Sentences with phrase «on by centuries»

Instead of facing down a flood from God, they're largely threatened by conditions brought on by centuries of human expansion, exploitation and pollution.

They've been improved on by centuries of work and changed man's understanding of the world.

Not exact matches

And as if that wasn't enough, Hulu — which is owned by Walt Disney Co. (DIS), 21st Century Fox (FOX), and Comcast's (CMCSA) NBCUniversal — took another swipe at its larger rival on Wednesday with the announcement that it will start offering a commercial - free version of its Hulu Plus premium streaming service, a service that will soon include a bolstered roster of movies, thanks to the Epix deal, in addition to Hulu's wide range of original and network television programming.

For centuries, sales leaders stood by rigidly structured methods when honing in on a potential customer.

Forty - four major law firms and 55 corporate legal departments are teaming up to boost diversity in the legal profession by drawing on two inspirational figures: the late Dan Rooney, beloved owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and Arabella Mansfield, a 19th century women's rights activist who became the first American woman admitted into the legal profession in 1869.

The philosophy of stoicism, founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early 3rd century BC, asserts that virtues (such as wisdom) should be based on behavior, rather than words.

By the 19th century, the buckles on our aristocrat's shoes would have been replaced with laces, but otherwise, they are not unlike the black lace - ups that appeared this year, in Louis Vuitton's fall 2012 collection.

By the time the game finally started, on a steamy Texas Saturday this September, there were 87,500 people in the stadium and thousands more in the streets, all eager for the rematch between Alabama and Texas A&M — the «game of the century,» at least for that week.

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.

In the 20th century companies could be leaders in a market for decades by just focusing on their core product (s).

The above chart, excerpted from a study on the American manufacturing sector by economists Martin Baily and Barry Bosworth, shows that manufacturing is going through the same transformation that agriculture underwent a century ago.

It's hard to put an exact time on it, but I do think we can still hit the Paris Agreement's target of net zero emissions by the second half of this century.

Today, at 2 p.m. Eastern, the President will sign the 21st Century Cures Act — approved by the Senate on Dec. 7 by a vote of 94 - to - 5, overwhelmingly passed by the House the week before, and seemingly supported by every pharma company, medical institution, healthcare advocate and their mothers.

The Girl Scouts of the USA has been around for more than a century, but for much of the venerable institution's tenure, if you wanted to get your hands on a box of Thin Mints or Samoas, you had to cross your fingers for a door - to - door visit from a local troop or a sign - up sheet to be circulated through your office by a supportive parent.

Though thick, lavishly illustrated Sunday papers became popular in the United States during the late 19th century as a form of weekend leisure, religious pressure to ban labour and trade on Sundays assured that Saturday papers remained the more popular weekend reading in Canada — something cemented by the passing of the federal Lord's Day Act in 1906.

Citing studies on disruptive innovation by the likes of 20th - century economist Joseph Shumpeter, he makes an analogy with the energy industry.

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.

«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.

Comcast offered 12.50 pounds in cash per Sky share on Tuesday, well above the 10.75 pounds Twenty - First Century Fox Inc - run by Roberts» rival Rupert Murdoch - had agreed to pay for the British company.

He will continue working on the Fox and FX shows produced by 20th Century Fox Television, a spokesman for Murphy said Wednesday.

By the 20th century, governments all over the world were engaged in an endless war on noisy people and things.

From Miami, the jet will whisk you away, crisscrossing the globe, hitting five continents on a 25 - day voyage to places like Easter Island, with its mystical «moai» statues; Nicaragua, to tour a volcano by helicopter; Australia, where you'll taste wine in the Margaret River Valley; and Tbilisi, Georgia, for a private choral performance at a sixth - century church.

And the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates they could rise by another meter or more by the end of this century.

This new title applies the same strengths to a broader subject — the history of contemporary economic thought — by focusing on the men and women who shaped it, from Victorian England through the end of the 20th century.

The Journal, citing sources familiar with the matter, said that a deal by Disney to purchase some of 21st Century Fox's assets was «gaining momentum» — in line with a CNBC report from last month that said the two sides haven't completely given up on striking an agreement.

He says that artificial intelligence combined with data gathered by billions of sensors will bring on an «information revolution,» that will benefit people more than the 19th century Industrial Revolution.

The initial exchange ratio of 0.2745 Disney shares for each 21st Century Fox share was set based on an estimate of such tax liabilities to be covered by an $ 8.5 billion cash dividend to 21st Century Fox from the company to be spun off.

By the early 20th century, bandwagons were commonplace in political campaigns, and «jump on the bandwagon» had become a derogatory term used to describe the social phenomenon of wanting to be part of the majority even when it means going against one's principles or beliefs.

By looking to Europe, which has meticulous data collection practices and a history of paid leave stretching back to the 19th century, researchers have been getting a better and better handle on the extent to which varying amounts of paid leave can save kids» lives.

A trade war triggered by safeguard tariffs would open a new wound in the global trading system, because it would unravel almost a quarter of a century of discipline and dethrone the WTO as the arbiter of global trade and a check on protectionism.

By imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, U.S. President Donald Trump is proposing a 19th century strategy in the context of a 21st century global economy.

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 consensus on these two is evinced by countless research papers dedicated to monetary policy strategy and implementation in the past quarter - century, compared with a relative handful on the design of countercyclical fiscal policy.

By imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, President Donald Trump is proposing a 19th century strategy in the context of a 21st century global economy.

Inadequate flood protection infrastructure, which right now might not contain high tides in El Nino years; Lack of action on annual sediment removal from spring freshets, which each year move over 30 million m3 of sediment and leave about 3 million m3 of silt in the navigation and secondary channels of the lower reaches; and, By the end of this century sea levels at the mouth of the river could potentially rise more than one meter due to climate change overtopping the diking system.

Program supported by Ontario government focuses on youth leadership, 21st century skills and social innovation

New CEO plans to grow Realogy by focusing on technology and data Realogy, the $ 5.8 - billion - dollar owner of residential brokerages across the country, including Corcoran, Coldwell Banker and Century 21, faces challenges on many fronts, but new CEO Ryan Schneider plans to leverage technology and data to move the company forward.

According to two sources briefed on parent company 21st Century Fox's outside probe of the Fox News executive, led by New York — based law firm Paul, Weiss, Kelly has told investigators that Ailes made unwanted sexual advances toward her about ten years ago when she was a young correspondent at Fox.

It is based primarily on the growth model developed by Japan in the twentieth century, and it has been implemented in various forms by many countries.

It is based primarily on the growth model developed by Japan in the 20th Century.

Employee stock ownership of different magnitudes, from 5 - 25 % in stock market companies to 30 - 100 % in small businesses, appears in companies throughout the U.S., with plans designed by local entrepreneurs and companies based on their specific conditions, given the many formats that the U.S. government has recognized over two and a half centuries.

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder.

If we stay on our current emission pathway, this will change: The metro region will likely see 2 to 7 extremely hot days on average over the next 5 to 25 years, 4 to 17 such days likely by mid-century, and 11 to 59 days — nearly two months — over 95 °F likely by the end of the century.

Canada's tax rate on corporate profits has fallen by more than 14 percentage points since the turn of the century, to just 15 percent this year.

Looking over three centuries of Greek experience, Aristotle found a perpetual triangular sequence of democracy turning into oligarchy, whose members made themselves into a hereditary aristocracy — and then some families sought to take the demos into their own camp by sponsoring democracy, which in turn led to wealthy families replacing it with an oligarchy, and so on.

I just wanted to make you aware that Berkshire is operating within a larger economy and that the most important climate analysis, economics analysis, from Nicholas Stern indicates that on our current path, by the end of this century, 30 percent loss in global GDP is possible.

The next century will largely be determined by the company's response to aluminum's growing usage in key end markets, in turn, mitigating the effects of spot prices on operations.

Smith Barney, since the early nineteenth century was intent on helping the individual to invest by beginning with recommended low risk mutual funds for the novice investor.

The Keynesian Perspective The «animal spirits» idea that French refers to represents another take on bubbles that was coined by the early 19th century economist John Maynard Keynes.

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