Sentences with phrase «affected by centuries»

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I believe that man is, by nature, an exile and will never be self - sufficient or complete on this earth; that his chances of happiness and virtue, here, remain more or less constant through the centuries and, generally speaking, are not much affected by the political and economic conditions in which he lives; that the balance of good and ill tends to revert to a norm; that sudden changes of physical condition are usually ill, and are advocated by the wrong people for the wrong reasons; that the intellectual communists of today have personal, irrelevant grounds for their antagonism to society, which they are trying to exploit.

Western culture has been deeply affected by the 19th - century Romantic belief that we are born naturally good and are ruined by society - inflicted moralizing.

Who among us has not been affected, and perhaps somewhat troubled, by the dramatic new discoveries about the stars, atoms and life on earth that have taken place in this century?

The difference has been made in how things have gone in succeeding centuries; and that requires that a difference has been made also for God, since he is affected by what takes place in the world.

And I am an American, which means my Christianity is affected by privilege, by Western philosophy, by 17th century Puritanism, and by Psalty the Singing Songbook.

Our Western culture has moved so rapidly in the past half century, our ways of thinking have been so affected by the scientific, technological, and secular advances, that our situation seems divorced almost completely from society as presupposed in biblical and traditional theological thinking.

There must be some connection,» Walls suggests, «between these events and the missionary movement; and the modern missionary movement, though affected in important ways by earlier influences, took shape as recently as the 19th century.

The whole atmosphere of New England thought in the latter part of the nineteenth century was affected by them.

In the nineteenth century, this change was further developed, especially in those countries most affected by the French Revolution.

To the extent that they are valid, though, they suggest some of the ways in which religious establishments in the United States may have been affected by changing features of the broader world order during the twentieth century.

By the fourth century a shift in the status of Christianity affected the understanding of the gospel.

The greatest evangelist of the latter half of the nineteenth century, Dwight L. Moody, was little affected by the revolutions going on about him.

Further, in the classical eighteenth century doctrine of space, space was conceived as a container, in which the physical material substances exist and move, itself, however, neither affecting the substances nor being affected by them.

Protestantism, and the Protestant ministry, has been profoundly affected by the revolutions and the increasing complexity of the last century.

Münzer's views derived from Reformation ideas, but he was also affected by the spirit of revolt that stirred in the German peasants during most of the fifteenth century.

Even the most optimistic estimates of the effects of contemporary fossil fuel use suggest that mean global temperature will rise by a minimum of 2 °C before the end of this century and that CO2 emissions will affect climate for tens of thousands of years.

Pink salmon are providing researchers with sobering hints to how carbon dioxide - induced acidity could affect freshwater fish species by the end of the 21st century.

«Not only are ecosystems around the Arctic affected by human influences today, but the influence began more than a century ago.»

The team's findings suggests that the Brownsea squirrels may have been affected by leprosy for centuries.

The idea that a father's age could affect the health of his children was first hinted at a century ago by an unusually perceptive and industrious doctor in private practice in Stuttgart, Germany.

The increased risk of hyperglycemia associated with prenatal exposure to famine is also passed down to the next generation, according to a new study of hundreds of families affected by widespread starvation in mid-20th Century China.

Nevertheless, the anatomical connection between the bones was not affected, confirming the original observations made over a century ago by their discoverers, that the La Ferrassie 1 individual was deliberately buried by other members of their social group.

Experimental results indicate that life history traits of reef fishes are remarkably tolerant to CO2 levels that could occur in the ocean by the end of this century, however, sensory systems and behaviour are severely affected.

NEWS: Climate change could cause many glaciers in western Canada to start to disappear by mid century, affecting people and places that depend on their water

Nonetheless, our sea - level rise projections for the first half of this century are not strongly affected by the way Antarctica is modeled, nor are they strongly tied to global greenhouse gas emissions trends.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]-- The increased risk of hyperglycemia associated with prenatal exposure to famine is also passed down to the next generation, according to a new study of hundreds of families affected by widespread starvation in mid-20th Century China.

A new study from The Auk: Ornithological Advances uses European House Sparrows, which have spread into a variety of climates in Australia and New Zealand since their introduction in the mid-19th century, to show that this trend in birds might actually be due to the effects of high temperatures during development — raising new alarms about how populations might be affected by global warming.

Estimates suggest that in the U.S., Alzheimer's disease (AD) affects 12 percent of people over age 65 and nearly 50 percent of those over 85, with predictions for this to include 16 million people by 2050.1 National healthcare costs associated with AD are expected to surpass one trillion dollars by mid - century.1

Now — he questions our obsession with gluten free, dairy free eating by asking the question, «Why, after centuries of eating these foods with no problems are so many people so adversely affected by them?»

Shiatsu massage as discussed above originated centuries ago in Japan, and when performed by a massage therapist, uses fingers, thumbs, palms, forearms, elbows, knees, and feet to release energy in pressure points which affect various parts of the body.

«While it's not unusual for fashion brands to donate a portion of proceeds to a charitable organization or cause, the 21st century has seen a number of clothing and accessories companies fight trafficking by training and employing the women affected.

Affected by tragedy, a married couple decide to role play Dating as an institution is a relatively recent phenomenon which has mainly emerged in the last few centuries.

Ringing in my ears was a comment by the late Ralph Tyler that the sole technological advance in a century that had really affected classrooms was the overhead projector because, he wisecracked, it was «the only one that the teacher could use while still keeping an eye on her students.»

Select and use appropriate reference materials, such as Cobblestone magazine, the book Black Inventors and Their Inventions by Jim Haskins, and historical narratives, in order to answer the research questions: In what ways did the Industrial Revolution affect the lives of crafts people in the 19th century?

The fate of public schools affect the fate of everyone: it's why they were one of the first institutions built by freed slaves during Reconstruction, and why they were so central to desegregating our towns and cities a century later.

Ellsworth was settled by Europeans in the early 17th century and heavily affected by the French and Indian War.

As a single species bred by humans over centuries into countless sizes and shapes, researchers have been able to study how size affects life expectancy.

The movement evolved over the 20th century and into the 21st century, affected by social movements, historical events and a rapidly changing modern culture of connectivity.

Tim Portlock's current work combines special - effects software, 3D gaming technology and the visual conventions of 19th - century American image making to creatively simulate real - world American landscapes adversely affected by deindustrialization and economic decline.

It was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, and Filmmaker magazine named it one of the 50 most important films of the 20th century, but the crush of fame affected the relationship between its two creators: Jafa separated from Dash during the film's publicity period.

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Further to Eric's response to John Finn at # 20, presumably the simplest answer of all is that almost everyone agrees that there was a «Little Ice Age» of sorts which affected at least Europe, and from which rewarming had begun by the 18th century.

Mike's work, like that of previous award winners, is diverse, and includes pioneering and highly cited work in time series analysis (an elegant use of Thomson's multitaper spectral analysis approach to detect spatiotemporal oscillations in the climate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measurements).

It's significant that the current permafrost melting involves areas that were not affected substantially by the prior positive PDO phase earlier in the century (and presumably ones before that, although probably there would begin to be problems with direct observations of those).

According to the report, by the end of the century, temperatures in the deltaic region could increase by four degrees Celsius, affecting weather in the Indus and over the Arabian sea with serious implications for food security.

However, there is a lack of evidence to attribute rising climate - induced sea level to coastal impacts (Cramer, W., et al., 2014, Section 3.3), by the end of the 21st century, it is very likely that a large fraction of the world's coasts will be affected by climate - induced sea level rise (Church et al., 2013).

Having said that, we saw in Section 2 (Figures 12 & 13) that the highly urbanized stations are significantly affected by urbanization bias, with the bias introducing a warming bias of roughly 0.7 °C / century.

With deep aquifer discharge primarily regulated by geological pore spaces (in addition to pressure heads), the slow and steady discharge of these older waters affects sea level rise on century and millennial timeframes.

The findings suggest that more of the Earth's land surface is being affected by drought now than it was a century ago and that recovery times are getting longer.

And the human emission and rise in global CO2 not appearing to have a measurable affect on global temperature, and is it guessed by some that perhaps a large fraction of late 20th century warming was due to increased CO2 levels.