Sentences with phrase «century people most»

20): Early 19th century British painter J.M.W. Turner now looks like the forerunner of just about everything in modern art that 21st century people most admire, from Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism.

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As a result, many people believe Carson is a flat - out mass murderer - not a hero who beautifully blended care for human health and nonhuman nature in one of the most important and challenging books of the 20th century.

No matter what you think of his company and how it changed the world, it took a special kind of vision to be able to see what the world would look like in the future, back when most people were still rooted in a 20th - century, analog mindset.

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.

Diana was one of the most influential people in fashion in the 20th century.

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.

The Boston Business Journal named Mr. Brooke one of Greater Boston's 100 most influential business people of the 20th century.

In a famous 1999 Fortune Magazine article, Buffet pointed out that the automotive industry was one of the most innovative developments of the 20th century, changing the daily life of millions of people.

It doesn't matter if the CEO has the most creative, innovative business plan of the century — if he doesn't also have people working alongside him who are dedicated, determined and hardworking, then his dream can't become a reality.

«Some of the most successful men of the 19th century never went to college, and today, those who didn't go to college are more intelligent, better informed and less easily fooled than the people who did go to college.»

The most important component of global regulation are the negotiations around what is often referred to as «Basel III» and echoing the fears of any 19th century person contemplating a hospital stay, I am concerned that the proposed cures are worse than the disease.

And you have pointed up a fact that is apparently so big that people can't see it: That the twentieth century was the bloodiest and most godless century in human history.

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).

(Rev. 3:10) Before the 19th century, most people didn't read the Bible for themselves.

A century ago, the most important task was probably the resolution of the «economic problem», the inability to keep people fed, housed and clothed.

For centuries, Christians had for the most part maintained that the historic mission of the Jewish people was to prepare the way for Jesus.

In the early 16th century, most people believed Earth was the center of the universe.

I think what most people HAVE N'T heard is that it was originally named the Cordoba Center (or complex); named after the Spainish city sacked and conquered by the Muslims in the 8th Century (just look on wikipedia).

In the twentieth century, the Holocaust, skepticism about God's existence, global anti-Semitism, and the foundation of the State of Israel all contributed to Jews» seeing their attachment to a unique people as the starting point (and in most cases also the end point) for Jewish identification.

When I was his associate, I became most interested in his efforts to diagnose the unique needs of each person in the parish, as reported in the December 20, 1950, Christian Century.

Following the bible, is like following directions written centuries ago by some person helping someone else get from Jerusalem to Damascus, they don't work if you're going from New York to Jersey, or most other places today.

As a matter of fact, the sex industry is the most deregulated industry without any rule or much less code of conduct whatsoever which can use anything as commodities, even women's bodies, just as British slave merchants did to African people in the 18th century.

However, I do notice that in the first century, most people were functionally illiterate.

He was a parish minister for thirteen years in Detroit; he taught for a third of a century at Union Theological Seminary in New York; he was a constant «circuit rider» preacher to colleges and universities; he was kept busy most of his life with political activities; he made himself available to all kinds of people; and he was a prolific writer.

But for the likes of me and most ministerial readers of The Christian Century, our need is to be humble enough to learn from a genius like Schuller about getting people within earshot in the first place.

John F. Kasson says in Rudeness and Civility: Manners in 19th Century Urban America that «most etiquette manuals were sold to people who would never have thought of entering a bookstore,» mainly by direct mail.

European societies through 14 centuries had assumed that a political community requires religious uniformity, and the logic of that assumption seemed impeccable: Religion involves the most fundamental commitment of people's lives, their conviction about what makes life ultimately worthwhile; consequently, religious diversity within a political community opens the possibility of serious political conflict.

As to the claim that creeds impose the will of the elite, Pelikan points out cases — most notably the opposition to Arianism in the century or so after the Council of Nicaea — in which, in John Henry Newman's words, «The Catholic people, in the length and breadth of Christendom, were the obstinate champions of Catholic truth, and the bishops were not.»

Those early experiences sparked Gilbert to chronicle the central events of the twentieth century and to recover the stories of people who lived through it — especially those who had suffered most.

As Geifman notes, Russia's «urban populace swelled from around 9 million people in the mid-19th century to about 25 million in 1913, with inhabitants of most major Russian cities increasing four - or five-fold,» leading to a «breakdown of social values.»

I think most of the Americans are in lost... as most of them do not know who their father is and it is very unfortunate... even if they know who their father is, the mom has children from diff men outside of marriage... and while a child is being raised, watching what his / her parents do to enjoy their life... so things become normal when they grow up... like if you go back early nineteen century, women were not allowed to go to beach without being covered... and now it totally opposite... if you do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend before 15, the parents worries that their teenage has some problem... and lot more can be listed... And then you go to Church, what our children learn from there... they see in front of the Church an old man's statue with long beard standing with extending of both hand... some of the status are blank, white, Spanish and so on... so they are being taught God as an old dude... then you learn from Catholic that you pray to Jesus, Mother Marry, Saints, Death spirit and all these... the poll shows a huge number of young American turns to Atheism or believing there is no God and so on... Its hard to assume where these nations are going with the name of modernization... nothing wrong having scientists discovered the cure of aids or the pics from mars but... we should all think and learn from our previous generations and correct ourselves... also ppl are becoming so much slave of material things...

Although this decline in Christian allegiance, occurring mainly in one century, is quite sudden relative to the length of the Christian era, it has been sufficiently slow and unspectacular relative to a person's lifetime that most churches have, until recently, been hardly aware of it.

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John C. Bennett said that Niebuhr was one of the most persuasive preachers of this century, and that there are many people today who are Christians because of his preaching.

Most people NOW wouldn't consider a racist a likely Christian, but go back half a century and things would be completely different.

To make the point succinctly, let me observe that at the beginning of the 20th century most people in New Zealand would have been offended if anyone had accused them of not being a Christian.

now I understand the problem why most people can not easily comprehend the reality of God, its because of lack of adequate knowledge of history.But I am optimistic that the process of change or evolution which will take centuries to be realized will be more easy and accelerated in the future, with better educational system.

One is the belief in progress.4 The expectation that life gets better for most people as time passes has been widespread since the 18th century.5 A basic source of the confidence in progress is the Biblical idea that the Kingdom of God will come at the end of time.

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).

Such an idea might seem scandalous to most Christians today, but this idea is no more scandalous to us than the idea to the first century Jewish person of the Messiah dying on a cross.

To find the «good old days» when most people went to church, we would have to reach back across the centuries and the seas to European cultures and their state churches.

Rick Perry Im sure is a good person, but looking at 11 million uninsured, rampant illegal aliens roaming our cities, and 47th in education in Texas and most illiterate, with rising property taxes and $ 9 billion in state debt, its clear he just another ignorant redneck Texan holding back this state from moving forward in the 21st century!

During most of the nineteenth century the French took the lead in Roman Catholic missions among non-European peoples.

It takes more than a decade to get a high school diploma; it takes an additional four years for most people to get a college degree; it takes nearly a quarter - century to become a great physician.

In fact, atheists in the past century have racked up the most deaths, killing millions of religious people.

But briefly, it is this: «orthodox» scientific uneasiness about the role of purpose or final causation in planetary evolution has its grounds partly in the fact that over the centuries most people who have tried to describe the role of purpose on Earth haven't known «what» they were talking about.

It is a surprise to most people to learn that there was a large and widespread Christian community throughout the whole of Central Asia in the first centuries of the present era and that such countries as Afghanistan and Tibet which are spoken of today as lands still closed to the Gospel message, were centres of Christian activity long before Muhammad was born.

The basic principle of all theology, but one most forcefully brought to expression in this century by Karl Barth, is this: that in Christian faith we have to do with the gracious God whose one and supreme intention is to justify, save and redeem humanity not on the basis of a discrimination between better and worse persons but solely on the basis of God's own gracious election.

The rest of his career — the other work for which he is most remembered, his bizarre, occasionally moving falconry memoir The Goshawk, had already been written — was spent attending to this fourteenth - century romance, a «perfect tragedy» populated with real «glorious people — not pre-raphaelite prigs.»

Not only has science made great strides in improving the lives of those with physical challenges, but our fellow citizens are also taught to be more kind and tolerant than most people in other countries and other centuries.