Sentences with phrase «past hundreds»

Mullins plans to skip Bratton's ceremonial «walkout» on Friday, when the commissioner leaves Police Plaza past hundreds of applauding officers.

It was a little white lie one mother told her young daughter in the early evening hours of Mon., Jan. 5th as they walked past the hundreds lined outside the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home on Madison Avenue.

But passion drives twinned dreamers Wiseau and Sestero to work past the hundred - degree heat, financial hardship, and million other aggravations to complete what they mistakenly believe will be their masterpiece.

Clicking past hundreds of titles when I browse the net for a book to read, it's the title and cover artwork that grabs my attention, first.

Reports suggest that around 75 % of the world's species live here and similar to anything else you do around these parts, you won't be swimming past hundreds of other divers to get a good look.

Enjoy the magical scenery as you cruise the bay and kayak through crystal clear waters past hundreds of lime stone karsts.

I floated past hundreds of brightly colored fish and saw unreal looking blue, green, and purple clams.

Since you started driving, you've past hundreds of mangled cars on the highway, but you never thought you'd be in the same situation.

As Henry Kissinger emphasizes in his new book World Order, the fundamental building block of all American and international engagement over the past hundred years — namely, the nation state and the Westphalian system in which states are embedded — is particularly weak in the Middle East due to fragile national roots and competing local and universalist identities, including pan-Arabic movements and messianic religious calls from the likes of Iran's ayatollahs and ISIS.

The principles on money have pretty much stayed the same over the past hundreds / thousands of years, so every now and then you have to change it up a bit to make sure those epiphanies happen.

As a reminder, you invest in the stock market because over the past hundred years or so, stock market investments averaged approximately 9.0 % or so per year.

As to the unhealthy nature of atheism we look to the millions of innocents murdered by atheists in the past hundred years or so.

Throughout Catholic thought over the past hundred and fifty years, there have run two entirely distinct conceptions of modernity and two quite different uses of Thomism — a combination of four threads weaving in and out of the Catholic Church's response to the strangeness of modern times.»

The past hundred years have been the years of secular rule and the religious classes have been out of power.

For the past hundreds of years it has been the believers dragging you through life.

Mysticism doesn't float free of religion — with the exception of the past hundred years, when the dissatisfaction with organized religion has led some people to turn to mysticism as a kind of private religion.

The secret call as always remains important, but in the conception of the ministry that is emerging out of the Biblical and systematic theology of the day and out of the personal reflections of young people and their pastors, the divine action whereby men are chosen for their station and calling is less spiritualistically understood than was the case for the past hundred years.

I expected this article to be another New York bashing of faith, but instead I read a well thought - out and accurate telling of a partial telling of Christianity over the past hundred or so years.

and then the Catholic Priests who has been molesting kids for the past hundreds of years.

But what is even more surprising is that at no time in the past hundred years has more than forty percent of the cabinet been comprised of people that have had some relevant non-governmental experience.

If the United States is said to have pursued an inconsistent foreign policy over the past hundred years, it is the nation that is being accused of inconsistency.

Critical historical exegesis during the past hundred years has undoubtedly aided unprecedented advancements in our biblical knowledge: in the better understanding of literary genres, source history and textual composition; in etymology and archaeology; in the penetration of ancient languages and cultural settings.

Studies of Pentecostal influence within world Christianity for the past hundred years are hardly complete, scholars say, without tracing the second stage that began in 1960 with the mainline Protestants and in 1967 with the Catholic charismatic renewal.

It is a natural part of life which for the past hundreds of thousands of years was the only way to survive.

This is a dramatic change from the widespread assumption of the past hundred years or more that smoking cigarettes is a remedy for respiratory problems and one of the surest ways to extend life expectancy.

The liturgical scholarship of the past hundred years has uncovered some fascinating insights into the rites used in the early Church but these indications are often incidental to the principal concern of the Fathers, which was to affirm that the Eucharist was the perfect sacrifice prophesied by Malachi, to emphasise the awesome mystery of the sacred action, and to exhort the faithful to approach it with a clear conscience.

For example, the history of technological progress in the past hundred years is full of amazing things that would have seemed miraculous, if not incredible, in an earlier day.

I have been insisting for a long time on the importance and significance of the technico - mental process which, particularly during the past hundred years, has been irresistibly causing Mankind to draw closer together and unite upon itself.

During the past hundred years, ideologies have often trumped the unimpeded search for truth.

In the past hundred years this has frequently expressed itself in support for socialism.

«In the midst of this tragedy they still find a way to make humor in light of the fact that they are going through one of the worst natural disasters that have hit the island in the past hundred years... It was like they're mad and ready to get going.

White flour, white rice, white pasta... all products of the past hundred years, since manufacturers have been able to remove most of the fibre (roughage).

James, William, and John, which were the first names of many presidents, have been staples on the list of most popular baby names over the past hundred years.

Despite this name being unpopular, if you were to look at the name's progression over the past hundred years, Dean is (very slowly) increasing over time, even with a small yo - yo pattern.

Did you know that Patricia is the number three most popular baby girl name in the United States of the past hundred years?

It did not make the list of top 100 baby names of American children of the past hundred years.

That famous phrase: «a Wall of Separation between church and state», generated by Roger Williams, resuscitated by Justice Black and regurgitated by Rick Santorum, has assumed considerable political importance in the US over the past hundred years but is poorly understood.

During the past hundred years, the cost of electricity (measured in constant dollars per kilowatt - hour) has decreased markedly, even as total world energy consumption has soared.