Sentences with phrase «for by centuries»

Not a man in a mitre with a gold staff paid for by centuries of sin and politics.

Not exact matches

Hulu — which is owned jointly by CBS rivals Walt Disney, 21st Century Fox, Comcast, and Time Warner — made a similar move less than a year ago, when the service offered subscribers the option of paying a few dollars more per month for an ad - free experience.

Dividends, the share of their revenues that companies pay to their shareholders, are a big deal: Over the past century, they've accounted for roughly half of total returns earned by stock investors.

Founded in 1920 by Pacific Northwest outdoorsman Eddie Bauer, the eponymous company has nearly a century's worth of experience creating apparel for adventurers of all types.

For centuries, every advance in industrial technology was heralded by prophecies of doom.

Internal studies by a group of analysts within Shell known as the «scenarios» team had concluded that global demand for oil might peak in as little as a decade — essentially tomorrow in an industry that plans in quarter - century increments.

Rudd's $ 43bn fast web gamble The global recession has forced Kevin Rudd to scrap plans for a high - speed national broadband network funded by the private sector and wager at least $ 21.9 billion of taxpayers» money to fund his election pledge to bring internet speeds into the 21st century.

Attacked by some as a patent troll for the $ 150 million he made, he now wants to bring the entire patent world into the 21st century, using AI and the blockchain.

And like us, Ravensburger is a family - owned company that has thrived for more than a century by staying true to its mission — a belief in the benefits of challenging the mind and the importance of creative play.

Major emerging economies like India insisted that they should not have to pay for the energy transition, since the world's pollution had been caused by more than a century of economic growth in the U.S. and in Europe.

The Gutenberg Bible, for example, is described by the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library as epitomizing «the great advances made in printing technology in the 15th century.»

For centuries, sales leaders stood by rigidly structured methods when honing in on a potential customer.

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.

If the present birth rate of 1.37 births for women of childbearing age continues, Japan could lose one - third of its population by the middle of this century.

The current craze for bitcoin, and cryptocurrencies in general, have been likened by some to the 17th century Dutch tulip mania and more recently the dotcom bubble.

21st Century Fox is currently trying to gain regulatory approval in the UK for a merger with Sky, both of which are owned by billionaire Rupert Murdoch.

The work is notable for its depiction of the elaborately detailed clothing favoured by 18th - century French aristocrats, but look closely at the young man in the foreground and you'll see he's wearing a pair of remarkably simple black dress shoes.

By the time the game finally started, on a steamy Texas Saturday this September, there were 87,500 people in the stadium and thousands more in the streets, all eager for the rematch between Alabama and Texas A&M — the «game of the century,» at least for that week.

Rupert's son James, however, who is CEO of family holding company 21st Century Fox, argued that it was long past time for O'Reilly to leave, in order to try and mitigate some of the longer - term damage done by the allegations and the advertising exodus.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will implement a 21st century digital bill of rights for EU residents by updating privacy regulations that first went into effect in 1995.

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.»

In the 20th century companies could be leaders in a market for decades by just focusing on their core product (s).

These sorts of odd - ball questions — logic puzzles, brainteasers and riddles — have been favoured by some employers as a means of testing problem - solving and communications skills for over half a century.

By the middle of the 19th century, notes Banner, the death penalty had been removed from «crime after crime until none of the northern states used it for any offense other than murder.»

Meanwhile, 21st Century Fox's Fox Searchlight led all studios by winning six awards, including Best Motion Picture Drama for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

Smith started Vice as a print magazine with Suroosh Alvi and Gavin McInnes in Montreal more than two decades ago; with Smith at the helm as CEO, it's now a multi-platform content mill with a reported audience of between 250 million and 300 million people a month, many of them members of Generation Y. Smith made his money by convincing an older generation that Vice knows millennials better than they could ever hope to, and that pitch has worked: Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox paid US$ 70 million for a 5 % stake of Vice in 2013, and Rogers Communications (which owns Canadian Business) inked a $ 100 million partnership.

Few could afford these printed books made available by presses for an additional several centuries.

The recent opening up of Myanmar to foreign investment has now created an opportunity for ASX listed Myanmar Metals to unlock Bawdwin's potential for the first time since it was held by Herbert Hoover's Burma Corporation almost a century ago.

High - quality swords treasured by collectors and warriors alike have been forged in the Land of the Rising Sun for centuries, and while the age of the samurai may have passed, the country remains one of the biggest exporters of high - quality kitchen and utility knives today.

Peter Drucker, arguably the leading management thinker of the twentieth century, observed, «If a new venture does succeed, more often than not it is n a market other than the one it was originally intended to serve, with products and services not quite those with which it had set out that are bought in large part by customers it did not even think of when it started and used for a host of purposes besides the ones for which the products were first designed.»

The Girl Scouts of the USA has been around for more than a century, but for much of the venerable institution's tenure, if you wanted to get your hands on a box of Thin Mints or Samoas, you had to cross your fingers for a door - to - door visit from a local troop or a sign - up sheet to be circulated through your office by a supportive parent.

For much of the 20th century, cultural products — movies, music, books et al — were sold in small, independent stores by knowledgeable and invested staff.

Last fall, Amazon spurred a 21st Century gold rush by inviting every U.S. city and state to bid for their second corporate headquarters.

Utilized in Chinese and South American medicine for centuries, adaptogens have been gaining popularity in the U.S. for their ability to counteract the adverse effects of stress by adapting to an individual's physical needs and normalizing imbalances.

The diamond industry is dominated by very profitable houses like Cartier, the jeweler to the kings for centuries.

LONDON, Feb 27 - U.S. cable giant Comcast Corp has offered $ 31 billion for Sky Plc, threatening a plan hatched by Rupert Murdoch's Twenty - First Century Fox Inc and Walt Disney Co to seize control of Europe's biggest pay - TV group.

Originally levied a century ago to pay for the Spanish - American War, it was not repealed by Congress.

Comcast offered 12.50 pounds in cash per Sky share on Tuesday, well above the 10.75 pounds Twenty - First Century Fox Inc - run by Roberts» rival Rupert Murdoch - had agreed to pay for the British company.

So - called variable pay plans have been around for more than a century, and were first used by industrial magnates including George Eastman and William Procter out of sense of social conscience, writes Rutgers economist Joseph Blasi in this Huffington Post story.

«Without rapid cuts in CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions, we will be heading for dangerous temperature increases by the end of this century, well above the target set by the Paris climate change agreement,» Petteri Taalas, the WMO's secretary - general, said in a statement.

You can give yourself the opportunity — which, by the way, is what successful people have done for centuries.

Don't miss the Albright - Knox Art Gallery, a bastion for 20th - century American art, or Hotel Henry, a stylish 88 - room sleep built inside an abandoned 1870s asylum designed by lauded American architect Henry Hobson Richardson.

He will continue working on the Fox and FX shows produced by 20th Century Fox Television, a spokesman for Murphy said Wednesday.

From Miami, the jet will whisk you away, crisscrossing the globe, hitting five continents on a 25 - day voyage to places like Easter Island, with its mystical «moai» statues; Nicaragua, to tour a volcano by helicopter; Australia, where you'll taste wine in the Margaret River Valley; and Tbilisi, Georgia, for a private choral performance at a sixth - century church.

It had been almost $ 113,000 at its peak in 2007 and was $ 74,600 back in 1989, meaning that wealth for this group has declined by more than 40 % over the last quarter century.

If it succeeds, by 2020 AT&T will have reeducated 100,000 employees for new jobs with cutting - edge skills and, in the process, created the kind of nimble workforce it needs to compete in the 21st century.

He must establish a vision for the future of 21st Century Fox that is driven by what is best for the company, not by trying to please or emulate his father.

PASTA has been enjoyed for centuries and by tradition, Italian people have consumed more than the rest of the world's population put together.

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.

The initial exchange ratio of 0.2745 Disney shares for each 21st Century Fox share was set based on an estimate of such tax liabilities to be covered by an $ 8.5 billion cash dividend to 21st Century Fox from the company to be spun off.