Sentences with phrase «developed more than a century»

Isaacson noted Da Vinci's «willingness to challenge received wisdom would lead him to craft an empirical approach for understanding nature that foreshadowed the scientific method developed more than century later... His method was rooted in experiment, curiosity, and the ability to marvel at phenomena that the rest of us rarely pause to ponder after we've outgrown our wonder years».

We're still making the same flavor profile we developed more than a century ago.

When most of our current pedagogical practices were developed more than a century ago, the essential economic purpose of public schools was to produce industrial workers who were fast and reliable when assigned repetitive mechanical or clerical tasks.

In the U.S. the National Climatic Data Center keeps the most dependable temperature records back to 1880 (thermometers were developed more than a century and a half before this, and through the 1800s and often before it was common practice to hang thermometers in the shade).

Not exact matches

Look at how much trouble less than a century of nuclear power has already caused on this planet... what are the chances of something more catastrophic happening with that and / or more powerful technologies that develop over the next several hundred years?

One of the things that developed in the 20th century was an imbalance — authority and sometimes intellect became more important than the heart.

The phenomenon of Scripture demands more than simply a theory developed by the Princeton boys in the 19th century.

This relationship is of some importance, for Weiss developed a point of view that is steeped in New Testament textual and historical criticism but is more far out than that of his father and much at variance with the nineteenth - century liberalism of Ritschl.

For more than a century, we have been developing unique recipes for our clients.

It's how we've set the bar for developing the best baby products in the world for more than a century.

Along with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown he developed a political philosophy and election winning techniques that dominated British politics for more than a decade at the cusp of the last century.

By the end of the 20th century, «many countries, especially in the more developed regions, had already achieved population structures older than any ever seen in human history,» says a report, World Population Ageing: 1950 - 2050, from the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) of the United Nations.

Gustav von Bergmann, a German internist, developed the original hypothesis more than a century ago.

The technology, developed in part at Stanford, reminded him of Viking explorers who, from the eighth through 11th centuries, «travelled farther and saw more in much smaller ships than had been used before their time.»

For more than a century, scientists have actively sought to develop treatments to improve the function of muscle in these diseases, and the need for such drugs continues to increase.

More than two centuries ago, the city began to develop and thousands of men from different parts of the Russian Empire came to Nikolaev.

For example, LRNG Cities (www.lrng.org/cities) has developed more than 200 «playlists» (sequences of skills to be learned in a given field, with students earning a badge for each one they master), which are «designed to engage youth in exploring and pursuing their passions and provide new opportunities to hone valuable skills for the 21st - century workplace.»

Living in the 21st century also means data is more accessible to the public, a context which Ramanathan views as an opportunity for multiple stakeholders to access and present data in more useful ways than the indicators traditionally developed by the state.

It takes more than ensuring educators and students have access to technology when schools begin the work of developing a 21st century strategic school plan.

After more than a century of fossil fuel - powered dominance the automobile is in for a serious overhaul; electric and hydrogen - powered cars have arrived and fast developing self - driving capabilities may relegate us all to the back seat.

That might seem like an easy benchmark to clear given that lights are less complex than forward collision warning systems and the like and have had more than a century to develop, but a required rating of «good» headlights made it so only 15 of the 2018 models received the IIHS» top safety designation.

In the 21st century, in the developed world at least, infectious disease is more of a threat than a reality.

His approach to writing evolved at a very young age and has developed over a career spanning more than half a century.

It is a record book of the century - old body that supervises the world of purebred dogs in the United States.Since its founding in Philadelphia, the American Kennel Club (AKC) has grown to oversee thousands of dog shows every year and annually registers more than 1 million pedigreed canines.O «Neill's book ($ 17.95, Howell Book House, 230 Park Ave., New York, N.Y. 10169) includes a decade - by - decade account of how the AKC developed.

In the early 17th century Dutch Republic, Hendrick de Keyser played an important role in developing the Amsterdam Renaissance style, which has local characteristics including the prevalence of tall narrow town - houses, the «trapgevel» or Dutch gable and the employment of decorative triangular pediments over doors and windows in which the apex rises much more steeply than in most other Renaissance architecture, but in keeping with the profile of the gable.

«For more than a century, Pratt Institute has developed promising young women who become top decision - makers and we are committed to continuing that valuable mission.»

Tracing the Century: Drawing as a Catalyst for Change This exhibition explores the place of drawing in avant garde art from Cezanne to Julie Mehretu, featuring more than a hundred works of art and arguing that drawing is central to the way modernism and post-modernism change and develop.

In the absence of museums with significant contemporary art collections and well - developed academic art history departments dedicated to 20th - and 21st - century art across the region, exhibitions have become more than just sites of display and interaction.

China May Not Be Able to Grow Out of the Problem Just one final thing: It may be tempting to think that China, like the US, the UK and the rest of the developed world can grow its way out of polluting, but that may be far more difficult now than it was half a century ago.

Overall, it concluded that it would be in the developing world where the net adverse effects would be greatest, and that, as a consequence, by the end of the century, if nothing was done to stop the warming, living standards in the developing world, instead of being rather more than nine times as high as they are today, would «only» be rather more than eight times as high as they are today.

So all these people trying to live the way we live in the developed world is filling the atmosphere with a great deal more carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases than existed a couple of centuries ago.

For more than a century, we have pioneered access to justice at the national, state, and local levels in multiple ways: helping create many of the first public defense systems in the country; supporting the Legal Services Corporation; developing nationally applicable standards for legal representation; and advocating for groundbreaking legislation.

The University of Birmingham has been challenging and developing great minds for more than a century.

Museum of Fire (Edinburgh)-- The Museum of Fire (which if you ask me is a great name) tells the story of how Firemaster James Braidwood developed the first municipal fire brigade, and showcases a variety of equipment and appliances from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as older artefacts which chart the development of firefighting over more than 400 years in a fascinating, interactive tour.