Sentences with phrase «over millennia as»

ENSO is variable over millennia as Julia Slingo — head of the British Met Office — and Tim Palmer — head of the European Centre for Medium - Range Weather Forecasts — suggest.

Like hundreds of other mounds in this region, Brak was built up over millennia as homeowners knocked down their decaying mud - brick houses and erected new structures on top of the remains.

This organic whole that began from an initial high bang and eventuated into the present universe is distinguished by a form of unity and diversity radical beyond all imagining: infinite differences, and diversity that is marked not by isolation but by shared atoms over millennia as well as minute - by - minute exchanges of oxygen and carbon dioxide between plants and animal.

Not exact matches

REBBL makes elixirs and protein drinks that combine herbal wisdom as its evolved over a millennia with everyday needs and tastes, like Cold Brew with Maca (the famous Andean superfood beloved by the Inca and known to promote energy and stamina).

St. Louis was once corporate America's manufacturing backyard, but through strategic planning initiatives first launched at the start of the new millennium, the region has evolved into a vibrant hotbed of technology, as well as a cradle of entrepreneurship over the past decade.

This coming July, the world will mark the centenary of the First World War, the seismic calamity that began the 20th century as an epoch and that, in another hundred years, may well be regarded as the sanguinary first act in the end of Europe as «Europe» had been known for over a millennium.

A great attraction of the Catholic Church over the past two millennia, in the eyes of many non «Catholics as well as most Catholics, is her universal character.

They would then abolish themselves as the tyrannical hierarchy they have been for over two millennia.

Death's brutality over the greater part of the last two millennia cast a long shadow over everyday life as disease, famine, and infant mortality claimed victim after victim.

Both bad Christian ideas — I wonder if the Mayflower thing was inspired by Christians seeing the Acts story as God's way — I think lots of Christians have over the millennia.

In his September 1, 2011 column «Gay and Christian,» Russell Saltzman addressed my article in the New Oxford Review, in which I sketched a brief history of homosexual politics over the past two and a half millennia as a background for understanding the present controversy.

The various cultic interpretations of the poems remind us that such poetry as this is never created new, but rather always draws from the articulate lover of last spring and the spring before and the spring before that, and so on back not merely over the years, but over the centuries and even the millennia.

With regard to the second problem, namely, an agreement on «Tradition» (with a capital T), its hermeneutical assessment, and its binding force, it is desirable that the Tradition of the as yet undivided Church of the first millennium, especially its Christological and Trinitarian doctrinal decrees and its status as a communio ecclesiarum, be given priority over the later confessional developments of a particular Church.

Until a little over a hundred years ago men were using the same means of travel as had been used for several millennia — the horse by land and the sailboat by water.

The editors and their collaborators know better; but only in selected instances have some of them managed to transcend such limited conceptions in behalf of the central purpose of the volume as a whole: to demonstrate how the literary dimensions of these texts do, indeed, make credible the power and authority they have exhibited for more than two millennia in shaping decisively the lives and minds of thoughtful people the world over.

While the imperial family had existed for well over a millennium the imperial system which now emerged as an ideological technique for controlling the entire populace was something rather new.

Over the course of history the years 500, 1000, 1260, 1420, 1533 (the supposed fifteenth centennial of Christ's death), 1843, 1844, 1845, 1847, 1851 and 1914 have in turn been awaited expectantly as the beginning of the millennium.

Those with mild sensitivities to gluten may have luck eating this ancient grain as berries or ground into flour because it contains a different genome of gluten than modern wheat, and it has not been much changed by selective breeding over the millennia (note: spelt is not genetically engineered — a completely different process from selective breeding).

If this sport was only about entertainment, then we'd have won the league 6 or 7 times over the last decade, as our on - field and off - field antics have given the media enough ammo to last the remainder of the millennium.

As we roll the calendar over to the big 2000, people are raising questions about what the next millennium will have in store.

Ferguson would later describe Hargreaves» Red Devils career as a «disaster», writing in his autobiography that he considers the midfielder, who made just 27 Premier League starts in four seasons, one of his worst signings in over a quarter of a century as United boss; a sad indictment for Hargreaves when you consider that flops such as Bebe and Anderson had pitched up at the Theatre of so - called Dreams since the turn of the millennium alone.

As the new millennium dawns on a growing worldwide biomedical hegemony over birth, midwives, the daughters of time and tradition, find themselves negotiating their identities, searching for appropriate roles, and seeking new rationales for their continued existence.

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Accidental massive nuclear war and an unexpected asteroid strike — those are the two things that could wipe out the edifice of civilization that we've built up as a species over millennia.

WAWAYANDA - Federal regulators gave Millennium Pipeline Co. permission Friday to start building the 7.8 - mile natural gas line that will supply the Competitive Power Ventures plant, pushing the project forward even as a dispute continues over the state's denial of permits for that pipeline.

Federal regulators gave Millennium Pipeline Co. permission Friday to start building the 7.8 - mile natural gas line that will supply the Competitive Power Ventures plant, pushing the project forward even as a dispute continues over the state's denial of permits for that pipeline.

The Olojo festival is unique as it centres on the once - a-year wearing of the ADE - AARE CROWN which is arguably is the oldest monarchic crown in existence; as it has been strictly maintained over millennia and 51 successive Ooni's wearing the exact same crown.

The human body has changed hugely over decades as well as over millennia, so why do we vary so much, and how will we evolve?

Advances in optics and microscopy over the past millennium have, of course, let us peer far beyond the limits of the naked eye, to view exquisite images such as a micrograph of a virus or a stroboscopic photograph of a bullet at the millisecond it punched through a lightbulb.

The Pima endured these conditions for millennia, and geneticists believe that, over time, their bodies evolved a «thrifty genotype» — a set of genes that enabled them to subsist on very few calories by increasing the efficiency of their metabolism and storing as much energy as possible as fat.

As global warming continues to impact the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, with more meltwater streams and water tracks travelling across the landscape, more mineral phosphorus is likely to become available through rock weathering over centuries to millennia.

Professor Zalasiewicz added: «Plastics will continue to be input into the sedimentary cycle over coming millennia as temporary stores — landfill sites — are eroded.

As a result — and for reasons that remain unexplained — the waters of the Southern Ocean may have begun to release carbon dioxide, enough to raise concentrations in the atmosphere by more than 100 parts per million over millennia — roughly equivalent to the rise in the last 200 years.

«We hope better understanding of yeast will allow us to tailor these organisms for specific uses, much as we have bred better varieties of domesticated plants and animals over millennia,» says Borneman.

This is distinctly alarmist... It is common ground that if indeed Greenland melted, it would release this amount of water, but only after, and over, millennia, so that the Armageddon scenario he predicts, insofar as it suggests that sea level rises of 7 metres might occur in the immediate future, is not in line with the scientific consensus.

The article, «Extreme rainfall activity in the Australian tropics reflects changes in the El Niño / Southern Oscillation over the last two millennia,» presents a precisely dated stalagmite record of cave flooding events that are tied to tropical cyclones, which include storms such as hurricanes and typhoons.

As such, over the millennia, it seems, our brains have trained us to love the meals that give us love handles.

Socrates had grand issues of morality, justice and democracy in mind as he spoke, but over the millennia his words have been interpreted as a more general plea to consider carefully the choices we make.

In the past decade, paleoclimatologists have reconstructed a record of climate change over the last millennium by consulting historical documents and examining indicators of temperature change like tree rings, as well as oxygen isotopes in ice cores and coral skeletons.

Then the scientists calculated the amount of gas dissolved over the millennia, using the helium - 3 isotope as a tracer.

Over the past three millennia, money has had many incarnations, but none — most likely — as strange as what is yet to come.

Chinese culture sees itself as having continuity over millennia.

Over millennia, as natural selection bolstered our unconscious anthropomorphic tendencies, they reached beyond specific objects and events to encompass all of nature, goes Guthrie's theory, until we persuaded ourselves that «the entire world of our experience is merely a show staged by some master dramatist.»

That paper «Climate Over Past Millennia» relies on the correlation of temperature with tree ring width as proved by other people / papers.

Matcha which has been consumed for over a millennium in Japan and China has now got its true recognition in the world with it being regarded as one of the most powerful super foods ever available.

Fossilized remains of the olive tree's ancestor were found near Livorno, in Italy, dating from twenty million years ago, although actual cultivation probably did not occur in that area until the fifth century B.C. Olives were first cultivated in the Eastern part of the Mediterranean, in the region known as the «fertile crescent,» and moved westwards over the millennia.

Hailed as the prime successor to Garth Brooks in the new millennium — both for his rousing, Southern - fried honky tonk tunes and his laid - back countrypolitan ballads — country and western performer Tim McGraw shot to fame on the basis of his sophomore recording, the 1994 Curb release Not a Moment Too Soon, which sold over five million copies and heralded the arrival of a major new superstar.

But Sony is approaching this follow - up as more of a reboot than a sequel, recasting The Crown's Claire Foy as hacker Lisbeth Salander and leaping ahead to the fourth book in the Millennium series (itself a kind of reboot, given that it was written by David Lagercrantz, who took over after Larsson died of a heart attack in 2004).

Virtuous, bookish, and with a knack for leaving sliding doors open, Maddie might as well be Laurie Strode for the new millennia, but where Laurie exerts her power over Michael Meyers with a well - placed wire hanger and a weak scream, Maddie uses her knack for narrative (she's an author, after all) for a brainy, meta - takedown of the masked intruder.

As the book's title suggests, the best model for parents and teachers — honed over millennia of human evolution and trial and error — is not the carpenter who works diligently from an established blueprint, but the patient gardener who provides a safe space to let nature take its course, and then gets out of the way.