Sentences with phrase «as the century progressed»

... It must be confessed that the best intellects of their time gave themselves up to abstract speculation, which shows, as the centuries progress, a law of diminishing returns.

The battle against «demon rum» became increasingly intense as the century progressed and many a Protestant minister came to believe that the chief test of a man's character was to be found in whether or not he drank spirituous liquors and that the cause of Christianity rose or fell with the fortunes of the temperance movement.

It's difficult to predict if or how fast these resilience areas could shrink as the century progresses.

But the effects of those 8 inches pale when compared with the several feet of additional flooding expected as the century progresses.

As the centuries progressed, we began to favor dialing down the speed and increasing the distance.

As the century progressed, domestic service replaced braiding hats, but roughly half of employed women continued to work in textiles and the needle trades.

As the century progressed, Australian artists developed their own forms of modernist landscape painting and portrait art.

Many sculptors developed their style as the century progressed: Alberto Giacometti (1901 - 66), for instance, began in surrealist mode during the 1920s and 1930s before perfecting his unique semi-abstract figurative works.

To construct a thought experiment, if this is looked on with the view of an immortal climat / meteorologist of the 11th century, as the centuries progressed, he would have been in a complete panic about the continued and inexplicable decline in temperature.

In all these regions, greenhouse gases are estimated to have caused generally increasing warming as the century progressed, balanced to a greater or lesser degree, depending on the region, by cooling from sulfate aerosols in the middle of the century.»

As the century progressed, such tests — I.Q. tests, college placement exams, predictive behavioral assessments — would affect the lives of millions of Americans.

Not exact matches

Supermarket cost war and Black Friday bargains motivate buyers to bring Xmas paying forward The ongoing grocery store cost war and on - line revenue drove the strongest British isles retail income progress in much more than a quarter of a century this thirty day period, as consumers rushed out to bag...

The process of cultural integration was accelerated as the 19th century progressed.

But some Bunyan, writing Pilgrim's Progress in a prison where it was so damp that, as he cried, «The moss did verily grow upon mine eyebrows»; some Kernahan, born without arms and legs, but by sheer grit fighting his way up until he sat in the House of Commons; some Henry M. Stanley, born in a workhouse and buried in Westminster Abbey; some Dante, his Beatrice dead, he himself an exile from the city of his love, distilling all his agony into a song that became the «voice of ten silent centuries», or some more obscure and humble life close at hand where handicaps have been mastered, griefs have been built into character, disappointments have been turned into trellises, not left a bare, unsightly thing — such incarnations of fortitude and faith have infectious power.

Hey young people out there, if you want to live on the margins as the 21st century progresses then this is the religion for you.

«2 What follows, as the witness of the Nineteenth Century, is only plausible as a confident expression of the extraordinary belief in Western - style Progress that Rauschenbusch and his generation and social stratum breathed daily.

It is typical of Western cultures, especially in the nineteenth century, to think in terms of dualism and linear development, of change as progress or regress.

As the 20th century progressed, these currents would evolve into existentialism, whose diverse forms insisted on the primacy of existential individuals with unique freedoms over science's abstractions and necessary laws.

Moreover, as the 19th century progressed, evangelical Protestants availed themselves of the wide freedom accorded them under the First Amendment to form voluntary associations, the goal of whose activities was the erection of a de facto religious establishment in America.

One is the belief in progress.4 The expectation that life gets better for most people as time passes has been widespread since the 18th century.5 A basic source of the confidence in progress is the Biblical idea that the Kingdom of God will come at the end of time.

Christians quickly embraced the notion that increased communication would bring about enlightenment and progress, just as sixteenth - century Protestants had seen printing as a providential device to overcome ignorance and superstition and «bring Western Europe out of the dark ages.»

As the nineteenth century progressed, they argue, Southerners and Northerners developed different, almost antithetical, understandings of Christianity.

[10] He reflected, later in the Apologia, «The Anglican Church might have the Apostolical Succession, as had the Monophysistes; but such acts as were in progress led me to the gravest suspicion, not that it would soon cease to be a church, but that, since the sixteenth century it had never been a church all along.»

The first will be evident as our narrative progresses: the contrast becomes more striking in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The State makes laws which are plainly for the good of all, and the whole scheme is obviously making more physical and technical progress in a few years than was previously made in as many Centuries.

Although Whitehead certainly affirmed progress in the history of civilization, with his emphasis on Tragedy, he was certainly not sanguine about automatic progress as were many of the intellectual currents of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Then, as the twentieth century progressed and doctors and scientists began to point an accusing finger at artery - clogging animal fats, pork producers responded by raising leaner hogs.

We can only imagine the astonishing progress in store for us as we embark upon the 21st century.

Zero progress when it comes to stopping the waste of tax dollars and the environment by taking all the bills off the members desks and bringing this legislative body into the 21st century as Proposition 2 requires,» said Tedisco.

Indeed, while republicans had tied the rise of self - interest to a negative story of change and corruption, in this nascent language of political economy of the eighteenth century, individuals» pursuit of their private interest was thought to be consistent not just with social and political order, as Albert O. Hirschman argued in The Passions and the Interests, but with social and political progress.

«As we recognize this important milestone in our history and reflect on how much progress has been made over the last century, we know we can not rest as we continue to fight for true equality.&raquAs we recognize this important milestone in our history and reflect on how much progress has been made over the last century, we know we can not rest as we continue to fight for true equality.&raquas we continue to fight for true equality.»

While these human rights make scientific progress possible, the reverse is true as well: science has made «spectacular contributions to the advancement of human rights» according to Davis, who cited forensics and internet freedom as two key areas in the 21st century.

Without risk there is no progress, as Wilbur and Orville Wright bravely demonstrated well over a century ago.

The $ 101 billion measure, formally known as Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP - 21), reauthorizes federal funding for road and transit projects over the next 2 years.

Lawmakers did significantly restructure and shrink the program in the new Senate legislation, however, which is officially known as Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP - 21).

Congress mandated the field study as part of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP - 21), which was signed into law by President Obama in July 2012.

As physicists gather in early August to celebrate a century since the initial discovery of cosmic rays, Alan Watson, emeritus professor of physics at the University of Leeds, explains in this month's Physics World how physicists have gradually revealed the nature of these mysterious objects and examines the progress being made in understanding where they come from.

Tu also received numerous awards nationally which include «Award for Progress in Anti-malarial Research Achieved by Project 523 Scientific Team» honored by China National Congress of Science and Technology (1978); «National Scientific Discovery Award» for Anti-malaria Drug - Qinghaosu by the China Ministry of Science and Technology (1979); «Invention Award» (as the first inventor) by China National Congress for Awards in Science and Technology (1982); «Award of Young and Middle - aged Experts with Outstanding Contribution» by the Chinese Government (1984); «The Top Honorary Award» by China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine (1992); «The Top Ten National Achievements for Progress in Science and Technology» by China National Committee of Science and Technology (1992); «First - Class Award of National Achievements in Science and Technology» by China National Award Committee for Advances in Science and Technology (1992); «National Model» by China State Council (1995); «Award for Outstanding Achievement in Traditional Chinese Medicine» by Guangzhou Zhongjing Award Foundation for Traditional Chinese Medicine (1995); «Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award» by Qiu Shi Science and Technologies Foundation of Hong Kong (1996); «Top Ten Health Achievements in New China» by China Ministry of Health (1997); «Female Inventor of the New Century» by China National Bureau of Intellectual Property (2002); «Golden Medal of the 14th National Invention Exhibition» by China National Bureau of Intellectual Property (2003); «Award for Development of Chinese Materia Medica» by Cyrus Chung Ying Tang Foundation, (2009).

Proper adrenal support, as described in Dr. Wilson's book Adrenal Fatigue: The 21st Century Stress Syndrome, combined with his Adrenal Recovery Program, using special adrenal dietary supplements he created for Future Formulations, is very effective and greatly decreases the likelihood that Adrenal Fatigue will worsen or progress to the extreme of Addison's.

As the 19th century progressed the women's dress started to reveal the actual form of the body and the dress got tighter.

Out of the tumult of history and the psychic torture that is the legacy of slavery, Steven Spielberg forged his most accomplished film since Schindler's List: a ruminative epic that used America's 16th president as a totemic figure against which a nation's progress over the centuries since could be gauged.

He may not have liked «progress» such as strip malls that have been ruining our roads for a half century or more, or the witches Sabbath he witnessed in New Orleans.

While we've made considerable progress as a nation in the past century and a half to end the evils of slavery and segregation, we still have a long way to go to ensure that all of our nation's children are afforded the opportunity for an unfettered start and a fair chance that Lincoln talked about.

Nevertheless, the 20th century brought great progress in the theory and methods of evaluation as well as more understanding of its necessity.

Effective use of eLearning within business organizations makes that business well prepared for the «knowledge work» that more and more employees will be engaged in as the 21st century progresses.

This measurement system is meant to establish a student's progress in each of several key learning - skills areas, demonstrating how and when students meet benchmarks in workplace - skills development as defined by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills.

A small sampling of the wide range of content that may be found here includes artwork such as Goya's Disasters of War; panoramic cityscapes of New York City's Fifth Avenue; George Caitlinâ $ ™ s North American Indian Portfolio; William Blake's hand - printed masterpiece of 1793, America a Prophecy; as well as 16th - century maps and drawings depicting the landing of European explorers in the Western Hemisphere; engravings of battle scenes of the American Revolution; photographs recording the westward progress of the American transcontinental railroad; sheet music covers and restaurant menus from the 1890s; and photographs of Depression - era New York City by Lewis Hine and Berenice Abbott.

After collecting a century's worth of academic studies, summer - learning expert Harris Cooper, now at Duke University, concluded that, on average, all students lose about a month of progress in math skills each summer, while low - income students slip as many as three months in reading comprehension, compared with middle - income students.

Academic progress at Zion school shows promise of new system Third and 4th graders at Beulah Park Elementary School in Zion are gaining crucial skills as they make inferences while reading books as varied as Junie B. Jones and a biography of 19th century scientist Mary Anning.

As we progress further into the 21st century, many emerging instructional approaches reflect the importance of increasing student ownership of learning.