Sentences with phrase «about a quarter century»

I've seen that argument before, most clearly about a quarter century ago when the University of Pittsburgh's Lauren Resnick made the case for a different type of test.

This loan program was offered directly by the university about a quarter century before the U.S. Department of Education even existed.

This has been possible for the atmosphere alone and the ocean alone for about a quarter century, and for the combination of atmosphere and ocean for about a decade.

Not exact matches

Entrepreneur met with Tollin in his New York City apartment to discuss the life and leadership lessons he learned following these men, and what the process of working on a quarter century - long project taught him about creativity, focus and the pursuit of one's true passion.

While Americans were buying their first cell phones, about a quarter - century ago, Estonians were shut off from the world as an outpost of the Soviet Union.

Huawei is not focused on the next quarterly report; they care about the next quarter century.

Berkshire Hathaway sold all of its nearly 9 million shares of Twenty - First Century Fox (foxa) during the first quarter of 2017, a stake that would have been worth about $ 290 million at the end of March.

After Verizon announced slightly - better - than - expected first quarter results on Tuesday, analysts pushed Ellis about rumors that the company might bid for a major media company, such as 21st Century Fox (fox).

In 2015, vehicle - miles traveled increased about 3.5 percent over 2014 — the greatest growth in a quarter - century.

Looking back in time, global steel production grew strongly in the 1960s and early 1970s when Japan was industrialising, but then was relatively flat for about a quarter of a century (Graph 8).

In a perhaps apocryphal story, Adolph Hitler recalled to his General Staff in 1939 the amnesty that outside powers gave to the Turkish officials who massacred over one million Armenians nearly a quarter century earlier, quipping «Who after all is today speaking about the destruction of the Armenians?»

Pat Moynihan was a quarter century early with his talk about «benign neglect,» and it's no surprise that now the neglect is not always so benign.

Writing about a quarter of a century after the death of Jesus, he says that the tradition passed on to him, presumably when he became a Christian some twenty years earlier, contained the following statements: «that Christ died; that he was buried; that he was raised to life on the third day; and that he appeared to Cephas and afterwards to the Twelve.

We get some idea of what was happening towards the end of the first century, at least in some quarters, by examining the new way in which the Fourth Evangelist speaks about resurrection.

A young man who is about to marry the daughter of a friend explained to me how advertising is beginning to penetrate the villages and spark development of a kind that surpasses a quarter century of Five Year Plans.

The honeymoon, that is, between the now enfeebled and increasingly remote souls who for over a quarter of a century had carped and sneered at Pope John Paul II (and by the same token at «PanzerCardinal» Joseph Ratzinger) but who had nevertheless hoped against hope for a Pope who would be somehow reborn if not as a fully paid - up liberal, as a Pope at least who would go easy on all that counter-cultural JPII stuff about being «signs of contradiction» and about continuity with the pre-conciliar Church and who had breathlessly found (so they thought) that, lo, it was even so, in the wonders of Deus Caritas Est. «On his election last spring,» carolled The Tablet, «the former CardinalRatzinger was widely assumed to have as his papal agenda the hammering of heretics and a war on secularist relativism, subjects with which he was associated as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.»

Of particular importance in this process were the steps taken in the first quarter of the seventeenth century, for these had the consequence of the introduction of a new conception of nature, which appeared in a number of books about the year 1620, by Daniel Sennert in Germany, David van Goorle in Holland, Galileo in Italy, Francis Bacon in England, and most fully developed by the Frenchman Sebastian Basso in his Philosophia Naturalis, 1621.

We know a good deal more today about «what is in man» than we could claim to know half or even a quarter of a century ago.

Another factor that has brought about this change in attitude toward the discipline is the new perspective that has been at work for the past quarter - century and is now beginning to dominate the mind and spirit of much of Western mankind.

(Jon Lovitz would later create a similar character with the same name on Saturday Night Live, but Dad beat him to it by about a quarter of a century.)

But that was a quarter century ago, and since then player names have become one of the very best things about the NFL.

And when it all clicks, you'll look back and wonder why you thought they were so weird for a quarter - century, just like I'm ashamed about my lack of obelisk appreciation.

It's been more than a quarter - century since the hit movie «A League of Their Own» brought the All - American Girls Professional Baseball League back to life, and since then, the players from that league have used the platform to create more awareness about girls and women playing baseball.

High on the list of strategy refinements this football season was the realization that I found a football handicapping Holy Grail about a quarter of a century ago yet let it slip through my fingertips.

While Top Box is new, Kennedy said he has been thinking about the concept since he moved to Illinois a quarter - century ago.

The quarter century old joke about Republicans being the Stupid Party and Democrats the Evil Party suggests the opposite view.

He says he's not very enthusiastic about Hillary Clinton, and finds her too conservative, dating back to her husband's forming of the Democratic Leadership Council a quarter century ago.

Three - quarters of a century after George Dangerfield first chronicled its demise, Liberal England is about to die strangely one more time.

Very few of the reforms suggested by the Moreland Commission under Mario Cuomo have been enacted over the past quarter century, and most are still talked about as potential cures for what ails Albany in the aftermath of an unprecedented streak of corruption convictions.

A quarter - century after genetic fingerprinting was first developed, we're still arguing about whose DNA profiles police should keep on file.

To understand why, just turn to this month's Think Tank (page 66), the first of a yearlong series, where 11 of today's leading medical and biological researchers talk about the greatest advances in their field over the past quarter century.

Groundbreaking work that began more than a quarter of a century ago has led to ongoing insights about brain organization and consciousness

Employment levels for manufacturing dropped by a third to about 11.5 million workers from some 17 million workers, a level that had held fairly steady for about a quarter of a century.

I've been working now there for quarter of a century and Northern Tibet now has a block of countryside that's about 250,000 square miles — that's about the size of Texas — which has a legal protection.

It may be hard to believe in the midst of another contentious election cycle, but the next quarter century in the United States promises to be a period of increasing moderation and stability — at least according to a little - known but compelling theory about how the ratio of available men to available women alters our lives.

There are certain questions about virtual reality (VR) that I've been asked a few times a day, every day, for over a quarter century.

The Third Pandemic in Asia early in the 20th century killed 10 million people, the medieval black death probably killed more than a quarter of Europeans, and Justinian's plague, which broke out in A.D. 542, raged for about 50 years, killing 100 million people.

Over an area of about a quarter acre, we needed to remove not only the 19th - century backfill but also the rubble from cave collapses that had filled several deep natural cavities to a depth of more than four meters.

About a third of the 150 cell biologists, biophysicists, and technicians already hired for the new center have been drawn from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, the hub of molecular and cell biology research in Europe for a quarter - century.

Over the past quarter century, G20 carbon dioxide emissions had risen by almost 50 percent while per capita emissions had gained by about 18 percent, reflecting population growth, it said.

From AD 1300 to 1600, wildfires ignited during late summer, with about 5 - 10 ignitions per quarter century, generally occurring during warm, dry summers.

Even now, a quarter century after the onset of Reidenbach's symptoms, clear answers about the underpinnings of mental illness are hard to come by.

A new study by Carnegie's Ken Caldeira and Nathan Myhrvold of Intellectual Ventures concludes that about half of the warming occurs within the first 10 years after an instantaneous step increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration, but about one - quarter of the warming occurs more than a century after the step increase.

Scan results were then paired against the views each participant had offered about a quarter - century earlier to 16 age stereotypes, such as «old people are absent - minded.»

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We are truly passionate about making a positive impact and we take great pride in countless successful relationships that we've helped create in the last quarter of a century.

Fire Emblem Fates smartly revises a quarter - century old battle system and offers ever more reasons to care about your little chess pieces, but neither version does enough to welcome new players.

Maybe most of all, it's about Agent Dale Cooper's lingering return from a quarter - century on another plane.»

I Melt with You (R for profanity, violence, sexuality and pervasive drug use) Midlife crisis drama about the annual retreat taken by four, former college buddies (Rob Lowe, Jeremy Piven, Christian McKay and Thomas Jane) who agree to follow through with a macabre pact they entered into as classmates a quarter - century earlier.

One of the most important filmmakers of the last quarter - century, Haneke feels like an auteur tailormade for Criterion's deep analysis, although I've always felt like he was a filmmaker who believed the work speaks for itself, refusing to answer questions about films open to interpretation like «Cache» or «The White Ribbon.»