Sentences with phrase «century people on»

as it is through the eyes of African photographers that you begin to see the range of experiences of 20th - and 21st - century people on this continent.

Not exact matches

«People have given up on them,» says Phil Davidson, portfolio manager at the $ 13 billion, value - focused American Century Equity Income Fund.

The filmmakers filed a class action suit on behalf of people who paid to use the song, which became popular in the United States a century ago and has since spread globally.

At birth, every person is assigned a unique string of 11 digits, a digital identifier that from then on is key to operating almost every aspect of that person's life — the 21st - century version of a Social Security number.

By the time the game finally started, on a steamy Texas Saturday this September, there were 87,500 people in the stadium and thousands more in the streets, all eager for the rematch between Alabama and Texas A&M — the «game of the century,» at least for that week.

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.»

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.

By the 20th century, governments all over the world were engaged in an endless war on noisy people and things.

The People vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story debuted last week to record ratings for its network, FX, while a documentary that also focuses on the 1995 O.J. Simpson murder trial airs on ESPN this summer, proving that two decades is not long enough to drain the interest of American viewers in the so - called «trial of the century.»

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.

Also, after the technology bubble that occurred at the turn of the 21st century - one of the biggest bubbles of all time - people believed that another echo bubble was on the way.

And in my book on morality and getting these people to grow up I again bring up the example of 19th century industrialists who were incredibly rich and often rather cruel in their business lives who reinvented themselves, so a Carnegie whose business career certainly wasn't exemplary in any moral sense.

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!!

The biggest storm in a century hit Sydney and the Hunter region of NSW on April 22, killing three people, upending power poles and flooding houses.

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).

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.

Rohr, who has also written «Quest for the Grail,» a book on mythology, says people have learned these hard lessons for centuries through myth.

I believe that man is, by nature, an exile and will never be self - sufficient or complete on this earth; that his chances of happiness and virtue, here, remain more or less constant through the centuries and, generally speaking, are not much affected by the political and economic conditions in which he lives; that the balance of good and ill tends to revert to a norm; that sudden changes of physical condition are usually ill, and are advocated by the wrong people for the wrong reasons; that the intellectual communists of today have personal, irrelevant grounds for their antagonism to society, which they are trying to exploit.

Everything has its ups and downs, and since the sixteenth century there are indeed many people who have been «resistant» to the Christian construal of marriage, but it hardly seems true to say that Protestant and Catholic teaching have «had little effect on social reality.»

It's no longer valid or appropriate to waste young people's minds and talents on the old songs of Glory, Glory Alleluia we shall overcome here in the 21st Century.

The move from the potential «wars between nations» of the second half of the 20th century to the «wars among the people» at the beginning of the 21st century has a profound impact on defence industry.

«I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words... When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise [disrespectful] and impatient of restraint» - Hesiod, 8th century BC

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..

Religion was utterly mute on these topics which is why we had the new testament for centuries and people still thought leprosy was due to spiritual uncleanliness.

This guy simply acted on his faith as people did in previous centuries.

Articles in this area carried such stirring titles as «Goliath Rum on the Run:» The Century editors argued repeatedly that the use of liquor destroys social units — especially the family — and keeps people from realizing their natural potential.

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.

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.

Salvador of Marcilles, a fourth century church father, said that when we say that Jesus had compassion on the people it means that all the individual suffering of many people is gathered in Christ and Christ bears all the suffering at the same time.

We simply have cluster of people in our society that insist on pretending its the 11 century?

A Desert in Bohemia is a welcome addition to the growing literature on what happened to ordinary and not so ordinary people in the bloody second half of the twentieth century.

The Carolingian monarchy, in the eighth and ninth centuries the strongest political force in Western Europe, and a champion of Catholic Christianity, was partly responsible for the halting of the Moslem Arab advance from the South and the conversion of some of the peoples on its northern and eastern marches.

From the second century on, the Christian thing has been understood as a kind of «forming» of persons» lives on the model of education as paideia.

Today, as in the 18th century, people of great passion seek to discredit those who insist on saying: Slow down; let's think about this.

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).

But the Jews had to leave Palestine, later on, in the «dispersion» to Babylon, to Alexandria, and then to the world, to become the commercial people they have notably been through the centuries.

In the seventeenth century British law imposed penal laws on the Irish people, laws whose intent was to destroy the Roman Catholic religion in Ireland as had been done in England and Scotland and Wales.

Islam was and is all about conquest and submission... in the 8th century Muslims invaded Iberian peninsula — barely a century after Mohammed's death and were finally driven out in the late 15th century (and people focus on the Christian Crusades - funny).

From the Puritans to the Projects is a compelling history of the treatment in Boston of «public neighbors» — needy people unable to provide fully for themselves — from the early 17th century to the present, focused on the construction and management of public housing in that city since the mid-1930s.

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..

Then to find out that it was edited in the 4th century to appease an overzealous ruler that was pushing the religion on conquered people; Charlemagne.

@Rob... even if your statement was based on fact it wouldn't even come close to the number of people murdered in the name of Christianity over the centuries.

about people who experience same - sex attraction trying to live a Christian life, this fuller exposition of his thought on the new ideologies presented a fascinating look into the way in which colonialism — discredited by liberals and to lesser extent many conservatives as well — has gone away from the actual military and political rule seen in previous centuries, to a stealthier and subtler form of the exertion of foreign power.

In both northern California's recent Gasquette - Orleans Road Supreme Court ruling of 1988 and South Dakota's 1983 court ruling on Bear Butte, indigenous peoples lost protection of and access to sacred sites which in their view have for centuries held life - giving power and meaning.

The class of persons on whom by the tradition of centuries the task fell, of bringing to light the hidden presuppositions of everyday thought, whether scientific or historical, (I refer of course to the official teachers of philosophy) were treated with a contemptuous neglect.

Some of its articles such as on torture and on freedom of expression (Article 19) have been signposts in the peoples struggle for human rights during the last half century.

On the contrary, their thinking justified the world system built during the centuries after 1492 by the forcible expansion of European peoples to the rest of the world.