Sentences with phrase «goals than century»

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So in future follow - up posts, I will suggest some different ways of measuring success, different goals churches can have, and maybe different ways of achieving those goals than the standard «come to church for songs and a sermon» strategy that has been followed for so many centuries.

Nowhere was the resulting «republican religion» more apparent than in the «Yale theology» of the early nineteenth century, the goal of which was «the moral renovation of the American people through revivalism, reform societies, the religious press, and sumptuary legislation.

For the man of twofold vision nothing could be more illusory than the goal of success, nothing more false than money, and a long line of Protestant preachers in the 19th century continued to say so, though, by the end of the century some of their voices began to quaver.

«Reducing greenhouse gas emissions while still growing as a company is one of the defining business challenges of the 21st century, and we're proud to be addressing that challenge head - on, starting with our new 2025 goal to achieve absolute reductions of no less than three percent year - over-year,» said Dean Scarborough, Avery Dennison's chairman and CEO, who will travel to Paris this December to discuss climate change with other business leaders at COP21.

traditional ice - cool finish saw the England international bag his 50th goal in a red shirt, and in 87 appearances, no less — bringing up his half - century quicker than the likes of Luis Suárez, Michael Owen and even Robbie

The forward managed more goals in his last seven league games with Valencia, than he has in a subsequent half century of EPL outings for Spurs.

(While this was also arguably the original goal of academies / universities centuries ago, the modern university model has become a vocational school of sorts — preparing students for success in future endeavors, rather than seeking discovery, enlightenment, and progress through the efforts of its constituents.

Harry Kane has switched his sights towards scoring 200 Premier League goals, and believes he can get there faster than his century for Tottenham Hotsp -LRB-...)

Both Real Madrid and Barcelona scored more than a century of goals, whilst the runners - up finished some 12 points ahead of Atlético Madrid in third.

But after more than a century of intense research, physicists still aren't sure exactly which compounds are capable of reaching that goal.

International negotiators at a United Nations - sponsored climate conference ending today in Bangkok repeatedly underscored the goal of keeping the amount of global warming in this century to no more than 2 ˚C.

If it is right, string theory would unify gravity and quantum mechanics in a single overarching framework — a goal that physicists have pursued for more than half a century.

The squalid conditions in which the animals lived also helped spark an animal rights movement in the 19th century and provided the impetus for the opening, in 1828, of a garden in Regent's Park devoted to «the advancement of Zoology and Animal Physiology,» whose goal would be to inspire scientists «rather than encouraging the «vulgar admiration» of the public.»

Its goal was to give them an opportunity to take advantage of a stronger public education system than the one that had served many other children over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, whether or not they had English - speaking parents.

At the halfway mark, the seven - year project's goal is to rehabilitate the grounds around the legendary prison and military site, and share the tales of plant survival, as well as those of the inmates, personnel and residents who attempted for more than a century to turn Alcatraz into a livable, bearable place through horticulture.

But Funafuti Island Chief Silliga Kofe said that his people do not want to relocate, and that the international community should live up to the pre-Paris pledge of restricting climate change to the targeted maximum of 1.5 degrees Celsius over this century (rather than the 2 degrees Celsius goal acknowledged by the Paris negotiators as acceptable).

The IPCC reports have guided the European Union in formally adopting a specific goal of holding global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above the average pre-industrial temperature of the mid-19th century.

• Scale: Achieving the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's long - term sequestration goals means boosting deep geological carbon dioxide storage from about 5 megatons per year to more than 22,000 megatons annually by the end of the century — an «unprecedented» undertaking that Mr. Thomson says will involve extensive new facilities and pipelines that would rival the world's oil industry infrastructure.

As a result of half a century of planning, Copenhagen has achieved a fabulous cycling goal - during the morning rush hour more bikes and mopeds pound the inner city streets than personal cars and buses.

While many scientists and climate change activists hailed December's Paris agreement as a historic step forward for international efforts to limit global warming, the landmark accord rests on a highly dubious assumption: to achieve the goal of limiting the rise in global average temperature to less than 2 °C (much less the more ambitious goal of 1.5 °C), we don't just need to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide to essentially zero by the end of this century.

That said, even this initial set of contributions could cut anticipated temperature increases this century to about 3.5 degrees Centigrade, more than the frequently - discussed aspirational goal of limiting temperature increases to 2 degrees C (or the new aspirational target from Paris of 1.5 degrees C), but much less than the 5 - 6 degrees C increase that would be expected without this action.

Programs to support parents in their task of raising children have been in place for more than a century, with a variety of goals for families and types of services.

When the Housing Act of 1949 was enacted more than half a century ago, President Truman set a goal of providing a decent home and suitable living environment for every American family.