Sentences with phrase «beginnings over a century»

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.

This was where Lyman Beecher began over a century ago when he wrote concerning alcoholism, «For verily we all have been guilty in this thing.»

The McGah family's history in Northern California began over a century ago when E.W. McGah first put down roots in the San Francisco bay area.

The McGah family's history in Northern California began over a century ago when E.W. McGah first put down...

Since its beginnings over a century ago, it has served as the collective voice of American authors.

The Nintendo Co. Ltd began over a century ago as a Japanese playing card company founded in 1889 by Fusajiro Koppai.

Not exact matches

Many Canadians would initially guess Asia Pacific immigration to Canada began in the second half of the 19th century with the arrival of thousands of Chinese who came over first for the gold rush and later to build the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Even before Mao Zedong took over the reins in 1949, and the first Five Year Plan began in 1953, centuries of history demonstrated that long - term planning, while not always meeting expectations, is a core behavioral trait of the Chinese psyche.

This coming July, the world will mark the centenary of the First World War, the seismic calamity that began the 20th century as an epoch and that, in another hundred years, may well be regarded as the sanguinary first act in the end of Europe as «Europe» had been known for over a millennium.

The Waldensians were proto - Protestants, followers of Peter Valdes, a wealthy, twelfth - century merchant who gave his goods to the poor and, over the protests of his bishop, began to preach the gospel.

This was the result of a relatively unified Protestant vision in the nineteenth century, even if this vision had fractured into various wings over a number of issues beginning with the question of abolition.

The saga that began in 1917 and continued through the huge events of the 20th century up to the beatification of a pope in the 21st is not over yet.

Advances in cosmological science over the latter half of the 20th century began to reveal that when the universe came into existence, (more on that later), the fundamental forces it was birthed with were apparently «fine - tuned» to allow for the emergence of life.

Although held in theory over a long period, the belief was accentuated during the latter part of the nineteenth century and since, and became finally a basic dogma underlying the Japanese Imperial thrust, which is often regarded as the beginning of World War II.9 The idea was taught in the schools, in the army, and resulted finally in a fanatical religious, as well as patriotic, devotion to the emperor, without which, it seems to the writer, it is impossible to explain the daring attack of the island empire of Japan upon the richest and most powerful nation in the world, the United States.

So the evolution of the Church's understanding of the gospel over the centuries is not a matter of «paradigm shifts,» or ruptures, or radical breaks and new beginnings; it's a question of what theologians call the development of doctrine.

The era that began with the revolutions of the 18th century is not yet over and we still have so much to learn before it can be.

Although historically it has not always resisted associating itself with Polish national interests, the Ukrainian Catholic Church today has vigorously embraced the Catholic social teaching begun under Leo XIII and developed over the last two centuries.

Besançon first earned his reputation as a historian of Soviet politics and of Russian nationalism (toward both of which he entertains understandably dim views), and he thinks that the Russian nationalists of the nineteenth century, among their other sins, killed the genre of icon «painting when they began to praise the icon's superiority over Western art.

These arose partly from the fact that the Manchu Dynasty, then ruling the Empire, was beginning to show the first signs of the disintegration which was to end it over a century later and, as one of these symptoms, was timorous of anything which carried the least flavor of rebellion.

Personal religious experience and inner feeling, therefore, began to take precedence over religious thought and dogma at the very time when traditional Christian doctrines were becoming increasingly out of kilter with the new ideas and advancing human knowledge of the last two centuries.

So began the idea of a millennium, which even yet in Biblical fundamentalism exercises a potent sway over the imagination of many Christians, and upon which the curiosity of the credulous has worked for centuries in an endeavor to predict «times and seasons.»

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.

When the episcopal hierarchy of the East Syrian Church was fully organized by the beginning of the fifth century (410), the bishopric of Rewardastir was elevated to a metropolitanate and given jurisdiction over relations with India.

A professor of history and law at the University of Georgia, Larson begins by relating how the debate over Darwinism unfolded in America in the early part of the century, and developed into the warfare between science and religion that exploded in the trial (and continues to this day).

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.

Dale Van Kley's new book, The Religious Origins of the French Revolution, seeks to revive a sort of Whiggish interpretation of the French Revolution as the struggle for freedom against sacral monarchy, with much of the ideological discourse of the revolutionaries deriving from little expected religious controversies» beginning with the rise and fall of Calvinism in Catholic France, continuing through the struggles over theological Jansenism, and ending in the political struggles of the French high courts of justice, the parlements, with the administrative monarchy of the eighteenth century.

The church does acknowledge that influential Catholic thinkers over the centuries have had different views on when exactly life begins, with some putting that milestone well after conception.

He chooses this tome when a significant body of literature has for over a century pointed to the Reformation as the Rubicon of secularization, beginning with Max Weber's seminal The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism in 1905.

Over the centuries, beginning with King David bringing the Ark of the Covenant into Jerusalem (2 Sam 6), there was a progressive centralization.

While the 20th century is somewhat fresher in our minds (it's only been over, technically speaking, for six weeks now), History has already begun to trim its roster.

He began his managerial career whilst still a player with Chelsea, and led them to their first major trophy for over a quarter of a century when they won the FA Cup in 1997.

However, in the 19th century it began to take the form that we all know and love today with a number of clubs popping up all over the country.

I began to recognize that many of the very common problems parents have with babies today stem from the new «modern» parenting practices promoted over the last century (by industry - educated, predominantly male doctors)-- colic, reflux, rashes, diarrhea, constipation, sleeplessness, ADHD, diabetes, obesity, hyperactivity, antisocial behavior — and then continuing into adult problems of high blood pressure, depression, eating disorders, and inability to form strong bonds with a mate.

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.

For over a quarter of a century, UK greenhouse gas emissions have been falling while GDP has increased, and we have begun to address flooding risks and other dangers.

«The trial of the century», as Egyptians have dubbed Mubarak's prosecution, began soon after millions of Arabs took to the streets all over the Middle East, and it was concluded against the backdrop of the deep frustration of most from the results of the Arab Spring.

The International Joint Commission, which helps prevent disputes between the two countries over transboundary waters, had been undergoing a study for the area since the beginning of the 21st Century.

Looking at data from 1855 through 2005, Webster and Holland found that the total number of tropical cyclones per year doubled in that time, from an average of six at the beginning of last century to 14 over the past decade.

Since radio towers began climbing over towns and cities in the early 20th century, the air has grown thick with wireless communication, the platform on which radio, television, cellphones, satellite broadcasts, Wi - Fi, GPS, remote controls and hundreds of other technologies rely.

Over the past few centuries, and accelerating ever more quickly in the past 50 years, a steady stream of human innovations has begun to drastically speed up processes that were, until very recently, the sole province of nature.

Over the past 200,000 years, replacement - level fertility rates have ranged from 2.1 to 3.0 children per couple, he said, noting that global population remained remarkably stable until the beginning of the 19th century, when decreased mortality in newborns resulted in fertility rates exceeding replacement levels.

The overall retreat of several kilometers that has occurred over the past 20,000 years was interrupted by a stillstand or a re-advance of several hundred years at the beginning of the ACR, and then by increasingly minor glacial episodes at the end of the YD, at the beginning of the Holocene (around 10,000 years ago) and during the Little Ice Age (13th to 19th centuries).

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.

He added that the findings hint at how astronomical awareness grew over the centuries in the region, beginning with recognition that the sun slowly travels back and forth, north and south, over the course of the year.

As a 2002 paper in Diabetes states: «The best evidence available suggests that childhood diabetes showed a stable and relatively low incidence over the first half of the 20th century, followed by a clear increase that began at some time around or soon after the middle of the century.»

Sea levels are projected to rise up to 7 feet over the next century, and Zarrilli has begun to plan for major storm barrier systems, like the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project, to keep the Big Apple dry.

The original hypothesis that dietary fat, especially saturated fat, is chiefly responsible for heart disease began with laboratory studies over a century ago [10] and the findings ere, at best, uncertain.

Noah and Allie's romance begins in South Carolina in the 1940's and spans over the 20th century.

«There's always a price to pay to have it this good,» says one disaffected laborer near the beginning of «Marmato,» referring to his hometown's status as one of the world's last great gold reserves: Though it's been mined for over five centuries, its worth is still estimated at $ 20 billion.

Each disc's feature presentation retains the original blue Walt Disney Pictures logo at the film's beginning (over which snow falls), but places the current 21st century Disney CGI castle logo at the end.