Sentences with phrase «during the last century»

In fact, the difference in economic difficulties between children in the two family types has increased during the last century.

It was observed during the last century that as the concentration of heat - trapping greenhouse gases increase, surface temperatures also increase.

Our culture, and its communication modes have changed more during the last century and a half than in any other period in cultural history.

Others say that the steady increase in life expectancy and maximum human lifespan seen during the last century will eventually stop.

Small - sized glaciers are particularly vulnerable in warmer climates, with many of them having already disappeared in several parts of the world during the last century.

These have shown about a 0.7 C warming over land during the last century, with somewhat less increase indicated over oceans.

For the past 1,000 years, temperatures have remained fairly stable but began to rise during the last century.

The enormous amount of material accumulated during the last century and a half of careful research can not and should not be «covered» in our teaching.

Compared to the rapid changes in technology, which one might suppose would contribute to evolving parenting styles, motherhood hasn't changed much during the last century.

The slow increase in concentration during the last century has not nearly kept pace with the increase in minority representation in other, more highly visible careers.

Selected works offer new ways of looking at and understanding cinema, an institution that has become a fundamental part of our collective social memory during the last century.

Forest management during the last century has been to produce timber, fire - wood and paper.

I believe that science has served us well during the last century or so.

Only the simulations that included human influences exhibited warming similar to the observed temperatures around the globe during the last century.

But as he says, when you hear the stories from these past leaders, you realize there were some amazing challenges leaders in the company faced during the last century.

This driving force has changed our culture and its communication modes more during the last century and a half than in any other period in cultural history.

In fact, the great progress of scientific knowledge that we saw during the last century has helped us understand the mystery of creation better and has profoundly marked the awareness of all peoples.

and consequently, making the apparent rise in temperature during the last century appear more dramatic than it really was.

As Falk notes, global warming during the last century would have changed the forest even if fires had not been suppressed.

This type of digital magazine hard drive is said to be useful if you are on a plane for a long trip to overseas or if you simply need a brush up on what happened on the earth during the last century as recorded by National Geographic magazines.

Throughout its long history, AT&T has had many subsidiaries (including the Bell Telephone Company), a government sanctioned monopoly on phone services, and has been the largest phone service provider several times during the last century.

The idea of a library that fits in your pocket has been imagined by several writers during the last century, but by the time readers were fascinated by

The oceans have heaved up and down as world temperatures have waxed and waned, but as new research tracking the past 2,800 years shows, never during that time did the seas rise as sharply or as suddenly as has been the case during the last century.

Global Surface Temperature Increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C During The Last Century.

Similarly, important changes in solar irradiation at Summit during the last century are unlikely.

And to calculate the modern correlation, they compared data collected by humans during the last century on the temperature and salinity of the Gulf and rainfall in the Western Hemisphere.

To Ferdinand: I do not claim that «all» or even «most» of the observed CO2 during the last century is induced by the Sun.

In the Susquehanna catchment, which delivers more than half of the freshwater input to Chesapeake Bay (Schubel and Pritchard 1986), reduced coal mining activity during the last century has led to increased river pH by 0.8 units (Raymond and Oh 2009), which, together with eutrophication, has partially counteracted processes that would reduce pH in the surface layer, such as OA and increased respiration.

There was a time during the last century when colored people wanted to be like George Washington, today we find young white people influenced by and wanting to be like Martin Luther King Jr..

Let's say Jewish was born in the United States sometime during the last century.

There are a number of useful early chapters on the historical context of the debate between science and religion, where the authors juxtapose and compare the differing positions taken by various prominent psychologists / neuroscientists during the last century.

When we talk about the key shifts of the twentieth century — those involving politics, trade, consumption, art — we leave out what is surely the most astonishing physical change in all of human history, one that has happened mostly during the last century: the doubling of the human life span in much....

Pastor Eber F. Silveira Lima recounts the changing relationship between the Independent Presbyterian Church of Brazil (IPI) and the Pentecostal movement during the last century.

The tension between these two constituents of the narrative has provided much of the interest of critical debate upon the gospels during the last century or more.

It is an instructive exercise to read in chronological order the various studies of the resurrection of Jesus written during the last century, not by rationalist critics of Christianity, but by Christian scholars, most of whom were widely recognized as authorities.

«Panentheism» was first used by the German writer Krause during the last century.

His hypothesis is that slow development and often even cultural decay are the fruits of this bifurcation, whereas the inadvertent wedding of these two disparate functions of reason during the last century and a half have produced an unprecedented cultural advance: imagination now focused on the improvement of technique; technique guided, illuminated, and immeasurably enhanced through experiment with imaginative alternatives to the given and the known (FR 42).

During the last century there has been some tendency in certain groups toward relaxation of doctrinal standards, while efforts have been made to raise the educational standards.

This very point was the subject of a lively controversy during the last century, and the result was that it brought home to us the uniqueness and finality of Jesus and the inadequacy of a vague Christology of the symbol or idea.

Indeed the lack of serious engagement by philosophers with science, particularly physics, is all too apparent, including among most philosophers and theologians within the Church during the last century.

In general, Christian responses to these challenges during the last century and a half have fallen into three categories: