Sentences with phrase «as the century began»

Although they dominated the various national schools as the century began, as modernism triumphed, traditionalists retreated, frequently spouting reactionary rhetoric, into international art world corners.

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The business of trying to divine customers» desires has been around almost as long as there have been customers, but market research as an industry began with the advent of modern magazine ads and radio commercials in the early 20th century.

The press release on Race Together bizarrely leads with the subheading «It began with one voice,» painting Howard Schultz as a visionary progressive for daring to discuss race — something others, especially people of color, haven't exactly been silent on in recent months or the last couple centuries.»

The near century - old company hit its peak in the 1990s, though sales began sliding in the mid-2000s as consumers began to seek pre-assembled hardware in favor of the chain's do - it - yourself spirit.

During the middle of the 18th Century and well into the beginning of the 19th Century India produced far more textiles — and usually much cheaper and of better quality — than did England, but a number of measures aimed at undermining Indian textile producers and protecting British textile producers (tariffs that almost always exceeded 50 %, for example, and by 1813 were as high as 85 %) meant that at some point in the first half of the 19th Century the British textile industry had become the most efficient in the world and was able largely to eliminate the Indian textile industry from global competition.

During the Renaissance in the 12th and 13th centuries, Venice and other city — states in Italy began issuing bonds as a way to raise money for wars and other ventures.

An approach to investing that began over a century ago, this field started as a way to avoid exposure to companies that contradicted the moral or ethical values of investors — think about industries such as tobacco, gambling or weapons.

LOS ANGELES (TheStreet)-- The media stock swoon continued on Thursday as disappointing second - quarter earnings from Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox (FOXA) and Sumner Redstone's Viacom (VIAB) prolonged the downtown in television stocks that began earlier this week when Disney (DIS) acknowledged subscriber decline at its powerhouse sports network ESPN.

In these cases, the boards were not usually «engaged» - as surprising as that is at the beginning of the 21st century.

But once his work began to be translated, his influence spread rapidly, until he is now widely regarded as one of the great philosophical minds of the nineteenth century.

As soon as word broke about the death of Billy Graham, the most influential Christian evangelist of the twentieth century, scholars and admirers began asking: «Will there ever be another Billy Graham?&raquAs soon as word broke about the death of Billy Graham, the most influential Christian evangelist of the twentieth century, scholars and admirers began asking: «Will there ever be another Billy Graham?&raquas word broke about the death of Billy Graham, the most influential Christian evangelist of the twentieth century, scholars and admirers began asking: «Will there ever be another Billy Graham?»

This coming July, the world will mark the centenary of the First World War, the seismic calamity that began the 20th century as an epoch and that, in another hundred years, may well be regarded as the sanguinary first act in the end of Europe as «Europe» had been known for over a millennium.

Critical scholarship in the 19th century distinguished between the «biographical» approach of the synoptics and the «theological» approach of John, and began to disregard John as a historical source.

They were spawned several years after Waldo and his Poor People of Lyons began to impact French society as the «Jesus People» of the twelfth century.

The term did not become popular currency again until the beginning of the modern era — as a means of self - identification, in response to the Turkish threat — and was asserted more generally in the eighteenth century.

Many other elements of this particular story were added much later, including the identification of Attis as a savior, which began in the 6th century.

As we begin this task we must keep in mind some criteria for any theology of nature pertinent to the closing years of the twentieth century.

When, two centuries ago, your Church began to feel the particular power of your heart, it might have seemed that what was captivating men's souls was the fact of their finding in you an element even more determinate, more circumscribed, than your humanity as a whole.

In the beginning, the author examines the origins of what can be defined as neo-liberalism, as a distinct current from the strict classic liberalism of the past century.

In the tumultuous sixties, as an undergraduate at Harvard (for which I have prayed for forgiveness most of my life), I was disappointed again and again by the common Victorian and early twentieth - century convention of beginning a chapter with lush description and then abandoning it in favor of....

Israelite prophetism, which began to emerge as an institution in the tenth century, is indebted to the office of seer, but also, as we are about to see, to the very different phenomenon of ancient Canaanite prophetism, long current in the land when Israel entered and settled there.

As centuries of missionary endeavour have shown, pagan and semi-pagan people can be taught, helped, and encouraged to live glorious Christian lives from inauspicious beginnings.

This is a result of the history [210] of substance metaphysics, with its multiplicity of historical approaches.4 The notion of a uniform, simple concept of substance must itself be viewed as the product of a critique of substance that began with Locke and was generalized in the nineteenth century.

The imagery of mechanism proved to be useful to sciences, such as biology in the late nineteenth century, which were only beginning to achieve measurability and predictability.

This understanding of the limited scope of scientific method had been generally accepted since Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781); but in nineteenth - century evolutionary parlance it took on the specific meaning that «all beginnings and endings are lost in mystery,» a phrase that became commonplace in the sciences and social sciences as a way of dismissing or circumventing probing questions that sought to assess the larger implications or consequences of scientific analysis.

At the beginning of the sixth century of the Hijrah, Muhammad Ibn Tumart — known as the Mahdi, that is, the Imam who is to come — appeared as a reformer and established a new state with the avowed purpose of reforming dogma and the social order.

If mission as conquest was the dominant note at the beginning of this century, mission as living in dialogical relationship is the emphasis at the end of this century.

Within two and a half centuries, what began as a ragtag gang of nobodies from the civilizational outback had so transformed the Mediterranean world that the most powerful man in that world, the Roman emperor Constantine, joined the winning side.

But as Churchianity fades away, I am beginning to see glimmers of light as the grime from centuries of tradition is scrubbed away, and the glory of God begins to manifest itself among groups of Christians who just want to live life like Jesus in their communities.

It was not until the twentieth century that the equality the Declaration promised to all human beings — for that is what «men» meant in the fundamental phrase — began to be fully extended to females as well as males.

If the traditional beginning of the Japanese Kingdom, some twenty - six hundred years ago, be accepted as true, that would mean that it came into being about the time of Confucius, and Chinese culture stretches many many centuries back of Confucius» time.

We are thus beginning this century, frequently referred to as the Knowledge and Innovations Century, with every third child being handicapped at birth in brain development due to poverty - induced maternal and foetal under and malnutrition ancentury, frequently referred to as the Knowledge and Innovations Century, with every third child being handicapped at birth in brain development due to poverty - induced maternal and foetal under and malnutrition anCentury, with every third child being handicapped at birth in brain development due to poverty - induced maternal and foetal under and malnutrition and every

Only then will our race truly begin to evolve as we were supposed to, as Nietzsche pointed out a century ago.

That move began much earlier, with the same second - century apologists whom she extols as champions of liberty.

Although held in theory over a long period, the belief was accentuated during the latter part of the nineteenth century and since, and became finally a basic dogma underlying the Japanese Imperial thrust, which is often regarded as the beginning of World War II.9 The idea was taught in the schools, in the army, and resulted finally in a fanatical religious, as well as patriotic, devotion to the emperor, without which, it seems to the writer, it is impossible to explain the daring attack of the island empire of Japan upon the richest and most powerful nation in the world, the United States.

The whole world was for centuries imprisoned in the greatest of intellectual superstitions, the doctrine of causality as an absolute all - determining pattern, fully definite either from the beginning or throughout a beginningless past.

Yet I am convinced that when Christians look back on this century of theology in America The Politics Of Jesus will be seen as a new beginning.

Given its socialist sensibilities, the CENTURY interpreted the crash of the stock market as an opportunity to begin «the process of a national sobering up» (November 6, 1929).

As a Church historian, I needed to know if what is happening today was unique, or if it was something that had occurred periodically in the 14 centuries since Islam began.

It wasn't until the late 20th century, just as the West was disengaging its colonial empires, that Christian missionaries began turning their attention to the Muslim world.

In nineteenth - century America, Alexander Campbell, who began his ministry as a Baptist, wanted to eliminate denominational labels and restore the one true Christian church.

A ggod tool to examine our relationship to the beginnings of what I believe should still be defined as the current era is Building a Bridge to the 18th Century by Neil Postman.

They were oral traditions for centuries and not until it was put on paper did folks begin using one verse here and one verse there to create arguments that marginalize others that do not look and think just as the majority in power do.

But there is no inquiry into the continued impact of colonial exploitation as by the mining companies which are giant transnationals coming from the beginning of the 20th century.

Demote theology or remove it, as universities began to do in the nineteenth century, and the curriculum becomes fragmented.

However, it was only at the beginning of the fifth century, as a result of deliberations by a number of synods, that the re-organization of the Persian church came into effect.

As we stated the Acts was written at the beginning of the third century, reflecting a tradition that existed earlier.

This is a tiny hamlet of nineteenth - century settlement, much reduced from its ancient prosperity, yet the house is there, newly built from the ashes of its fiery ruin, Piety Hill, an Italianate pile, which began as a lumber baron's residence, sank to a refuge for impoverished gentry, and became the seat of a literary man — a history suggestive of larger changes in American society since 1918.

In the nineteenth century, the New Testament began to be studied in the same way as any other historical texts.

According to world - system theorists, these relations began to emerge in the sixteenth century, chiefly as a result of international trade and diplomacy among the European states.