Sentences with phrase «years or decades out»

Are you several years or decades out of school but still have recurring nightmares of going to class and being totally unprepared for a test?

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«This is why people didn't figure out that it was the Great Depression until two years after the worst point in the crisis in the 1930s; and why it took decades, not months, quarters or even years, for the complete transition to the next sustainable economic expansion and bull market.
Instead of being stretched out over decades, your payments are compressed into 5 or 10 years, requiring you to pay more each month.
In Berkshire's property & casualty (P&C) insurance businesses, premiums are collected up front, but claims are paid out often years or decades later, allowing the float to be used for investments.
While it would be difficult to take a lack of fresh credit strains as evidence of restored health in the banking and lending system, we can't rule out the possibility that the Rube Goldberg machine created by the Fed and the Treasury will be enough to take us through a period of years (or if we follow Japan's example, decades) where we will gradually bury the losses of the banking system, trading a short - lived period of adjustment instead for a long - term period of stagnant credit.
That said, the long - term implications of bailouts, tax shortfalls and lack of budget discipline is likely to be significant inflation pressure beginning about 4 years or so out, and continuing for the remainder of the decade.
Staring ahead at years upon years of student loan payments can be depressing, and programs that can cancel out that debt — like Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) and income - driven repayment — take a decade or more to forgive the loans.
Even if hindsight bias allows us to point out all the cases where it has turned out to be a mistake — a mistake that sometimes delayed paradigm shifts in science for years or decades — it's still usually best to start by attempting to explain anomalous observations within the theoretical framework we have.
The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.
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.
The path torunning a course now runs through university programs like Penn State's, whereone or two women (out of a total enrollment of 45) matriculate annually, upfrom one every few years a decade ago.
Eight members of the American team have played professionally in the German first or second division over the last decade, and most of them, a German would be quick to point out, weren't able to survive more than a year or two.
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
Don't get paid 8m a year I know but for what it's worth IMO a team without 6 world class out players and which regularly uses players out of position will not win titles at home or abroad... That has been arsenal FC for last decade and the results speak for themselves
Fathers who are hoping to give their newborn baby a unique name may want to steer clear of Jacob for a boy or Emma for a girl.According to the Social Security Administration, both names continue to be the most popular in the country, with Jacob standing strong for a decade and Emma edging out the 12 - year reign of Emily.The administration's announce... read more
I also used it to create my wedding registry (another variation of the decade - long copycat wedding trend) and it can also help you narrow down other hard decisions, like picking out photos to include in wedding or baby's first year albums.
So, three decades on from the boycott's inception, I have come to Bangladesh to find out whether Nestlé has - as it claims - changed its behaviour, and is now a reformed organisation, or whether the campaigners have been right to keep up the pressure all these years, not just on Nestlé but on other formula manufacturers too.
This has been the call over the past decade or so from those still within the party responding to the fall out over the Nu Labour years.
The Democrat and Chronicle says Cuomo's plan to pardon people convicted of nonviolent crimes while they were 16 or 17 years old and have stayed out of legal trouble for a decade «is a good step for New York and a potential new start for former juvenile offenders.»
And as MEP Zahradil pointed out, this is a decision that will influence years or decades or centuries to come.
This year — which follows a two - decade stretch that has seen dozens of elected officials leave office due to ethical or legal scandal — there appears to be a marked shift and legislative leaders are finding themselves at odds with government reform organizations who view the convention more favorably, even those who sat out the vote in 1997.
If you are a good rifleman you could probably kill them from several hundred yards out before then get close enough to use their crappy 40 year old AKs that probably haven't been properly cleaned in decades or RPGs.
The 59 year - old is not as suave, eloquent or decorated as Congressman Charlie Rangel, the octogenarian Harlem lawmaker still old enough to be Mr. Espaillat's father, but after decades in the relative political wilderness, the Dominican - American immigrant is on the verge of driving Mr. Rangel out of office.
Even its backers admit it would take a decade to grind all the mirrors, but once built, it could pick out brown dwarfs in neighboring galaxies or supernova explosions from 10 billion light - years away.
«The threat to the patient is something that plays out over many years or decades; it's not an immediate threat,» he notes.
Running out of the moisturizer I have used for decades in a foreign country or trying to keep a eating plan when different fruits and veggies are in season are just some of the things I've adapted to this year.
When I then, after a year or so of vegetarian lifestyle, acquired HHV2 infection, I was really in serious trouble, and the ominous deterioration of my health during the next few years took me decades to climb out of.
You've been out of the dating game for years or decades but when it comes to dating, the rules remain the same before and after divorce.
It's been years or perhaps even decades since you last went out on a date, so out of sheer nervousness, who could blame you for staying in your comfort zone?
I know there are many free singles (by free single we mean in no dating relationship) out there on New Year's Eve who are lonely and discouraged or an angry at being single into another decade.
Other enjoyable performances back Sandler's up: Emmanuelle Chriqui is a charming leading lady; Lainie Kazan's crack comic timing put me in mind of her uproarious portrayal of the ultimate Jewish mom in 1982's My Favorite Year (and she doesn't look like she's aged a day since); as two of the Zohan's old foes, John Turturro is amusing (even if he's in danger of becoming this decade's answer to Vito Scotti if he takes on too many more ethnic roles), while Sandler's longtime buddy and perpetual hanger - on Rob Schneider for once DOES N'T make you want to tear out either his hair or your own.
The sacred element of marriage has changed dramatically over the decades, it doesn't hold the same tradition or relevance it once did, but there are those out there who have been married for several years, but «Hope Springs»
The sacred element of marriage has changed dramatically over the decades, it doesn't hold the same tradition or relevance it once did, but there are those out there who have been married for several years, but «Hope Springs» addresses the concept of being «happily married», a term that is thrown around all too frequently these days, Kay (Meryl Streep) and Arnold (Tommy Lee Jones) are said couple, married for 31 years as Arnold keeps reminding us, reminding us because Kay knows the spark is gone, and Arnold uses this fun fact to remind her, just because the number is there doesn't mean it's a happy one.
Ask the 44 - year - old director of Inherent Vice about adapting Thomas Pynchon's 2009 stoner - noir novel — in which a hippie - dippy private detective (played by The Master's Joaquin Phoenix) tangles with all sorts of Seventies Southern California types — or what he remembers about growing up in the Me Decade, and Anderson will thoughtfully stare out the window of his hotel's lounge.
They go through a lot through their 10 year relationship, including Jamal's jealous brother Salim (Madhur Mittal) who decides he doesn't like Latika when they are children in the slums and for the next decade or so he goes out of his way to make Latika's life hell and keeps her separated from Jamal.
Both stars have noticeably aged in the nine years since the first film, but it's the younger Tucker who got old first, never seeming like he is interested in pushing himself any further than he already has as a comedian or entertainer, content to dole out the same old shtick that made him a star a decade ago.
Developed by the remnants of Sonic Team after Yuji Naka went to the United States to produce Sonic 2, released on a peripheral that never caught fire, and left out of almost every Sonic the Hedgehog collection or rerelease in the years (decades!)
Within a decade, graduation numbers had risen from 20 to nearly 60, with four out of five Year 12 graduands entering further training, study, or meaningful employment.
The implementation timeline spanned more than a decade and was rolled out in only one or two grades per year, always preceded by a year of planning, training, and professional development:
For years, most in education circles have been acutely aware of a «boy crisis» in education — though around the world, girls are less likely to enter school, boys are significantly more likely to be held back, suspended, fail or drop out than their female counterparts and are more likely to be labeled as special needs — a truth that has remained for decades.
Since then, years of a textbook budget that has been nearly zeroed out has left many classrooms working with textbooks nearly a decade old — or with no textbooks at all.
Peugeot has turned out some seriously impressive cars in recent years after a decade or more hobbling its new models with wonky styling and lacklustre chassis.
A sometimes cautionary, often humorous, and always sad tale involving a friend, sibling, or father who brought home a brand - new Fiat decades ago only to be subjected to years of breakdowns, engine fires, and other mishaps until the car finally put the owner and itself out of their mutual misery by rusting into the ground.
While Kia compares the K900 to the German automakers and to the Lexus LS460 that is probably closer on price and mission — luxurious highway cruising with incredible comfort front and rear — it's really going to excite someone milking the last year out of a Lincoln Town Car, or who wondered what to do once the Cadillac DeVille departed a decade ago.
They delay their writing careers by years or sometimes even decades over this unnecessary task, whiling away their time researching speculative contacts and sending out submissions according to each one's idiosyncratic guidelines.
If you're losing (or missing out on a profit of) even 1 % a year, it can have an immensely draining effect on your investments over a decade or two.
Quite rightly, Robb points out that you may need to work extra years (or even decades) to build your stockpile of dividend - paying stocks to a level sufficient to support yourself entirely.
Often, but not always, online brokers with a physical presence have more extensive insurance experience because they have been out there for years or even decades.
If you won't retire for many years, or even many decades, and are willing (and can afford) to take risk, you might be able to ride out the market's short - term fluctuations with the goal of reaping the higher returns that stocks offer.
If you're losing (or missing out on a profit of) even 1 % a year, it can have an enormous draining effect on your investments over a decade or two.
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