Sentences with phrase «early end of history»

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If a ban initiated by China's central bank this week marks an end to the first era of ICOs — the early gold rush before the regulators arrive — then Q2 2017 may turn out to be a peak quarter in the history of the industry.

Following the theme of his earlier book, Altizer holds that all desire to be a being in the world must be annihilated; all history, nature, and being must be brought to an end.

At first sight, beings and their destinies might seem to us to be scattered haphazard or at least in an arbitrary fashion over the face of the earth; we could very easily suppose that each of us might equally well have been born earlier or later, at this place or that, happier or more ill - starred, as though the universe from the beginning to end of its history formed in space - time a sort of vast flower - bed in which the flowers could be changed about at the whim of the gardener.

In the discourse itself (Luke 17:22 - 37), Jesus anticipates the early church's perplexity over the nonappearance of the supernatural Son of man, the divine being who will come and usher in the final days at the end of history.

As if to prove he had other matters on his mind, twelve years later John produced Bribes: The Intellectual History of a Moral Idea, a study that begins in Egypt two thousand years before Christ and ends with a discussion of Abscam, an FBI sting operation that sent seven U.S. Congressmen and one Senator to prison in the early 80s.

It is to be remembered that Christianity began with an apocalyptic proclamation of the end of history, one which dominated the earliest Christian communities, and one which was renewed at each of the great crises or turning points of Christian history, just as it was renewed in each of our great modern political revolutions, and equally if not more deeply renewed in the advent of our deepest modern thinking and imaginative vision.

The «canonical» history of Hebrews is somewhat confused by the fact that while it was used by many early Christian writers, some of them were aware that as it stands it can not have been written by the apostle Paul (see Chapter xix) We first encounter clear traces of Hebrews in the letter of Clement to the Corinthians, written at the end of the first century; but Clement does not say what he is quoting from.

Nothing like one underachiever blowing smoke up the ass of another... we know that Ozil has some incredible technical gifts, but to be considered the best you have to bring more than just assists to the table... for me, a top player has to possess a more well - rounded game, which doesn't mean they need to be a beast on both ends of the pitch, but they must have the ability to take their game to another level when it matters most... although he amassed some record - like stats early on, it set the bar too high, so when people expected him to duplicate those numbers each year the pressure seemed to get the best of our soft - spoken star... obviously that's not an excuse for what has happened in the meantime, but it's important to make note of a few things: (1) his best year was a transition year for many of the traditionally dominant teams in the EPL, so that clearly made the numbers appear better than they actually were and (2) Wenger's system, or lack thereof, didn't do him any favours; by playing him out of position and by not acquiring world - class striker and / or right - side forward that would best fit an Ozil - centered offensive scheme certainly hurt his chances to repeat his earlier peformances, (3) the loss of Cazorla, who took a lot of pressure off Ozil in the midfield and was highly efficient when it came to getting him the ball in space, negatively impacted his effectiveness and (4) he likewise missed a good chunk of games and frankly never looked himself when he eventually returned to the field... overall the Ozil experiment has had mixed reviews and rightfully so, but I do have some empathy for the man because he has always carried himself the same way, whether for Real or the German National team, yet he has only suffered any lengthy down periods with Arsenal... to me that goes directly to this club's inability to surround him with the necessary players to succeed, especially for someone who is a pass first type of player; as such, this simply highlights our club's ineffective and antiquated transfer policies... frankly I'm disappointed in both Ozil and our management team for not stepping up when it counted because they had a chance to do something special, but they didn't have it in them... there is no one that better exemplifies our recent history than Ozil, brief moments of greatness undercut by long periods of disappointing play, only made worse by his mopey posturing like a younger slightly less awkward Wenger... what a terribly waste

His success in developing young players early on made him reluctant to sign established stars, a problem exacerbated by the fact that critical Arsenal players had a long history of going missing for months, even years on end, with injuries that had looked minor at the time.

World record - holder Renaud Lavillenie had won every pole vault Diamond Trophy in the history of the Diamond League but the competition ended in disappointment for the Frenchman as he had an early exit after failing to clear his opening height of 5.63 m. USA's world champion Sam Kendricks was again on top as he cleared 5.87 m for victory.

When I opened my private practice I was co-located in a midwifery office, the midwives I worked with attracted many women with history of traumatic birth seeking better care and I ended up taking on many clients with traumatic stress symptoms in a subsequent pregnancies and reporting experiences of obstetric violence and / or triggering memories and flashbacks from childhood or earlier life abuses.

The history of India (or Bharat) does not start from end of British Colonial era or earlier with the arrival of Mughals.

«His son described him as the only candidate who will end the era of stop and frisk and that was a purposeful branding of de Blasio as a reformer and then immediately, as soon as he was the mayor - elect, he announced he was bringing back perhaps the most controversial police commissioner in the city's history,» Trujillo said, referring to de Blasio's early campaign ads with his son, Dante.

The biggest solar storm in recorded history, called the Carrington event, occurred at the end of another especially weak cycle in early September 1859.

Early on the morning of May 31st, near the end of the spring migration, I met up with Liz Johnson and Felicity Arengo from the American Museum of Natural History.

In a news briefing held online today, in conjunction with three papers published in Science, researchers presented a tantalizing preliminary portrait of what the moon must have endured during its early history, ending around 3.5 billion years ago.

Toward the end of their history the Maya built Mayapan, a pale reflection of earlier glories.

Most of these water - related surface features, however, date back to very early in Mars» history — the epochs known as the Noachian and the Hesperian, which ended about 4 billion and 3 billion years ago respectively.

My own research reveals that by the early 1990s, most Hollywood films held the «main» credits for the end, reversing a long history of studio filmmaking that announced up - front who was responsible for the film you were about to see.

Red is reminded early on that President Kennedy is due to visit Dallas at the end of the month, placing A Perfect World in a very particular, and particularly loaded, period in our history, with the added complication that Red is likely responsible on some level for the safety of Jack and Jackie — eyewitness, footman to the fall of Camelot.

Beginning in the early days of Gutenberg and ending with the most adventurous digital fonts, Simon Garfield explores the rich history and subtle powers of type.

The summer is drawing to an end and Research In Motion is in the very early stages of the biggest BlackBerry device launch of the brand's storied history.

The history of all of the documents that transfer title to a parcel of real property, starting with the earliest existing document and ending with the most recent.

If you know you'll be able to pay on time and you're trying to improve your credit rating or build up a credit history, this can be a clever way to make your rental payments count towards that (though it's early days, and even if you sign up now, lenders won't actually start seeing the data until the end of this year).

«Regarding the latter, it's been very frustrating to accurately predict the primary causes of the current market turmoil — the weak U.S. economy characterized by persistently high unemployment and a feeble housing market, plus the sovereign debt crisis in Europe — but to have done so a year too early (lest you think we are engaging in revisionist history, we've attached excerpts from our July 2010 and 2010 annual letter in an endnote at the end of this letter).

No doubt, the market troubles in these early days of 2016 will renew debate over whether what's been dubbed «the longest bull market in history» has come to an end.

We limit our sample to include US open - end long - only active equity funds with at least two years of return history, as of December 2016, and which have at least one of the A-share, no - load, and institutional share classes.7 For the funds with multiple share - classes, we select the share class with the earliest start date.

Despite somewhat of a rocky start, the Aliens vs. Predator PC / 360 / PS3 multiplayer demo that was released early last month has ended up racking up a rather impressive figure of 4.1 million downloads, Sega writes on their European blog, making it the most successful demo release in the company's history.

Needless to say it's insane power couple with the whole ending the game early idea ensured that it quickly became one of the most hated Killstreak rewards in history.

These two approaches articulated very early on in its history this kind of work's almost paradoxical dynamic: that one can read a monochrome either as a flat surface (material entity or «painting as object») which represents nothing but itself, and therefore representing an ending in the evolution of illusionism in painting (i.e. Rodchenko); or as a depiction of multidimensional (infinite) space, a fulfillment of illusionistic painting, representing a new evolution — a new beginning — in Western painting's history (Malevich).

Miles» first solo museum show just ended at the Polk Museum in Florida in January of 2018, but one of his early works resides in the permanent collection of the Evansville Museum of Art, History, and Science.

That artists considered exemplars of the early 21st Century movement may end up as obscure notes in the history books of the future.

A few months before the publication of Jack Goldstein and the CalArts Mafia, an oral history of his early days and with interest in his work growing significantly, he tragically ended his own life on March 14, 2003.

Although Miles» first solo museum exhibition ended in January 2018 at Florida's Polk Museum of Art, one of his earliest works is in the permanent collection of the Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science.

Including full - color plates of over sixty works spanning York's career, a new essay by poet and art critic Bruce Hainley, plus earlier essays by Fairfield Porter and Calvin Tomkins, an extensive chronology, a complete bibliography, and a detailed catalogue of works, this publication is a testament to, as Hainley puts it, York's «pursuit of lyric intensity while negotiating a point - blank confrontation with history — all in stealth relation to the leopard - alive instant at the end of the brush.»

Picasso's social life towards the end of his life differed greatly from earlier years in that among his entourage of writers and artists he now included imaginary personages such as musketeers, matadors, cavaliers, prostitutes and circus performers all borrowed from art history or influenced by conversations with friends.

It seems that the great CAGW delusion, early 21st century «modern end of the world cult», cultural phenomenon or whatever else history will call it, has not quite yet had its bubble pierced.

They used Mann «s «Nature trick» of Climategate fame, truncating the reconstructed temperature history near its end and replacing it with modern - day instrumental data, so the last part of the record can not be validly compared with the earlier portion.

Believing that the climate wars is won by «our» side is surely akin to the philosophical notion in the early 1990's about the end of history

For all those who enjoy the legal history and the inside working of the Vancouver legal community that Clarke brings to the Slade series, there is another book destined to hit the stands by year end or early 2013.

18 For a thorough history of the evolution of legal writing instruction in law schools, see Romantz, supra note 5, at 127 — 36 (tracing the evolution of legal writing instruction in law schools from the early days of moot court exercises under Dean Langdell at Harvard Law School, through the ABA's formal recognition of legal writing as a law school subject in 1947, and through the widespread adoption of legal writing programs in American law schools); Jeffrey D. Jackson & David R. Cleveland, Legal Writing: A History from the Colonial Era to the End of the Civil War, history of the evolution of legal writing instruction in law schools, see Romantz, supra note 5, at 127 — 36 (tracing the evolution of legal writing instruction in law schools from the early days of moot court exercises under Dean Langdell at Harvard Law School, through the ABA's formal recognition of legal writing as a law school subject in 1947, and through the widespread adoption of legal writing programs in American law schools); Jeffrey D. Jackson & David R. Cleveland, Legal Writing: A History from the Colonial Era to the End of the Civil War, History from the Colonial Era to the End of the Civil War, 19 Leg.

UK women's responses to female - biased operational sex ratios varied by women's current and childhood socio - economic status and reproductive strategy: high socio - economic status women with slow life - history strategies moved further towards the slow end of the life - history continuum and delayed reproduction, while low socio - economic status women with fast life - history strategies favoured earlier reproduction [61].