Sentences with phrase «few generations in history»

«The climate crisis offers us the chance to experience what very few generations in history have had the privilege of knowing: a generational mission.»

Not exact matches

In My Blood: Six Generations of Madness and Desire in an American Family By John Sedgwick HarperCollins, 400 pages, $ 25.95 Dig deeply into any family history and you're bound to unearth a mosaic of tragedies and farces, but few families have given rise to as many prominent figures as the Sedgwick clan has, few have created such archival treasures, and few can trace their American lineage back to 163In My Blood: Six Generations of Madness and Desire in an American Family By John Sedgwick HarperCollins, 400 pages, $ 25.95 Dig deeply into any family history and you're bound to unearth a mosaic of tragedies and farces, but few families have given rise to as many prominent figures as the Sedgwick clan has, few have created such archival treasures, and few can trace their American lineage back to 163in an American Family By John Sedgwick HarperCollins, 400 pages, $ 25.95 Dig deeply into any family history and you're bound to unearth a mosaic of tragedies and farces, but few families have given rise to as many prominent figures as the Sedgwick clan has, few have created such archival treasures, and few can trace their American lineage back to 1635.

Already the best - selling automobile nameplate in history, the Corolla enters the 2018 model year deep into its twelfth generation of production with a few adjustments.

Student loan debt isn't the only factor contributing to fewer startups among younger people, but it certainly may be one reason why millennials are on track to become the least entrepreneurial generation in history.

Now, because of posts like this, I predict that you and a few dozen others will go down in scientific history on this topic, relative to defense of scientific integrity and freedom on an issue that spent the better part of a generation devolving to the point where RICO cases are suggested against dissenting scientists and corporations and «skeptics» are obliquely likened to Holocaust «deniers».

The current rate of environmental change is much faster than most climate changes in the Earth's history, so predictions from longer term geological records may not be applicable if the changes occur within a few generations of a species.

As it tore through New York and New Jersey on its journey up the east coast, Sandy became the second-most expensive hurricane in American history, causing in a few hours what just a generation ago would have been a year's worth of disaster damage.

He is currently writing «a history of previous «buy local food» movements going back a few centuries, along with reasons why they all failed in the long run, and a critique of the main arguments of the new generation of food activists.».