Sentences with phrase «most of its long history»

For most of its long history, AKC could only depend on the integrity of the breeder when it accepted registration applications, and, although a vast majority of breeders were honest, stories abounded of unscrupulous puppy producers who obtained extra registration forms by falsely reporting the number of puppies in a litter, used forms received for one litter for puppies in other litters, and otherwise circumvented the system.

For most of the long history of the Law Society, discipline proceedings were not by hearing panels applying the Rules of Professional Conduct.

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Now one of the most prominent jeans companies in the United States, Lee actually has a long — and eclectic — history.

If you consider the history of how long it takes for most technology partnerships to make a market impact, the ink on the alliance between IBM and Box is barely dry.

Not long ago, we would never have imagined enduring Hurricane Harvey, one of the most tragic national disasters in recorded history.

Situated on the mouth of the Fraser River, this community boasts a long fishing history but this hasn't scored it points with most buyers — until recently.

The tale begins with the fact that one of the most celebrated authors in U.S. history, Mark Twain, has long been suspected of having ghostwritten The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant.

However, these dark days are now long gone, with websites such as Transunion and Experian offering comprehensive breakdowns of your credit history and, most importantly, allowing you to make changes for the better.

Most of us instinctively assume that technology relentlessly marches forward, but there have been times before now in human history — after the Egyptians built the Pyramids, for instance, or after the multiple advances of the Roman Empire — when the civilizations that followed could no longer do what had been done before, and perhaps there's a complacency and arrogance in assuming that this won't happen again.

«In general I would say the governments that are most high profile I am dubious about the moral scruples of their activities through the long history of UK, US and Russia,» responded Kogan.

Clorox's history of dividend growth and strong fundamentals earn it a spot in our most recent Dividend Growth and Focus List — Long Model Portfolios as well.

With a long history of industry - leading profits, improving ROIC, and an attractive valuation, Southwest Airlines (LUV: $ 39 / share) is on July's Most Attractive Stocks list and is this week's Long Ilong history of industry - leading profits, improving ROIC, and an attractive valuation, Southwest Airlines (LUV: $ 39 / share) is on July's Most Attractive Stocks list and is this week's Long ILong Idea.

Bernanke has led the institution through one of the most perilous times in economic history, and Obama acknowledged that he has «stayed a lot longer than he wanted or he was supposed to.»

Building on our long history of mentoring young women from around the world, Notebook Mentoring has focused for the three consecutive year on pairing the daughters of military service members with a select group of Most Powerful Women in a special afternoon session.

I suggest looking for the most stable countries with a long history of depositor protection.

History has shown that investing in stocks is one of the easiest and most profitable ways to build wealth over the long - term.

In 2016, we added two new Model Portfolios, Exec Comp Aligned With ROIC and Safest Dividend Yields, to go along with our longstanding Most Attractive & Most Dangerous Stocks Model Portfolio, which has a long history of outperformance.

At MassMutual, we have strong financial ratings and a long history of helping people protect what matters most.

Model 2 — Income Portfolios that are designed to generate income for their owners often consist of investment - grade, fixed income obligations of large, profitable corporations, real estate (most often in the form of Real Estate Investment Trusts, or REITs), treasury notes, and, to a lesser extent, shares of blue - chip companies with long histories of continuous dividend payments.

We believe the main factor that drove the most significant bull market in U.S. stock market history (household debt that enabled unrestricted consumption of everything from goods and services to homes) will reverse and continue the deleveraging process that will more than likely continue for a very long time.

Meanwhile, examining the sectors in which institutions hold their largest «overweight» relative to the S&P 500, institutions are more concentrated in high - beta sectors than at any time since the start of Morgan Stanley's data, and long - short funds are also near their most leveraged long positions in history.

Most traditional lenders will offer conventional loans to candidates with good credit and a steady job history (defined as two years with the same employer), as long as you can offer a down payment of at least ten percent.

Investors are best served when grim headlines are in the news by remembering that geopolitical risks are a regular part of investing and that a long history of geopolitical developments shows us that holding a well - diversified portfolio may buffer the short - term market moves that are most often the result.

It's taken a very long time, but one of America's most beloved personalities may have to finally address the ugliest chapter in his history: numerous allegations of sexual abuse.

Dec. 18, 2013 — The most complete sequence to date of the Neanderthal genome, using DNA extracted from a woman's toe bone that dates back 50,000 years, reveals a long history of interbreeding among at least four different types of early humans living in Europe and Asia at that time, according to University of California, Berkeley, scientists.

The acute sufferings of that time brought to a head the misgivings about God's providence in history which had been aroused by long - continued misfortunes and disappointments; for these sufferings not only fell upon a people which had made sincere and persistent efforts to observe the law of God in its corporate life, but they fell most heavily upon the best members of the community.

122:1.2 Mary, the earth mother of Jesus, was a descendant of a long line of unique ancestors embracing many of the most remarkable women in the racial history of Urantia.

The most incisive discussion of the causes of WWI is supplied by Raymond Aron in his long 1951 essay «From Sarajevo to Hiroshima,» available in The Dawn of Universal History.

Psychology: Christian psychology has a long and distinguished history, but the modern discipline was founded by Sigmund Freud, whose unconscious drives most certainly did not include a nature driving towards perfection by the infusion of grace.

Usually, not long after these rosy predictions of our future are made, humanity enters into one of the most violent and bloody eras of its history.

If God has died in our history then he is no longer present in the Word of faith, and at most he can be no more than a nostalgic memory of an age that is past.

If we look at the history of the Catholic church which has a greater and longer record regarding Priests, they for the most part received a salary.

All I am saying, is that historically the church, like most churches, have an infinitely longer tradition, goal and history of positive spiritual guidance and positive impacts on the world than they have negative.

His Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh on The Presence of Eternity: History and Eschatology (Harper, 1957) and various books of essays — the most notable collections in English being Faith and Understanding (Harper & Row, 1969) and Existence and Faith (World, 1960)-- show over how long a period, and in relation to how many challenges, he worked out his own presentation of the Word of God to our time.

Cage (being the nephew of a certain Coppola) has a long history of putting himself in roles that aren't bound to be the most fantastically written.

This decades - long campaign, the brainchild of Palestinian and leftist propagandists, aims to delegitimize the Israeli state by comparing it to some of history's most notorious regimes — Nazi Germany, apartheid South Africa, and, to leave no stone unturned, that of King Herod.

Luke wrote late enough that the immediate expectation of the end had been displaced by reckoning with the long haul of history and, most significantly for our purposes, with the long haul of the Christian life.

He had long explored the complexities of human nature in history and society, but in this book he turned the problem around and looked at the subject which was involved, turning from the objective self which most analysts look at to the subjective self behind the object.

The First World War is one of the most iconic parts of our recent history: trenches and zeppelins, gasmasks and dug outs, It's a Long Way to Tipperary and Blackadder Goes Forth.

In the beginnings of history it was the forces of nature which were first so reflected and which in the course of further evolution underwent the most manifold and varied personifications among the various peoples... But it is not long before, side by side with the forces of nature, social forces begin to be active — forces which confront man as equally alien and at first equally inexplicable, dominating him with the same apparent natural necessity as the forces of nature themselves.

I feared that the Holocaust would be theorized and depersonalized; perhaps most of all I feared its incorporation as one more instance in the long series of catastrophes in Jewish history, from the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem to the pogroms in Russia.

That most Christians have been anti-Semitic throughout this long history is no longer news, and is hardly controversial (though the nature of the connections between our traditional anti-Semitism and our Christian faith is a matter for debate and further clarification).

How far this creativity can go in creating the human level in the case of any one individual depends partly upon his innate capacity but most of all upon two other features: (1) how wide and deep is the volume of history that reaches him, that is, how abundant and coherent are the values that have been accumulated in the history he inherits and (2) how deep is the communion he is able to have with other persons who embody these meanings accumulated through a long sequence of generations.

On the other hand, it must be reiterated that the Old Testament canon reflects the full range of the life of that people; that the spirit of Esther was provoked in their history, again and again; that Jews have known in their long history one Haman after another (the most recent conspicuous Haman being Adolph Hitler); and that if Esther isn't history or theology in any direct sense, it nevertheless informs us more richly of the life of man and points up one of the universal deterrents to the exercise of the love of God.

In this case they do not give us the slightest hint that the life to which they relate was the greatest life ever lived and marked the most important moment in the long history of mankind.

The events of these two decades — including Galileo's brilliant effort to harmonize science and scripture in his «Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina,» the Church's disastrous decree of 1616 branding Copernicanism as heretical, the tolerant pontificate of Urban VIII that encouraged Galileo to write the Dialogue and allowed its publication, Urban's reversal of mind that led to the cruel and irrational trial and conviction — constitute one of the most important chapters in the long history of the interplay of science and religion.

Long ago Leibniz saw this with wonderful clarity, but he hid the importance of his insight by interweaving it with some of the most extraordinary fantasies in intellectual history, as well as with the consequences of some pseudo-axioms that he for the first time conceived with full sharpness so that their logical implications were apparent.

Liberal Christians have a long history of political action, most recently in connection with civil rights and the war in Vietnam.

Reuters: Strong Swiss franc forces Reformed church group out of Calvin's city Geneva The Swiss city of Geneva has a long history of affording refuge to religious dissenters, most notably the 16th - century reformer John Calvin, but the strong Swiss franc currency has made it hard on his followers.

I know there are those who will accuse me of exaggeration when I say this, but, until baseball appeared, humans were a sad and benighted lot, lost in the labyrinth of matter, dimly and achingly aware of something incandescently beautiful and unattainable, something infinitely desirable shining up above in the empyrean of the ideas; but, throughout most of the history of the race, no culture was able to produce more than a shadowy sketch of whatever glorious mystery prompted those nameless longings.