Sentences with phrase «end of the twentieth century»

It is not to be expected from increased SST due to natural variability, so any theory attributing the rise in temperatures at end of the twentieth century too that variability must therefore attribute the entirety of the stratospheric cooling to ozone loss.
My own view is that it can not be brought to maturity, at this tail end of the twentieth century, without taking into intimate account the lessons the new logic has taught us.
To miss the significance of that at this, the end of the twentieth century, is to lose one's grip on a realistic appreciation of affairs both domestic and foreign.
At the end of the twentieth century, diversity is especially revered at most universities, whether secular or religious.
A young writer in Australia recently sent me an essay that ended with an arresting sentence: «I am twenty - seven years old and hope to live to see the end of the twentieth century
In loose blank verse akin to Milton's in Paradise Regained, Logue marshals all the imaginative resources available to an educated, sentient person at the end of the twentieth century.
As we approach the end of the twentieth century, it becomes both possible and appropriate to identify pathfinding figures and schools of thought which have contributed significantly to the spirit and style of the times.
The Latin Rite Roman Catholic liturgy as it is offered in most American parishes at the end of the twentieth century is so stunningly, astonishingly trivialized that it is indeed, taken on the surface, a stultifying, uninspiring, and even faith - sapping experience.
We can take some comfort at the fact that finally, toward the end of the twentieth century, prosecutors have begun applying criminal statutes to corporate officers who make decisions that (for instance) cause death or injury to a worker or to the public, and charges brought against these individuals include manslaughter and homicide charges.
North American evangelicalism seems, at the end of the twentieth century, to be living in such an era.
At the end of the twentieth century, capitalism is the only game in town.
I think it is symptomatic of a new stage of human consciousness that we are reaching at the end of the twentieth century — a stage of consciousness that is calling for us to develop new kinds of spirituality and new understandings of religion and, indeed, of ethics and values as well.
Anticipating much of the current controversy over the worship of technological progress that has characterized the end of the twentieth century, sixteen years later this book is still squarely in the middle of the debate.
Entering into the disputes over all the necessary distinctions and qualifications lands us right back in the sixteenth century, which, one is inclined to believe, is not where the Holy Spirit intends to lead the Church at the end of the twentieth century.
If Meier's portrait is, as the dust jacket again assures us, «the portrait of Jesus for the end of the twentieth century,» what does that tell us about our time and place?
The question posed by the title of this book is a simple one, which, on the face of it, fits squarely within the debate over the relation of religion to politics and to conflict that has emerged at the end of the twentieth century.
In theory, the project could produce an interesting freeze - frame shot of the status of gospel scholarship near the end of the twentieth century: not exactly the epoch - making scientific breakthrough of a Galileo, but a modestly worthwhile survey of opinion.
«So at the end of the twentieth century, here is the power of religion!
Regardless of one's own beliefs, there is something undeniably satisfying about the fact that the world of classical music at the end of the twentieth century is dominated by three men who can say of tonality what G. K. Chesterton said of his rediscovery of religious faith: «I freely confess all the idiotic ambitions of the end of the nineteenth century.
On a more serious level of ethical reflection, John Lukacs» The End of the Twentieth Century (1993) anticipated a new dark age of clashing ethnic nationalisms.
For those suddenly awakened to the imminence of the end of the twentieth century, this is an «eschatological» time.
In addition, as Mahoney points out, anyone who reads The Russian Question at the End of the Twentieth Century can see that Solzhenitsyn repeatedly criticizes Russian tsars for favoring imperialism over internal development.
But near the end of the twentieth century, linguists began to realize that their sought - after virgin language existed in the sign language of the deaf.
Interest in biofuels — fuel derived from living organisms including biomass or their metabolic byproducts, such as manure from cows — grew throughout the end of the twentieth century as these are renewable energy sources, unlike other natural resources such as petroleum, coal, and nuclear fuels.
This was seen at the end of the twentieth century when the 1998 - 99 La Niña followed the 1997 - 98 El Niño.
We A great number of IT specialists emerged after the economy of Russia collapsed at the End of the Twentieth Century.
Lu, Sheldon H., «Understanding Chinese Film Culture at the End of the Twentieth Century: The case of Not One Less by Zhang Yimou».
American Beauty beat out the dreadful The Cider House Rules, the ne plus ultra of Super-Duper Magic Negro flicks The Green Mile (happening not in the dark ages pre-Civil Rights, but right there at the end of the twentieth century), Shyamalan's fun The Sixth Sense (which simply buckles under scrutiny), and the picture that probably should've won, Michael Mann's admirable The Insider.
«Sizer is the end of the twentieth century continuation of progressive education in America,» Gardner said.
The number of children needing high - quality, affordable before - and after - school programs rose dramatically at the end of the twentieth century as changes in welfare laws required more parents to work full time.
This larger perspective on the shaping of beliefs and practices in relation to literacy (and other social practices) is particularly important in times of rapid social change, such as we are experiencing in California at the end of the twentieth century.
With increased mechanization, publishing flourished, but by the end of the twentieth century, dozens of small publishing houses had been gobbled up into what became known as «the Big 6.»
With singular wit and insight, Gopnik weaves the magical with the mundane in a wholly delightful, often hilarious look at what it was to be an American family man in Paris at the end of the twentieth century.
They were a staple of the old pulp era, but dinosaurs by the end of the twentieth century.
Within a society that long considered «lesbian motherhood» a contradiction in terms, what were the experiences of lesbian mothers at the end of the twentieth century?
The payout ratio declined gradually throughout the end of the twentieth century.
Originally built in 1966 and 1974 respectively, both of these carriages were fully refurbished at the end of the twentieth century.
This mobile title takes inspiration from old - school video games and combines it with aesthetic of anime from the end of the twentieth century to create a look and feel all its own.
Some of these pieces are now collected in On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century.
This genre has lasted right up to the end of the twentieth century, but has now become more of a curio.
Ranging from large - scale assemblages to works on paper, the Foundation is particularly strong in works dating from the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. to the end of the twentieth century.
The first exhibitions organized by US institutions and presented to American audiences were Inside Out: New Chinese Art at the Asia Society, P.S. 1 and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century at the University of Chicago in 1999.
Now, at the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the next, Peter Doig's idiosyncratic, extended, and intriguing use of this traditional medium (painting) and style (representational) again brings into question debates on its relevance.
Upon his return to Shanghai at the end of the twentieth century, Chen Yifei produced some of his finest works, including an exceptional, masterfully painted series of impressionist Chinese landscapes.
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