Sentences with phrase «events of the past decade»

The events of the past decade have demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that the scientific community is driven by government money and political correctness far more than any genuine desire for «objective» knowledge.

There is undoubtedly a close relation between Buber's growing tendency to ascribe reality to evil and the events of the past decades — in particular, the Nazi's persecution of the Jews, the Second World War, and the war in Palestine («for me the most grievous of the three [wars]» [Two Types of Faith, p. 15.]-RRB-

The social and political events that are affecting my thinking are epic movements of despairing modernity, not discrete day - by - day scandal - sheet items like most of the supposed great media events of the past decade.

But events of the past decade seem to have placed each church further along the road toward a richer ecclesiology.

Many people enjoyed the unseasonal warmth, but most of the other extraordinary weather events of the past decade have been far less welcome.

There are elements of my own family and me that have felt impacted by the events of the past decade.

Millions of Americans are currently living with damaged credit scores due to the large - scale economic events of the past decade, and have difficulty being approved for most types of credit and loans.

Not exact matches

O'Reilly, whose company produces technology books and events, has been at the forefront of nearly every major development in computers over the past three decades.

From music festivals to skydiving adventures to sporting events, the shift means that brands selling physical goods will no longer be able to get by using the traditional sales and marketing tactics of decades past.

U.S. airlines remaining after a wave of megamergers over the past decade have left travelers with fewer options, even though these airlines have, as a result, larger fleets and access to more hubs to reposition aircraft in the event of a storm.

I am not sure that what happened last week is proof of anything I've been saying, but I do think that the framework I have used over the past decade has been useful, at least to me, in understanding both the rebalancing process in China and the events that led up to the global crisis of 2007 - 08.

But as Joseph Bottum has suggested, «the single most significant fact over the past few decades in America — the great explanatory event from which follows nearly everything in our social and political history — is the crumbling of the Mainline [Protestant] churches as central institutions in our national experience.»

So I took about 6 seconds to find out what this massive evangelical teen event was that I've somehow never heard of while traveling and speaking across the country at hundreds of events over the past couple of decades.

The Faith Alive group in Southampton has in the past decade initiated Alpha courses, an ecumenical programme sharing ideas about leadership, formation and outreach methods with other denominations, a city guildhall event with a Catholic inspirational speaker and prayer teams, a city mission, an introductory programme for «new seekers», that is people interested in the Church and who might wish to continue with the RCIA, displays outside a church on a main road and a manned gazebo to provide information and resources to passers - by during the papal visit, and the Anchor catecheticscourse making use of the «way of beauty» for evangelising parishioners, seen as a primary target.

Sonoma County Winery Development at Issue in Debate About Events: Sonoma County has approved more than 300 new wineries and tasting rooms in the past 16 years — a nearly 360 percent increase over the previous three decades — and many of those wineries have decided in recent years to boost business by offering an array of events, from wine - tasting dinners to weddings and harvest partEvents: Sonoma County has approved more than 300 new wineries and tasting rooms in the past 16 years — a nearly 360 percent increase over the previous three decades — and many of those wineries have decided in recent years to boost business by offering an array of events, from wine - tasting dinners to weddings and harvest partevents, from wine - tasting dinners to weddings and harvest parties...

Heineken is the official beer sponsor of the 2016 Australian Open tennis tournament, and has had close links with the event for the past two decades.

Woods» resurgence — including a T2 and T5 in five events this year — has made this year's contest «probably the most anticipated Masters that any of us have seen in our lifetime,» Nantz, the mellifluous voice of the tournament for the past three decades - plus said during the CBS teleconference.

As a member and past coordinator of DuPage County SAFE KIDS for a decade, I also volunteer my time doing free inspections at checkup events on behalf of various local organizations.

His life is microcosm of events in Northern Ireland these past five decades.

The event, which is under the theme «Celebrating the goodness of the Lord» is meant to acknowledge the country's stable democracy over the past two decades.

The potential for mind - boosting drugs and technologies has increased stunningly over the past decade as neuroscientists have unlocked the secrets of neuronal circuits, neurotransmitters, and specific molecular events triggering brain functions in three interconnected cognitive domains — attention, memory, and creativity.

Over the past few decades, the Olympics has also expanded the number of events, drawn more participants and become vastly more expensive.

Increased jet waviness is associated with a weakening of the jet stream, and the accompanying «blocking» is linked to some of the most extreme UK seasonal weather events experienced over the past decade.

Investigators found four other incidents in the past decade when deadly pathogens were mishandled, including an event in March when a sample of the avian flu strain H5N1 was contaminated with a more lethal strain and accidentally shipped to a USDA lab without proper protections.

In the past several decades, scientists have discovered that the North — South distributions of certain plants often result from a single jump across the tropics, not as a result of gradual movements or events that occurred over a hundred million years ago.

Some of this may be for social reasons, Joyner notes — until the past few decades, distance events didn't have the focus or coaching (or funding) that is characteristic of sprint distances.

The protective «practice run» was observed in three - quarters of stress events that occurred on the GBR in the past three decades.

Events such as the naked - eye burst «are cracking away at the simple picture» theorists have assembled over the past decade, says astrophysicist Joshua Bloom of the University of California, Berkeley.

There have certainly been some large El Nino events over the past couple decades, and this leverages any linear trend estimates of the long - term behavior (such as those shown in the recent Vecchi et al paper, which we'll be talking about more in a follow - up post to this).

Trends in extreme events during the past decade constitute a facet of climate change that requires rigorous detection and attribution.

According to ClimateWise, a global network of 28 insurance industry organizations, not only is 2017 likely to be the most expensive year on record due to natural disasters and extreme weather events all over the globe, but over the past decade only 30 % of catastrophic losses were insured, leaving a climate risk protection gap of $ 1.7 trillion.

Temperature during the winter as a whole have generally decreased over the past two decades, likely as a result of climate change, but the sensitivity of ozone loss to the exact timing of March warming events makes ozone depletion a much more variable quantity.

Noah Diffenbaugh, a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University, said the new analysis represented a «valuable step» in attribution work, a field of climate science that's developed in the past decade in an effort to understand the role of climate change in specific extreme events.

A trust is created by a settlor, who transfers title to some or all of his or her property to a trustee, who then holds title to that property in IN WATCHING the flow of events over the past decade or so, it is hard to avoid the feeling that something very fundamental has happened in world

Even though a BBC miniseries serves as its basis, «State of Play» has a scrapbook worth of major American news items from the past decade such that it might as well tout itself as inspired by true events.

It touches on the #OccupyWallStreet protests of 2011, but seems uncertain of how to fold that event — along with a tripling in the national income gap over the past three decades - plus — into a narrative that breaks down along free trade versus protectionist lines.

Although most promos for Avengers: Infinity War look ahead to the events of the events of the ensemble film, the latest one if more focused on the past, specifically the first decade of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The book you write and self - publish could be the most exciting work of fiction in a decade, a riveting looking into current events, a historical recounting of past events every history professor should read, a guide to your own personal area of expertise, or any of countless other types of book; but in terms of how you sell the book, it is just a unit.

Consumer lending, too, has seen significant changes in the past two decades thanks to the Internet, the most important event being the rise of peer - to - peer lending, or the process of individuals funding loans for other individuals without the intervention of a middleman.

For many gamers out there Call of Duty is still a yearly event and those who have stuck with the series for the past decade or so will have no doubt had mixed feelings about WWII's announcement.

For the past decade, GameCity has taken over various venues around the centre of Nottingham, putting on a vast range of talks, special events and interactive sessions, as well as showing off hundreds of fascinating indie titles.

For the past decade Gilsdorf has worked in a range of mediums to explore relationships between historical accounts, emblems of authority, and media representations that influence our perception of current events.

A subsequent presentation of archive selections as projected images with accompanying musical mash - up took place at the Guggenheim Museum's «Past Tense / Future Perfect» performative event, produced to accompany the exhibition Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video.

«Her radiant paintings of the past three decades evoke the rhythms of the natural world,» the gallery's obituary notes, «marked by constantly changing dynamics of everyday events of the sky.»

5 Year Review MoMA PS1's First Floor Painting Gallery will be dedicated to 5 Year Review, a showcase of some of the most important exhibitions, performances, concerts, movies, fashion, design, happenings, and events to have occurred in the past half decade.

Despite the massive changes that the field of contemporary art has undergone in the past several decades, that saw the dematerialization of the art object and onset of experiential events, most art institutions continue to be oriented around static, object - based exhibition formats.

Imaginary Arsenals is part of Out of Site, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Artist Residency Marks a Decade Downtown, a series of guest curated exhibitions and special events in several locations downtown that explore the program's past and present.

For the event, a group of multigenerational artists, among them Lynda Benglis, Carroll Dunham, and Camille Henrot, will gather to discuss their work and how it has helped shape the museum's programming over the past four decades.

Over the past decade, BN has been instrumental in enabling dialogue on the attitudes towards street harassment through a series of events and interventions.

Her radiant paintings of the past three decades evoke the rhythms of the natural world, marked by constantly changing dynamics of everyday events of the sky.