Sentences with phrase «century than in the middle»

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.

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.

It was only with the construction of a national railway system in the middle decades of the 19th century, using coal rather than muscle as its source of mechanical energy, that transport could achieve advances to parallel those already long achieved in the branches of industry in which cheap and abundant heat energy was the key to rapid expansion.

It's entirely relevant that Christians were just as brutal centuries ago because it speaks to the fact that the abuses in the Middle East are more about poverty and a lack of access to education than it is about the flaws of Islam.

In my example the society involved is American society of the middle of the twentieth century, and that society lays down many different real possibilities for its members than does the society occupying mainland China in mid-twentieth centurIn my example the society involved is American society of the middle of the twentieth century, and that society lays down many different real possibilities for its members than does the society occupying mainland China in mid-twentieth centurin mid-twentieth century.

the «General Epistles» of John and Jude, and the so - called Second Epistle of Peter, which is probably the latest work in the New Testament, not much earlier than the middle of the second century.

Its passing from the Middle Kingdom was even more complete than in the ninth century, for in that former eclipse it had continued among the non-Chinese peoples on the borders of the empire, whereas now even these latter had abandoned it.

This vigor of a church unhampered by the close even though friendly control by the state has parallels in the enormous spread of Christianity through the Church in the Roman Empire before Constantine, in the vitality of the Church in Western Europe during the Middle Ages, and in the phenomenal expansion of Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from churches which were either independent of the state or were less trammeled by it than had been most of the churches of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.

Nor is it the fact that in more than a century's worth of digging up the Middle East by archaeologists, not a single trace of any of these postulated «source texts» has ever turned up.

Three centuries after the Hijrah the events in the Islamic world of the Middle East were being determined more by the Turks than by the Arabs.

Steeped in more than 1,000 years of history, Benedictine monks first came to the site in the middle of the 10th century.

to madtown, Why Jesus was sent in Israel, because that place was part of the Roman Empire, the center of the worlds civilizatoon at that time, in the third century after Him, the Roman emperor, Constantine decreed that christianity was the official religion of the empire, and soo the teachings of Jesus inspired the whole empire, now the present Europe and the Middle East has prospered more than anywhere else in the world, The Americas was not even discovered yet by Columbus, With the prosperity of the empire was the growth of scientific knowledge that leads to what we are now, it happened because its part of Gods Will, History is its Reflectiom.

But viewed in terms of human relationships and the quality of life, there are many indications that peasants in the Middle Ages and the early modern period had more dignity and enjoyment than the industrial workers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

This has everything to do with strategic and pastoral planning, reflecting the fact that Latinos constitute at least a quarter of the more than sixty million Catholics in the U.S., and some expect they will be half the Catholic population by the middle of the century.

However, as we have said earlier, the Christian missions of the nineteenth century, although often associated closely with commercial and political imperialism, were to a lesser degree tools of that imperialism than in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, and even than in the Middle Ages.

A second blow to deism came in the middle of the nineteenth century with Darwin's alternative explanation of the design of nature with its emphasis on chance and struggle rather than on beneficent design.

«The position of Christians in the region [the Middle East] is more vulnerable than it has been for centuries.»

Since the middle of the eighteenth century, the West's population has more than quadrupled while real income per head increased at least fivefold — an even faster rate than today's population growth in the Third World.

They also tell me that people in the Middle Ages thought the earth was flat (everybody knew it was round), that women in the Middle Ages were no better than cattle (they had more freedom than they would enjoy until the twentieth century), that people in the Middle Ages were morose and grim (they were boisterous partiers who loved color), that they were morbidly fascinated with demons (they portrayed demons as ridiculous stooges), and they were oppressed by their kings (most of the kings were weak).

To be sure, in the first centuries the bishop was the administrator of the Church's goods but in the Middle Ages he was more, and the Church's business was so enlarged, so intricate, and so geared into all of the property and commercial activities that the difference at this point between the cleric and the lay was no more than that the former was more successful.

New research predicts that by the middle of the century annual rainfall in the Amazon could be less than the yearly amount of rain the region receives during drought years if deforestation rates revert back to pre-2004 levels.

The findings suggest that people used to trade on a wider scale in the middle - modern ages around the 17th century AD than is currently thought, the team adds.

Heatwaves from Europe to China are likely to be more intense and result in maximum temperatures that are 3 °C to 5 °C warmer than previously estimated by the middle of the century — all because of the way plants on the ground respond to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

One tentative estimate put warming two or even three times higher than current middle - range forecasts of 3 to 4 °C based on a doubling of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which is likely by late this century.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, it became an «intellectual fad,» he said, for thinkers to cite ancient Greek and Roman sources rather than scientists of the Middle Ages.

«According to our projections, large areas of the globe are likely to warm up so quickly that, by the middle of this century, even the coolest summers will be hotter than the hottest summers of the past 50 years,» said the study's lead author, Noah Diffenbaugh, in a Stanford University press release.

While a 14 % loss is not an insignificant amount, it's smaller than some of the changes in Antarctic sea ice recorded during the middle of the 20th century, as estimated from whaling ship logbooks, the paper says.

The state of race relations in the us for example may not seem to be the best when based on the nightly news, but when you consider that people of all races have similar economic standing and views of the world, it is a far different place than it was back in the middle of the 20th century.

«A Quiet Passion,» his latest film, goes back further in time than any of his past pictures, to the middle of the 19th century, and returns him to America, a place he has now visited three times in his filmography.

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.

Additionally, in the Cohort 4 grant competition, more than 600 elementary, middle and high schools requesting over $ 100,000,000 dollars were denied funding for the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program.

Caught in the middle of a centuries old war, Eve must choose sides knowing that the wrong choice will cost more than just her life.

My own take is that these dogs are nothing more than aberrant pointer or pointer - setter crosses that became fashionable running along coaches of country gentlemen in England during the middle part of the eighteenth century.

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Rediscovered in the middle part of the 20th century, Caillebotte is noted for his ambitious and innovative approach to perspective as well as a more realistic approach to painting than employed by some of the more notable Impressionists.

According to the China - Africa Project, there are more Chinese immigrants living in Africa today than French colonisers in the middle of the 20th century.

«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.

Dr. Easterbrook spoke of his studies of solar activity and ocean cycles and his prediction that a decades - long global cooling spell was coming, deeper than the one in the middle of the 20th century.

It's the latest research in more than a decade of work producing a climate «hockey stick» — graphs of global or regional temperatures showing relatively little variation over a millennium or more and then a sharp uptick since the middle of the twentieth century (the blade at the end of the stick).

«In summary, the current assessment concludes that there is not enough evidence at present to suggest more than low confidence in a global - scale observed trend in drought or dryness (lack of rainfall) since the middle of the 20th century.&raquIn summary, the current assessment concludes that there is not enough evidence at present to suggest more than low confidence in a global - scale observed trend in drought or dryness (lack of rainfall) since the middle of the 20th century.&raquin a global - scale observed trend in drought or dryness (lack of rainfall) since the middle of the 20th century.&raquin drought or dryness (lack of rainfall) since the middle of the 20th century.»

Today (2006 - 2014) it is 0.8 °C warmer than in the preindustrial period in the middle of the 19th century.

This increased demand for cooling by the middle of this century is projected to exceed 10 gigawatts (equivalent to at least five large conventional power plants), requiring more than $ 6 billion in infrastructure investments.72 Further, approximately 95 % of the electrical generating infrastructure in the Midwest is susceptible to decreased efficiency due to higher temperatures.72

And after another quick scan, I find table SPM.6 from the Synthesis which says emissions would need to peak sometime before the middle of the century to limit temperature rises to under 4 degrees (with a peak by 2015 to achieve less than 2 degrees warming)... I think most would agree that some degree of «drastic action» is going to be required to achieve a peak in emissions within this time frame, particularly while we have guys like you running around, would you not?

«It is a stark and arresting fact that, since the middle of the 20th century, humankind has consumed more natural resources than in all previous human history.»

The INDC scenarios fall in the middle of the range defined by Representative Concentration Pathway RCP4.5, corresponding to a likelihood of «staying below 3 °C over the 21st century» of «likely» and «more likely than not.»

I commented in my original article that LU run 1 showed a much stronger negative GMST response than any of runs 2 to 5, from the middle of the 20th century on (see Figure 5 in the original article).

Prioritizing the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda on Population and Demography requires recognition that national demographic trajectories are currently more diverse than in the middle and late 20th century.

Previous research (Gillett et al, 2012)[v] has shown that scaling factors based on a 1901 start date are more sensitive to end date than those starting in the middle of the 19th century, with temperatures in the first two decades of the 20th century having been anomalously low, so the 1861 — 2010 estimates are probably more reliable than the 1901 — 2010 ones.

Until that time, both scientists and historians agreed that there was good evidence for a period in the Middle Ages with temperatures as warm or warmer than today (thus the name «Greenland» and not «Glacierland») and a period known as the Little Ice Age in the 17th to 19th centuries that was quite frosty.

However it is not within the MWP and I would say the warmesT temperatures I have researched are in the middle part of the 14th century and much of the 11 th and 12 th century which were some Half to one degree centigrade warmer than today