Sentences with phrase «end of the last century»

The rise of digital at the end of the last century and through the last decade saw the parallel focus on usability.

For now we take the longer view of the stock market that I first wrote about at the end of the last century, and to which Ed added some real meat in early 2003.

At the end of the last century, Arnold advocated art as a solution to the evident collapse of religion: «There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which is not shown to be questionable, not a received tradition which does not threaten to dissolve.»

The distinctions evangelicals make between the «church» and the «world,» between the «saved» and the «damned,» and ultimately between good and evil are simply reflections of their disappointment with the direction American culture has taken since the end of the last century.

Evolution, so they said at the end of the last century, has simply swallowed Man up, since we have proved that it does not go beyond Man.

At the end of the last century the Reformation was interpreted as a victory for the autonomous religious personality, freed from the tyranny of hierarchy and institution, while man's relation to God was described as unmediated and available to all.

By the end of the last century, that kid ends up at Penn, goes to Columbia Law School.

This is more plausible for the entities of modern physics than for the concept of matter that held essentially from Democritus to the end of the last century.

That's the Bills, the team that made the playoffs for the first time this season since the end of the last century and are remaining in western New York.

The Labour government did reduce the national debt - as shown in the national accounts - as a share of national income at the end of the last century (although it's questionable whether most people would understand this to be the «last few years» of which Brown went on to speak).

It wasn't until the end of the last century, though, that astronomers began to realize that Mercury wasn't just erratic in behavior but in substance too.

At the end of the last century, a great environmental crisis came from above in the form of acid rain.

While Houston's yearly risk of experiencing a 500 - millimeter rainfall event was around 1 in 2,000 at the end of the last century, Emanuel found the city's annual odds will increase significantly, to one in 100 by the end of this century.

«We're seeing for Texas an event whose annual probability was 1 percent at the end of the last century, and it might be 18 percent by the end of this century,» Emanuel says.

You just saw my recent post on the 90s vibes and I simply love all those iconic elements from the end of last century, want to try them all!

Leydsdorp is an old gold rush town dating back to the end of last Century.

In fact, the number of interracial marriages started growing at a much faster rate following the popularisation of online dating by the end of the last century — from 9 % in 1995 to 17 % in 2015.

These cars are fun in an old - school way, but with roots going back to the end of the last century, they can't last much longer and don't really count as trying hard.

The shiny chrome provisions for filling the Audi TT Offroad with liquid fuel or a jolt of electrons on either rear flank recall the fuel cap on the first TT coupes and roadsters at the end of the last century — perhaps the only traces of that iconic J Mays / Freeman Thomas design remaining today.

By the end of the last century, the German researcher Friedrich Roberth founded the German Spaniel Club (Deutscher Wachtelhundklub).

Abyssinian cat originated in the Nile Valley and was first introduced to Europe at the end of the last century.

At the end of last century we created social freeware (not free - to - play) games together with some friends under the name Brainchild Design.

Wentworth's choice of a euphonious title «Boule to Braid» already suggests some of the over (and under) laps which were such a feature for his Hayward organised touring show «Thinking Aloud», at the end of the last century.

The photographs mark an intersection between civil and gay rights movements at the end of the last century.

Part worldmap, part history (of art practices dating form the end of the last century through to the present), this group exhibition features a selection of works from the collection of the Turin - based Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo to explore the regional and international languages and perspectives of the global artworld.

Drawing on a wide range of art historical references from Veronese to Rubens, Brown was instrumental in the resurgence of painting at the end of the last century and is often compared to the likes of Willem de Kooning and Francis Bacon.

According to The Guardian, Clarrie Wallis one of the show's curators said, «there had been a perception towards the end of the last century that painting had run out of steam, or that its «pre-eminent position» was being threatened by the rise of installation and video art.»

Unless you're familiar with London painting at the end of the last century, it is unlikely that you know Wilkins's work.

At the end of the last century, as part of a series of events on its history and collection, New York's Museum of Modern Art hosted an exhibition that first interested me in Storr.

Back at the end of the last century it was thought possible that natural variability was a key driver of the current phase of Arctic sea ice loss.

Map shows change in the number of consecutive dry days (days receiving less than 0.04 inches of precipitation) at the end of this century (2070 - 2099) relative to the end of last century (1971 - 2000) under the highest scenario considered in this report, RCP 8.5.

If such projections prove true, it will be interesting to see how they affect local economies and migration patterns, especially given the influx into the Sun Belt at the end of the last century.

A large splash of dark orange across the states of Montana, Wyoming, and North and South Dakota indicate that the number of heat waves there may nearly quadruple compared to the end of the last century.

Using climate model results provided by the international scientific community, Wehner worked with other report lead authors to make long - term projections of changes in average and extreme temperature, precipitation and other aspects of the moisture cycle at the end of this century compared to the end of the last century.

«We are seeing for Texas an event whose annual probability was 1 % at the end of last century, and it might be 18 % by the end of this century.

One group, including critics who question the gravity and even the reality of climate change driven by global warming, have insisted that the Earth has been warming more slowly since the end of the last century.