Sentences with phrase «big history by»

And he expanded the scope of big history by adding to it his concept of the contingency — the rare, unexpected event (like an asteroid collision) that changes the world in a blink.

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But what emerged is a story of a company trapped by an overly ambitious launch schedule, an inexperienced leadership team expected to deal with the biggest crisis in the firm's history, and a sophisticated retail giant felled by the most mundane, basic and embarrassing of errors.

Nearly two years ago, Whitman led Hewlett - Packard through the biggest corporate breakup by revenue in history, cleaving the $ 103 billion company into two: HP Inc. (hpq), where she recently stepped down as chairman, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (hpe), where she remains CEO.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The company formerly known as Yahoo is paying a $ 35 million fine to resolve federal regulators» charges that the online pioneer deceived investors by failing to disclose one of the biggest data breaches in internet history.

«It is truly unfortunate that this announcement is occurring amidst the aftermath of one of the biggest tragedies in the history» of Houston, the release said, referencing the extensive flooding in the city caused by Hurricane Harvey.

That would be the biggest one - day slump in stock market history, by more than double, besting the 777 point plunge that happened on October 29, 2008, at the high of the panic surrounding the financial crisis.

Some raw moments of history shown in the film are so shocking or absurd they're almost comical, but in the big - picture context afforded by the 56 - minute movie, they make the hair of your skin stand on - end.

To guide this growth, Indochino landed one of the biggest rounds of financing in Canadian e-commerce history and recruited a management team of fashion and retail veterans, led by a new top suit with experience scaling businesses.

«Just because Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley billionaire, his opinion does not trump our millions of readers who know us for routinely driving big news stories including Hillary Clinton's secret email account, Bill Cosby's history with women, the mayor of Toronto as a crack smoker, Tom Cruise's role within Scientology, the N.F.L. cover - up of domestic abuse by players and just this month the hidden power of Facebook to determine the news you see.»

And if the coming big releases «Jumanji» or «The Greatest Showman» (a Fox movie, by the way) do knock «The Last Jedi» from the top spot in the coming weeks, Disney still earned $ 5 billion - plus at the worldwide box office for the third year in a row (Warner Bros. hit that mark this year for just the second time in its history) and is likely to surpass WB as the top - earning studio at the domestic box office for the year.

Priebus, then the chairman of the RNC, told had Trump that he could drop out of the race or lose in the biggest electoral landslide in US history, according to a new memoir written by former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.

Saputo Inc. emerged as the winner of the Australian deal with a $ 450 - million all - cash bid — one of the biggest deals in the history of the company, which was launched in the 1950s as a family venture that made deliveries of homemade fresh mozzarella by bicycle.

Two years, later Time Warner rectified what was called by many the biggest mistake in corporate history by spinning AOL back out as a separate business.

We've had a three - year bear market where virtually everything lost money, followed by a stupendous year where virtually everything made money, topped off by the biggest regulatory scandal in the $ 7 trillion fund industry's history.

«As we keep growing, we need a bigger line; I'm determined to prove that we can handle it by keeping our financial reports extra clean and by building a flawless payment history.»

Rather than worry about history repeating itself, consider that every big success is preceded by a string of big failures.

In a statement, Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker Media, who was also personally named in the Hogan suit, said: «Just because Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley billionaire, his opinion does not trump our millions of readers who know us for routinely driving big news stories including Hillary Clinton's secret email account, Bill Cosby's history with women, the mayor of Toronto as a crack smoker, Tom Cruise's role within Scientology, the N.F.L. cover - up of domestic abuse by players and just this month the hidden power of Facebook to determine the news you see.»

They implemented the second largest tax cut package in Canadian history (only Paul Martin's were bigger), eliminating $ 60 billion in government revenue by 2012.

Last night's victory by Premier Christy Clark and the BC Liberals will go down in British Columbia political history as one of the biggest upset victories ever.

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When the history books are written, the shale oil «boom» will be looked back upon as one of the bigger scams executed beautifully by Wall Street.

The company formerly known as Yahoo is paying a $ 35 - million fine to resolve federal regulators» charges that the online pioneer deceived investors by failing to disclose one of the biggest data breaches in internet history.

Amazon's $ 13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods is the biggest acquisition by far in the company's 23 - year history

University of Pittsburgh researchers concluded it is «an asset which has no value by traditional measures» and economist Nouriel Roubini called it the «biggest bubble in human history».

By next week, closing arguments will take place to see if one of the biggest media mergers in history will go through.

@fimilleur from time to time mankind experiences the presence of God, there have been and continue to be events that testify to the presence of Him.The multiple gods you continually point to have an unique difference from the God who first revealed His presence to ancient men i.e. the Hebrews.The particular gods you mention roman etc. are all man made and in many instances men themselves i.e. hercules, but even the ancient greeks realized the limitations of their understanding and included an «unknown» God in their worship structure.many cultures did likewise, having a glimpse of God but not the fullness of understanding that was given to the Jews.Whether or not «we» believe, does not alter the fact that God exists as an unique being, whether or not «we» acknowledge Him «we» will stand before Him.You do not choose to understand, but we are actually standing in His presence right now as He is much bigger than the doctrines and knowledge man ascribes to Him those things you find so questionable are the misconceptions and misrepresentations of God made by men throughout history.

I have to confess that I'm not a big fan of watery accounts of religion in American history, by which I mean those that attempt either to baptize it or to scrub it....

The Future of History by John Lukacs Yale University Press, 192 pages, $ 24 Historian John Lukacs has never shied from asking the big questions.

God's Not Dead 3, the third movie in a franchise that's enjoyed financial success in the past, opened to a measly $ 2 million last weekend, finishing below the low bar set by Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas, one of the biggest commercial and critical flops in history.

... Enough said... Think about that one... We are not Perfect beings therefore Religion is far from being perfect... We can see this throughout History and even into the 21st century Religion is A Controlled Evil... Biggest Controlled Beauracracy Hoax over Man's Self yet - is Religion... Brilliantly orchestrated I must say though... Only the Weak Minded can be controlled by Religion... Blessed Be... 696969

Remarkable and significant as is the emergence of self - conscious persons by natural processes from the original «hot big bang» from which the universe has expanded over the last 10 - 20 thousand million years, this must not be allowed to obscure another fact about humanity, namely its relatively recent arrival in the universe, even on a time - scale of the history of the Earth.

The game between the Panthers and Denver Broncos will be the biggest event all year, judging by TV ratings history.

There were some noble reasons to try and organize ancient peoples, but in our current stage in history, religion has become an outdated, hypocritical source of leadership motivated by power and greed like all big business.

Mantel's memoir, like the novels, is thick with smoldering grievances: against teachers («I don't know if there is a case on record of a child of seven murdering a schoolteacher, but I think there ought to be»); adults generally («In Hadfield, as everywhere in history of the world, violence without justification or apology was meted out by big people to small»); and above all, against the Catholic Church, which stood in judgment on her mother when Mantel was a child.

He was definitely a nonconformist in a lot of ways (the things he said and taught were pretty radical), though he was also the biggest conformist in all of history if you think about him being the only person to perfectly abide by the law and conform to the pattern of humanity as God originally intended.

This very sophisticated approach of detecting «light polarizations — B - Modes» caused by the Gravitational Waves of the Big Bang was invented in the USA that led to detecting those Gravitational Waves for the first time in history, which also has great implications for the Christian belief.

The big difference between now and then, however, is that in those days Christianity was not a word tainted by a bad history of oppression, hypocrisy and irrelevance.

Even a simple protein molecule is so rich in information that the entire history of the universe since the Big Bang wouldn't give you the time you would need to generate that molecule by chance.

The Big change in history done by (illiterate) prophet Muhammad peace be up on him brought the people from darkness to light, but most people killed by the pride they do not want to admitted.

As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.

Strauss closes the Burke subchapter and NATURAL RIGHT AND HISTORY as a whole by saying that the biggest question concerns the status of INDIVIDUALITY.

Ironic isn't it — the biggest mass murders in history perpetrated by the most religious followers of a religion promoting turning the other cheek...

Sister Mary Corita chose to answer these questions with the words of William Sloane Coffin: «Because we love the world, we pray now, O [God], for grace to quarrel with it, O Thou whose lover's quarrel with the world is the history of the world... Lord, grant us grace to quarrel with the worship of success and power... to quarrel with all that profanes and trivializes [people] and separates them... number us, we beseech Thee, in the ranks of those who went forth from this place longing only for those things for which Thou dost make us long, [those] for whom the complexity of the issues only served to renew their zeal to deal with them, [those] who alleviated pain by sharing it; and [those] who were always willing to risk something big for something good... O God, take our minds and think through them, take our lips and speak through them.

And they are bound to be with us if our perspective is time - bound and world - bound; it is only by relationship to, and trust in, some Reality bigger and other than the world, yet working in and through the processes of time and history, that we can be raised above the level of immediacy into the sphere of ultimacy — and it is in that sphere alone, so far as I can see, that man can achieve any peace of mind.

The Story of Christianity Volumes 1 and 2 by Justo L. Gonzalez: My big summer reading project this year is to learn more about church history.

Obama won't even have to campaign and will win by one of the biggest landslides in American history.

For a more penetrating look at the Bible as presented by the History / Duck Dynasty / Pawn Star / Big Shrimpin» channel here's Stephen Colbert's take:

A MOMENT OF TRUTH The biggest moral issue for Catholics in English politics during this year of grace 2008 will surely, in the perspective of history, turn out to have been the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, introduced into Parliament by the Government in November, with the intention that it will become law early in 2009.

That leaves to be commended to you a «second edition revised and enlarged» of a lively and popular history, The Big Little School: 200 Years of the Sunday School, by Robert W. Lynn and Elliott Wright (Abingdon, $ 6.95).

Kona coffee beans have a long history and were first planted in Hawaii way back in 1820, and by the time Mark Twain visited the Big Island he was impressed with the fact that coffee had a much richer taste and flavor than any other he had tried.