Sentences with phrase «as the century expanded»

As the Century expanded its denominational horizons, it also increased its coverage of all types of religious movements.

Not exact matches

The above - mentioned Peter Schwartz says that just as the 20th century expanded on the wave of low - priced energy, the coming century will expand on a wave of low - priced information.

For many centuries after Constantine I, the Roman Emperor from 306 to 337 A.D., backed Christianity as a common religion for the Roman Empire in the 4th century, Christians used violence and the threat of death to expand and maintain their control of populaces.

The authors usefully highlight the ways in which the evangelical fervor of the nineteenth century gave women considerably expanded space for social leadership, and they view people such as Matthews and Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormons, as reacting, at least in significant part, to this challenge to patriarchy.

Yet, as Dale Ahlquist told me, «we need to expand our ideas about sanctity, and recognize the saints among us in the ordinary world» — not just mystics and martyrs from centuries past.

And the Church in the 20th century hadn't always got its language and style right: Casti Connubii in the 1930s says wise and true things about marriage and family life, but didn't somehow quite manage to tackle the emerging questions being raised by women as educational opportunities for them expanded and new responsibilities cametheir way in public, commercial, and professional life.

As populations shift, as overall church adherence expands, and as religious forces rearrange themselves, these bastions of an earlier, heavily Northern and Eastern Establishment will «decline» further from the amazing degree of domination they enjoyed in the first part of the 20th centurAs populations shift, as overall church adherence expands, and as religious forces rearrange themselves, these bastions of an earlier, heavily Northern and Eastern Establishment will «decline» further from the amazing degree of domination they enjoyed in the first part of the 20th centuras overall church adherence expands, and as religious forces rearrange themselves, these bastions of an earlier, heavily Northern and Eastern Establishment will «decline» further from the amazing degree of domination they enjoyed in the first part of the 20th centuras religious forces rearrange themselves, these bastions of an earlier, heavily Northern and Eastern Establishment will «decline» further from the amazing degree of domination they enjoyed in the first part of the 20th century.

As for specialties in the individual narratives, Matthew alone records the sealing and guarding of the tomb and he alone introduces an earthquake; Luke expands the story of the revelation on the road to Emmaus, which Mark's addition suggests, and introduces the meal of broiled fish partaken of by Jesus to prove the reality of his resuscitation; John alone, at the end of the century, narrates at length the conversation between Jesus and Mary Magdalene and records the scene between Jesus and Thomas and the appearance by the Sea of Galilee.

Morrison and his colleagues Herbert L. Willett and Thomas Curtis Clark (until 1924 the only full - time editor besides Morrison) began, as they put it, «unobtrusively» to expand the Century's news department to cover events in other denominations.

Already the country falls prey to new threats — when I was last there a plague of mosquitoes was spreading dengue fever, relatively new to the country but estimated by the World Health Organization to he the great emergent disease of this century as growing warmth and moisture expand the range of Aedes egyptii, the mosquito in question.

In no similar length of time have its boundaries expanded so rapidly and so widely as in the past century and a half.

In fact, four centuries after Muhammad's death, some Muslim writers, like Abu Nu`aym al - Isfahani and Ahmad al - Bayhaqi, expanded a genre of Muslim writing, Dalā» il al - nubuwwa (The Signs of Prophethood), detailing extensive accounts of metaphysical miracles attributed to Muhammad as proofs of his prophethood.

As the 20th Century came to a close, the Chicago Academy of Sciences began initiating plans to expand the Laflin Building and to provide more room for exhibitions, collections storage, and office space.

District Attorney Vance enhanced the Manhattan District Attorney's Office as a national leader in criminal justice by expanding the offices» expertise on an array of 21st - century crimes — ...

As the newcomers expanded their domain over the next three centuries, they frequently displaced indigenous peoples, whose traditional ways of life changed or disappeared entirely.

Jerry Meehl, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, says the Pacific has been rising by a millimeter or two a year for a century — largely because the water expands as its surface temperatures rise.

For more than half a century, artists have looked to computational processes as a way of expanding their vision.

Argelander published a catalog in 1863 on the position and brightness of 324,198 stars between +90 ° and -2 ° declination that were measured over 11 years from Bonn, Germany with his assistants Eduard Schönfeld (1828 - 1891) and Aldalbert Krüger (1832 - 1896), which became famous as the Bonner Durchmusterung («Bonn Survey») abbreviated as BD and was greatly expanded and extended into the 20th Century with the Cordoba then the Cape Photographic Durchmusterung from South Africa.

Holiday momentum boosted «The Post» (20th Century Fox) as it expanded over the Golden Globes weekend ahead of its national release next week — the best platform expansion in over a year.

Director Bryan Singer to resurrect Marvel's mutant human as 20th Century Fox expands X-Men movie universe

Whether the two will be connected in some way remains to be seen, but as 20th Century Fox tries to keep up with the ever - expanding Marvel Universe as well as Sony's expansion of the Spider - Man world with a number of spin - offs, DEADPOOL could be the unique jewel in the crown.

«Our pending acquisition of 21st Century Fox will expand our ability to drive long - term value as an extraordinary entertainment company with the content, the platforms, and the reach to meet the growing demands of consumers around the world,» Iger told shareholders on a conference call earlier this morning.

Marking an expanded commitment to some of its most important franchises, Twentieth Century Fox has brought on comics superstar Mark Millar to serve as a creative consultant on the studio's upcoming projects based on Marvel Comics properties.

Not only did she create a sumptuous historical epic with independent financing (it marked the first film co-production with Russia), she also retained the wit and tongue - in - cheek lightness of the original, expanding Woolf's story into the 20th century as well.

From the lush grasslands of Western Europe to the arid deserts of Northern Africa, from the first Crusade to the fall of Constantinople, expand your influence and secure your reign as you build a dynastic empire to stretch across four centuries.

Movies Anywhere brings together a library of nearly 7,500 digital movies from Sony Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox Film, The Walt Disney Studios (including Disney, Pixar, Marvel Studios and Lucasfilm), Universal Pictures (including DreamWorks and Illumination Entertainment) and Warner Bros., and will continue to expand the consumer experience as more content providers, digital retailers and platforms are added.

Hollis expands her approach by also using read alouds for cultural literacy, or to help students understand writings from the 19th century and earlier, such as Charles Dickens» Great Expectations, Homer's Odyssey, or the plays of Shakespeare.

Still others expand the notion of twenty - first - century literacy beyond spoken and writtenlanguage to include the panoply of skills often collected under the umbrella term multimedia (being able to both understand and create messages, communications, and works thatinclude, or are constructed with, visual, aural, and haptic — that is, physical — elements as wellas words).

Visitors are delighted to see this level of engagement as students expand their 21st century learning skills.

The former Vermont governor also would provide programs to enhance the training of teachers and principals, expand early - childhood programs, and continue after - school programs such as the 21st Century Community Learning Centers.

From the Vermont AOE website: The Flexible Pathways Initiative, created by Act 77 of 2013, encourages and supports the creativity of school districts as they develop and expand high - quality educational experiences that are an integral part of secondary education in the evolving 21st - century classroom.

Expanding access to high quality school options is one of the most critical issues as we prepare children to succeed in the 21st century economy, and in Newark, high quality public charter schools are delivering excellent educational options to meet the needs of students and families, serving as a critical component of the Newark educational landscape.»

Schools and community groups based in smaller towns and rural communities, however, often do not regard public colleges and universities — which might be 50 or 100 miles away — as a resource for starting up, expanding, or improving afterschool and summer learning programs or for assisting them with their 21st Century Community Learning Centers.

They started out as a place for teens to come on Friday and Saturday nights and have expanded to a 21st Century Learning Center afterschool program and summer camp.

Afterschool and expanded learning opportunities can serve as links in the chain of building and developing top notch students and 21st Century citizens.

Even if we follow a different historical timeline and restrict our analysis to the 20th century — as enrollments expanded and high school matriculation became more standard — the past bears little resemblance to the present.

Another view — and the one we argue for here — is that expanded learning - time programs should exist as part of the larger ecology of a young person's 21st century existence.

Cate's STEAM Camp provides professional development for teachers and students to work autonomously on the same projects, as if in competition, to fully understand the reality of student - centered learning and help create a culture shift to expand 21st century learning.

The quotable quote of the far - right Club for Growth from earlier this century comes to mind, when they castigated anyone to the political left of Mississippi's most stone - aged legislator as a «tax - hiking, government - expanding, latte - drinking, sushi - eating, Volvo - driving, New York Times - reading, body - piercing, Hollywood - loving, left - wing freak show.»

Aston Martin's bold «second century plan», which will eventually see seven all - new models launched in as many years and their maker expand into all - new premises in Wales, has taken shape — and can at last be weighed, measured and scrutinised.

The lone issue of Musings now serves its turn in Audible Signs: it has been revised, expanded and mounted as one piece of artillery in my fourfold assault (Chapter 4) on Alex Ross» best - selling book on 20th - century music, The Rest Is Noise.

- Kirkus «Taylor expands on such previous books as Giles MacDonogh's After the Reich and Perry Biddiscombe's The Denazification of Germany and provides a smoothly written and well - researched history of this tumultuous period in the middle of the 20th - century.»

As the 21st century unfolds, other nations and regions will become increasingly attractive to investors, bolstered by favorable demographics, rapidly expanding middle classes, and the globalization of financial markets.

Developed by Rockstar San Diego, as a follow up to the 2004 hit game Red Dead Revolver, Red Dead Redemption is a Western epic, set at the turn of the 20th century when the lawless and chaotic badlands began to give way to the expanding reach of government and the spread of the Industrial

During this session they talked about numerous aspects of Alien: Isolation including how they made Alien: Isolation as authentic as possible by getting as much original source material from 20th Century Fox as possible, as well as not only recreating but expanding the original musical score and programming the audio so that the music reacted dynamically to both the player and the Alien's actions.

Postcommodity's art functions as a shared Indigenous lens and voice to engage the assaultive manifestations of the global market and its supporting institutions, public perceptions, beliefs, and individual actions that comprise the ever - expanding, multinational, multiracial and multiethnic colonizing force that is defining the 21st Century through ever increasing velocities and complex forms of violence.

As a literary mouthpiece for this tolerance - expanding enterprise, Kelley turns to Algernon Charles Swinburne, the famed 19th - century poet whose classical poems and dramas have fallen into relative obscurity.

For many artists in the exhibition, the radical language of modernist painting developed during the early twentieth century - of collapsing and expanding picture planes responding to the frenetic pace and fragmentary encounters of modern life - continues to evolve as distortions and mutations of the image take on new permutations with each technological advance.

Press Release as a PDF: FotoFocus Expands Second Century: Photography, Feminism, Politics Symposium — Katy Grannan, Tabitha Soren, and Aruna D'Souza complete the lineup of featured speakers

The new building, designed by Adjaye Associates, with Cooper Robertson as executive architects and program planning consultants, will enable the Studio Museum to better serve its growing and diverse audiences, provide additional educational opportunities to museumgoers from toddlers to seniors, expand its world - renowned exhibitions of art by artists of African descent and influenced and inspired by black culture, and effectively display its singular collection of artwork from the nineteenth century to the present day.