Sentences with phrase «many as a century»

But the way in which each state moved forward afterward reveals how fractured the landscape can be when archaic laws enacted as far back as a century ago are put face - to - face with innovative, tech - driven fantasy contests of today.

The brands include Asahido, a craft shop established in 1870 and known for its pottery tea sets, as well as century - old store, Takaoka, which makes famous futons.

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.

A mark of our sad century is this: the best thing we have to do now is to make fun of people who, as recently as a century ago, still hoped.»

«Few companies are as much as a century old, while many... tribes have had two thousand years or more in which to move towards organisational perfection, and to learn not merely how to live together, but to flourish as a group.»

But even in the corporate application which was originally intended, the principle became increasingly difficult to maintain, as century after century passed, and the Jewish people found themselves in a worsening situation of poverty and oppression, in spite of their endeavours to keep the law of God.

The very fact, therefore, that the Hebrews conquered Palestine, settled in towns, developed private property in land, broke up into economically unequal classes, chose various crafts and businesses, and, as the centuries passed, became part of the diversified international civilization of their day, meant of necessity the gradual diminution of the old tribal cohesion and its associated ideas.

As centuries of missionary endeavour have shown, pagan and semi-pagan people can be taught, helped, and encouraged to live glorious Christian lives from inauspicious beginnings.

As the centuries passed, however, «holiness» changed its meaning, and in the change can be seen the increasing possibility of private prayer.

Let us look again at the atonement as the New Testament witnesses to it, and as the centuries of Christian experience have wrestled with it.

As the century has passed, the church market for theological writings of the sort I will emphasize has declined drastically.

... It must be confessed that the best intellects of their time gave themselves up to abstract speculation, which shows, as the centuries progress, a law of diminishing returns.

As the centuries went on, the Jews came to feel that the forces of evil had become so dominant that this vindication could never come by human means.

By such a statement we do not mean, of course, that the same span of time follows as precedes that event — this is only very approximately true and will become increasingly less true as the centuries pass.

At first this expectation was doubtless emotional in its appeal, as Mussolini stirs Italians now by pictures of a new Roman Empire, but as the centuries passed and the powerful theological conviction that Israel was a chosen people in special covenant relationship with Yahweh blended with the national dream, the coming Messianic age became increasingly a fixed idea and a cherished dogma.

As the Century expanded its denominational horizons, it also increased its coverage of all types of religious movements.

As this century now approaches its end, it is becoming clear that its historians are inclined to picture the situation in philosophy in terms of a great divide.

As the century wore on, some of the stock companies attained a portentous size and smaller concerns tended to be absorbed in them.

As the century passed, moreover, government regulation of economic, intellectual, and social life increased.

The battle against «demon rum» became increasingly intense as the century progressed and many a Protestant minister came to believe that the chief test of a man's character was to be found in whether or not he drank spirituous liquors and that the cause of Christianity rose or fell with the fortunes of the temperance movement.

As the century wore on, and wars, depressions, bombs and anxieties came our way, we found ourselves seeing the Reformation in a new light.

Future historians, it has been said, will look back upon the twentieth century not primarily for its scientific achievements but as the century of the coming - together of peoples, when all mankind for the first time became one community.

Religion may become extinct in nine nations, study says www bbc co uk / news / science - environment - 12811197 The team took census data stretching back as far as a century from countries in which the census queried religious affiliation: Australia, Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland.

But editors were not sure what to do when the term «black» became, as a Century editorial phrased it at the time, «the «in» word among many Negroes, a symbol of their new deepening negritude» (October 25, 1967).

In the light of that experience, we have read history again, noting the rise and fall of nations and cultures in cycles which in the perspective seem as short and are apparently as final and futile as the life - span of a man, evil manifesting itself continually in the same hideous forms, good winning its victories but also suffering its defeats, as century follows century and our tiny planet is hurled on its precarious way among the stars.

As the century dragged on, though, milk stout waned in popularity.

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The Patriots staked their claim as the century's first dynasty and the Greatest Show on Turf, beating the Eagles for their third NFL title in four seasons

However, for the countries of Western Europe, as the centuries passed and memories of Holy Wars gave way to the hopes of the enlightenment, the boundaries of Christendom became gradually less important than the boundaries of «Western civilization» which were both culturally and politically narrower than those of Christendom.

It's difficult to predict if or how fast these resilience areas could shrink as the century progresses.

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.

Even in the moderate warming scenario, there are predictions of big changes in the delta habitat as this century unfolds.»

The United States used science and technology to great economic benefit after World War II and can continue to «master the innovation cycle» by drawing on the collaborative nature of millennials who started to come of age as the century turned, a leading physicist told a AAAS gathering recently.

If that happened, it would push sea levels up by five meters in as short a time as a century.

But the effects of those 8 inches pale when compared with the several feet of additional flooding expected as the century progresses.

Use a font that is easy to read — sans serif fonts are best (that is, the fonts without small lines at the end of characters, such as Century Gothic and Tahoma).

A recent interview with two Nobel Laureates gave him renewed hope for the future, however, especially when the scientists declared the 21st century as the century when scientists will finally understand the brain.

When you consider we are already putting record amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere now, with extreme weather as a result, fires, floods, rising seas and all that — a 30 % INCREASE as the century goes forward must be absolutely disastrous.

The 21st century is widely heralded as the century of biology.

As the centuries progressed, we began to favor dialing down the speed and increasing the distance.

Through the medieval period to the Tudors, dating was absolutely core to the social structure of the city, and as the centuries passed, the Victorians took that structure to stuffy new heights — or depths, depending on how you want to look at it.

As old as the century, Ruth Clifford was one of the last remaining leading ladies of the early, silent era when she died at the Motion Picture Country Hospital in Woodland Hills on December 1, 1998.

Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton are both strong as usual as centuries - old «sisters» who are accustomed to moving from city to city after the bodies pile up and suspicion begins to mount.

A24 will open The Disaster Artist in 18 locations in key markets around the country including Lincoln Square and Union Square Stadium in New York as well as Century 15 and The Landmark in Los Angeles.

Blackly comic, yet exhilarating and ultimately inspiring, Truman's story reflects the hopes and anxieties that grip us all as the century lurches toward its close.

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...

In a history of humankind, the twentieth century will be marked as a century of violence: the two world wars and hundreds of local and regional conflicts occurred in it, with dramatic change in a profile of those who suffer in wars, which shifted from military to prevalent civilian victims (in some statistics, it is more than 80 % of civilians), beside to enormous level of individual violence happen daily all over the world.

Officially, the Great Recession — the economic free - fall that shredded state and local budgets as the century's first decade neared its close — ended about 18 months ago.

An equally important as urgent task, as this century seems to be getting ever - more intertwined and complex.

As my Century Foundation colleague Halley Potter noted in a new report, «voucher programs on balance are more likely to increase school segregation than to decrease it or leave it at status quo.»