Sentences with phrase «countries in the past century»

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The flight attendants are decked out in Soviet red, their jackets and hats emblazoned with the hammer and sickle of the Communist Party, which ruled this country with an iron fist during much of the past century.

Over the past century these instruments have destroyed the purchasing power of investors in many countries, even as these holders continued to receive timely payments of interest and principal.

However, a stagnation or decline in height over the past century is an indication that certain countries in the developed, English - speaking world could do a better job of emphasizing good nutritional standards for their youth.

It involves policies that can be traced at least as far back as the «American System» of the early 19th Century, and it has been implemented in various forms by many different countries around the world during the past 100 or even 200 years.

The steady lowering of international trade barriers over the past half century has been a driving force behind job creation and poverty reduction in countries around the world.

Prominent Islamic thinkers who came to the west in the past century made remarkable statements about the west... They said we see here Islam without Muslims, whereas back in our home countries we have Muslims without Islam.

Unfortunately, this renaissance of the past century and a half has been seriously restricted because most of the Islamic countries have been held down by alien political and economic controls which did not permit the creative participation in cultural activities which had been characteristic of Muslims in their glorious days in the past.

But in the United States, the uprooting of the rural population and the rapid migration of industry from one part of the country to another, as well as out of the country altogether, have represented a steady assault on community during the past half century.

Rankling memories of the past, and centuries of estrangement, had bred between these people of kindred stock, close neighbors in a very small country, a mentality of mutual hatred, which found expression constantly in petty provocations and occasionally in murderous affrays.

Although scholars of the Revolution have disagreed on many things, the past fifty years have witnessed strong agreement that one significant aspect of the ideas motivating the American Revolution was the Whig or Country party beliefs which supported the Glorious Revolution and then resisted the growth of monarchical power in the eighteenth century.

The profound cleavage in every kind of social group (families, countries, professions, creeds) which during the past century has become manifest in the form of two increasingly distinct and irreconcilable human types, those who believe in progress and those who do not — what does this portend except the separation and birth of a new stratum in the biosphere?

Churches and missionary organizations are analyzing the experience of these past centuries in order to correct their ways, precisely with the help of the new churches which have come into being in those countries.

Sachs offers a short overview of development economics, explaining why some countries have grown rich in the past few centuries while others have barely groxvn at all.

American women have come so far in obtaining equal civil rights and its a throwback to past centuries to see Islamic women towing the line for men in the U.S. Wouldn't they be happier in Islamic countries where Islam is ingrained in the culture and they can be a part of it?

The report found, among other things, that 43 of the lower 48 U.S. states have set at least one monthly heat record since 2010, sea levels are expected to rise between one and four feet by the end of this century, winter storms have increased in intensity and frequency, and the past decade was warmer than every previous decade in every part of the country.

Christians in affluent countries in the twentieth century have grown used to such a fast pace of life and to such constant changes in the material environment that we tend to think that our problems are unique, that the past is worthless as a source of wisdom for modern times, and that our ancestors in the faith have little in common with us.

Over the past few centuries childbirth has become increasingly influenced by medical technology, and now medical intervention is the norm in most Western countries.

The biggest difference in our modern world is that fewer women die of childbirth complications in first world countries than they did in past centuries.

On a side note, the country's refusal to look back on its past and to reconcile with its role in some of the murky waters of the 20th century is evocative.

Richard Tollner, a 57 - year - old real estate agent and town assessor in the Capital Region, has lived with his wife for the past quarter - century in a cozy country bungalow filled with family antiques.

A recent study of bank credit in 17 countries over the last 120 years by Oscar Jorda, Mauritz Schularick and Alan Taylor found that the share of mortgage loans in banks» total lending portfolios has roughly doubled over the course of the past century — from about 30 per cent in 1900 to about 60 per cent today.

Indeed, analysis shows that for at least a third of the past century, the country was governed by parties which had failed to win an election in their own right but had created temporary mergers with another party in order to form a ruling coalition.

The TV documentaries included excerpts from past constitutional conventions, mostly U.S. state constitutional conventions held during the latter half of the 20th Century, plus a smattering of recent path - breaking constitutional conventions held in other countries.

While average life expectancy has been rising steadily in most countries over the past century, new research led by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows that life expectancy declined significantly and rapidly in three countries where policy changes increased access to prescription opioids, alcohol or illicit drugs.

A technical field with the explicit raison d'etre of helping people, biomedical engineering, arose in the past century as a partnership among medical researchers, clinicians, physical scientists, and engineers and has evolved into a separate discipline now taught at engineering schools across the country.

In a country where skating is practically a national pastime, only three deaths in the past century occurred when all safety precautions were followeIn a country where skating is practically a national pastime, only three deaths in the past century occurred when all safety precautions were followein the past century occurred when all safety precautions were followed.

Northern Chile, near the border with Peru, was the only stretch of the country's coastline that had not broken in a large earthquake in the past century (see «Under pressure»).

During the last quarter century the rate of diabetes alone has nearly quadrupled in most east and south Asian countries, including China and India, according to South Korean researchers who reviewed past studies in the November 10 Lancet.

In the past century, the only year - to - year decline in population occurred between July 1917 and July 1918, when the country was at waIn the past century, the only year - to - year decline in population occurred between July 1917 and July 1918, when the country was at wain population occurred between July 1917 and July 1918, when the country was at war.

In contrast, France received less than 90 percent of its average precipitation total for 2015, making this one of the 10 driest years for the country in the past half centurIn contrast, France received less than 90 percent of its average precipitation total for 2015, making this one of the 10 driest years for the country in the past half centurin the past half century.

In the past half century, this country has tolerated a weak licensing system for prospective teachers.

Once these «basics» had been achieved, as has been the case in most countries in the past few centuries, I suspect the well - being of family and the possession of certain items would be next on the list,» writes Professor Howard Gardner.

For me, Cultural Literacy and Don's Core Knowledge curricula were the necessary predecessors, the blueprint, for standards based reform over the past almost half century in this country.

We have been on a march for the past 25 years that had led us to what was rated as the best public school accountability system in the country, one that, when fully implemented would measure progress to postsecondary readiness at every grade level culminating in a high school diploma signifying college and 21st century career readiness.

Moving from the tempered calm of contemporary Madison, Wisconsin to the seedy underbelly of early twentieth century New York, we come face to face with a haunting piece of America's past: From 1854 to 1929 orphan trains from New York transported 150,000 to 200,000 destitute, orphaned or abandoned children across the country to find homes on farms in the Midwest.

Here I was alone in the cove with my husband thinking about the vibrant past of this now empty cove - it was almost too quiet and I felt very alone all of a sudden thinking about all these men now gone from this earth and how much my country has changed through the centuries.

With a permanent collection of Americana that includes a fully furnished, turn - of - the - century doctor's office, as well as a collection of historic pharmaceutical goods and tobacco advertisements, in addition to local crafts, antiques, and collectibles that are available for purchase, this country store is a trip back into the past.

This round - up, of 8 destinations for history lovers, provides a guide to help you get started exploring historic buildings of Spain and the cultures that have thrived in the country over the past centuries.

 He added that both countries had a lot in common, with people of both nations cementing the ties between Mexico and Belize over the past centuries.

China has changed more over the past 20 years than most countries did in the entire 20th century.

One of the greatest living 20th century painters, the German artist Anselm Kiefer is most famous for his exploration of taboo themes from German history, notably the Holocaust, in order to come to terms with the country's Nazi past.

Sometimes this concerns the pasts of a century ago, as in the case of Madhusudhanan, an Marxist Indian filmmaker and painter whose work ties together the colonial history of his country and its current war footing.

The results of these effects are famine, the rise of 19th century pestilent diseases in underdeveloped countries, and rates of species extinction comparable with astronomic events of millions of years past.

While particulate emissions over the Western world decreased since the mid-1970's, the emissions in developing countries increased rapidely in the past halve century.

Those nations that cling to whaling do so to the great consternation of the larger majority of nations, and against the objections of hundreds of millions of individuals, in every country, who feel with the deepest conviction that whaling, whatever its viability and justification in past centuries, can not be indulged in this one.

So, what's behind the changes in emissions these three countries have seen over the past quarter century?

Heavy storms have become increasingly common across the country over the past half - century due to similar changes in conditions, said David Easterling, with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Centers for Environmental Information.

Within the past decade, banking and insurance companies have hired historical legal experts and spent a lot of time litigation over the US Federal Court system's power to issue equitable remedies such as the Mareva injunction and equitable liens to seize assets in federal litigation; the Alien Torts Act which has been used by international human rights organizations had its breadth restricted by use of 18th century views of the «law of nations» requiring recourse to historic writers like Hugo Grotius, and even administrative law has come under assault by dissents of Justice Thomas arguing that the «Chevron» doctrine of deference to agency interpretations of their own statutes should be set aside as being incompatible with the understanding of the American separation of powers doctrine as it was understood at the time of the country's founding.

This ship - shaped piece perfectly straddles the line between now and the past, by being quirky while also harking back to early 19th century lights favoured by aristocrats with a love for the sea — check out some National Trust homes like Castle Ward for some more inspiration; you'll be surprised how well the study's similar chandelier to this one works in a country manor as it does in this cool modern home.