Sentences with phrase «while in past centuries»

While in past centuries, dogs were expected to work hard for their supper, today, a pet dog often doesn't have any real responsibilities at all.

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As the Wall Street Journal noted on Thursday, Snapchat parent company Snap Inc. has signed development deals in the past year with Walt Disney's ESPN, Discovery, the NFL, A+E Networks, Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting, and Vice Media, while the company is also reportedly in discussions with CBS and 21st Century Fox.

While it might be true that those who lived in the time of the Prophet could understand religion better than the people of today who must study Islam by means of documents only, we can not ignore the considerable change in the social situation and world conditions during the past fourteen centuries.

Over the past century, Christian populations in the West have either been holding steady or declining, while in Africa, Asia and Latin the numbers have been rising significantly.

A capsule of his findings would include the following facts: Over the past century, Christian populations in the West have either been holding steady or declining, while in Africa, Asia and Latin America — the «global South» in current geopolitical coinage — the numbers have been rising significantly and in some cases dramatically.

Gaines is «a traditionalist on evangelism, the need for personal commitment to Christ in salvation, and the commonly held Baptist soteriology of the past century,» noted Eric Reed, editor of the Illinois Baptist, while Greear's leadership is more contemporary and more Reformed.

Conflicts in the Muslim World today, while occupying significant news time, A) pale in comparison to what non-Muslims have done in this past century and B) are mostly the result of secular governments in the Muslim World vying for power and resources C) often backed by non-Muslim armaments and vested interests.

Sachs offers a short overview of development economics, explaining why some countries have grown rich in the past few centuries while others have barely groxvn at all.

The recent, though scantily reported, rise within Jewry of a «Messianic» movement which, while affirming the continued theological validity of the Jewish people, also accepts Jesus as Israel's Messiah, could not have occurred in past centuries when the traditional churches held sway and routinely burned premillenial types at the stake as heretics.

In centuries past, the unspoken rule seemed to be that certain names were reserved for tiny gentlemen, while others were just for little women.

While it hasn't received notable rankings in the past couple centuries, «Etta» should not be taken out of the running just yet.

Alexander & Emily Alexander has held steady at # 8 for the past 3 years, while Emily continues its very slow descent from its # 1 perch in the early 21st century.

While average life expectancy has been rising steadily in most countries over the past century, new research led by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows that life expectancy declined significantly and rapidly in three countries where policy changes increased access to prescription opioids, alcohol or illicit drugs.

However, scientific assessments have generally ranked fishing and habitat loss as the highest threats to marine environments over past decades and centuries, while in this study, the general public perceived pollution as the highest threat.

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While Earth's landmass has warmed by about 1 degree Celsius (about 2 degrees Fahrenheit) over the past century, on average, land temperatures in the Arctic have risen almost 2 C (3.6 F).

17 Mass insanity While physical health has improved in most parts of the world over the past century, mental health is getting worse.

And while the drought that hit the region in 1986 stands as one of the worst of the past 350 years, the 20th century — when the agreements that govern the basin's water use were first established — was the wettest period in the region since the late 1600s.

While El Niño played a role in bumping up global temperatures during 2015 and 2016, the bulk of the warmth was due to the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gases emitted by humans over the past century, particularly carbon dioxide.

Thus it is very important to know what the real impact of historical solar changes is, as 0.1 K in the past, results in climate sensitivity for anthropogenic at the high end, while 0.9 K results in a very low effect of anthropogenic, if the instrumental temperature trend of the last 1.5 century is used as reference.

«While this has been observed in ice cores a handful of times in the past 1,000 years, it had not previously occurred in this century.»

While the planet's surface temperatures over the past century have risen to unprecedented levels, records have shown a slowdown in the pace of warming over the past 15 years.

The methane piece of the global warming puzzle is even more difficult to grasp because while its levels have steadily risen since the mid-19th century, they have leveled off in the past decade, and scientists aren't sure why — there could be less methane emissions or more destruction of the molecule as it reacts in the atmosphere.

While salt was originally prized by many cultures for thousands of years, in the past century it has been demonized; some have gone as far as

And while Burns» formula hasn't really changed over the past quarter - century, it can and should be savored even more compared with the tactics broadly employed in so much similar fare these days.

While life has changed significantly for American men in the past half - century, notions of masculinity remain tied to those that may have been passed down from this father to the son on his shoulders.

This coincides with the actor tweeting the past 24 hours about the speculated rating for Deadpool, which some thinking 20th Century Fox might push for PG - 13 for a larger potential audience while some Deadpool purists, Reynolds including, arguing the R - rating is more in line with the character.

Co-written by its director, Noah Baumbach, and its star, Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha is also that rarest kind of new American movie: one that captures in painstaking detail the way young people talk today while simultaneously paying tribute to the past century of movie aesthetics and mythologies.

Back in February, the revered British filmmaker premiered his new Emily Dickinson biopic, A Quiet Passion, at the Berlin Film Festival, and in May, his 2015 film Sunset Song — a portrait of an early twentieth - century Scottish woman named Chris — came to the U.S. (While in New York for Sunset Song, Davies graciously stopped by to regale us with tales of his past.)

Juliette Binoche stars in the former as an eminently well - respected actress wrestling with her past life, while Timothy Spall grunts and groans as he paints masterpieces in his turn as the eccentric 19th century British painter J.M.W. Turner.

While this movie isn't officially in the coveted Marvel Cinematic Universe, Deadpool is instead part of 20th Century Fox and Marvel deal that has kept X-Men movies churning out there for the past 15 years.

While in the past, we were limited by the occasions that served as «learning experiences,» in the 21st century, learning isn't restricted to a special event bound by time and place.

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.

Teacher salaries have increased more than 42 percent in constant dollars over the past half century, while educators» working conditions, health plans, and retirement arrangements have become ever more commodious.

The oldest among them — New York's Townsend Harris High School, Boston Latin School — have been around in one form or another for centuries, while half the schools for which we have such information are creations of the past two decades.

As Chester E. Finn Jr. first explained, in the past half - century our K — 12 public education student population has grown 50 percent while our teacher corps has grown nearly 300 percent, largely in pursuit of smaller classes.

While the 21st century is in full swing and the nation's schools have made great leaps in education technology, we are still grappling with some of the challenges of decades past.

Young Giacomo, servant to Leonardo da Vinci, seeks to understand his past while caring for and contending with the brilliant, cantankerous artist in fifteenth - century Milan.

a genre I graduated from years ago.I credit her with being one of the better writers in this category and Mrs. Hockaday proves that her skills as a story teller have not diminished.Having said that I also feel that the discriminatory practices of the mid to late 19th century in America dictate the motivations of each character in a relatively predictable way... so while the entertainment value is indisputable the «mystery» is no more than the reality of life at the time... nothing memorable or instructive here for me... simply a reminder that the mores of the past rarely survive the scrutiny of the present without some readjustment.

Some books may have had an influence in past centuries, while being almost completely forgotten by the 21st century.

Amid this dramatic shift, another sea change was afoot: As seen in the accompanying graphic, «The Gap Between Life Expectancy and Retirement Ages,» over the past half century the average life expectancy has increased significantly while the average retirement age has decreased.

And while yes, it is true that too many have been used for fighting over the past century, the vast majority have not been — especially not in the past 50 years or so.

With 128 luxuriously appointed guestrooms, each varying in design and layout, Sopwell House manages to offers its guests a glimpse into the historic English past while still providing modern 21st century comforts and amenities.

Compared to the art that wore its emotions on its sleeve from the Renaissance to the twentieth century — of Boticelli, Hugo van der Goes, van Gogh, or Arshile Gorky — Schiele's suffering comes out of nowhere, while his anger is fixed determinedly in past art.

Invoking past and future in a critique of the present, these paintings, photographs, sculptures, videos, and other works document observed, current realities while referencing the aesthetic traditions of 19th - and 20th - century art.

These days, the art community is working around the clock to fill in the various lacunae of the past century's art - historical record, casting an appreciative spotlight on major artists who were long marginalized because they weren't while, male, and living in Western capitals.

While in the past Rafferty used the subject of mid to late 20th century comedy as an immediate reference point, her new pieces employ images of comedians and entertainers in a rather more open - ended way.

While his artistic language owes a debt to the past, in content Griffiths rigorously addresses the issues of the twenty - first century.

While signaling a liberation from modernist doctrines of autonomy and specificity that held firm almost until the end of the past century, exhibitions like The Waning of Justice also make clear the ambivalences and pitfalls within this turn — here most clearly evident in the gallery's untenable claim that the five individual works remain autonomous despite their syncing, shared components, and unified installation.

Fergus Hare can without a doubt be seen in a tradition of Great British landscape painting, bringing the genre into the 21st century while referencing and drawing inspiration from the past and future.