Sentences with phrase «closing decades»

The phrase "closing decades" refers to the final years or period of a specific time frame, often a century or a millennium. It signifies the end of that era or period. Full definition
The world is still warming as a result of coal burned in power stations that closed decades ago, and no one suggests that we should not worry about this.
In the 80s, John was a bonafide teen star — hanging around the Brat Pack crowd before closing the decade with «Say Anything,» the movie that crowned him as the American Prince of the Romantic Comedy.
Most of the resorts closed decades ago, and Cuomo says there may be no region in New York that has more potential to grow as a tourist destination.
The DBS helped close the decade out, showing off a 4.0 L Dual Overhead Camshaft engine.
The 2,200 - acre site, which closed a decade ago and is being turned into a park, was also temporarily reopened as a transfer station, helping officials and relief agencies clear debris from around the city.
John also dabbled in the action blockbuster with «Con Air» in 1997 and closed the decade with another career - defining performance as the grizzly puppeteer in «Being John Malkovich.»
It's only been 25 years since the original's release, and the film has not faded much from the cultural imagination, thanks to home video re-releases, a hit Broadway adaptation that closed a decade ago, and the internet.
The global phenomena as experienced in the socio - ecological environment by the human civilization in the closing decade of the 20th century distinguishes it from all other periods in this, that while the human race in former periods had time at their disposal to reflect and recover from their mistakes and to make drastic readjustments to new conditions and also to formulate and establish alternate approaches and strategies, we have in our own day hardly any time at all.
Israel's existence as a political, though not autonomous, entity is re-established in the closing decades of the sixth century B.C., and for a brief moment the event of reconstitution is hailed with eloquent rapture as the fulfilling event (Isa.
It began about the middle of the fourteenth century and lasted until the closing decades of the fifteenth century.
But one thing is very clear: from the time of Assyria's resurgence of power in the eighth century to the setting of her sun in the closing decades of the seventh, Hezekiab was the only king of Judah seriously to contest the domination of Assyria.
In the first phase of Progressive reform, beginning in the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the revisionist agenda focused on populist political and social legislation, diverse formulas for economic redistribution, and the establishment of a tutelary national government.
But already in the closing decade of this century, there are happy signs that their several advocates recognize the need for collaboration.
Now, in the closing decades of the twentieth century, logical tools are being forged which have the necessary refinement to handle these delicate theological matters adequately for perhaps the first time, as already remarked above.
In the closing decades of the thirteenth century the Papacy became the victim of national and dynastic rivalries.
In the closing decades of the fifteenth century the Papacy sank to a nadir from which it did not recover until the next century.
The present chapter is an attempt to cover the first period — from the closing decades of the fifteenth century to the mid-eighteenth century.
The movement of the Magyars into the Church took place in the closing decades of the tenth and the opening decades of the eleventh century.
Fearing a drift into oppressive «technocracy,» Houston pleaded with his audience to «far more seriously turn our minds, our scholarship, our practical concerns, to know how future man can be defended against the impersonal forces, the manipulations and other pressures of the complexities of life in these closing decades of the twentieth century.»
Jonathan Wright highlights the main arguments each contributor has made to this edited volume dedicated to the thinking that prevailed during the closing decades of the Cold War.
He closed the decade with co-starring roles in «The Untouchables» and the under - rated John Travolta comedy «The Experts.»
While that quiet serenity marked much school decisionmaking in the golden years immediately following World War II, the situation changed dramatically in the closing decades of the twentieth century as a result of fractious legal disputes, teacher strikes, and collective bargaining agreements.
The guest of our final installment is Paul Neurath, co-founder and creative director of Looking Glass from the day it opened to the day it closed a decade later.
The exhibition brings together a broad spectrum of leading artists, prompting thematic conversations across generations, between those who rose to prominence during the closing decades of the last century and younger artists who have found their voice in today's world, a place of incalculably more images, where distinct movements have given way to heterogeneity and the availability of and reliance on technology is taken as given.
Big Bubbles (2000) was recently included in the exhibition, «Notations: The Closing Decade» at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
NATIONAL Washington, D.C. Robert Frank Los Angeles Peter Krausz Boston Anne Neely San Francisco Josephine Taylor Chicago Richard Mayhew Miami «Russian Dreams...» Santa Fe Charles Arnoldi Southampton, New York «Sand» Philadelphia «The Closing Decade»; Louis B. Sloan; Rob Wynne; «Obama-rama»; Adam Lee Farrell and R. Michael Walsh
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