Sentences with phrase «after the turn of the century by»

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For more than a century after Alexander's death Egypt maintained dominant political control of Palestine although until the turn of the century (301 B.C. at the battle of Ipsus in Phrygia) that control was sharply contested by the Seleucid rule.

Almost a century and a half after Clement of Rome, Clement of Alexandria and his brilliant student Origen were self - consciously affirming, not that Christianity was like paideia, not that it could simply make use of received paideia, but that Christianity is paideia, given by God in Jesus Christ, turning on a radical conversion possible only by the Holy Spirit's help, and taught only indirectly by study of divinely inspired Scriptures in the social context of the church understood to be in some ways a school.

After the turn of the 20th century, the number of extended families living together went down, dropping dramatically by the 1940's and 50's.

The findings come after UEA research revealed that up to half of all plant and animal species in the world's most naturally rich areas could face local extinction by the turn of the century due to climate change if carbon emissions continue to rise unchecked.

The United States used science and technology to great economic benefit after World War II and can continue to «master the innovation cycle» by drawing on the collaborative nature of millennials who started to come of age as the century turned, a leading physicist told a AAAS gathering recently.

After deciding to wrap up the «X-Men» franchise with «X-Men: The Last Stand,» 20th Century Fox turned its attention to a spin - off with this Wolverine prequel; a movie so bad, it was ignored by the rest of the franchise, before being reset by the «Days of Future Past» reboot.

Also valuable and worth noting is «La Vie En Rose» which of course featured a spectacular turn by Marion Cotillard that was unexpectedly celebrated by Oscar, Zoe Cassavetes «severely underrated, wry and sweet, «Broken English,» which includes a very winning and charming turn by Parker Posey; Susanne Bier «s Danish drama, «After the Wedding» and perhaps surprisingly equally engaging, her underrated survival and recovery drama, «Things We Lost In The Fire,» which is made great by Benicio Del Toro (and even Halle Berry evinces that she's capable of good work in spots), Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul «s always mysterious and bifurcated, «Syndromes And A Century» (which has elements of both sci - fi and comedy).

Shortly after 2001 was finished, Kubrick turned to a much bleaker and more vulgar vision of the 21st century in A Clockwork Orange, adapted from the dark novel of the same name by British author Anthony Burgess.

Named after legendary turn of the century gangster «Big Jim» Colosimo and inspired by bank vaults Big Jim would knock over during Prohibition, Döttling created a 1:13 - sized vault replica.

But Arteaga says the exhibition will also introductory works from the nineteenth - century that make clear that Mexican artists» interest in muralism and indigenous culture predated the revolution — in fact, mural - making did not resume until about a decade after the upheaval — while turn - of - the - century works by Mexican artists living in Paris foreshadow the cross-cultural pollination that happened between artists in Mexico, Europe, and the U.S. over the next several decades.

Development on New Holland Island — which is in the process of being turned into a tourist destination, with hip restaurants and hotels, after decades of housing dilapidated 18th century military bases — is backed by Millhouse Capital, which was founded by Roman Abramovich, husband to Garage founder Dasha Zhukova.

Divergent views of the heavens and the sky in Slavic (Koschei the Deathless, Baby Jaga, Tugarin Zmeevich, Zmeu Gorynich) and Western mythologies (Icarus and Deadalus), as well as later, turn - of - the - century attitudes inherited from such diverse sources as the Wright brothers and Vladimir Tatlin's Letatlin flying device, play into various sculptures and actions, most prominently in a 8 - foot pair of wearable wings, made of black umbrellas, constructed by the artist and his wife in a furious all - nighter, after the discovery of an account of Tatlin's shared project.

The first gallery is haunted by the spirit of the French impressionist painter Claude Monet, who — at the turn of the last century — was chasing the present, while painting his unruly garden: «I am just running after nature without being able to catch her up».

Organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, this exhibition is the second stop on a three city tour.More than one hundred pieces, from paintings to sculptures are included in this exhibition of the career and life of the artist Henry O. Tanner (1859 - 1937)- including Tanner's upbringing in Philadelphia in the years after the Civil War, the artist's success as an American expatriate artist at the highest levels of the International art world at the turn of the 20th century; Tanner's role as a leader of an artist's colony in the rural France and his unique contributions in aid of American servicemen to the Red Cross efforts in WWI France and his modernist invigoration of religious painting deeply rooted in his own faith.

After several decades of pioneering work, the «environmental» movement was captured by environmental extremists during the last few decades of the last century; EPA, in turn, was effectively captured by the «environmental» movement starting during the Clinton Administration and in a very accelerated way during the Obama Administration.

On the other hand, if by some chance and what ends up happening is totally independent of human activity, because it turns out after all that CO2 from fossil fuels is magically transparent to infrared and has no effect on ocean pH, unlike regular CO2, say, but coincidentally big pieces of the ice sheets melt and temperature goes up 7 C in the next couple of centuries and weather patterns change and large unprecedented extreme events happen with incerasing frequency, and coincidentally all the reefs and shellfish die and the ocean becomes a rancid puddle, that could be unfortunate.

Nitrate deposits in the Arctic remains high even after the turn of the century, despite environmental policies adopted by neighboring countries in the late 20th century to cut nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions.

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach After the turn of the century, I became interested in climate science.

«The remarkable turn of the climate of Europe towards greater warmth from soon after the beginning of the eighteenth century and affecting all seasons of the year in the 1730 ′ s seems to have produced little comment at the time, though by then the temperatures were being observed with thermometers and entered into regularly maintained observation books in a number of places.»