Sentences with phrase «did in past centuries»

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.

Conflicts in the Muslim World today, while occupying significant news time, A) pale in comparison to what non-Muslims have done in this past century and B) are mostly the result of secular governments in the Muslim World vying for power and resources C) often backed by non-Muslim armaments and vested interests.

Not exact matches

Rupert's son James, however, who is CEO of family holding company 21st Century Fox, argued that it was long past time for O'Reilly to leave, in order to try and mitigate some of the longer - term damage done by the allegations and the advertising exodus.

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.

But as I noted last week (see Two Point Three Sigmas Above the Norm), nominal growth and interest rate variations have historically canceled out over the past century, with little effect on the accuracy of our valuation estimates — matched reductions in the growth rate and the discount rate really don't affect fair value.

It's as if their role in this history is to carry on what Christians have been doing for the past two centuries, except in a modern rock context — Underground blaze the sound to Armageddon.

Such «panoramic vision of the past» (la vision panoramique du passé) had been discussed extensively at the turn of the century; Bergson took notice of it in Matter and Memory, and the same problem was discussed more recently by George Poulet, the author of Études sur le temps humain.5

Is it not a scandal how few of the clergy and professors of theology decide to devote their lives directly to the study of the natural order — as more of them did in centuries past to the world's everlasting benefit?

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.

Or maybe there's resting going on for one big cataclysmic event... Do you really think the world is going to get off scot - free from all the filth it's been engaging in and spewing this past century, and especially this past decade?

The evidences of what this emphasis upon the minister as theologian has done are very widespread in the history of the past four centuries.

Hot Air Ace — the «proof» Tropher has proffered in the past has been a series of «scientific preidtions» the Bible made that «science» did not become aware of for centuries later.

A monumental residence built in the 10th century B.C. and excavated this past fall has been dubbed «Solomon's Palace,» even though there's no direct connection to the Israelite king outside of the dating, which was done through pottery remains and stratigraphic chronology.

A century later, we are living in the closing years of a pontificate that has, above all, taught Catholics not to be afraid» afraid of those who hate the Church so that we do not honestly contemplate the failings of our own past; afraid of the progress of science so that we needed to be reminded by the Pope «that faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth.»

In fact, painters of the past century have done virtually everything in their power to short - circuit the discursive character of previous art and aestheticIn fact, painters of the past century have done virtually everything in their power to short - circuit the discursive character of previous art and aestheticin their power to short - circuit the discursive character of previous art and aesthetics.

This does not mean that men had to wait till the nineteenth century before seeing how events, grouped in long series, were absorbed into the past.

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?

We are concerned with the stupid things that real humans do when they use books written by con men and theives in the distant past to guide their behavior in the twenty - first century.

In addition, both those churches that were founded by Western denominations in the past century but which did not join the CSI — some Baptists, Methodists and Lutherans — and Indian denominations with a deep and long history, such as the Syrian Orthodox and Mar Thoma churches, are increasingly using the literature from Western evangelistic and fundamentalistic sources in their religious education programIn addition, both those churches that were founded by Western denominations in the past century but which did not join the CSI — some Baptists, Methodists and Lutherans — and Indian denominations with a deep and long history, such as the Syrian Orthodox and Mar Thoma churches, are increasingly using the literature from Western evangelistic and fundamentalistic sources in their religious education programin the past century but which did not join the CSI — some Baptists, Methodists and Lutherans — and Indian denominations with a deep and long history, such as the Syrian Orthodox and Mar Thoma churches, are increasingly using the literature from Western evangelistic and fundamentalistic sources in their religious education programin their religious education programs.

Join us in the 21st century — herein lies the problem with religion — you're stuck in the past and refuse to accept what's put in front of you — sometimes a saying (OMG) is simply that — just a saying — when I say holy * hit you don't think I'm really praying to fecal material do you?

But if travel is important enough that God commanded the Israelites to do it somewhat regularly, and has been so integral to the people of God in centuries past, then it seems the people of God today may stand to benefit from learning to travel as a sacred act.

I think in ages past the family bed and shared care of a small village setting would have naturally gone that way, but the last century really did a lot to undo the human nature tendencies!

Functional brain - imaging experiments done at the end of the past century using positron - emission tomography (PET) found marked activation in the frontal lobe of volunteers who had taken hallucinogens, in particular in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and the insula cortex.

But what this first draft does do is capture the big picture of scientific fame, at least as reflected in published books over the past 2 centuries.

If these glaciers retreat at a similar rate to what they did in the past decade, 30 of them would disconnect from warm ocean waters by the end of the century with that kind of travel distance, it says.

However, unlike the climate model simulations, the new precipitation reconstruction does not show an increase of wet and dry anomalies in the twentieth century compared to the natural variations of the past millennium.

«They have done a less convincing job matching malaria decline with climate change, besides noting that temperatures have increased over the past century,» wrote Lafferty in an e-mail.

Results of the team's statistical analysis suggest that the long - verified, more - than - a-century-old model doesn't fit the pattern of seismicity seen on the New Madrid Seismic Zone in the past 2 centuries, the researchers report online today in Science.

Thanks to advances in medical science over the past century, humans have never lived longer than we do right now.

The global mean temperature rise of less than 1 degree C in the past century does not seem like much, but it is associated with a winter temperature rise of 3 to 4 degrees C over most of the Arctic in the past 20 years, unprecedented loss of ice from all the tropical glaciers, a decrease of 15 to 20 % in late summer sea ice extent, rising sealevel, and a host of other measured signs of anomalous and rapid climate change.

The real question is which factor is doing the heavy lifting — and a new report in Nature released Wednesday says that on the Antarctic Peninsula, at least, human - generated greenhouse gases have almost certainly been by far the most important driver of warming over the past half - century.

The hydration formula present in it did a good job of keeping the skin feeling moisturized and not like it'd been trapped in the Sahara for the past century.

Absent the will to do so, students will suffer the most and, the authors caution, the past quarter century's momentum to render America's schools more effective «is in serious jeopardy.»

Intrusive narrator, story within story, writing about writing, revisions of past story; he did it all in the 17th century.

But the deeper Costa looks - into the facts that don't add up, into the haunted eyes of Gabriel's beautiful daughter, Mina, and into the mysterious links between the present and the past - the more he's haunted by disturbing parallels with a centuries - old crime: In 1599, Beatrice Cenci was beheaded by the Vatican for murdering her father, a man known for unthinkable sexual crimes.

@ Parker, during the 1970s inflation, share prices did not keep pace with inflation; some of the lowest PE10 ratios of the past century occurred in the late 1970s.

While in past centuries, dogs were expected to work hard for their supper, today, a pet dog often doesn't have any real responsibilities at all.

Once past its historic 19th century façade, the visitor will begin to notice familiar Westin touches such as the white tea scent ever present in the public spaces (as it does in any Westin around the world) and the sophisticated, modern, décor.

Encountering Ultra Beasts, meeting characters from games past, dealing with the Aether Foundation; as the story progressed we were left with face cracks of the centuries with each step we took into Alola — so why didn't our in - game avatar react the same way?

In the past we've just done two auctions in October and February that were really big sales in the sense that they covered a lot of time from contemporary to 19th centurIn the past we've just done two auctions in October and February that were really big sales in the sense that they covered a lot of time from contemporary to 19th centurin October and February that were really big sales in the sense that they covered a lot of time from contemporary to 19th centurin the sense that they covered a lot of time from contemporary to 19th century.

In reality, history can excavate the cultures of 19th - century Africa as intimately as it can recreate any past — and MacGregor tries to do just that.

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

Main Gallery: Memorial for an Invisible Monument Towards the end of the XXth century people are looking backwards, into the past, as did Angelus Novus in Klee's painting interpreted by Walter Benjamin.

However solely placing Santalov's work in the Russian artistic tradition of the beginning of the past century does not do it enough justice.

A past Marcel Duchamp Prize finalist, Céleste Boursier - Mougenot's work has been presented in major exhibitions by leading museums and galleries internationally, including solo exhibitions at the Barbican Centre (London), Hangar Bicocca (Milan), La Maison Rouge (Paris), Pinacoteca do Estado (Sao Paulo), FRAC (Reims), Chagall Museum (Nice), and a group exhibitions including Art & Music: Search for New Synethesia, Museum od contemporary art, Tokyo, 2012; French art Today, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, 2011; My Paris — Collection Antoine de Galbert / The French Scene, me collectors room, Berlin, 2011; 21st Century: Art in the First Decade, Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2010; and the 3rd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, 2009.

While I'd like to see less gas needed, and don't mind minimizing my mileage, an 18th century reality seems left in the past.

This is what Osborn and Briffa have done in their article «The Spatial Extent of 20th Century Warmth in the Context of the Past 1200 Years», which appears in the Feb 10 issue of the journal Science.

Whether you are a climate denier of not, the facts from the past century indicates that sea - level risen, and we do not know the exact amount it could rise in the future.

It remains to be seen whether this prognosis turns out to be true (there have been some doubts expressed), but since grand minima of solar activity did occur in the past, it is certainly interesting to explore what effects such a minimum might have on 21st century climate if it did occur.

Even the IPCC does not concur, stating that the «Current datasets indicate no significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone frequency over the past century and it remains uncertain whether any reported long - term increases in tropical cyclone frequency are robust.»