Sentences with phrase «by history as»

She is also fascinated by history as well as the way in which events of the past continue to resonate today — as a result, many of her works draw on specific historical time periods to offer reinvented means of understanding our contemporary moment.

In our final blog post of 2017, we argued that the 2018 investment «vintage» would likely be defined by history as marking a cyclical turning point within a much larger secular bull market for global risk assets.

For as she points out here ever so succinctly,» White men's right of access to black women's bodies was an assumption supported both by their history as legal property and by the myth of their sexual promiscuity,» and «Emancipation did not end the social and political usefulness of this stereotype.»

The 2010 general election was notable in multiple respects, and will be recorded by history as the election which saw Britain's first post-war coalition government.

Kelly is confident that he will be vindicated by history as crime — especially gun crime — increases under current Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, who is under pressure to dial back some of the NYPD's most efficient anti-crime programs.

But the 69 - year - old is best known by history as a trained killer.

Even the Emperor Julian, known by history as «Julian the Apostate» because of his hatred of Christianity, conceded in a letter to his friend that the growth of the «Christian sect» had gotten out of control because the Christians took better care of Rome's afflicted than Rome did.

It is a slight story, made perhaps somewhat more significant by the authors» revelation in the very last sentence that the strange ex-slave who was Matthias» servant came to be known by history as Sojourner Truth.

Not exact matches

For much of its 40 - year history, the medium has been ruled by huge console makers and mega-publishers, such as Microsoft, Sony, Electronic Arts and Activision.

Florence is a city not only rich in culture and history but food as well, and the «Pizza and Gelato Cooking Class in Tuscan Farmhouse from Florence,» operated by Walkabout Florence Tours, places second on TripAdvisor's list.

Smith selects the different charities that Cotopaxi supports through the personal relationships he has forged with nonprofits, as well as by targeting areas and companies that have a history of making an impact in education and healthcare.

That's what history has suggested,» Hoffner said, noting that as these technologies have grown more popular, their uses by the criminal underworld have generally abated to some extent.

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.»

But the image of the First Lady in stiletto heels as she walked to Air Force One had already made the rounds on social media, with some opining about the optics of wearing expensive footwear to visit a state ravaged by the worst flooding in its history.

That is uncommon in corporate philanthropic history, as most magnates leave a legacy graced by their name in perpetuity, whether via foundations or schools — besides other Berkshire leaders like Munger and Pritzker, think of Carnegie, Ford, Kellogg or Rockefeller.

Though automakers often complain that U.S. regulations have grown too stringent, history shows that compliance typically comes due to the discovery of defects and problems that are reported by consumer testing and quality organizations such as the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, J.D. Power & Associates and Consumer Reports.

A visibly emotional French President François Hollande opened the final day of the conference, known as COP 21, by appealing to the delegates» sense of history.

At a high level, as defined by CBInsights, «Blockchain technology offers a way for untrusted parties to reach agreement (consensus) on a common digital history.

Melissa Surette, who has studied prisons and emergency preparedness as a researcher at Northeastern University, has documented a history of correctional facilities being hit hard by disasters.

In March it made industry history by successfully launching and landing a reusable rocket; six months before that, it watched as one of its Falcon 9 rockets exploded during refueling for a so - called test fire.

A quick review: Credit reports are a summation of your credit history and behaviors, as collected by the three major credit bureaus, Equifax, Experian and TransUnion.

Alaska native heritage center Built by Alaskan natives as an educational and cultural institution, the centre gives a look at the state's variety of Native peoples and their history.

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.

Fired by greed and fed by naïveté, these stratagems gone awry offer essential reading for investors as well as students of history, psychology, and human nature.»

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.

«That much may indeed be true, but it was one of many of the tall tales that further evolved into a truism of sorts, that was basically «accepted» as such by historians, press and mafia history aficionados,» Cipollini said.

By the time Lazaridis arrived in town as an electrical engineering and computer science student at the University of Waterloo in 1980, the region already had a long history of successful businesses and innovation.

By collecting information about consumers — such as which online ads result in sales — advertisers argue they can show higher - quality ads relevant to users» actual interests, as shown by their shopping historBy collecting information about consumers — such as which online ads result in sales — advertisers argue they can show higher - quality ads relevant to users» actual interests, as shown by their shopping historby their shopping history.

Johnson, though, was replaced as CEO in 2011 by Bill Ready, an executive with a history of leading companies through acquisitions.

Given the history and issues the other political candidates have, Macron's lack of experience in politics could possibly be seen as a good thing by the electorate.

Our cultural attitudes are unconsciously shaped by our collective history as much as they are consciously shaped by our current context.

When, by a quirk of history, France installed Maximilian I as emperor of Mexico in 1867, Maximilian's three years of clumsy rule ended here — you can still see where he was executed.

The company paid homage to the building's history as a former automotive dealership by keeping the operable overhead door that used to lead into the building's showroom (now a space used by BP Lower 48 for meetings and events).

It's also been crowned as the most popular mobile video game in history by survey company SurveyMonkey and is estimated to have had 21 million daily active users at its peak in the United States.

Alvear, 25, was identified by police on Monday as one of the 49 people killed by a gunman at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.

(A firing and a pair of resignations touched off by President Richard Nixon during the late stages of the Watergate investigation went down in history as the «Saturday Night Massacre.»)

It also offers specific policy recommendations including providing tax credits to promote venture capital investments in minority businesses, as well as tax credits for new low - income entrepreneurs, and encouraging the use by credit rating agencies of alternative data such as rent and utility payments in establishing credit histories.

«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.»

Epic Rap Battles of History started as a live improv skit by two friends, but quickly become an online sensation.

An analysis of the five deadliest mass shootings in recent U.S. history reveals that shares of those three companies traded down from the day of the incident to one week later, but not by as much as they are reacting now to the high school shooting in Florida.

The company delivered remarkable results over its storied history, evidenced by its stature as the only original component of the Dow Jones industrial average still on the list.

Suggesting that we can build an endless wall along our borders, and blame our challenges on immigrants — that doesn't just run counter to our history as the world's melting pot; it contradicts the evidence that our growth and our innovation and our dynamism has always been spurred by our ability to attract strivers from every corner of the globe.

This gives us freedoms that other businesses don't have, constrained as they are by past lessons and industry history.

As enacted by the Bush administration, however, the program required agencies to admit to a history of discrimination before qualifying, while the number of industries in which women would be eligible for assistance was severely limited.

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.

The company we know today as Airbus can trace its history back to an agreement signed in July 1967 by the French, German, and British governments to strengthen their cooperation in the field of aviation technology.

The wireless carrier trots out a celebrity endorsement from Justin Bieber, who stars in this T - Mobile Super Bowl ad as a «celebration expert» who narrates a history of celebratory dances that includes appearances by current and former NFL stars Rob Gronkowski and Terrell Owens.

Described by conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer as, perhaps, «the most annotated suicide note in history,» for its thoroughness and 37 footnotes, it pretty much guarantees a debate over two visions for the role of government in America.

For black men, though, the challenges of the corporate life are daunting at least in part because they are sometimes hard to pin down — influenced as much by age - old prejudice as by cultural preconceptions, the subtleties of psychology, and the weight of human history (more on that soon).

Vice's grip on its millennial audience, and its power with major advertisers, are seen as so valuable that A&E Networks, the TV network co-owned by Hearst and Disney, is reportedly going to turn over control of an entire channel — H2, a spin - off from the History Channel — to Vice.