Sentences with phrase «over a century on»

Much common and statutory law has been erected over the centuries on the possibility that some of your family may love you less than they love your possessions.

It reached by far, its highest ranking ever at # 20 last year after over a century on the American baby name list.

«The Astor Digital Library is a collection of curated leather - bound devices available to guests, loaded with titles from hotel founder John Jacob Astor IV's original collection, which has been housed for over a century on the hotel's second floor,» he said.

Here are the tips from over a century on what to stock up on at home before your nose plastic surgery.

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For over a century, IBM has been focused on selling solutions to large enterprises.

PRETORIA (Reuters)- South Africa's recovery from its worst drought in over century could be stalled as anticipated rain relief from a La Nina weather system remains uncertain, the South African Weather Service said on Monday.

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

This is why major studios that faced very little market entry for over a century are now confronting significant threats from firms like Netflix, Amazon (via Prime), and Google (via YouTube), as well as potential content plays from Facebook (FB) and Apple (AAPL) on the horizon.

Although no state has defaulted on general obligation bonds in over 80 years, the 19 th century witnessed numerous instances in which states - and the Florida territory - defaulted on their debts or even repudiated them outright.

Rockhampton, with a population of over 80,000 on the Fitzroy River, was expected to suffer flood levels not seen for a century and Stewart urged residents in low - lying areas to leave.

The study showed that on average, American women grew just five centimeters over the century to 163.5 cm — or two inches, to about 5» 4» on average, while men grew about 6 cm, to approximately 177.1 cm or 5» 8».

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.

It can be argued over and interpreted for centuries, but watching even a dozen films based on Tolstoy's text will provide only a partial glimpse into its intricacies.

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.

The debate over how robots could affect employment has been going on for more than a century.

He had been involved in politics for over half a century,» said a former pro-reform top official on condition of anonymity.

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

The business has been around for over a century and, while it has changed over the decades, the brand has always focused on storytelling.

Over 300 attendees from 33 countries convened to learn from designers from Wallpaper *'s Design Power 200 list as well as business leaders from Fortune 500 companies on how design thinking can be implemented into 21st century business strategy.

The chief reason the OMP has no foreign diversification is that long - run returns on Canadian stocks are better than the global average, and nearly as good as returns on U.S. stocks (best performing country over the past two centuries).

It was extraordinary for a company over a century old to have the foresight to bring on Claire and leverage her unique expertise.

Rupert Murdoch's Twenty - First Century Fox Inc, which agreed in December to sell most of its assets to Walt Disney Co for $ 52.4 billion, had previously rejected a bid from Comcast Corp over concerns about the regulatory risks and its stock value, a regulatory filing on Wednesday showed.

FILE PHOTO: The Twenty - First Century Fox Studios flag flies over the company building in Los Angeles, California U.S. on November 6, 2017.

When I said that the cult of equity was dying, what I meant was that those investors and those liabilities structures such as pension funds and insurance companies that have depended on a 6.5 % constant real return from stocks such as we've have had over the past century are bound to be disappointed.

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.

As Tim's gambles on its very future with this merger, one wrong move and all the goodwill the company has accumulated over the last half - century could be wiped away like dribbled coffee.

Since November, YES, the channel that airs New York Yankees games, has been blacked out on Comcast Corp. as the cable giant and the network's parent, 21st Century Fox, battle over terms of payment.

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.

As arguably the greatest Investing Mind of the last century, I've taken a leaf out of Charlie's book and picked up biographies on some of his heroes over the last year including Lee Kuan Yew, Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin.

Buying high yielding and selling low yielding stocks has been an attractive strategy since 2000 However, it has been a highly unattractive strategy over the last century Investors should resist the Siren call of high yielding stocks and focus on other factors INTRODUCTION The search for yield has

Disney has agreed to buy most of 21st Century Fox for $ 52.4 billion in a big bet on streaming services over traditional TV.

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.

This same proposal is basically the same one I made over a quarter of a century ago in that hearing room on Parliament Hill.

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.

Commenting on the announcement, Vin Wijeratne, CFO of The Royal Mint, said «The Royal Mint has a unique history and a trusted reputation earned over many centuries trading in gold but until now, there hasn't been a way to digitally trade physical gold.»

The representatives from Harford County Climate Action made it clear — human activity, primarily the burning of fossil fuels, has had a clear and measurable impact on the Earth's climate over the last century, and those actions have put low - lying areas of Harford County in danger from rising sea levels.

Exclusive access to Technical Analysis video library — Tim Knight has been an active technical analyst for over a quarter of a century and has authored several popular books on technical analysis.

I haven't kept exact count, of course, but over the past quarter - century I have surely read (or tried to read) a couple thousand books on investing.

But as I noted last week (see Two Point Three Sigmas Above the Norm), nominal growth and interest rate variations have historically canceled out over the past century, with little effect on the accuracy of our valuation estimates — matched reductions in the growth rate and the discount rate really don't affect fair value.

There's well over a century of research on how religions originate, function in society and the individual psychology involved.

«Patriarchy» is traditionalism but you can't just pick everything you hate and blame it on male rule because we had plenty of queens making rules over the centuries and Victorian culture being the most oppressive was by guess whom?

Since they lived for a whole 15 centuries over here AFTER Jeebus» lifetime on this land that was completely unknown to anyone over in the Middle East.

Over the past few centuries, most of the world has been on the same page about that.

Look at how much trouble less than a century of nuclear power has already caused on this planet... what are the chances of something more catastrophic happening with that and / or more powerful technologies that develop over the next several hundred years?

Dear Reality; Speaking as one who has had many, many clergy serving the needs of many people over a century I must take issue with you on your «no clerics, no nuns, no bibles» etc..

These reformers recognized a lack of authority on the Earth, but desired to reform the doctrines which had become corrupt over the centuries.

Quite frequently this assumption of inferiority depends on acceptance of the 19th century romantic notion that women are more intuitive and affective than men, These qualities are exalted over rationality and logic, the province of males.

Also, over the centuries Islamic jurists never agreed on the specifics of modest dress for women.

In February, the archbishop of Perugia, speaking for the Italian Roman Catholic bishops, apologized to Italy's Protestants for the «suffering and injury» inflicted on the country's Protestant minority over the centuries.

The people of the Old Testament were on a long journey by which they gradually matured in their relationship with God, over long centuries learning about Him and discovering always more about who He is.