Sentences with phrase «made over centuries»

Microscopes have contributed significantly in the fields of science and technology where great discoveries have been made over the centuries.

Of course it depends on your taste, but most people prefer white sand beaches, made over the centuries from ground up shell and coral, which make the softest beaches.

A selection made over centuries can not be eliminated within a few generations.

«All of the shoes that I design for the collection are based on the shoes we were making over a century ago.»

Ever since the first Fig Newtons were made over a century ago, we've been one unique cookie.

Nevertheless, the anatomical connection between the bones was not affected, confirming the original observations made over a century ago by their discoverers, that the La Ferrassie 1 individual was deliberately buried by other members of their social group.

There is also a cafeteria and bar in the terrace of «La Casona» made over a century ago.

Not exact matches

Over the past century science has made lots of advances into understanding the many social meanings of body language.

In 2010, Etsy sellers moved $ 314 million worth of merchandise — cuff links made from 19th - century shotgun shells ($ 50), knives forged by a master blacksmith in Albuquerque ($ 150), sweaters knit by a grandmother in Portugal ($ 225)-- a 74 percent increase over the previous year.

If you do the math, the current value of the U.S. road system is $ 13 trillion, an investment made over the last century.

While that — and the progress we've made over the past century — is certainly something to celebrate, it's still a bit premature to start calling things «equal.»

In 2002, before the sale of PayPal even went through, Musk started voraciously reading about rocket technology, and later that year, with $ 100 million, he started one of the most unthinkable and ill - advised ventures of all time: a rocket company called SpaceX, whose stated purpose was to revolutionize the cost of space travel in order to make humans a multi-planetary species by colonizing Mars with at least a million people over the next century.

However, many consider the 401 (k) to be crucial in retirement savings over the past half century making one question very important: What happens to saving behavior if the 401 (k) changes?

Interestingly enough, it's actually so simple, and so straightforward, that it would have helped almost any investor make quite a bit of money over the past couple of centuries regardless of market conditions provided he or she had a long enough time horizon.

Researchers expect that as climate change makes wildfires more likely over the course of this century, deaths and illnesses attributed to pollution from wood smoke will rise too, even offsetting gains made from cleaning up emissions from industry.

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.

This same proposal is basically the same one I made over a quarter of a century ago in that hearing room on Parliament Hill.

Looking over three centuries of Greek experience, Aristotle found a perpetual triangular sequence of democracy turning into oligarchy, whose members made themselves into a hereditary aristocracy — and then some families sought to take the demos into their own camp by sponsoring democracy, which in turn led to wealthy families replacing it with an oligarchy, and so on.

The representatives from Harford County Climate Action made it clear — human activity, primarily the burning of fossil fuels, has had a clear and measurable impact on the Earth's climate over the last century, and those actions have put low - lying areas of Harford County in danger from rising sea levels.

A cable - stayed bridge over the Fraser River and a big earthquake could make for massive problems Daniel Wood is an investigative journalist uncovering the truth behind the Massey tunnel replacement For those hoping to halt the export of thermal coal from the lower Fraser River, it's useful to consider a century - old American spiritual song that -LSB-...]

«Patriarchy» is traditionalism but you can't just pick everything you hate and blame it on male rule because we had plenty of queens making rules over the centuries and Victorian culture being the most oppressive was by guess whom?

Show me just 1 single century where a tyranical government does not make an attempt at world domination and I'll hand over my guns.

I have no idea what AvdBerg practices, but he BELIEVES that his interpretations of scripture are so obviously the true ones that they aren't even interpretations, which makes it all the odder that so many hundreds of millions if not billions of christians over the centuries apparently missed these supposedly transparent truths.

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.

[«While these claims have been made repeatedly over the last century, the truth of the matter is that skeptics and liberal theologians are unable to cite a single piece of solid archaeological evidence in support of their claims.

It took over a century of deft Vatican diplomacy, disentangling the appointment of bishops from various political imbroglios, to make that canon possible, and the twenty - first - century Church now has the capacity to choose its leadership by its own criteria.

Realizing its potential anthropological significance, Kennedy turned the bone over to experts at the Smithsonian Museum and the University of Florida, who have now been able to confirm that this really is authentically ancient, and not just a clever forgery (making counterfeit mammoth engravings was a big thing in the 19th century, for whatever reason).

«I see this preference for knowledge over hope as repeating the move made by leftist intellectuals who, earlier in the century, got their Hegelianism from Marx rather than Dewey.»

(Job 26:7) Now how could Job know that the earth is» suspended upon nothing» over 3,500 years ago, since the earliest telescope was only made in the 17th century C.E. by Galileo?

Over the past half century or so, too many parts of the Catholic world have come to think of «reform» as something we conjure up from our own cleverness, as if we must puzzle out what makes the Church «relevant.»

Hinduism in India — over 7,000 years and counting - billions of adherents over the centuries - must make those gods real, huh?

And what makes your claim any different from the thousands of other gods that have been claimed over the centuries — none of which you presumably believe in?

A «remarkable» discovery has been made by a scholar who found that an 8th century manuscript of the Qur «an was actually written over pages from a Bible.

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.

So, today's doubters need to be pressed hard as to why, if the alternative versions of Jesus (mystic, moral teacher, misguided healer) advanced over the last few centuries can be taken seriously, it never occurred to any sceptic in the ancient world to make these very obvious challenges.

«There's a vast history of people the Catholic Church has made saints over the centuries.

Few figures loom larger over the past century of Christianity than C.S. Lewis, whose rare and beautiful coupling of an indomitable mind and a sparkling imagination make for some of...

Get over your silly notion that electing a Republican will somehow make all these issues go away — this is the 21st century, not 1950.

First, it is interesting that in the fourth century, the road to Constantinople in 381 is not paved by blunt appeals to church authority but by extensive wrestling over biblical texts and fine - tooling of extra-biblical language (most notably the term «hypostasis») in an attempt to establish which exegetical claims made sense of Scripture as a whole and which fell short.

Even changes that the church has made for good (over the centuries) we manage to find a way to ruin it.

Back in the nineteenth century, the Supreme Court explained that churches have authority over their internal decision - making because «All who unite themselves to such a body do so with an implied consent to this government.»

They've been making films about the Son of God for over a century.

Make us ever - grateful for those who, for over two centuries, have given their lives in freedom's defense; we commend their noble souls to your eternal care, as even now we beg the protection of your mighty arm upon our men and women in uniform.

But as E. A. Burtt noted over half a century ago in his classic book The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science, the thinker who claims to eschew philosophy in favor of science is constantly tempted «to make a metaphysics out of his method,» trying to define reality as what his preferred techniques can measure rather than letting reality dictate what techniques are appropriate for studying it.

The challenge is; the way in which over the years, even centuries, the clergy system (I agree with you) has made the Christian walk into a formula.

People have been doing all kinds of religions, christianity, and islam for over 2000 years, praying to strange gods, not known to Abraham, Isaac, nor Jacob, all from the first generation of Adam, and of the covenant of the 10 commandments, and statues, ordinances, and judgments that are perpetual by YHWH, and the world has not gotten any better, since before the 8th century, this has happened, and at some point one must realize that this religion thing obviously is not working for us, the reality check is to «awaken'to the truth, and righteousness, of YHWH Our Righteousness, in Jeremiah 23:1 - 8, and not pagan religions, man - made, and all controlled for selfish gain.

But one thing over many centuries has made return to Jerusalem much more likely, and that's the ascendancy of the Bible, which is really Jerusalem's story in many ways.

We can glean much, but not all - certainly not after all the re-writes and self - serving «translations» of ancient texts, real and forged, that have been made by very fallible, very human Popes and monks over the centuries.

We need to understand the legacy of lynching more honestly and carefully, we need to even revisit segregation and the legacy that it's created if we're going to make progress I think there is a continuing presumption of dangerousness and guilt that gets assigned to people of color, I think it would break Dr. King's heart to know that black youth in New York are getting stopped and frisked, that this police violence that has been such a problem for over a century continues, that we haven't made the commitment to overcoming bigotry and race discrimination in the way we need to.

The contributions which the Jewish people make, often through their original and profound ideas, to the global extension and deepening of freedom and the horrendous injustices they have suffered over centuries at our Christian hands weigh heavily in our considerations.