Sentences with phrase «century a person with»

With a generally strong economy, even in the 21st century a person with just a high school diploma can probably find a job and manage to stay steadily...

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For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach and then a year later left the classroom to start a company, I've seen firsthand just how much the community has invested in bringing in and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.

The press release on Race Together bizarrely leads with the subheading «It began with one voice,» painting Howard Schultz as a visionary progressive for daring to discuss race — something others, especially people of color, haven't exactly been silent on in recent months or the last couple centuries.»

As I've argued before, self - awareness is also the meta - skill of the 21st century: Among other benefits, self - aware people are happier with their careers and relationships, are better students, perform better at work and run more profitable companies.

He points out that people have constructed terrible technology before, notably the 18th century «Satanic Mills» powered by child labor and the grim slaughterhouses that produced tainted meat and made the streets of New York and Chicago run red with blood.

For centuries, older people have felt that the youth speak a different language, and with the rise of texting and emojis as tools of communication, that communication gap seems to widen.

Comcast and 21st Century Fox are in talks about a sale of Fox's worldwide entertainment and distribution assets to Comcast for Comcast stock, according to people familiar with the situation.

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.

An Apple buyout would have been the deal of the century, but according to people familiar with the talks, Jobs ultimately shut them down.

CNBC reported Monday that 21st Century Fox has been holding talks to sell most of the company to Disney, leaving behind a media company tightly focused on news and sports, according to people familiar with the situation.

Granted you can and should use LinkedIn to make new introductions, but think of it as a 21st - century version of an old school Rolodex, and rekindle relationships with people you already know.

«What we are kind of obsessed with is how you get people recognition and value for who they are and for their accomplishments or skills or their commitments and we think a badge is a really elegant and effective and kind of 21st century way of doing that,» Thorne says.

He says that artificial intelligence combined with data gathered by billions of sensors will bring on an «information revolution,» that will benefit people more than the 19th century Industrial Revolution.

In 2002, before the sale of PayPal even went through, Musk started voraciously reading about rocket technology, and later that year, with $ 100 million, he started one of the most unthinkable and ill - advised ventures of all time: a rocket company called SpaceX, whose stated purpose was to revolutionize the cost of space travel in order to make humans a multi-planetary species by colonizing Mars with at least a million people over the next century.

I can not believe the ignorance and bias on this with Statistics Canada - I mean come on people lets get with the times - you are operating a Statistical agency like we are living in the 1950's - this is indeed the 21st century - income polarization is a massive issue, and to report on income like the manner that this article did is just out right garbage!!

With 25 years of experience, the Publicis Media chairman says people, empowerment and trust are essential This year marks a milestone in what has been an exciting and fulfilling career for me: a quarter of a century as an industry veteran.

«Give to the Red Cross» doesn't cut it with a growing number of people these days, though quite a few media organizations and civic leaders have urged people to send their money to the American Red Cross, as they have done for more than a century.

In the 21st century, the example of internet companies like Alphabet, fka Google (GOOG) and Facebook (FB)-- both of which have made their founders wildly wealthy — people are enamored with the idea of becoming entrepreneurs.

Boeing is on course to reignite American human spaceflight with its CST - 100 Starliner, a 21st century space capsule that will take people to and from low - Earth orbit.

A century from now, people will look back on our religion - dominated society the way we look back on the Middle Ages, with its weird, religion - based cruelty and violence.

In fact, the Tanach is very clear to the Jews that the only covenant they have (and will ever have) is the one pounded out between G - d and the Jews on Mt. Sinai (which, if you read the fine print AND the NT is allowed to be understood / interpreted by designated leaders in the Jewish society; Jesus believed those people to be the Pharisees and told his JEWISH followers to adhere to Pharisee teachings... the Pharisees were the honorable, compassionate end of the theology spectrum in the first century instead of the bad rap they get from a mis - reading of the NT (done generally with no comprehension of Jewish culture or history).

America is not inherently Christian, nor is Christianity inherently American — it might surprise many people, but there are faithful Christians around the world and across the centuries who had nothing to do with our modern style of Christmas celebration.

I will no longer temper my understanding of truth in order to pretend that I have even a tiny smidgen of respect for the appalling negativity that continues to emanate from religious circles where the church has for centuries conveniently perfumed its ongoing prejudices against blacks, Jews, women and homosexual persons with what it assumes is «high - sounding, pious rhetoric.»

It's only in the last century that people have tried to make the Bible fit their beliefs rather then align their life with what the bible says, and look at the results, the world is in turmoil and on a downward spiral out of control and this article is a good example of trying to make God's word an excuse to do every wrong thing there is real good reporting.

«He was simply asking the question «how do we express ourselves in the 20th century in ways that communicate with people living in the modern world, and a very secular world?»»

For centuries, Ethiopia could not only feed it's people (with one region having a surplus if another had a drought) but could export to surrounding countries.

Jewish DNA has not remained unchanged, Jews have intermingled with people's from the nations they migrated too in Europe and Russia over the centuries.

Dear Reality; Speaking as one who has had many, many clergy serving the needs of many people over a century I must take issue with you on your «no clerics, no nuns, no bibles» etc..

Having had the pleasure of knowing Hannah Arendt, albeit much too slightly, and moreover of having known more closely Heinrich Bluecher when I was his assistant in the World Civilizations program at Bard College in 1958 «1959, I can say there are few people who, in their writings and their persons, could face with such clear determination the heights and the depths of European civilization in the last century.

Not least by the number of posts above in which people have expressed their disillusion with the Christian Gospel because of some 19th Century self - proclaimed prophet with a zipper problem decided to re-invent it.

In the case of the creation story you must read it as if you were a hunter / gatherer (caveman) who did not have a concept of time (no watches, no calendars, most likely someone who didn't keep track of how old he was — think about indigenous peoples who had no contact with western civilization until the 20th century).

Dear friendly peoples of world, hope the all mankind could kindly arise with joint effort to save this peace loving people from the wicked and severe tortures and baseless accusations.How mankind in this century of light can treat another human being simply heap false accusations and put in prison for so many years when they have done no wrongs.l.

When Senators Leverett Saltonstall and Edward Kennedy, both from Massachusetts, presented a bill in the Senate to give public recognition to God through requiring the post office department to cancel all postage with the words «For God and Country,» Century editors replied: «If the nation really wants to give public recognition to God let it abandon its unjust crushing of the aspirations of little peoples in various parts of the world» (April 6, 1966).

The show stars Anderson as Andre Johnson, a well - off advertising executive with a large, loving family; a lot of feelings about life in the 21st century; and not enough people interested in hearing them.

... The reality is that the adherents of this view of Islam are numbered in many millions, have in some countries, elements of official support, and are systematically teaching it to millions of young people across the world... even in its more moderate and non-violent form it has a way of thinking that is still inconsistent with the pluralist and open - minded view of the world that defines the only way it can work peacefully in the 21st century.

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.

Unfortunately, though, with people being discouraged to pursue the liberal arts in the 21st century, openings for these positions are becoming few and far between, and people who have that philosophical blood running through their veins sometimes take on preacher positions as a way to make ends meat, which is wrong because it is the essence of living a lie.

What we do has to make sense for the people of God in Chicago or New York or Springfield or wherever we are, in the late 20th century, with the themes of Pentecost VI or Advent I or whatever the occasion is, with all the resources that are available to us within the confines of our capabilities: old hymns, new hymns, music from various periods and of various styles, old translations, new translations, the same and different ways of doing things, etc..

People seem to think that you have to throw away all the teaching of the great men of the last century because it doesn't match with the Westminster Confession.

we're concerned with things people were not 1, 2 or many centuries ago.

People trying to keep their Christianity without associating themselves with the 21st Century Christian.

To deny that that Consti.tution begins with «We the People» and not «By the grace of God almighty» (like * every * other 18th century docvment did), is the lunacy.

With carefully chosen words and images charged with first - century political meaning, he constantly reminded his followers that they were to be a set - apart people, a people who lived counter-culturally by loving their enemies, praying for those who persecuted them, lending without expecting anything in return, and surrendering allegiance to a crucified and risen LWith carefully chosen words and images charged with first - century political meaning, he constantly reminded his followers that they were to be a set - apart people, a people who lived counter-culturally by loving their enemies, praying for those who persecuted them, lending without expecting anything in return, and surrendering allegiance to a crucified and risen Lwith first - century political meaning, he constantly reminded his followers that they were to be a set - apart people, a people who lived counter-culturally by loving their enemies, praying for those who persecuted them, lending without expecting anything in return, and surrendering allegiance to a crucified and risen Lord.

If the current trajectory of the Catholic Church continues there will be no one left besides people who live in the 18th century with the desire to have it forced into government.

Moreover, the changes from wordiness to brevity, and from the impersonal third person to the personal second, are absolutely in accord with the differences between the Lord's Prayer and other first - century Jewish prayers noticeable throughout the former.

We have heard the beasts of Daniel and Revelation identified in virtually every century with whatever powers and persons were in the ascendancy at the moment.

And Paul is making claims about «all flesh» and «every person» and about the «power of the gospel to save» that go beyond the specific cultural conditions of Jews and gentiles in the first century — his language demands to be engaged with at the anthropological / theological level.

Up until the 19th century the Church refused to offer Christian funerals for people who had committed suicide with a «sound mind» or for those who hadn't been baptised.

If they saw our lifestyle, again just like Muslims, people would see we are everyday Americans too, not some 19th century holdback like the polygamist Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (not affiliated with them at all) that people portray on shows like Sister Wives, and etc..

The same kind of coordinated action could unite evangelicals with other Christians and concerned persons of goodwill to address the key social needs of the late 20th century — if not to solve them, at least to hold them before God responsibly in prayer to seek whatever measure of progress may be consistent with the church's task before the return of Christ.