Sentences with phrase «first time in modern history»

For the very first time in modern history, Aston has created gauges that are not only beautiful but also clearly legible.

But for the first time in modern history, more startups are dying than being born.

For the first time in modern history, some of the most isolated, destitute First Nations communities in Canada have something that the rest of the world wants.

«But this is the first time in modern history that the Chinese markets are on the global radar screen.»

Saudi Arabia granted women the right to vote for the first time in its modern history as part of changes King Abdullah said will let them run in future municipal elections.

Complicating this picture, is that for the first time in modern history, the Fed is concurrently removing accommodation in two ways, by increasing the price of money (Fed funds rate) and reducing the supply of money (balance sheet runoff).

For the first time in modern history, young girls come of age in a world in which their expectations are limited to hooking up with men who wish to use their bodies for gratification.

For the first time in modern history, Christianity, the predominant faith of the West, is faced by reinvigorated Eastern religions.

Writing of the French Revolution, Mosse observes: «This new politics attempted the politicization of the masses, which, for the first time in modern history, functioned as a pressure group and not just through episodic uprisings or short «lived riots.»

However, the main message must be that, for the first time in its modern history, the U.K. officially acknowledges a chemical attack against the Kingdom (against the citizens of the UK, occurred on British soil) and condemns it.

The challenge, therefore, confronting Africa, the President opined, is «how we can organise ourselves to make sure that the wealth, the huge wealth of this great continent, at least, in the first time in modern history, is used on behalf on the peoples of the continent, and not those outside.»

But now, for the first time in modern history, the Conservatives have a serious rival on the Right in the form of Ukip — and it's a threat strong enough to put them into Opposition in 2015.

Neil: «I mean, this must be the first time in modern history that a party's actually broken a manifesto policy before the election.»

The governor's office points out that the state's total outstanding debts have decreased four years in a row for the first time in modern history, and New York has less debt now than when Cuomo took office five years ago.

Labour's membership will hit one million for the first time in its modern history if Jeremy Corbyn is re-elected leader, John McDonnell has predicted.

What will happen when global numbers drop for the first time in modern history?

In early May, instruments at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii marked a new record: The concentration of carbon dioxide climbed to 400 parts per million for the first time in modern history.

In emigration / immigration terms, after centuries of net emigration, Spain, has recently experienced large - scale immigration for the first time in modern history.

For the first time in modern history, authors have a choice.

The christening of the four new Viking Longships represents the first time in modern history that four cruise ships have been christened at once, with Viking Odin and Viking Idun christened in Amsterdam and Viking Njord and Viking Freya christened via satellite from the Neptun shipyard in Germany.

For the first time in modern history, world farmed fish production topped beef production.

Since H2, 2007, credit rating downgrades for banks as derivative counterparties have been a concern for the first time in the modern history of the derivatives trade.

The streets of London are now more deadly than New York, with the capital recording a higher murder rate for the first time in modern history in February.