Sentence examples for prime decades from inspiring English sources

His prime decades were the freewheeling 80s and the boring, peaceful, Clintonesque 90s.

In his physical prime, a decade earlier, Ali had such grace and foot speed that watching him perform almost became an extension of the balletic arts.

Taken from the best grapes of the best harvests and declared as "vintage" (about three times a decade), it is then stored for 18 24 months in oak vats before bottling, and reaches its prime a few decades later, having aged in the bottle.

Most of the questions so far have focused on previously published books and connections to prime ministers in decades past.

In Italy Mario Monti is the best prime minister in decades, but he is unelected, increasingly unpopular, and ever less able to see through the reforms his country needs.

Julia Gillard, Australia's most unpopular Prime Minister in decades, is pressing ahead with the plan despite the fact that the refugee problem is, on a global scale, tiny.

Mr. Lieberman said that peace with the Palestinians requires "decades"; Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and President Obama refer to a goal of one year.

The victor of those polls, Song Jiaoren, was assassinated before he could become prime minister, and decades of turmoil and civil war followed.

The shock result means that Cameron becomes the first British prime minister in decades unable to deliver British troops to a joint military operation with the US.

He may be the best-read prime minister in decades, but his learning seems to hamper instead of illuminate his path.

LONDON — Seeking to reestablish his authority after England's worst rioting in decades, Prime Minister David Cameron told an emergency session of Parliament on Thursday that the authorities would consider curfews, constraining smartphones and social networking sites, and filling some police functions with soldiers to keep more officers on the street.