Sentences with phrase «after a century in»

After centuries in which the norms by which Christian expression have been tested have arisen from the history and conditions of the Mediterranean world and of the lands north and east of it, the process has been transferred into a new and infinitely more varied theatre of activity.
After a century in which our science and politics have rejected any belief in the unique value of each person, surely such a sweeping claim demands substantial supporting argument.
But I also noted that, at least in today's world, after centuries in which we talked far more than we listened, it is time to put listening first.
You'd think, after a century in the entertainment business, the NHL would understand how many people don't find that kind of answer acceptable anymore.
After centuries in the tomb, he's got the revitalization thing down pat.
Leaned against a weathered Edwardian hut at Cape Royds in Antarctica — looking more wooden cart wheel than car wheel after a century in a polar deep freeze — remains a legacy...
Introducing En, a callow space traveller who, after a century in stasis, arrives at her destination: A Palace born of legend, a marvel of an ancient civilisation eons gone, still awaiting its first human occupants.
After centuries in crystal stasis, a hero has awoken — a legendary warrior on a god - given mission to save the souls of mankind.

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In the election of an African - American president less than a half - century after the end of official racial segregation in much of the country, these Americans see the triumph of the values enshrined in the US Constitution over America's legacy of social, political, and economic prejudicIn the election of an African - American president less than a half - century after the end of official racial segregation in much of the country, these Americans see the triumph of the values enshrined in the US Constitution over America's legacy of social, political, and economic prejudicin much of the country, these Americans see the triumph of the values enshrined in the US Constitution over America's legacy of social, political, and economic prejudicin the US Constitution over America's legacy of social, political, and economic prejudice.
After a downturn in violence in the early years after the turn of the century, deaths related to Mexican drug wars totaled 121,669 between 2006 and 2012, according to a recent report from the Justice in Mexico project at the University of California - San Diego's Department of Politic Science and International RelatAfter a downturn in violence in the early years after the turn of the century, deaths related to Mexican drug wars totaled 121,669 between 2006 and 2012, according to a recent report from the Justice in Mexico project at the University of California - San Diego's Department of Politic Science and International Relatafter the turn of the century, deaths related to Mexican drug wars totaled 121,669 between 2006 and 2012, according to a recent report from the Justice in Mexico project at the University of California - San Diego's Department of Politic Science and International Relations.
FiOS Custom TV sparked similar objections from Comcast (CMCSA) and 21st Century Fox (FOX) on Tuesday, after Verizon formally announced the new service in a press release.
But rather than start up any old publishing company — after all, times and technology have changed in the last century — Gao would build an e-book empire that didn't rely on authors to pump out blockbuster ideas.
But its 21st - century problems began shortly after it listed on the Nasdaq in 2010.
Walt Disney Co.'s deal with 21st Century Fox Inc. is creating an opening for competitors to poach one of the most sought - after creative minds in television, a sign of the ripple effects of consolidation in Hollywood.
«Thanks in part to the forceful response to the crisis and policies throughout the eight years of the Obama administration to promote robust, shared growth, the US economy is stronger, more resilient, and better positioned for the twenty - first century than ever before,» the White House said in an email after the jobs report.
A quarter century after the Iron Curtain that once divided Europe opened, the European Union nations and Russia are again involved in a tug - of - war, this time over six former Soviet Republics.
Li Ka - shing, a wartime refugee who used to sweep factory floors in Hong Kong for a living, retired after a career spanning more than half a century amassing one of Asia's biggest fortunes from building skyscrapers to selling soap bars.
After a century of relative improvements in harnessing energy, from coal to steam to natural gas, Ford created a new system.
Tsarnaev's defense team is expected to lay out a «Svengali» defense for their client, a strategy named after a character in a 19th century novel and meaning, in a legal context, the defense of a criminal who was «a pawn of a more influential mastermind.»
«Jack Johnson's reputation was ruined by a racially motivated conviction more than a century ago after he was charged with transporting a white woman across state lines,» McCain said in 2017 as he unsuccessfully urged President Barack Obama to issue a pardon on his way out of office.
Disney chairman and CEO Bob Iger made the interview rounds on Thursday morning after his company made official its historic agreement to buy the bulk of 21st Century Fox in a $ 52.4 billion all - stock deal.
After selling 20 million cars in 190 countries, the company made the difficult decision to drop the Datsun name (which originated in Japan almost a century ago, and comes from the Japanese word «DAT» for lightning fast) from its U.S. operations to unify its global brand.
The accord, which seeks to phase out greenhouse gas emissions this century with a shift from fossil fuels, says in its Article 28 that any country wanting to pull out after joining up has to wait four years.
After digging into the history of the term, I found that journalists used «fake» in the 19th century to warn American consumers about products proffered by patent medicine pushers, con artists and hucksters.
Big Idea: Oldest son of Rupert Murdoch has returned to his father's empire as non-executive co-chairman of News Corp. and 20th Century Fox after quitting his executive positions in the pre-split News Corp. in 2005 — and relinquishing his status as heir presumptive — to build his own radio and TV group, Nova, with James Packer, scion of another Australian media dynasty.
Earlier this year, Eastman Kodak Co. filed for bankruptcy after falling behind in the digital evolution of photography, the medium it helped bring to the masses in the 20th century.
Big Idea: Likely to be looking for a new role now that she will be stepping down from Shine, the independent TV production company she founded after a successful but tempestuous spell as No. 2 at her father's U.K. satellite broadcaster BSkyB and then sold to 21st Century Fox in 2011; now being merged with Big Brother - maker Endemol and American Idol producer Core Media; seen as more business - proven than Lachlan and not phone hacking - tainted like James.
He explains why, after nearly two centuries of business in Quebec, it is time to grow.
Rumours of the series» imminent demise circulated in early October, just after the start of its 23rd season, when 20th Century Fox Television hit a snag in salary negotiations with the show's six principal voice actors.
More than two thousand years after the original Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was destroyed in an earthquake, a group of architects wants to build a 21st - century version of it.
This is because in China the gap between lending and deposit rates during this century has been much higher than in other developing countries, probably as part of the process of recapitalizing the banks after the last banking crisis at the turn of the century.
After launching four 401 (k) lawsuits alleging breach of fiduciary duty late last year, Minneapolis - based Nichols Kaster has filed four more in 2016, most recently against Fujitsu and American Century's $ 600 million plan.
After all, as the US amply proved in the 19th Century, even countries in which additional investment is economically justified can still run into debt problems and even crises.
They in fact made public order impossible after the fourth century AD.
After years of rapid growth and stock price appreciation, New Century Financial Corporation, one of the largest subprime loan originators in the U.S.,...
VICTORIA — After more than a century of unlimited donations, corporate cronyism and declining public faith in institutions, Big Money was finally banished from B.C. provincial and municipal elections today as bills 3 and 15 officially became law.
When Abdul Qaiyum, a young Pakistani immigrant, discovered Merz Apothecary in 1972, the Swiss German drugstore was on the verge of closing permanently after nearly a century in business.
To address power and prestige, while it may be true that Britain's loss of reserve - currency status in the 20th century coincided roughly with its loss of political and military preeminence, I think it is incorrect to imply that Britain lost power and prestige after the Great War mainly or even partly because sterling lost its status as the dominant reserve currency (which in fact really occurred some time in the 1930s and 1940s).
SEATTLE — If future anthropologists want to study the rubble of early - 21st - century retail, a good place to start will be what Amazon.com did to apparel shopping in the few years before and after 2017.
After all, markets rarely fall out of a bed in one fell swoop as they did in 1987 and, more recently, the turn of the century, so there's usually plenty of time to cut and run... we hope.»
Isaacson noted Da Vinci's «willingness to challenge received wisdom would lead him to craft an empirical approach for understanding nature that foreshadowed the scientific method developed more than century later... His method was rooted in experiment, curiosity, and the ability to marvel at phenomena that the rest of us rarely pause to ponder after we've outgrown our wonder years».
Soon after its discovery in 1981, the size effect reversed for the balance of the century in most countries, with smaller stocks underperforming large ones.
A Civil War income tax bill passed in 1862 included this provision, and then it became part of the code more than a century ago after the Constitution was amended to allow for an income tax.
By continuing to follow the prudent conventions of the last century into a new era of «Inflation onDemand» ©, which was instigated by the Greenspan Fed and has been carried to new extremes under the Bernanke Fed after Greenspan's mess unwound in 2007 - 2008.
After traveling around Europe, overseeing the restoration of a ramshackle 19th - century country house in Burgundy, and simply enjoying life for a while, she began freelancing for various magazines and websites, including International Living, Forbes.com, Bankrate.com, and many others.
All of us, sisters and brothers both, need to play our part in raising awareness, in confronting violence and harassment where it occurs, in turning back the tide of violence that scars and kills so many women still, a quarter century after that horrific event in Montreal.
Regulators in Missouri, Utah, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere have called for greater scrutiny of Google and others, citing antitrust concerns; some critics have suggested that our courts and legislatures need to go after tech firms in the same way the trustbusters broke up oil and railroad monopolies a century ago.
Six critically endangered black rhinos are being transported from South Africa to Chad, restoring the species to the country in north - central Africa nearly half a century after it was wiped out there.
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Some seniors at Century Village in Pembroke Pines talked about the difficulty of not having power and enduring the heat after Hurricane Irma caused a power outage.
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