Sentences with phrase «black years ago»

I think, though I stand to be corrected, that the first course on animal law was given by Vaughan Black some years ago at UBC while he was on sabbatical there.

«I've bought this swimsuit in black a year ago and LOVE it!

Not exact matches

Fifteen years ago, we didn't know what «Cyber Monday» was, but now it's an important piece of holiday shopping (maybe as important as Black Friday to some people).

's release a year ago, 30 - year - old Lamar curated, produced and co-wrote the soundtrack for the Marvel Studios film Black Panther.

Back in the old days of television programming — say, 15 years ago — most standup specials like Black's ran for a limited time on one of the three main cable channels that aired comedy (HBO, Showtime, Comedy Central) before being shuffled off to the archives.

If you told her she had to drape her body in a billowing black sack every time she went outside, or that her right to vote was only a right as of a few years ago, she'd tell you you'd lost your mind.

Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. led a historic march in Washington, D.C. to advocate for civil rights for black Americans.

After creating a sensation a few years ago with Bevel, a line of shaving items for black men that reduces razor bumps, serial entrepreneur Walker is back with Form, a line of shampoos, conditioners, and other products aimed at a wide array of hair textures.

The least offensive of Spirit's attempts, which isn't saying much, was probably its peculiar black - on - silver motif of a few years ago.

According to Adobe Analytics, retailers raked in $ 7.9 billion in online sales on Black Friday and Thanksgiving, up 17.9 percent from a year ago.

But instead of the black and lifeless lake that lay impounded behind it just two years ago, now there is a firm, rolling meadow sprinkled with snags for hawks to roost on and boulders to create wildlife habitat.

«As recently as three years ago, Black Friday — dominated by Big Store brands — was clearly better than smaller brand - focused and clothing - focused Cyber Monday, in terms of the number and quality of deals, as well as the number of participating retailers,» says de Grandpre of DealNews.

When I was preparing to speak to a group of Black corporate directors several years ago, I was asked a straightforward question: How much money does the foundation I run invest with firms owned by women or minorities?

A few years ago Green Hills even threw a black - tie party in the store to meet more Diamonds and Rubies, and 200 attended.

Black Panther would also be the first Marvel movie to reach $ 1 billion since Civil War cleared $ 1.15 billion two years ago, and the fifth so far from Disney's Marvel Cinematic Universe.

When we think about it, China's economy 40 years ago was an almost totally closed black box.

Yes I realize the AFB and everyone else has a formula to balanced budgets, but with corporate taxes a mere shadow of what the were some 20 years ago, it will take a whole pile of growth or it will tax some major tax reform to keep the books out of the red and push into the black.

The falling price of oil is squeezing Malaysia's exports: the black stuff generated around 30 percent of the country's federal revenues two years ago.

Drawing on the work of New York University sociologist Patrick Sharkey, Richard Florida wrote that 70 percent of black residents in America's poorest and and most segregated neighborhoods «are the children and grandchildren of those who lived in similar neighborhoods 40 years ago.»

«If we had launched this business five years ago, it wouldn't have been the right time because the technology was not developed,» Mr. Black said.

Though the shopping festival was only launched a few years ago by Alibaba, the event has quickly surpassed the combines sales of the major U.S. shopping holidays, Cyber Monday and Black Friday.

He was a black lab that died tragically in a car accident about 35 years ago.

Interesting considering Mormons denied black people had souls until about 10 years ago... Its like Rush Limbaugh saying he's going to work for PETA — not a good fit dear.

About 3 years ago I dropped into a black hole â $ «four months of absolute terror.

Only few years ago, the LDS allow blacks, but not sure if they can become leaders in the Church.

Still, it seems like a racist comment you'd hear years ago how blacks all look alike and I think people should be more offended by that suggestion.

Here goes; Back in the early days (what... 200 years ago) here in the United States, and in Europe, Blacks were held, against their will, as slaves, private property if you will.

Jackson faces the elephants in the room of whites and blacks having deep, meaningful relationships very quickly, especially in book two when one of the White main character's husband, Denny, is mistaken by, MaDea, an aging African American woman who is suffering from dementia, as one of the men who brutally lynched her brother nearly 70 years ago.

However, white evangelicals (89 %) and black Protestants (84 %) buck the trend, and are actually more likely to want a candidate that shares their faith than they did four years ago.

Approximately 150 years ago in the United States, some Christian teaching held that there was a two-fold moral order: black and white.

If I decided the World started 4,000 years ago with one man, one woman and a dancing bear, people would rightly consider me a fool, but give me a white collar and black robes and change it to 6,000 years, one man, one woman and a talking snake, and all of a sudden I'm believed without question.

Seven years ago, John B. Cobb, Jr., suggested that process theologians needed external criticism from Black, political and Latin American theologians.

Years ago, when I was pastor of a black parish in Brooklyn, I frequently compared such research to the number of people who claimed to be members of our parish, St. John the Evangelist.

The Bible also says rabbits chew their cud, the earth is balanced on pillars, the earth is a flat disc, the stars are small ornaments hung up in the sky, which itself is nothing more than a black sheet covering the world at night... it says the moon gives off its own light, it says the world was created in 6 days less than 10,000 years ago... It says a lot of things that aren't true.

«I'm in a really privileged position as a woman filmmaker, as a black filmmaker because at the current moment there's not a shortage of opportunity to tell the stories and that's not something that I was able to say even two years ago, three years ago,» she says.

Oh... Wait... It wasn't that many years ago that religious nutters said that being left - handed was a sign of the devil, and being black was the mark of Cain.

None of these businesses survive in the same organizational state as 150 years ago; some of the names are only historical reminders, left after a century of mergers and acquisitions; and many of them have already put into place elaborate affirmative hiring policies, racial sensitivity training, and programs that underwrite black education.

I notice you insist on draging the discussion back to time and place 3,446 years ago because you think you found something that gives God a black eye.

Black people are still blaming white people for things that happened 300 years ago.

Blacks folks don't have short memories, they are still talking about slavery and that happen hundreds of years ago.

Two years ago I wore black for the entire Lenten season as a symbol of my grief over the death of our Lord, and I also wore black in solidarity for the suffering that is experienced in this world by so many people.

It does, however, turn the eyes of theologians away from heaven and toward the earth; or, more accurately, it causes us to connect the starry heavens with the earth, as the «common» creation story claims, telling us that everything in the universe, including stars, dirt, robins, black holes, sunsets, plants and human beings, is the product of an enormous explosion billions of years ago.

The reformation was nearly 700 years ago and it did nt prevent christians from decimating the Indians and enslaving black people.

years ago two preachers (one was a black man and the other was white) were arguing about what color God was....

I have only ever personally known one person who has undergone such a trial (a trial in both senses of the word): Conrad Black, who appointed me editor of The Catholic Herald about ten years ago and who is now serving a six year prison sentence in Florida.

Two years ago, the Czechs were in the streets of Prague facing Russian tanks, not because of compassion for human want and misery, but because they were not free; the Vietnamese continue to resist America, as they did Japan and France before us, not because of hunger for food but hunger to determine their own destinies; black militants are in the streets of our cities today, not because they are famished — though poverty and want still stalk our land, particularly black communities — but because black citizens, more than any others, have been politically isolated and impotent, unable to act in their own governance.

A few years ago the attitudes of white people on matters of race relations in the South could be fairly well predicted by examining a map which showed county by county the proportion of blacks to whites in the population.

Many years ago a Caucasian share cropper on a Mississippi farm reported to his landlord that he had witnessed the lynching of a Black man over the week - end.

I think it was summed up in Men in Black very nicely: «1500 years ago, everybody knew that the Earth was the center of the universe.

Isn't that what they were saying about black about 200 years ago?