Sentences with phrase «events of the past century»

He believes that the moral reflection of those who have been spared the most horrendous events of the past century can be true only if it grapples with what others have suffered and done.

Glover moves between delineating a psychology of sympathy, dignity and moral identity and presenting detailed historical studies of the most heinous events of the past century.

The important event of the past century has been the complete collapse, save within a very limited field, of the older mechanistic scheme.

Not exact matches

Certainly he and others could not have anticipated the Roe v. Wade decision of 1973, the single most important event of the past half - century in reconfiguring the socio - political alignments in American life.

However it may be with us today, it is important that we recognize that for a first - century Jew «memorial» did not mean reverie about past events; it meant the act of vitally recalling into the present that which those events achieved for the Jewish people.

In honor of a national culture that has survived conquest after conquest and rather amazingly still thrives today, Hungarians this year are celebrating, not the future, but their distinguished past, with a huge assemblage of artistic events» concerts, operas, art shows, ballets» all under the title «Farewell to the XXth Century.»

Present any single religion - based prediction in the past century with a specific date of the predicted event down to the exact day.

The same question is then applied to other matters: to U.S. support of Israel; to U.S. opposition to the election of Hamas in Palestine; to the history of U.S. involvement in Iran over the past century; to the invasion and reconstitution of Afghanistan; to the depiction of events in the Middle East by U.S. media; and to the military expenditures of the U.S. government.

So the story goes in Front Page Physics (Institute of Physics Publishing, pp 222, # 29.95), a collection of newspaper reports that announced memorable events in the physical sciences over the past century.

THE WORLD MADE STRAIGHT, based on the novel of the same name by Ron Rash, is a poetic, savage film about the presence of the past asserting itself in the present as events in 1970s North Carolina are tinged with the repercussions of the Civil War battles fought there a century before.

The two - day anniversary event on September 8 and 9, entitled Reading the Past, Writing the Future, will review achievements and lessons learnt over the last half century and identify challenges and solutions within the framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

In Déco Delight, David Burgess-Wise charts the model's history and encounters an example with an unlikely past / Mick Walsh reports from the fourth Vintage Revival event at the historic banked circuit and chooses some of his highlights in Montlhéry magic / Ferdinand Porsche vs Hans Ledwinka... Two of the 20th century's most creative car designers often found themselves on parallel paths that sometimes intersected, with surprising consequences.

Commitment to electrification demonstrated with new electric models from Jaguar's past, present and future at inaugural Tech Fest event Past — iconic Jaguar E-type now electrified for the 21st century Present — all - new electric Jaguar I - PACE Concept, the SUV that combines a supercar silhouette with sports car performance, goes on sale next year Future — visionary FUTURE - TYPE virtual concept imagines autonomous, connected, electric and shared mobility for 2040 and beyond Jaguar Land Rover Tech Fest takes place at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London Free - to - enter festival open from Friday 8 September to Sunday 10 September From 2020 all new Jaguar Land Rover vehicles will be electrifpast, present and future at inaugural Tech Fest event Past — iconic Jaguar E-type now electrified for the 21st century Present — all - new electric Jaguar I - PACE Concept, the SUV that combines a supercar silhouette with sports car performance, goes on sale next year Future — visionary FUTURE - TYPE virtual concept imagines autonomous, connected, electric and shared mobility for 2040 and beyond Jaguar Land Rover Tech Fest takes place at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London Free - to - enter festival open from Friday 8 September to Sunday 10 September From 2020 all new Jaguar Land Rover vehicles will be electrifPast — iconic Jaguar E-type now electrified for the 21st century Present — all - new electric Jaguar I - PACE Concept, the SUV that combines a supercar silhouette with sports car performance, goes on sale next year Future — visionary FUTURE - TYPE virtual concept imagines autonomous, connected, electric and shared mobility for 2040 and beyond Jaguar Land Rover Tech Fest takes place at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London Free - to - enter festival open from Friday 8 September to Sunday 10 September From 2020 all new Jaguar Land Rover vehicles will be electrified.

Ghost story master Mary Downing Hahn unrolls the suspenseful, spine - chilling yarn of a girl imprisoned for more than a century, the terrifying events that put her there, and a friendship that crosses the boundary between past and present.

Future events that led to the creation of Ultimo and Vice turn out to be part of the tragic past that haunts Musashi, a mysterious police - officer from the 29th century.

Taking place almost two centuries before the events of BlazBlue, XBlaze tells the story of Touya Kagari, a mostly unremarkable high school sophomore with a remarkable past, and his transformation from a typical teenager into the target of secret organizations, renegade mages, homicidal maniacs, and curry - obsessed co-workers.

In this game, the player moves in time in the XVI century to the events of the very first part of the eponymous game to meet with favorite heroes of the past versions, as well as to organize battles with unique weapons and fighting styles.

From Neolithic hand axes, through William Morris, John Ruskin and the socialist movement, to David Bowie's 1972 Ziggy Stardust UK tour, 21st Century capitalism and the invasion of Iraq, the exhibition weaves a mythical narrative through moments and events from Britain's shared cultural memory, moving back and forth between the past, present and an imagined future.

BRITISHISTORY at Tate Britain is an annual series of events exploring & unraveling some of the themes that have influenced and / or define and connect the past two centuries of British visual culture.

«Cuba's Plaza of the Revolution is one such place — a stark, inhospitable arena where all the major political events of the past half - century have been marked by mass choreography, militarized displays and rhetorical flourish.

For Kiefer, Khlebnikov's 317 - year cycle is useful in that it allows him to depict these broken 20th - century vessels in the light of naval engagements, long sea journeys, shipping losses and the battles of the past - in short, to acknowledge both the human and the historical scale of past events, and their place in our larger models of the world.

i.e. that they can somehow determine the increased likelihood due to AGW of an actual past extreme (once in some centuries) meteorological event.

I mention how two studies of lake mud, one centered in New England and the other Ghana, powerfully shaped my understanding of the need to consider past extremes in the context of today's extreme weather events and what might be coming through this century and beyond with the greenhouse - gas buildup.

The results of these effects are famine, the rise of 19th century pestilent diseases in underdeveloped countries, and rates of species extinction comparable with astronomic events of millions of years past.

Holly National Weather Service office stated the other day that Philly has only had one such event over the past century of La Ninas (in 12/1909).

Just four events of M6 or larger have occurred within 250 km of the April 25, 2015 earthquake over the past century.

When we tried to reconstruct past climate patterns we learned that there was this interesting relationship between past very large volcanic eruptions and the timing of some of the large El Nino events in past centuries.

The British Hydrological Society's Chronology of extreme weather events shows all too clearly that we have had (in the U.K.) much more severe flooding in Britain, and long before the recent warming trend set in, for centuries past.

The biggest killer drought of the last century hit Africa in the 1970s... and lake sediments suggest is was milder and briefer than past events not that far in the past.

Precipitation occurs about once every seven days in the western part of the region and once every three days in the southeastern part.77 The 10 rainiest days can contribute as much as 40 % of total precipitation in a given year.77 Generally, annual precipitation increased during the past century (by up to 20 % in some locations), with much of the increase driven by intensification of the heaviest rainfalls.77, 78,79 This tendency towards more intense precipitation events is projected to continue in the future.80

On the basis of this assumption, the pre-twentieth century part of the reconstructions can be considered to be free from similar events and thus accurately represent past temperature variability.»

A set of past events pointing toward 21rst Century risks explored in the book: Waking the Giant — How Climate Change Triggers Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tsunamis.

Responding to and in the manner of KK Tung's UPDATE (and, you can quote me): globally speaking the slowing of the rapidity of the warming, were it absent an enhanced hiatus compared to prior hiatuses, must at the least be interpreted as nothing more than a slowdown of the positive trend of uninterrupted global warming coming out of the Little Ice Age that has been «juiced» by AGW as evidenced by rapid warming during the last three decades of the 20th Century, irrespective of the fact that, «the modern Grand maximum (which occurred during solar cycles 19 — 23, i.e., 1950 - 2009),» according to Ilya Usoskin, «was a rare or even unique event, in both magnitude and duration, in the past three millennia [that's, 3,000 years].»

But over the last century, during which the IPCC claims the world experienced more rapid warming than any time in the past two millennia, the world did not experience significantly greater trends in any of these extreme weather events.

(06/02/2013) Rainforests in South America have endured three previous extreme global warming events in the past, suggesting they will survive a projected 2 - 6 degree rise in temperatures over the coming century, reports a study published in the Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science.

Reviewing my post: — my introduction describes recent statements and seems accurate to me; — my account of IPCC First and Second Draft seems accurate to me and, in any event, unaffected by new papers; — likewise my comments on the SPM and gatekeeping of skeptic submissions on the discrepancy; — my observations about 20th century history also seem accurate to me and not vulnerable to new papers; — I asked questions about the long past hiatus and deep ocean during that period.

We find that years with a negative PMDI anomaly exceeding — 1.0 SDs (hereafter «1 - SD drought») have occurred approximately twice as often in the past two decades as in the preceding century (six events in 1995 — 2014 = 30 % of years; 14 events in 1896 — 1994 = 14 % of years)(Fig. 1A and Fig.

Therefore, all extreme events are «records» and «unprecedented» — regardless of how many times they've happened in past centuries.

The mean state of ENSO, its global patterns of influence, amplitude of interannual variability, and frequency of extreme events show considerable multidecadal and century - scale variability over the past several centuries.»

Rising wealth and the adoption of new technologies have reduced mortality from extreme weather events by 98 % in the past century.

The models heavily relied upon by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had not projected this multidecadal stasis in «global warming»; nor (until trained ex post facto) the fall in TS from 1940 - 1975; nor 50 years» cooling in Antarctica (Doran et al., 2002) and the Arctic (Soon, 2005); nor the absence of ocean warming since 2003 (Lyman et al., 2006; Gouretski & Koltermann, 2007); nor the onset, duration, or intensity of the Madden - Julian intraseasonal oscillation, the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in the tropical stratosphere, El Nino / La Nina oscillations, the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, or the Pacific Decadal Oscillation that has recently transited from its warming to its cooling phase (oceanic oscillations which, on their own, may account for all of the observed warmings and coolings over the past half - century: Tsoniset al., 2007); nor the magnitude nor duration of multi-century events such as the Mediaeval Warm Period or the Little Ice Age; nor the cessation since 2000 of the previously - observed growth in atmospheric methane concentration (IPCC, 2007); nor the active 2004 hurricane season; nor the inactive subsequent seasons; nor the UK flooding of 2007 (the Met Office had forecast a summer of prolonged droughts only six weeks previously); nor the solar Grand Maximum of the past 70 years, during which the Sun was more active, for longer, than at almost any similar period in the past 11,400 years (Hathaway, 2004; Solankiet al., 2005); nor the consequent surface «global warming» on Mars, Jupiter, Neptune's largest moon, and even distant Pluto; nor the eerily - continuing 2006 solar minimum; nor the consequent, precipitate decline of ~ 0.8 °C in TS from January 2007 to May 2008 that has canceled out almost all of the observed warming of the 20th century.

The montage included candid shots from past conferences and events, early Century 21 print ads, members donning the famous gold jacket, and a variety of other memorable moments.

So we've put together this time line of some of the key changes, decisions, and events that have affected residential real estate in the United States over the past century.