During those times, families try to set their children up for a lifetime of success by giving birth to them on an auspicious date, or at least in an auspicious year.
A proud man felt let down by them, and that his reputation built up over a lifetime was being irreparably tarnished.
By the very nature of their profession, circus performers sign up for a lifetime of crazy shit.
Wife: By having boys, I didn't realize I was signing up for a lifetime of sitting in cold pee.
One means by which organisms may ameliorate the mtDNA damage that builds up through a lifetime is through a developmental process known as bottlenecking.
By micromanaging our kids all the time, we're setting them up for a lifetime of cluelessness and ineptitude.
You've just signed up for a lifetime.
By postponing the £72,000 cap on lifetime care costs it promised, the Conservative party has condemned thousands of people to continue losing savings built up over a lifetime, and some to have to sell their homes to fund care.
Mr. Travers, when he referred to this period in her life before he'd met her, spoke of it as a time of hardship almost like penal servitude, something that would barely be made up for by a whole lifetime of comfort, which he would happily provide.
That kind of resilience and humor creates survivors -- and changes in the law help, but they don't solve or make up for the damage done by a lifetime of discrimination.
