Sentences with phrase «hundreds years in the past»

Belle returns to her old hometown, looking for clues as to what happened to her great - great - grandmother a hundred years in the past.

Accompanied by his werewolf man - servant, Fenrich, he vows to keep a promise sworn four hundreds years in the past.

Through the medium of ceramic, described by Kristalova as having once been «seen as a low material, and not serious enough, especially when glazed,» the artist forms micro worlds with her sculptural figures and «relates to a sculpture tradition that has its roots several hundred years in the past.

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Fast - growth companies like Airbnb and Uber have raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital funding in the past few years, which has pushed their valuations into never - before seen territory for startups.

Still, the Mars analogy underplays the rate at which technology improves — just compare advancements in tech from the past 20 years to those of the previous hundred.

People visit malls less frequently than they did in years past, and chains like Starbucks have hundreds of locations in malls.

In the past year the sporty dolls (Skylar, the Snowboarder, and others) have blazed their way into national chains such as Target and Toys «R» Us as well as onto the shelves of hundreds of independent toy stores.

Business owners like Andrew who idolize, revere, adore and like to make money are the ones who have contributed to an enormous increase in living standards for billions across the world over the past two hundred years.

In the past, hundreds of you have chimed in with your confidence levels for the year aheaIn the past, hundreds of you have chimed in with your confidence levels for the year aheain with your confidence levels for the year ahead.

Over the past 15 years, I have had the opportunity to travel in over 30 countries, meet thousands of people and train hundreds of thousands of people.

From the first magazine published in 1741, to the first billboards in the late 1800s, the art of getting the public's attention and turning it into sales has gone through a dramatic evolution over the past few hundred years.

As Fortune has noted in the past, Spotify's biggest problem is that it is still losing hundreds of millions of dollars every year, and the main culprit is the massive payments it makes to the music industry for licensing fees.

On barren hills and swamps at the outskirts of the city, Lee's government over the past twelve years has built the satellite town of Jurong, which in addition to housing and retail stores is crammed with 510 factories; another hundred will be completed this year.

As Henry Kissinger emphasizes in his new book World Order, the fundamental building block of all American and international engagement over the past hundred years — namely, the nation state and the Westphalian system in which states are embedded — is particularly weak in the Middle East due to fragile national roots and competing local and universalist identities, including pan-Arabic movements and messianic religious calls from the likes of Iran's ayatollahs and ISIS.

Hundreds of millions of dollars in unclaimed insurance benefits have been provided to beneficiaries over the past five years, due solely to their efforts.

Two of Simon's three top tenants, Gap Inc. and Abercrombie & Fitch, have closed hundreds of stores in the past two years and have announced more to come; anchor department stores are shutting their spaces too.

As famous for his death - defying stunts as for successfully running hundreds of companies over the past 50 years, Richard Branson has one of the best stories in business — which he tells in his new book, Finding My Virginity.

Hundreds of startup craft distilleries have opened in the past five years.

NerdWallet's 2017 household debt study shows that several major spending categories have outpaced income growth over the past decade; many Americans are putting medical expenses on credit cards; and the average indebted household is paying hundreds of dollars in credit card interest each year.

West: US Dollar «Like Slave Movies» Speaking in an interview for TMZ May 1, West hit out at the past four hundred years of US history with regard to slavery, calling the period a «choice.»

In the past few years, Applico's Platform Innovation ® work has created hundreds of millions of dollars in enterprise platform valuIn the past few years, Applico's Platform Innovation ® work has created hundreds of millions of dollars in enterprise platform valuin enterprise platform value.

Central banks worldwide have intervened hundreds of times in just the past 2 years to keep stocks elevated, many of which were not barely even noticed by the public.

For the past three years, Foundr Magazine has interviewed hundreds of successful entrepreneurs in our magazine that have disrupted every industry possible from Food to Media to Meditation!

This identical wash, rinse, repeat cycle has occurred literally hundreds of times over the past 38 years, with no serious investigations or prosecutions whatsoever in that this is official, state - sponsored, for - profit corruption.

I've sent out hundreds of emails over the past few years to promote articles on my blogs and in this article, I'll share a few things I've learned that other experts don't usually mention when they talk about using email for content promotion.

As a reminder, you invest in the stock market because over the past hundred years or so, stock market investments averaged approximately 9.0 % or so per year.

«We are convinced that «quant» funds», which have attracted hundreds of billions of dollars in the last few years and a significant portion of which use leverage, and whose models and various strategies are largely based on price action and correlations extracted from the reasonably - recent past when volatility has been low (largely of their own making), have contributed mightily to the illusion that market risk is low.

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Before the sea corridor between Turkey and Greek islands became a grave for hundreds of refugees in 2015, Evros had claimed at least 1,500 lives over the past 18 years.

Over the past year, I've met with hundreds of founders, worked alongside dozens of founding teams to help them launch their companies, and invested in a handful of companies.

We've learned a lot about the human condition in the past few hundred years — namely how pain can turn to hatred.

Are you talking about your Bible that's been changed several times over the past couple hundred years from several languages, and then several times again in the English language?

At the same time, we recognize that, during the past five hundred years, the Holy Spirit, the Supreme Magisterium of God, has been faithfully at work among theologians and exegetes in both Catholic and Evangelical communities, bringing to light and enriching our understanding of important biblical truths in such matters as individual spiritual growth and development, the mission of Christ's Church, Christian worldview thinking, and moral and social issues in today's world.

Touchstone provides a forum where Christians of various backgrounds — Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox — can speak candidly with one another on the basis of a shared commitment to the Great Tradition of Christian faith as revealed in the Holy Scriptures and set forth in the classic creeds of the early church.The term «mere Christianity,» of course, was made famous by C. S. Lewis, whose book of that title is among the most influential religious volumes of the past one hundred years.

Throughout Catholic thought over the past hundred and fifty years, there have run two entirely distinct conceptions of modernity and two quite different uses of Thomism — a combination of four threads weaving in and out of the Catholic Church's response to the strangeness of modern times.»

My own sensitivities accented the enormous intellectual and cultural changes that had occurred in the past two hundred years.

I guess the answer will be NO... no one can deny the past whether it was ten years or hundreds... now the question is to believe in the past, there are diff opinions, here comes the question which one to believe... what are the criterias to use in order for me to accept one out of many... we have to use our intellect in this regards...

No group has claimed responsibility yet, but the area is frequently attacked by members of ISIS who have attacked the region hundreds of times in the past few years.

Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

Using these doc - uments plus the co-nclusions of the major NT exegetes in the past two hundred years, he compared Jesus» reported acts and sayings to when they were reported and how many reports were made.

So I am grateful for the deepened insight in the West over the past two hundred years as to what historical understanding involves.

The secret call as always remains important, but in the conception of the ministry that is emerging out of the Biblical and systematic theology of the day and out of the personal reflections of young people and their pastors, the divine action whereby men are chosen for their station and calling is less spiritualistically understood than was the case for the past hundred years.

But what is even more surprising is that at no time in the past hundred years has more than forty percent of the cabinet been comprised of people that have had some relevant non-governmental experience.

Critical historical exegesis during the past hundred years has undoubtedly aided unprecedented advancements in our biblical knowledge: in the better understanding of literary genres, source history and textual composition; in etymology and archaeology; in the penetration of ancient languages and cultural settings.

In the past one hundred years in particulaIn the past one hundred years in particulain particular.

For instance, according to everyone I talked to in Nigeria last summer, the riots that have killed hundreds of people in the northern city of Bauchi over the past year arose from a dispute over fast food.

Under the impact of modern science our world view has been shifting in the past three hundred years.

It is, as the Jewish and Christian traditions have always insisted, concerned with «right relations,» relations with God, neighbor and self, but now the context has broadened to include what has dropped out of the picture in the past few hundred years — the oppressed neighbors, the other creatures and the earth that supports us all.

The liturgical scholarship of the past hundred years has uncovered some fascinating insights into the rites used in the early Church but these indications are often incidental to the principal concern of the Fathers, which was to affirm that the Eucharist was the perfect sacrifice prophesied by Malachi, to emphasise the awesome mystery of the sacred action, and to exhort the faithful to approach it with a clear conscience.

Whilst accepting all that we have learned from science in the past three hundred years, it must be our project to open men to God using their God - given natural reason.

In the United States, in the past fifty years, applying the dominant model to agriculture and to manufacturing has destroyed thousands of rural communities and hundreds of industrial oneIn the United States, in the past fifty years, applying the dominant model to agriculture and to manufacturing has destroyed thousands of rural communities and hundreds of industrial onein the past fifty years, applying the dominant model to agriculture and to manufacturing has destroyed thousands of rural communities and hundreds of industrial ones.