Sentences with phrase «course of centuries»

Researchers expect that as climate change makes wildfires more likely over the course of this century, deaths and illnesses attributed to pollution from wood smoke will rise too, even offsetting gains made from cleaning up emissions from industry.

California's critical energy and transportation infrastructure faces significant climate related risks over the course of the century, including more frequent and intense wildfires, prolonged drought, and accelerated sea - level rise.

In Hawthorne's tale vice and providence together render judgment, but it is a slow, steady hand that rights evils over the course of centuries.

And if, over the course of a century, you have enough of those sporadic upswings in persecution sprinkled through the years, people are going to remember that century as one of persecution.

Simon said in the course of their centuries - old tradition on the mountain, the monks viewed it as just a speed bump.

... Who can describe the injustice and cruelties that in the course of centuries they have suffered at the hands of Europeans?

Regardless of which of them FIRST occurred to you, it should have dawned on you shortly thereafter that the meaning of the term had changed over the course of a century.

The human rights thinking and constitutional expression were advanced through the course of the centuries from the Magna Carta of 1215, the Bill of Rights of 1689 in England, the American Constitution of 1782, and the French and Russian Revolutions.

Yet conservatives developed their political philosophy over the course of centuries with no help from Darwinists, and with no reference to shifting Darwinian stories.

The common argument against the validity of scripture is that over the course of centuries of reproduction it must have accidentally or intentionally changed.

One might readily surmise that the course of that century would bring forth significant theological developments demonstrating the connection...

The course of centuries lying ahead and behind us could be conceived of in theory as abruptly stopping or beginning at a given moment, the real and total duration of the Universe being supposed not to exceed a few thousand years.

The decline has continued over the course of this century.

During the course of this century the observance of Sunday and the annual festivals of Whitsunday and Easter have almost disappeared as public Christian festivals.

Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the end for the Native Americans who defended and ultimately lost their land and dignity over the course of centuries.

Hence, a true Christian prays for God's name, Jehovah, to sanctified or cleansed of all reproach that the churches (and other religions as well) have heaped upon it over the course of the centuries as by hiding it, taking it out of their Bibles and their misconduct that has besmirched it.

This is why true religious adherents are so singularly closed minded, and why the bad ideas fostered by religious thinking — like creationism — repeat themselves over the course of centuries.

In the course of the century, a variety of steps removed most of the legal disabilities which had hampered Nonconformists.

In this they far surpassed the Greeks, who were too recent and too brief in their national being to have been conditioned by the course of centuries and millenniums.

In any case, the Davidic dynasty was intimately related to the continuing hope, although in the course of the centuries it manifested great variety, with attention turning to the tribe of Joseph or of Levi.

One might readily surmise that the course of that century would bring forth significant theological developments demonstrating the connection between the power of God reigning in heaven and imperial power being wielded on earth.

I've been reading a lot of books and articles lately about food culture and the important role it has played in the health of societies over the course of centuries past.

Although the first cookies date back to 7th century Persia, which was one of the first countries to use sugar in making sophisticated sweets and desserts, the techniques quickly spread throughout Europe, and over the course of the centuries evolved into exquisite flavors, and shapes — buttery, nutty, spicy, chocolaty, filled with jam, dusted with sugar!

Founded in the UK by Dr Richard Seligman in 1910 as the Aluminium Plant & Vessel Company, APV initially manufactured welded vessels for the brewery and vegetable oil industries and has pioneered ground - breaking technologies during the course of a century, setting standards of the modern processing industry.

Each of these phases lasted for decades, even as temperatures warmed overall during the course of the century.

It is also a greenhouse gas 34 times more potent than carbon dioxide over the course of a century.

It is an epic story: the struggle of thousands of men and women over the course of a century for very high stakes.

U.S. risk assessments generally assume that bridges may collapse when a 100 - year flood — a streamflow with 1 percent probability of being exceeded in any given year, or 63 percent over the course of a century — occurs.

Over the course of its century - plus lifetime, the IPK has emerged only three times to serve «campaigns» of active duty, most recently in 1988 — 1992, when it participated in a formal verification of all kilogram prototypes belonging to the 51 Meter Convention member states.

Mathematicians developed the familiar 10 - digit numerical system, known as the Hindu - Arabic numerals, over the course of centuries.

Methane, when assessed over the course of a century, warms the planet about 25 times as much as the same mass of carbon dioxide does.

That sounds like a lot, but it works out to the duration of a 24 - hour day being lengthened by about 1.78 milliseconds over the course of a century.

(Over the course of a century, methane traps heat in Earth's atmosphere about 25 times as effectively as carbon dioxide; nitrous oxide does so almost 300 times as effectively over the same interval.)

But climate activists in Bonn and elsewhere said the G7 recognition that decarbonisation of the global economy was needed «over the course of this century» was too slow, arguing it should happen by 2050 instead.

Thus, I would suggest that decision makers use these «best - available» distributions but also consider the consequences for their decisions of «worst - case» sea - level rise scenarios (e.g., about 2.5 m globally in the course of the century according to Kopp et al., 2014).

Rob and Dave's research found that these processes give rise to the potential for more than one meter of global average sea - level rise from Antarctica alone over the course of this century, and more than 15 meters over the next five centuries.

One leads to 2 feet of global - average sea - level rise over the course of this century, and swamps land currently home to about 100 million people.

Median projections of global mean sea level over the course of this century for low, median, and high emissions futures.

One recent modeling study focused on this mode of instability estimated that the Antarctic ice sheet has a 1 - in - 20 chance of contributing about 30 centimeters (1.0 feet) to global average sea - level rise over the course of this century and 72 centimeters (2.4 feet) by the end of the next century.

Over the course of a century, the lasting effects of drought could lead to 3 percent lower carbon storage in semi-arid forests, such as those in Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico, according to the study.

Handcrafted by local artisans, these sandals are made with chemical - free, natural tan leather using Old World techniques honed over the course of centuries.

Cultivating vineyards in the Prosecco region is an art that has been perfected over the course of centuries, and uses primarily Glera grapes, which have been known at least since Roman times.

The collection abounds in not only samples of what peak athleticism was thought to look like over the course of a century, but in displays of various conceptions of bodies in motion and coming into being as compelling subjects for the moving image.

Presenting text on paper is an art that has been perfected over the course of centuries.

In an assured debut, a delicate fretwork of lives, relationships, and secrets is built up over the course of a century - and linked by a manor in an ugly French village... Strikingly deft and nuanced; a writer to watch.»