Sentences with phrase «early years of this century»

In the very early years of this century, before online booking had really caught on, I used to take the morning off (or throw a sickie) to queue up at the old box office in Avenell Road to buy tickets for certain key fixtures, instead of risking the phone.

Subsequent surpluses will be restrained because global economic growth is unlikely to strengthen as it did in the 1990s and the early years of this century.

The conceit that law is not a business, or only incidentally so, seems connected with the efforts of elite lawyers in the early years of this century to distance themselves from the buccaneer - founders of their own firms and from «hustling» immigrant lawyers, as well as to assert their independence from their own clients.

There is no limit to what our prayer can accomplish, as Dr. W.P. DuBose, the American theologian of the early years of this century, once said; but (he went on to say) it is always in us and through us, not entirely in spite of us or by means that are contrary to the consistency of the divine operation itself.

Many of the notable planners and architects who designed communities for low - and moderate - income residents in the early years of this century were wedded to this «retrograde ruralism,» and their influence would be visible in later public housing projects that featured streetless «superblocks» marked by substantial expanses of empty (and often hazardous) space.

Baron Friedrich von Hügel, the great lay leader of Roman Catholic modernism in the early years of this century, spoke often of the need for «a humble sense of creatureliness.»

Rupert Brooke, the English poet of the early years of this century, spoke of his belief in this worth, value, and dignity.

In the earlier years of this century Joachim Jeremias wrote a number of books seeking to help us find the historical Jesus on the assumption that his teaching was the first word, though not necessarily the last word, for Christian theology.

In the early years of this century two types of diagrams were especially popular, the first among liberal Protestants, the second among Catholics.

Beginning with the 17th century, he quickly moves to two centuries later and the positivist ideas of Ernst Mach and thence to the catholic outlook of Pierre Duhem which, in the early years of this century, took the scientific revolution right back to late medieval times.

«During the 1990s and early years of this century, the primary EPA source of funding for research on chemicals in our environment was the Science to Achieve Results — or STAR — program,» said Richard Di Giulio, Sally Kleberg Professor of Environmental Toxicology at Duke.

The movie begins in the early years of the century, in South Africa.

The seeds planted by many retailers during the halcyon days of the late 1990s and the early years of this century have resulted in a dramatic over-population of stores through much of the country.

Glazebrook's professional and private lives had always been subject to fluctuations in fortune, but the early years of this century found him at a low ebb, virtually penniless and living in a council flat in south London.

Now and then there are allusions to Wassily Kandinsky's energetic «Improvisations» from the early years of this century as well as momentary references to the paintings by Joan Miro from the twenties and Arshile Gorky's work of the forties.

And with the advent of blogs in the early years of this Century this was no longer just limited to people who made products.

But the wild colours enflaming art in the early years of the century still portray a very recognisable world.

If human - induced global warming, among other factors such as human - driven pollution and human - forced overpopulation, serve decisively to precipitate the massive extinction of biodiversity, the irreversible degradation of Earth's environment and the reckless dissipation of its resources, so as to make our planetary home unfit for life as we know it, then is no one to bear responsibility for such a colossal wreckage as we could help to perpetrate in these early years of Century XXI?

4) Are we witnessing something odd and unfortunate: an unforeseen loss of courage in the family of humanity that is reflected in both the absence of a sense of urgency by our leaders and the lack of an insistent expression of outrage by the public regarding the human - forced predicament in which we find ourselves in these early years of Century XXI?

Robert, if my wishes were granted and my magical thinking made real, the world in which we reside would of necessity be different from the way it is, so as to be made capable of supporting our unsustainable consumption, production and propagation activities, the colossal scale of which is threatening to engulf the Earth in these early years of Century XXI.

At least for me, your exchange of valuable perspectives on the human condition (# 19 and # 20), dramatizes some of the profound implications of the multi-faceted, human - induced predicament that could to be confronted by the human community in these early years of Century XXI.

It seems to me the ecological challenges presented to the human community in these early years of Century XXI are necessary matters for discussion; however, our failure to acknowledge in open discussion «the human population factor» as a primary, driving force, one that is precipitating the ecological challenges visible on the far horizon, is making our best efforts insufficient.

Can someone explain how so many well - intentioned people are failing so miserably to share a common understanding of what is happening in our planetary home in these early years of Century XXI?

The percentage of global land area hit by drought doubled between the 1970s and the early years of this century.

To do otherwise and, by so doing, choose willfully and foolishly to ignore the practical requirements of biophysical reality runs the risk of putting life as we know it and our planetary home as a fit place for human habitation in peril, even in these early years of Century XXI.

The observational evidence from the early years of this century tends to reinforce the latter hypothesis.

Thanks for all you are doing to protect biodiversity from massive extirpation, the environment from irreversible degradation, the Earth from wanton dissipation of its resources and the family of humanity from reckless endangerment by the unbridled overconsumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities of the human species in these early years of Century XXI.

Let us hope that the perpetration of evil - doings during the earliest years of Century XXI have not produced insurmountable damages to the global economy, to respect for moral authority, to the environment and to Earth's body as a fit place for habitation by our children and coming generations.

The NHMRC report references very little recent primary research into human and animal health published in respectable science journals; the research must be recent because large turbines (> 1MW) have only been in common use since the early years of this century.

As things stand we can find out more easily what went on in the 1920s, 30s, 40s and 50s than we can about what happened in the early years of this century because our key documents from that time were on paper and archived — unlike our more recent work which is buried on servers, outdated formats, or just lost.

What we refer to as fiduciary duty is the obligation imposed in earlier centuries by courts of equity, and authoritatively recognized in the early years of this century...»

One thinks of services like Napster and Grokster in the early years of this century.