Sentences with phrase «past points in history»

At past points in history, people could go to prison for being in debt.

Not exact matches

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.

Funny, this article points out that prayer, according to Obama, is a part of american history, thus we are to assume that we should continue doing it becase we've done it in the past... We also used to own slaves, ride horses and use candles to light our houses.

Speaking in the situation of an impending catastrophe to his people, he called them out of their life in an old history of the past and pointed the way to the final moment of the Eschaton.

Since a history of Faith Church had just been finished a few months before he arrived, Landry invited the committee to begin its work with a study of this history; the story of the church's founding, its significant experiences in the past, critical turning points, its line of important personages.

See, No - Such... folks on the Atheist side have been pointing out acts in history and have been declaring that Christianity and other Faiths should be judged on the acts of the Faithful in the past.

Creation didn't just happen at some distant point in past history and destruction won't happen at some fixed point in the future.

A church that is the largest voluntary association in the country; a church whose universal pastor has, over the past decade, definitively answered Stalin's cynical query about the pope's divisions; a church that is, demographically, at its strongest historical point of leverage in American society — this is a church that would seem well positioned to seize what Richard John Neuhaus and others have seen as a possible «Catholic moment» in American history, pro Deo et patria.

Tennis pointed out past stars at quarterback in the state such as Del Oro's Randy Fasani and Santa Margarita's Carson Palmer as individuals that may have been the greatest QBs in California history based on size, arm strength and numbers.

My point is that the Captains job is on the pitch and the off field side of things is down to the manager and in the past few season's history has proven that Wenger just picks his lineup and tells them to go out and enjoy themselves.

He collected 103 points (28 goals, 75 assists) last year, only the fourth defenseman in history to go past 100 points.

Three of the prizes set new world records: a polar bear taken off Point Hope, Alaska by Tom F. Bolack of New Mexico; a white - tail deer shot in his home state by John A. Breen of Minnesota; and a mule deer with a mysterious past — it was discovered in a saloon by a Wyoming taxidermist, history and hunter forgotten.

The point I was making is that Arsenal is owned and run by billionaires that would sooner take money out than put money in and while you might not need a cash injection at this moment in time, anyone with half a brain cell will know that your club has had financial leg - ups in the past so to accuse City of being somehow different to what's gone on in your history is both hypocritical and incorrect.

«While some of our members have differed in the past on some of the specific issues in the New NY Agenda, the Executive Committee unanimously takes this position because we understand and accept Andrew's point that this is a pivotal moment in the history of this state, similar to the 1975 New York City fiscal crisis, when leaders in the labor, civic, business and political arena must put aside their individual agendas for the good of the entire state.»

At this point in history — with moon landings in the distant past, the space shuttle recently retired, and manned missions to Mars decades off — these may seem like mere theoretical concerns.

The rate at which this knowledge has accumulated in the past decade has been nothing short of breathtaking, and as a geneticist I feel lucky to have been able to practice my trade at this point in history.

A footnote to the film reveals the extent to which the specifics of what happened in Boston were and of course still are replicated the world over, at which point Spotlight exists to shine a searchlight on a moment from history that human behaviour tragically refuses to leave consigned to the past.

The Academy's editing team were on point this year, linking together the whole show with superbly cut montages of the nominees, past winners and — in one spellbinding sequence — just the 90 - year history of the Academy itself.

The large point is to shift our thinking from schools» reputations and past histories to their present - day effectiveness in producing young people ready to succeed and prosper and be good citizens and parents in twenty - first - century America.

Is the point of history in schools to learn facts about our past or to build a critical understanding?

This includes correctly identifying the extreme dividend growth and capital appreciation awaiting Visa shareholders in general during its rise from $ 50 to $ 130 per share over the past four years, Schwab investors during Brexit when the stock was at $ 25 before rising to $ 60, or pointing out the inanity of paying $ 71 per share for classic blue - chip staple General Mills in the summer of 2016 (triggering my only ever «short» article for a blue - chip stock in my history of writing).

«Using low values,» then, Temple and Coleman multiplied their estimated 1.4 million rural free - roaming cats in the state by 28 («twice urban kill rate»), and then multiply that by 20 percent (the «low dietary percent,» as they call it, though it's actually a gross misinterpretation of Mike Fitzgerald's work, as Ellen Perry Berkeley points out in her 2004 book TNR Past Present and Future: A history of the trap - neuter - return movement [14]-RRB-.

Mixing the two types of training (punishment and reward) might seem like a good idea, but as some of these studies have shown the history of the way the handler has treated the dog at any given point in time, will affect the way that the dog responds in the future (thus punishment in the past has an adverse effect in the future, even if the handler is now using rewards)

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Within 3 - 5 days you should see the past flight appear in your trip history the points credited appropriately.

Fans may be quick to point out Star Allies possesses the most levels of the past seven years of Kirby games — just over 40, in fact — but when considering that half of those are optional EX stages or brief boss stages, not even one of the most rousing final boss fights in series history can stave off the feeling of «that's it?»

Thrones of Britannia is the first game in the Total War Saga spin - off series, which will tackle more specific points in history, rather than the vast eras the series has dealt with in the past.

The Junction Point team jumped at this chance to play a part in Disney's history, creating a world and a story that honored the past while resolutely looking toward the future.

Vision in Motion animates an Australian history of modernism, presenting a survey of Jubelin's intricately sewn petit points of the past three decades alongside newly commissioned works inspired by architecture and the built environment.

Patricia Fernández» «Points of Departure (Between Spain and France)» considers the forms that history takes in the context of war, displacement, and political persecution that has reshaped our notions of geography and place over the past century.

Thus, the aim of Signals: If You Like I Shall Grow, is not to establish a definitive history of the gallery, but to re-activate its past as a point of departure in the present.

Posthumously his works were shown in 1999 in an important exhibition held at the Queens Museum, New York entitled Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s — 1980s and in 2009/10 at Centre Pompidou, Paris, in the group show The Promises of the Past: A Discontinuous History of Art in Former Eastern Europe.

«These pieces all carry a history of art - making that spans five to ten years,» points out Pfister during a conversation at the gallery, and, in some cases, these references go back further into the past to post-minimalism and reductivism.

Beyond the symbolic transactions, institutional protocols and disconnections between contemporary art and the discourse of art history, the exhibition suggests a territory where separate timelines converge, a vanishing point where they can be reconciled interpretively, a time, right after «the contemporary», when art and history, the present and its transcription as an art - historical past, unfold in simultaneity.

The larger point, about the past's elusiveness and history's implicit insufficiency, is made, but not as sharply here as in the fake and weirdly altered antiques that constituted Mr. Tolle's previous work.

Past that point in history, (of which Fried seemed to indicate was the present of 1963), the overall phenomenon that included the 50 years between Kandinsky and Pollock gave way to a far more pluralistic artistic landscape where the issue of abstraction in painting was no longer a «live issue».

Fascinated by the circumstances enabling such randomly selected images and ideas to coexist, the artist questions the result of this crosssection in time, whether they align or fall apart and their reference point in history in relation to our past and future.

[Response: Well, it's worth pointing out then that the history of CO2 forcing has not been perfectly exponential in the past.

One can try to point the finger at other reasons for this, but the fact is that for the past hundred some odd years since the Industrial Revolution, we've been dumping more stuff into the atmosphere — and on a continuous basis — than probably in the rest of human history combined.

The author's points on non-linearity and time delays are actually more relevant to the discussion in other presentations when I talked about whether the climate models that show high future sensitivities to CO2 are consistent with past history, particularly if warming in the surface temperature record is exaggerated by urban biases.

I guess I would suggest two articles for this letter to the editor, «There is no proof» and «No past, no present» Peopel who flat out deny there is any evidence wo n`t be convinced but they should be pointed to the IPCC report, the most extensively reviewed scientific document in history, endorsed by just about every major relevant scientific body and major governmental science academy, including the US.

I've just witnessed two decades of so - called experts moving the goalposts on the point - of - no - return for saving life on earth, telling us snow and ice in temperate climes would only be seen in history books, and fudging the data to make the past cooler and the present warmer.

Both of these points are, in some respect, «theories» — albeit theories which seem to be backed up by experience and a consideration of history — as you point out regarding past experience with legal clinics, paralegals, etc., and as we have seen with the treatment of Omar Khadr by successive Liberal and Conservative governments in Canada (IMHO).

The three year driving record includes driver - related information from the past three years of your driving history in Maine, including your driver's license status, the date your driver's license was issued, when your license is set to expire, any violations you may have committed and any demerit points you may have incurred.

The education section states the applicant has certification in CPR, and there is also a bullet point in the work history section where the candidate states he responded to an emergency situation on the job in the past.

If you are an executive who has been progressing on the corporate ladder for the past 30 years, you may decide (based on the «flow» of jobs in your career history) that your best cut - off point is 17 years or 21 years, and that there would be no advantage in showing work history further back than that.

At some point in the distant past history of the job application process some recruiter somewhere decided a crisp bullet list resume did not allow any of the personality of the applicant to come through, and so the cover letter was born.

If you received formal recognition in a past role, include this information as one of the bullet points in your work history.

Don't be ashamed of any points in your history; show your future employer that you embrace all of your past achievements and prove that you are honest and have nothing to hide.

Domestic violence among the low income couples who would be targeted for the healthy marriage initiative is very rare.In fact, only 2 percent experience domestic violence.Critics of the healthy marriage initiative often cite statistics showing that a high percent of middle - aged welfare mothers have suffered domestic violence at some point in the past.These figures are irrelevant for two reasons.First, the healthy marriage initiative will focus on younger women around the time of a child's birth, not older mothers with a long history of welfare dependence.The domestic violence rates are very different for these two groups.Second, the fact a woman has experienced domestic violence in the past does not mean she is experiencing violence in a current relationship, or that most prior relationships have involved violence.