Sentences with phrase «for centuries if»

The search for the relief of pain has existed for centuries if not millennia.

They have been functioning for centuries if not in the current form.

Baby wearing has been practiced for centuries if not millennia around the world and has gained popularity in recent decades.

honey will keep for centuries if kept sealed.

The bottom line is these people are occupying a country invented only a generation or two ago forcibly driving the original people living there for centuries if not ever since the times of Christ.

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If you've never seen the show, each episode is a self - contained allegory for how some aspect of 21st century technology affects our everyday lives.

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.

If Ailes is being sidelined, that's potentially a big deal for the future of both Fox News and 21st Century Fox (FOX), since the news network, a favorite of politically conservative viewers, accounts for a big chunk of the company's profits.

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.

I already think that would be the deal of the century, if it happens, for numerous reasons.

Piazza del Popolo It's said to be one of the best people - watching spots in the city (which, for Rome, says a lot)-- that is, if you can take your eyes off the 17th - century churches and Egyptian obelisk, among other sights.

«If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.»

Barton, a Canadian whose deep experience in Asia lifted him to the pinnacle of McKinsey's far - flung consulting empire, has a knack for conveying how if you're not going big, you just don't get the 21st - century economy.

For centuries, human beings have clambered aboard vessels and headed for the horizon, unsure if they would retuFor centuries, human beings have clambered aboard vessels and headed for the horizon, unsure if they would retufor the horizon, unsure if they would return.

If you can't bring this company into the 21st century, sign up for a library card instead.

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.

That means if a deal isn't struck between Walt Disney and 21st Century Fox, the Murdoch empire may look to find another buyer for its assets.

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.»

And yet, if there's one thing to be learned from Google's recent acquisition of the artificial intelligence startup DeepMind for a reported $ 400 million, it's that the heyday for this type of technology is not a century or even decades away.

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.

They've been stocked behind bars for mixing drinks since the early 20th century, long before their takeover of American draft, as if waiting in the wings.

Visiting Paris's Musee D'Orsay for the first time in twenty years made me wonder if artists today are changing how we see the world like a century ago.

«If war and revolution marked the last century, the competition for prosperity and the marketing of ways to enjoy that new wealth is moulding the early years of the 21st century,» Becker writes.

And it helps solve serious problems that have plagued mankind for centuries, if not longer.

But for the first time in the company's half - century - long history, market watchers are now asking if Canada's most iconic company could actually be in trouble.

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.

Britain's takeover regulator ruled that Walt Disney must make an offer for the whole of European pay - TV company Sky if it succeeds in buying Twenty - First Century Fox assets.

Absent foresight of what was to become the 19th century's «Rise of the West,» anyone planning for the future would have woefully, if understandably, in error.

It's the 21st century version of «if you're not for us, you're against us.»

As for the British example at the end of the 19th Century, in those days currency was part of reserve accumulation, but much if not most reserves were in the form of gold or silver, and while Britain had the most important reserve currency, the difference between central bank holdings of sterling and central bank holdings of other gold - based currencies, like the franc, were pretty small relative to total trade.

It's as if the Earth now has two moons instead of one and both are growing in size like a cancerous tumor that may threaten the financial tides, oceans and economic life as we have known it for the past half century.

If GDP is growing nominally at 20 %, for example, and you can borrow at 7 % (which was the case in China for much of this century), you should rationally borrow as much as you can and invest it into anything that moves, no matter how poorly thought out the investment.

And if you're looking for a short - term investment option, 21st Century Fox might be the best pick for you, along with these 11 stocks.

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 alternativIf 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 alternativif they did the voters would get so upset they'd create probably a new political party, an alternative.

So too with China and other major energy importers — the world is now awash in shale gas and will remain so for many decades, if not centuries.

Ben Wa balls have been around for centuries, and if their extensive history doesn't convince that there's something special about these weighty little spheres, the results will.

If you're paying a percentage fee for financial advice, you're stuck in the 20th century.

Ultimately, we see a bifurcation of strategies to mitigate an increasingly protectionist trade agenda in the U.S. — the China approach, which focuses on developing countries and developing new markets through the BRI, and the «rest» that seek to participate in open intra - and inter-regional trade agreements that are a mixture of 21st century trade rules that leave the doors open for U.S. participation, even if that means renegotiation or modification of agreed - upon rules.

Religions incorporated and codified these basic social values and skills, and quickly learned to take credit for them — as if, without the religion, we would be doomed to not have them — although we see them in every human society, including hunter - gather tribes with no sense of gods as we understand them After many centuries of religious domination, enforced through pain of death, ostracization or other social sanctions, allowing religion to take credit, as well as failing to question other religious claims — has become a cultural habit.

Um... actually, if you check your Catholic history, you will find that for centuries the Catholics enforced their brand of salvation at the point of the sword.

Authorship of John — many if not most NT scholars believe that John nor one of 12 wrote John; James — most agree not authored by James, and sometime in 2nd century AD; Peter — a mystery — some think that it could have been an early template for the other gospels; Luke — a mystery; Mark — finally it seems like we really might have another original author here — or were he and later Paul just using a very early Peter story?

If science had not been opposed so violently by the church for so many centuries these mistakes would not have occurred.

The first century historian, Josephus wrote about him and expressed «Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure.

However, if anything has been going against that trend for the past century, it's been pop music.

* sigh * people have known for decades if not centuries at least that the numbers of Christians martyred was exaggerated.

For centuries, Ethiopia could not only feed it's people (with one region having a surplus if another had a drought) but could export to surrounding countries.

But if we are going to resurrect a nineteenth - century author to speak to our time, our first choice should not be one who celebrated America for qualities that it has ceased to possess.

It's as if their role in this history is to carry on what Christians have been doing for the past two centuries, except in a modern rock context — Underground blaze the sound to Armageddon.

«I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words... When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise [disrespectful] and impatient of restraint» - Hesiod, 8th century BC

If what I think is going to happen economically does happen, he will forever be known as the 21st century Herbert Hoover and the GOP will be out of power for the next 40 years, as they deserve to because they created this current economic mess back with Reagan's cut taxes but not cut spending starting in 1980.