Sentences with phrase «because after centuries»

Because after a century of bogus meritocracy based on crude vertical assessments of an essentially fictional human attribute known as «intelligence,» the science of aptitude testing may be making a comeback.

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This is because in China the gap between lending and deposit rates during this century has been much higher than in other developing countries, probably as part of the process of recapitalizing the banks after the last banking crisis at the turn of the century.

To address power and prestige, while it may be true that Britain's loss of reserve - currency status in the 20th century coincided roughly with its loss of political and military preeminence, I think it is incorrect to imply that Britain lost power and prestige after the Great War mainly or even partly because sterling lost its status as the dominant reserve currency (which in fact really occurred some time in the 1930s and 1940s).

He was after all one of the great literary modernists of the early twentieth century, and modernism was a kind of radicalism, because it a refused to remain within the frame of established orthodoxies.

That's a very interesting question, because well into the Second Century, until well after the Second Revolt in Jerusalem, Christians were just a «sub» sect in Judaism.

Two and a half centuries later the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, in the «Preface to the Second Edition» of his Critique of Pure Reason (1787), appropriated this «Copernican Revolution» in thought for his own shift from the presumed objectivity of what we know to the act of conscious knowing itself.2 It remains a contestable assessment because the movement is precisely in the opposite direction: After Copernicus, we humans are no longer understood to be in the center of the universe, whereas Kant concentrated precisely on the subjectivity of individual knowing.

After all, Christians worshiped Jesus for several centuries before any of them thought to argue that God created the world out of nothing, and Augustine found the «books of the Platonists» so convincing mainly because the Manichaeans made such a muddle of their version of materialism.

Is it possible and after reading about it i kept on thinking «i will sell to my soul for 20 carats get out shut up i will never ever sell my soul to you oh god please help me and this is continuing for a few days i am afraid that i have sold my sold to the devil have i please help and still i think god's way of allowing others to hate him us much worse even you know and can easily think think about much better punishments like rebirth after being punished for all the sins in life and i am feeling put on the sin of those who committed the unforgiviable sin (the early 0th century priests) imagine them burning in hell fire till now for 2000 years hopelessly screaming to god for help i can't belive the mercy of god are they forgiven even though commiting this sin keans going to hell for entinity thank you and congralutions i think the 7 year tribulation periodvis over in 18th century the great commect shooting and in 19th century the sun became dark for a day and moon was not visible on the earth but now satun has the domination over me those who don't belive in jesus crist i used to belive in him but now after knowing a lot in science it is getting harharder to belive in him even though i know that he exsists and i only belived in him not that he died for me in the cross and also not for eternal life and i still sin as much as i used to before but only a little reduced and i didn't accept satan as my master but what can i do because those who knowingly sin a lot and don't belive in jesus christ has to accept satan as their master because he only teaches us that even though he is evil he gives us complete freedom but thr followers of jesus and god only have freedom because they can sin only with in a limit and no more but recive their reward after their life in heaven but the followers of satun have to go to hell butbi don't want to go to hell and be ruled by the cruel tryant but still why didn't god destroy satun long way before and i think it was also Adam and eve's fault also they could have blamed satan and could have also get their punishment reduced but they didn't and today we are seeing the result

«god» was so responsible in making that «provision» for being «saved» that «he» waited tens of thousands of years after modern man arrived on this planet (dooming countless generations to «hell» because they didn't have a chance), and then on top of that «he» implemented «his» «provision» in the middle of a freakin» desert in a time when there was no Internet and at a time when those ignorant goatherding people thought the world was flat (thereby dooming countless more generations of people to «hell» because there was no way, for example, to even get the message to what would become the Americas 15 centuries later).

The printing press, for instance, was not introduced into Turkey for a century and a half after its invention because of the opposition of those who wanted to preserve the fine art of calligraphy and feared that the scribes would lose their jobs.

One of his central contentions as a literary critic was that after the seventeenth century the novel had degenerated because of a lack of religious seriousness.

to madtown, Why Jesus was sent in Israel, because that place was part of the Roman Empire, the center of the worlds civilizatoon at that time, in the third century after Him, the Roman emperor, Constantine decreed that christianity was the official religion of the empire, and soo the teachings of Jesus inspired the whole empire, now the present Europe and the Middle East has prospered more than anywhere else in the world, The Americas was not even discovered yet by Columbus, With the prosperity of the empire was the growth of scientific knowledge that leads to what we are now, it happened because its part of Gods Will, History is its Reflectiom.

Thus Luke's dates, and other clues in the New Testament, are not at all reliable, partly because they were written nearly a century after the event and partly because they were determined by religious interests rather than by a concern for historical accuracy.

Many Christian writers, especially after the fourth century, avoided the language of friendship altogether — perhaps, Konstan suggests, because the classical notion of friendship, which required a mutual awareness of virtue, seemed incompatible with Christian humility and with the sense that all of one's virtue was ultimately the fruit of God's grace.

On another occasion when after a revival in Wales the clergy resolved to put away their concubines, the bishop actually forbade them because he would lose the revenue derived from the tax on such infractions of the canon law.64 The abolition of clerical concubinage was a major item on the docket alike of the Protestant and the Catholic reformers of the sixteenth century.

We may be tempted to leave out Philemon because it is so badly attested in the second century and because debates later arose about its inspiration; but we must finally — after all these calculations — remember that if the scribe wrongly calculated the number of pages for his book he could glue on others at the end.

Dude, you were drafted by the Red Sox in 2007, at the time they were going for their second World Series in four years, and were already hated after being the sympathetic underdog for the better part of a century... and in part because their fans couldn't conceive of anyone disliking them.

But in five years McKee has been hospitalized only once, and that because three 20th - Century privateers, after seeing him with his treasures on a TV show, beat him unconscious on a New York sidewalk.

This is a kind of plastic actually known for being toxic because after a decade or a century, it remains above the earth.

But Century Transportation officials hurt their chances to capitalize on the council's vote, because the company gave its 30 - day termination notice June 3, shortly after learning that the selection committee favored Syracuse Regional Airport Taxi.

The civilization reached its peak in the early centuries of the Common Era, only to decline after 700 C.E., possibly because they had tapped out the region's ground water, Mattingly explains.

The existing law states that claimants have one year to sue after a print publication, but online publications enjoy no such protection because of a 19th - century ruling.

«Because it lasted for hundreds of years they built more, more, more pyramids and after centuries they started to fill all the spaces that were still available in the necropolis.»

Just more than a quarter - century ago, Kurt Cobain, the late frontman for»90s grunge band Nirvana, famously quipped on the seminal «Nevermind» album that «just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not after you.»

It's incredibly frustrating, because it takes a century to dry on its own and I keep smudging it hours after I thought it was dry.

Not at all, because the ending, in admirable 18th century style, tidies all loose ends, restores order to the kingdom, and allows everyone to live happily ever after, although it is in the nature of things that some will live happier than others.

Women have been punished for being in power, for being powerful for many centuries and I thought that was the remarkable thing about making Prospero into Prospera... You can bring in that history of female struggle, and certainly in Shakespeare's day and for many centuries before and after women of knowledge were punished for that knowledge... We can see now in the extreme fundamentalist states, whatever religion they are, that they want to exclude women from education... because an educated woman is a dangerous thing.

Similarly, there's no reason why Williams and Jordan can not play brother and sister in the Fantastic Four franchise reboot, just because of the differences in race; after all, there's nothing to prevent the characters from being the children of a biracial couple (welcome to the 21st century, folks).

In the federal government, Social Security's original retirement age of 65 was updated almost half a century after the initial act was passed (prompted mainly because of fiscal reasons).

With the inexpensive workforce that came after the Civil War when both soldiers and former slaves were in need of work, the furniture industry really started to bloom in the late 19th Century and many investors were interested in High Point because of its location, cheap labor, and cheap and efficient method of transportation.

The quarter kilometer long Tonquin Beach (named after an early 18th century fur trading ship) is often referred to as Tofino's town beach because it is located within walking distance of downtown Tofino.

Because they needed their water engineering skills, even a century after the Inquisition began, it was still allowed for every village to have two Moorish families live there.

The artist, in the 19th - century Saints» Legend, struggles against the most determined parental and social opposition, suffering the slings and arrows of social opprobrium like any Christian martyr, and ultimately succeeds against all odds — generally, alas, after his death — because from deep within himself radiates that mysterious, holy effulgence: Genius.

More than a decade after her last major exhibition in London, Dame Bridget Riley agreed to a show which covers a half century of her career but includes new paintings, because she loved the gallery building.

Admittedly, beyond a century our projections of what will happen to the perturbed climate system become very hazy, but this is because after that date the consequences may become so large that conventional wisdom starts to fail, not because anthropogenic climate change will end on that date.

That despite this, they are inadequately prepared, because, after a heap o» centuries of infinite progression, they will be inable to cope with a temperature difference between the now when they're alive and the then when they are so far dead that we're into carbon dating their corpses.

On the other hand, if by some chance and what ends up happening is totally independent of human activity, because it turns out after all that CO2 from fossil fuels is magically transparent to infrared and has no effect on ocean pH, unlike regular CO2, say, but coincidentally big pieces of the ice sheets melt and temperature goes up 7 C in the next couple of centuries and weather patterns change and large unprecedented extreme events happen with incerasing frequency, and coincidentally all the reefs and shellfish die and the ocean becomes a rancid puddle, that could be unfortunate.

Most of the rest was built for cars: the 19th century cities in Northern England were depopulated after the war because of urban renewal schemes.

These variables did not have effect because the GMT pattern before and after mid-20th century were nearly identical.

Increased global temperature persists for many centuries after the climate forcing declines, because of the thermal inertia of the ocean [198].

We assumed only that due to the biological and physical effects the ratio fabsorbed (t) / (total CO2 content of then air) is more or less constant, hence a simple response pulse response exp -LRB-- t / lifetime) is applied to the anthropic time series of coal, gas, oil and cement which have different delta13C As the isotopic signature of (CO2 natural)(t) is slowly decreasing because plants living days or centuries ago are now rotting and degassing and as molecules entered in the ocean decades ago are now in the upwellings after a slow migration along the equal density surface from the high latitudes where those surface are surfacing at depth zero, there are common sense constraints or bounds on the possible evolution of the delta13C of the natural out - gassed CO2 molecules.

Because the global mean temperature pattern before and after mid-20th century, before and after huge increase in human emission of CO2, are identical as shown in the following graph.

Partly, that's because the area hasn't yielded much in the way of historical texts after the 13th century.

With the inexpensive workforce that came after the Civil War when both soldiers and former slaves were in need of work, the furniture industry really started to bloom in the late 19th Century and many investors were interested in High Point because of its location, cheap labor, and cheap and efficient method of transportation.

Your kitchen sounds gorgeous, Candace, when we were in Spain, we saw countless» Moorish» tiles that were so old, but yet, timeless, because they were still gorgeous after centuries - I think people should be brave and if you really love something, its not the end of the world to chisel it off in 10 years - my subway tile only cost $ 250 to install, and $ 50 for the tile - that is not such a huge investment, that after a certain length of time, just call it «upkeep repair» and don't feel guilty for wanting to change it - life is short - be happy with your choices for now!