Sentences with phrase «early pioneers like»

In mid-19th century Germany, early pioneers like Friedrich Raiffeisen and Hermann Schulze - Delizch were the first to develop practical credit associations, or credit unions, to help farmers struggling from the effects of famine and exorbitant interest rates charged by money lenders.

While early pioneers like Vook made it clear that a video book was different from an electronic book there are a lot of new entrants (Penguin) that are confusing eBooks with Apps and games and video books.

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Early pioneers in the field, like Fitbit, are showing signs of strain, while newer entrants are making inroads with cheaper options and new product types

Fortunately, some early pioneers — like the fully automated restaurant in Germany — are trying.

RIM, a smartphone pioneer, hopes new devices using BlackBerry 10 software, due early 2013, will rescue it from a prolonged slump in the face of competition from the likes of Apple and Samsung.

Robinson says ICOs are like early bitcoin startups back in 2011 — many of the companies were either risky, unsustainable ideas, scams, or run by pioneers who move fast and break things.

Although Netflix was an early pioneer in online movie streaming, the company faces increasing competition, from powerful incumbent players, content companies and Internet rivals like Comcast, Verizon, Blockbuster / Dish Network, HBO and Amazon.

Early 2000's pioneers like Jimmy Eat World and At the Drive - In performed at the small operation.

Scholars like P. D. Devanandan and Raimon Panikkar had done pioneering theological reflections on the pluralism of religions in the early 1960s, [58] and the impact of Stanley Samartha's work in the World Council of Churches has been felt throughout the world.

«Representative of these various types were men like Roger L. Shinn, who succeeded Niebuhr at Union in the chair of Applied Christianity; George William Webber, founder of the East Harlem Protestant Parish and later president of New York Biblical Seminary; Truman Douglass, leading spirit in the affairs of the National Council of Churches and pioneer in church involvement in human issues; and Martin Luther King, Jr. «73 Niebuhr was at the apex of his influence in the early 1950s and was to remain there for over a decade longer.

The years go by and I become more and more aware of my pioneer lineage, I understand the pull west better, I feel suffocated without a bit of a space, without an early morning walk beside the yarrow patch, I need the north, and I need the west in a way that veers towards the mystical, which is just fine to a Holy Spirit adoring tongue talker like me.

That experiment was repeated in the back - in to - nature communes of the 1960s and»70s, which were inspired in part by people like Scott and Helen Nearing who had pioneered the simple life of rural homesteading decades earlier.

In other news, our team seems to be rounding nicely into form, with a productive off - season and several new additions already settling in, there seems to be a renewed sense of confidence in the air... our well - oiled machine has conducted business again early this year, so we can just sit back, kick our feet up and watch all those other suckers scramble to make panic moves in the 11th hour... of course, we need to tie up a few loose ends but our team of savvy negotiators, under the tutelage of our faithful leader, will perform their usual magic with ample time to spare... I have to laugh when I look around the soccer world and see all those teams look upon us with envy and scorn as they struggle to mimic our seemingly infallible business model... thank goodness the powers that be had the foresight and fortitude to resist the temptations of the modern football era... instead of listening to all the experts and simply taking the easy way out by making the necessary improvements on the field and in the front office, we chose the path never traveled... we are truly pioneers in our field... sometimes you just have to have faith in the people that have always conducted themselves in a respectful and honest fashion... most fans aren't so fortunate, they will never know what it's like to follow a team that treats everyone in and around the club as if they were an extended member of the family... all for one I say... so when you wake up this morning, please try not to gloat when you see rival fans pacing back and forth waiting for their respective teams to pull the usual panic buys, just say nothing and be thankful that it isn't you... like I've always said, this is why you stay the course... this is when the real benefits of having someone in charge for over 2 decades really pays off... have a great day fellow Gunners

Rockett paused, allowing the effect of his story, which clung to our table like a grim vapor, to dispel itself, but soon he continued: «Two years earlier we had another heroic pioneer, though he was French, not English.

The reinvigorated outfit pioneered the carbon fibre chassis and became the dominant force in F1 from 1984 until the early nineties, with the likes of Niki Lauda, Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna winning championship.

Earlier, psychologists at Cambridge University harvested Facebook data (legally) for research purposes and published pioneering peer - reviewed work about determining personality traits, political partisanship, sexuality and much more from people's Facebook «likes».

Both William Olaf Stapledon, early twentieth century philosopher and science fiction author, and Professor Sir David Weatherall, distinguished medical scientist, have strong ties to Liverpool; and Birmingham has historically been home to a wide range of humanist thinkers like John Baskerville, nineteenth century avowed atheist and renown printer, Harold Blackham, first director of the BHA; George Holyoake, nineteenth century writer who coined the term «secularism», sex education pioneer Martin Cole, leading international humanist and philosopher - physicist Sir Harry Stopes - Roe; and writer and comedian Natalie Haynes.

Early pioneers and trappers in North America encountered what looks like a similar affliction, sometimes referred to as rabbit starvation because rabbit meat is notoriously lean.

By the early 1990s, Swedo and the NIMH team were treating the Sydenham group and pioneering some of the same types of treatments used for patients like Paul Michael today: steroids such as prednisone to stanch the tide of immune molecules; plasmapheresis, a technique to filter the blood, cleanse it of autoantibodies, and return it intact to the patient; and intravenous delivery of a new, healthy immune system with IVIG.

Many police departments now maintain frequently updated maps of high - crime areas to more effectively deploy foot patrols «putting cops on the dots,» as William Bratton, chief of the Los Angeles Police Department who pioneered the technique in New York City in the early 1990s, likes to say.

In her early fifties, with high cheekbones and dark hair pulled back under a hat, she is both elegant and hardy, like a pioneer woman from a classic Western.

Aside from many original inventions, the Chinese were also early original pioneers in the discovery of natural phenomena which can be found in the human You like Chinese girls, huh?

Like synth - rock pioneer New Order's early EP, «1981 - 1982,» it contains as many engaging moments as lesser artists» full - lengths.

Like I mentioned earlier, Amaya was a fan of games like Metroid and Castlevania; two games that pioneered nonlinear side - scrollLike I mentioned earlier, Amaya was a fan of games like Metroid and Castlevania; two games that pioneered nonlinear side - scrolllike Metroid and Castlevania; two games that pioneered nonlinear side - scrolling.

Winds of Change — Long - term Tatra owner Delwyn Mallett surveys the pioneering use of wind tunnels in automotive body design, focussing on the influential work of Hungarian aerodynamicist Paul Jaray / The very first Jaguars — Celebrating 80 years since the first use of the Jaguar name, Paul Skilleter looks at William Lyons's initial forays into mass production and explains what these early cars are like to live with / Vintage Revival Montlhéry 2015 — David Burgess-Wise reports from the historic banked circuit south of Paris and from the hundreds of rare pre-1940 cars and motorcycles entered selects his personal highlights / «Home, Allaston» — Mike Allaston's family photograph albums detail the careers of his father and grandfather as professional chauffeurs.

Consider also that the game will also be one of the fairly early pioneers of 3D over the PSN (but not the first) and this game seems like it will definitely be one to watch.

Like Zelda, Metroid helped pioneer the concept of acquiring permanent tools during the quest that would open up the way forward once the player returned to earlier areas.

If you haven't already, do check out part 1 — «The early pioneers of video game music» — focusing on the work of legendary chiptune composers like Koji Kondo and Rob Hubbard.

A pioneering gallerist, she took a daring approach — like mounting Acconci's controversial Seedbed — and introduced or gave early shows to major artists such as Carroll Dunham and Ashley Bickerton in 1980s.

Additionally in the late 19th century in Eastern Europe mysticism and early modernist religious philosophy as expressed by theosophist Mme. Blavatsky had a profound impact on pioneer geometric artists like Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky.

After training at the University of Wisconsin, Levine began to attract critical attention in the early 1980s when, along with artists like Cindy Sherman, Robert Longo and David Salle, she distinguished herself as one of the pioneers of Appropriation art.

Inspired in America by the pioneering work of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, Pop also had affinities with early 20th century movements like Surrealism.

• Performance Art and Happenings (Early - 1960s onwards) Pioneered by artists like John Cage (1912 - 92) and Allan Kaprow (1927 - 2006), this genre became a new way to present art to the masses.

First co-founding Young Hoffman Gallery in 1976 and then splitting off as her eponymous Rhona Hoffman Gallery in 1983, Hoffman became known for her discerning and pioneering eye - introducing to Chicago conceptual and minimal artists like Sol Lewitt, Donald Judd, Vito Acconci, and Gordon Matta - Clark; giving women artists such as Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, and Jenny Holzer solo shows early in their careers; and foregrounding work by African - American artists, including Kehinde Wiley, Mickalene Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems - and currently Derrick Adams, Deana Lawson, and Nathaniel Mary Quinn.

Johns, Jasper (b. 1930) One of the most successful modern artists during the second half of the 20th century, he was an early Pop - art painter, sculptor and printmaker who pioneered the use of mundane objects, like flags, maps, beer cans in fine art.

Like Graham, Long is one of a group of artists shown by Nicholas Logsdail in the earliest years of the Lisson Gallery and his legacy as a pioneering conceptualist and one of the originators of the Land Art movement is especially relevant now, as evidenced by the recent re-staging of «When Attitudes Become Forms» at the Fondazione Prada.

In Ireland, painters like Mary Swanzy, Mainie Jellet and Evie Hone were early pioneers of such modern art.

Here, Dine became an early pioneer of Happenings, a type of chaotic performance art, along with other young artists like John Cage (1912 - 92), Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) and Allan Kaprow (1927 - 2006).

«Known for exhibiting some of Bruce Nauman's earliest shows, the gallery continues to host revered pioneers, like Katherine Bradford, whose recent exhibition of six - large scale paintings explore the vast expanse of space and the beauty to be found inside dark corners of the universe.»

Over the years, Richmond, KY has played a key part in the history and heritage of the Bluegrass state, with pioneers like Daniel Boone and Kit Carson becoming well - known heroes from our nation's earliest days on the frontier.

It's certainly like that for the early bitcoin pioneers - some of whom are now getting their salaries paid in BTC.

Gionee has never offered anything like this before in the mid-range, earlier the only presence the company had in mid-range was their P Series handset, and the most recent one was Pioneer P6.