Sentences with phrase «over a century later»

These arose partly from the fact that the Manchu Dynasty, then ruling the Empire, was beginning to show the first signs of the disintegration which was to end it over a century later and, as one of these symptoms, was timorous of anything which carried the least flavor of rebellion.

But well over a century later, there has still never been an ethnically Chinese MP - and despite a Chinese population that has swollen to an estimated 347,000, there remains a visible absence of Chinese faces in British political life.

This description is not far from what E.P. Thompson, over a century later, described in his essay, «Time, Work - Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism» [7].

[4] And well over a century later, we see Paddy Ashdown, leader of the newly formed Liberal Democrats, returning to the idea of the labour - managed firm: «in some cases, the present situation will be reversed... with workers employing capital and even hiring their own management».

Well over a century later, memory is far from understood.

Over a century later, research into Alzheimer's disease still revolves around efforts to understand those mysterious plaques and tangles.

Over a century later, liquid helium is an invaluable coolant for MRI scanners, and the gas also has applications in nuclear power, deep - sea diving and (of course) party balloons.

It wasn't recognized as being part of the Sun until the eclipse in 1724 and then verified over a century later in 1842.

Over a century later, it is the oldest continuously operating bar in the state of Indiana.

Over a century later, Mavis is celebrating her 118th birthday, and the over-protective Dracula fears her finally venturing out into the world.

If there's one thing the movies still like to do over a century later, it's putting human beings into rocket ships and firing them like bullets into the inky,...

Over a century later and just a few minutes drive away, our nation's deadliest school shooting would occur in Sandy Hook in an incident where most of the fatalities occurred in two unlocked classrooms.

Over a century later, Be Kind to Animals Week ® is still celebrated annually during the first full week of May and is the longest - running, most successful humane education campaign in American history

Over a century later, Be Kind to Animals Week ® is still celebrated annually during the first full week of May and is the longest - running, most successful humane education campaign in...

It was constructed at the height of the Incan Empire in 1450 but abandoned just over a century later in 1572 after the Spaniards arrived in Peru.

Built at the height of the Incan Empire in 1452 but abandoned just over a century later, this ancient mountaintop citadel was only discovered in 1911 and archaeologists are still trying to work out what it all means.

At the same time, the distinct encounters of the settlers in Algoa Bay or the Natal colony laid the groundwork for the system of white minority rule — Apartheid — that was codified over a century later.

[6] Now, over a century later, the descendants of the Métis people seek a declaration in the courts that Canada breached its obligation to implement the promises it made to the Métis people in the Manitoba Act.

Not exact matches

There are many ironies: Germany, which so frightened Europe for nearly a century, as it had in late Roman times, is now being beseeched virtually to take economic suzerainty over chunks of the continent where the physical German occupiers in bygone days were violently unwelcome.

The consumer brand that Schultz has built over a quarter - century — stepping out of the CEO job in 2000, only to return eight years later — has never been stronger.

In 2002, before the sale of PayPal even went through, Musk started voraciously reading about rocket technology, and later that year, with $ 100 million, he started one of the most unthinkable and ill - advised ventures of all time: a rocket company called SpaceX, whose stated purpose was to revolutionize the cost of space travel in order to make humans a multi-planetary species by colonizing Mars with at least a million people over the next century.

Over the past century, monetary policy strategies have evolved in response to changing realities, from the panics and depressions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries that led to the creation of the Federal Reserve to the Great Depression, from Bretton Woods and subsequent battles to contain inflation to the dominance of inflation targeting today (Williams 2014, 2015a).

Many Canadians would initially guess Asia Pacific immigration to Canada began in the second half of the 19th century with the arrival of thousands of Chinese who came over first for the gold rush and later to build the Canadian Pacific Railway.

The debate over exactly how many Christians were persecuted and martyred may seem irrelevant centuries later.

Willett, who taught at the University of Chicago Divinity School and who was later to become a controversial figure in the battle over the new «higher biblical criticism,» was already an editor at The Christian Century.

Later in the 2nd century AD, there were more manifestations of Roman authority over other churches.

Behind them, they had left the magnificent Anglo - Catholic edifice of St Barnabas, built, with no expense spared, in the late nineteenth century and further glorified over subsequent decades with the addition of rich furnishings: a dazzling reredos in the Italianate style, a fine collection of stained glass, ornate statues and glittering banners.

(It just about managed to do so, only reviving when the Jesuits took it over later in the century, and today's University College Dublin is proud to count Newman as its founder.)

(Exodus 3:13 - 14) In consonance with this traditional attitude, the Jews, from reverential motives, substituted adonai, meaning «lord,» for the sacred name in their reading of the Scriptures; as a consequence, in the thirteenth century Christian Hebraists mistakenly used the consonants of the name jhwh with the Hebrew vowels of adonai, thus getting Jehovah; but behind this later mystification lay in primitive times the recognized unwillingness of any god to surrender possession of his secret name, lest the possessor thereby gain control over him.

So, for instance, in 17th - century Europe a huge dispute arose over the Hebrew vowel points and accents, which were not originally part of the Old Testament texts but were inserted by the Masorete scribes hundreds of years later.

Advances in cosmological science over the latter half of the 20th century began to reveal that when the universe came into existence, (more on that later), the fundamental forces it was birthed with were apparently «fine - tuned» to allow for the emergence of life.

It was common in the nineteenth century and even later to set Darwin over against Lamarck or vice versa, and by this means to point up the contrast between the inner and the outer orientation of evolutionary thinking.

A full 20 years later, after Judas and a successor brother, Jonathan, had died in battle, a third brother, Simon, took over, and through his diplomacy achieved Judean independence, establishing what would become a full century of Jewish sovereignty.

Starting with thermodynamic closure, discovered in the 19th century but well tested on enough systems this century for a binomial yes / no test of existnce of magic agencies, over quentum mechanics (no hidden variables such as magic agencies) to now latest cosmology.

As to when this idea that people weren't actually JUST heterosexual is a little more difficult to point to because same - sex relationships are all over ancient documents but it appears the concept came about circa - 1700s and the actual word homosexual came out a century and a half later.

Anticipating much of the current controversy over the worship of technological progress that has characterized the end of the twentieth century, sixteen years later this book is still squarely in the middle of the debate.

Our physicality involved a necessary self - preservation instinct that led to protection of one's own self or kind over against that which was defined as other — a view not too dissimilar from what Cornel West develops in the late twentieth century as the «normative gaze that tends toward universalization of one «s own kind to the detriment of otherness.

it was written over decades from the mid to late first century.

It remains only to say that alteration of the wording of much of Christian worship, with the eradication of sub-Christian ideas that have been allowed over the centuries to creep in and still remain to deform worship, and with the necessary implementation of the traditional rites by new vistas of divine truth that have been vouchsafed to later ages, not least our own, is an urgent task for today's Christian fellowship.

(a) the Pentateuch was composed over many centuries through these four oral traditions, which were later written down;

I think one of the major problems with it, is that it was formulated in the late 1800's, before many significant archaeological discoveries over the following century that contradict the theory.

As the debate has unfolded over the past century and a half, the center of controversy has shifted from earlier to later segments of the narrative from Genesis to 2 Kings.

Many centuries later John Henry Newman, in part stimulated by the Tractarian controversies over the rival claims of the State and secular learning versus the claims of theology, came to a similar conclusion about the primacy of theology without having to reject secular learning.

The ISIS assault on his people, he told me, was but the latest of eight different assaults on Chaldean Catholics over the last century, which have reduced what was once a population of three million to about 180,000.

Apart from the guardianship of the Church over many centuries, it is hard to see whence would have derived the resources that later gave rise to modern science, the Renaissance, and the Enlightenment.

Built in the early 19th century over previous constructions, the shrine was in danger of collapse and barely held together by iron girders added decades later.

A half - century after Gregory I, Nicholas I (reigned 858 - 867), also later canonized, insisted on the authority of his see in all the Catholic Church and over all governments.

Chinese Christians have treasured the gospel hymns brought to them by 19th - century missionaries, choosing them over songs using Chinese folk tunes or composed later by Chinese Christians and in a Chinese idiom.)

As with other pa - ssages in Josephus relating to Christian themes concern remains over whether the pa - ssage was part of Josephus's original text or instead a later addition — it can be dated back no further than the early 3rd century when it is quoted by Origen in Contra Celsum.

Then over three centuries later Rome collected together a bunch of male leaders of the Christian churches and many who had converted after Constantine had his visions and won a battle and gave credit to the God of the Christians for the victory.