Asked to rank Yeats in his affections, after decades of achievement at Coolmore, Magnier gave a quizzical look.
For many decades, educational achievement was measured by the degree you got — preferably a college degree or above.
Far from being years of hurt, they have been four rich decades of achievement in equestrianism, to which yesterday's silver in the team event added further distinction.
The idea the campaign seeks to convey is that iXP is as consistent, reliable and trustworthy as Mr. Berra, whose decades of achievement in baseball, principally with the New York Yankees, led to his election to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972.
The collapse of communism, he believes, has unjustly wiped away all the decades of achievement by left-leaning activists in every social sphere: "I think what the 90s and the naughts have done, by turning identity politics into lifestyle, is to detach that from the Marxist politics and move it into the realm of individual choice.
He warns that if global temperatures continue to rise, the World Bank's goal of eradicating poverty by 2030 will slip out of reach: "Decades of achievement in development will be wiped out if we let the planet warm by two degrees celsius".
After a decade of achievement, the company had grown so big that the financial question of how to sustain growth was overshadowing the aesthetic achievement of this year's clothing designs.
And he then stopped working, or working on anything of any significance, as if tired or bored with this decade of achievement, or as if the curve of success was taking him to somewhere he did not want to be.
It will be a tragedy for Brazil – and indeed for the world – if Brazil now turns its back on more than a decade of achievement to return to the dark days of catastrophic deforestation," said WWF's international director general, Jim Leap.
This multi-decade movie achievement has few parallels in world cinema, but one is the Antoine Doinel series, made over a quarter-century by François Truffaut, the director I associate most closely with Linklater for their shared warmth, humanism, and love of The Word, be it written or spoken.
