Sentences with phrase «by centuries in»

Objection: The CO2 lags behind temperature by centuries in the glacial - interglacial cycles, so clearly CO2 does not cause temperatures to rise, temperatures cause CO2 to rise.

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And as if that wasn't enough, Hulu — which is owned by Walt Disney Co. (DIS), 21st Century Fox (FOX), and Comcast's (CMCSA) NBCUniversal — took another swipe at its larger rival on Wednesday with the announcement that it will start offering a commercial - free version of its Hulu Plus premium streaming service, a service that will soon include a bolstered roster of movies, thanks to the Epix deal, in addition to Hulu's wide range of original and network television programming.

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.&raquIn 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.&raquin conflicts across the centuries.»

In the first decade of the century, the large integrated oil companies traded at an average discount of between 11 % and 12 % compared to their pure - play competitors, according to a study conducted at the time by Citi Investment Research and Analysis.

Founded in 1920 by Pacific Northwest outdoorsman Eddie Bauer, the eponymous company has nearly a century's worth of experience creating apparel for adventurers of all types.

For centuries, every advance in industrial technology was heralded by prophecies of doom.

Internal studies by a group of analysts within Shell known as the «scenarios» team had concluded that global demand for oil might peak in as little as a decade — essentially tomorrow in an industry that plans in quarter - century increments.

This movement was led by the Chicago school of economics, the free market ideology developed at the University of Chicago in the mid-20th century.

Among spreading other conspiracy theories, Jones has said tragedies like the mass shootings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Conn., and Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colo., both in 2012, were hoaxes, propagated by opponents of the Second Amendment.

We're sitting in his 10th - floor office in the Phelan Building, a San Francisco landmark built at the turn of the century by James D. Phelan, an American industrialist and senator, who also happened to be the son of an Irish immigrant.

The campaign to abolish the trans - Atlantic slave trade began more than two centuries ago, and forced labour is prohibited by two 20th - century conventions — the more recent International Labour Organization's Abolition of Forced Labour Convention was in 1957 — and both were almost universally ratified.

And like us, Ravensburger is a family - owned company that has thrived for more than a century by staying true to its mission — a belief in the benefits of challenging the mind and the importance of creative play.

Major emerging economies like India insisted that they should not have to pay for the energy transition, since the world's pollution had been caused by more than a century of economic growth in the U.S. and in Europe.

Sky rose 4.1 percent, making it one of the top performers in Europe, boosted by the news that Comcast, parent company of CNBC, and Verizon said they are interested in buying certain parts of 21st Century Fox.

The Gutenberg Bible, for example, is described by the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library as epitomizing «the great advances made in printing technology in the 15th century.»

For centuries, sales leaders stood by rigidly structured methods when honing in on a potential customer.

Forty - four major law firms and 55 corporate legal departments are teaming up to boost diversity in the legal profession by drawing on two inspirational figures: the late Dan Rooney, beloved owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and Arabella Mansfield, a 19th century women's rights activist who became the first American woman admitted into the legal profession in 1869.

The current craze for bitcoin, and cryptocurrencies in general, have been likened by some to the 17th century Dutch tulip mania and more recently the dotcom bubble.

The philosophy of stoicism, founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early 3rd century BC, asserts that virtues (such as wisdom) should be based on behavior, rather than words.

By the 19th century, the buckles on our aristocrat's shoes would have been replaced with laces, but otherwise, they are not unlike the black lace - ups that appeared this year, in Louis Vuitton's fall 2012 collection.

21st Century Fox is currently trying to gain regulatory approval in the UK for a merger with Sky, both of which are owned by billionaire Rupert Murdoch.

Moraga Estate, the only working winery in Bel - Air and home of Twenty - First Century Fox and Fox News Chairman Rupert Murdoch, appears to be the latest casualty of wildfires spread by the Santa Ana winds in Southern California.

The upstairs parlor is where you'll find their 19th - century - inspired cocktails (72 varieties, to be exact), prepared by some of the best bartenders in the world.

The work is notable for its depiction of the elaborately detailed clothing favoured by 18th - century French aristocrats, but look closely at the young man in the foreground and you'll see he's wearing a pair of remarkably simple black dress shoes.

By the time the game finally started, on a steamy Texas Saturday this September, there were 87,500 people in the stadium and thousands more in the streets, all eager for the rematch between Alabama and Texas A&M — the «game of the century,» at least for that week.

Relations between worker and employer are governed by a welter of state and federal laws and regulations drafted in the first half of the 20th century to prevent child labor and other abuses in factories and on farms.

In 2010, Etsy sellers moved $ 314 million worth of merchandise — cuff links made from 19th - century shotgun shells ($ 50), knives forged by a master blacksmith in Albuquerque ($ 150), sweaters knit by a grandmother in Portugal ($ 225)-- a 74 percent increase over the previous yeaIn 2010, Etsy sellers moved $ 314 million worth of merchandise — cuff links made from 19th - century shotgun shells ($ 50), knives forged by a master blacksmith in Albuquerque ($ 150), sweaters knit by a grandmother in Portugal ($ 225)-- a 74 percent increase over the previous yeain Albuquerque ($ 150), sweaters knit by a grandmother in Portugal ($ 225)-- a 74 percent increase over the previous yeain Portugal ($ 225)-- a 74 percent increase over the previous year.

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.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will implement a 21st century digital bill of rights for EU residents by updating privacy regulations that first went into effect in 1995.

In a statement provided by 21st Century Fox, founder and executive co-chairman Rupert Murdoch said: «To ensure continuity of all that is best about Fox News and what it stands for, I will take over as Chairman and acting CEO, with the support of our existing management team under Bill Shine, Jay Wallace and Mark Kranz.»

Comcast already owns a 30 % stake in Hulu through NBCUniversal, and it remains to be seen how much Comcast plans to compete with that service, which is also jointly owned by rival media giants Walt Disney, Time Warner, and 21st Century Fox.

It seems that many of the trends that made their name in the middle of the 20th century are back in full force and being worn by a younger generation, many of whom weren't even born before Y2K.

In the 20th century companies could be leaders in a market for decades by just focusing on their core product (sIn the 20th century companies could be leaders in a market for decades by just focusing on their core product (sin a market for decades by just focusing on their core product (s).

In September, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan promised to spend a whopping $ 3 billion of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's extensive capital over the next 10 years, as it works towards its lofty goal of curing, preventing or managing all diseases by the end of the century.

The game, which was leaked to Kotaku and then confirmed by Ubisoft, will be set in 19th - century London and will feature new gameplay mechanics, like a grappling hook.

In one of the projects designed by PBS Education, students can view a guided tour of various French explorers in the 17th Century that helped map out North America's diverse waterways, like the Great Lakes and the Mississippi RiveIn one of the projects designed by PBS Education, students can view a guided tour of various French explorers in the 17th Century that helped map out North America's diverse waterways, like the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Rivein the 17th Century that helped map out North America's diverse waterways, like the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River.

But in the 20th century, dominated by hardware, software, and life sciences, technology swings inside an existing market happened slowly — taking years, not months.

Located off the southeastern coast of China, Taiwan is about the same size as Belgium and was named Formosa Island by Portuguese explorers in the 16th century due to its stunning natural beauty.

In the 20th century learning the best practices of a startup CEO was limited by your coffee bandwidth.

Berkshire Hathaway, billionaire Warren Buffett's investment vehicle, beefed up its media holdings in the fourth quarter by taking a stake in 21st Century Fox (FOX).

In the last century, while startups continued to innovate in each new wave of technology, the rate of innovation was constrained by limitations we only now can understanIn the last century, while startups continued to innovate in each new wave of technology, the rate of innovation was constrained by limitations we only now can understanin each new wave of technology, the rate of innovation was constrained by limitations we only now can understand.

Founded more than two centuries ago by small medicines vendor and namesake Chobei Takeda in Osaka, Japan, the company was that nation's largest pharmaceutical firm by revenue as of 2014.

Smith started Vice as a print magazine with Suroosh Alvi and Gavin McInnes in Montreal more than two decades ago; with Smith at the helm as CEO, it's now a multi-platform content mill with a reported audience of between 250 million and 300 million people a month, many of them members of Generation Y. Smith made his money by convincing an older generation that Vice knows millennials better than they could ever hope to, and that pitch has worked: Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox paid US$ 70 million for a 5 % stake of Vice in 2013, and Rogers Communications (which owns Canadian Business) inked a $ 100 million partnership.

High - quality swords treasured by collectors and warriors alike have been forged in the Land of the Rising Sun for centuries, and while the age of the samurai may have passed, the country remains one of the biggest exporters of high - quality kitchen and utility knives today.

Peter Drucker, arguably the leading management thinker of the twentieth century, observed, «If a new venture does succeed, more often than not it is n a market other than the one it was originally intended to serve, with products and services not quite those with which it had set out that are bought in large part by customers it did not even think of when it started and used for a host of purposes besides the ones for which the products were first designed.»

Proven over centuries and endorsed by billionaires, presidents, and your mom, reading is the best self - improvement tool in the world.

Though thick, lavishly illustrated Sunday papers became popular in the United States during the late 19th century as a form of weekend leisure, religious pressure to ban labour and trade on Sundays assured that Saturday papers remained the more popular weekend reading in Canada — something cemented by the passing of the federal Lord's Day Act in 1906.

Señor Paleta, founded in 2014, has grown from a tiny operation selling at festivals and private events into a profitable company, surrounded by new and exciting businesses springing up in the area's century - old buildings.

For much of the 20th century, cultural products — movies, music, books et al — were sold in small, independent stores by knowledgeable and invested staff.

Known to most Americans as the company pitched by Bill Murray in the 2003 film Lost in Translation, and to the discerning few as the company behind Japanese single - malt whiskies Yamazaki and Hibiki, Suntory was founded in 1899 in Osaka and created Japan's first native whisky a quarter - century later.