Sentences with phrase «over a century ago»

«All of the shoes that I design for the collection are based on the shoes we were making over a century ago.»

That stopped being the case over a century ago.

I suggest that the entrepreneurial community of today plays the role that art did over a century ago.

An approach to investing that began over a century ago, this field started as a way to avoid exposure to companies that contradicted the moral or ethical values of investors — think about industries such as tobacco, gambling or weapons.

These words were written over a century ago by an American who saw that it was money that put the nation's tangible wealth, its natural resources and labor, in motion.

Ever since their introduction to the United States over a century ago, credit unions have had a contentious relationship with the banking... Read More

As Anthony Trollope observed over a century ago in Phineas Finn, the fault of a prominent politician was «not arrogance, so much as ignorance that there is, or should be, a difference between public and private life.»

Over a century ago, Ahmad (as) emphatically declared that an aggressive «jihad by the sword» has no place in Islam.

Over a century ago Thoreau sounded this note from a hut beside Walden Pond: «Man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried.»

This was where Lyman Beecher began over a century ago when he wrote concerning alcoholism, «For verily we all have been guilty in this thing.»

Just over a century ago when a British boys» comic produced a handful of cards about famous Victorian... More

Just over a century ago when a British boys» comic produced a handful of cards about famous Victorian «stars», one was a preacher.

Fairbairn's work is instructive to us only as an additional indicator of how widespread the centrality of love was becoming over a century ago for understanding the divine nature, even though he did not address in any helpful way how this challenges traditional understandings of divine power.

Horace Bushnell understood this clearly over a century ago.

Over a century ago in England Samuel Wilberforce was so discouraged that for a time he avoided marriage, not wanting to beget children, «hostages to fortune,» he said, in so ill a world.

Until a little over a century ago the papacy was itself a temporal power, one of the major states of Italy, and it remains to this day a sovereign state recognized diplomatically by many nations.

Curiously, this position is similar to that of the great Julius Wellhausen, whose Prolegomena to the History of Ancient Israel, published over a century ago, put the documentary hypothesis on a firm footing and set the agenda of Old Testament studies down to the present.

Over a century ago the German scholar Otto Sheel recognized that, for Augustine, «the idea of absolute causality and omnipotence is raised to a position of greater importance than the Father's love.»

Founded over a century ago, Rabobank today is one of the world's largest banks with over $ 750 billion in assets.

Ever since the first Fig Newtons were made over a century ago, we've been one unique cookie.

Drawn from barrels aged in warehouses constructed over a century ago under Taylor's watchful eye, the taste is smooth, yet powerful and uncompromising, just like its namesake.

The McGah family's history in Northern California began over a century ago when E.W. McGah first put down roots in the San Francisco bay area.

The McGah family's history in Northern California began over a century ago when E.W. McGah first put down...

Many of our trusted brands were developed over a century ago by entrepreneurs who created quality foods and placed consumer satisfaction first.

Since the opening of the first St. Regis Hotel in New York City over a century ago by John Jacob Astor IV, the brand has remained committed to an uncompromising level of bespoke and anticipatory service for all of its guests, delivered flawlessly by signature St. Regis Butler Service.

This is their second, and they are three outs away from tying that mark set by the Tigers well over a century ago.

The famous tournament dates back to well over a century ago giving lower league clubs the chance to mix it up with the big boys of the Premier League.

In the year 1900, just over a century ago, one in every six American babies died before the age of one, and mothers were 100 times more likely to die giving birth than they are today.

Founded over a century ago, it is one of the oldest park districts in Illinois.

Carlisle has never been in the top 1000 baby names and has somehow reached popularity over a century ago — in 1893 — when it was used to name just 98 per a million babies.

The number of traffic fatalities in 2017 in New York City plummeted to the lowest level since record - keeping started over a century ago, city officials said — a decline led by a steep drop in pedestrian deaths, which fell by nearly a third from the year before.

Mayor de Blasio tugged at the heartstrings of all New Yorkers during his State of the City address when he spoke of his immigrant grandmother, Anna Briganti, who well over a century ago forsook the beauties of Italy «for an apartment at 205 East 17th Street in Manhattan, just a short walk from here... a place lacking the tranquil comforts of her childhood.»

«Holding Election Day one day during the work week is an outdated requirement that was established over a century ago,» she said.

The Irish Labour Party — founded by national hero James Connolly over a century ago — faces the prospect of annihilation in this week's election, despite having been part of a government that has delivered jobs and growth.

Visitors are often shocked to learn that, even while we no longer utilize wood mains, many of our neighborhoods are still being served by pipes laid over a century ago.»

The word barrier sounds formidable, but scientists didn't even know the blood - brain barrier existed until they discovered it by accident just over a century ago.

American Flamingos may be returning naturally to Florida after being extirpated over a century ago.

JUST over a century ago, a group of explorers set out from Britain on a mission that would cost many of them their lives.

Without risk there is no progress, as Wilbur and Orville Wright bravely demonstrated well over a century ago.

The population on Ball's Pyramid looks like the same species, but to be sure, researchers want to compare its DNA to that of museum specimens collected over a century ago.

First described over a century ago, Poposaurus is a «rauisuchian,» part of an extinct lineage of reptiles whose diverse array of members included the precursors of crocodiles and their closest relatives.

That visible clue, along with several others, prompted Alfred Wegener to propose over a century ago that the continents had once been joined in a single enormous landmass.

When it was discovered over a century ago, black phosphorus was considered relatively useless.

Nevertheless, the anatomical connection between the bones was not affected, confirming the original observations made over a century ago by their discoverers, that the La Ferrassie 1 individual was deliberately buried by other members of their social group.

Dr Reiko Tanaka, one of the study's authors from the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London, said: «It is amazing to think that an abstract concept for a shape devised by the mathematician Lord Kelvin over a century ago may be an important shape in nature, helping our skin to maintain its effectiveness as barrier.

The electric car had its heyday over a century ago.

Although African maize is infected by several virus species from at least six different families, there are two that stand out as the greatest threat to African food security: these are Maize streak virus [MSV]; family Geminiviridae, a virus species with an extremely small single - stranded DNA genome that was first discovered infecting African maize over a century ago; and Maize rough dwarf virus [MRDV], family Reoviridae, a virus species with a complex double - stranded RNA genome that until recently was thought to occur only in Europe and Asia.

The basic fact that rising concentrations of greenhouse gases result in global warming has been understood since it was predicted from physical laws over a century ago; specification of the magnitude and geographical distribution of the warming are elucidated by the twentieth century observations and calculations.

Debates raging over fishing regulations and habitat preservation are eerily similar to those over passenger pigeon exploitation over a century ago.

Discovered accidentally over a century ago, the phenomenon of superconductivity inspired a technological revolution.