But is the amount that sea level rises over the next 90 years the only sea level issue to
consider by century's end?
Not exact matches
According to this book, Charles Darwin might be
considered the father of economics
by next
century.
Considering the better part of a
century has gone
by since Ledington's boyhood, it's possible that the recipe has been tweaked.
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, known for infighting when picking its leader, is
considering breaking a
century of banking tradition
by looking for an outsider instead.
Over the
centuries, gold has been
considered as an object of value
by many different groups of people all over the world.
If this sounds otherworldly and not part of your daily frame of reference,
consider this: Global press freedom is at its lowest this
century, according to a study
by freedom of expression campaign group Article 19.
Even
considering the Islamic states of Iran and Iraq as well as the deaths caused
by Islamic terrorists in the 20th
century, including the recent attacks on our country, these hardly compare with the deaths caused
by nationalism during the same period, even though a great many national causes dress themselves up in religious jargon just as they have used terms like freedom (e.g., Vietnam and Lenin).
The fact remains that Christians today, far from being repelled
by violence, or
considering it a possible but shocking necessity, or trying to find a compromise — far from all that — many Christians today participate in «revolutionary» violence just as fervently as, half a
century ago, other Christians participated in military violence.
Judaism Faces the Twentieth
Century: A Biography of Mordecai M. Kaplan
by mel scult wayne state university press, 433 pages, $ 34.95 Many of Mordecai M. Kaplan's contemporaries and students — he had plenty of both over the 102 years of his life —
considered him a brilliant religious....
In the first five
centuries it was often bishops who held this responsibility (
consider how much of what is now called «patristic theology» was written
by bishops: Gregory of Nyssa, Basil, Athanasius, Augustine).
Although they have often been
considered as unorthodox
by the leaders of Islam, their attempts to provide a rational basis for Islamic beliefs and a mystical basis for Islamic worship have for
centuries enriched and stimulated the Muslim community.
Further, what is now
considered cannon, was argued over, for a number of
centuries by the church fathers... um, you know, the Eastern Orthodox ones?
Admittedly, in the 21st
century people are more impressed
by technology than
by science, but the scientific mindset remains the dominant undercurrent that is typically
considered more credible than the Church.
At the same time many of them are oppressed
by the feeling that theological study does not sufficiently
consider the changes that have taken place in human thought and behavior in the course of a revolutionary
century.
When one
considers the magnitude and radical nature of the questions posed for the theologian
by the new world, it is not surprising to find that theologians are beginning to speak about a new reformation more radical than that of the sixteenth
century.
He said: «As we see you, as we see this area with its constant memories of what has happened, we seek to share with you in a way that reminds you that you are not alone, that the pain you suffer is not
considered passing but profound, and that the grief for the lost is something that will forever be inscribed
by our memories in these very stones, stones that over so many
centuries have seen so much violence, but have also seen the renewal of hope and the overcoming of evil.
Returning to the connection between life and the curriculum, Whitehead
considers that «So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth
century... The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life,
by uniting the young and old in the imaginative consideration of learning.
Considering the vast array of geopolitical issues with which a Supreme Pontiff is burdened in his solicitude for the whole of the universal Church, that Benedict should choose to close his pontificate (or Francis to open his own) with anencyclical on the theological virtue of faith indicates a very pointed discernment of the signs of the times made
by the papacy in our age; namely, that what is most lacking in the
century in which we live — what is most crucial to today's society and what this era of history most requires, therefore, from the Church — appears to be faith.
The religion of Christianity has taken countless doctrine (created
by men) over the
centuries and added them to the collection of what it
considers true dogma.
Two factors above all have contributed to implant and to foster this hesitancy: on the one hand, the very structure of the discipline which serves as a sort of introduction or preparation, to the science of religions (one knows that the majority of historians of religions are former philologists, archeologists, historians, orientalists, or ethnologists); on the other hand, the inhibition created
by the lamentable failure of the vast theoretical improvisations of the end of the nineteenth
century and the beginning of the twentieth (mythology
considered a «disease of language,» astral and naturist mythologies, pan-Babylonism, animism and pre-animism, etc.).
Written
by «historians» decades and in one case a
century after the «fact» before they were even alive from second - hand sources when Christianity was
considered a cult.
These are the fruit of
considered reflection
by the Church on the developments of modern methods of exegesis using twenty
centuries of lived wisdom.
It is this which the contented churchmanship of the eighteenth
century seemed to fail to realize — one thinks of such amusing illustrations as Adam Smith's discussion of the ministry in England and Scotland on the basis of its economic status 3 or the even more startling defense of diversity of orders in the Church
by Archdeacon Paley on the ground that it «may be
considered as the stationing of ministers of religion in the various ranks of civil life.»
Vitamins, scientists learned, existed not only in meat, grains, and dairy products, foods they had always
considered vital to nourishment and growth, but also in fruits and vegetables, which had previously been regarded as benign at best and as suspicious
by many, although several nineteenth -
century groups did espouse the virtues of a vegetarian diet.43 The promotion of fruits and vegetables as vital to human growth and nourishment grew during the Great War.
Most rural births continued to be attended
by midwives in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries...»
Considering history can be a comforting force when faced with the present.
By the 19th
century breastfeeding for longer durations was
considered harmful for the child.
The phenomenon of using mass protest, holding lanterns in the streets, wearing of red bands to creatively challenge and engage the government on what Ghanaians want and how they want their future, is now
considered a 13th
century approach
by the occupyGhana group and their allies.
Some experiments were
considered quirky
by 19th
century standards, but the work provided data supporting Darwin's notions about trait variability in a population and how natural selection drives changes in populations over time.
By the middle of the 20th
century, this interconnectivity was
considered proven.
The intellectual groundwork for a truce about God was laid down long ago
by 18th -
century German philosopher Immanuel Kant and many others: Everyone who
considers the matter carefully and honestly comes to the conclusion that you can't prove anything about God with science or logic.
A few decades later, Sir George Cayley, an Englishman who built models and gliders, was
considered by many to be the first man to truly understand aeronautics, but the true glide master was Otto Lilienthal, an innovator through the late 19th
century.
Missing piece To build its collection in the 19th
century, the British Museum gathered crates of clay tablets
by methods that would not be
considered scientifically sound today; namely, buying artifacts that had been dug up around Babylon and Uruk without any archaeological context.
For much of the 20th
century, researchers
considered them too tainted
by domestication and human contact.
And fire severity is already increasing in many forests due to climate change — what is now thought of as a drought in some locations may be
considered average
by the end of the next
century.
New projections
considering changes in sea level rise, tides, waves and storm surge over the 21st
century find global warming could cause extreme sea levels to increase significantly along Europe's coasts
by 2100.
To derive the climate projections for this assessment, we employed 20 general circulation models to
consider two scenarios of global carbon emissions: one where atmospheric greenhouse gases are stabilized
by the end of the
century and the other where it grows on its current path (the stabilization [RCP4.5] and business - as - usual [RCP8.5] emission scenarios, respectively).
While avocados only gained popularity in the US in the last several decades, they've been popular in other parts of the world for
centuries and were
considered a superfood
by cultures like the Aztecs, who even had some of the earliest guacamole recipes.
While it has been available for more than a
century and is still in use today, NDT is
considered controversial
by the mainstream medical community, but it is prescribed more often
by holistic and functional medicine physicians.
Although Europeans
considered it simply a luxury spice at first,
by the 13th
century it was already a staple food and an essential on many herbalist's cabinets.
Fermented cod liver oil has been around for
centuries and was
considered a sacred food
by many historical cultures.
What has historically been
considered by most as the tackiest decade has recently gotten a twenty first
century makeover — and I'm loving it.
Although some fashions could hardly be called modest (the low cut bodices of the 18th
century, or the tightly laced Victorian silhouette, for example),
by not revealing the leg, they were
considered «proper» and modest
by society.
Considered by many to be High Noon in outer space, Outland stars Sean Connery as a 21st -
century peacekeeper on the Jupiterian moon Io, a futuristic mining colony plagued
by a narcotics ring.
Alexis Arguello is
considered by many to be the greatest junior lightweight of the 20th
century.
However,
considering the fact that those two films are near masterpieces, giving Manchester
By The Sea that qualification means that it ranks among the best of the
century so far, and quite easily stands as the best film I've seen this year with only a month left to go for the unlucky contenders looking to unseat it.
The Assassination of Jesse James
by the Coward Robert Ford is a contemplative, slow - paced, superbly acted piece of contemporary filmmaking which has to be
considered an important player in the 21st
century revival of the Western genre, an artistically accomplished, technically brilliant exploration of one of the founding myths of American identity, and a movie whose stature is bound to rise in the decades to come.
English landscape painter JMW Turner, commonly exalted as «the painter of light», was one of the great artists of the 19th
century, his work
considered by art historians something of a precursor to the impressionist movement.
The Global Achievement Gap, a new book
by Tony Wagner, co-director of the Change Leadership Group, examines the U.S. education system in the 21st
century,
considers why American students are falling behind their international peers, and proposes methods to begin to correct the downward slide.
Universities can also help
by strengthening their programs in math and science teaching so that more students will
consider teaching as a career, and so that our newest teachers will be better prepared than ever for the classrooms of the 21st
century.
By being able to
consider all the necessary goals of a 21st
Century curriculum at one time, policy makers, curriculum designers, teachers, and parents can more effectively make decisions about the future of education.