Sentences with phrase «beginning about a century»

It all began about a century ago when most GPs were sturdy all - rounders performing nearly all the tasks which are now the preserve of specialists.

Not exact matches

21st Century Fox (FOX), for example, is only down by about 4 % since the beginning of the year, or less than half Disney's decline.

While artificial intelligence (AI) has been present for more than half a century, the revolution is just about to begin, said...

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.

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?»

Now, this moral belief began to be partnered, about four centuries ago, by a second belief of a different sort — namely, an immense optimism about the success of this enterprise of compelling the natural world to satisfy human wants.

By the second century, Roman soldiers were bringing their new faith to Britain, and in the middle of the third century St. Alban became Britain's first known Christian martyr, but we don't know much more about who these Christians were, and it is here that Malcolm Lambert begins in Pagans and Christians: The Conversion of Britain from Alban to Bede, producing a captivating narrative by squeezing what he can» but no more» from archeological evidence (mostly from burial sites) and the limited historical record.

In her review, Keller says, «You began your project by ignoring (actually, by pretending you did not know about) the most basic rules of hermeneutics and biblical interpretation that have been agreed upon for centuries.»

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.

About the beginning of the second century a disagreement arose among the Christians of Asia.

The word «Trinity» did not even come into Christian use until about the beginning of the third century, and it was another two centuries before the orthodox form of it was hammered out in Christian thought.

However, at the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th, within about ten or 20 years, new institutions were created.

For example, at the beginning of the twentieth century about 40 - 45 per cent of the world's population remained below the poverty line.

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.

Many evangelicals are beginning to grasp the fact, that certain ways of reading the Scriptures and certain doctrines about the Scriptures may actually become the means of oppression of modern women by the imposition of first century social patterns.

With this experience of what we humans are capable of doing to one another, and with the decline of belief in a providential God, there is far less confidence about the human future among informed people today than there was at the beginning of the twentieth century.

«44 At the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries Americans had wavered about claiming to be a city set on a hill with the eyes of the world upon it.

In the 21st century, isn't it about time we stopped taking moral guidance from a collection of thousands - of - years - old stories that weren't very good guidance to begin with?

In the second century, at the time when the Canon of the New Testament was beginning to be formed, there was a controversy about the place which the Old Testament should occupy in the Church.

That America is guided by Providence is a belief deeply entrenched in the seventeenth - century beginnings, the constitutional period, Lincoln's ponderings on our greatest war, and Woodrow Wilson's convictions about the inseparable connections between freedom and American destiny.

The nineteenth century saw heated debates, in response to Darwin's theory of evolution and the beginnings of historical criticism of the Bible, about whether the scripture was verbally inerrant.

A young man who is about to marry the daughter of a friend explained to me how advertising is beginning to penetrate the villages and spark development of a kind that surpasses a quarter century of Five Year Plans.

No twentieth century scientist has been willing to define life (which I find supremely ironic as some physicians testify before Congress about when life begins!).

Whereas families had often stayed in their own village for centuries, people now began to move about in search of work or advancement.

After that the Turks were comparatively free from European attacks for two hundred years, and did not have to face another Crusade until about the beginning of the fourteenth century (the latter half of the nineteenth century A.D.).

In case one who was about to learn to dance were to say, «For centuries now one generation after another has been learning positions, it is high time I drew some advantage out of this and began straightway with the French dances» — then people would laugh at him; but in the world of spirit they find this exceedingly plausible.

But as we begin to build theological faculties for the 21st century, we must ask some hard questions about the future of theology.

After rising slowly until the seventeenth century, when it reached about 400 millions, the earth's population began to shoot up in an alarming fashion.

It was not until the eighteenth century that real doubt began to be raised about whether the concept of God referred to any kind of objective reality.

When one considers the magnitude and radical nature of the questions posed for the theologian by the new world, it is not surprising to find that theologians are beginning to speak about a new reformation more radical than that of the sixteenth century.

It was caught back around the beginning of the 20th century, was about 38 feet long, 18 feet around, with an estimated weight of over 26,000 pounds.

In the early part of the second century various books began to be written in Christian circles about the apostle Peter, or even in his name, until one could have collected a whole New Testament bearing his name.

The second reason to question the Cartesian assumptions about nature came with the inability of those assumptions to account for new developments in physics at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Mikhail Gorbachev warned his own people that by the beginning of the twenty - first century the Soviet Union was at risk of becoming a third world nation (at about the level of India).

It was not until about a century after Jesus that Christians began to regard as normal an ecclesiastical structure which had bishops as its chief administrative officers.

Although the United States by tradition was prevailingly Protestant, at the beginning of the nineteenth century only a small proportion, said to have been about seven in a hundred, were members of churches.

Another factor that has brought about this change in attitude toward the discipline is the new perspective that has been at work for the past quarter - century and is now beginning to dominate the mind and spirit of much of Western mankind.

Here excavations indicate that the city (earlier and under a different name, the capital of the Hyksos Dynasty) was destroyed in the sixteenth century when the Hyksos were expelled, that reoccupation probably began shortly before 1300 B.C., and that work went on there under the first two kings of the Nineteenth Dynasty, Seti I (about 1310 - 1290 B.C.) and his son Rameses II (about 1290 - 1224 B.C.), who gave his name to the city.

About the middle of the tenth century Germans, who were now officially Christian and among whom the Saxons were politically dominant by armed force began the extension of their authority over the Wends.

But as we talked, I began to think that his ideas about the eleventh century may have a great deal to do with the once and future Times Square.

In the last years of the fifteenth century he began talks with the Augustinians about founding a university there.

This old fashioned narrative, drawn from the history of seventeenth century Europe, can not even begin to explain what the commotion over The Satanic Verses was all about.

A few years ago, I began researching a project about cholera in the 19th century, and I stumbled across a Web site devoted to the legendary doctor and epidemiologist John Snow.

Groundbreaking work that began more than a quarter of a century ago has led to ongoing insights about brain organization and consciousness

The case for action rests on the realization that for the first time since the beginning of the Enlightenment era in the mid-17th century, the very idea of science as a way to establish a common book of knowledge about the world is being broadly called into question by heavily financed public relations campaigns.

Humans domesticated the sweet potato in the Peruvian highlands about 8000 years ago, and previous generations of scholars believed that Spanish and Portuguese explorers introduced the crop to Southeast Asia and the Pacific beginning in the 16th century.

The West is beginning to have an overdue debate about what kind of intelligence activity is legitimate for a 21st century democracy, and where red lines should be drawn.

One thing is already clear: A warmer global atmosphere currently holds about 3 to 5 percent more water vapor than it did at the beginning of the 20th century, and that can contribute to heavier precipitation.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, new research indicates the eastern tropical northern Pacific's anoxic zone was shrinking for most of the 20th century before beginning to expand in about 1990.

A breezy account of the evolution of science over the past few centuries is followed by an account of «how to be a scientist», which begins with how to go about entering the profession and winds up with making significant discoveries and winning prizes.