Sentences with phrase «at least a century of»

There is at least a century of real - life improvement projects in communities and the environment that kids and adults can work together on to adjust the health of our planet.

The red rose needs ter touch its toes, all those daffodils exercise with bar - bells strenuously, tubby buttercups do at least a century of push ups, fer, hey, when that C O 2 goes bananas, making hay while the sun shines, everything grows.

Portions of the North Pacific haven't seen sea temperatures this high in at least a century of record - keeping.

Not exact matches

Rudd's $ 43bn fast web gamble The global recession has forced Kevin Rudd to scrap plans for a high - speed national broadband network funded by the private sector and wager at least $ 21.9 billion of taxpayers» money to fund his election pledge to bring internet speeds into the 21st century.

«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.

By the time the game finally started, on a steamy Texas Saturday this September, there were 87,500 people in the stadium and thousands more in the streets, all eager for the rematch between Alabama and Texas A&M — the «game of the century,» at least for that week.

Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century, drove toward Florida on Friday as it lashed the Caribbean with devastating winds and torrential rain, leaving behind at least 21 deaths and a swath of destruction.

In the world of shirts, the Oxford cloth button - down (or OCBD) is the workhorse — at least that's the case in America, where this style was first popularized around the turn of the 20th century.

And that's been part of our evolving national standard at least since the 19th century.

The fear of being bossed around by a united, hostile, and alien Europe has been part of the British (more precisely, the English) national identity since at least the 16th century.

Though the Canadian Business of the 1930s covered many topics that wouldn't seem out of place in the 21st century — rising taxes, truth in advertising, the imminent death of the airline industry — it also ran many stories the editors of 2013 likely would never touch («The story of safety glass») or would at least think twice about («The «social» diseases and business: what is syphilis costing Canada?»).

In 2002, before the sale of PayPal even went through, Musk started voraciously reading about rocket technology, and later that year, with $ 100 million, he started one of the most unthinkable and ill - advised ventures of all time: a rocket company called SpaceX, whose stated purpose was to revolutionize the cost of space travel in order to make humans a multi-planetary species by colonizing Mars with at least a million people over the next century.

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.

It involves policies that can be traced at least as far back as the «American System» of the early 19th Century, and it has been implemented in various forms by many different countries around the world during the past 100 or even 200 years.

So, guess your chances of realising that sort price appreciation in real estate experienced elsewhere is not likely to happen in the U.S. for at least another century.

Is it reasonable to speculate that perhaps mutual fund holdings of Treasuries as a percentage of the total outstanding has peaked at a high unseen for at least a quarter century?

Turning to any page at random, you will find gleefully sarcastic observations that ring at least as true today as they did three - quarters of a century ago.

In March of 2014, the leaders of all the autocephalous (independent) Orthodox Churches met in Istanbul, the sacred see of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, which historically (since at least the fifth century) coordinates such....

In March of 2014, the leaders of all the autocephalous (independent) Orthodox Churches met in Istanbul, the sacred see of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, which historically (since at least the fifth century) coordinates such assemblies, facilitating unity while serving as a center of appeal among these churches.

One cause of this decline in awareness of Buckley's Catholicism may be the fact that he wrote less about his faith than any other major Catholic figure of the twentieth century — at least, if we calculate by sheer percentage of the prose he turned out in his hugely productive lifetime.

Just brilliant and in total agreement with the leading philosopher / political theorist of the 20th Century, Eric Voegelin, who opposed pathological ideologies (Socialism, National Socialism, Communism, Fascism), though I doubt he considered «localism and traditionalism,» at least in the FPR «sense,» to be radical pathologies.

The authors usefully highlight the ways in which the evangelical fervor of the nineteenth century gave women considerably expanded space for social leadership, and they view people such as Matthews and Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormons, as reacting, at least in significant part, to this challenge to patriarchy.

First images of Christ weren't made (or at least what we've found) till two CENTURIES later.

* sigh * people have known for decades if not centuries at least that the numbers of Christians martyred was exaggerated.

Close examination of the frescoed parts of the walls reveals some interesting paleo - Christian graffiti, evidence of a Christian presence in the passageway between the 3rd and 5th centuries AD, when clandestine (or at least private) gatherings may have been held here.

• Gyula Krúdy, The Adventures of Sindbad: Not the Sinbad of the Arabian Nights, but a seducer and lover and aesthete of love, three centuries old at least, but indefatigable, a ghostly figure haunting the fading world of the Austro - Hungarian Empire.

His range of experience was restricted by the kind of man he was; and this in itself raises certain difficulties if he is held up as an example to all human beings everywhere and at all times, for it is at least in some measure unreal to present a first - century Galilean as a model for the conduct of Western or African or Asian men in a twentieth - century industrial society.

It's an all - stops - pulled celebration of the Middle Ages as the summit of Christian civilization — a sentiment I find at least somewhat attractive, until I remind myself that it would require later centuries for us to acquire the blessings of anesthesia, modern dentistry, and single - barrel bourbon.

Perhaps it is necessary to admit that the narrative, at least in the grand nineteenth - century tradition of Tolstoy, Austen, and Melville, is not the form for our time.

In the eleventh century Dante would probably have been almost as incensed about imperial intervention in the affairs of the Church — at least in the abstract — as he was in the fourteenth about papal intervention in affairs of state.

Rather it is based upon the conviction that this continuation of the nineteenth - century German quest ought probably to be interrupted or at least disturbed.

The past two years have seen the appearance of an informative Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (4 vols., edited by Leonard W. Levy [Macmillan]-RRB-, several outstanding studies on its intellectual background (including Forrest McDonald's Novus Ordo Seculorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution [University Press of Kansas] and Morton White's Philosophy, The Federalist, and the Constitution [Oxford University Press], at least one pathbreaking effort to trace the document's role through the years (Michael Kammen's A Machine That Would Go of Itself The Constitution in American Culture [Knopf]-RRB- and a gaggle of good books on its religious themes (see Martin Marty's review in The Century [«James Madison Revisited,» April 9.

This compels us to reconsider the civic project of American Christianity that has for the most part guided our participation in the liberal public order for at least a century.

This model is rooted in an understanding of schooling already at least four centuries old by the time Christian churches appeared on the scene.

But at least four interrelated themes in Plato's proposals about the education of ideal rulers took on a life of their own and did shape ordinary paideia as the Christians knew it centuries later.

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.

At the same time, Holloway is often, at least implicitly, in dialogue with his own neo-scholastic theological formation during the first half of the twentieth centurAt the same time, Holloway is often, at least implicitly, in dialogue with his own neo-scholastic theological formation during the first half of the twentieth centurat least implicitly, in dialogue with his own neo-scholastic theological formation during the first half of the twentieth century.

As part of the increasing dominance of technical reason the idea has grown up, at least in the 20th century, that positive freedom is a purely technical problem, one that should be left to the experts and the bureaucrats to solve.

We acknowledged that many people have recognized that these two texts pretty clearly do prohibit at least some kinds of male - male sex... The law really means what pretty much everyone has taken it to mean for centuries.

Rhetorical criticism of the Bible is nothing new; it can be traced back at least as early as Augustine, but the twentieth century practice of rhetorical criticism finds its origins in James Muilenburg's work with Hebrew poetry and Amos Wilder's lectures on early Christian rhetoric.

A century ago at least half our population could live on the produce of their own gardens.

Those of us who read The Christian Century and consider ourselves at least semitheologians should not shrug this development off with a casual distinction between «educated» and «noneducated» readers.

The same kind of coordinated action could unite evangelicals with other Christians and concerned persons of goodwill to address the key social needs of the late 20th century — if not to solve them, at least to hold them before God responsibly in prayer to seek whatever measure of progress may be consistent with the church's task before the return of Christ.

I believe that we will have to arch over all of the phenomena of the past 17 centuries back to a time when the church was at its least Pagan.

Furthermore, he knew that «Strife is at least as real a fact in the world as Harmony» (AI 32), and that «the mere doctrines of freedom, individualism, and competition, had produced a resurgence of something very like industrial slavery at the base of society» in the 19th century (AI 34).

It is possible and likely that most ministers, in a previous generation or century, interpreted the disciplining of their parishioners» faith as correcting them at least verbally.

This «strategy of openness» is not actually new» its origins trace at least to the turn of the twentieth century» and Bacevich does not claim to be the first to have discerned it.

Whatever moral capital U.S. bishops have in the wake of the sex abuse scandal that rocked the nation for decades will be insufficient to win over lay Catholics to what has been for at least a half a century a lost cause.

Their whole analysis of decline hangs on a prescriptive or normative understanding of church - relatedness, and that normative understanding resembles suspiciously what the colleges were, or at least claimed to be, sometime earlier in the century, in perhaps some «golden age» of church - relatedness (and, unfortunately, often concomitant ethnic insularity and academic mediocrity).

But already by the later decades of the 19th century some immigrants, notably the Irish, were able to exercise political power at least at the local level.