In Britain it's generally a gradual process of service and promotion over many years, and often decades, before leading a political party.
Yet it takes some time, often decades, for ideas (whether good or ill) to propagate, infiltrate, and penetrate into the minds and souls of a broader, voting populace.
Their connectivity has helped them to challenge decades of authority and control, hastening a process that, historically, has often taken decades.
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Long stretches of outperformance in gold are frequently followed by major pullbacks, and it often takes decades to see those inflation-beating benefits.
The machinery for track switches and motors on subway systems is often many decades old, and replacements aren't readily available when stores of backup parts have been used up as PATH's was after the storm.
The logic behind long-only equity, that risky assets deserve higher growth potential and straight market exposure will provide acceptable returns, works well in the ivory tower of modern portfolio theory, but often takes decades to deliver results in practice.
Prostate cancer is a lazy killer, often languishing for decades without causing any symptoms.
And whereas lease terms in Britain often stretch over decades, in North America they rarely last for more than five years.
This ham-stringing of local authorities too often means that decades-old technologies and building standards are used for rebuilding even when more efficient and effective approaches are available.
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The question for governments over the decades has often boiled down to "make or buy".
Natural gas supply agreements often are measured in decades, and the world may be entering an extended period of increased natural gas production.
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The federal law in question is the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, a response to decades of often abusive social service practices that resulted in the separation of large numbers of native youngsters from their families, in many cases to non-Indian homes.
The federal law in question is the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) of 1978, a response to decades of often abusive social service practices that resulted in the separation of large numbers of native youngsters from their families, in many cases to non-Indian homes.
People, in general, are sicker more often (and diagnosed more often) than in past decades.
For its first two decades, RIM often showed the traits of a scrappy startup.
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The virus lodges in the liver and often causes few symptoms for decades.
There is no doubt that this is a challenge for many family businesses because of the traditions, policies and practices that have often been in place for decades.
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"The issue of illegal actions has been a controversial one in cricket for decades and is often is clouded by the emotional responses that accompany the reporting of a player, " said ICC general manager Dave Richardson.
Just for one single battle preparations have often to be made for decades on end and the plans deeply laid, and while only some thousands fight in the front line there are behind them millions engaged in various tasks which, though small themselves, contribute directly to the supreme effort.
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Ebert began his career at the Chicago Sun-Times, where he spent the next five decades penning biting, often funny reviews for movies.
Professional risk managers have known for decades that ratings are often inadequate on their own, but some have been forced to use them because of regulations.
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My basic point is that the past few decades, what is often called globalisation (often by the English, neoliberalism) has led to the largest reduction in poverty in the history of our species.
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And Robin Tomos, from the National Eisteddfod where the painter was both exhibitor and adjudicator, said Sir Kyffin had "strongly believed in its significance as a stage for art and "he supported the cause loyally, though exhibitions at the festival often raised his ire over the decades.
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After shock and numbness, the second stage is that powerful emotions rise to the surface, often after being buried for years or decades.
Following every major stock market crash of the last few decades, prices of Bordeaux fell often in tandem with those stock market declines but often outpaced their recoveries and gains.
What places like Plymouth teach us is that everything that makes an economy great can slip away in a few decades, and that government policies often play a central role in economic decline.
You know, we see that the safety net, of particularly nonprofit sort of services that have been built up in cities over decades of dealing with these challenges are often less present in suburban communities.
The two have been close friends and often competitors in the beverage industry for the last two decades.
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Research for NASA or Lockheed often doesn't yield results for years, even decades.
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