Sentences with phrase «from over a century»

Liberate Long Island City and Brooklyn from over a century of 1898 Tamanend oppression.

Choosing ten «deadliest movie characters of all time» from over a century - old history has been quite a task.

Yet the U.S. has learned two important lessons from over a century of taxpayer - funded education: First, teachers matter — a lot.

What General Motors has learned from over a century of groundbreaking design is they truly have to be one and the same.

SMB is quite uncertain, and earlier in their paper they hypothesise a 10x increase in SMB by 2100 (which I assume implies a ~ 5 times increase in accumulated SLR from this over the century assuming linear growth), which might be an extra uncertainty of another 35 cm maybe.

Inspiration is drawn from bold graphics married with the textures of hurried repairs, patching and repeated darning that mark the signs of wear - and - tear from over a century.»

Inhofe raises other various stories from way back (see here for more) but fails to point out that a few stories culled from over a century doesn't compare at all with the media attention nowadays paid to global warming.

Here are the tips from over a century on what to stock up on at home before your nose plastic surgery.

Not exact matches

Twenty - First Century Fox had previously rejected a bid from Comcast over concerns about the regulatory risks and its stock value, a regulatory filing showed.

The bomb fell just over 29,000 feet from the plane and detonated 1,900 feet above Shima Hospital, an active medical center with a history dating back to the 18th Century.

PRETORIA (Reuters)- South Africa's recovery from its worst drought in over century could be stalled as anticipated rain relief from a La Nina weather system remains uncertain, the South African Weather Service said on Monday.

In 2010, Etsy sellers moved $ 314 million worth of merchandise — cuff links made from 19th - century shotgun shells ($ 50), knives forged by a master blacksmith in Albuquerque ($ 150), sweaters knit by a grandmother in Portugal ($ 225)-- a 74 percent increase over the previous year.

This is why major studios that faced very little market entry for over a century are now confronting significant threats from firms like Netflix, Amazon (via Prime), and Google (via YouTube), as well as potential content plays from Facebook (FB) and Apple (AAPL) on the horizon.

, the British medical historian Thomas McKeown carefully chronicles the decline in mortality in England and Wales over much of the 19th and 20th centuries — charting death rates for infectious diseases ranging from diphtheria to pneumonia.

And even as maternal deaths have dropped dramatically over the past quarter century, an estimated 830 women across the world still die every day from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth.

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.

Campbell's soups have been a staple in the family pantry for more than a century, but the company is seeing its share of the U.S. market drop — over the past decade, it has plummeted to 53 % from 67 %.

She cites the work of cultural historian Warren Susma, who has traced a shift over the past two centuries from what he calls a culture of character to a culture of personality.

Over 300 attendees from 33 countries convened to learn from designers from Wallpaper *'s Design Power 200 list as well as business leaders from Fortune 500 companies on how design thinking can be implemented into 21st century business strategy.

Mr. Murdoch has held a number of leadership roles at Twenty - First Century Fox, Inc. («21CF») over two decades, including as its CEO since 2015, its Co-Chief Operating Officer from 2014 to 2015, its Deputy Chief Operating Officer and Chairman and CEO, International from 2011 to 2014 and its Chairman and Chief Executive, Europe and Asia from 2007 to 2011.

Over the past century, monetary policy strategies have evolved in response to changing realities, from the panics and depressions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries that led to the creation of the Federal Reserve to the Great Depression, from Bretton Woods and subsequent battles to contain inflation to the dominance of inflation targeting today (Williams 2014, 2015a).

The results add to investor concerns over the U.S. cable industry after disappointing numbers from Walt Disney, Twenty - First Century Fox Inc, Discovery Communications Inc and Time Warner Inc this week.

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.

When I said that the cult of equity was dying, what I meant was that those investors and those liabilities structures such as pension funds and insurance companies that have depended on a 6.5 % constant real return from stocks such as we've have had over the past century are bound to be disappointed.

Inadequate flood protection infrastructure, which right now might not contain high tides in El Nino years; Lack of action on annual sediment removal from spring freshets, which each year move over 30 million m3 of sediment and leave about 3 million m3 of silt in the navigation and secondary channels of the lower reaches; and, By the end of this century sea levels at the mouth of the river could potentially rise more than one meter due to climate change overtopping the diking system.

Researchers expect that as climate change makes wildfires more likely over the course of this century, deaths and illnesses attributed to pollution from wood smoke will rise too, even offsetting gains made from cleaning up emissions from industry.

Over this century our nation's economic output and standard of living has increased greatly, but the United States also faced many different challenges — ranging from the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Great Inflation of the 1970s and most recently the financial crisis.

Employee stock ownership of different magnitudes, from 5 - 25 % in stock market companies to 30 - 100 % in small businesses, appears in companies throughout the U.S., with plans designed by local entrepreneurs and companies based on their specific conditions, given the many formats that the U.S. government has recognized over two and a half centuries.

«Human potential is far from exhausted, and the American system for unleashing that potential — a system that has worked wonders for over two centuries despite frequent interruptions for recessions and even a Civil War — remains alive and effective.»

From a small trading post in the 15th century to a metropolitan area with a population of over 14 million, this massive city dwarfs Thailand's other urban centers.

The representatives from Harford County Climate Action made it clear — human activity, primarily the burning of fossil fuels, has had a clear and measurable impact on the Earth's climate over the last century, and those actions have put low - lying areas of Harford County in danger from rising sea levels.

A cable - stayed bridge over the Fraser River and a big earthquake could make for massive problems Daniel Wood is an investigative journalist uncovering the truth behind the Massey tunnel replacement For those hoping to halt the export of thermal coal from the lower Fraser River, it's useful to consider a century - old American spiritual song that -LSB-...]

God is working out His will through people all over the world and the mass migration of people from now to centuries past is not an accident.

A twofold lesson arises from Christians who have faced persecution over the centuries.

For atheists like me, it's always funny how worked up ignorant people get over a book, written by people trying to profit from, control and manipulate people in the 4th century AD.

Jewish DNA has not remained unchanged, Jews have intermingled with people's from the nations they migrated too in Europe and Russia over the centuries.

It took over a century of deft Vatican diplomacy, disentangling the appointment of bishops from various political imbroglios, to make that canon possible, and the twenty - first - century Church now has the capacity to choose its leadership by its own criteria.

He offers not just a selective summary of «the historian and her sources» but also an umbrella of charges and allegations from other prominent figures over the past half century.

«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.»

Liberal Protestants in the last two centuries also claimed to use Scripture as their sole norm, and over time came to distinguish revelation from the words of the Bible.

Over the next several centuries, with what Wright considers the gradual loss of the «Israel - dimension» in the church's understanding of itself and its scriptures, «the notion of scriptural authority became detached from its narrative context, and thereby isolated from both the fit and the goal of the Kingdom,» according to Wright.

After almost fourteen centuries the pilgrimage retains its importance for Islam in spite of the development of new means of communication, for there Muslims from all over the world, religious leaders and common folk, meet and exchange views.

Over the past half century or so, too many parts of the Catholic world have come to think of «reform» as something we conjure up from our own cleverness, as if we must puzzle out what makes the Church «relevant.»

Groups or guilds of prophets are attested over the whole range of the history of the kingdoms from the time of Saul in the eleventh century B.C. until the fall of Jerusalem in the early sixth century B.C. Nor is there any question that these associated professional prophets were related to the cultus and / or the court and regularly discharged certain cultic professional duties.

In fact the opposite is true, for they are willing to trust God only if these millions of words written over a period of centuries from two to three thousand years ago are all literally true, whereas my faith in God does not depend on this.

... Enough said... Think about that one... We are not Perfect beings therefore Religion is far from being perfect... We can see this throughout History and even into the 21st century Religion is A Controlled Evil... Biggest Controlled Beauracracy Hoax over Man's Self yet - is Religion... Brilliantly orchestrated I must say though... Only the Weak Minded can be controlled by Religion... Blessed Be... 696969

Streams of endless craving, clinging, dreaming, flowing day and night, midnights, years, decades, centuries, millennia, streams of tears, of pledging, of waitings - from all over the world, from all corners of the world - carried us of this generation to the Wall.

Even if you think Jesus had some nice ideas, these writings from someone who rarely presented Jesus» ideals well has done little more than divide people over the centuries.

There are a number of important Greek manuscripts from the second and third century containing over half of the new testament, and there are other smaller fragments as well.

Cindy, I share your grief... especially remembering how Southern Baptists, Southern Presbyterians, and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South separated from their northern sisters and brothers over the issue of slavery in the 19th century.