And there are fresh recommendations from the Council on Foreign Relations on the need for meaningful domestic emissions curbs in the United States and continued efforts to make progress both among the established powers and
those emerging as this century's giants.
Not exact matches
Brazil was the only main market to see profits decline, for a sixth consecutive quarter,
as Latin America's largest economy
emerges unevenly and slowly from its worst recession in more than a
century.
«Internet Capital has the potential to
emerge as the dominant 21st -
century operating model for creating shareholder value» wrote Henry Blodget, then a Merrill Lynch analyst and today a respectable media executive.
Just
as we did in aerospace and information and communications technology, cultivating
emerging 21st -
century technologies will promote economic growth.
Further, respondents noted that orders related to commodities (oil, gas, and mining, specifically) remain under downward pressure reflecting the big declines in commodity prices that have occurred
as the «
emerging market
century» and the «commodity super-cycle» proved unsustainable.
Recalling these heroic moments flatters Poland's patriotic self - image
as a long - suffering but iron - willed people who have
emerged victorious from more than two
centuries of subjugation.
Halphen's argument runs like this: (1) by the end of the eighth
century, Charlemagne had
emerged as master of the West; (2) under these conditions, it was to be expected that a more general title should be added to his collection, to reflect his full power, when local conditions permitted; (3) local conditions in Rome in December, 800, demanded the intervention of an Emperor; and (4) Byzantine imperial power was at that time temporarily disrupted and incapable of intervening in Rome.
Beyond the considerable body of research that has
emerged in the past three decades which demonstrates that women played a far more generous role in the early Church than perhaps Neuhaus has imagined, my own Wesleyan holiness tradition has apparently escaped his ecumenical vision
as well for it was already ordaining women in the nineteenth
century.
Creeds, the canon of scripture (the books accepted
as the official Bible) and the institutional structure of the church
emerged only toward the end of the second
century.
Israelite prophetism, which began to
emerge as an institution in the tenth
century, is indebted to the office of seer, but also,
as we are about to see, to the very different phenomenon of ancient Canaanite prophetism, long current in the land when Israel entered and settled there.
And the Church in the 20th
century hadn't always got its language and style right: Casti Connubii in the 1930s says wise and true things about marriage and family life, but didn't somehow quite manage to tackle the
emerging questions being raised by women
as educational opportunities for them expanded and new responsibilities cametheir way in public, commercial, and professional life.
Until the early 1970s historians of Pentecostalism argued that the movement
emerged ex nihilo at the turn of this
century as an alternative to fundamentalism in protesting the modernist trend that was capturing mainline Protestantism.
Some turn to the East, particularly to Taoism; some to Native American perspectives and other primal traditions; some to
emerging feminist visions; still others to neglected themes or traditions within the Western heritage, ranging from materials in Pythagorean philosophy to neglected themes in Plato to Leibniz or Spinoza; and still others to twentieth -
century philosophers such
as Heidegger or to philosophical movements such as the Deep Ecology movement.9 As one would expect in an age characterized by a split between religion and philosophy, few environmental philosophers turn to sources in the Bible or Christian theology for help, though some — Robin Attfield, for example — argue that Christian history has been wrongly maligned by environmental philosophers, and that it can serve as a better resource than some might expect (WTEE 201 - 230
as Heidegger or to philosophical movements such
as the Deep Ecology movement.9 As one would expect in an age characterized by a split between religion and philosophy, few environmental philosophers turn to sources in the Bible or Christian theology for help, though some — Robin Attfield, for example — argue that Christian history has been wrongly maligned by environmental philosophers, and that it can serve as a better resource than some might expect (WTEE 201 - 230
as the Deep Ecology movement.9
As one would expect in an age characterized by a split between religion and philosophy, few environmental philosophers turn to sources in the Bible or Christian theology for help, though some — Robin Attfield, for example — argue that Christian history has been wrongly maligned by environmental philosophers, and that it can serve as a better resource than some might expect (WTEE 201 - 230
As one would expect in an age characterized by a split between religion and philosophy, few environmental philosophers turn to sources in the Bible or Christian theology for help, though some — Robin Attfield, for example — argue that Christian history has been wrongly maligned by environmental philosophers, and that it can serve
as a better resource than some might expect (WTEE 201 - 230
as a better resource than some might expect (WTEE 201 - 230).
For example, even though the laws in the Pentateuch probably
emerged gradually over the course of
centuries as people sought ways to live in community, what does it mean that these laws became viewed
as stemming directly from God at one point in the life of Moses?
The first Christmas tree tradition probably
emerged as a result of an 11th
century play.
This «disintegration of liberalism» (November 8, 1933)
emerged as one of the most important developments within American Christianity in the
century.
And by far the most powerful alternative to a religious worldview that is
emerging as we approach the end of the twentieth
century is the worldview of television.
Notice, however, is especially appropriate now because the rest of this
century will see the culmination of a continuing process
as these churches
emerge from sectarian...
According to world - system theorists, these relations began to
emerge in the sixteenth
century, chiefly
as a result of international trade and diplomacy among the European states.
Someday we may be able to write a history of twentieth -
century theology in the United States in which the many creative strands of Christian thinking during the period are displayed
as shared sources for the
emerging synthesis.
The first volume of his labors, Earthly Powers, covering the years 1750 «1914, provoked a lively discussion (including a strong review by Russell Hittinger in First Things) about the role of religion
as a rival to the secularist states
emerging in the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries.
Details of that backstory
emerge slowly during several days of sightseeing that include contemplation of Hieronymus Bosch's Last Judgment and Bruges's most important relic, a phial of the congealed blood of Christ brought back to Bruges from the Holy Land by a local 12th
century crusader;
as well
as varieties of self - destructive behavior that betray in different ways Ray's internal anguish.
The doctrine (widely held until recently) that «matter» itself is fully real (rather than an abstraction, derived from intellectual analysis of concrete really - existing things,
as Aristotle held), and that such self - subsistent «matter» is intrinsically inert (
as opposed to self - organizing), arguably reached its full flower in the late Renaissance.18 Part of contemporary divergence between theistic and naturalistic approaches may be understood to arise from overly complete internalization (by both naturalists and theists) of the cosmology that
emerged from the scientific revolution of the seventeenth
century — the cosmology in which «matter» was full real, but intrinsically inert.
Yet, another sect, which
emerged within the first
century of Islam, had no fear and believed that sins did not affect ones faith and that
as long
as one believed and testified in Islam, he would enter Paradise regardless of his actions.
Most Christian sects which
emerged in the 19th
century can now be judged
as fundamentalist in their use of the Bible, yet one of the booklet series on the Fundamentals was directly specifically against them.
For a few brief decades at the turn of the 20th
century, such Protestants
as Graham Taylor and H. Paul Douglass thought and wrote about the
emerging industrial city.
The possibility from which that which became actual once
emerged still clings to it and remains with it
as past, even after the lapse of
centuries.
Christians flew under the radar, staying under the surface until the end of the second
century, when they
emerged as people with a visual and a literary culture.
Consider this quote from Stuart Murray's The Naked Anabaptist: «The Anabaptist movement began
as a loose - knit coalition of groups who were forming in various places across central Europe — the sixteenth
century equivalent of the «
emerging church.
The tradition of the scientific handbook
as a concise, accessible source of validated information
emerged in the late nineteenth
century when the factual burden of scientific and medical subjects began to overwhelm students.
Just
as the great religious traditions
emerged from their ethnic origins only through confusion, conflict, controversy and even violence, so it will be in the
century to come.
When, in the second
century, something recognizable
as Church History begins to
emerge, we find the Roman Church already exercising a negative charism of the exclusion of error.
Nevertheless, to truly
emerge from Jameson's shadow and reduce reliance on the brand for category growth, rivals will have to focus on developing new markets, just
as C&C did in the early part of the
century.
The love for advanced statistics has
emerged as one of this
century's greatest obsessions, joining the likes...
Although the history of home visiting spans more than a
century, it
emerged with renewed force in the 1970s
as a promising strategy to promote child health and development, and reduce abuse and neglect in vulnerable, at - risk families.
Emerging as an element of the European «standard of civilization» in the 19th
century, the laws of war were meant, in part, to distinguish «civilised» Europe from the «uncivilised» rest of the world.
The European rejection of the death penalty, which advocates of abolishing the death penalty in the United States cite
as evidence of an
emerging international consensus that ought to influence our Supreme Court, is related both to the past overuse of it by European nations (think of the executions for petty larceny in eighteenth -
century England, the Reign of Terror in France, and the rampant employment of the death penalty by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union) and to the less democratic cast of European politics, which makes elite opinion more likely to override public opinion there than in the United States [emboldening mine].
It
emerged as a recognition rule in the UK during the middle of the 19th
century, when the two - party system in place at the time was declining.
However, throughout the second half of the 20th
Century, national debt and public sector borrowing
emerged as a structural problem in most developed economies, with large deficits being run year after year,
as the role and «size» of the state has grown.
The role of the prime minister in the honours system
emerged in the 17th and 18th
centuries,
as the personal rule and prerogatives of the monarch gave way to parliamentary sovereignty.
He mentions Robert Boyle, the 17th
century chemist whose anonymous employees
emerged from the shadows only when he blamed them for things that went wrong, such
as explosions.
The Sigatoka disease complex is a cluster of three closely related fungi — yellow sigatoka (Pseudocercospora musae), eumusae leaf spot (Pseudocercospora eumusae) and black sigatoka (Pseudocercospora fijiensis)-- which
emerged in quick succession during the last
century as destructive pathogens on banana.
Researchers are rethinking
century - old observations
as they witness the unexpected and peculiar perils that are
emerging from thawing Arctic permafrost
A somber picture of the struggle against super-weeds
emerged today
as scientists described the relentless spread of herbicide - resistant menaces like pigweed and horseweed that shrug off powerful herbicides and have forced farmers in some areas to return to the hand - held hoes that were a mainstay of weed control a
century ago.
Ada Lovelace earned her place in history
as the first computer programmer — a full
century before today's computers
emerged.
«21st
century cures
emerge as 20th
century science matures: Role of basic science in developing new cures.»
The rise of modern, deadly plagues such
as AIDS and SARS is particularly devastating because the «golden age of immunization during the last half
century gave us a sense of triumphalism about infectious diseases,» says Stephen S. Morse, a Columbia University biologist and cofounder of ProMed, a global program for monitoring
emerging infectious diseases.
First observed by Darwin but best chronicled in a 20th -
century Soviet attempt to breed tame foxes, domestication syndrome covers a range of unintended physical traits that
emerge as a wild species is selectively bred for more docile behavior.
In it Black traces the roots of eugenics back to the 19th
century, when British scientist Francis Galton and fellow eugenicists latched onto the newly
emerging science of genetics
as a key to improving the human race through better breeding.
Quantum information science and technology has
emerged as a new paradigm for dramatically faster computation and secure communication in the 21st
century.