Sentences with phrase «against history»

At first, the avant - garde took up landscape and still life against history painting.

The first lecture in the Berkeley class, for example, considered the development of Bitcoin against the history of money.

The game is currently in development for PC and will offer players new ways to interact with the world, expand their empires, advance their cultures and compete against history's greatest leaders to build a powerful, long - standing civilisation.

«For us who are long - term investors, we tend to look at the group of people who are gathering in Vienna and say «they're fighting against history... The cost of producing crude, largely due to fracking technology, has dramatically changed the marginal economics of oil,» Hunt told Bloomberg Television.

Anchoring data to Bitcoin network protects Exonum against history revisions by leveraging the tremendous security of the Bitcoin Blockchain.

Anchoring data to Bitcoin network protects Exonum against history revisions by leveraging the tremendous security of the Bitcoin Blockchain.

Master the Online Car Insurance Market The online auto insurance market is very young when measured against the history of the automobile.

Swanson was also up against history.

Also, we will observe in the next section that when the models with these feedbacks were first run against history, they produced far more warming than we have actually seen (remember the analysis we started this section with — post-industrial warming implies 1 - 1.5 degrees sensitivity, not four).

The Chinese auto manufacturer may be swimming upstream against a history of substandard offerings from the region, but GAC Motor has nonetheless set its sights on becoming the first Chinese auto manufacturer to sell its own brand vehicle in the U.S.

Faith has no security against history because history is the arena of faith, and apart from history the Christian reality of faith would perish.

David Noble in Historians Against History anticipated the current interest in primitivism by showing how the semisecular historical tradition uttered constant jeremiads against an America falling into complexity.

Super Bowl coin toss bettors know they are betting against history by picking «heads» Sunday as profits start rolling before kickoff between the 49ers and Ravens.

Because unless several weird things happen, the only contest at the very top will be City against history, and Pep Guardiola against the record books.

I just want to know if we're not only against the odds but against history as well

I have a couple posts here started but not finished, on Jackie Chan's Project A movies, which are pretty good, and Antoine Fuqua's King Arthur, which is a crime against history, but festival stuff has slowed the momentum on them enough that I doubt I'll ever actually finish them.

Famous battles such as Sekigahara will be included for the player to test their mettle against history's greatest tactical challenges and feudal Japans greatest adversaries.

1 «At Black Mountain College everyone was always rebelling, both in their lives and in their work, and it struck me at the time that it was only Cy and I who were not rebelling against the history of art.

Students» family stories are set against a history of migration and the fight for human rights.

Her identity as a mixed - race, Thai - American woman is an important part of the work she makes, working against a history of colonialism, otherness, and patriarchy in documentary tradition.

Just published on Chris Martenson's Peak Prosperity site.Read it there: Considering the problems we face as a nation, the torpor and lassitude of current politics in America seems like a kind of offense against history.

Basically, climate scientists ran their models against history, and found that even with their SO2 plug, they still didn't match well — they were underestimating early century warming and over-estimating late century warming.

The game now offers players new ways to interact with their world, expand their empire across the map, advance their culture, and compete against history's greatest leaders to build a civilization to stand the test of time.

I believe that you are fighting against history.

Spieth might not win two majors every year but his accomplishments force us to keep reevaluating where he's going in this game, measured against its history.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's rosy economic outlook for the city is up against history.

One goal of IDEA is to bring students with disabilities into the public school system, provide them access to the general education curriculum, and protect against the history of exclusion of students with disabilities from public schools.

In that context your fight is against history and not Christmas.

But archaic men defended themselves against history «either by periodically abolishing it through repetition of the cosmogony and a periodic regeneration of time...» The profound insight that Eliade places the problem of human existence and history within the horizon of archaic spirituality and not within the modern Existential framework.

William Juliano of Pinstriped Bible broke down just how historically dominant Sabathia was in such a big moment, comparing his game score (80) against history, and history was kind to the big lefty:

Plotting them against history, forecasts can be made.

Civilization VI offers new ways to interact with your world, expand your empire across the map, advance your culture, and compete against history's greatest leaders to build a civilization that will stand the test of time.

Having travelled from Los Angeles to attend the opening, I juxtaposed these paintings against the morning's news: against cavalier acts of violence and bloody origins, against history's unwillingness to be erased, no matter the pressure to do so.

They used data from the past 8,000 years, particularly studying the climate and water changes in the Sierra Nevada mountains and cross-referencing it against the history of Pacific through marine sediment.

Had someone built a financial model on this indicator, it would have looked great when he ran it against history, but he would have lost his shirt using it.

A funny thing happened when they first started running climate models with high CO2 sensitivities in them against history: The models grossly over-predicted historic warming.