Sentences with phrase «long as a century»

Today, you can feel free to speak of the equality of blacks, but even not so long as a century ago you'd have been kicked out of many churches for even daring to say something like that, and there are most likely still churches that would kick you out.

They can last for decades, perhaps as long as a century, and support a succession of weird and wonderful organisms, some of which only live on dead whales.

Fire on the mountain now rises and looks over the terrain for a place to land its spear, a vibration was in the smoke and stayed there like a ribbon in mid-air... seconds as long as centuries... sparks like fireflies now inside the safety tents...

The lack of increased activity could signal the beginning of what is known as a Maunder Minimum, an event which occurs every couple of centuries and can last as long as a century.

Not exact matches

In that spirit, the US Army has distributed reading recommendations so soldiers and civilians alike are able «to sharpen their knowledge of the Army's long and distinguished history, as well as the decisive role played by landpower in conflicts across the centuries.»

The business of trying to divine customers» desires has been around almost as long as there have been customers, but market research as an industry began with the advent of modern magazine ads and radio commercials in the early 20th century.

Although society has come a long way since a half - century ago, Buffett recalls a time when women were kept out of the workforce and predominantly told to depend on marriage as their path to livelihood.

Allen Klevens, CEO of Los Angeles - based Prescriptive Music, which works with companies such as The Cheesecake Factory and Century 21 to create music playlists, says the goal of music in a store should be to get customers to spend more money, stay longer, and, most importantly, have them return.

As proof of the record of long term growth, the «Oracle of Omaha» remarked that the Dow Jones Industrial Average «went from 66 to 11,497 in one century,» recalling the index's exact close at the end of 1999.

They've been stocked behind bars for mixing drinks since the early 20th century, long before their takeover of American draft, as if waiting in the wings.

The bankruptcy filing follows a decades - long decline of a city that prospered through much of the last century as the capital of U.S. manufacturing.

Putin is a man of the times all right — as long as the times you're thinking of are the 19th century.

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.

The chief reason the OMP has no foreign diversification is that long - run returns on Canadian stocks are better than the global average, and nearly as good as returns on U.S. stocks (best performing country over the past two centuries).

But even as Homer, Marge and their three kids, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, surpassed the Stone Age family's six - season run, no one dreamed the show would continue for a quarter of a century, giving it a second record as the longest - running scripted TV series in American history.

Whatever our religion or ideology, we are still trapped by the centuries - old Protestant ethic, which viewed long hours as a badge of moral seriousness.

It was only with the construction of a national railway system in the middle decades of the 19th century, using coal rather than muscle as its source of mechanical energy, that transport could achieve advances to parallel those already long achieved in the branches of industry in which cheap and abundant heat energy was the key to rapid expansion.

The decades - long conflict that is currently raging over short - termism and activist hedge funds strikes me as analogous to the Thirty Years» War of the 17th Century, albeit fought with statistics («empirical evidence»), op - eds and journal articles rather than cannon, pike and sword.

Combining safety, performance, and efficiency, Model S has reset the world's expectations for the car of the 21st century with the longest range of any electric vehicle, over-the-air software updates that make it better over time, and a record 0 - 60 mph acceleration time of 2.28 seconds as measured by Motor Trend.

As we move through the 21st century, it's increasingly clear that sustainability can no longer be treated as a discrete area of interest; it needs to be woven into the fabric of higher learninAs we move through the 21st century, it's increasingly clear that sustainability can no longer be treated as a discrete area of interest; it needs to be woven into the fabric of higher learninas a discrete area of interest; it needs to be woven into the fabric of higher learning.

Ned Davis Research has looked at many of the major Bear markets worldwide for the past Century, and found that they tend to last about a third as long as the preceding Bull.

We talk about the gains we've made as a society over the last half a century or so, but we still have a long way to go.

Recalling these heroic moments flatters Poland's patriotic self - image as a long - suffering but iron - willed people who have emerged victorious from more than two centuries of subjugation.

We may read it, in the light of a long - established allegorical tradition, as a parable of deeper truths; but to the Jews of the fifth century BC, who took it at its face value, the Hebrew story, though not grotesque like the Babylonian, was too ingenuous and childlike to command the «reverence and godly fear» which belongs to all high religion.

Events of great consequence for the world took place in these centuries: the fall of the Persian empire; the conquests of Alexander the Great and their dissolution after his death; the long struggles between the Greek dynasties of Syria and of Egypt; and the advance of Rome as residuary legatee of them all.

The fact that England had this Holy House, that it was Mary's land, that it honoured marriage as Pope St Gregory wished, led over centuries to that long continuity of our institutions, in which Christian values became writ large in national life.

The long strip of linen cloth known as the Turin Shroud, which bears the faint image of a crucified and beaten man, has been an enigma and an object of reverence for centuries.

The Qur» an, which was revealed almost fourteen centuries ago, and the Traditions concerning the Prophet who lived that long ago exclusively in a desert society can not serve as explicit guides for every situation which might arise centuries later, and especially in the complex societies of the present day.

Israelite prophetism, which began to emerge as an institution in the tenth century, is indebted to the office of seer, but also, as we are about to see, to the very different phenomenon of ancient Canaanite prophetism, long current in the land when Israel entered and settled there.

The subsequent centuries have witnessed endless conflict over the Christian cultus, but one element in the long development of Biblical experience and thought concerning fellowship with God has remained as the common and unifying gain of all — «Thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret.»

The church in Asia has a long and rich history, dating as far back as the first century, and it includes periods of both blessing and hardship.

As Ta - Nehisi Coates documented recently in his long and compelling cover story for The Atlantic, «The Case for Reparations,» the government of the United States for centuries has perpetuated systemic injustice against African Americans.

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.

As long ago as the third century the great biblical scholar Origen raised substantial doubts about whether a literal reading of the story made good theological sensAs long ago as the third century the great biblical scholar Origen raised substantial doubts about whether a literal reading of the story made good theological sensas the third century the great biblical scholar Origen raised substantial doubts about whether a literal reading of the story made good theological sense.

Christian Scientists point to their century - long healing experience as evidence that can not be ignored.

Such an oversimplification ignores the biographical, religious and political realities running through the history of Christian missions during the «great century» and long before, as missionaries have, in the name of Jesus, striven to understand and learned to respect the particularities of the cultures to which they have come.

Atheists in the 16th and 17th century used to rail about Biblical facts that were incorrect, these things proved there were no God... One big one was that Israel no longer existed as a Nation on the earth... Well I bet they were rolling over in their graves when miraculously the nation was re-created in 1949!

Although held in theory over a long period, the belief was accentuated during the latter part of the nineteenth century and since, and became finally a basic dogma underlying the Japanese Imperial thrust, which is often regarded as the beginning of World War II.9 The idea was taught in the schools, in the army, and resulted finally in a fanatical religious, as well as patriotic, devotion to the emperor, without which, it seems to the writer, it is impossible to explain the daring attack of the island empire of Japan upon the richest and most powerful nation in the world, the United States.

It is also an assurance that these absolutely respected leading intellectuals from the 20th Century scholarship, of whom most were religious, have agreed to have each other's names associated with their own and that they felt comfortable with what each other were saying in an academic setting and commanded world - wide respect as conservative, careful, and sincere, life - long teachers, academics and scholars.

Models from half a century or longer ago no longer work as well as they once did.

Finally the secular powers will no longer protect the Roman Catholic Church (RCC), as they did for centuries.

Many things changed, from ecology, to geography, and even biology, so that now, no longer would God allow man to live for centuries, but now, as David says, between 70 to 80 years is normal.

The centuries - long drama of the religious journey of the people of Israel, as it is recorded in the Hebrew Bible, was a gigantic struggle with the immensely powerful «other» of the religious world of the ancient Near East.

So long, however, as he was only evangelist he needed to consider himself as belonging to only one of several orders of ministers, an order which like that of the preaching friars of the thirteenth - century required the accompanying work of the «secular clergy» or of the local parsons.

«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.

An important difference between the twenty - first century and those that preceded it is that the western world as a whole can no longer seek comfort and security in the certainties of a century ago.

The common sense notions presupposed by the scientists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and that still shape our everyday thinking, are no longer tenable as comprehensive and fundamental explanations of things.

Yet, subsequent science has not been nearly as unkind to Bergson as the positivism of the mid-20th century was.20 And today we no longer need to throw the passengers and cargo overboard to save the ship of Whitehead's thought from the stormy vicissitudes of history.

We are told that members of a community can disagree about some rather fundamental issues; nineteenth - century chemists did not all have to accept atomism as long as they all accepted the laws of combining proportions.

It is a long way from the gospel of Jesus in Galilee to the Gospel of John in the Hellenistic setting of early second century Christianity, at war on all fronts with an unbelieving world and not least with «the Jews,» who are now viewed as implacable and inveterate foes.