Sentences with phrase «in the past century by»

Of the handful of similar analyses, a 2008 study found population losses in amphibians living in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, and another found that small mammals in Yosemite National Park in California had tracked warming temperatures in the past century by shifting their range.

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Rupert's son James, however, who is CEO of family holding company 21st Century Fox, argued that it was long past time for O'Reilly to leave, in order to try and mitigate some of the longer - term damage done by the allegations and the advertising exodus.

And, as Becker points out, the travel industry has exploded in the past half century, aided by open borders since the end of the Cold War, new long - haul airplanes, and more western comforts in far - flung locations.

But in the past half - century, enabled first by the streetcar, then the automobile, aging citydwellers have become able to keep their connections, ideas, and jobs when they move to the easier, more spacious (but less innovative and wealth - creating) suburbs.

The consensus on these two is evinced by countless research papers dedicated to monetary policy strategy and implementation in the past quarter - century, compared with a relative handful on the design of countercyclical fiscal policy.

It involves policies that can be traced at least as far back as the «American System» of the early 19th Century, and it has been implemented in various forms by many different countries around the world during the past 100 or even 200 years.

In times past there were two methods of engaging in this type of fraud, both of which can be illustrated by the practices of English goldsmiths in the 18th and early 19th centuries, the forerunners of modern - day bankIn times past there were two methods of engaging in this type of fraud, both of which can be illustrated by the practices of English goldsmiths in the 18th and early 19th centuries, the forerunners of modern - day bankin this type of fraud, both of which can be illustrated by the practices of English goldsmiths in the 18th and early 19th centuries, the forerunners of modern - day bankin the 18th and early 19th centuries, the forerunners of modern - day banks.

SunTrust is just one of dozens of small and midsize regional banks that have continued to thrive in the wake of one financial bust after another for the past century by remaining faithful to a simple business model that nationwide «money center» banks like Citibank and Bank of America are just too big to copy.

The most extraordinary Christian growth over the past century has come in Africa: home to 8.7 million Christians in 1900, 542 million today, and perhaps 1.2 billion by 2050, when there will be as many African Christians as Latin American and European Christians combined.

More people have been tortured and killed by atheists in the past century than were killed in all previous centuries.

Centuries past I could've had her burned as a witch or she could've turned me in as a heretic to be quartered by horses.

Athiesm — Yet even if you add up all the murders from both the Roman Church (of the past) and the Muslim world, you will not come close to those perpetrated by Socialists and Communists in the 20th century.

Such «panoramic vision of the past» (la vision panoramique du passé) had been discussed extensively at the turn of the century; Bergson took notice of it in Matter and Memory, and the same problem was discussed more recently by George Poulet, the author of Études sur le temps humain.5

The president's 325 commutations for the month of August is the largest number ever granted by a president in a month, and in a year within the past century, according to the White House.

However, we should not allow us to be totally seduced by this Victorian version of the season, and recall that in the biblical stories, and in centuries past, this was a time when the world turned upside down.

Roszak, in his book Where the Wasteland Ends: Politics and Transcendence in Post-Industrial Society, argues that the mindscape» by which our culture has been shaped over the past three centuries is a false and limited one.

Jaded by experience and suspicious of narrative, we can not credit the secular prophecies of the past two centuries, which divined the end of history in a worker's state or the global triumph of democratic capitalism.

While it might be true that those who lived in the time of the Prophet could understand religion better than the people of today who must study Islam by means of documents only, we can not ignore the considerable change in the social situation and world conditions during the past fourteen centuries.

The past two years have seen the appearance of an informative Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (4 vols., edited by Leonard W. Levy [Macmillan]-RRB-, several outstanding studies on its intellectual background (including Forrest McDonald's Novus Ordo Seculorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution [University Press of Kansas] and Morton White's Philosophy, The Federalist, and the Constitution [Oxford University Press], at least one pathbreaking effort to trace the document's role through the years (Michael Kammen's A Machine That Would Go of Itself The Constitution in American Culture [Knopf]-RRB- and a gaggle of good books on its religious themes (see Martin Marty's review in The Century [«James Madison Revisited,» April 9.

Unfortunately, this renaissance of the past century and a half has been seriously restricted because most of the Islamic countries have been held down by alien political and economic controls which did not permit the creative participation in cultural activities which had been characteristic of Muslims in their glorious days in the past.

In this late 20th Century, churches face a situation unprecedented since the Church's formation (comparable in magnitude to the era of the Christian apologists and the Reformation), in which most churches» thought and practice - and by implication God's revelation - are framed within and associated with communication and modes of thought of a past stage of cultural developmenIn this late 20th Century, churches face a situation unprecedented since the Church's formation (comparable in magnitude to the era of the Christian apologists and the Reformation), in which most churches» thought and practice - and by implication God's revelation - are framed within and associated with communication and modes of thought of a past stage of cultural developmenin magnitude to the era of the Christian apologists and the Reformation), in which most churches» thought and practice - and by implication God's revelation - are framed within and associated with communication and modes of thought of a past stage of cultural developmenin which most churches» thought and practice - and by implication God's revelation - are framed within and associated with communication and modes of thought of a past stage of cultural development.

In the late 20th Century, churches face a situation unprecedented since the Church's formation (comparable in magnitude to the era of the Christian apologists and the Reformation), in which most churches» thought and practice — and by implication God's revelation — are framed within and associated with communication and modes of thought of a past stage of cultural developmenIn the late 20th Century, churches face a situation unprecedented since the Church's formation (comparable in magnitude to the era of the Christian apologists and the Reformation), in which most churches» thought and practice — and by implication God's revelation — are framed within and associated with communication and modes of thought of a past stage of cultural developmenin magnitude to the era of the Christian apologists and the Reformation), in which most churches» thought and practice — and by implication God's revelation — are framed within and associated with communication and modes of thought of a past stage of cultural developmenin which most churches» thought and practice — and by implication God's revelation — are framed within and associated with communication and modes of thought of a past stage of cultural development.

Paradoxically, despite the social, political, economic, and educational advancement made by Catholics over the past half - century, our place in literary culture has dramatically declined.

The presently discussed theory and practice of human rights are very much as evolved in and by Western society during the past few centuries.

Our Western culture has moved so rapidly in the past half century, our ways of thinking have been so affected by the scientific, technological, and secular advances, that our situation seems divorced almost completely from society as presupposed in biblical and traditional theological thinking.

Though in the past decades there has been an appreciable cooling off of the fervor displayed at the beginning of the twentieth century by the advocates of the psychology of religion, still today the various schools of depth - psychology and psychoanalysis offer clues to the understanding of the unconscious and its workings.

A century later, we are living in the closing years of a pontificate that has, above all, taught Catholics not to be afraid» afraid of those who hate the Church so that we do not honestly contemplate the failings of our own past; afraid of the progress of science so that we needed to be reminded by the Pope «that faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth.»

Instead, he traces its manifestation in the past few centuries, and its invidious effects when it is accompanied by power.

It now seems all too clear that the various over-all solutions of the social problem which have been emphasized in the past two centuries by the believers in progress are not solutions after all.

But it seems to me that Dr. Altizer has fallen into a naturalization of historical time, that he has been led astray by his nineteenth - century mentors, who were battling against the rigidity of a mechanistic universe, for there is no doubt that in the mechanistic and objective sense the past is dead and unchangeable.

Although according to the latest researches, the general level of prosperity was increasing throughout the Roman empire during the first century, and although Palestine might have been expected to share this increase along with a larger volume of trade, both import and export, and although this prosperity was apparently accompanied by a widespread increase in population, nevertheless Palestine was still geared to the past.

Conflicts in the Muslim World today, while occupying significant news time, A) pale in comparison to what non-Muslims have done in this past century and B) are mostly the result of secular governments in the Muslim World vying for power and resources C) often backed by non-Muslim armaments and vested interests.

Together, they build in physical world that millions of children over the past century have discovered on a page — the Hundred Acre Wood, populated by Winnie (short for Winnipeg, the origin of the imaginary bear) and friends.

In centuries past, science's boundaries were continually threatened with invasion by the forces of institutionalized religion.

The grace of God has impelled members of many Churches and ecclesial Communities, especially in the course of the present century, to strive to overcome the divisions inherited from the past and to build anew a communion of love by prayer, by repentance and by asking pardon of each other for sins of disunity past and present, by meeting in practical forms of cooperation and in theological dialogue.

Or to what extent has Christian African American political thought in the past half - century been shaped by a desire simply to be full - fledged participants in American culture and to what extent has it been shaped by a separatist impulse?

We are concerned with the stupid things that real humans do when they use books written by con men and theives in the distant past to guide their behavior in the twenty - first century.

The first two Foremen, the Apostles and Prophets, led the way in centuries past by writing Scripture.

St Mary's has a strong tradition behind it — founded in the 19th century by the Vincentian Fathers as a Catholic teacher - training college, in the past decade it has become first a College offering courses in a range of subjects, and now a fully - fledged University.

In the United States in the past quarter century, working families have maintained their standard of living only by working more hourIn the United States in the past quarter century, working families have maintained their standard of living only by working more hourin the past quarter century, working families have maintained their standard of living only by working more hours.

The same question is then applied to other matters: to U.S. support of Israel; to U.S. opposition to the election of Hamas in Palestine; to the history of U.S. involvement in Iran over the past century; to the invasion and reconstitution of Afghanistan; to the depiction of events in the Middle East by U.S. media; and to the military expenditures of the U.S. government.

The report found, among other things, that 43 of the lower 48 U.S. states have set at least one monthly heat record since 2010, sea levels are expected to rise between one and four feet by the end of this century, winter storms have increased in intensity and frequency, and the past decade was warmer than every previous decade in every part of the country.

Over the past two centuries, Old Testament theology has been shaped by two countervailing forces: since the Reformation, the church has been reluctant to free the Bible from its doctrinal interpretations; but since the Enlightenment, the history - of - religions approach that prevails in the academy has refused to be limited by the constraints of faith.

In the great slaughters of the past century or two in Europe and America, Christians have killed Christians and Jews have killed Jews because they were separated by citizenship in time of waIn the great slaughters of the past century or two in Europe and America, Christians have killed Christians and Jews have killed Jews because they were separated by citizenship in time of wain Europe and America, Christians have killed Christians and Jews have killed Jews because they were separated by citizenship in time of wain time of war.

In addition, both those churches that were founded by Western denominations in the past century but which did not join the CSI — some Baptists, Methodists and Lutherans — and Indian denominations with a deep and long history, such as the Syrian Orthodox and Mar Thoma churches, are increasingly using the literature from Western evangelistic and fundamentalistic sources in their religious education programIn addition, both those churches that were founded by Western denominations in the past century but which did not join the CSI — some Baptists, Methodists and Lutherans — and Indian denominations with a deep and long history, such as the Syrian Orthodox and Mar Thoma churches, are increasingly using the literature from Western evangelistic and fundamentalistic sources in their religious education programin the past century but which did not join the CSI — some Baptists, Methodists and Lutherans — and Indian denominations with a deep and long history, such as the Syrian Orthodox and Mar Thoma churches, are increasingly using the literature from Western evangelistic and fundamentalistic sources in their religious education programin their religious education programs.

However, he also suggests that the categories used by science in the past four centuries are not irreformable, and that these categories have now become too narrow for science itself.

In the past century theologians have at times attempted to escape the embarrassment of being unable to show how God acts in the natural world as understood by sciencIn the past century theologians have at times attempted to escape the embarrassment of being unable to show how God acts in the natural world as understood by sciencin the natural world as understood by science.

By TREVOR HORN Contributor CLOVIS — In the year the California Interscholastic Federation celebrated 100 years of athletics, the 2015 CIF State Track and Field Championships will go down as one of the finest over the past century.

Like all the ships caught by the chain in the past four centuries, in time this freighter will be taken apart by the waves and digested by the slow chemical processes of the sea.

In the welter of religious medals brought up by divers of the expedition this past winter, there was one showing the profile of St. Rose of Lima, who lived an ascetic, near - masochistic life in the early 17th centurIn the welter of religious medals brought up by divers of the expedition this past winter, there was one showing the profile of St. Rose of Lima, who lived an ascetic, near - masochistic life in the early 17th centurin the early 17th century.