Sentences with phrase «of other centuries»

The first Roman Catholic to serve in the role since the Reformation, Mr Martin - who underwent heart surgery in 2005 - has not been shy to dispose of other centuries - old traditions.

Or was it a disingenuous attempt to lump one modern thing (clinic bombings) with a bunch of others century old things, and consider them all equivalent.

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The Rosenthals say that core ethos won't change as the Sunset Marquis enters its second half - century in business, but they're already exploring the next evolution of other assets in the Raleigh portfolio.

«In the middle of the 20th century, it was the most famous, the most admired, the most widely respected company in the world,» says Quinn Mills, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School and the author of «The IBM Lesson» and other books about the company's history and culture.

Among spreading other conspiracy theories, Jones has said tragedies like the mass shootings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Conn., and Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colo., both in 2012, were hoaxes, propagated by opponents of the Second Amendment.

It was this capacity for holding its purchasing power and moving in the opposite direction of other asset classes that long made gold the ultimate safe haven, something investors going back five centuries to Jakob Fugger the Rich have recommended one hold in one's portfolio.

As in the other cases, painful austerity policies have given wings to the CUP — and it finds itself possibly holding the key to the aspirations of Catalan separatists determined to sever centuries - old ties with Spain.

Some of these destinations have stood for the better part of a century, while others are just getting started.

Scotland and England shared a monarch for a century before they united politically in 1707, and the queen remains head of state in Canada, Australia and several other former British colonies.

Piazza del Popolo It's said to be one of the best people - watching spots in the city (which, for Rome, says a lot)-- that is, if you can take your eyes off the 17th - century churches and Egyptian obelisk, among other sights.

For well over a century, a range of men's footwear brands — Grenson, Church's, John Lobb, Tricker's and Crockett & Jones, among others — have called the East Midlands region home, producing more or less the same shoes, more or less the same way.

The press release on Race Together bizarrely leads with the subheading «It began with one voice,» painting Howard Schultz as a visionary progressive for daring to discuss race — something others, especially people of color, haven't exactly been silent on in recent months or the last couple centuries.»

Relations between worker and employer are governed by a welter of state and federal laws and regulations drafted in the first half of the 20th century to prevent child labor and other abuses in factories and on farms.

Orban, who in common with other Eastern European leaders is anxious to show voters that they have not swapped half a century of rule from Moscow for diktat from Brussels, defended himself in the European Parliament on Wednesday.

As I've argued before, self - awareness is also the meta - skill of the 21st century: Among other benefits, self - aware people are happier with their careers and relationships, are better students, perform better at work and run more profitable companies.

The streaming site previously signed similar licensing deals with a range of movie studios, such as 20th Century Fox, Lionsgate, Viacom's Paramount, and Comcast's NBCUniversal, among others.

By the middle of the 19th century, notes Banner, the death penalty had been removed from «crime after crime until none of the northern states used it for any offense other than murder.»

In other words, pR1SE could be the missing link between tiny bits of DNA and viruses, potentially solving one of the greatest scientific mysteries of the past century.

A century from now the 400 million acres of farmland will have produced staggering amounts of corn, wheat, cotton, and other crops — and will continue to produce that valuable bounty, whatever the currency may be.

Alan Gould, Rosenblatt Securities, discusses what other media companies should merge on the heels of Disney and Twenty - First Century Fox's potential deal.

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.

CBS went on to pass on all of its other pilots, leaving HIMYD alive, though there had been little back - and - forth between CBS and studio 20th Century Fox TV over the past few days.

Peter Drucker, arguably the leading management thinker of the twentieth century, observed, «If a new venture does succeed, more often than not it is n a market other than the one it was originally intended to serve, with products and services not quite those with which it had set out that are bought in large part by customers it did not even think of when it started and used for a host of purposes besides the ones for which the products were first designed.»

While FM radio is over a century old and has been superseded by other broadcasting technologies — including satellite — it remains one of the most reliable forms of communication around.

And so millions of Americans wrapped their hands around shaker glasses, to drink millions of pints of mass - market beer, more than any other kind of alcohol, for the duration of the century.

Russian women, despite their former revolutionary fervor, typically receive flowers and chocolates from their significant others, having traded Soviet war songs for romantic dinners in the latter part of the twentieth century.

Our 7.3 billion numbers wreak havoc on the rest of the natural world as we cause extinction rates of other creatures at over 100 daily and hundreds of thousands by mid century.

«Without rapid cuts in CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions, we will be heading for dangerous temperature increases by the end of this century, well above the target set by the Paris climate change agreement,» Petteri Taalas, the WMO's secretary - general, said in a statement.

The nineteenth - century French economist Frédéric Bastiat said the difference between a good economist and a bad economist was that a bad economist «takes account of the visible effect; the other takes account both of the effects which are seen, and also of those which it is necessary to foresee.»

Crisis Economics is probably the most lucid and accessible attempt yet to place recent events into a global and historical context, exploring the deep structural roots that make it of a kind with other crises dating as far back as the 17th century.

While he was not as well - known as others, Lemelson, known as «Jerry,» was one of the most prolific inventors of the 20th century, with some 600 patents to his credit for products like automated warehouses, industrial robots, cordless telephones, fax machines, videocassette recorders, camcorders and the magnetic tape drive used in Sony's Walkman tape players.

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president.

An 11th - century emperor instituted a grid system where groups of five to 25 households kept tabs on each other and were empowered to arrest delinquents.

[As trade barriers have come down over the past half - century,] small countries can now gain the advantages of large markets through trading with other nations.

Vice's other shareholders include 21st Century Fox, which is currently trying to acquire full control of Sky, WPP Group, the marketing services giant, and Technology Crossover Ventures, a leading investor in digital businesses.

As for the British example at the end of the 19th Century, in those days currency was part of reserve accumulation, but much if not most reserves were in the form of gold or silver, and while Britain had the most important reserve currency, the difference between central bank holdings of sterling and central bank holdings of other gold - based currencies, like the franc, were pretty small relative to total trade.

The drive to break the power of landed aristocracies in Britain, France and other countries became the major political fight from the century spanning 1815 and World War I.

Downtown Bangor experienced a revival in the late 20th century with the opening of book and clothing stores, cafes and other businesses.

This is because in China the gap between lending and deposit rates during this century has been much higher than in other developing countries, probably as part of the process of recapitalizing the banks after the last banking crisis at the turn of the century.

This was the lesson taught by William Petty in the 17th century and used by economists ever since: The market price of land, a government bond or other security is calculated by dividing its expected income stream by the going rate of interest — that is, «capitalizing» its rent (or any other flow of income) into what a bank would lend.

But retirement specialists are just what broker - dealers and plan sponsors need now given the new DOL fiduciary rule and the growing number of lawsuits charging plan sponsors with excessive fees (at MIT, Yale and NYU among others) or self - dealing (Franklin Templeton, Neuberger Berman, American Century, New York Life).

«Twitter is one of the most widely used social media networks worldwide and despite the speed of technological innovation in the 21st Century, no other full - service bitcoin wallet offered this feature until now,» said Gene Kavner, founder and CEO of iPayYou as well as a former Amazon executive, as quoted by Pymnts.com.

In operation for over a century, today MERKUR sees close to 70 % of its product line exported to other parts of the world.

While some investors might view the lower output as disappointing, others no doubt see it as a reminder that gold is a finite resource, one of the many reasons why it's remained so highly valued for centuries.

As we entered into the 21st century, roots were planted that have created a shift towards customer centricity centered around initiatives such as customer experience, customer focus, voice of the customer, and numerous other phrases that describe customer centricity.

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21st Century Fox CEO James Murdoch is said to be eyeing a move to Disney if a deal transpires, possibly in the role of managing Sky, Star India and other international assets.

According to a survey by the Pew Research Center, Americans over the age of 64 are working more than any other time since the turn of the century.

The United States was a net contributor to the world stock of knowledge in the nineteenth century, and its innovations spread to other countries, given the absence of international IP protections.

Vice's other shareholders include 21st Century Fox, which is currently trying to acquire full control of Sky, the marketing services giant WPP Group and Technology Crossover Ventures, a leading investor in digital businesses.