Sentences with phrase «came a century ago»

So you might as well not bother telling us that the damage done by Jones and his actions were a NON issue, Lincoln saw that BS coming a century ago.

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Although society has come a long way since a half - century ago, Buffett recalls a time when women were kept out of the workforce and predominantly told to depend on marriage as their path to livelihood.

According to The Last Great Walk author Wayne Curtis, the health benefits of regular walking came into view about a century ago - particularly when it came to keeping ourselves young.

The Chinese originally came more than a century ago seeking better opportunities, and the experience gave them and their descendants great drive.

After selling 20 million cars in 190 countries, the company made the difficult decision to drop the Datsun name (which originated in Japan almost a century ago, and comes from the Japanese word «DAT» for lightning fast) from its U.S. operations to unify its global brand.

Beginning with the Bible many centuries ago, brands oftentimes came up with stories to distribute, to «build a brand.»

A quarter of a century ago, when The World in 1988 light - heartedly ranked 50 countries according to where would be the best place to be born in 1988, America indeed came top.

Centuries ago, according to the biblical narrative, a man who came to be known as Abraham felt the promise of a deeply fulfilling future summoning him to leave his ancestral home and launch forth into the unknown.

But when it comes to things yet unknown, what does metaphysics tell us today that is that different from the metaphysical questions of the same things centuries ago?

The bishop's views have been echoed by many other Catholic theologians since the Second Vatican Council as Luther's teachings, especially his esteem for the Word of God, has come to be appreciated in a way that would have been unthinkable a century ago.

If the traditional beginning of the Japanese Kingdom, some twenty - six hundred years ago, be accepted as true, that would mean that it came into being about the time of Confucius, and Chinese culture stretches many many centuries back of Confucius» time.

It may be no coincidence that a century and a half ago, as this rediscovery of Jesus was just getting under way, there came to light a collection of Jesus» sayings used by Matthew and Luke in composing their Gospels.

More than half a century ago, Roman Catholic philosopher Yves René Simon observed that authority has come to have a bad reputation in the modern world.

A century ago traveling across an ocean would take months and came with great peril.

A pope, Urban II, did give impetus to the Crusades, and though the Crusader kingdom of Jerusalem came to an end eight hundred years ago, the evidence of a century of Crusader rule is visible in the commanding castles and European - style churches that still rise from the arid landscape, as well as the longstanding bonds between Middle Eastern and Western Christians, especially in Lebanon and the Holy Land.

For example a century ago, the only transportation was the horse riding or camel or donkey and so on... you can not imagine at that time people would be thinking about travelling the globe in a day or two... and we do not know what is coming as every scientists theory is being abrogated by a new scientist and the old one becomes obsolete... these also proves that human theory can not be perfect and will never be perfect... there will always be modifications...

Many centuries ago a young carpenter reminded his hearers of the necessity of spiritual rebirth; he stated «I have come that men may have life in all its fullness» (John 10:10).

I discovered that Shinto had come to Hawaii with Japanese workers looking for jobs on the sugar plantations a little more than a century ago.

Or in a larger sense, why has Christianity, which played a leading role in Western education until a century ago, now become not only entirely peripheral to higher education but in fact often come to be seen as absolutely alien to the educational enterprise?

An increasing number of seminaries has come into existence, and seminary education has become more professionalized — by emphasizing more specialized and practical training than a minister received a century ago.

Mary Ann Glendon wrote nearly a quarter century ago that «a new form of rights talk has come into being» in contemporary America, in which rights are «presented as absolute, individual, and independent of any necessary relation to our responsibilities.

Nearly a hundred years ago, at the end of the 19th century, John R. Mott, one of the «fathers» of the modern ecumenical movement, looked at the world and of the coming 20th century and confidently spoke of the «evangelization of the world in the present generation».

I have come to realize that my discovery about clouds is old hat, that many others made the same discovery years and centuries ago.

These values extend back to the company's founding family, Italian immigrants who came to Brooklyn nearly a century ago.

They are also reviving the cocktail culture that came to fruition more than a century ago where bartenders have become mixologists and a simple drink can resemble the depth of ingredients of an entire meal.

The McGah family's Northern California heritage began a century ago when the patriarch, E.W. McGah, came to San Francisco.

Some say they originated in northern New York at Hemstrought's Bakery in Utica around 100 years ago, while others think they came with the Dutch settlers in the 17th and 18th century.

True skyr cultures are unique strands that come from centuries ago in Iceland.

Perhaps the most unusual theory of the origin of the word curry comes from Selat Elbis Sopmi of London's Punjab Restaurant, who wrote in The Curry Club Magazine that some centuries ago an Irish sea captain married into a wealthy family.

Whereas science was just coming into its own a century ago, now there are so many amazing and innovative science kits for children that it was really hard to choose our favorites.

Poor little bud was in so much pain, and back then (I say that like it was so long ago, but these days, a decade seems more like a century when it comes to advancements!)

But seriously; two centuries ago, this was actually a matter of importance, and the world community came to recognize voluntary expatriation as a matter of basic human rights.

Explaining that her four grandparents came to New York from Ireland a century ago because it was a place where «you could be free and you could get out of poverty,» Quinn said, «I'm running for mayor because I want it to remain that place and become even more of that.»

Finding a piece of the elusive cosmic body that devastated a Siberian forest a century ago could help save the earth in the centuries to come

Evidence supporting the first aspect of the equivalence principle initially came four centuries ago.

The intellectual groundwork for a truce about God was laid down long ago by 18th - century German philosopher Immanuel Kant and many others: Everyone who considers the matter carefully and honestly comes to the conclusion that you can't prove anything about God with science or logic.

Finding a piece of the elusive cosmic body that devastated a Siberian forest a century ago could help save Earth in the centuries to come

In the 18th and 19th centuries, geologists came to the region to study the neatly stacked layers of rock, which date to 250 million to 65 million years ago and provided evidence that the Earth was much older than the 6,000 years many thought at the time.

So, something like a century ago, the provincial doctors, represented by the youthful British Medical Association, came to an agreement with the royal colleges, which were the hospital doctors» guilds.

When the Voyager 2 spacecraft sped through the Saturnian system more than a quarter of a century ago, it came within 90,000 kilometers of the moon Enceladus.

Ditto for what we call industrial technology, which, having come into existence a little more than two centuries ago, is likely to be superseded by something strange and new in the next 10,000 years.

In a study published in the American Journal of Botany, Primack and his colleague, Abraham Miller - Rushing, discovered something interesting after analyzing 286 century - old photographs of Concord, Massachusetts, and Boston's Arnold Arboretum: The leaves are coming out 10 days earlier on average than they did a century ago.

His findings, published almost a quarter - century ago, showed that those currents had to come from somewhere in North Africa.

«Climate models show that ice - sheet melt will dominate sea - level rise over the coming centuries, but our understanding of ice - sheet variations before the last interglacial 125,000 years ago remains fragmentary.

The name for this potentially deadly respiratory infection comes from the Italian word for influence; centuries ago, people believed that the influence of the planets made people sick with the disease.

So much has changed in slow cooking since the original models came out nearly a half century ago.

This 1960's vintage coat came from an estate I handled years ago that was like a who's who of American mid century designers.

More than two centuries ago, the city began to develop and thousands of men from different parts of the Russian Empire came to Nikolaev.

Sure, the heavily anticipated big - screen debut of Marvel's first black superhero, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby more than a half - century ago, comes freighted with all sorts of cultural expectations.

In my humble opinion, 90 per cent of the stuff they made around three - quarters of a century ago is still WAY funnier than 90 per cent of the so - called «comedy» that comes out nowadays.»