Sentences with phrase «in less than a century»

IN LESS than a century, humanity destroyed the Aral Sea.

In less than a century, the Japanese toilet industry has achieved the equivalent of persuading a country that drove on the left in horse - drawn carriages to move to the right and, by the way, to drive a Ferrari instead.

Yet in less than a century it has given rise to strains resistant to a heavily used antibacterial treatment.

According to a study published in 2017, humans have produced a total of 9 billion tons of plastic in less than a century.

In less than a century and a half, the U.S. has gone from a country with virtually no long - term financial provisions for retired workers to a whole palette of options.

In less than a century, cinema has evolved past its roots in theater and vaudeville, to become the predominant vehicle for communicating information, fantasy, and collective reality.

I agree that a 4ºC swing in either direction would probably be catastrophic, if it occurred in less than a century.

Eventually, and in many cases «eventually» will be in less than a century, the wood, leaves and twigs of the tree will be either burnt or rot, and the carbon contained in them will go back into the atmosphere.

To take just one fairly representative example, in the classic Rothampstead experiments in England where arable land was allowed to revert to deciduous temperate woodland, soil organic carbon increased 300 - 400 % from around 20 t / ha to 60 - 80 t / ha (or about 20 - 40 tons per acre) in less than a century (Jenkinson & Rayner 1977).

Not exact matches

In the election of an African - American president less than a half - century after the end of official racial segregation in much of the country, these Americans see the triumph of the values enshrined in the US Constitution over America's legacy of social, political, and economic prejudicIn the election of an African - American president less than a half - century after the end of official racial segregation in much of the country, these Americans see the triumph of the values enshrined in the US Constitution over America's legacy of social, political, and economic prejudicin much of the country, these Americans see the triumph of the values enshrined in the US Constitution over America's legacy of social, political, and economic prejudicin the US Constitution over America's legacy of social, political, and economic prejudice.

The drug at the heart of four lawsuits in New Jersey is insulin — «a century - old medicine that for most of its history cost $ 15 or less,» write Barrett and Langreth, but «whose list price has risen more than 270 percent over the past decade.»

China «s official unemployment rate has been around 4 % for years, despite the rapid slowdown in the economy from double - digit growth to quarter - century lows last year of less than 7 %.

Gold and silver lasted a century or so (so far) and Bitcoin's in trouble in less than a decade.

In the first decade of the 21st century, less than half of all startups in the U.S. survived beyond three yearIn the first decade of the 21st century, less than half of all startups in the U.S. survived beyond three yearin the U.S. survived beyond three years.

The employment share of full time jobs was less than in 2008; and, the quality of jobs had sunk to its lowest level in a quarter of a century.

Beginning in 1983 with modest investments in two small mines in Ontario and Québec, he and his partners, including Bob Smith, the legendary mining engineer, grew Barrick into the world's largest gold miner in less than a quarter century.

One cause of this decline in awareness of Buckley's Catholicism may be the fact that he wrote less about his faith than any other major Catholic figure of the twentieth century — at least, if we calculate by sheer percentage of the prose he turned out in his hugely productive lifetime.

On the reading I propose, the Reformation schism was brought about instead by contingent human choices in a confused historical context defined less by clear and principled theological argument (though that of course was present) than by a peculiar and distinctively sixteenth - century combination of overheated and ever - escalating polemics, cold - blooded Realpolitik, and fervid apocalyptic dreaming.

The Spaniards and their descendants, in less than four centuries, changed great stretches of countryside into an unbalanced, half - naked environment.

The Founding Fathers were less than a century removed from the Salem Witch Trials and not too far removed from the Inquisitions in Europe.

In this perspective he was following a trail first blazed by a fellow Alexandrian a century and a half earlier, the Jewish philosopher Philo, a contemporary of Jesus who attempted to clothe the Septuagint in amenable patterns from Greek philosophy, particularly Platonism.11 His synthetic effort is echoed throughout the corpus of Clement's writings, which are far less systematic in approach than one would wish; the Stromata («Miscellanies») is less an orderly treatment of theological topics than a series of notes woven into a tapestry whose warp and woof are difficult to discern.In this perspective he was following a trail first blazed by a fellow Alexandrian a century and a half earlier, the Jewish philosopher Philo, a contemporary of Jesus who attempted to clothe the Septuagint in amenable patterns from Greek philosophy, particularly Platonism.11 His synthetic effort is echoed throughout the corpus of Clement's writings, which are far less systematic in approach than one would wish; the Stromata («Miscellanies») is less an orderly treatment of theological topics than a series of notes woven into a tapestry whose warp and woof are difficult to discern.in amenable patterns from Greek philosophy, particularly Platonism.11 His synthetic effort is echoed throughout the corpus of Clement's writings, which are far less systematic in approach than one would wish; the Stromata («Miscellanies») is less an orderly treatment of theological topics than a series of notes woven into a tapestry whose warp and woof are difficult to discern.in approach than one would wish; the Stromata («Miscellanies») is less an orderly treatment of theological topics than a series of notes woven into a tapestry whose warp and woof are difficult to discern.12

It is possible to speculate that if Christianity had begun in a culture less dualistic and antiphysical than that of the first - century Mediterranean world, it might have been willing, given the more holistic anthropology and theology of its Hebraic roots, to extend its body metaphor to God?

In the late 19th century, chocolate was seen as a health food as it contained much less sugar and more milk than it does today.

Lutherans today are both more sophisticated and more liturgically minded than they were in my youth and so they are less tolerant of the sentimental nineteenth - century gospel songs that for so long dominated Protestant hymnody, but they will now and then allow those of us at mid-life or beyond to sing again the songs we grew up with but which more informed tastes tell us (and we try to tell ourselves) we should not have liked as much as we did.

Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest population of poor people in the world, one third of our rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.

5A reading of Bacon's New Organon reveals a more nuanced and less empiricist approach to induction than Whitehead (and other twentieth - century philosophers) usually give him credit, One text in particular refers to the ascent and descent characteristic of imaginative generalizations:»... from the new light of axioms, which have been educed from those particulars by a certain method and rule, shall in their turn point out the way again to new particulars, greater things shall be looked for.

He observes in Madness and Civilization that medieval society, except for its treatment of lepers (and religious minorities), tended, less than ours, to incarcerate its own members for deviancy But by the 17th and 18th centuries, society imprisoned the idle, the poor, the insane and the criminal without distinction in the former houses of leprosy.

Although with a less dramatic involvement in native thought and culture than Ricci's, both Roman Catholic and Protestant missionaries in the 19th century often managed to combine a commitment to evangelization in the name of Jesus with a deep (and ever deepening) respect for the native culture and indigenous traditions of the nations to which they had been sent.

And it's less than a century since the average American Lutheran church conducted services in German, Swedish, or Norwegian.

With this experience of what we humans are capable of doing to one another, and with the decline of belief in a providential God, there is far less confidence about the human future among informed people today than there was at the beginning of the twentieth century.

«His work in philosophy forms part, and a very important part, of the movement of twentieth - century realism; but whereas the other leaders of that movement came to it after a training in late - nineteenth - century idealism, and are consequently realistic with the fanaticism of converts and morbidly terrified of relapsing into the sins of their youth, a fact which gives their work an air of strain, as if they cared less about advancing philosophical knowledge than about proving themselves good enemies of idealism, Whitehead's work is perfectly free from all this sort of thing, and he suffers from no obsessions; obviously he does not care what he says, so long as it is true.

In the last 20 years, a despised Catholic church has become allies with those who less than a century ago would have gladly snuffed them out.

Levering is also correct to suggest that a similar reaction to modern natural - law doctrines, if somewhat less prickly than the Protestant version, was more than a little influential in twentieth - century Catholic theology.

(He was, after all, born less than a century after the dawn of the Reformation and undoubtedly knew the religious violence that saturated Europe in the early 17th century.)

The Century was less politically ideological in 1937 than it had been in 1933 and 1934.

Absurd attempts to conflate atheism with despotic dictators eg:» Atheists have tortured and murdered more people in the last 100 years than were killed in all previous centuries» or slightly less inaccurately: «Atheists killed more than 100,000,000 people in the 20th century» The syllogism: — Communist despots ordered or failed to prevent the deaths of millions in the 20th century — Not believing in God is a tenet of communism — Therefore, atheists killed millions in the 20th century deliberately misrepresents atheism.

«In this crisis of belief and disbelief, the antagonism between faith and antifaith is less important than their common challenge: the construction of a. world in which man chooses between God or himself — and chooses freely,» he writes in The Accidental CenturIn this crisis of belief and disbelief, the antagonism between faith and antifaith is less important than their common challenge: the construction of a. world in which man chooses between God or himself — and chooses freely,» he writes in The Accidental Centurin which man chooses between God or himself — and chooses freely,» he writes in The Accidental Centurin The Accidental Century.

The fact that an ancient table of contents, already referred to in the Latin version of the fifth or sixth century, omits mention of the Testimonium (though, admittedly, it is selective, one must find it hard to believe that such a remarkable passage would be omitted by anyone, let alone by a Christian, summarizing the work) is further indication that either there was no such notice or that it was much less remarkable than it reads at present.

The successes through this approach are no less available today than they were in the First Century Christian Fellowship of the Bible, in the healing ministries Dr. Bob studied, and in the simple approaches of Akron Number One.

It seems probable that, in the age into which we are entering, the Church will be less a community institution and more an organized minority than among European peoples between Constantine and the nineteenth century.

According to a recent study published in the journal «Archives of Sexual Behavior,» millennials are having less sex than any generation in the last half century.

This vigor of a church unhampered by the close even though friendly control by the state has parallels in the enormous spread of Christianity through the Church in the Roman Empire before Constantine, in the vitality of the Church in Western Europe during the Middle Ages, and in the phenomenal expansion of Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from churches which were either independent of the state or were less trammeled by it than had been most of the churches of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.

In this light the particular problem for the twentieth century Christian as viewed by Cobb is that the structure of existence assumed by Jesus in his day bears little resemblance to the structure of existence which characterizes us, so that the translation of the quality of life achieved by Jesus into a context with which we can identify more immediately is no less radical than the contrast between his situation and ours (PPCT 397In this light the particular problem for the twentieth century Christian as viewed by Cobb is that the structure of existence assumed by Jesus in his day bears little resemblance to the structure of existence which characterizes us, so that the translation of the quality of life achieved by Jesus into a context with which we can identify more immediately is no less radical than the contrast between his situation and ours (PPCT 397in his day bears little resemblance to the structure of existence which characterizes us, so that the translation of the quality of life achieved by Jesus into a context with which we can identify more immediately is no less radical than the contrast between his situation and ours (PPCT 397).

After less than a century of independent rule their territory was absorbed in the greater Seljuq Empire and many of the people from that area spread throughout Anatolia and European Turkey, as is shown by the large number of Turkish villages bearing the name of Danishmand.

But it is here, in my view, that the importance becomes manifest of an intuitive notion which, timidly evolved less than fifty years ago by a small group of human minds, is now beginning to pervade twentieth century thought as rapidly as did the idea of evolution in the nineteenth century.

The power of this viewpoint is displayed in the less - than - edifying spectacle of various critics in the course of the next two - and - a-half centuries attempting to make Othello merely swarthy or «tawny,» and not a sub-Saharan African.

Such was the comfortable vista which, less than a century ago, began abruptly to change beneath our gaze, something in the fashion of those organic tissues in the living body which, after long remaining harmless and dormant, their cells apparently indistinguishable from those of the surrounding tissue, suddenly burst into dangerous growth.

The pope's encyclical, putting the issue of work in a modern context, states, «We are on the eve of new developments in technological, economic and political conditions... which will influence the world of work and production no less than the industrial revolution of the last century.»

Though he provides a vivid account of Pascal and Jansenism to illustrate the divisions within seventeenth century French Catholicism and emphasizes the violent opposition encountered by Catholic reformers like Charles Borromeo and John of the Cross, Eire's treatment of the divisions within Catholic reform in general is less vividly realized than his treatment of the corresponding tensions with Protestantism, though Catholic reform could be every bit as fiercely contested and divided.

On occasion the phrase was used to refer simply to the land of the Bible — that is, to the land the Israelites returned to from Egypt — but in all of Christian literature before the sixth century it occurs less than a dozen times, and usually as a phrase to reject.