Sentences with phrase «century old this year»

Kafka's haunting story is a century old this year.

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And so it is no surprise that a four - year - old gene - editing tool called CRISPR - Cas - 9 has been hailed as the biotech breakthrough of the century.

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.

In 15 years at Spinrite, Newell has led the steady and surprising growth of a 65 - year - old company that should have, logically, vanished a half - century ago.

For 20 years, Bob Grant was a top sales rep for Thomas Publishing, the century - old company behind the famous product guide known as the Thomas Register.

The 50 year old has said he wants the company, founded in 1999, to last 102 years so it can «span three centuries.»

This year in Covington, Ky. (across the river from Cincinnati), the group is opening Hotel Covington, which is being built in the century - old Coppin's Department Store building.

The 90 - year - old country music venue uses millennial marketing techniques to capture followers for a new century.

Company loyalty runs deep at this more than century - old grocery chain, which spent $ 50 million on employee development last year (plus $ 5 million in scholarships) and filled half of its open positions internally.

In stepping into leadership at 21st Century Fox (FOX), James Murdoch will come face to face with the shadow of his 84 - year - old father.

Over these five years, the iconic 130 - year - old organization has experienced a modern renaissance, with dramatic membership growth and a rediscovered relevancy for 21st - century business, government and thought leaders.

«From centuries - old companies to those that have existed for just a few years, major employers have adopted LGBT + inclusive policies and benefits at rates that continue to outpace lawmakers and lead the way forward.»

The nearly century - old American Civil Liberties Union and its foundations raised about $ 146 million last year, and they're seeing record donations this year, with support from Alphabet Inc.'s Google, Lyft Inc. and other companies.

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.

The Gateway Project would add an $ 11 billion rail tunnel under the Hudson River to complement deteriorating, century - old tunnels that are at risk of closing in a few years.

A year ago I wrote about the comparative dynamics of three outstanding kinds of money of different generations — the older generation was represented by gold, the 20th - century generation was represented by the Dollar (Index) and for the modern generation I used the cryptocurrency Bitcoin (BTC).

Thirty - year old Gilead was a superb performing stock this century and might also be one of the best stocks to invest in now.

When Trump and Daniels met for the first time, at the July 2006 American Century Celebrity Golf Championship in Stateline, Nevada, she was already porn - famous enough that the previous year she had a bit part in the 2005 Judd Apatow comedy «The 40 - Year - Old Virgin» (as a fantasy charactyear she had a bit part in the 2005 Judd Apatow comedy «The 40 - Year - Old Virgin» (as a fantasy charactYear - Old Virgin» (as a fantasy character).

These efforts gathered steam in the early years of the last century as the Progressive Movement sought at once to break the power of the old party bosses and to bring the insights of the social sciences to bear on public life.

I think you people fail to realize that LIFE EXPECTANCY WAS ONLY 35 TO 40 YEARS OLD THEN... marrying at 15 was very common up to the 17 — 18th century.

Second, the earliest extant manuscripts date from the 11th century and are not 6000 + years old.

«Few companies are as much as a century old, while many... tribes have had two thousand years or more in which to move towards organisational perfection, and to learn not merely how to live together, but to flourish as a group.»

A young writer in Australia recently sent me an essay that ended with an arresting sentence: «I am twenty - seven years old and hope to live to see the end of the twentieth century.»

A 3000 year old understanding of s #xuality has no place in the 21st century.

So, for instance, in 17th - century Europe a huge dispute arose over the Hebrew vowel points and accents, which were not originally part of the Old Testament texts but were inserted by the Masorete scribes hundreds of years later.

Until the rise of the creationist movement amongst southern baptists over the last couple of centuries, belief in a 6000 year old earth was never doctrine in any christian church.

It was in this spirit of mediating tradition with the challenges of the twentieth century that the forty - two - year - old Dubois, recognized as a gifted theologian and scholar of Thomas Aquinas, was tasked by his superiors with strengthening the Catholic presence in Israel.

Our society is not the same as that of first century Palestine, where families were close - knit and stable and elders were respected and those few who lived to a ripe old age could count on living out their years as an honored member of an extended family.

He was a young Scottish pastor from the 19th Century who died when he was only 30 years old.

Since ascending the throne of Saint Peter, Pope Francis has shown more than any pope in my life time (I am 68 years old and a Roman Catholic) that he follows the teachings of Jesus Christ and he is the biggest breath of fresh air the Catholic Church has seen in centuries.

Set in the Holy Land in the first century, it tells the story of a young woman joining a new social movement led by Jesus of Nazareth - and the 43 - year - old portrays the Messiah himself.

The «Bible» you read today is only 350 years old, far different form the earlier know version of the 8th century and differ greatly from the current version... So what was that again?

Lawrence of Arabia The average life expectancy in Rome during the first century is 29 years old, look it up, not in your fairy tale book.

In the 21st century, isn't it about time we stopped taking moral guidance from a collection of thousands - of - years - old stories that weren't very good guidance to begin with?

Before I know it, I am in full flow with a young mum, who tells me her 12 - year - old son can't wait to follow in her footsteps in the centuries - old art of bell - ringing.

While I was talking with Miguel his 75 - year - old grandson came riding into the town on horseback, looking vigorous and fit and exuding the vitality of a man far younger than his three quarters of a century.

Posting scripture proves nothing more than the fact that you are no capable of thinking for yourself... btw: those scriptures are 2000 years old... severely outdated material - you might wish to try living in the 21st century.

Yet, less than a century and a half before, an 11 - year - old boy and his partly crippled great - grandfather had maintained a valley bottom outpost, unaided, against Indians, ice storms and wild animal depredations for almost six months until the rest of their family could return from a trip to Louisiana marked by a rash of mishaps.

We have noted that the Old Testament prophet on whom Jesus seems most to have patterned his life work was the one whom he knew as Isaiah, though we may now speak of him as Second Isaiah, since he wrote during the exile and about one hundred and fifty years after the Isaiah of the eighth century.

He says that «even the scholars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries... were still caught in the mental fetters of thousand - year - old errors, because the way back would inevitably have called in question parts of the biblical story» (p. 50).

3500 year old thinking trumps a 21st century lab and countless experiments?

Maybe if people learned to reside in the 21st century and by the evidence that we have now opposed to information from a 2000 year old book, this world would be a better place.

Let's base 21st Century social policy on discredited Bronze Age Palastinian mythology involving a 6,000 year old Universe and a talking snake.

the priesthood ended at the destruction of the temple, the old testament ended, and the new testament began in the first century, we no longer have a priesthood after the destruction of the temple, these people are liveing two thousand years in the past,

At the turn of the century, they handed the Old Testament, now a thoroughly objectivized patient, into the next hundred years.

It's always refreshing to hear some out of context quotes by some old white dudes from centuries ago about other people thousands of years ago.

As heir to the 200 - year - old throne of West Africa's 19th - century Caliphate Empire, Abubakar is one of the most influential traditional rulers in the region.

An inventory under way of a hoard of jewels, gold, diamonds, gems, antique idols stashed for hundreds of years in a centuries - old Hindu shrine in southern India is generating comparisons with the economic costs of the country's mega programs and foreign investment plans running into billions of dollars.

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

The earliest known writings for the Old Testament are taken from the «Septuagint» written in Konic Greek dated from the 2nd century BCE, some 200 + years before the arrival of the Nazarene.