Sentences with phrase «during the past century in»

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The flight attendants are decked out in Soviet red, their jackets and hats emblazoned with the hammer and sickle of the Communist Party, which ruled this country with an iron fist during much of the past century.

It has topped $ 100 (in today's dollars) three times in the past half century — before the recessions of the early 1980s, during the 2008 recession, and most recently in April 2011.

It involves policies that can be traced at least as far back as the «American System» of the early 19th Century, and it has been implemented in various forms by many different countries around the world during the past 100 or even 200 years.

Above all, our lesson plan would indicate that there has been a substantial effort in this direction during the past century, but also that it is now showing signs of failure in all of the institutions noted above.

During the past two centuries growth has been understood chiefly in economic terms.

While it might be true that those who lived in the time of the Prophet could understand religion better than the people of today who must study Islam by means of documents only, we can not ignore the considerable change in the social situation and world conditions during the past fourteen centuries.

But in the United States, the uprooting of the rural population and the rapid migration of industry from one part of the country to another, as well as out of the country altogether, have represented a steady assault on community during the past half century.

«The assumptions that have governed our understanding of Christian history during the past several centuries were all formed in the European context where the church was identified with the cultural and religious majority and attention was focused largely on its institutional life,» Shenk writes.

The presently discussed theory and practice of human rights are very much as evolved in and by Western society during the past few centuries.

In the writing of Rudolf Bultmann, the great German form - critic whose program of «de-mythologization» attracted much attention during the past quarter - century, there is still another way of presenting the meaning of resurrection.

If a gain of fifty years of life expectancy during the past thousand years — and a thirty - year jump in the twentieth century alone — has immeasurably improved the quality and security of our lives, why shouldn't we envision similar benefits from much longer lives?

Although according to the latest researches, the general level of prosperity was increasing throughout the Roman empire during the first century, and although Palestine might have been expected to share this increase along with a larger volume of trade, both import and export, and although this prosperity was apparently accompanied by a widespread increase in population, nevertheless Palestine was still geared to 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?

This protest has, however, taken the form of an equally dangerous distortion of the gospel in the opposite sense which was brought forward in the most impassioned terms at various times in the course of the nineteenth century and then especially during the past twenty years.

That statement is from the «Draft National Policy on Education,» an attempt to chart directions for the 5,200 - some institutions of higher learning that have arisen in India during the past century.

In the East, syncretism has received a powerful boost during the past century from such Indian leaders as the great Hindu mystic Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekenanda, Mahatma Gandhi, and the philosopher - statesman Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.

During the past century, electromagnetic theory united electrostatics, magnetostatics, and network theory with optics in one stroke; special relativity combined classical mechanics with electromagnetic theory; general relativity combined the theory of gravitation with physical geometry and special relativity; and quantum mechanics united much of physics with, at least in principle, all of chemistry.

The reasons — past insane hatred — are varied, but like it or not Jews were an easy target in Eastern Europe during the early 20th century.

This past Wednesday afternoon, during a panel discussion on social media and the 2012 elections at The Century Foundation in New York City, Nicco Mele, a lecturer at Harvard University who was Howard Dean's webmaster and whose company, EchoDitto, worked on Barack Obama's web campaign for U.S. Senate, made a startling statement: it's not too late for a national Democrat to put together a 2012 primary challenge.

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The TV documentaries included excerpts from past constitutional conventions, mostly U.S. state constitutional conventions held during the latter half of the 20th Century, plus a smattering of recent path - breaking constitutional conventions held in other countries.

«The study demonstrates a robust century - scale link between ocean circulation changes in the Atlantic basin and rainfall in the adjacent continents during the past 4,000 years,» said UTIG Director Terry Quinn, a co-author on the study.

Several times during the past century, chemists dreamed up new reactions, only to see them fail in the lab.

An analysis of quakes and eruptions during the past several centuries revealed about 20 pairs that struck within 750 kilometers of each other, according to a report in tomorrow's issue of Nature.

Despite the tremendous growth in global collaborative efforts such as Human Genome Project and Human Frontier Science Program during past few decades, only about 30 % of research output from the United States is internationally collaborative (Global Scientific Collaboration in the 21st Century, 2011, The Royal Society).

The appalling consequences of the military technology deployed in the Gulf War 12 months ago provide a tragic symbol of the encounter between East and West during the past five centuries: superior military technology has allowed Western nations to impose their will across the globe, inducing a prolonged crisis of culture among the losers.

During the last quarter century the rate of diabetes alone has nearly quadrupled in most east and south Asian countries, including China and India, according to South Korean researchers who reviewed past studies in the November 10 Lancet.

The question we should ask is, what has been the biggest change affecting male or female health, especially in the West, during the past century?

While El Niño played a role in bumping up global temperatures during 2015 and 2016, the bulk of the warmth was due to the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gases emitted by humans over the past century, particularly carbon dioxide.

The sawtooth pattern in the graphic shows just that in careful CO2 measurements over the past half - century or so: it builds during winter when deciduous trees are leafless, then declines in summer when the trees and vegetation take in the CO2 before the process starts building again the next fall.

This statement contradicts results of astronomical research during the past two centuries indicating that some stars now visible to us were in existence millions or billions of years ago, as well as the results of radiometric dating indicating that the age of the earth is about 4 1/2 billion years.

During this winter in the southern hemisphere, centuries - old heatwave records have been shattered all over Australia in the past week as cities from Hobart to Sydney have been hit by prolonged stretches of temperature far above normal.

We've seen more and more of these types of summers in the past couple decades, most recently during 2015, one of the bigger fire seasons in the last century across the Northwest.

During the past half - century, the ratio of omega - 6s to omega - 3s in the Western diet has changed from 2:1 to as much as 25:1.

despite the seismic changes in critical fashion during the past half century, auteurism — at its most basic, the idea that there is an author to a film — has been central to the historical development of both popular film and serious film criticism and theory... aspects of auteurism have overlapped with virtually every subsequent critical theory and paradigm.

As Charles Murray put it in the Wall Street Journal, «During the past half - century of economic growth, virtually none of the benefits have gone to the working class.»

During the past century, the United States led the world in the expansion of its education system, contributing to the dominant position of the United States in the world economy.

The progress in education data over the past two decades surpasses that made during the entire previous century.

Since joining the University of Virginia's law faculty in 1998, Ryan has focused on how American law and politics have shaped education and opportunity during the past half - century, often impeding or undermining the progress they were intended to bring about.

The rise of a generation of powerful female politicians, including U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Christine Todd Whitman, pictured here, is deeply symbolic of the dramatic change in women's opportunities during the past century.

During the past half - century, North Carolinians have repeatedly demonstrated our collective strengths in science, medicine, business, agriculture, and higher education.

Set in a Spanish convent during the Inquisition, The Sisterhood spans centuries and chronicles a young woman's quest to make a connection with her mysterious past.

After all, during the past century five versions of Brazilian currency have, in effect, turned into confetti.

@ 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.

Most of the temples greatly suffered from earthquakes and treasure hunters during the past few centuries and some of them are wrapped in scaffolding.

During our excursion, we discover the remnants of centuries past, preserved in the ancient monuments and mosques of the city.

Built during 13th and 14th centuries this Hebridean stronghold is the oldest continuously inhabited castle in Scotland and has been the ancestral home of the Chiefs of Clan MacLeod for the past 800 years.

Olives have been grown in this area for centuries, and have played a major role in the area's economy during its more agricultural past.

Again and again in the United States during the past century, vanguard artists found affinities and inspiration in the work of their untutored, marginalized peers and became staunch advocates, embracing them as fellow artists.

Efforts to collapse the barrier between art and life during the past half century are often associated with the material innovations of artists such as Robert Rauschenberg — with his rejection of notions of mastery and craftsmanship and insistence on bringing everyday materials into his work, like his bed, the morning newspaper, or an old tire — and the enactment of ordinary daily rituals like eating and drinking in the «happenings» of Allan Kaprow and others.