Sentences with phrase «over the centuries as»

chris «Personal experience» has been used over the centuries as evidence for lots of things including fairies, UFO aliens, leprechauns, mermaids, ghosts, and... yes... all of the other gods and goddesses we've worshipped as well.

are you not just blindly accepting dogma that's been honed over centuries as truth when, in fact, it's just people's ideas about things they don't understand?

The observed and projected rates of increase in freshwater runoff could potentially disrupt ocean circulation if global temperatures rise by 3 to 4 °C over this century as forecast by the IPCC 2001 report.

Asana has developed over the centuries as a practice that's intended to calm the nervous system to prepare the body for meditation.

Students can explore the castle's role over the centuries as fortress, prison, baroque palace, family home, wartime refuge, heritage attraction and residence used by The Queen for official duties.

She says dogs that were bred over centuries as hunting or working dogs have traits that were useful in bygone times but are undesirable in a world in which most dogs end up as suburban pets.

Wild boar were planted in many parts around the world over the centuries as a food source.

Boasting some of the most well - known bars and restaurants in London, The Savoy has set world - class standards of excellence for over a century as evidenced by its enduring legacy of bespoke service and amenities.

Having served over the centuries as a penal settlement, leper colony and lunatic asylum, its notoriety has, more recently, centred around the fact that President Nelson Mandela and many of his colleagues were imprisoned here during the final years of the apartheid regime.

The exhibition examines how pearls have been employed over centuries as a symbol of status and wealth, how tastes vary in different cultures, and the changing designs of jewellery with pearls.

Most notable of these is the finding regarding the use of oil, coal, and gas reserves up to 2050 rather than their use over the century as a whole.

Facts such as we really have reliable figures (from satellites) for the Sun's output for a few decades so nobody knows what the Sun's output does over centuries as it rotates around the Milky Way center which is also moving.

The broad and powerful Bosphorus defines Istanbul, splitting the city into two continents and solidifying its importance over centuries as a transit and trading route.

The real significance of the case, however, was that it was another in the line of important judicial decisions over the centuries as to the limits of the powers of the executive.

Not exact matches

As you're probably well aware, Oprah is the richest African American of the 21st century, and with a net worth of over $ 3 billion, she is regarded as arguably the most influential woman in the worlAs you're probably well aware, Oprah is the richest African American of the 21st century, and with a net worth of over $ 3 billion, she is regarded as arguably the most influential woman in the worlas arguably the most influential woman in the world.

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.

As much as the fall of the Berlin Wall or the rise of social media, the astonishing decline in world - wide poverty stands as one of humanity's greatest achievement over the past quarter centurAs much as the fall of the Berlin Wall or the rise of social media, the astonishing decline in world - wide poverty stands as one of humanity's greatest achievement over the past quarter centuras the fall of the Berlin Wall or the rise of social media, the astonishing decline in world - wide poverty stands as one of humanity's greatest achievement over the past quarter centuras one of humanity's greatest achievement over the past quarter century.

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.

In a statement provided by 21st Century Fox, founder and executive co-chairman Rupert Murdoch said: «To ensure continuity of all that is best about Fox News and what it stands for, I will take over as Chairman and acting CEO, with the support of our existing management team under Bill Shine, Jay Wallace and Mark Kranz.»

These sorts of odd - ball questions — logic puzzles, brainteasers and riddles — have been favoured by some employers as a means of testing problem - solving and communications skills for over half a century.

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.

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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.

Over the past century these instruments have destroyed the purchasing power of investors in many countries, even as these holders continued to receive timely payments of interest and principal.

More than speculate, Johnson in fact tracked the major human advancements over several centuries to verify this pattern of one small idea linking to a web of other small ideas, and only appear as a single big idea in the rear view.

And even as maternal deaths have dropped dramatically over the past quarter century, an estimated 830 women across the world still die every day from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth.

The biggest biotech fight of the century thus far, the heavyweight title bout between the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and the University of California over the ownership of the CRISPR - Cas9 genome - editing technology — or the Thrilla in Virginia, as I described it in December — is over.

As part of its 25th anniversary, CNBC is creating a definitive list of people who have had the greatest influence in business over the past quarter century.

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.

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).

[As trade barriers have come down over the past half - century,] small countries can now gain the advantages of large markets through trading with other nations.

Mr. Murdoch has held a number of leadership roles at Twenty - First Century Fox, Inc. («21CF») over two decades, including as its CEO since 2015, its Co-Chief Operating Officer from 2014 to 2015, its Deputy Chief Operating Officer and Chairman and CEO, International from 2011 to 2014 and its Chairman and Chief Executive, Europe and Asia from 2007 to 2011.

As government and corporate data - gathering efforts swelled over the last century, citizens largely accepted, without much discussion or protest, that their society would be fueled by the collection of personal information.

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.

As such, investors in stocks have been handsomely rewarded over the last century.

As of June 28, the new News Corp took over the newspaper assets of the old News Corp., which became Twenty - First Century Fox, a global TV / entertainment behemoth.

Researchers expect that as climate change makes wildfires more likely over the course of this century, deaths and illnesses attributed to pollution from wood smoke will rise too, even offsetting gains made from cleaning up emissions from industry.

The decades - long conflict that is currently raging over short - termism and activist hedge funds strikes me as analogous to the Thirty Years» War of the 17th Century, albeit fought with statistics («empirical evidence»), op - eds and journal articles rather than cannon, pike and sword.

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.

Combining safety, performance, and efficiency, Model S has reset the world's expectations for the car of the 21st century with the longest range of any electric vehicle, over-the-air software updates that make it better over time, and a record 0 - 60 mph acceleration time of 2.28 seconds as measured by Motor Trend.

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.

Over the centuries, gold has been considered as an object of value by many different groups of people all over the woOver the centuries, gold has been considered as an object of value by many different groups of people all over the woover the world.

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.

Over the entire century, high - grade corporate bonds offered an incremental 0.5 % of compounded return as a default risk premium.

There is growing sentiment that our fiat currency system should be replaced with a hard anchor, such as the gold or silver standards in place in much of the world over the two centuries preceding gold's abandonment by the United States in 1971.

Not only did it traditionally mark a financial milestone for many families, it was considered a sound economic decision, as housing prices have consistently increased at a slow - but - steady pace over the last century.

Demographic trends have shifted dramatically in the U.S. over the past half century toward an older population, and hence potential growth has to be structurally lower today, even as we hire great numbers of people (to say nothing of deploying ever greater numbers of robots).

In this segment of the «Look Back» series, we consider inflation and the subsequent real rates of return of holding cash (defined as holding Treasury bills or T - bills) over the past century.