Sentences with phrase «century than at the beginning»

The marine fish catch was thirty - five times larger at the end of the century than at the beginning.

'' that there have been periods of warming and cooling in the 20th century, and that the net outcome has been a higher temperature at the end of the century than at the beginning; and (2), that it is not clear exactly how much that increase has been, because of measurement problems.»

Not exact matches

During the middle of the 18th Century and well into the beginning of the 19th Century India produced far more textiles — and usually much cheaper and of better quality — than did England, but a number of measures aimed at undermining Indian textile producers and protecting British textile producers (tariffs that almost always exceeded 50 %, for example, and by 1813 were as high as 85 %) meant that at some point in the first half of the 19th Century the British textile industry had become the most efficient in the world and was able largely to eliminate the Indian textile industry from global competition.

With this experience of what we humans are capable of doing to one another, and with the decline of belief in a providential God, there is far less confidence about the human future among informed people today than there was at the beginning of the twentieth century.

The historico - cultural context in which the papacy finds itself at the beginning of the twenty - first century has significantly more in common with the era of the great Fathers of the Church such as Athanasius, Ambrose or Gregory the Great than with more recent centuries.

But to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.

People born in recent decades have no first - hand experience of what active Christian allegiance was like at the beginning of the twentieth century, when practically everybody in the western world other than Jews claimed to be Christian.

But at the beginning of the twenty - first century, it's better than anything else on offer.

Certainly the sexual standards of both Shakespeare's era and Jerome's were generally sterner than what we encounter at the beginning of the twenty - first century, but it is another question whether husbands ought to treat their wives as they would an adulteress.

Lake Ontario's water level is currently higher than it has ever been — at least since records on it began getting collected nearly a century ago.

Still, it is undeniable that a variety of 21st - century forces — a new generation in the military, a change in climate at the top levels of the Pentagon, pressure on the president from a critical interest group, even Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand's anticipated Democratic primary battle in New York — converged to begin repeal of a 1993 law that has led to the discharge of more than 13,000 gay men and lesbians, including desperately needed Arabic translators.

When hydrates were first discovered at the beginning of the 19th century, their weird structure made them little more than curiosities in a chemist's lab: cage - like structures of frozen water...

Today, science is broader and deeper than it was at the beginning of the 20th century, but it is also more siloed, more pragmatic, less daring.

One thing is already clear: A warmer global atmosphere currently holds about 3 to 5 percent more water vapor than it did at the beginning of the 20th century, and that can contribute to heavier precipitation.

June — August 2014, at 0.71 °C (1.28 °F) higher than the 20th century average, was the warmest such period across global land and ocean surfaces since record keeping began in 1880, edging out the previous record set in 1998.

A study in Canada found that tomatoes, spinach, cabbage, and lettuce have on average one - eighth the mineral content today than they did at the beginning of the 20th century.

Teachers born at the beginning of the century had roughly six or seven more years of schooling than their nonteaching counterparts, but those born in the middle of the century had only two to three years more education than their peers.

At the beginning of the 20th century, medicine was much like education today: more art than science.

For Justin Perry, all of this — the landmark court case that dismantled Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools» (CMS) diversity - friendly school assignments at the turn of the century, the bitter wringing of hands that followed and, today, a school system seemingly more stratified than any other in North Carolina — began for him 17 years ago, in front of Charlotte's austere district courthouse on a spring day.

Good paying jobs require a higher level of knowledge and skills than they did at the beginning of the 21st century.

A devotion to sloth and Super Sized, processed, and pre-packaged meals is more expensive than cooking at home and will begin costing you big time in healthcare costs when you pass the half - century mark, if not sooner.

drive) were Cologne, the economic centre of the region, with its gothic cathedral, classed a UNESCO heritage site and the Zollverein mining museum (also a world heritage site) in Essen, in the Rhur, the urban - industrial complex of more than five million habitants and the symbol of industry at the beginning of the 20th century.

At the beginning of the century the opening of the Panama canal increased interested on the Central American countries, and a knock on effect of that saw a number of farmers and other land owners settle in Costa Rica, but for its natural resources rather than its long sweeping white sand beaches.

«The exhibition John Graham: Maverick Modernist at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, Long Island, is a unique opportunity to explore the work of an artist who has hovered on the margins of the Modernist narrative for more than a half - century, when he isn't forgotten altogether... Maverick Modernist takes a deep dive into Graham's background as an artist, a career he began in earnest when, at the age of 35, he enrolled in the class of the Ashcan School painter John Sloan at the Art Students League in New York City.»

The exhibition looks at the shifting moment in twentieth - century art, when a group of artists began to perceive colour as «readymade» rather than as scientific or expressive.

The collection on display at the State Hermitage Museum, which includes two diptychs and two triptychs, spans the breadth of Griffiths» artistic concerns for more than a decade, beginning with an ode to corporate greed (21st - Century Boy, 2006), musings on the impact of war upon individual souls (Finest Hour, 2015) and the most recent, never - before - seen The Things They Carried (2016) which references the current refugee crisis with breathtaking urgency.

«One of the rarest phenomena in regards to creative artists in the twentieth century is to sustain, over more than fifty years, a level of accomplishments that is as strong at the end as it was at the beginning and the middle.

Now, drawing on a vast, previously unseen archive, James Stourton reveals the formidable intellect and the private man behind the figure who effortlessly dominated the art world for more than half a century: his privileged upbringing, his interest in art history beginning at Oxford, his remarkable early successes.

The photographer's career began more than a half century ago in the film based 1960's as a student of renowned photographer Harry Callahan at The Rhode Island School of Design.

Based on the quotation from James Baldwin, «Life is more important than art, that's why art is important», the book comprises a series of interviews with artists and investigates the conditions for making and presenting contemporary art from artists» perspectives at the beginning of the 21st century.

While there were possibly more than 2 million in Africa at the beginning of the 20th century, their numbers now hover in the lower end of the 100,000 s.

Temperatures in Greenland jumped up by more than 10 ºC within a few decades at the beginning of DO events, typically remaining warm for several centuries after.

However, other areas were colder, and overall evidence suggests that global temperatures during this period were similar to those at the beginning or middle of the 20th century, and colder than today.

While some types of plankton bloomed 30 days earlier at the beginning of this century than in the middle of the twentieth century, other types maintained their seasonal cycles throughout that period.7 Mismatches in marine communities and disruption of the food chain are the result.

The Arctic has been warming at more than twice the rate of the globe as a whole, with average temperatures today 5.4 °F (3 °C) above what they were at the beginning of the 20th century, compared to an estimated global average of 1.8 °F (1 °C) over the same time.

From an estimated 100,000 at the beginning of the 20th century, the number of tigers today is less than 3,500.

Even the period that you show is considerably higher than what we had at the beginning of the 19th century.

«With global temperatures warmer now than they were at the beginning of the last century, that means our temperatures are warmer too, which increases the rate of evaporation and increases the demands on water, increases the stress on the water supply, and also leaves us more susceptible to breaking the high - temperature record, which we've been doing lately,» Nielsen - Gammon said.

It is clear from extensive scientific evidence that the dominant cause of the rapid change in climate of the past half century is human - induced increases in the amount of atmospheric greenhouse gases -LSB-...] Since long - term measurements began in the 1950s, the atmospheric CO2 concentration has been increasing at a rate much faster than at any time in the last 800,000 years.

The world is now at least 1 °C warmer than it was a century ago, and 2016 has already been declared the warmest year since records began.

• According to several recent polls (most recently, Gallup's yearly Environmental Poll) Americans» concern about the environment is lower today than at the beginning of this century.

Kenya - based law firm Anjarwalla & Khanna (A&K) has grown from humble beginnings into one of the largest law firms in Africa, employing more than 90 lawyers (from just five at the turn of the century) and with ambitions to expand that number to 400 by 2027.

Credit standards today are not looser than they were at the beginning of this century, a period that many analysts use as a reference for a «normal» mortgage market.»