Sentences with phrase «more than a century as»

Recognized for more than a century as the iconic address for Dallas hospitality, The Adolphus inspires each guest's journey by offering vibrant and storied surroundings, imaginative and collaborative food and drink, and locally celebrated amenities and experiences, all crafted and delivered with intuitive, memorable service.

It rode on the sheep's back for more than a century as the world's largest producer of fine apparel wool.

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Poet Emily Dickinson nailed it more than a century ago when she wrote, «They might not need me — yet they might — I'll let my Heart be just in sight — A smile so small as mine might be precisely their necessity.»

Admirers of the tradition see the centuries — old spectacle of bullfighting as more of an art than a sport.

Brazil was the only main market to see profits decline, for a sixth consecutive quarter, as Latin America's largest economy emerges unevenly and slowly from its worst recession in more than a century.

The Brooklyn - based media company already counts Walt Disney and 21st Century Fox as minority owners, and Disney's most recent investment valued Vice at more than $ 4 billion, in 2015.

More than speculate, Johnson in fact tracked the major human advancements over several centuries to verify this pattern of one small idea linking to a web of other small ideas, and only appear as a single big idea in the rear view.

Founded more than two centuries ago by small medicines vendor and namesake Chobei Takeda in Osaka, Japan, the company was that nation's largest pharmaceutical firm by revenue as of 2014.

Smith started Vice as a print magazine with Suroosh Alvi and Gavin McInnes in Montreal more than two decades ago; with Smith at the helm as CEO, it's now a multi-platform content mill with a reported audience of between 250 million and 300 million people a month, many of them members of Generation Y. Smith made his money by convincing an older generation that Vice knows millennials better than they could ever hope to, and that pitch has worked: Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox paid US$ 70 million for a 5 % stake of Vice in 2013, and Rogers Communications (which owns Canadian Business) inked a $ 100 million partnership.

«Jack Johnson's reputation was ruined by a racially motivated conviction more than a century ago after he was charged with transporting a white woman across state lines,» McCain said in 2017 as he unsuccessfully urged President Barack Obama to issue a pardon on his way out of office.

The move comes as part of Washington's rapprochement with Havana after more than half a century of enmity.

The United States on Friday dramatically eased restrictions on imports of goods and services from private Cuban entrepreneurs as part of Washington's rapprochement with Havana after more than half a century of enmity.

Big Idea: Likely to be looking for a new role now that she will be stepping down from Shine, the independent TV production company she founded after a successful but tempestuous spell as No. 2 at her father's U.K. satellite broadcaster BSkyB and then sold to 21st Century Fox in 2011; now being merged with Big Brother - maker Endemol and American Idol producer Core Media; seen as more business - proven than Lachlan and not phone hacking - tainted like James.

More than a century later, the 1945 Legislature adopted it as the official state motto.

«No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you never should trust experts,» complained Lord Salisbury more than a century ago.

Even though Nicklaus surpassed him as the game's best player, and Palmer had last won a major more than a half - century ago, his popularity never waned.

Very comprehensive, yet easy - to - understand, this business tool offers more than just the nuts and bolts of writing a business planthe author also provides invaluable insight through real - life examples illustrating key points and avoidable mistakes as well as cutting - edge information for the 21st century entrepreneur.

Our view: Full Senate should approve Mike Pompeo as secretary of state despite his hawkish outlook After more than two centuries, the list of cabinet nominees to be either rejected by the U.S. Senate or withdrawn from nomination is on the order of once...

The reality is, our organization has been focused on issues that are region - wide for more than a century, because we understand that regional vision, leadership, and collaboration is critical to the success of not just our local economy, but the B.C. and Canadian economies as well.

During the middle of the 18th Century and well into the beginning of the 19th Century India produced far more textiles — and usually much cheaper and of better quality — than did England, but a number of measures aimed at undermining Indian textile producers and protecting British textile producers (tariffs that almost always exceeded 50 %, for example, and by 1813 were as high as 85 %) meant that at some point in the first half of the 19th Century the British textile industry had become the most efficient in the world and was able largely to eliminate the Indian textile industry from global competition.

Three centuries later, in 1850 — 9, energy consumption had risen to 1,833 petajoules, a total more than 28 times as large as the earlier figure.

VICTORIA — After more than a century of unlimited donations, corporate cronyism and declining public faith in institutions, Big Money was finally banished from B.C. provincial and municipal elections today as bills 3 and 15 officially became law.

If we assume that disposable household income is currently half of GDP, eight years of real GDP growth of 6.9 % and real disposable household income growth of 7.7 % will only raise the household income share of GDP to 53.1 % in 2023, a little more than 3 percentage points higher and still below its 21st Century average and leaving China as dependent as ever on investment and the current account surplus.

«The Smith Barney name stood for investment excellence for three - quarters of a century, and Morgan Stanley Wealth Management will provide the first - class service that has distinguished Morgan Stanley as a firm for more than 75 years.

That seems doomed to fail, as more than a century of case law dating back to the early days of the railroad suggests that provincial measures that directly thwart interprovincial infrastructure may be overruled by federal jurisdiction using 92 (10)(c) and this would be a prime example of when it should be (and has historically) been used.

Supermarket cost war and Black Friday bargains motivate buyers to bring Xmas paying forward The ongoing grocery store cost war and on - line revenue drove the strongest British isles retail income progress in much more than a quarter of a century this thirty day period, as consumers rushed out to bag...

At the same time, humidity will likely push the city toward as many as 23 days at HHSI Category III by the end of the century, with a 1 - in - 20 chance of more than 30 days per year at this level.

VICTORIA — New Democrat Leader John Horgan and health spokesperson Judy Darcy released the following statement to mark World AIDS Day: «World AIDS Day has been recognized for more than a quarter century as an opportunity for people around the world to...

In 2013, the city had more than 95,000 residents and is known as the «Druid City» for the large number of water oak trees plants along the downtown streets in the 19th century.

From the moment its doors opened more than a century ago, the Lord & Taylor building on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan has stood as a monument to old - school retail.

«Give to the Red Cross» doesn't cut it with a growing number of people these days, though quite a few media organizations and civic leaders have urged people to send their money to the American Red Cross, as they have done for more than a century.

As Germany prepares to mark Karl Marx's 200th birth anniversary, the revolutionary philosopher's legacy remains divisive more than a quarter century after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

More than a century ago, Frederick Winslow Taylor brought his stopwatch and principles of scientific management to the office, instilling efficiency as the highest calling in what was then a factory for processing paperwork.

This decision should not be interpreted as an incipient feminism in Southern Baptist life (out of more than forty thousand churches, only a few dozen have female pastors), but rather as an affirmation of a pattern of cooperation that has served Baptist mission causes well for more than a century.

In the 20th century alone, more than 17 million people were killed as a result of atheistic movements (Stalin: 7 million; Hitler: 9 million; Khmer rouge: 1.2 million).

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.

Although atheism is semantically the rejection of the claim of an existence of a god, it is also the result of careful scrutiny of reality as explained and analyzed using the scientific method, which in the 21st century is far more reliable than what was used in 1st century bronze aged Palestine.

The history of Italian unification» Italian fascism having more than a decade's existence as a special place in radicalism; the role of the papacy in severely constraining manifest forms of statist rule; the cultural tradition of Italian major cities, which had autonomous forms of city development; and the weaknesses of Italy with respect to economic concentrations of power in the early twentieth century» all argue against a muscular totalitarianism.

The data on charter - school performance is perhaps mixed, but a half century of research proves, as Ravitch acknowledges, that «minority children in Catholic schools are more likely to take advanced courses than their peers in public schools, more likely to go to college, and more likely to continue on to graduate school.»

As mainline Protestantism ceased to be a culture - forming force in American public life, the void was filled by a new Catholic presence in the public square and, perhaps most influentially in electoral terms, by the emergent activism of evangelical, fundamentalist, and Pentecostal Protestantism in what would become known as the Religious Right» a movement that has formed a crucial part of the Republican governing coalition for more than a quarter - centurAs mainline Protestantism ceased to be a culture - forming force in American public life, the void was filled by a new Catholic presence in the public square and, perhaps most influentially in electoral terms, by the emergent activism of evangelical, fundamentalist, and Pentecostal Protestantism in what would become known as the Religious Right» a movement that has formed a crucial part of the Republican governing coalition for more than a quarter - centuras the Religious Right» a movement that has formed a crucial part of the Republican governing coalition for more than a quarter - century.

Paul Dirac, one of the giants of twentieth - century physics, went so far as to say that it was more important to have «beauty in one's equations» than to have them fit the experimental data.

And he repeatedly referred to Bostonians as a gritty people who would not give in to terrorism in the 21st century any more than they bowed to the British in the 18th.

Beyond the considerable body of research that has emerged in the past three decades which demonstrates that women played a far more generous role in the early Church than perhaps Neuhaus has imagined, my own Wesleyan holiness tradition has apparently escaped his ecumenical vision as well for it was already ordaining women in the nineteenth century.

When, two centuries ago, your Church began to feel the particular power of your heart, it might have seemed that what was captivating men's souls was the fact of their finding in you an element even more determinate, more circumscribed, than your humanity as a whole.

In the late 19th century, chocolate was seen as a health food as it contained much less sugar and more milk than it does today.

More than three centuries ago, when dealing with death was more a part of everyday life, John Donne asked: «What is so intricate, so entangling as deMore than three centuries ago, when dealing with death was more a part of everyday life, John Donne asked: «What is so intricate, so entangling as demore a part of everyday life, John Donne asked: «What is so intricate, so entangling as death?

They need to be read correctly, to be widely known and taken to heart as important and normative texts of the Magisterium, within the Church's Tradition... I feel more than ever in duty bound to point to the Council as the great grace bestowed on the Church in the 20th century.»»

This dilemma is far more important as we enter the twenty - first century than economic theories of how to achieve economic growth.

Even if all parties were to agree that American republicanism is not classically liberal, or that classical liberalism really is ontologically indifferent, or that the laws of nature and of nature's God are the foundation of constitutional order and that these are the same thing as natural law — even if, in other words, all parties were to agree to some version of a pristine American founding harmonious in principle with the truth of God and the human being — returning to the first principles of the eighteenth century isn't much more realistic than a return to the first principles of the thirteenth.

For more than a century now economics has been advanced and practiced as a science, on the model of physics and mathematics.