Sentences with phrase «middle of the last century»

In the middle of the last century, for example, motivational researchers sought psychological knowledge about consumers in the hopes of subconsciously influencing them through subliminal advertising.

As a share of GDP, program spending for the federal government is at a very low level compared to previous years, dating from the middle of the last century.

The lay people do not handle a very abrupt change in doctrine, therefore incremental policy has been the conscious strategy of the the Brethren since the middle of the last century when the Church embraced corporate philosophies and procedures.

Our ranks have exploded from one billion souls in the middle of the last century to five - and - a-half billion today, and will inflate to twelve or more before demographic growth could stabilize a hundred years hence.

From the middle of the last century until the first decades of the twentieth, the theory of evolution was almost unanimously rejected by theologians and by some it was explicitly declared to be heretical (for example, Perrone, Mazzella, B. Jungmann, J. Katschthaler).

The Council of Ephesus (431) condemned belief in a literal, future millennium, but the idea has cropped up time and time again, and has been very much on the scene in Britain and the U.S. since the middle of the last century.

At least until the middle of the last century, most of the presidents of universities in this country were ordained clergy.

This is another instance, although with extended application, of the truth of Benjamin Jowett's famous comment in the middle of the last century that if we read the Bible as we would read any other collection of ancient writings, we shall find that it is not just like any other collection.

Once thought ideally suited for fire - retardant insulation, asbestos was used widely in insulation, pipes, and building materials well into the middle of the last century.

The most spectacular period of progress of the Italian rice cultivation began in the middle of the last century, when Vercelli farmers built one of the most efficient irrigation systems.

Until now, the definition of colic and excessive crying was gauged against data from the middle of last century.

In the United States that age used to be about 24 months till about the middle of the last century; now however, the age for expectation of a child to be potty trained has risen to about 36 months and nighttime accidents are actually considered normal until a child reaches 5 or 6 years of age.

Indeed anyone reading the endless coverage about Cameron, Clegg and Miliband's wives and their outfits over recent weeks would assume Britain is still stuck somewhere in the middle of last century.

By the middle of the last century, these buttons (still going strong!)

«For all young people to be able to reach their full potential we need to rid ourselves of this idea that an education system familiar to those who attended school towards the middle of the last century is the only way forward.

The NFTA has owned Waterfront land since the middle of the last century when it took over the old port authority.

Like many road projects built in the middle of the last century, I - 81 is bumping up against the end of its life span.

West Street was built in the middle of the last century, as Interstate 81 was paving through the city, as a way to move cars more easily.

Excavations in a cave on the cliffs west of Qumran, near the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, prove that Dead Sea scrolls from the Second Temple period were hidden in the cave, and were looted by Bedouins in the middle of the last century.

The recent spate of far - flung quakes is remarkably similar to a cluster that occurred in the middle of the last century, says Charles Bufe, a seismologist retired from the US Geological Survey (USGS) in Denver, Colorado.

«I thought that these discoveries ended somewhere around the middle of the last century.

Market hunting, bounties, pollutants such as DDT and other forces depressed sea lion numbers in the middle of the last century.

Optimists recall that in the middle of the last century, some biologists feared that the genetic code was too complex to crack.

The botanist Irene Manton and her students in the middle of the last century clarified the ancestry of several groups of British ferns, and showed just how easily a new species can emerge.

-- Along with analyzing historical trends in temperature and precipitation, we performed an analysis of changes in extreme climate events since the middle of last century.

Along with analyzing historical trends in temperature and precipitation, we performed an analysis of changes in extreme climate events since the middle of last century.

In the middle of the last century, for example, soot and other particles spewing from factory smokestacks, collectively known as aerosols — cooled the planet for a couple of decades.

In the middle of the last century, health care professionals stated that consuming adequate quantities of vitamin D is essential for keeping your bones and teeth healthy.

Just to hammer the point home, two studies from the middle of the last century inadvertently explored this idea, looking at diets composed of mostly carbs and mostly fat, respectively.

These modules dispel the heart disease myths that have been around since the middle of the last century.

«I thought the body was mapped and that these discoveries ended somewhere around the middle of the last century.

While non-traditional healing communities have encouraged stress management practices in our country since the middle of the last century, it is only recently that mainstream medicine has begun to «catch up.»

Tree of Life is sort of like that, but the fascinating world is our own and one you can appreciate with no prior predilection for a Christian Texas upbringing in the middle of last century.

In the middle of the last century, Eilis (Saoirse Ronan) takes the boat from Ireland to America in search of a better life.

«For all young people to be able to reach their full potential, we need to rid ourselves of this idea that an education system familiar to those who attended school towards the middle of the last century is the only way forward,» she said.

On a June evening some years after the middle of the last century Mrs Eileen Connulty passed through the town of Rathmoye: from Number 4 The Square to Magennis Street, into Hurley Lane, along Irish Street, across Cloughjordan Road to the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer.

This is a function of having been born back in the late - middle of the last century, before the age of serious screen addiction.

A vivid, nostalgic and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the middle of the United States in the middle of the last century.

Bryson describes his idyllic childhood growing up in the middle of the USA, in the middle of the last century, in the middle of the baby boom years - a time of unprecedented prosperity for the country as a whole, quite different to the depression - era experiences of the previous generation; but it's not all rose - tinted glasses - the threat of nuclear war, Joe McCarthy, and America flexing its muscles overseas all come into the picture.

From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the middle of the United States in the middle of the last century.

So the myth became solid by the middle of the last century that writing slow equals writing well and writing quickly equals writing poorly.

To understand how this trade developed, we have to go back to the middle of the last century and beyond.

It became home to the Bishop of Truro at the turn of the 20th century for 15 years before providing a convalescent home for Great Western Railwaymen for several decades into the middle of the last century.