Sentences with phrase «modern end of»

These methods were used to show that the standard RCS method produces series of tree indices with systematic age and diameter related biases which can seriously distort the modern end of resultant chronologies.

It seems that the great CAGW delusion, early 21st century «modern end of the world cult», cultural phenomenon or whatever else history will call it, has not quite yet had its bubble pierced.

One particular problem explained convincingly by Steve McI and by Richard Telford in the discussion at CA is that the the modern end of the alkenone proxies is commonly assumed that they extend to 1950.

There is biblical history, theology, archaeology, «criticism,» and hermeneutics (what happens to the Bible at the modern end of the sausage grinder).

Not exact matches

In the end, Washington was felled by what modern doctors think was a case of epiglottitis, an acute bacterial inflammation of the little flap at the base of the tongue that covers the trachea.

At the end of February, the company's chairman and CEO Edward W. Stack announced that Dick's Sporting Goods would no longer sell «assault - style rifles, also referred to as modern sporting rifles.»

Whereas this was once seen as a laborious and never - ending task, especially when placed on top of the other responsibilities of starting a new business, modern technology has simplified this process, too.

After several fruitless hours trying to find a client that still accepted the ancient technology of hash strings — modern, user - friendly wallets like Coinbase use 12 word passphrases instead of 22 - digit keys to secure wallets — I ended up with a more technical client that could «sweep» the funds in my paper wallet.

Lewis and Klein — no friends of global capitalism — portray the workers as revolutionaries, sticking it to the Man by doing an end - run around the evils of modern business.

Beijing is keen to end China's reliance on foreign semiconductors as it seeks to build a modern, digitized armed forces capable of matching other advanced militaries.

«At the end of the day I just don't think that mining as an industry has been as fast on the uptake of opportunities in the modern economy,» said Goldcorp chief operating officer Todd White.

In the end, Riff says, that may be the only way to keep up with the pressures of the modern world.

However, as he argued in his most recent book, The End of Energy Obesity, modern societies have at their disposal the technological tools, and possibly the social pressure, to consume less energy in absolute terms, not just per capita or per dollar of GDP.

Viewing projects as having a fixed end date doesn't reflect the modern reality of rapid development cycles.

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Not only does a bias for action actually end up producing something, but building anything at all is infinitely superior to going through instructional materials or participating in the deluge of information that is the modern interwebs.

High - end Xerox machines — essentially, complex paper - processing computers — became symbols of modern technology, sometimes getting the upper hand on hapless humans.

End the deregulation of banks and interest rates (since 1978 and 1980) One also needs a thorough economic history revision that says Paul Volcker is not the hero of the modern economy and the 1980s is a very disturbing model to emulate.

The current tunnel is nearing the end of its service life and does not meet modern seismic standards, which could be catastrophic in the event of a significant earthquake.

In The Antitrust Paradox, Bork wrote, «[T] he modern law of horizontal mergers makes it all but impossible for the predator to bring the war to an end by purchasing his victim.

by focussing on the semiconductors and other high end technology components that are crammed into high - end, modern, connected EV's (5x the amount of a «low end» vehicle, contributing over a 1/3 of the vehicles all - in cost).

This shift in motivations also denotes a significant change in the end goals of modern space companies and agencies alike, especially as concerns the Moon: Rather than visiting our celestial neighbor to prove we have the ability, we're now going back to the Moon with the intention of maintaining an extended presence of the lunar surface.

The greater weight of such redistribution in any modern simulacrum of debt cancellation is bound to evince strong opposition from those at the receiving end.

The most prolific bull market in modern American history started at the end of the stagflation era in 1982 and concluded during the dotcom bust in 2000.

Their presence is most obvious in the Reform branch of modern Judaism, which altered the traditional prayer book to soften or even erase the affirmation that God will raise the body from the dead at the end of time.

It's hard to tell where Lawler ends and Manent begins, but here's a snippet: For Manent, who is among one of the most endangered of species, a French Catholic intellectual, the modern nation, at its best,....

Modern Christian artists have produced a lot of great songs, but occasionally, blending biblically accurate, pop - sounding, catchy lyrics into a three and a half minute tune can end in head - scratching results.

There is an expectation in the modern view, according to Lasch, of open - ended improvement of indefinite duration rather than any movement toward a utopian end.

We would end invariably at the fountains of the Seagram's Building plaza ¯ the first «modern» skyscraper, he would explain, with the frame of the structure exposed.

Economics, at least in the classical and neoclassical forms that have dominated its modern development, is a science that analyzes interactions as exchanges relevant to ends determined by consumer preferences, such that the ends lie beyond the domain of the inquiry.

Do you think that, in criticizing certain expressions of the modern evangelical movement for being political / anti-intellectual, some of us have simply become (as Mike said in a comment at the end of my post) «total snobs»?

Indeed, one could argue, following the historian Christopher Shannon, that the agenda of modern cultural criticism, relentlessly intent as it has been upon «the destabilization of received social meanings,» has served only to further the social trends it deplores, including the reduction of an ever - widening range of human activities and relations to the status of commodities and instruments, rather than ends in themselves.

Advocating for the end of the modern slave trade, she hopes to open a small intentional community retreat for exploited youth in Canada.

Of the making of saints there is no end cries the modern Ecclesiastes, and with some justificatioOf the making of saints there is no end cries the modern Ecclesiastes, and with some justificatioof saints there is no end cries the modern Ecclesiastes, and with some justification.

What defines this line is the way in which all positions on it, from one end to the other, are committed to a form of modern liberalism which, as we noted above, prioritizes the individual and the present.

Of these the heart came, in the end, to have the widest usage and the most abiding importance, so that it has passed over into modern speech and we still symbolize our emotions in terms of iOf these the heart came, in the end, to have the widest usage and the most abiding importance, so that it has passed over into modern speech and we still symbolize our emotions in terms of iof it.

I also believe that the idea of evolution or development is an essential key to a nonscholastic doctrine of analogy, if only because it is the modern understanding of organic and historical evolution that brought to an end the scholastic idea of Being (as is so brilliantly demonstrated by Arthur O. Lovejoy in The Great Chain of Being).

The categorical imperative to «treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as means only» (46) was, for Kant, the «universal law of nature» (38) and his understanding of it is the most radical conception of natural law in its modern sense.

Whitehead observes that these lines could be taken as «the lines of force of the modern physicist» (MC 32), with the one proviso that, unlike line of force, these primitive lines never end.

Set during the week of July 4, 1983 — at the apocalyptic edge of Orwell's predicted end of the modern experiment — the novel seemed a piece of zany hyperbole when it was published in 1971.

Now, at the end of the modern age, the success of that missionary project (and especially of the apprehension of the gospel along the indigenous side of the line between missionary and convert) emerges as perhaps the most important factor in world Christian life today.

Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

The best part of Bad Religion appears at the end, where Ross Douthat identifies problematic modern Christianities that, by conventional standards, stand as heretical alternatives to the gospel message of sacrifice, charity, asceticism, and worship of the transcendent.

The Syllabus of Errors, issued in 1864 under the auspices of Pope Pius IX, famously ends by condemning the proposition that «The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization.»

This is the negative end of the age of modern technology / Internet — the airing of people's hateful, meanspirited, closeted thoughts against others who don't think / believe / live like they do.

The institutions and values of the modern world that the Anglo - Americans mastered so quickly emerged from changes at the end of the Middle Ages that came earlier to continental Europe than they did to Britain, and although the Anglo - Americans successfully resolved the conflicts set in motion by the upheavals of the Protestant Reformation, the European changes provided the political and theological resources for the Anglo - American solutions.

Breaking the cycle of poverty can help bring an end to many other issues, not the least of which is modern - day slavery.

The nature of work itself is perverted in the modern world by the divorce of technical means from value ends, I - It from I - Thou.

This sickness of modern man is manifested most clearly of all, however, in the individualism and nationalism which make power an end in itself.

By the end of the 19th century the scholars of Protestant liberalism had fully accepted the humanistic origins of the Bible, come to terms with the scientific notion of biological evolution, and were completely confident that the essential core of Christian doctrine could be salvaged intact and re-expressed in terms relevant to the modern age.