Sentences with phrase «great span of time»

By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can possibly envisage, mountains refute our excessive trust in the man - made.

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That is one of the reasons why we have to think of great investing in terms of a long time span.

Harold Moody has written that the idea of life - span development, given us by psychology, is «the great and indispensable myth of our time.»

Look back at the Wall Street disaster of 2008, or the «Great Depression» before that, and TRY to find any system that has landed MORE people behind the poverty line in such a short span of time.

Anybody ever wondered why all the various «great prophets» — Moses, Abraham, Jesus, Mohammed, Mahavira, Voroaster, Buddah, Mani etc. all seemed to be «sent down» by their bosses within a span of about 2,000 years (or 1 % of our time on this planet) and all in Asia?

This compressed time span lends an air of great urgency, as in television shows such as 24.

Christianity has spanned roughly two millennia and in that time, many Christians have gone before us who inspired us to do great things for the kingdom of God, not always...

And this despite the fact that this same word, in Hebrew yom, is habitually used with great frequency for the span of time from evening of one day to evening of the next.

Mars also boasts an incredible gorge, called Valles Marineris, which is at least three times as deep as the Grand Canyon and spans one - fifth of the planet — great for a bit of low - gravity rock climbing.

Although smaller than the Milky Way, the Large Magellanic Cloud boasts something our own galaxy can't match: Its greatest star - forming region, named 30 Doradus, spans 700 light - years — 28 times the size of the Orion Nebula, the best - known stellar nursery in the Milky Way.

Einstein's life spanned the terrors of the 20th century — two world wars, the worldwide Great Depression, fascism, communism, the Holocaust, the threat of nuclear war — and he was never less than steadfast and rational in his attention to the history of his time.

The pattern of aggregated species occurrences remained the same across these massive disturbances and time spans, but then a dramatically new pattern started emerging about 6,000 years ago, during the great Neolithic revolution when humans developed agriculture and their populations grew and spread globally.

One of the great unknowns in the history of life is the part that Antarctica may have played in the evolution and migration of vertebrates (backboned animals) during the key time interval that spans the end of the Age of Dinosaurs and the beginning of the Age of Mammals (the Cretaceous — Paleogene or K — Pg, between 100 and 40 million years ago).

They suggest that further research should be performed over a longer time period and in a greater number of animals to determine whether these improvements are maintained, and look forward to further work utilizing membrane - spanning peptides for presentation of bioactive molecules for stem cell therapy.

I think it's great to use if you need a bunch of dresses in a short time span like vacation, wedding season, or holiday parties.

While makeup looks great on oily skin right after application, it has a tendency to disappear after a short span of time.

The series has great fun with that, from Elizabeth Banks» Lindsay tossing her hair up into a side barrette in order to «believably» transform into a 16 - year - old to counselor Abby (Marisa Ryan) changing from a pre-pubescent into a 40 - year - old in the span of time it takes for the onset of menstruation.

Novels can be put down and picked up again at will, allowing much greater freedom for long expository sequences and character development, and yet the skill of a great filmmaker is to convey the information concisely, such that we feel we know the characters and plot as well as were they written, but within the time and attention - span limitations that are inherent on screen.

The greater evil is learner attention span — expecting your learners to spend a lot of time on their mobile phones to learn something new is expecting way too much.

Duration and span of the professional development activities were also important; with activities lasting longer and occurring over time having a greater effect on teacher learning.

Our reviewer writes, «Spanning the Great War and Prohibition and deftly delving into the social issues of the time, Leaving Lucy Pear is the perfect choice for readers who appreciate the rigor and richness of literary fiction.»

In this groundbreaking masterpiece of ingenuity and intrigue that spans 50,000 years in human history, New York Times bestselling author James Rollins takes us to mankind's next great leap.

hey are great snacks that will keep your puppies and dogs busy for a span of time while satisfying their need to chew and to have nutrients.

Forgetting the bland overarching narrative we are instead invited into several mini adventures spanning across multiple levels, these see random characters introduced who we simply follow for the level or a greater expanse of time and each are a joy to meet.

You've got princess Ashe, the true main character of the story who will make you wonder how, in the span of simply one game, we went from her to Lightning; Basch, a disgraced captain that just oozes coolness and badass - ary every time he comes on screen; and the duo of Balthier and Fran, who are the greatest characters we've ever been given in a Final Fantasy and I won't allow you to disagree with me on that.

Spanning the greater length of the gallery's interior, the drawing serves to foreground the symbiotic exchange between person and place, demarking and quantifying the site, one arms length at a time.

Spanning the museum's Great Hall, the exhibition is the first time all 14 of her films to date have been shown together — including Beijing, filmed here nearly ten years ago during the Olympics.

With a career spanning nearly six decades, Gerhard Richter is widely considered one of the greatest artists of our time.

The news side of The Times has nine sports blogs; nine spanning fashion, lifestyles, health, dining and the like; four business blogs; four technology blogs (five if you include automobiles as a technology); and a potpourri of other great efforts, with four of my favorites being the Learning Network blog, Scientist at Work, the IHT Rendezvous blog on global news and Lens, run by the paper's photo staff.

ie There were very likely a huge number of equivalent (to the recent record) or greater spikes and dips across the whole time span.

If we do not and instead continue the bickering over the things that really are beside's the point, we will go the way of a previous great Roman society, only in a much quicker time span.

With longer spans of time between dry and wet spells comes an even greater impact due to erosion.

Climate change is the greatest challenge of our time, spanning countries and continents, societies and generations, sectors and disciplines.

This works great to model the effects of modest tweaks to the economy over modest time spans.

And that the time span of we're looking at is much greater than 5 %.

While anecdotal evidence is a far cry from reliable proof in a court case, my own experience (over a much more limited time span than the life of the Province of Alberta) and my discussions with colleagues, gives me great concern that the instances of repudiation have been dramatically understated.

In addition to Mike's Gottman training and decades of expereince, as a life time learner, Mike's relationship training spans 30 years with Salvador Minuchin, Carl Whitaker, Lynn Hoffman and many of the eary greats of couple's and family therapy.

Ever - growing numbers of families are both living with chronic disorders over an increasingly long time span and coping with a greater number of chronic conditions, often simultaneously.