Sentences with phrase «about a century ago»

According to The Last Great Walk author Wayne Curtis, the health benefits of regular walking came into view about a century ago - particularly when it came to keeping ourselves young.

Remember, up until about a century ago, everyone, christians included, believed the Universe was infinite in time (all that is required in Christianity is that the world have a creation).

About a century ago it was becoming clear that the opening chapters of Genesis are not to be regarded as history.

Freud stressed this in recent years, but Augustine spoke about it centuries ago.

That was about a century ago.

It all began about a century ago when most GPs were sturdy all - rounders performing nearly all the tasks which are now the preserve of specialists.

But after a ship accidentally introduced black rats to the island about a century ago, the stick insects disappeared, only to be found 40 years later on a nearby volcanic sea stack.

«American Pie» hit theaters in 1999, which in Bieber years is about a century ago.

The all new Maserati Levante takes its name from the Via Emilia Levante in Bologna, where the Maserati brothers, about a century ago, dreamed up the company that today still bears their names.

G. K. Chesterton noted the phenomena about a century ago and described it well when he remarked that some people learned to read before they learned to see.

That, in turn, means locking down the device to prevent transactions outside of Amazon; otherwise, the business model falls apart and Amazon begins selling easily - rooted tablets which bring the company little (if any) after - sale revenue.Sorry you're so short - changed on such fundamental business strategy, something King Gillette championed about a century ago.

On the continent of Vainqueur about a century ago, a mysterious phenomenon called «desertification» began encroaching from the western side of the continent, turning all land it reaches into sand.

Urs Fischer told us this morning that he imagines the Legion of Honor as a giant space ship that landed on a hill in San Francisco about a century ago and his work was the first glitch in the ship's

About a century ago, Angstrom called Arrhenius out on his bad first attempt to measure how well CO2 absorbs IR.

Let's begin this starting point about a century ago, when the sweaty saga was much like today.

Postscript: About a century ago, many leading scientists thought there were intelligent, civilization - building creatures on Mars.

Infanticide as a criminal offence sprang about centuries ago, dating back to the 1600s.

Not exact matches

Just a couple of weeks ago, any media company with significant TV - related assets — including Disney, Comcast, 21st Century Fox and Time Warner — got hammered by investors, after a loss of subscribers at ESPN (which is owned by Disney) triggered fears about cord - cutting and the rise of streaming services.

While Americans were buying their first cell phones, about a quarter - century ago, Estonians were shut off from the world as an outpost of the Soviet Union.

Most of this research backs what happiness gurus have been telling us since before R. H. Tawney wrote about The Acquisitive Society a century ago: that the constant pursuit of more and better stuff — higher salaries, privilege and the baubles that accompany success — doesn't result in increased happiness.

It had about 2 million half a century ago, when it was the fifth - largest city in America.

In this sense, Trump is precisely who King was so earnestly warning us about half a century ago.

Just a century ago, the average lifespan in the developed world was about 47 years, and has since risen to about 78.

No, we're not talking about a 21st century technology company; we're describing Standard Oil over 100 years ago.

According to two sources briefed on parent company 21st Century Fox's outside probe of the Fox News executive, led by New York — based law firm Paul, Weiss, Kelly has told investigators that Ailes made unwanted sexual advances toward her about ten years ago when she was a young correspondent at Fox.

It's always a risk writing about a deal before it is official: CNBC reported a month ago that Disney was in talks to acquire many of 21st Century Fox's assets, including its eponymous movie studio, TV production company, cable channels, and international assets (but not the Fox broadcast network, Fox News, FS1 — Fox's sports channel — and Fox Business).

An approach to investing that began over a century ago, this field started as a way to avoid exposure to companies that contradicted the moral or ethical values of investors — think about industries such as tobacco, gambling or weapons.

A year ago I wrote about the comparative dynamics of three outstanding kinds of money of different generations — the older generation was represented by gold, the 20th - century generation was represented by the Dollar (Index) and for the modern generation I used the cryptocurrency Bitcoin (BTC).

Worry about today, not what someone may have written centuries ago.

I can't be sure about what, precisely, occurred twenty centuries ago, but, in our times, it is not Christianity that is persecuted so much as self - righteous, hypocritical egomania.

From the 4th Century CE up to about 200 years ago (so roughly 1700 years) Christians spread their message via force.

I remember (but could not find to link) a splendid editorial by the Christian Century's David Heim (some uncertainty about the author) from quite a few years ago (presumably before the 2008 election) wryly encouraging evangelicals to enjoy their moment in the political and cultural limelight because it would prove fleeting.

Now, this moral belief began to be partnered, about four centuries ago, by a second belief of a different sort — namely, an immense optimism about the success of this enterprise of compelling the natural world to satisfy human wants.

Two momentous changes long ago transformed the legal world that Lincoln knew: increased specialization, prompted by the rise of corporate firms at the turn of the century, and a large influx of new lawyers from relatively unassimilated ethnic groups at about the same time.

Tallulah, several centuries ago (and even still today) there are Jews that would say the same thing about Jesus.

Check out this link to find out about marriage to young girls claim.Very very interesting to know.I hope everyone has the patience to study history and reality of life centuries ago worldwide.This video also gives you references to online history books about facts it says.Simply, the average age of marriage was very young worldwide including church approved age of consent to marry.What Mohamed did, was very common back in the days and just to let you know, that girl was engaged to another man and then the engagement was broken due to his disbelief which tells you that that was common back in the days.Also, the age of 6 mentioned was age of engagement not age of marriage.marriage happened a few years later.

The same kind of crap was said about left - handers centuries ago.

Rome is wrong to deny ordination to women, but by the same token it was wrong centuries ago about the nature of priesthood; Rome should have rendered a different judgment in the case of contraception, but there is no authentic apostolic authority to make such a judgment in the first place.

Did I not know about the Inquisition, and about John Calvin's standing by with assent as Geneva burned the heretic Servetus four centuries ago?

As long ago as the third century the great biblical scholar Origen raised substantial doubts about whether a literal reading of the story made good theological sense.

If the traditional beginning of the Japanese Kingdom, some twenty - six hundred years ago, be accepted as true, that would mean that it came into being about the time of Confucius, and Chinese culture stretches many many centuries back of Confucius» time.

It's entirely relevant that Christians were just as brutal centuries ago because it speaks to the fact that the abuses in the Middle East are more about poverty and a lack of access to education than it is about the flaws of Islam.

To get a gauge of just how inane the belief in creationism / intelligent design is in the 21st Century, here are some areas they must ignore, any one of which proves beyond rational argument that, not surprisingly, the World did not start about 6,000 years ago at the behest of the Judeo - Christian god, with one man, one woman and a talking snake.

Look at the deadly gulags and purges of the USSR, the deadly Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Forward of Mao, and the deadly Year Zero of Pol Pot, all which Marx's writings inspired... and all occurring within the past century (and people still prefer to make a stink about the Crusades that happened 1000 years ago).

If you had been born and raised in central america centuries ago you'd be spouting off about quetzoacotl.

That you used «some centuries ago» regarding Adam and Eve implies something about you that is a HUGE red flag — and an indication that I probably shouldn't even have engaged you.

There are many mysterious things about the modern world, but the biggest mystery of all is how «the sexual revolution» is viewed as some sort of feminist triumph, when the objective truth is that if the most despicable, cretinous, woman - loathing men of a century ago had outlined their....

After centuries of accusing the Jews of killing their savior Jesus Christ, about 20 years ago they changed their view to consider Israel the protector of the biblical sites from infidels.

Centuries ago, it was known that no reading of Scripture could be interpreted in one way... if you're talking about the Christian faith, which is already so one - sided, nowadays...

The debate among Christians about the meaning and nature of the resurrection of Jesus has moved from the appeal to inerrant scripture, which was regarded by most until a century ago as being quite sufficient, to the arena where the tools of historical and literary criticism are regarded as legitimate.