Sentences with phrase «greater than history»

; Is there a risk of dividend cut greater than history would indicate?

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In the history of Canadian business, there is perhaps no greater tale of fortune and glory won and lost than that of Seagram Company Ltd..

«In fact, during the first week of holiday shopping, our sell - through of Apple Watch was greater than any week in the product's history.

This is something companies should fret about because customers today have a greater wealth of choices than at any time in history.

That the tea you drank this morning was more likely grown in the former British colony India than in its Chinese homeland is testament to Fortune's success, through a combination of intrigue and scientific innovation and in the face of violence, in helping «the largest multinational corporation in the world... enact the greatest theft of trade secrets in the history of mankind.»

While it's still not known when interest rates will go up and by how much, what we do know is that the bond market is at greater risk to rising interest rates than at any time in recent history.

«I've been dedicated to the proposition that there's been no greater wealth - creation system in the history of mankind than the American free enterprise system,» he said in the interview.

Between 1900 and 2000, the increase in world population was three times greater than during the entire previous history of humanity — an increase from 1.5 to 6.1 billion in just 100 years.

Displaying what Donald (now Dierdre) McCloskey once characterized as «the intellectual range from M to N,» there is no real comparison of the Fed's record with that of the system that preceded it; no mention of other monetary systems circa 1913 that had better records than the United States (most pertinently, that of Canada); not nearly enough acknowledgment of the great harm the Fed has caused more than once in its history; no discussion of why a few other central banks — though surprisingly, only a few — have performed better than the Fed; and no inkling that central banking may not be the best of all possible systems in the best of all possible worlds.

Canada business owners should know that even if your credit history is less than perfect, a small business loan or merchant cash advance may be a great alternative for your financing needs.

With the exception of second quarter 2014, fixed index annuity (FIA) sales were «greater this quarter than in any other second quarter in the history of the product line,» said Sheryl J. Moore, president and CEO of both Wink Inc. and Moore Market Intelligence.

Payment history (above) and credit utilization make up more than half of your score, so focusing on these two things will be a great way to improve credit.

Let's take a look at STORE to see why its strong fundamentals have attracted the attention of none other than Warren Buffett, history's greatest investor, who recently purchased a 10 % stake in the company.

This has left the U.S. economy with a much more leveraged balance sheet than before the last crisis, and with much greater sensitivity to equity risk and debt default than at any point in history.

Unfortunately there is no greater body of evidence than mankind's complete and total history to bear witness that this is itself; a fantasy.

The Jatravartids, who live in perpetual fear of the time they call «The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief», are small, blue creatures with more than fifty arms each, who are therefore unique in being the only race in history to have invented the aerosol deodorant before the wheel.

Later, when interviewed in a 2006 article in the New York Times Sunday magazine about current religious thinking on artificial contraception, Mohler elaborated: «I can not imagine any development in human history, after the Fall, that has had a greater impact on human beings than the Pill....

Announcing his resignation (below) to the world he said: «I believe we've made great steps, with more people in work than ever before in our history, with reforms to welfare and education, increasing people's life chances, building a bigger and stronger society, keeping our promises to the poorest people in the world and enabling those who love each other to get married whatever their sexuality, but above all restoring Britain's economic strength.»

I think it's clear that of all the other candidates on both sides of the aisle, Romney's faith plays a greater role in his day to day life and his life's history than any of them.

«The Ancients, whose history is lost to us, were greater than us» — how far back are you going?

iranians / persians come from a culture and history far greater than yours,... just remember that!

Well he did perform or take part in a greater miracle than the death of Bin Laden, he played the pivotal role in the DEMISE OF COMMUNISM IN EASTERN EUROPE.Well that was when he was a live.So don't discredit this old guys wearing white medieval dress they have and might play a major role in history.

It is about far greater things than mere human history.

This is true especially in a period of history in which man has been burdened with deciding his own destiny in far greater measure than it has ever been the case, and even possible, before.

let these people write their own history and their nations, while they won't look like ours, will produce a greater level of freedom for all citizens than has been seen in our lifetime.

It seems to me that now, more than at any time in history, the church looks like the great multitude described in the Book of Revelation — a multitude from every tribe and nation.

«The immorality of the United States and Great Britain's decision to invade Iraq in 2003, premised on the lie that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, has destabilised and polarised the world to a greater extent than any other conflict in history,» wrote Tutu.

This warning from history fueled his most notorious judgment on the sack of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204: «there never was a greater crime against humanity than the Fourth Crusade,» a phrase, published in 1954, with precise and deliberate contemporary resonance.

During his struggle for independence Kirkland wrote: «I have never denied our Methodist allegiance, I have never denied our Methodist history, but I have maintained that greater than Methodism was the cause of Christ and that the call for service in His name was greater than the call to the service of the Church.»

Sometimes I wonder if perhaps the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous have, at some point in its 76 year history, contained individuals who possessed the ability to do great things — cure cancer, revolutionize politics, or contribute other great things to society — but whose minds became so polluted with AA propaganda that they shut off their own brilliance and chose to spend the rest of their lives «making their sobriety their number one priority» and believing humility to be more valuable than fulfilling their potential and allowing their greatness to shine.

I say to you candidly, as I have said before, I have never found a man, be he Methodist or be he non-Methodist, willing to contribute to our work here who has not endorsed a liberal Christian policy in the administration of affairs... I have never denied our Methodist allegiance, I have never denied our Methodist history, but I have maintained that, greater than Methodism was the cause of Christ and that the call for service in His name was greater than the call to the service of the Church.

It is true that one can find among individual theologians support for an «inerrancy» position throughout the history of the church, but it is also true that these same theologians often exercise in their exegesis much greater freedom than Lindsell's or Schaeffer's interpretation of their theory would seem to allow.

The former camp were highly concerned with packing as much theological and biblical knowledge into each song as possible, while the latter adopted the strategy of reaching hip - hop culture by fitting into it, and there's more great Christian - focused hip - hop being made, which will appeal to more fans, than at any point in the genre's history.

The focus of the Jubilee Centre reminds us that we need to reach further back into history than we have been accustomed to if we are to revive Catholic education: in particular, we need to learn from the great Catholic schools and universities of the pre-Reformation era.

Catholic modernists, believing that religion is a greater mystery than reason can comprehend, accepted the Enlightenment's intellectual indictments of religious dogma, traditional interpretations of scripture, and church history but held onto the church's ritual and symbols.

More than this, he was sensitive to the fact that the writing of philosophy's history can be at once technically competent and narrow He praised the «philosophical greatness achieved in American philosophy, from Peirce to Santayana, but he complained of the cultural chauvinism in failing to recognize it.5 According to Hartshorne, «One might about as easily reach great heights in philosophy without benefit of the work done in modern America as to reach them in physics without using the work of modern Germans» (Creativity 11).

Flat, blank facades on buildings conceived as commodities — or just oddities — rather than works of civic art; flat modernist pictorial abstractions; the flattening of cultural history into pseudo-history packaged as what Henry dismissed as «applied sociology» — all spoke to him of something far more ominous, the abasement of man and the crude negation of his proper relationship to nature as embodied in the great tradition.

If religion (as opposed to morality) was anything other than empty promises meant to sate human insecurities, would we not expect movements TOWARD greater religiosity to be predominant in World history and viewed in a positive light?

There are Christians who lay greater stress upon the messages of the prophets and the theology of Paul than upon the recorded words and acts of Jesus, and some who believe that it is impossible to recover any dependable view of the Jesus of history.

The joy, the inspired enthusiasm, with which the first Christians proclaimed the Incarnation of Christ and the tidings of great joy that it held for all the peoples is known to us as a matter of history, but it has become a fact of past history rather than modern history.

Thus when one of his disciples, the future Cardinal, Baronius, proved incapable of preaching on any subject other than the pains of hell, Philip refused to allow him to preach on spiritual subjects at all, and made him teach Church History instead (Baronius went on to become one of the greatest Catholic historians ever, as well as a candidate for Beatification).

For good or ill, a greater portion of the U.S. population is religious than at any other time in the countries history, even the period of the «Great Revival» does not come close.

If any of you kneejerk bigots would bother to pick up a book, try this Imam's treatise «What's right with Islam IS whats right with America», where he patiently, thoughtfully explains the history of us / muslim conflict, explains what Islam is supposed to be all about, and explains how America is actually MORE in keeping with the principals of Muhammed than a great many «Islamic Republics».

The students at these levels may not master the finer points of Aristotelian philosophy, but they at least gain an introduction to the history and greatest books of western civilization --- which is to say, they're receiving a better liberal arts education than most of today's college students.

It is increasingly clear that Deuteronomy and the Priestly writings contain at least some material much older than is indicated by the usual dating of the documents.9 Increasingly, too, it would appear that scholars are disposed to accept the substantial reliability of the persistent tradition which sees Moses as a lawgiver.10 That law was an early and significant aspect of Israelite culture is further attested not only by ancient Near Eastern parallels but even more strikingly in the life, the work and the character of the first three great names in Israel's national history: Moses, Samuel and Elijah.

For if the theological task can be defined in terms of facing the tension between the old and the new, then it is only to be expected that both the speed and the extent of the change, in which we are at present all caught up, will inevitably bring changes in theological expression greater than at any earlier period in Christian history.

Man's character has been molded by his every - day work, and the material resources which he thereby procures, more than by any other influence unless it be that of his religious ideals; and the two great forming agencies of the world's history have been the religious and the economic.

During this time Christianity expanded on a far greater scale than during any preceding period and Protestantism played a greater role in this expansion than did the other branches of the Christian movement.31 From within Protestantism came a surge of missionary endeavor unparalleled in strength and magnitude of goal in previous Protestant history, and perhaps unparalleled in the history of Christianity.

All the great spiritual writers have known this, but few in the Church's history understood it better, experienced it more deeply, and wrote about it with more insight than John Cassian, the monk from southern Gaul who lived in the early part of the fifth century.

There never was a greater event, — and on account of it, all who are born after us belong to a higher history than any history hitherto!»