Sentences with phrase «ago at the instance»

Peacefmonline is reliably informed that investigations began six months ago at the instance of President John Mahama.

Not exact matches

For instance, say you purchased a home three years ago with an FHA loan at 3.5 % down.

Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

I recall an instance at a big conference here some years ago where a Christian musician I respected (although we have some pretty different views on some issues) refused to be cornered by a line of questions (framed more like an interrogation) which would have made him espouse the party line on spirituality as defined by those running the event.

For instance I am aware of what I perceive at the present moment as arising out of what I was perceiving a moment ago.

The Today's Newspaper some few months ago published that it has laid hands on a leaked report by the committee which said for instance, at one of the committee's meetings held outside Accra last month to put finishing touches to the report, its sources said the report nearly hit a snag as former President Dramani Mahama's loyalists vehemently opposed the recommendation of having a new presidential candidate for the party in 2020.»

Two years ago, for instance, Sonntag and his wife, MaryAnn, flung themselves out of an airplane at 13,000 feet and hurtled to Earth.

For instance, the languages of the Pueblo tribes around Santa Fe are spoken by so few people — just a few hundred at most — that by many linguists» estimates they should have gone extinct long ago.

One of the worst catastrophes in Earth's history, for instance, happened 250 million years ago at the end of the Permian Period, when something wiped out most of the animals.

For instance, telling us that 3 billion years ago the Moon would have appeared as big as a saucer held at arm's length, compared with a small coin as it does now, they add: «It must have been heartbreakingly lovely.

It's a simple model — for instance, it does not account for zoning restrictions or for the fact that some cities, such as London, emerged as polycentric entities hundreds of years ago when several smaller villages consolidated — but it is still a useful model for exploring polycentricity, says Michael Batty, an urban planner at University College London, who wasn't involved in the study.

For instance, almost all animal and plant life was abruptly wiped out at the end of the Permian period 251 million years ago, a time known as the Great Dying.

The last instance of rapid climate change was 10,000 year ago at the end of the Younger Dryas, when the temperature in Greenland leapt by 20C within three years [Richard Alley, The Two Mile Time Machine] That is rapid climate change, and that is fact not a climate model.

All instances of a gene mutation that contributes to light skin color in Europeans came from the same chromosome of one person who most likely lived at least 10,000 years ago, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.

The dating of that schism between the Neanderthals and the Denisovans is surprising because previous research had pegged it as much more recent: a 2016 study, for instance, set it at only 450,000 years ago.

In my instance a few weeks ago I decided that ok maybe I can't run but let's see if I can at least walk.

For instance, two days ago at the gym, I weighed 205.0; today I weighed 201.5.

For instance, I met designer Chris Benz at a party a few years ago.

The premise involves a shapeshifting monster that stalks its targets until they have sex, passing on the curse to someone else, and though a generation ago, this would seem like a fairly clear - cut AIDS metaphor, Mitchell (The Myth Of The American Sleepover) makes it at once more complicated (for instance, after killing a target, the titular It begins stalking the previous one again) and more primal, a locus for all kinds of sexual and social fears that horror movies tend to express more clearly than any other genre.

Daniel Barber's feminist Western, which sees Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld, and Munu Otaru as three women menaced by Union soldiers (Sam Worthington and Kyle Soller), premiered at TIFF a year ago, where we gave it a middling review, but Playlisters who've caught up with it since loved it to death (it was on my Top 10 of last year, for instance).

Take for instance Achievement First Hartford High School's first graduating class, who celebrated their Senior Signing Day a few weeks ago at The Bushnell in Hartford.

Peugeot Motors of America, the company that advertises an invisible car, is invisibly trying to raise its profile.Without any public announcement, the importer of the French cars has begun shipping 1991 models, after essentially skipping the 1990 model year in order to sell off a glut of 1989 models.Peugeot also is selling its 1991 models at 1989 prices, even with added content, without hoopla.For instance, the $ 17,700 price of the Peugeot 405 - S sedan, which gets anti-lock brakes and a leather interior for 1991, has not increased since it was introduced two years ago.

For instance, I have met with a good friend of mine 4 years ago at a cafeteria.

For instance, the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library system found several months ago that «circulation of the system's 10,346 electronic volumes is skyrocketing — at the same time that circulation of traditional materials has been remaining steady or dropping slightly,» according to an article in The Buffalo News.

For instance, when Greg Harris, 38, of Toronto graduated with his engineering degree several years ago, his parents gave him a $ 10,000 loan at the going interest rate to help him pay off his school debt.

For instance, it was only a few years ago when you could buy all of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) for about the amount of cash it had in the bank at a low P / B ratio.

Our loonie, for instance, currently sits at roughly the same level that it was at 30 years ago!

For instance, say you purchased a home three years ago with an FHA loan at 3.5 % down.

For instance, if you started with a $ 300,000 mortgage at 4.5 percent eight years ago, your balance is probably about $ 254,451, and your principal and interest payment is $ 1,520.

For instance, two years ago, during a solo show at Brooklyn's Devotion Gallery, viewers had typed conversations with Drunk Eliza (2012)-- a tweaked version of the 1960s chatbot Eliza — whose questions and responses frustratingly degenerated into gibberish.

As well as drawing from these global themes and botany, the illustrator also shows a knack for taking real - life everyday experiences into her work: the image of three girls in headscarves, for instance, was inspired by «three girls I saw at Kottbusser Tor in Kreuzberg [Berlin] a few weeks ago,» says Breiling.

Three years ago, for instance, Barlow staged dock, 2014, a series of 15 sprawling sculptures, that dominated the 320ft - long neo-classical Duveen Galleries at Tate Britain.

The last instance of rapid climate change was 10,000 year ago at the end of the Younger Dryas, when the temperature in Greenland leapt by 20C within three years [Richard Alley, The Two Mile Time Machine] That is rapid climate change, and that is fact not a climate model.

When you have time, give the text a sift (it's short; the book was heavily illustrated) to see what still holds true (the basics of greenhouse heating, projections of China's rise, etc.), what was not a focus of concern 20 years ago (the Arctic, for instance) and what conclusions at that time have not held up (the response of hurricanes has proved far more complicated than what was deduced then).

The famous Miller - Urey experiment of 1953, for instance, becomes, not one modest confirmation of a highly conjectural model of how life may have evolved from non-life, but instead proof, as one exhibit at the Field Museum in Chicago put it a few years ago, that «life could begin from chemical reactions between common materials found anywhere on earth.»

Yet in the global warming issue, we see instances where a major organization promoted the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as a Nobel laureate when he is not, and another organization similarly promoting a prominent IPCC scientist as a Nobel laureate when he is not, and the long - term promotion of book author Ross Gelbspan as a Pulitzer winner when he is not, a problem first revealed long ago by Steve Milloy and expanded upon at this blog.

el, luke did a good job taking on the faux concern of the weirdos at Deltoid and pointing out that there are real, disastrous consequences to AGW «remedies», unlike the imaginary consequences of AGW; in fact when luke goes to town he can even quell, or at least bemuse, even the most elitist of the AGW acolytes; for instance there was a thread at Taminos a couple of years ago when luke got going and absolutely paper - snowed them with masses of detail about the expanding drought conditions facing Australia under the yoke of AGW; unfortunately I have lost the link but I'm sure luke will oblige us.

I was planning to play Axiom Verge on the Switch, for instance, because I bought it on PC ages ago but found I couldn't really get into it while sat at a desk.

For instance, just looking at the paper and seeing companies like Jaguar, who a year ago, were struggling, are now hiring and taking on people and it's like the whole Darwinian thing isn't it?