Sentences with phrase «for about a century»

For about a century Egypt was under the Umayyads; then the Abbasids ruled the country.

This proposition, the Kenite hypothesis, has had wide acceptance among Old Testament scholars for about a century.

The view of Moses» possible indebtedness, in these terms, to Jethro has been proposed with many variations for about a century, but it remains only hypothesis.

For about a century now, no other issue in American Jewish life has evoked as much emotion and energy at the local level as has the struggle to keep religion out of their children's schools.

The Bulls, the most perplexing No. 2 of all, did it by beating higher - ranked schools that'd had football programs for about a century longer.

Although we've known for about a century that galaxies are receding from ours, scientists long speculated that matter's gravitational heft would eventually slow cosmic expansion — maybe even reverse it, culminating in what's called a Big Crunch.

A leather jacket has been the peak of fashion for about a century, and we don't see that changing for the next one either.

The site remained populated for about another century but no new major structures were built during that time.

But for about a century after Edouard Manet (1832 - 1883)-- Julius» nominal founding figure — makers of rebarbative artworks did feed a continuing stream of history consciousness in which, as Robert Motherwell put it, «everything..

If you want a century of records you either use an existing set or wait on i / o for about a century.

At current rates of use, we have only enough petroleum reserves (counting tar sands and shale) for about a century, and sufficient coal for about 300 years.

However, the point remains: U.S. criminal justice systems have used math to guide decision - making for about a century.

This exception, according to case law that has been established for about a century, [5] includes the case in which fundamental requirements of due process have been violated in the foreign proceedings.

Carrying its tremendous reputation for being a one - stop financial solution for about a century, the Bank of India still stands as a leader in banking services.

Not exact matches

But he couldn't resist a final dig at those rooting for his firm to fail, relaying a «little ditty» about how short sellers were apparently dealt with in the 19th century: «He who sells what isn't his» n, must buy it back or go to pris» n.»

Even if you never intend to put a shovel in the ground, though, thinking about brands as places may prove to be the sturdiest paradigm for strategy in the 21st century.

21st Century Fox (FOX), for example, is only down by about 4 % since the beginning of the year, or less than half Disney's decline.

«It's one of the things that makes me optimistic about America because when I look at what we have accomplished using half our talent for a couple of centuries, and now I think of doubling the talent that is effectively employed — or at least has the chance to be — it makes me very optimistic about this country,» Buffett says.

The great disappointment of the last half century has been the account owner's unwitting surrender of personal responsibility for retirement to someone else, anyone else, surrendered with the hope that the elective someone else cares more about their money than they do.

In a statement provided by 21st Century Fox, founder and executive co-chairman Rupert Murdoch said: «To ensure continuity of all that is best about Fox News and what it stands for, I will take over as Chairman and acting CEO, with the support of our existing management team under Bill Shine, Jay Wallace and Mark Kranz.»

For example, the iconic 20th Century brand Sears was all about having a trusted single place, be it the catalog or the store, in which to find everything you could possibly need, at a competitive price.

Comcast and 21st Century Fox are in talks about a sale of Fox's worldwide entertainment and distribution assets to Comcast for Comcast stock, according to people familiar with the situation.

For decades, if not centuries, talking about one's salary has been the biggest taboo in capitalism, which is why the idea of salary transparency — the current «it» strategy among progressive young private companies — makes so many people uncomfortable.

Automation has been replacing people in the workplace for two centuries, of course, but there's something particularly unsettling about a humanoid machine being dropped in as a one - to - one substitute for a flesh - and - blood employee.

At the daily White House press briefing, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee - Sanders tells reporters that President Trump spoke with Rupert Murdoch about the deal for Disney to acquire Twenty - First Century Fox assets.

With more than a century of experience, you can expect that T. M. Lewin knows a thing or two about shirting, and this crisp white cotton and linen number is the one you want to reach for when the sun comes out and it's time to retire the twill.

Timothy Snyder: When we think about power, we often think about it in terms of traditional, twentieth century indices, like for example, gross national product or capacity for technological innovation.

These dire predictions are troubling for the American worker but perhaps less so for sales professionals who have become accustomed to hearing warnings about their job security for over a century.

They are complaining about countries working with China which are not even the EU members — some of them merely looking for an associate status because a full membership is a drawn - out obstacles race at the mercy of centuries - old regional hatreds and rivalries.

Other investors include Silicon Valley fund Technology Crossover Ventures, which invested $ 250 million in 2014 for a 10 % stake, and 21st Century Fox, which in 2013 bought what was then a 5 % stake in Vice for $ 70 million (it now owns about 3 %).

It's about the history of an iconic, globally powerful brand that represents an unlikely subject for a product that has gone from highly controversial to somewhat of a commodity over the course of half a century.

Hostess, which has filed for bankruptcy twice in its nearly century - old history, generated sales of about $ 650 million in the 12 months ended May 31.

For centuries, saddles were made by men, for men, and often, in recent generations, with little concern about the well - being of the horFor centuries, saddles were made by men, for men, and often, in recent generations, with little concern about the well - being of the horfor men, and often, in recent generations, with little concern about the well - being of the horse.

This will be an entirely new kind of publishing process for me, and one that I hope delivers a great deal of learning about how to publish a book successfully in the 21st Century.

After Verizon announced slightly - better - than - expected first quarter results on Tuesday, analysts pushed Ellis about rumors that the company might bid for a major media company, such as 21st Century Fox (fox).

For a good part of the postwar 20th century, the best marketers obsessed about earning attention.

Looking back in time, global steel production grew strongly in the 1960s and early 1970s when Japan was industrialising, but then was relatively flat for about a quarter of a century (Graph 8).

For much of the nineteenth century, the United States also ran trade deficits and capital account surpluses, but while there were already capital flows driven by investors making independent decisions about where to park their money, roughly 90 percent of the international business done by London banks consisted of trade finance.

In the middle of the last century, for example, motivational researchers sought psychological knowledge about consumers in the hopes of subconsciously influencing them through subliminal advertising.

While artificial intelligence (AI) has been present for more than half a century, the revolution is just about to begin, said...

Rupert Murdoch's Twenty - First Century Fox Inc, which agreed in December to sell most of its assets to Walt Disney Co for $ 52.4 billion, had previously rejected a bid from Comcast Corp over concerns about the regulatory risks and its stock value, a regulatory filing on Wednesday showed.

What is remarkable is that debtor interests have accepted this «don't worry about debt» logic about «automatic stabilizers» for nearly two centuries.

Those meetings have been happening for over a century, yet few people outside the Fed knew about them.

MH: Because they need altogether about $ 5 trillion to create... If they're going to create 500 billionaires to run the country for the next century and to create really a new feudal class they need $ 5 trillion and they don't want the people to know what's occurring because if they did the voters would get so upset they'd create probably a new political party, an alternative.

Between 2000 and 2014, the number of Americans who were a century or older increased by about 44 percent, according to a 2016 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The price of oil has been, on average, about $ 20 / barrel for the past 120 years, ending this Century.

The way I interpret influencer marketing is no different to the way we have been doing business for centuries — it's ALL about meaningful relationship building.

In the 21st century, the ex ante equity risk premium will therefore have a geometric (arithmetic) mean of about 4.1 % (5.4 %) for the U.S., 2.4 % (3.7 %) for the U.K. and 3.0 % (4.0 %) for a size - weighted world index.

Global crude - oil production has risen about 30 percent this century; expanding from around 75 million barrels per day in 2000 to 95 million barrels in 2016, with the top 10 - producing countries accounting for more than 60 percent of the total production.

A year ago I wrote about the comparative dynamics of three outstanding kinds of money of different generations — the older generation was represented by gold, the 20th - century generation was represented by the Dollar (Index) and for the modern generation I used the cryptocurrency Bitcoin (BTC).