Sentences with phrase «over the long history of»

Looking back over the long history of the Turks since they became Muslims it is clear that they have made a great contribution to Islam.

Not perfectly, of course, but as Catholics we can look back with some satisfaction over a long history of following St Peter's injunction to «always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have» (1 Peter 3: 15).

It has been practiced in various forms to produce several types of flour over the long history of flour milling.

He envisions that intelligent beings might have evolved many times over the long history of the universe but then destroyed themselves because they lacked cooperative genes.

Alfa Romeo belongs to the tradition of the Targa Florio: it is one of the brands that has won the most prizes over the long history of the event.

Over the long history of the church, many have made and are still making tragic mistakes as they attempt to take over the corrupt kingdoms of this world in the name of God.Jesus was ordained by God and approved by God.

«The rich diversity of New Orleans has developed over a long history of colonization, the trans - Atlantic slave trade, waves of migration and displacement, and Gulf Coast trade routes buoyed by the city's position as the American South's largest port.

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Over the past decade, patient investors benefited greatly from one of the longest economic expansions in U.S. history, using stocks, gold and even cryptocurrency as vehicles of profit.

For example, in «A Short History of the Income Tax,» John Steele Gordon points out that the U.S. income tax act of 1913 was only 14 pages long; by 1942, it had blossomed to 208 pages with over three - quarters of them «devoted to closing or defining loopholes» that tax lawyers and accountants were using to «game the system.»

While use of these RFRA laws has been part and parcel of the judicial landscape since the 1990s, the controversy over them is part of a long history of discrimination in the U.S. And the attempts to end that discrimination stretch all the way back to the Civil War.

«Europe has a long, if occasionally somewhat troubled, history of being strongly engaged in global affairs — aid and development is a part of this,» Bond, a network of over 400 international development organizations and the U.K. Aid Network, said in a statement to CNBC this week.

But Netflix has a long history of clashing with movie theaters, particularly over Netflix's commitment to making its movies available to stream on the same day they appear on the big screen.

This firm has a long history of profit growth, over four decades of dividend growth, and an executive compensation plan that properly incentivizes executives to create shareholder value.

Moderator: William V. Harris, William R. Shepherd Professor of History and Director, Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University Speaker 1: L. Randall Wray, Research Director of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability and Professor of Economics, University of Missouri - Kansas City Speaker 2: Michael Hudson, President, Institute for the Study of Long - Term Economic Trends and Distinguished Research Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas City Tuesday, September 11, 2012 About the Seminar Series: Modern Money and Public Purpose is an eight - part, interdisciplinary seminar series held at Columbia Law School over the 2012 - 2013 academic...

Some of our actual and potential competitors have advantages over us, such as longer operating histories, significantly greater financial, technical, marketing or other resources, stronger brand and business user recognition, larger intellectual property portfolios and broader global distribution and presence.

Over the past several years we have seen a few amazing moves in futures positioning in a number of commodities, such as e.g. in crude oil, where the by far largest speculative long positions in history have been amassed.

Even before Mao Zedong took over the reins in 1949, and the first Five Year Plan began in 1953, centuries of history demonstrated that long - term planning, while not always meeting expectations, is a core behavioral trait of the Chinese psyche.

They offer a broad suite of investment capabilities, with over 300 investment professionals and a long history of competitive performance.

If the speculative bubbles and crashes across market history have taught us anything (particularly the repeated episodes of recklessness we've observed over the past two decades), it's this: regardless of the level of valuation at any point in time, we have to allow for the potential for investors to adopt a psychological preference toward risk - seeking speculation, and no amount of reason will dissuade them even when that speculation has already made a collapse inevitable over a longer horizon.

In addition to its reasonable valuation and solid long - term prospects, Caretrust also pays a substantial dividend, yielding over 6 % at recent prices and with a history of regular increases.

History has shown that investing in stocks is one of the easiest and most profitable ways to build wealth over the long - term.

Over the course of this Coin Index feature, we look at the history of Basic Attention Token, its initial coin offering (ICO) and leadership, and its long - term potential in the online marketing space...

«We have started Aspect to focus at looking at things in a different way and in a more extended way,» said Gouw, about the wide - ranging plan to stick with entrepreneurs over the course of a startup's long - term history.

These issues do not seem insurmountable or likely to cause more pain than just a slow bleed over time, but they need to be thoughtfully addressed if the company is to continue its rich history of profitable long - term growth.

In the analysis, a long history of data over a number of different economic and market cycles is usually required to identify the key factors and leading indicators that can predict relative performance.

Even though Australia's average inflation performance over the past five years has been superior to those of the traditional low - inflation countries, international markets still require compensation for inflation uncertainty, because of Australia's longer - term history.

Looking back through history, whenever value stocks have gotten this cheap, subsequent long - term returns have generally been strong.3 From current depressed valuation levels, value stocks have in the past, on average, doubled over the next five years.4 Not that we necessarily expect returns of this magnitude this time around, but based on the data and our six decades of experience investing through various market cycles, we believe the current risk / reward proposition is heavily skewed in favor of long - term value investors.

Many people tout the virtues of stock investing, especially because history shows that the stock market has provided one of the greatest sources of long - term wealth, with compounded returns averaging 10 percent per year over the past 100 years.

Historian Paul Johnson commented on the advance of atheism in modern history:» Nietzsche wrote in 1886:» The greatest event of recent times — that God is dead, that the belief in the Christian God is no longer tenable — is beginning to cast its first shadows over Europe.»

This selective «colorblindness» is a mighty convenient approach to race in America for white people, for it allows us to paper over America's troubled (and decidedly anti-Christian) history, to discount racism as a thing of the past for which we are no longer responsible, and to ignore persistent racial injustices like mass incarceration, police brutality, voting rights issues, white flight, and economic inequality, all while consistently benefiting from an oppressive system we claim we can not even see.

This generates the assumption — which I take to be very misleading — that contemporary theological proposals ought somehow to be translations of the «meant» into contemporary idiom — translations that convey over the ugly ditch of long history the same self - identical «meaning.»

Instead, we have two competing research programs, each with its own fundamental intuitions and program of inquiry to pursue, as in Imre Lakatos's philosophy of science.15 Only «over the long haul» can we judge which will be more progressive more able to handle the classical challenges raised by the entire history of metaphysics, by dialogue with existing religions (Christian and otherwise), and by the experience of contemporary religious believers.

His Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh on The Presence of Eternity: History and Eschatology (Harper, 1957) and various books of essays — the most notable collections in English being Faith and Understanding (Harper & Row, 1969) and Existence and Faith (World, 1960)-- show over how long a period, and in relation to how many challenges, he worked out his own presentation of the Word of God to our time.

Yes, Burnett's production team actually split a video in two to further the narrative that Beck has long and «ugly history» of obsessing over President Obama and Satan.

Then, too, it will presumably be possible to leave it an open question whether the history of human descent as known to us does or does not possess features which only after the Fall of the first man can be thought of to some extent as a predominance of his pre-human past and of his environment, over a sensitivity to the world around him no longer protected by the gift of integrity, and over his lack of adaptation to a particular milieu.

During the long history of colonialism, Europeans were able to transfer vast amount of resources, including precious metals, establish control over land by conquering several continents and also install dominance over labour through the capture and trade of slaves and forced labour.

It seems this has alternated a lot in history, but usually over a longer period of time, and reflected in changes in art and culture.

But we should not linger too long over the task of reconciling the lists; the main function of both is to relate Jesus» appearance to the historic events of Old Testament history.

It is a living religion which has received and is still receiving its vitality from the people who confess it; it is a great movement which has passed through various stages of development over its long and complicated history, influencing and being influenced by the religious and cultural forces in its environment.

However, the progression of history over the last few hundred years points to positive outcomes in the long run.

CNN: Decades - long fight for Jewish freedom remembered If asked to name the monumental chapters in Jewish history over the past century, people are likely to name the Holocaust or the founding of the state of Israel.

The Guardian: Peru university in Vatican battle over right to call itself Catholic The Vatican is locked in a bitter dispute with one of South America's top universities in a row that has resurrected ideological differences within the Catholic church long thought to have been consigned to cold war history.

Let us glance over the main stages of this long history of aggregation.

In light of Lewis's long and distinguished career, encompassing so many contributions to process philosophy, many readers may have forgotten that Ford began his intellectual career as a Tillichian, writing his dissertation at Yale over thirty - five years ago on «The Ontological Foundation of Paul Tillich's Theory of Religious Symbol,» and publishing his first several scholarly articles in the early 1960s in distinguished journals like the Journal of the History of Philosophy and the Journal of Religion on aspects of Tillich's thought.

Atheism has a long history of imposing their immorality on others, and have destroyed cultures all over the world, including the United States.

Steve, um, yeah Christians have a long history of forcing thier religion on others, which in turn has destroyed cultures all over the world, main reason I am not a fan, Jesus would be ashamed of all of you.

As in history, religion, will continue to be argued over until all of us are long gone!

Why does the full meaningfulness of life and history necessarily demand that good will ultimately triumph over sin and evil so that sin will no longer be a condition of our being?

Rarely in its long history has the Christian church been so closely tied to and dependent on an external organization over which it has so little control as it does when communicating through the medium of television.

To this story the author brings a study of history pursued over a long life.