Sentences with phrase «over time and history»

The role is a tradition or convention that, over time and history, has come to be accepted as part of an unquestioned element of Canada's governance.

This is the etiology — the explanation in terms of origins that are, not were, that extend not vertically but in comprehensive horizontal fashion over all time and history.

Not exact matches

When a threat is imminent, this reaction is essential to your survival, but when a threat is ancient history, holding on to that stress wreaks havoc on your body and can have devastating health consequences over time.

When a threat is imminent, this reaction is essential to your survival, but when a threat is ancient history, holding onto that stress wreaks havoc on your body and can have devastating health consequences over time.

Another challenge is to strike the appropriate tone at a time when the initial shock over the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history has quickly given way to a vicious political brawl in Washington and on the campaign trail.

«Pulitzer Prize - winner James B. Stewart shows for the first time how four of the eighties» biggest names on Wall Street — Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, Martin Siegel, and Dennis Levine — created the greatest insider - trading ring in financial history and almost walked away with billions, until a team of downtrodden detectives triumphed over some of America's most expensive lawyers to bring this powerful quartet to justice.»

Sure, Bitcoin has a years - long history, and its price has generally gone up over time.

Instead, beginning with the rise of the Bell Co. and AT&T, he traces a history of «optimistic and open media» — the telephone, moving pictures, FM radio, and cable television among them — that over time became «closed and controlled» industries.

And Elliott, whose 13.4 % annual rate of return over its four - decade history is unmatched among hedge funds, has also outperformed at a time when that asset class has woefully lagged the market.

The wait is officially over, people, and it's one of the happiest Fridays we can remember in recent history because Fenty Beauty has officially dropped, and not one of the amazing - looking products in dozens of shades has sold out as of the time this story posted.

It was the 377th time Americans have witnessed a mass shooting in 2017 alone, and comes just over a month after the horror in Las Vegas, which was the deadliest mass shooting in contemporary U.S. history.

If you've been on the site for awhile, you have a head start because we've already discussed the importance of a discipline known as asset allocation, which involves selecting among different asset classes to build a well - balanced portfolio that can weather different economic environments, tax regimes, global conditions, inflation or deflation, and a host of other variables that history has shown will fluctuate over time.

These programs will give you a way to view, sort, and make calculations about your transaction history over time.

«Every piece of content that you share on Facebook, you own and you have complete control over who sees it and how you share it — and you can remove it at any time,» he said, without mentioning how far from that principle the company has been at other times in its history.

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.

Over time, repaying student debt has a positive impact on borrower's credit score and history, so long as the bill is paid on time each month.

The growing availability of credit has also expanded the resources available to new entrepreneurs launching businesses, and has given many families access to the funds they need to «smooth over» periods of financial challenge.9 / At the same time, competition among lenders for individuals with solid credit histories has reduced the price of credit for those consumers.10 /

The Post's Brian Fung and Sari Horwitz: «Justice Department officials told AT&T that its $ 85 billion bid to acquire Time Warner is unlikely to be approved without major changes, a move that is driving the two sides toward a high - stakes legal battle over one of the biggest media deals in history.

Now that you have a loan you're in a unique position to rack up a history of on - time payments and the credit score bump that happens over time from doing so.

They have only gotten more expensive over the last couple of years and now stand at valuations that are only exceeded by a couple of times in history, namely 1929 and 2000.

Buy an index fund or two, continue with regular investing, and if history is any guide, over time you will become wealthy.

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.

For both collectors and artists, they provide digital certificates of authenticity and provenance records that enable buyers to verify the authenticity of the artwork they purchase while creating an accredited ownership history for the artwork over time.

I find it amazing that almost every organized religion during that time was at least partially, if not fully involved in bigotry toward blacks, including outright banning them from their membership and congretations altogether (which Mormans have never done), but only Mormons are still chided constantly about their history with blacks, despite the fact that black members have had full benefits for almost four decades, and despite the fact that Mormons have been actively proselyting and doing charitable missionary work in Africa for over 160 years.

In proposing the «Idea» as the wellspring of both nature and history, working itself out by converting the inconclusiveness of time into the universality of Spirit, the Hegelian project invited the final triumph of sheer eventuality over rational order.

At some point and time through - out history, all religions have been taken over and control by men, not God.

These continuities of history for the secular and the Christian developed over time so that the secular had its own way of relating to the world; Christianity likewise had its own way of relating to the world.

... What has happened over time is that people were forced to believe in the one of the Abrahamic faiths through Holy wars, torture, Crusades and Inquisitions, and as people practiced this chosen people ideology, whether Christian, Catholic, Jew or Muslim, which was built on the principle of remaining segregated from the un-chosen, their faith urged them to remain segregated, where they lived and never to marry anyone outside their faith... and even in death there is a history of segregation which to this day continues, try having a non Jewish person buried in Jewish cemetery.

CNN: Viral video shows Romney in testy exchange over his faith In campaign time, it's ancient history: a 2007 video showing a testy off - air exchange between Mitt Romney and a radio host over the candidate's faith and his stance on abortion.

(CNN)-- In campaign time, it's ancient history: a 2007 video showing a testy off - air exchange between Mitt Romney and a radio host over the candidate's faith and his stance on abortion.

Groups or guilds of prophets are attested over the whole range of the history of the kingdoms from the time of Saul in the eleventh century B.C. until the fall of Jerusalem in the early sixth century B.C. Nor is there any question that these associated professional prophets were related to the cultus and / or the court and regularly discharged certain cultic professional duties.

It was said that «the best of defense is to attack»... --- Those allowed such to be signed knew all the time that this is what was going to happen because it happened repeatedly through out history from time of the crusaders but still they continued with signing it because it meant for them money pouring in for all involved with the trading on this issue which has spoiled the life of the Palestinians and all Arabs ever started war over those lands started with swords and horses that has developed into the present arms that we became to know and only God knows how future arms would look like in few de-ca-des or cen - tur - ies that are yet to come...?!

At first sight, beings and their destinies might seem to us to be scattered haphazard or at least in an arbitrary fashion over the face of the earth; we could very easily suppose that each of us might equally well have been born earlier or later, at this place or that, happier or more ill - starred, as though the universe from the beginning to end of its history formed in space - time a sort of vast flower - bed in which the flowers could be changed about at the whim of the gardener.

Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing the Decent Society by Jerry Z. Muller Free Press, 272 pages, $ 22.95 A good work of intellectual history should exemplify two qualities above all: an imagination that allows the author to «pass over» into the horizon of his subject in order to....

Remarkable and significant as is the emergence of self - conscious persons by natural processes from the original «hot big bang» from which the universe has expanded over the last 10 - 20 thousand million years, this must not be allowed to obscure another fact about humanity, namely its relatively recent arrival in the universe, even on a time - scale of the history of the Earth.

The Bible is not only best selling book of all time, it continues to be one of the most historically accurate books in history, and is archeologically verified over, and over, and over again... Just last year, they found yet another specific from the New Testiment.

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.

In order to settle this issue, our Creator, Jehovah God, has allowed mankind to be ruled by Satan (though most are unaware of it, 1 John 5:19) for over 6000 years of human history to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Satan's way of ruling is a miserable failure and while at the same time to see who will firmly support Jehovah God's rulership.

For historical evidence of the Bible, just look up in your history books about the Assyrians and Babylonians taking over Israel several hundred years BCE, or that the Romans were in power during the time of Jesus, that they did use crucifixion as a form of execution.

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.

Over against it he sets up a philosophical system of cosmic determinisrn, a sort of universal wheel of time on which life and nature and history are forever wearily repeating themselves as often as the cycle of time brings round once more the things that have receded into the past.

Laws really mean nothing, revealing injustice to the masses does work over time, history proves that, its just much to slow for folks like you and me.

When these symbols are taken literally they confuse the mind of the church, distort the relation between time and eternity, and reduce God's ultimate vindication over history to a point in history; for Niebuhr, one such falsification is expressed in the hope of a millennial age.

He has not really addressed the fact that the notion of climate, as distinct from the notion of weather, is not concerned with particular features of a single trajectory or history, but with the fact that there are some general features about certain kinds of time and system averages over many trajectories - and that these average features tend to show certain kinds of regularity or slow secular variation that are not apparent in a single trajectory (the term secular here has a technical meaning, not the common one of «not religious»).

nice question — there was indeed a global ocean in earths history and it was salt water — according to modern science when the plates moved and enclosed land creating a land locked ocean which over time turn to fresh water by leaking the salt into the bedrock... or something like that — i have rough understanding.

33 But this God whose death Altizer is proclaiming is precisely theism's God, the classic God - image that represents the triumph of power over love, a God «known as transcendent and impassive... a primordial deity who is unaffected by the processes of time and history.»

Oral history is much better in determining the emotional impacts on people, but even there it tends to be very distorted over time, and in the case of the Bible, other tellers.

This allows us to face the challenges of our time soberly, neither despairing of the possibilities of justice in public life and thus withdrawing, nor seeking to take command of history by embarking on grandiose ideological projects that encourage us to assume godlike powers over human affairs.

If you were familiar with my posting history that many times evidences over 6 or 7 paragraphs of all - original writing and sometimes over 500 - 800 words you'd realize how stupid of a statement you just made..

There is a purge of Christians in the Middle east over the last 10 years unlike any other time in the 2000 year history of Middle Eastern Christianity, coinciding with the Iraq war and the «Arab Spring.»