Sentences with phrase «at a few of history»

So with this in mind, let's take a look at a few of history's costliest haircuts, and whether they were the bearer of good or bad fortune for their recipients.

Not exact matches

In essence, at a bifurcation in history, civilizations could be capped at a few thousand years or, alternatively, last for hundreds of thousands — or even millions — of years.

Still, such history may be reflected in the fact that there are few women among State Street's top leaders, most of whom began their careers at least 20 years ago.

But on Twitter, Mr. Gurley of Benchmark, one of the earliest supporters of Mr. Kalanick at Uber, said of the executive, «There will be many pages in the history books devoted to @travisk — very few entrepreneurs have had such a lasting impact on the world.»

«The last few years have been the most volatile for all of recorded history,» said Andrew Lo, professor of finance at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management.

The founders of a startup generally purchase shares at the time of incorporating the company at a nominal price per share, such as $ 0.0001 per share, paid in cash, since at that time the company will have no operating history, few assets and thus little value.

This seems very counterintuitive at first, even if the history behind it is quite abundant, and very few economists seem aware of the problem (which is why most economic forecasts mistakenly focus on the pace with which reforms are likely to be implemented, and are always disappointed), but in fact the reasons are not so hard to understand.

Although a number of factors led to this decision, a few worth noting are a modest level of debt (22 % of the capital structure, as shown in the Capital Structure box), ample cash (nearly $ 15 billion at yearend 2011, as noted in the Current Position box, which is directly below the Capital Structure box), and a lengthy history of solid earnings (which can be seen in the Statistical Array).

However, the Roomba line of robot vacs has a long history of being very effective at the cleaning itself, with few complaints from its many purchasers.

It is wishful thinking to imagine that the most extreme economic, debt and investment bubble in history was corrected by a mild economic downturn, a market decline that leaves stocks at 21 times peak earnings (higher than at the 1929 and 1987 peaks), and just a few large - scale defaults from a corporate debt position which continues to claim a record share of operating earnings to finance.

If history is any guide, Buffett and his team of analysts at Berkshire are getting close to making some sort of major move: Every few years, the company makes a major acquisition that deepens the foundation of cash flow.

The bank looks for borrowers with strong credit history, which means a few or more years of credit history and a credit score of at least 680.

Mitch Daniels, former governor of Indiana and now president of Purdue University, has been so accused — but not at all credibly — because of some remarks he made a few years ago in an e-mail, while he was governor, about the tired old ideology pedlar Howard Zinn, whose widely used book, A People's History of the United States, Daniels called «disinformation.»

So if you have a triune god who is father, son, and holy ghost but you have a mother of the human manifestation of father / son god — then Mary is arguably the mother of god and in that way could be argued as the more divine at some point in the history of the transformation of the triune god in heaven to the triune god on earth and of course the few days when the triune god on earth was dead (but not really dead) before rising.

What's more is that Emmett, Medgar, Dr. King, and Oscar are but a few in a long history of African - Americans who have unjustly died at the hands of our white brothers.

Over the next few days, we will look at a brief history of church buildings.

It's a safe bet that the film will win at least a few of those, but even if it doesn't, 12 Years a Slave has undoubtedly brought back up an important, though often glossed over, part of American history.

This historic topic, at any rate, is not overstudied; in 1963, Max Jammer noted that his history of concepts of space was the first he knew of, and the field has seen few others since then.

Then after nearly a lifetime of studying the history of doctrine, Pelikan, a lifelong Lutheran, was received into the Orthodox Church, just a few years before he died last May at age 82.

We have at least one such panoptic writer, Dante, and one might include a few others, such as Gerard Manley Hopkins, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Mario Luzi, whose sublime vision allowed their work to escape the vagaries of history.

Rooted in the past as she was, intimately a part of the culture of the ancient world and heir of its thought, it is apparent at once that such wide divergence unavoidably implies bold and vigorous thinking, not by a few individuals, but by a long succession of them through the nation's history.

Attempts have often been made to show that this man never lived, that he is entirely the product of early Christian imagination, but these attempts have at no time succeeded in convincing more than a few, and it is inconceivable that they would ever convince the Christian, for the event whose historicity is to him more than the conclusion of an argument but is witnessed to by his own being as a Christian — this event includes the appearance in history of this man.

I mean, at the end of the day, could you ever imagine that the non-functionality of a website for a few weeks could ever approach having the status of an inflexion point in American history.

In a few thousand years of recorded history, we went from dwelling in caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERE.

Yes, this messes a bit with our understanding of the inspiration of Scripture, but in the end (at least for me) it amplifies the grace of God for it shows that He was speaking His truth to lots of people at different times, not just to a select few Jews in a few hundred years of human history.

In the writing of American religious history, a few once - lonely seniors like Timothy L. Smith have been joined by a younger group that shines: Harry Stout at Yale, Grant Wacker at North Carolina, Nathan Hatch at Notre Dame, Mark Noll and Joel Carpenter at Wheaton, George Marsden at Duke are only the first that come to mind.

Indeed, at this special juncture of the world's history, few things need more to be driven home on the public conscience than this simple but ominous fact: it is a good deal easier to waste a patrimony than it is to make one.

Read more about the history of the coffee industry over the last few decades at TechnoServe and an article about bird diversity in Tanzania at the African Bird Club web site.

I've read a few accounts of its history, including the development of a soupy stew to satisfy soup - lovin» British soldiers during the time of the British Raj in India (whose cuisine that did not have soup at that time).

Arsene Wenger dedicated a few years of Arsenal's history to the development of young players at the club, with the spine of the side featuring the likes of Fabregas, Wilshere, Nasri and Szczesny.

After a few pars each, Day came up with magical iron into the par - 5 18th en route to an eagle that would've tied things up at -13 — and would've went down in history as one of the tournament's greatest moments had World Number One retained his trophy.

Your team is in the middle of probably the greatest dynasty in college football history (minus the «probably»), and your coach has so few losses (he's 114 - 19 at Bama) that almost all of them are memorable by average fans.

Back in the starting XI — although with his injury history who knows for how long - and is one of the few centre - backs at the club who has impressed.

At Le Mans Porsche came within a few seconds of winning its first Le Mans 24 Hours - A 908 was leading on the last lap but suffering from brake problems, which allowed the Ford GT40 of Jacky Ickx to pass it and win in one of the closest finishes in the history of the race.

Congrats on being a fellow keen observer of the several clear signs that Wenger will soon, in a matter of a very few months, be history at Arsenal.

Courtesy of Pats Pulpit, here's a look at his dizzying transaction history in the first few months of his NFL career:

In the series A History of the LOOGY, published in 2005, Hardball Times writer Steve Treder defined a «hard - core LOOGY» as a lefthanded relief pitcher who appears in at least 20 games in a season and averages less than one inning and fewer than 0.2 saves per game.

Thankfully there have been a few superb examples of beard cultivation, so on World Beard Day (because of course that's a thing) we thought we'd take a look at some of the more majestic examples of proper beardage from throughout F1 history.

Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...

How you could witness what the rest of us have these last few years and ever even consider saying Arsenal should beat these teams on financial and historical grounds is completely beyond my comprehension because their is no financial muscle flexed at Arsenal and these teams, even Marseille, are bigger spenders, as for the history, well the problem there is the man that made alot of that history is they current manager and he has no qualms about damaging it as long as he gets to employ his own agenda, which only he now seems to know what this actually is Arsenal deserve nothing on merit going into any game.

Liverpool and Manchester United are still probably the two biggest clubs in England in terms of history and tradition as well as trophies, Manchester City are now serious players at the European level, Everton possess narrative in spades including not a few national titles and even the likes of Preston North End (The Invincibles, Tom Finney), Blackpool (Stanley Matthews, Jimmy Armfield), Blackburn Rovers (Alan Shearer et al.) and others have a position in the upper consciousness of the game.

Jose Mourinho is one of the few coaches to be given three years in charge at the Bernabeu, in recent history anyway.

The Northern Irishman will have to wait for a few more revisions of history to pass before he receives the credit he is due for his work at Anfield — and he is due credit — but Klopp's impact, and the difference in mindset and football between him and his predecessor has been clear, with just six league games played.

Another study by some of the same authors found that babies — particularly those with a family history of allergies — who were fed a larger variety of solid foods at 4 months developed fewer skin allergies than those fed a smaller variety at 4 months.

Certainly well crafted, with telling good intentions aimed at promoting openness and probity in our political space, The remark, in the Nigeria history has presented Professor Osinbajo as a desirable member of the league of very few Nigerian leaders who conceded that something may actually not be completely right with their administrations.

Let's wrap up a tumultuous few days with something a little more enlightening than the average blog post — a Very Serious Look at the secret Pentagon history of using cats in warfare.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill are scheduled to discuss the year - end crime data at a news conference Thursday, an event that will likely be highlighted by a number of superlatives: the lowest number of major felonies in the modern era of police record keeping, as well as 790 shootings, the fewest in recorded city history.

Bulgaro is not giving any reason for his departure, but he was one of the few commissioners in the ethics board's two - year history to speak out publicly at a meeting last September, when he complained about leaks from the commission to the media on the Silver investigation.

The announcement is yet another shot at the mayor and the current NYCHA management, two of Cuomo's favorite targets in the last few weeks for what he says is a history of inaction and mismanagement.

Despite factors that should drive up interest — control of the board being at stake, big money flowing into some campaigns, and outside forces trying to steer the outcome — history shows School Board races rest in the hands of relatively few voters.