Sentences with phrase «over centuries working»

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In September, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan promised to spend a whopping $ 3 billion of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's extensive capital over the next 10 years, as it works towards its lofty goal of curing, preventing or managing all diseases by the end of the century.

Gynecologists have been using the speculum for over a century, and so far, it's worked.

She cites the work of cultural historian Warren Susma, who has traced a shift over the past two centuries from what he calls a culture of character to a culture of personality.

No, we generally have translated greater output in the few hours of work per week over the last century.

We have a choice: agonize over the lost of an energy obese society or embrace a low energy, subsistence lifestyle that has worked for most of humans over the centuries.

The largest integrated steel mill in North America is the Gary Works in Gary, which has been producing high - quality steel for over a century.

According to a survey by the Pew Research Center, Americans over the age of 64 are working more than any other time since the turn of the century.

«Human potential is far from exhausted, and the American system for unleashing that potential — a system that has worked wonders for over two centuries despite frequent interruptions for recessions and even a Civil War — remains alive and effective.»

God is working out His will through people all over the world and the mass migration of people from now to centuries past is not an accident.

So that means that the collective works of Theologians and Historians over the centuries has been all wrong and walla, here comes this Professor and she has it all right in one book.

For atheists like me, it's always funny how worked up ignorant people get over a book, written by people trying to profit from, control and manipulate people in the 4th century AD.

Just study history to see the carnage such misguided devotion to the text has wrought over the centuries.

The assumption was on the part of the religious that what we do not understand must be the work of a god — except that over the last few centuries we understand more about creation — big bang, evolution, etc. which shows those creation stories to be incorrect.

Jesus» language in all its vigorous overstatement still reflects a sense of divine fury over the failure of the divine purpose to work itself out in the actions of human beings that does not compute with our urbane, 20th - century middle - class liberal Christianity.

But Las Casas» Historia de las Indias, a three - volume chronicle of the whole encounter» including the sole telling of Montesino's tale» did not as a whole work see the light of day for over three centuries.

For Jesus» language in all its vigorous overstatement still reflects a sense of divine fury over the failure of the divine purpose to work itself out in the actions of human beings that does not compute with our urbane, 20th - century middle - class liberal Christianity.

In the second half of the second century, bishops and theologians all over the Christian world, from Gaul in the west to Edessa in the east, worked energetically to expose him as a false teacher and discredit the simple idea now attached to his name.

There are no surprises or exposés with respect to the internal workings of the K of C, but Kauffman supplies a useful account of the range of the organization's good works over more than a century, and the book is especially rich in its attention to the various faces of the anti «Catholicism that it attempted to counter.

His works were slow to gain acceptance among the musical elite of nineteenth - century Vienna, who favored Brahms over the allegedly «Wagnerian» Bruckner.

Many works are consciously designed to accommodate «selective» reading, and most readers over the centuries have experienced the Bible in just this way (including Jesus, who frequently quoted Scripture» even as he hung on the cross).

Over the last four centuries, Decartes's work has become deeply embedded in Western culture.

Social historians, however, have linked the rise of the national concern over matters of etiquette in the 19th century to the rise of the great industrial city precisely because the bold new cities were places where, for the first time, it was possible to live and work entirely among strangers.

But what I find interesting about the Christian vision is how over the centuries it has worked out most, and maybe all, of the conceptual pitfalls that go along with the concept of an eternal life.

Over the centuries ancient man learned to express his thinking about the world in the form of myths, or stories of the gods, in whom were personified the unseen forces he presumed to be at work in the phenomena he observed.

And as an active lover to his own city, wrought out over the covenant centuries for his glorious habitation.

You could say that it is very disrespectful to the men and women who have worked very hard to give us all this knowledge and understanding of how things works over the last few centuries to still believe in these ancient stories.

The fact is that over the centuries we have learned and gained knowledge about how things work so just keep on saying that there is something else that created the whole shabang doesn't really explain anything either.

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.

So began the idea of a millennium, which even yet in Biblical fundamentalism exercises a potent sway over the imagination of many Christians, and upon which the curiosity of the credulous has worked for centuries in an endeavor to predict «times and seasons.»

The daily life of Muslims is guided by an elaborate code of laws worked out over the centuries, based first on the Qur» an, then on the traditions concerning the Prophet, then the consensus of the Islamic community, and finally in a limited area on individual interpretation.

People have been doing all kinds of religions, christianity, and islam for over 2000 years, praying to strange gods, not known to Abraham, Isaac, nor Jacob, all from the first generation of Adam, and of the covenant of the 10 commandments, and statues, ordinances, and judgments that are perpetual by YHWH, and the world has not gotten any better, since before the 8th century, this has happened, and at some point one must realize that this religion thing obviously is not working for us, the reality check is to «awaken'to the truth, and righteousness, of YHWH Our Righteousness, in Jeremiah 23:1 - 8, and not pagan religions, man - made, and all controlled for selfish gain.

We have extremely lively debates and sometimes arguments, and we work with an alertness to the ways in which those scriptures have been interpreted in our communities over the centuries and today.

These disparate works of fiction punctuate the manner in which American attitudes towards death and dying have been transformed from an uncomfortable familiarity to a comfortable unfamiliarity over the last two centuries.

We may term the block of chapters, then, JP, a designation which serves at least to remind us that the work is composite and that it reflects the meditation and faith of Israel over a good five - hundred - year span, from the Yahwist in the tenth century to the priests of the fifth century.

It is no photograph of the epoch but a portrait on which the artist has worked meditatively and devotedly over the centuries.

Here corporate memory has been at work over the centuries, producing what is more properly termed «history of salvation» than «history.»

The writer of any such notes was also aware of himself as author of words which his successors would read; in Luther's case these notes have been reprinted and are now pored over by twentieth - century theologians, as part of the Weimar edition of Luther's Collected Works.

We have passed over the discussion of the gospel of John until now because it, too, in the belief of modern scholarship, rather generally, but not by any means unanimously, is a product of the second century, and not therefore the work of the beloved disciple to whom tradition assigns it.

The Times Square Alliance works to improve and promote Times Square — cultivating the creativity, energy and edge that have made the area an icon of entertainment, culture and urban life for over a century.

But perhaps the most important thing is, after four work stoppages from 1981 - 1995 that saw three different seasons shortened (1981, 1994, 1995) and one World Series (1994) cancelled, this new agreement through 2021 means that baseball will have relative labor peace for over a quarter century.

The city that less than a century ago was a fur - trading post known as Fort Garry was alive and throbbing last week with its birthday offering for Canada, the fifth Pan-American Games, and extraordinary charity was at work all over town.

Proven effective over centuries of parenting and research, swaddling is a practice that truly works.

Gillian Weaver is an international human milk banking specialist who previously ran the longest continually operating milk bank in the world, based at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in London where she worked for over a quarter of a century.

First published in 2013, A Healing Landscape: Environmental and Social History of the Site of Mass Audubon's Boston Nature Center by Scholar - in - Residence Steven Pavlos Holmes, PhD, tells the stories of the people who have lived and worked on the land over the past two centuries — including early farming families, a Revolutionary war soldier, pioneering birdwatchers, the residents and staff of the Boston State Hospital, and, of course, the Clark Cooper Community Gardens and Mass Audubon.

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].

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

Anyone who worked in the City Hall area will remember how you could shop at Century 21 then run over to Hale n» Hearty Soup in the Trade Center for a quick lunch — because it was so close by.

For over a hundred and fifty years, his work has been quoted and re-quoted as the great exposition of the British Constitution, that elusive creature of centuries of parliamentary evolution, unwritten, often misunderstood, but real nevertheless.

But for Alain E. Kaloyeros, a physicist who rose from a basement laboratory at the State University at Albany to oversee hundreds of millions of dollars in state economic development funds over a quarter - century, a more complex purpose seemed to be at work.

In their brief, elected officials argued that the variance allowed «one municipal board to defeat over a century of collaborative work and investment by New York and New Jersey citizens, legislators, and courts, as well as by the federal government, to preserve the historic Hudson River Palisades north of the George Washington Bridge.»