Sentences with phrase «at least a century because»

«[P] rojected growth in wood harvest for bioenergy would increase atmospheric CO2 for at least a century because new carbon debt continuously exceeds NPP.»

Not exact matches

«It's one of the things that makes me optimistic about America because when I look at what we have accomplished using half our talent for a couple of centuries, and now I think of doubling the talent that is effectively employed — or at least has the chance to be — it makes me very optimistic about this country,» Buffett says.

Whereas Britain may not have been an engine of growth for 18th Century India, or at least for the Indian textile industry, it was for much of the 19th Century the world's engine of growth because it supplied much of the capital that a savings - starved world needed to fund investment.

This may be partly because the moderns had some success in undermining confidence in the classic proofs by their criticism without winning any lasting confidence in their own, but the main cause is not any defect in the proofs for the existence of God, at least in the classic proofs, but the general discredit which has fallen upon all systems of thought which ante-date the last century.

The reason Rabshakeh advances is ridiculous and shows in effect that the natural man has no understanding, like twentieth - century man, who finds some Protestants more acceptable because they at least do not believe in stupid miracles, in the nativity and the resurrection!

Not only is it the nature of Catholicism generally, or at least until quite recently and in certain countries like the United States, to express itself in particular social and political forms, but above all because the papacy, with its ineradicably political implications, has been for centuries an Italian institution.

There has also been a significant religious revival in at least certain sectors of Soviet society, all the more significant because of a half - century of determined and sophisticated repression.

The following quotation from his writings shows that he rejected this latter form of epistemology that had resurfaced in the twentieth century under the guise of Transcendental Thomism, because he was acutely aware that this path led at least to a blurring of the distinction between nature and grace if not to pantheism: «What we must not do -LSB-...] is to relate God as «ground of being» to the very inner substance and core of the soul as in some way... a part or aspect of the creature's being.»

«At the turn of the century, we knew less about the North Pole than we did about the moon, because we could at least see the moon,» says Susan Kaplan, the museum directoAt the turn of the century, we knew less about the North Pole than we did about the moon, because we could at least see the moon,» says Susan Kaplan, the museum directoat least see the moon,» says Susan Kaplan, the museum director.

The pressure to make the right choices this time is intense because the White Paper will probably set the scene for at least the next decade, and underpin the success or otherwise of British industry in creating wealth well into the next century.

Indeed, Grivetti says, because chocolate was perceived as an intoxicant, it was deemed unsuitable for women or children — at least until the 14th century.

The warming of the WAIS is most worrisome (at least for this century) because it's going to disintegrate long before the East Antarctic Ice Sheet does «'' since WAIS appears to be melting from underneath (i.e. the water is warming, too), and since, as I wrote in the «high water» part of my book, the WAIS is inherently less stable:

Experts have long been searching for new flu viruses because they are known to periodically appear and sweep the globe; for example, there were at least three pandemics in the 20th century and just as many «pandemic threats.»

Because it takes 20 years to turn the fleet over, the ICE will be around until at least the middle of this century, and probably beyond that.

The phrase has been in use since at least the 18th century because it was included in «A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue» by Francis Grose in 1785.

Most of the action takes place in Jamaica, but even when Ida leaves the island for some years the author stays true to the Jamaican experience because, for at least a century, one of Jamaica's primary exports has been its people.

Occasionally, my Mid-Western, Swedish mother would refer to their house as the «Ottoman annex of the Metropolitan,» because it was - at least by the standards of Westchester County in the middle third of the twentieth century - so exotic.

We used the American Century Fund in our trailing return calculations for quite a few years because we want to be able to report trailing returns for at least 5 years.

In closing, if you love the modern day American Pit Bull Terrier, than you should at least give respect to those that created the breed centuries ago, because it is from these lines that all modern day Pit Bulls are spawned.

Not a lot, at least according to the CDC, because 5 / 6th of the increased life expectancy in the US was due to public health improvements: http://cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00056796.htm (Note that's just for the 20th century.

This is because many of the world's weather stations are currently in urbanized areas, but in the late 19th / early 20th centuries, these areas were rural (or at least less urbanized).

Even if we stopped all emissions today, we will be living with these changes for at least a century, because carbon takes a long time to dissipate from the atmosphere.

Because of climate change, sea level is now expected to rise at least three feet in Everglades National Park by the end of the 21st century.

A separate recent study said that regardless of what humans do or don't do, the world's oceans are destined to rise at least 4 inches (10 centimeters) in the next century because of climate wheels already in motion.

(Some statements of the bleedin» obvious in the following, but please bear with me): SLR is perhaps more likely to begin to accelerate towards the * end * of the century but once it gets going it will keep on coming for several hundred years (at least) and will be unstoppable because it is gravity driven.

Because many old houses — at least in the East — started life in the late 18th century.