Sentences with phrase «by a century long»

Either way, your furniture purchase is backed by a century long reputation for quality and value.

Not exact matches

In that spirit, the US Army has distributed reading recommendations so soldiers and civilians alike are able «to sharpen their knowledge of the Army's long and distinguished history, as well as the decisive role played by landpower in conflicts across the centuries.»

Rupert's son James, however, who is CEO of family holding company 21st Century Fox, argued that it was long past time for O'Reilly to leave, in order to try and mitigate some of the longer - term damage done by the allegations and the advertising exodus.

Backed by some impressive partners, Emotiv has a long - range strategy that sounds like a business - school case study from the 22nd century.

And, as Becker points out, the travel industry has exploded in the past half century, aided by open borders since the end of the Cold War, new long - haul airplanes, and more western comforts in far - flung locations.

Whatever our religion or ideology, we are still trapped by the centuries - old Protestant ethic, which viewed long hours as a badge of moral seriousness.

Combining safety, performance, and efficiency, Model S has reset the world's expectations for the car of the 21st century with the longest range of any electric vehicle, over-the-air software updates that make it better over time, and a record 0 - 60 mph acceleration time of 2.28 seconds as measured by Motor Trend.

What about the fact that the Odyssee has survived for centuries, longer than the bible, by your logic, shouldn't a story that has withstood the test of time and is still reproduced and discussed today deserve to be read?

A 2005 study by Gregory S. Paul published in the Journal of Religion and Society stated that, «In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion in the prosperous democracies,» and «In all secular developing democracies, a centuries long - term trend has seen homicide rates drop to historical lows» with the exceptions being the United States (with a high religiosity level) and «theistic» Portugal.

Two momentous changes long ago transformed the legal world that Lincoln knew: increased specialization, prompted by the rise of corporate firms at the turn of the century, and a large influx of new lawyers from relatively unassimilated ethnic groups at about the same time.

It does not have long to live for it shall be torn apart by logic and reason in the next half century.

The volume is also divided into two separate stories, set a century apart: a long first - person narrative by a Handmaid in Gilead is followed by «Historical Notes on «The Handmaid's Tale,»» a fictive academic commentary by the urbane male editor of the anonymous woman's tapes discovered in the late 21st century, decades after Gilead's fall.

Since those process categories have been connected with ideas of God inspired by the Bible, process theologians believe there is a chance in the twenty - first century to bring the long separated parts of human understanding into a new, coherent relationship.

The people of the Old Testament were on a long journey by which they gradually matured in their relationship with God, over long centuries learning about Him and discovering always more about who He is.

When I was a boy, I was given a book that I resurrected and reread a few years ago: The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries, by the now long - forgotten James J. Walsh.

Unlike India, where Christian mission has long been impeded by a thick, culturally - transmitted religious system, there is no such impediment in 21st - century China.

a first century palestinian man wouldnt look like the tall thin caucasian with long straight dark hair — an image invented by medeval europe.

Matthew's second woe (23:15), not recorded by Luke, reflects an intense missionary activity in Judaism in the first century which ceased not long after that.

By the time separation achieved critical mass during the second half of the nineteenth century, the establishments of old had long since died out.

«This year - long tour has given me a real understanding of how the innovation and vibrancy displayed by cathedral staff and their congregations is ensuring that these important churches continue to play a crucial role at the heart of local communities now and for centuries to come.»

Elizabeth observes: «Most women religious would admit that, in the quarter century since Vatican II, the rather short - lived euphoria of the «nun in the world» has been replaced by a long - suffering, quiet frustration at the lurking possibility of permanent extinction.

It was translated from texts finalized in the 16th century, which have long since been superseded by superior Hebrew and Greek texts based on much earlier manuscripts.

The best of the three, which seems likely to endure long enough to find it way into hymnals, sets a 20th century translation of the 13th century «Veni Sancte Spiritus» to a flowing and singable melody, harmonized with unorthodox parallelisms, its rhythm marked by alternating measures of four beats and three.

«Can human nature which has been so long conditioned by the stimuli of capitalism,» asked the CENTURY, «discipline itself while still subject to the same stimuli, to the point of curtailing its greed for profits when profits are to be had?»

Blind faith based on the musings of a few elderly gentlemen of the first and second century CE, and promulgated by a few «elite», white male Europeans is no longer acceptable.

The common sense notions presupposed by the scientists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and that still shape our everyday thinking, are no longer tenable as comprehensive and fundamental explanations of things.

He said that it is probable «that the world will live, if it does not destroy itself, for a long time in a state of semi-anarchy in which certain centers of authority, power, and prestige will mitigate the anarchy much as anarchy was mitigated in nineteenth century Europe by the balance of power.»

The same longing for an experience of God's presence is expressed in a prayer by a twentieth - century Indian Christian leader, Chandra Devanesen, who was the first Indian to be head of Madras Christian College — a missionary college dating back to the mid-nineteenth century, at which I studied for a year in the 1960s:

For the man of twofold vision nothing could be more illusory than the goal of success, nothing more false than money, and a long line of Protestant preachers in the 19th century continued to say so, though, by the end of the century some of their voices began to quaver.

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

By 1937, however, labor had made such gains, «corporation buccaneering» had been so greatly curbed, and the administration had so radically reformed American capitalism that the Century was no longer calling for even an evolutionary revolution; it was already under way.

By presenting a collection worldwide and 20 centuries long in scope, they also remind us of the often parochial character of our own debates and the church's enduring ability to continue confessing faithfully through crises much greater than our own.

The development of such a comprehensive view has long been a need, for it has become clearer and clearer as we have become familiar and involved with a constantly widening horizon of different musical aims and practices, that the old «common practice» theories of harmony and counterpoint could no longer be overhauled or extended, but had by necessity to be replaced by a way of description and analysis that treated the «common practice» of Western music from the late seventeenth to the end of the nineteenth centuries as only one instance of a much wider musical method and practice that could be applied to all of Western music, from its origins to the present, as well as to music of other cultures.»

Add to these the conquest of space by the airplane as the normal mode of long distance travel, and the automobile which began to be used before the turn of the century has become so much a part of life to millions that a curtailment of gasoline sends the economy into a tailspin.

The asses of the time were much less efficient than the camels that were to come into use many centuries later; nonetheless Sumerian commerce ventured far, blazing many a path followed by the merchants and adventurers of long succeeding ages.

The conservative turn in politics over the last decade is a long - delayed response, now led in significant part by evangelicals, the heirs of the fundamentalists who went into cultural exile almost a century ago.

Cartesian dualism, sharply separating mind and body, had long been rejected by the twentieth century and with it the Platonic idea of a soul, or mind, that could exist independently and forever apart from a body.

That was in the early»70s, when with long hair, bobbles, bangles and beads and a gleam of communitarian utopianism in my eyes, I finally found my way into the fourth century treatise by Nemesius, peri phuseos anthropon («On the Nature of the Human»), where it at length dawned on me that ancient wisdom could be the basis for a deeper critique of modern narcissistic individualism than I had yet seen.

But his real history is much longer and much more extraordinary than could be indicated by these flares of war; it is a history that runs back three centuries into primitive America, a strange and unfathomable history that is touched by something dark and supernatural, and that goes back through poverty and hardship, through solitude and loneliness and death and unspeakable courage, into the wilderness.»

I would be interested in anything that you, as a 21st century member of the religious cult, might have to say, but am not interested in anything written so long ago by bronze age or iron age cult members because they really knew nothing about the world and believed in gods the same way any primitive man did... through scientific ignorance.

He is properly indignant at this abandonment of long - standing commitments: «In two centuries of national existence no more pusillanimous act was ever contemplated, much less carried forward, by American officials responsible for our relations with international tribunals.»

We would know further that Israel was destroyed by the Assyrians toward the end of the eighth century BC and that Judah survived longer, but eventually was destroyed by the Babylonians early in the sixth century BC.

The Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral Philosophy by J.B. Scheewind Cambridge University Press, 624 pages, $ 69.95 cloth, $ 24.95 The autonomy whose invention J. B. Schneewind explores in this long and magisterial history of seventeenth - and eighteenth - century moral philosophy is Kantian....

Rather, as our best theologians in this century have increasingly confessed, the roots of much serious atheism can be found in long - revered ideas of God that have not yet been shaped either by the promissory aspects of revelation (especially in the case of the kind of atheism associated with Marx) or by the revelatory image of the kenotic God (especially in the case of the atheism associated with existentialism).

Others would adopt the same remedy, or have it imposed upon them, and by the end of the long nineteenth century in 1918, the ancient Catholic monarchies of Europe would all be gone.

August 2011 — The Air Force stops teaching the Just War theory to officers in California because the course is taught by chaplains and is based on a philosophy introduced by St. Augustine in the third century AD — a theory long - taught by civilized nations across the world (except America).

Making it the prophecies from 3rd century on to now days about 2000, to 2500 years prophesied by Daniel in the 6th century, from 586bce, to 606bce, a long time before the 4th common era.

In view of the undeniable span of several centuries embraced by the present book of Isaiah one suspects that the very book in its present form testifies to a long - continuing discipleship to the first Isaiah, the Isaiah of eighth - century Jerusalem.

In stark contrast, this century also witnessed Gandhi's Long March to the sea, which, because it was picked up by London and New York newspapers, focused world attention on the plight of the Indians under their British rulers.

As Emory Professor Gary Laderman has written, by the end of the nineteenth century, «intimacy with the naked truth of death, as it was embodied by the corpse, was no longer a necessary part of social life (The Sacred Remains, 175).»