Sentences with phrase «only about a generation»

The last of the Moslem states disappeared in 1492, only about a generation after the Koran had supplanted the Christ in St. Sophia.

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If you'd only heard about Old Spice before 2010, you might be forgiven for thinking of it as a brand for an older generation — back then, it was a brand largely unnoticed by young consumers.

But somehow, Seventh Generation managed not only to survive but to thrive, as have the two entrepreneurs — although the beliefs of both men, and their philosophies about entrepreneurship in general and socially responsible businesses in particular, have changed in ways neither would have thought possible.

Although NeXT only shipped about 50,000 units and eventually dropped out of the hardware business, the company profoundly influenced the current generation of technology.

The report indicated that while more than 78 percent of organizations have engaged in lead generation programs throughout last year, only about 17 percent of these companies are actually meeting their lead generation goals.

In essence, boards need to adopt the perspective of owners who worry about not only today's shareholders but also future generations.

In the same test group, which included about 8,000 respondents globally, only 47 percent of older generations said tech has given them a better work - life balance and improved relationships.

A Tesla representative said that Musk's comments about the unsafe car referred to only that first Roadster that he bought, and not to the first generation of Roadster vehicles.

The one opportunity here is that 34 percent of Millennials do care about whether brands use social media; only 16 percent of people in older generations care.

A Canadian 15 - year - old named William Gadoury only furthered our concerns about the next generation, by using historical clues to possibly discover the long - lost Mayan City he calls «The Fire Mouth» by analyzing satellite imagery on Google maps.

Their lived experience of the effects of contraception, abortion, divorce, and infidelity on their generation has made them passionate about the need for our entire culture - not only Catholics - to embrace the challenge andauthentic freedom embodied in the fullness of the Church's teaching on marriage, family, and sexuality.

Thus, church and society are the chief areas of Christian concern; politics and political economics are, and must be, their servants, else they will follow Mammon entirely, trailing along, often generations behind; only appearing to be innovators., That is why the church can and must speak about «social salvation,» and do so wisely.

Isn't it also true that we are here today, that we are who we are, in the condition in which we find ourselves, because we also had biological and spiritual ancestors who sat on their hands, who cared only for themselves, who thought little about the impact of their actions on future generations?

And only our radicals didn't learn a lot from what we've found out over the last generation about horribly monstrous and massively murderous communism really was.

In the generation before Scotus, Thomas Aquinas argued that, although we have to use the same language to talk about both creation and its Creator, the things we say can only be true analogously in the two cases.

What an innumerable number have felt the need of going further than the Socratic ignorance — presumably because they felt that it was impossible for them to stay there; for in every generation how many men are there that are capable, even for only a month, of enduring and existentially expressing ignorance about everything?

Ann Svennungsen, president of the FTE and a former senior pastor in the program, says that «if we are to raise up the next generation of pastoral leaders, pastors must be intentional not only about inviting people to consider ministry, but also about retaining those trained for ministry through times of disillusionment.»

Put no hope in the younger generation unless you have listened very carefully and heard that this only will happen in the next generation provided that someone from the older generation, you and I — the theologians, the thinkers, the teachers, the preachers, the progressive Christians — insist that this generation is brought up with, confronted daily with, required to think about the new questions and the new insights.

Christian faith is not inherited; each generation, each individual, must learn faith anew.11 Recent Protestant innovations in membership procedures and sacramental practices are only the logical extension of long - dysfunctional assumptions about the faith formation of persons in the home, in Sunday School, and in the church.

They had only heard about the «workshop» through generations of storytelling and sharing.

If the generation would only concern itself about its task, which is the highest thing it can do, it can not grow weary, for the task is always sufficient for a human life.

It takes great care to list generations of biblical figures supposedly all the way from Adam, and even if you account for individuals living for hundreds of years and God's «day» being like a 1000 years, you're still only up to about 13,000 years, at most.

Not so long ago we thought that at best there were only about five thousand Jews in Poland, almost all of them being aged Holocaust survivors, who would be the final generation of Polish Jews.

It takes only one generation... for an inference about experience to become a dogma.»

It seems to the writer rather unlikely that so dynamic a figure and influence in the early church as Paul was should have faded into near oblivion, only to be revived by the publication of a book about him, nearly a generation after his death.

this post melts my heart Kristen... not only because it's your brother's favorite recipe but because you didn't even know it existed before the holidays... and now you have it in your possession... i think this is what i love about food the most: it's connection to people not only from one generation to the next, but to all cultures as well... the era, «before babies» and «after babies», what was happening in lives, etc., it's exactly the story behind the recipe itself... and now your children will pass it along to their children, telling the story about how you didn't even know it existed but it's a family favorite... i am doing a happy dance for you!!

K - 12 schools have a special role in not only reducing, recovering, and recycling food waste on their premises, but also in educating the next generation about recovering wholesome excess food for donation and about reducing food waste to conserve natural resources.

The menu dabbles in the carbohydrates of Germany (tiny twists of leek spaetzle) and Italy (hearty chickpea - flour cavatelli) because the only rule about this generation of steakhouse is to play by its own rules.

Generations of coaches have spoken piously about the benefits of sport to society, but only now, perhaps, with the appearance of a new attitude, can their words take on a true meaning.

Simply one of the most gifted midfielders of his generation, Fabregas can do just about everything and is still only 27.

Though articles and statistics on the Sandwich Generation are still only quoting information about Baby Boomers, not yet acknowledging those of us in Generation X who have been shoved quickly and unexpectedly into these roles.

It happens only every generation or so, that stunning upset they talk about for years and years.

«You're not only cleaning up waste; you're talking about distributed generation of oil all over the world.»

Because this is only a small proportion of the genome, Surani says most epigenetic changes brought about by our environment are very unlikely to affect future generations, but that there may be a small window of opportunity for some of these to be passed on.

As of now, there are no regulations controlling the generation of junk, only recommendations about minimizing it.

Generation from wind power in the region rapidly plummeted from 1.7 gigawatts to only 300 megawatts (1 megawatt is enough to power about 250 average - size houses).

Only about 5 million years ago human beings and chimps shared a common ancestor, and we still have much behavior in common: namely, a long period of infant dependency, a reliance on learning what to eat and how to obtain food, social bonds that persist over generations, and the need to deal as a group with many everyday conflicts.

A group of scientists claim to have found a sign of radiation from the very first generation of stars, only about 180 million years after the Big Bang — just a blink of an eye to the cosmos.

It spread much more rapidly than hunting and gathering did so many generations before, but essentially followed the same pattern: sweeping into Europe and North Africa, leaving out only the western edges of both continents about 200 generations ago.

In addition, the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine will launch a comprehensive outreach program intended to not only train the next generation of collaborative, multi-disciplinary scientists but also to engage the community in a dialogue about the ethics of research and endeavor to inform and educate the public about our scientific and medical progress and aspirations.

Colleen: I think a lot about the world that Ellie's generation is inheriting — a climate that is in crisis and a world in which true wellness is still something that largely only the elite can pursue.

United States About Blog The XY Planning Network is the leading organization of fee - only financial advisors who are focused on working with Generation X and Generation Y clients.

The jokes hit upon every elementary school kid's favourite subjects: comic books, movies about comic books, sex (but only some vague notion of sex — as if viewing a porn video through a scrambled pay - per - view feed or, for today's generation, via a slow - to - buffer WiFi connection).

In the end, there is something deeply tragic about a war started by one generation, only to be finished by the next.

Up there with The Goonies, Gremlins and the like, Fred Dekker's adventure about a brave neighborhood gang of kids who happen to be the only ones knowledgeable about taking on monsters will take you back and it's great to share with this generation.

And I'm only telling you her age because I'm playing Duana right now and asking about Rosanna for that generation.

After all, overstated or not, a generation's affections have yielded a delightful disc holding a long overdue widescreen feature presentation, worthwhile recycled extras, and an inspired cast and crew reunion you can only dream about your childhood favorite getting.

Consequently, it can be very awkward indeed for parents trying to figure out exactly how to respond to a youngster's natural curiosity about his or her roots, when they can only be traced back several generations to somewhere around Emancipation.

But I only managed to see two: the stirring, beautifully - photographed, heroically feminist «The Eagle Huntress,» about a 13 - year - old who becomes the first woman in 12 generations who hunts with an eagle in her Mongolian nomadic tribe.

@uchihasilver: — i had 3U on 3ds — after about 20 hrs i went to wiiU — and IT WAS SIMPLY AMAZEBALLS — i put like 500 hrs in — played 4U on 3ds but I use the circle pad pro (got ta get one if you really wan na spend HRS in it)-- but — i just cant sit there for 500 hrs — staring and and un-ergonomically grasping the 3ds — a shame really (after about 140 hrs i just had to leave it be)-- i just ai nt interested in X — i cant go back to 3ds for it (at this point in the 8th generation)-- such a shame — there are a few newer monster hunters on wiiU that are Japanese only — but — i just ai nt trying to play MH in Japanese (haha not my cup of tea)