Sentences with phrase «ended at least a century»

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The evidence of the Rabbinical literature, which is mostly of late date and uniformly hostile to Christianity, adds little of historical worth, but confirms that Jews who became Christians formed a community to some extent separate from other Jews, and by the end of the first century at least were regarded as heretics.

We get some idea of what was happening towards the end of the first century, at least in some quarters, by examining the new way in which the Fourth Evangelist speaks about resurrection.

From at least the end of the first century Christians have observed Fridays, and later the forty days of Lent, as fast days in commemoration of the passion.

Since Christianity existed for at least three centuries before the formation of Christendom, there is no reason why it should end at the same time.

During most of this period, at least from the middle of the seventeenth century through the end of the nineteenth century, the world economy was expanding.

Though the ecclesiastical relation between the two churches existed at least from the end of third century, the immigration of Persian Christians to Kerala not only strengthened the existing community, but also influenced its liturgical life.

The report found, among other things, that 43 of the lower 48 U.S. states have set at least one monthly heat record since 2010, sea levels are expected to rise between one and four feet by the end of this century, winter storms have increased in intensity and frequency, and the past decade was warmer than every previous decade in every part of the country.

Join the crowd.There have been predictions about the end of Christanty since at least the15 century: Sam Harris being among the latest.

But should this really be the focus when what is at stake is a fundamental redrawing of the boundaries of a democratic state, and the ending of at least three centuries of political co-habitation in a single unit?

To make a long story short, the use of words like «history» or «revolution» began to change at the end of the 18th century (at least in Germany) and the meaning of these words revealed a new outlook, or a new time (Neuzeit)-- what he calls «historical time».

Kuru passed on in this way killed at least 2500 Fore in the 20th century until the cause was identified in the 1950s and the practice ended.

Their results indicate that the two volcano summits are typically snow - covered at least 20 days each winter, on average, but that the snow cover will nearly disappear by the end of the century.

Already, atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, the leading greenhouse gas, are approaching 400 ppm, and at least the amount of warming caused by that level is likely by century's end.

The new study suggests that by the end of the century, about a third of all the drainage basins could experience reductions in runoff greater than 10 percent during at least one month of the warm season.

And achieving any stabilization target — whether 2 degrees C of warming or 450 ppm or 1,000 gigatons of carbon added to the atmosphere by human activity — will require at least an 80 percent cut in emissions from peak levels by the end of this century and, ultimately, zero emissions over the long term.

If you look at the science, we are headed for a world, on current policies, where temperatures will go up by at least 4 °C by the end of the century.

Sea levels under such a scenario rise at least nine inches - likely more — by century's end.

In the ruins of the saddest story of the century, he found, not a happy ending, but at least one affirming that resistance to evil is possible and can succeed.

It at least has not undermined the trends that started towards the end of the first decade in the 21st century.

Throughout the twentieth century and accelerating with the rise of conceptualism and Michael Fried's prediction of the end of art, or at least the death of painting, critics, curators, and historians have questioned the validity of the medium while artists have continued to paint.

At the end of the century, the Flemish scene painters David Vinckeboons (1576 - 1630) and Roelandt Savery (1576 - 1639) introduced landscape painting - or at least genre scenes in a landscape setting - to Amsterdam and UtrechAt the end of the century, the Flemish scene painters David Vinckeboons (1576 - 1630) and Roelandt Savery (1576 - 1639) introduced landscape painting - or at least genre scenes in a landscape setting - to Amsterdam and Utrechat least genre scenes in a landscape setting - to Amsterdam and Utrecht.

Better still, climate models show that ours is going to be ok at least until the end of the century.»

A 2013 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects that temperatures could rise at least 2 °C (3.6 °F) by the end of the century under many plausible scenarios — and possibly 4 °C or more.

WARNING, WARNING WILL ROBINSON: Everybody keep well clear of those RED data lines, they can kill you in a decade, well maybe by the end of the century, or at least midway thought the next millennium for sure...

Its almost a certainty that at least 1,500 bird species will not persist beyond the end of the 21st century at current demographic trends (out of 9,500 species worldwide).

«Some climatologists believe that the average temperature in the Northern Hemisphere, at least, may decline by two or three degrees by the end of the century.

One scientific group has calculated the humidity and temperature hazards and predicted that at least one climate zone — the Gulf between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula — could become murderously hot by the century's end.

The purveyors of the new eco-religion can try to deny its existence as much as they want and the fact that there is more than enough historical evidence that it was at least as warm (more likely significantly warmer) during this period of the millenial past than it may have been during the recent warming period at the end of the 20th century.

Average temperature increases by the end of the century for the Asian subcontintent, the Middle East and Africa are likely to be at least 2.2 °C and could be as high as 5.5 °C.

The rising temperatures are likely to cause the melting of at least half the Arctic sea ice by the end of the century.

The 97 % Consensus Predicted * NOT * an Arctic Ocean «completely ice free by 2011 / 2013/2015», but rather «an ice - free Arctic for at least part of the year before the end of the twenty - first century.»

Some models forecast an ice - free Arctic for at least part of the year before the end of the twenty - first century.

Thousands of people across Europe died from heat - related causes in the sweltering summer of 2003 — the hottest in at least 500 years.2 If our heat - trapping emissions continue to rise at current rates, 26 a summer like the one in 2003 could be considered ordinary by the end of the century.

«By the end of this century, mountaineers will most likely have to reach at least 3,000 metres before they will encounter a glacier,» he said.

By the end of this Century, it will probably see at least 6 feet — and that's if we don't pursue business as usual fossil fuel burning and if the world's glaciers mostly behave themselves by not giving us a big, angry melt pulse in response to our insults.

Because of climate change, sea level is now expected to rise at least three feet in Everglades National Park by the end of the 21st century.

The Bay Area's waterfront building frenzy includes at least $ 21B in housing and commercial construction in low - lying areas that climate scientists say could flood by the end of the century.

NASA researchers recently predicted that we are currently «locked into at least three feet of sea level rise, and probably more» by the end of the century.

The glaciers in the Himalayas will continue to retreat for another 40 - 50 years and if this phenomenon is not checked, temperature will rise by at least four degrees Celsius by the end of this century.

(Some statements of the bleedin» obvious in the following, but please bear with me): SLR is perhaps more likely to begin to accelerate towards the * end * of the century but once it gets going it will keep on coming for several hundred years (at least) and will be unstoppable because it is gravity driven.

The International Energy Agency and the Energy Information Administration (part of the U.S. Department of Energy) anticipate an increase in world energy supplies lasting at least until the end of this century.

In total, around 500 heat storage hypocausts have now been documented in the Baltic Region and, according to the latest estimates, there must have been at least 800 - 1,000 of them by the end of the 15th century [1], their use spreading from monasteries and castles to other public buildings, such as almshouses, town halls, guildhalls and hospitals.

Barring a radical reduction of emissions, we will see at least four feet of sea - level rise and possibly ten by the end of the century.

However, the rather dramatic late 20th century rise shown in the graph (reproduced at Deltoid), is at least in part due to the choice of the 21 Gaussian filter with reflected endpoints — now, objectively smoothing series is a non-trivial task, but it does bear keeping in mind that what McIntyre has graphed represents only on particular way of doing so, and one that tends to emphasize the end of the series.

By the end of this century, even a «business as usual» scenario puts CO2 emissions near zero... or at least to the point where atmospheric CO2 concentrations are no longer rising.

As a result, a recent study by the U.S. Jet Propulsion Laboratory predicted that sea levels are on pace to rise at least a foot by 2050, and possibly three feet by century's end.

Hence, at least for the area of the northern North Atlantic, a picture was already emerging of generally warmer conditions around the centuries leading up to the end of the first millennium, but framed largely by comparison with strong evidence of much cooler conditions in later centuries, particularly the 17th century.

2.6 million years ago, there was no ice in the Arctic, just as we expect in a few years» time (or at least by the end of the century.)