Sentences with phrase «after more than a century»

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 you're the first Class A office building coming out on the street after more than a century of heavy industrial, you not only have to transform your building.

Underperforming open industrial waste water treatment lagoons are on the way out after more than a century, as industry counts the cost of their pollution, odours, leakage, energy wastage and relative inefficiency in fixing the problems they set out to address.

Underperforming open industrial waste water treatment lagoons are on the way out after more than a century, as industry counts the cost of their pollution, odours, leakage, energy wastage and relative inefficiency in fixing the -LSB-...]

Compiled by Dave DeWitt From The Complete Chile Pepper Book Glossary of Specialized Pepper Terms Not included here are the names of the U.S. cultivars, which, after more than a century of breeding, number in the thousands and are too many to list.

Not included here are the names of the U.S. cultivars, which, after more than a century of breeding, number in the thousands and are too many to list.

The Sullivan family's Eli Bridge Company is still going strong after more than a century, and has sold portable Ferris wheels to places as far away as India.

«The return of condors to the Pacific Northwest, after more than a century - long absence, will be a testament to the ability of federal, tribal, state, and private entities to come together to champion the cause of wildlife, ecosystem, and cultural recovery in our region.»

After more than a century of incremental improvements in the steam cycle, engineers have plucked most of the low - hanging fruit and are chasing diminishing returns, spending millions of dollars for every percentage point of efficiency improvement.

But after more than a century of intense research, physicists still aren't sure exactly which compounds are capable of reaching that goal.

Now, after more than a century of mystery, researchers think they have figured out what causes the jets: constant pulsations inside the sun that drive gas up through narrow, magnetically confined tubes.

Cholera reappeared in Latin America in 1991, initially in Peru, after more than a century's hiatus.

Now, after more than a century of being scrutinized by science, the San are demanding something back.

After more than a century, physiologists continue building on his research.

The district had been freed from mayoral control after more than a century, and a high - energy superintendent was leading bold moves to de-emphasize central administration, give schools greater autonomy, and engage families in a revitalized portfolio of educational choice.

After more than a century of these headaches, an ideal means of getting fuel to the fire is finally gaining production applications.

After more than a century of fossil fuel - powered dominance the automobile is in for a serious overhaul; electric and hydrogen - powered cars have arrived and fast developing self - driving capabilities may relegate us all to the back seat.

By the end of the 19th Century, The Bronx began a boom period after more than a century of slow development.

Hormel, the king of Spam, has a new market after more than a century of thriving under tough conditions.

In 2010, after more than a century of animal sheltering, the best we can do is estimate that some number of millions of animals enters animal shelters every year and that some large percentage of these animals is euthanized.

After more than a century of electric technology, we have extended our central nervous system itself in a global embrace, abolishing both space and time as far as our planet is concerned.

After more than a century of exhibitions, and two years of closure, it will emerge with the biggest transformation since it was built.

After more than a century of controversy, the debate as to whether solar variability has any significant effect on the climate of the Earth remains to be settled, one way or the other.

By the end of the 19th Century, The Bronx began a boom period after more than a century of slow development.

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«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.

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 half a century, it has become far more than just another sporting contest — it's a social and cultural event that eclipses almost anything else, at least for a few hours.

«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.

The move comes as part of Washington's rapprochement with Havana after more than half a century of enmity.

The United States on Friday dramatically eased restrictions on imports of goods and services from private Cuban entrepreneurs as part of Washington's rapprochement with Havana after more than half a century of enmity.

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.

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.

Today, more than four centuries after Shakespeare and 65 years after Markowitz, I just can't help but feel the need to emphasize the importance of this same basic principle.

Our view: Full Senate should approve Mike Pompeo as secretary of state despite his hawkish outlook After more than two centuries, the list of cabinet nominees to be either rejected by the U.S. Senate or withdrawn from nomination is on the order of once...

More than a half - century after Clason's death, his simple message of frugality and enterprise continues to inspire people to become better financial managers.

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».

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.

As Germany prepares to mark Karl Marx's 200th birth anniversary, the revolutionary philosopher's legacy remains divisive more than a quarter century after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

More than a century after Kierkegaard, theology has reached the point where it must confess the death of God if it is to survive in the presence of history.

Frozen for more than half a century, relations between the two nations exhibited small signs of a warming after the 2008 election of President Barack Obama.

«We have no means of knowing how it came about that the name of Gondophorus whose time and succession had wholly vanished from the earth was still remembered in a syriac speaking country at least a century, perhaps considerably more than a century, after his death».

Today, more than a century after Lincoln articulated a moral center on behalf of national reconciliation, secularity has so infiltrated our leadership and our elite institutions that presidential candidates are reluctant to employ moral language and are uncertain about any symbolic code.

By 2100, eighteen centuries after Constantine founded the Greek empire, more people will speak Hebrew than Greek.

Five centuries earlier, when the Jewish community revived after having been almost extinguished as a separate entity, it had organized itself as something more like a church than a state.

I recall sitting in a classroom in a huge Southern Baptist seminary a quarter of a century ago, hearing my own favorite Professor John Doe explain all Mullinsism as being not only Southern Baptist but also «conservative [Wilhelm] Hermannian» (after a German theologian we had been taught to call an «I - theologian» more than a «God - theologian»).

This will not happen until the people and leaders, after centuries of deprivation, finally reaching Deng Xiaoping's admonition in the end of the 1970s that «to get rich is glorious,» but also come to realize (if ever) that it takes much more than wealth and power to provide a good life for all its people.

After all, the Twentieth Century both promised more than the Nineteenth and delivered on it.

For more than a century after Alexander's death Egypt maintained dominant political control of Palestine although until the turn of the century (301 B.C. at the battle of Ipsus in Phrygia) that control was sharply contested by the Seleucid rule.

This dream did not then come to fruition, but it anticipated by a little more than a century the formation, shortly after the next general European war, of the International Missionary Council, which was to undertake this very function.

These letters were written over a span of not more than twenty years just before and after the middle of the first century and therefore within what might be called the first Christian generation.