Sentences with phrase «few decades of history»

For the sector analysis, we took the current six - month price patterns for each of the nine major sectors (Morningstar Sector classifications) and searched through a few decades of history for the most similar instances.

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The human race will be deciding the answer in the next few decades under circumstances of a major transition in the history of mankind.

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.»

You probably haven't an inkling of history for the past several hundred years, or even of the past few decades.

I think being written only a few decades after these events is about as good a deal as you can get w / ancient history; same goes for finding early 2nd century samples of m in Egypt.

You have lost Bob, you are on the wrong side of history once again, much like a few decades ago when you were infuriated that a black man could legally marry a white woman, oh the humanity!!

I refer to his notion of the great transition of mankind toward a culminating phase of world history during the next few decades — a period fraught with great dangers and immense opportunities for human advance.

More than a few of the cardinals who rallied to support him in one of the shortest conclaves in modern history did so because they believed Ratzinger, having spent more than two decades in the Curia, would know what was broken and would fix it.»

During his passage across the provinces of Asia and Macedonia on his way, under guard, to Rome, and presumably martyrdom, he had occasion to write a number of brief letters, especially to the churches of Asia which had sent deputations to visit and befriend him; and these letters are among the very few sources we have for the history of the church in the early decades of the second century.

Read more about the history of the coffee industry over the last few decades at TechnoServe and an article about bird diversity in Tanzania at the African Bird Club web site.

But there's no doubt that Stern played a massive role in the NBA's growth during the past few decades, and he'll be remembered as one of the best commissioners in sports history.

Here is a whole post on the benefits (medical, developmental, etc.): http://www.eco-novice.com/2011/01/benefits-of-early-potty-training.html I would also recommend reading the history of potty training for an eye - opening view on how much potty training has changed in the last few decades: http://www.eco-novice.com/2011/01/brief-history-of-potty-training-part-1.html

Long Island, with a centuries - long history of farming, has undergone an agricultural revolution in just a few decades, sparked in 1973 by a pair of pioneers in planting grapes for fine wine, Louisa and Alex Hargrave.

«Fortunately,» states Katerina Douka, also of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, «there have been an increasing number of multidisciplinary research programs launched in Asia over the past few decades.

But those fossils — a few bits of vertebrae, pelvis and limb — languished unidentified in London's Natural History Museum for several decades.

Unfortunately, to puzzle out the new wasp's lifestyle, the researchers could only rely on specimens collected back in 1985, which had spent the past few decades stored in the collections of the Natural History Museum of London before being loaned to the Frost Museum at Penn State for research.

«This long - term view shows that the next few decades offer a brief window of opportunity to minimize large - scale and potentially catastrophic climate change that will extend longer than the entire history of human civilization thus far,» the team concluded.

«In the last few decades, genetic information has become an important source for the study of human history,» says Prof. Keinan, the study's senior author.

While a hundred years seems like a long time, it is a short amount of time in the spectrum of human history, and in the last few decades, we've started to understand how artificial light affects health.

«The String Arcade» spans a few decades in video game history from arcade classics including «Galaga», «TRON» to 8 - bit eras with «Legend of Zelda» to more recent hits with «Portal 2» and «Minecraft».

Over the past few decades, many schools have embraced national and even international academic competitions such as the National Geographic Bee, the Scripps National Spelling Bee, MATHCOUNTS, National History Day, and Odyssey of the Mind, among others.

The renowned Bavarian company has a 120 - year history of «traditional innovation «and over the past few decades has also done a lot for more mobility.

Vehicles with a production history of more than a few decades typically have a model generation they would rather forget.

However, this shows a poor sense of the history of the industry — because just a few decades ago, the majority of both profits and stability came from the midlist, not the breakout hits.

While the U.S. Department of Education has made a history in the last few decades by taking the stand that student debtors who file for bankruptcy be required to agree to some form of income - based repayment plan, a recent case has poked a big hole in that hot air balloon defense!

Enter the herptile renaissance of the past few decades during which strides have been made in our knowledge of natural history, thermoregulatory behavior and general husbandry techniques.

Already, in these first few decades of videogames history, games are beginning to make this reflexive, inward turn.

A few decades ago, the history of abstract expressionism seemed well established and its main exponents, including heavy - hitters like Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell and Mark Rothko, all firmly identified.

Over the past centuries, and especially in the past few decades, there has been a constant writing and overwriting of history and its physical manifestations in architecture.

«The Oroqen's history is reflective of the vast changes that have happened across China over the last few decades, as the country has moved from a largely agrarian nation to an industrial powerhouse drawing in numerous ethnic groupings to present an image of a diverse and harmonious society.

Researching its history, former Wave Hill gardener Carolyn Hestand Kennedy — also a former Nally intern — discovered that back in the 1970's Wave Hill founding Director of Horticulture Marco Polo Stufano and John Nally, former Curator of the Gardens, wanting to create a shade garden on the north side of the property, began by planting a few oaks there, leaving them to grow for decades as they focused on more central areas of the garden.

As John commented here, EAI has a long and important history leading and advocating for the preservation of video formats — at a time when very few institutions or dealers were willing to assume this responsibility (things have changed significantly only in the last decade or so).

Few artists of recent decades have permitted themselves both the gestural freedom and restraint of Dunham, or get to the psychological truthfulness of what it means to be living through this moment in history, whether it is with concerns about the planet, the self, ageing or desire.

Dedicated to exploring the veracity of photographic and video documents in the public realm, the role of memory and narrative within discourses of conflict, and the construction of histories of art in the Arab world, Raad's work is informed by his upbringing in Lebanon during the civil war (1975 — 91), and by the socioeconomic and military policies that have shaped the Middle East in the past few decades.

According to some analysts, more square footage of structures will be built in the next few decades than has been built by human societies in all previous history.

Building cities along coastlines as we have throughout our so - far short modern history, short though it has been from the standpoint of our climate history, should be recognized as the kind of short term planning that has gotten us into this trouble whether it happens now or a few decades or centuries down the road, and this concern over atmoshperic warming is just one of a multitude of possible planet - affecting scenarios that could have devastating effects on our world's societies.

When you start reading the very recent history of science, you'll likely realize that much of what people set out to study in the past few decades turns out to already be changing very fast due to climate change.

I was surprised to learn about this, so it was interesting to hear the history of how much New York City's approach to sewage has changed in the past few decades.

Within another few decades, no living person will remember any of this sad history, the fane itself will dissolve into the rising ocean, and the imperishable titanium plaque will settle to the bottom of the sea.

Every day an extreme record is broken in many places and in part that is a consequence of the short history of weather recording and the sheer number of locations where humans are now available to observe weather events that would have gone unnoticed a few decades ago.

«Despite all this evidence, the NRC report phrased its conclusions cautiously, concluding it was no more than «plausible» (2:1 odds in favor) that the temperatures of the last few decades were unprecedented in recorded history.»

Over the past few decades, the term «Anthropocene» has climbed out of academic discourse and into the popular imagination — a name given to the geologic era we live in now, and a way to signal that it is a new era, defined on the wall chart of deep history by human intervention.

From lead paint remediation to end the thousands of deaths caused by decades paint chips flaking into the soil, to pulling mountains of invasive plants and replacing them with native plant species and safe habitat for nesting birds, the USFWS does as much as possible on a tight budget with few workers to return this place to its former glory — all while preserving the military history of the atoll.

While Russia's history of leadership certainly seems to have influenced their expectations in a boss, there are also signs of a backlash against the nepotism and corruption that have characterised Russia over the past few decades.