Sentence examples for compact decades from inspiring English sources

I do the orientation part of Flash Collective because I'm trying to compact decades worth of experience with collectives into a [15 minute lecture] so that the participants can have a sense of certain key things: how to find the audience, how to communicate clearly in public spaces, how to interact with the collective, how to brainstorm, how to prioritize ideas.

SPORTS, PAGE 11 FAILING AT ECONOMY When Detroit tried to entice Americans to buy compacts six decades ago, the public rejected the efforts.

The compact space, for decades a candy store, has the cozy feel of a great-grandmother's parlor.

Reprints Related items Saudi Arabia: Tiptoeing towards reformFeb 19th 2009The chief reason aired in defence of this near-paralysing slowness to reform is that the people of the kingdom are themselves loth to countenance rapid change and that the Wahhabist clergy, with whom the royal family made a compact nearly nine decades ago, would not tolerate moves towards a more liberal and secular society.

The move by EMI, which ranks last among the four music companies in sales of new music in the United States, represents a significant change of course at a time when the music industry is straining to bolster digital sales as the business of selling the two-decade-old compact disc format continues to erode.

Equity is also a cornerstone of the international agreements and compacts developed in recent decades such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Millennium Declaration that define responsibilities and guide the work of all who are concerned with furthering the well-being of children.

That compact has largely held for decades, keeping the world far safer and more secure.

In decades past, luxury compacts were often perceived — rightly, in many cases — as a bait-and-switch.

Denying basic phone service to people who have relied on the network for decades violates the network compact that has successfully guided our communications policy for one hundred years".

The proposed compact is 1,400 pages long, a decade in the making and bewilderingly complex.

It's this singlemindedness that has enabled Dave to turn Wellhouse into the UK's leading manufacturer of compact motorhomes in just over a decade.