight of evidence indicating human influence on climate that has unfolded over the past decade, remarking that «with each passing year the evidence has gotten stronger — and is getting stronger still.

But in a non-cheesy way, you have to admit - it truly passes by before we realize what's happening... One more year then another - we fill in the gaps of each decade and -LSB-...]

This free online chat site has been around for over a decade and continues to grow with each passing year.

Pacific Rim: Uprising (Mar. 23rd) One decade (five years in real - world time) has passed since the mighty robo - suits known as Jaegers beat back the Kaiju menace and saved Earth as we know it.

But it is not just the passing years that are the problem — or so discovers Pete (Paul Rudd) when his wife (Leslie Mann) reaches the beginning of this critical decade and decides on a list of resolutions destined to reinvent their lives.

We propose to study more than a decade of data from North Carolina, where teachers and schools are held accountable for the proportion of their students who pass end - of - year exams.

Investment modes and methodologies changed as years, decades and centuries have passed but the principles in this book remain relevant even today.

The Buffalo International Fund (BUFIX) recently passed the 10 - year mark and joins 8 other Buffalo Funds with a performance track record of a decade or longer!

That's not a surprise since more than a decade had passed since Fumito Ueda's classic Shadow of the Colossus, the follow up to 2001's ICO, arrived to critical acclaim, and nine years since The Last Guardian entered development as a PlayStation 3 exclusive.

While more than a decade has passed since the artist's death at fifty - six, thirteen years after his partner, the award - winning architect George Veronda died in 1984, at the age of forty - two, there has been no large museum show, no second look and no movement to revive him.

Almost a decade has passed since the first NEoN Digital Arts Festival, so as we prepare to welcome artists and makers from across the world to our fair city of Dundee we decided to also take a look back on ten years of digital art festivities.

Coal has been the fastest growing fuel in the world for the past decade, and has been projected to pass oil as the world's largest energy source next year.

However, like many other such researchers, he has become convinced by the compelling weight of evidence indicating human influence on climate that has unfolded over the past decade, remarking that «with each passing year the evidence has gotten stronger — and is getting stronger still.

Nobody explained this better than Stephen H. Schneider of Stanford University, who passed away this year after decades of work on climate science, communication and policy.

Legislative and policy experts close to the issue said that if Inhofe's proposal had been passed, it would have removed vitally important public health protections more than two decades in the making that every year prevent up to:

They taught large classes for little pay, and were professional vagabonds, limited to two or three years at a particular school.1 During these decades, most legal writing courses were pass / fail; they carried little academic credit, and even less respect.

With the average in - state public college tuition passing $ 24,000 per school year, it helps to save ahead of the game, since college costs are expected to increase exponentially in the following years and decades.

What if is something people who pass up opportunities wonder about years and even decades later.

Users of Opendime sticks can choose to pass their stick along to different owners only a few times before being emptied and destroyed, or they can treat their stick like physical cash, allowing it to change hands many times over years or decades.

While at first the newlywed phase can make it seem as though the connection between husband and wife will span effortlessly across decades, as those years pass by; most couples realize there is a good deal of dedication necessary in order to keep the love alive.