Sentences with phrase «for early a century»

The natural order of things has been in place for early a century.

The close agreement of warming for the early century, with a range of only 0.05 °C among the SRES cases, shows that no matter which of these non-mitigation scenarios is followed, the warming is similar on the time scale of the next decade or two.

In summary, the models all agree on the attribution of warming in the latter half of the 20th century, but do not agree on the causal factors for the early century warming and the mid-century cooling.

Not exact matches

Murdoch's U.S. TV business Twenty - First Century Fox, which own 39 % of Sky, notified the European Commission of its 11.7 billion pound ($ 14.3 billion) bid earlier this month, opening a window for Britain to intervene.

For centuries, and perhaps dating back to our earliest civilizations, humans have taken to organizing around a central authority or power.

Demographically, Argentina feels familiar to Americans — most Argentines descend from European immigrants who came during the late 19th and early 20th centuries — and its capital city could easily be mistaken for Paris or Madrid.

The most recent round of funding for fuboTV included Sky UK, a telecommunications company with 11 million United Kingdom customers as of 2015; Scripps Networks Interactive, the parent company of HGTV, Food Network, and Travel Channel; 21st Century Fox, whose stable of entertainment properties includes the Big Ten Network, FOX Sports 1, FOX Sports Regional Networks, and the YES Network; and Northzone Ventures, a London - based venture capital firm that mainly invests in early stage software and technology companies.

Disney's deal for 21 Century Fox's television and movie studio assets could be announced as early as this week

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.

Although the term (it means «for life») wasn't coined until the 1960s, understanding of them began more than a century ago when Ilya Mechnikov, a Russian - born Nobel laureate in the late - 19th and early - 20th centuries suggested drinking sour milk containing bacteria — which sparked a fad diet in Paris.

«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.

Earlier this year, Eastman Kodak Co. filed for bankruptcy after falling behind in the digital evolution of photography, the medium it helped bring to the masses in the 20th century.

Sometime in the early 20th Century, British explorer Ernest Shackleton needed to hire a crew for an upcoming expedition to the South Pole.

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).

The local newspaper, the Emporia Gazette, was first published by William Allen White in the early 20th century and is quite famous for its political influence.

For a third example, not everyone in the early 1960s believed that the USSR would inevitably overtake the US economically before the end of the century, but excluding fierce anti-Communists predicting fire and brimstone, I don't know anyone who expected that by the 1980s the USSR would essentially be insolvent (technically it wasn't, but LDC debt traders nonetheless included the country in their universe of defaulted or restructuring sovereign borrowers).

Last week I shared two such examples, including Scottish gambler John Law's four - year experiment with paper money in the early eighteenth century, which ruined France's economy and laid the groundwork for the French Revolution.

Over the last century, the worst years for the rich were the early 1930s, the heart of the Great Depression.

In the early decades of this century, there were strong advocates for a central bank along the lines of the Bank of England.

There are certainly problems with some of the earlier data, but this appears to be the slowest expansion since the turn of the 18th Century and our households are the main problem for the growth rate lag.

The company maintained a payout ratio around 50 % for the early part of the century but it has been steadily climbing for the past 5 years.

In the early 20th century, hemp was beginning to be widely used for paper in addition to rope, clothing and oil applications.

Smith Barney, since the early nineteenth century was intent on helping the individual to invest by beginning with recommended low risk mutual funds for the novice investor.

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?

In regards to your comment «the fact that you even know about Euhemerus is a product of Christian learning and appreciation of alternate views», we should, indeed, be thankful for early Christian monks who helped preserve the knowledge of prior centuries, but perhaps you are unaware of the contribution of Greek civilization to Western culture and the «Age of Enlightenment» in late 17th century Europe with figures such as Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Voltaire, Baruch Spinoza, etc..

This was Thomas Hardy's appellation for God, but in Footnote Heaven the moniker ought really to belong to Jacques - Paul Migne, the nineteenth - century Benedictine who singlehandedly edited and published the entire corpus of the Greek and Latin Fathers and whose edition is cited in almost every work on early Christianity ever published.

In Europe, Charlemagne, who in 800 A.D. became the first emperor in western Europe, after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire three centuries earlier and who was a pivotal figure in the Christianization of Europe, issued the Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae, which prescribed death for Saxons who refused to convert from their native Germanic paganism to Christianity.

«we should, indeed, be thankful for early Christian monks who helped preserve the knowledge of prior centuries,»

Many want to get back as quickly as possible to the early church to reclaim a common patrimony for all Christians in the fathers and mothers of the church of the first few centuries.

For Antonina's generation of early Twentieth - Century immigrants, the freedom of America's press offered solid evidence that their faith in the young country's promise and opportunity was well - founded.

The earliest examples of multi-text codices for which we have evidence date from the early - to mid-third century, and among these is, for instance, a collection of the Pauline epistles bound together with the four Gospels and Acts.

Furthermore, a Sumerian text from Nippur from the same early period gives clear evidence of domestication of the camel by then, by its allusions to camel's milk... For the early and middle second millennium BC, only limited use is presupposed by either the biblical or external evidence until the twelfth century BC.

This puzzling situation remained for many decades until the early 21st century when the recently discovered dark energy component provided new hope for a consistent cyclic cosmology.

«I see this preference for knowledge over hope as repeating the move made by leftist intellectuals who, earlier in the century, got their Hegelianism from Marx rather than Dewey.»

Or will only a renewal of the idea of freedom for excellence» freedom tethered to moral truth and ordered to goodness» see us through the political and cultural whitewater of the early twenty - first century?

For example, complex numbers were invented and the theory of them deeply investigated by the early nineteenth century, a mathematical development that seemed to have no relevance to physical reality.

In the preface to Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method, Hartshorne celebrates «our English inheritance of critical caution and concern for clarity»; he seeks to learn more from Leibniz, «the most lucid metaphysician in the early modern period,» as well as from Bergson, Peirce, James, Dewey, and Whitehead, «five philosophers of process of great genius and immense knowledge of the intellectual and spiritual resources of this century.

Perhaps a more thoughtful translation would be for us to understand that Paul did not want believers of the first century partnering with unbelievers who would impair the work of spreading the «good news» to build the early church.

For example, for centuries it was largely assumed, especially among Southern evangelicals in the early 19th century, that slavery was a legitimate practiFor example, for centuries it was largely assumed, especially among Southern evangelicals in the early 19th century, that slavery was a legitimate practifor centuries it was largely assumed, especially among Southern evangelicals in the early 19th century, that slavery was a legitimate practice.

With the great Jewish thinker of the early part of this century, Franz Rosenzweig, he believes that Jews need to understand anew that «the Jewish vocation, rooted in the biblical tradition, is to be an instrument for the redemption of all humankind.»

All the historically significant spiritual writers who advocate frequent communion — one only has to think of the great St Francis de Sales in the late 16th and early 17th century — also stress the necessity for frequent confession and serious preparation.

As early as the fourth century these gifts were enumerated in a prayer for the Spirit that was part of Christian rites of baptism (and later of confirmation).

Beyond the considerable body of research that has emerged in the past three decades which demonstrates that women played a far more generous role in the early Church than perhaps Neuhaus has imagined, my own Wesleyan holiness tradition has apparently escaped his ecumenical vision as well for it was already ordaining women in the nineteenth century.

He was active early in the second century CE and is well known for having posited not one but two Gods, one represented in the Old Testament and seen as responsible for the world's creation, the other encountered only in the New Testament in the teaching of Jesus and specifically in the theology of Paul.

But Robert Grant half a century ago took notice of how difficult it was for early Christian theologians «to make sense of the basic affirmation that God is love.»

Moreover, the problem of primitive Christianity is not to account for early Christian messianism — for there was enough of that element in ancient Judaism, after the second century before Christ — but to explain why Christianity survived when other messianic movements came to nothing and disappeared.

The churches in the early twentieth century that tried to hollow out their confessions to «make room» for fundamentally opposing notions of God and man are the same churches now being turned into museums.

It became the springboard for much pulpit eloquence during the early twentieth century.

In the tumultuous sixties, as an undergraduate at Harvard (for which I have prayed for forgiveness most of my life), I was disappointed again and again by the common Victorian and early twentieth - century convention of beginning a chapter with lush description and then abandoning it in favor of....

What are the Christian purposes in higher education which can be the mid-20th century equivalent of those which were effective earlier in contributing to humanization of culture and cultural preparation for the gospel of the Christ's new humanity?