Sentences with phrase «over the course of a century for»

It is an epic story: the struggle of thousands of men and women over the course of a century for very high stakes.

It is an epic story: the struggle of thousands of men and women over the course of a century for very high stakes.

Median projections of global mean sea level over the course of this century for low, median, and high emissions futures.

Not exact matches

«When we think back over the centuries that Lloyd's has been doing business, of course we understand that women weren't even in the workplace for several hundred years,» said Beale.

Well, consider that franchising, one of the great game changers for small business over the course of the last century, today accounts for over $ 1 trillion in total sales and employs approximately 15 % of the US workforce.

It's about the history of an iconic, globally powerful brand that represents an unlikely subject for a product that has gone from highly controversial to somewhat of a commodity over the course of half a century.

Over the centuries, these «alien citizens,» still far from their true home in the New Jerusalem that is history's promised consummation, have followed the course of Christian fidelity in accepting responsibility for the well - being of what is their home in time before the End Time.

For example, even though the laws in the Pentateuch probably emerged gradually over the course of centuries as people sought ways to live in community, what does it mean that these laws became viewed as stemming directly from God at one point in the life of Moses?

A single - volume history of Istanbul from the seventh century BC to the present is an ambitious project, for no city has seen as much religious and political change over the course of its history.

They are living structures with boundaries built up over the course of sometimes many centuries for the purpose of encoding, storing, retrieving, and transmitting to the next generation a very important kind of information.

Over the course of several centuries, the West had progressively abandoned Christianity's marital architecture for human sexuality.

I do, of course, leave room for the use of literary techniques such as metaphor, hyperbole, and poetic imagery, and also allow for minor errors to have crept in through the process of copying manuscripts by hand over the centuries.

Not surprisingly, the media feeding frenzy has resulted, anecdotal evidence suggests, in a sharp drop in youth football registrations for this fall's season, with parents fearful that playing football will almost inevitably expose their kid to an unreasonable risk of injury (which, of course, is patently untrue; more than 7 million kids in the U.S. currently play football, very few of whom, statistically speaking and despite a few well - publicized cases - are likely to end up committing suicide because of the hits they sustained playing the sport, and millions upon countless millions who have played football over the past century without apparent ill effect).

Over the course of the 20th century, suggested venom treatments for a range of diseases have appeared in scientific and medical literature.

But over the course of several centuries it was totally destroyed, mainly through an ego - driven competition among neighboring clans to produce more and bigger moais, the giant statues for which the island is so famous.

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.

In the central United States, for example, observational data indicate that rainfall increased, surface air temperature decreased, and surface humidity increased during the summer over the course of the 20th century concurrently with increases in both agricultural production and global GHG emissions.

Rob and Dave's research found that these processes give rise to the potential for more than one meter of global average sea - level rise from Antarctica alone over the course of this century, and more than 15 meters over the next five centuries.

The collection abounds in not only samples of what peak athleticism was thought to look like over the course of a century, but in displays of various conceptions of bodies in motion and coming into being as compelling subjects for the moving image.

Of course the caveat would be that not all of these films are good, and in recent years it's been true that he's had more misses than hits, but 2014 saw him deliver two films in the same year for the third time this century and one of them is the best he's given us in over half a decadOf course the caveat would be that not all of these films are good, and in recent years it's been true that he's had more misses than hits, but 2014 saw him deliver two films in the same year for the third time this century and one of them is the best he's given us in over half a decadof these films are good, and in recent years it's been true that he's had more misses than hits, but 2014 saw him deliver two films in the same year for the third time this century and one of them is the best he's given us in over half a decadof them is the best he's given us in over half a decade.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: AMC Network's Celebrity Interview Series Arrives on DVD For over a quarter of a century, Richard Brown's Movies 101 has been one of the most popular courses at NYU.

The War of the Roses (1989) You may not know that the title is taken from a series of dynasty wars for the throne of 15th Century England, so smart and acerbic was this darker than dark Danny DeVito directed film about a couple that goes from love to pure hatred over the course of a marriage.

«HGSE is the right place because we have, over the course of nearly a century, prepared students for careers that have touched and transformed the lives of millions of children and young adults,» he said.

To complicate matters, over the course of the 20th century, states began using time - based measures — called instructional, clock, or contact hours — in a number of other state policy areas, such as minimum requirements for educational programs, school approval standards, and formulas for distributing state funding.11 Moreover, depending on the specific school design and the particular state context, high school innovators can encounter a wide range of other friction points.

They are curious and want to do things together, so spend time teaching them obedience; some sports such as lure coursing or agility will give them a positive outlet for all of those hound instincts they've developed over the centuries.

Of course, Hodgkin is widely regarded as one of the world's greatest painters and has been a central figure in contemporary art for over half a centurOf course, Hodgkin is widely regarded as one of the world's greatest painters and has been a central figure in contemporary art for over half a centurof the world's greatest painters and has been a central figure in contemporary art for over half a century.

Over the course of her five - decade - long career, most of which was spent as artist - in - residence with the City of New York Department of Sanitation, Ukeles mapped out a practice that seems to place her somewhere between the late - 20th - century strategy of institutional critique and the current vogue for social - practice art.

Over the course of 2016 to 2017, Phillips twice broke the record for Carmen Herrera, first with Cerulean selling for $ 970,000 and then with Untitled (Orange and Black) selling for $ 1,179,000, both of which were offered in the New York Evening Sales of 20th Century & Contemporary Art.

Over the course of a quarter of a century, the Menil has established an international reputation for presenting acclaimed exhibitions and producing highly respected scholarly publications; pioneering partnerships with other cultural and education institutions across Houston, Texas and the United States; and conducting groundbreaking research into the conservation of modern and contemporary art.

Over the course of a quarter of a century, the Menil has established an international reputation for presenting acclaimed exhibitions; pioneering partnerships with other cultural and education institutions across Houston, Texas and the United States; and conducting groundbreaking research into the conservation of modern and contemporary art.

Over the course of a quarter of a century, the Menil has established an international reputation for presenting acclaimed exhibitions and producing scholarly publications; pioneering partnerships with other cultural and education institutions across Houston, Texas and the United States; and conducting groundbreaking research into the conservation of modern and contemporary art.

For those curious about the pronounced dips in the future scenarios here they are responses to Pinatubo - scale volcanic eruptions that are assumed to occur at a reasonable frequency over the course of the next century.

Of course, the PDO is something that happens over a few decades, whereas global warming has been going on for most of the past centurOf course, the PDO is something that happens over a few decades, whereas global warming has been going on for most of the past centurof the past century.

Re # 158 (Sashka): I read the document you linked to at http://www.aei-brookings.org/admin/authorpdfs/page.php?id=236 and found out that the $ 5T number you claimed as the cost of Kyoto compliance is not that at all, but is actually Bjorn Lomborg's quote of Nordhaus» figure for how much it would cost to pay for global warming - caused damage in the developing world over the course of the current century if nothing were done to impede the warming.

BTW, the point Lomborg was trying to make in quoting the (probably spurious anyway) $ 5T figure was that it is chump change for the global economy over the course of a century.

For example, the latest (fifth) assessment report from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projects that the global average sea level rise over the course of the 21st century would be in the range of 10 to 32 inches, with a mean value of about 19 inches.

Most of the global CO2 emissions issue could be solved with low cost nuclear power (low cost nuclear will replace, over the course of this century, fossil fuels for electricity generation which will then displace gas for heating and produce «energy carriers» to replace fossil fuels for transport fuels).

The report calls for urgent action to avoid sea level rises of a metre or more over the course of the next century.

Can you describe very specific changes in bacterial mass and metabolism that over the course of a century would not only significantly increase atmospheric CO2 concentration but also increase the ratios of C12 to C13 and C14 in the manner that has been observed (we'll leave out the bookkeeping from industrial records that also must be accounted for)?

To account fully for observed changes, you then seem (to me at least) to be trying to conjure up internal climate variations beyond the ones that have been identified and quantified, the latter having been shown to average out over the course of a century.

Finally, it's slightly off - topic, because we are discussing Charney type sensitivities for climate responses that are discernible over the course of perhaps a few centuries at most, but Jim Hansen has argued that when longer term responses are included (e.g., disappearance of land - based ice sheets), a reasonable modal value is 6 C per doubling, and an upper limit is considerably higher.

I realize the AGW enthusiasts are probably guffawing at such a paltry contribution for mans evil over the last half century but I find the logic inescapable until the AGW crowd can explain these variations it seems to me to be the most plausible argument that it is 1/4 of the contribution in the latter half of the 20th century meaning of course that the total change expected this century would be possibly another 0.4 C change from CO2 even if we continue on the course we are on today and double CO2 by 2100.

The variation in the sun's energy over the course of the 20th century just isn't significant enough to account for the rapid global warming we're experiencing now.

And the variation that's occurred in the sun's energy over the course of the 20th century just isn't significant enough to account for the large - scale climate change we're seeing here.

Of course, the simplest explanation is that the ice core measurements are unreliable, and I suspect that is likely enough, given that there is no way to actually confirm the model for how CO2 is trapped and held over centuries, much less many thousands of years, in an end - to - end fashioOf course, the simplest explanation is that the ice core measurements are unreliable, and I suspect that is likely enough, given that there is no way to actually confirm the model for how CO2 is trapped and held over centuries, much less many thousands of years, in an end - to - end fashioof years, in an end - to - end fashion.

Rob and Dave's research found that these processes give rise to the potential for more than one meter of global average sea - level rise from Antarctica alone over the course of this century, and more than 15 meters over the next five centuries.

For example, a recent study of coastal fog in the eastern Pacific, which relied on long - term airport records, indicated that the occurrence of summertime fog has declined by 33 % over the course of the 20th century [Johnstone and Dawson, 2010].

The IPCC Fifth Assessment Report contained significant uncertainty in its projections for glacier contributions to sea level rise over the course of the 21st century.

What were previously worst - case scenarios have become base - line projections, with a number of organizations doubling their predictions for temperature rise over the course of the 21st century.

Yet the heat - induced disaster may come as little surprise to Russian climate scientists, who have warned for years that the country is experiencing rapid warming that will only accelerate over the course of the 21st century.