Sentences with phrase «over the past few centuries as»

They're deep down, resting in the muck and mire of a human condition that hasn't evolved near as much over the past few centuries as many would like to believe.

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Very few of the reforms suggested by the Moreland Commission under Mario Cuomo have been enacted over the past quarter century, and most are still talked about as potential cures for what ails Albany in the aftermath of an unprecedented streak of corruption convictions.

If you had asked an expert over the past half century, you would have heard two general possibilities: Either the winds go as deep as 10,000 kilometers from the cloud tops and are driven by heat rising from those depths or they are very shallow and confined to just the top few hundred kilometers of Jupiter's atmosphere.

By analyzing the vivid colors in paintings by such artists as J.M.W. Turner, Claude Lorrain, Alexander Cozens, and Edgar Degas, some scientists hope to say something significant about volcano - related cooling — and possibly human - induced pollution — over the past few centuries.

As far as a ceiling goes, I highly recommend the book Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds which offers insight on a number of mania that have occurred not just in the past few decades, but over the centurieAs far as a ceiling goes, I highly recommend the book Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds which offers insight on a number of mania that have occurred not just in the past few decades, but over the centurieas a ceiling goes, I highly recommend the book Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds which offers insight on a number of mania that have occurred not just in the past few decades, but over the centuries.

In the past few centuries, smaller transitions (such as the ending of the Little Ice Age at about 1650 AD) probably occurred over only a few decades at most.

Professor Sunstein cites a few examples of judicial deference over the past century, such as the per curiam decision in Massachussetts Board of Retirement v. Murgia, 427 U.S. 307 (1976), in which the United States Supreme Court upheld a state law setting a mandatory retirement age of 50 for police officers, deferring to the legitimate interest identified in the state's pleadings.