Sentences with phrase «century after a decade»

Lastly, the fresh design brings the roadster into the 21st century after a decade of only mild updates.

Not exact matches

Following the reintroduction of wolves, each wolf was averaging 22 elk kills per year, far exceeded the 12 elk per wolf projection as the existing herds were not prepared for the «sudden appearance» of the century - old apex predator after decades of tranquility.

He was born four years after Kaiser Wilhelm II ascended the German imperial throne; he died nearly a century later, in the same decade that witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany.

If you read the original story this article is based on it says, «The archaeologists, Erez Ben - Yosef and Lidar Sapir - Hen, used radiocarbon dating to pinpoint the earliest known domesticated camels in Israel to the last third of the 10th century B.C. — centuries after the patriarchs lived and decades after the kingdom of David, according to the Bible.

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.

Why did Tyack wait a quarter - century, including a decade after the Phil Scott allegation had hit the news, to make his report?

For that matter, a great deal of how we understand the faith has been more or less settled in this way — after decades, if not centuries, of heated debate.

Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest population of poor people in the world, one third of our rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.

Some of the more notable of these expressions of discontent include the American [Know Nothing] Party, founded in the decade before the Civil War to counter the influence of immigrants; the Prohibition Party, founded after the Civil War to rid America of the scourge of demon rum; the Populist Party of the 1890s, which sought to remedy the lot of debtor farmers; and, in this century, the pro-segregation States» Rights Party of 1948.

The first Gospels date to a couple DECADES after his death, the first non-Christian mention is about 80 years later, and the first Roman mention about a century.

A book that was written decades or centuries after the characters were said to have existed.

Maybe the various Gospel accounts are best read as innocent attempts — decades after the first Easter — to provide some historical hook on which first - century believers could hang their experiential faith.

I think being written only a few decades after these events is about as good a deal as you can get w / ancient history; same goes for finding early 2nd century samples of m in Egypt.

It was created down here on earth, among the followers of Jesus in the decades and centuries after his death by men, both with good and bad intention.

That the Bible was written decades and centuries after Jesus supposedly lived?

and please bear in mind that these words are at best hearsay written down decades or centuries after jesus was said to have existed and written by people who had never seen or heard jesus.

Why do Christians on this blog persist in posting that «jesus said this» or «jesus said that» when any words attributed to jesus in the bible are at best unverifiable hearsay written down decades or centuries after jesus was said to have existed and written by people who had never seen or heard jesus.

Year after year, decade after decade, century after century, folks keep trying to fight the «war to end all wars,» but to no avail.

The early part of the decade was a tense time, with Senator McCarthy making his reckless charges and the nation on edge after a war in Korea against communist North Korea and the People's Republic of China (often termed Red China, even in the Century, for most of the decade).

The civil theology of the youthful Hegel in Germany during the decades after the French Revolution shows the yearning for the union of Christian and citizen was still vigorous at the end of the eighteenth century.6 These youthful speculations stand behind Hegel's mature political theory as well as, curiously, behind the thought of Marx about man and citizen.

and bear in mind that MOST of the prophesies were added into the bible decades or centuries after the events had happened just to make it look like a prophesy was fulfilled.

Alex, sorry, try decades after Jesus, not centuries.

The transition began in the second decade of the sixteenth century and was completed soon after the middle of the century.

Written by «historians» decades and in one case a century after the «fact» before they were even alive from second - hand sources when Christianity was considered a cult.

The first trees and planified walkways were established in 1751 and after the public park was created in the first decades of the 19th century the present - day name, Városliget was accepted and it became the first public park in the world.

Can you imagine, after decades of finding only small scraps of knitted materials, uncovering an entire child's wool cap dating back to the 14th century?

He's the NBA's best player, but year after year, decade after decade, and century after century, Father Time remains undefeated.

This is a kind of plastic actually known for being toxic because after a decade or a century, it remains above the earth.

«After two decades of dithering by government officials and four years of herculean drilling, pounding, hauling and lifting by 7,000 workers, a new 3.1 - mile bridge is set to open at the Tappan Zee in the early hours of Saturday, the first crossing on that scale that has been built in the New York region in more than half a century.»

We believe that there are big political arguments to be had between the left and the right of politics, and the left has every reason to be confident about our values and ideas, which have done much to change Britain for the better over the last century and which are in the ascendancy internationally after three decades in which anti-government arguments have often dominated.

The bright light in the North Sea that has exceeded expectations decade after decade, century after century.

HALIFAX, CANADA — In a sad reversal of fortune, the North Atlantic right whale is in deep trouble again after rebounding in recent decades from centuries of hunting.

Sometimes, after decades or centuries, an oil painting sprouts a ghost.

Most of the important discoveries in mathematics take place after decades or centuries of effort.

After heating rapidly in the late 20th century, Earth warmed only slowly in the last decade, partly as a result of natural cycles in the climate system.

It will take decades or even centuries after humans stop burning fossil fuels and emitting greenhouse gases for the ocean to reach equilibrium.

The first trees and planified walkways were established in 1751 and after the public park was created in the first decades of the 19th century the present - day name, Városliget was accepted and it became the first public park in the world.

Before few decades it was very hard to find mate after divorce but in 21st century everything is easy so you can find women looking affair having divorce with your mate.

After all, we haven?t had a Royal wedding in decades, let alone in this century.

Decades after having penned «Angels in America,» one of the seminal plays of the last century and a very American one at that, Tony Kushner went to work on the script for a movie on yet another very American theme, about one of our own angels.

Given the time frame — just a decade or two before Europe is engulfed in nearly a quarter century of turmoil — the film becomes an elegy of sorts: a secular memento mori, an after - the - fact portrait of loss and mortality.

Set against the backdrop of 19th - century France, Les Miserables tells the story of ex-prisoner Jean Valjean (Jackman), hunted for decades by the ruthless policeman Javert (Crowe), after he breaks parole.

After nearly two decades of important television dominated by «difficult men,» we may finally have the 21st century's first truly great TV antiheroine.

This is all to say that it comes as something of a surprise to come back to the Coens» auspicious debut, Blood Simple, over a quarter - century after it was released and a solid decade since I last saw it, and find that it remains the one true oddity in the Coen canon that I had faintly remembered it as.

Set against the backdrop of 19th - century France, Les Misérables tells the story of ex-prisoner Jean Valjean (Jackman), hunted for decades by the ruthless policeman Javert (Crowe), after he breaks parole.

After improving steadily for half a century, the health of American children as measured by key indicators began to deteriorate during the past decade, according to a report released last week.

The swiftness of Catholic schools» rise in the first half of the 20th century makes more remarkable what followed: their even faster decline in the decades after.

After a series of national critiques of school leader preparation in the first decade of the century, we have seen increased action at the local, state and national levels to improve school leader preparation and development.

It is finished in its original two - tone Black and Tan that looks especially nice even three decades after it was applied by Tiffany Motor Coach but obviously there's much more to the coupe than just paint, cool cars like this that are built in the same tradition of the Excalibur and Zimmer add century - old class and distinction to more modern components, that's where you get the custom swoopy fenders, decorative exterior exhaust ports, 2 exterior spare tires, full - length running boards, and bright wire wheels and of course the classic - style trunk with leather straps but beyond the grandest of grand touring appearance are the fundamentals you want for example, the doors are unaltered from the original Mercury Cougar body, the same goes for much of the main glass and underlying components, so maintaining this one - of - a-kind appearance is much easier than it might first seem.

After all, I do believe the 20th century (the book spans six decades from 1930 - 1999) was the darkest century in human existence.