Sentences with phrase «defined point in history»

They are a tradition developed over time, up to a defined point in history, by the authorities responsible for its application.

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For example, in «A Short History of the Income Tax,» John Steele Gordon points out that the U.S. income tax act of 1913 was only 14 pages long; by 1942, it had blossomed to 208 pages with over three - quarters of them «devoted to closing or defining loopholes» that tax lawyers and accountants were using to «game the system.»

«We are at a very important point in the history of audio and radio, and how we move from here will define the future and where we go,» says GroupM's Wood.

But because the book can not in itself be for the reader his encounter with history, but only information about any encounter with history, it does of course as a whole appear to him as a view, and I must define for him the point of observation.

However, the true defining moment, or rather turning point, in its history is when it was discovered that four members of Michigan's basketball team had taken money from booster Ed Martin totaling $ 616,000.

I mean, Wenger's arc is pretty much well defined at this point, and despite all his amazing achievements in his first decade, he fact that he doesn't evolve as the game has evolved has meant Arsenal, with all the institutional advantages a club could ever want (great location, great history, astounding amounts of money), have been left behind, and the evidence of that could not have been more starkly on display than it was on Sunday.

His epochal text, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), is often conceived as the starting point of modern astronomy, as well as a central and defining epiphany in the history of all science.

For the first time in history, humans knew the stars not just as points on a sky chart but as objects with defined locations in three - dimensional space.

Oh I absolutely agree on those defining points in our fashion history!

In our final blog post of 2017, we argued that the 2018 investment «vintage» would likely be defined by history as marking a cyclical turning point within a much larger secular bull market for global risk assets.

Known for its extreme attention to detail and complex and elaborate plotlines, and the entire series is considered both a defining point and a milestone in video - game history.

It could be said that Mitchell was on her way to conceiving a pact between French Post Impressionism and American Abstract Expressionism that defines her work from this point forward and is a unique achievement in the history of 20th Century painting.

Further, the main section is complemented by a number of cinema and screening programmes which point up some defining moments in the history of video.

What is missing on the fourth floor at MoMA is precisely the yeasty, unpredictable mix of forces that in Manhattan defined the last stand of the avant - garde, the last moment when an artist, sitting alone in a studio, could believe that the tidal sweep of history had brought art to this point, that all the grand philosophical ideas, the dreams of Plato, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche, were with the artists, pushing them forward.

A defining work in Freud's oeuvre, Pregnant Girl has been presented at every major point of Freud's exhibition history, from his first major retrospective at the Hayward Gallery, London (1974), to the recent major shows at Tate, London (2003) the National Portrait Gallery, London (2012) and the Kunsthistoriches in Vienna (2013 - 14), where it was hung alongside Baby on a Green Sofa.

the history of the church is such that a whole bunch of things count as «judeo christian ethics» like owning slaves was ok... then it was not ok, In short he points to a thing that isnt well defined