Sentences with phrase «over the last few centuries»

Numerous scholars have addressed the ways media, technology, and capitalism have affected Western notions of love over the last few centuries.

Perfect means «whole», not how we see the word today — the meaning has changed over the last few centuries.

«These estimates reveal an exceptionally rapid loss of biodiversity over the last few centuries, indicating that a sixth mass extinction is already under way,» the researchers wrote in the study.

It is something of a library of French industrial achievements over the last few centuries but also throws a broader light on the history of technical evolution throughout the world.

Your analogy of our species living like teens over the last few centuries is right on.

So, today's doubters need to be pressed hard as to why, if the alternative versions of Jesus (mystic, moral teacher, misguided healer) advanced over the last few centuries can be taken seriously, it never occurred to any sceptic in the ancient world to make these very obvious challenges.

From the confines of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, to the cheesy, yet endearing pages of The Royal Teashop series by Ginny Clyde, it's these books that we've ended up falling in love with over the last few centuries.

From Native American tribes to Mexican rancheros, the U.S. Army to HI USA, many over the last few centuries have called the stunning cliffs and fertile valley of the Marin Headlands home.

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.

Who do you think has the right answers; tens of thousands of scientists from all over the world studying our origins over the last few centuries and coming up with today's scientific conclusions, or one book written two thousand years ago?

Evolutionary-wise, pregnancy and mother / baby relations have evolved in an incredibly complex manner over the last few centuries.

And, largely because of human hunting over the last few centuries, the capacity of whales, and other marine mammals, to move one vital nutrient — phosphorus — from deep ocean waters to the surface has been reduced by more than seventy - five percent, the new study shows.

At the American Geophysical Union meeting on Thursday, Dec. 14, they report that there has been a persistent increase in both temperature and precipitation in Tibet's Kunlun Mountains over the last few centuries.

Through his work, Gosling has drawn a parallel to the importance of the Potomac River for the United States and its growth over the last few centuries.

In addition to inviting contemporary artists to be involved in the project, historical representations of atmospheric conditions will be exhibited that illustrate how the idea of «air» has changed quite dramatically over the last few centuries.

For the artist, that flattening of pictorial space is a metaphor of how indigenous cultures have been flattened aggressively over the last few centuries, but also how women have been violated in modern art as they are exploited by male artists who butchered their bodies for art.

It appears that Ghil, and others specifically warn against the use of MEM and temperature data: «Instrumental temperature data over the last few centuries do not seem, for instance, to determine sufficiently well the behavior of global or local temperatures to permit a reliable climate forecast on the decadal timescale by this SSA - MEM method.»

We believe that the examples below indicate that the Arctic sea ice extent in 1979 was quite high, and that there were many periods over the last few centuries when the sea ice extent was less.

By the way, this is how the paper aristocracy has made most of its wealth over the last few centuries, and how those banking families originally became wealthy.

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.

Over the last few centuries, many immigrant cultures have contributed elements of their own cuisines to Peruvian cooking: Spanish, African, Indian, Italian, Chinese and Japanese influences have greatly enriched the culinary landscape.

Over the last few centuries, the ocean has absorbed huge amounts of the carbon dioxide spewed into the atmosphere by human activities, such as burning fossil fuels.

Luludating has over the last few centuries.