Sentences with phrase «people by the century»

There's more in the news article by Celia Dugger and Justin Gillis: «U.N. Forecasts 10.1 Billion People by Century's End.»

Without drastic action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, potentially lethal heatwaves will threaten most people by the century's end.

Not exact matches

By the time the game finally started, on a steamy Texas Saturday this September, there were 87,500 people in the stadium and thousands more in the streets, all eager for the rematch between Alabama and Texas A&M — the «game of the century,» at least for that week.

He points out that people have constructed terrible technology before, notably the 18th century «Satanic Mills» powered by child labor and the grim slaughterhouses that produced tainted meat and made the streets of New York and Chicago run red with blood.

Smith started Vice as a print magazine with Suroosh Alvi and Gavin McInnes in Montreal more than two decades ago; with Smith at the helm as CEO, it's now a multi-platform content mill with a reported audience of between 250 million and 300 million people a month, many of them members of Generation Y. Smith made his money by convincing an older generation that Vice knows millennials better than they could ever hope to, and that pitch has worked: Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox paid US$ 70 million for a 5 % stake of Vice in 2013, and Rogers Communications (which owns Canadian Business) inked a $ 100 million partnership.

You can give yourself the opportunity — which, by the way, is what successful people have done for centuries.

By the 20th century, governments all over the world were engaged in an endless war on noisy people and things.

PASTA has been enjoyed for centuries and by tradition, Italian people have consumed more than the rest of the world's population put together.

He says that artificial intelligence combined with data gathered by billions of sensors will bring on an «information revolution,» that will benefit people more than the 19th century Industrial Revolution.

In 2002, before the sale of PayPal even went through, Musk started voraciously reading about rocket technology, and later that year, with $ 100 million, he started one of the most unthinkable and ill - advised ventures of all time: a rocket company called SpaceX, whose stated purpose was to revolutionize the cost of space travel in order to make humans a multi-planetary species by colonizing Mars with at least a million people over the next century.

By the turn of the century, online retailing had become a veritable bubble, and in the early 2000s, that bubble burst, causing millions of people to lose faith in online shopping.

Over the centuries, gold has been considered as an object of value by many different groups of people all over the world.

Evolution, the age of the earth, the nature of the universe itself, etc., has been investigated and tested and findings challenged, refined, and verified in thousands of different ways by thousands of people over centuries and across continents.

In fact, the Tanach is very clear to the Jews that the only covenant they have (and will ever have) is the one pounded out between G - d and the Jews on Mt. Sinai (which, if you read the fine print AND the NT is allowed to be understood / interpreted by designated leaders in the Jewish society; Jesus believed those people to be the Pharisees and told his JEWISH followers to adhere to Pharisee teachings... the Pharisees were the honorable, compassionate end of the theology spectrum in the first century instead of the bad rap they get from a mis - reading of the NT (done generally with no comprehension of Jewish culture or history).

However, the senseless murder of tens of millions of people during the twentieth century by atheistic godless governments does not convince me atheism holds any real answers.

No, over 180 million people have been killed by their own secular humanist governments in the 20th Century.

As Christians spread their religion into Europe in the first centuries A.D., they ran into people living by a variety of local and regional religious creeds.

Breeders, a film by the Center for Ethics and Culture, investigates the growing practice of surrogacy: «Surrogacy is fast becoming one of the major issues of the 21st century — celebrities and everyday people are increasingly using surrogates to build their families.

But «liturgy» literally means «the work of the people,» and the people of God have been sustained through the centuries by rhythms and practices that help us remember our story, remember our saints and sing the eternal song that echoes around God's throne.

More people have been hatefully murdered by atheists in the last 100 years than were killed in all previous centuries.

One taught for centuries by organized religion for the purpose of keeping people bound in a fear based choke hold.

There were also the Northern Crusades undertaken by the Christian kings of Denmark and Sweden against the Pagan peoples of northern Europe in the 12th and 13 centuries.

More people have been tortured and killed by atheists in the past century than were killed in all previous centuries.

I believe that man is, by nature, an exile and will never be self - sufficient or complete on this earth; that his chances of happiness and virtue, here, remain more or less constant through the centuries and, generally speaking, are not much affected by the political and economic conditions in which he lives; that the balance of good and ill tends to revert to a norm; that sudden changes of physical condition are usually ill, and are advocated by the wrong people for the wrong reasons; that the intellectual communists of today have personal, irrelevant grounds for their antagonism to society, which they are trying to exploit.

For atheists like me, it's always funny how worked up ignorant people get over a book, written by people trying to profit from, control and manipulate people in the 4th century AD.

For centuries the only way this religion of sword has been able to proliferate has been to brainwash people by getting them angry, and injecting sorrow, into their souls about the dead and martyrs, as well as creating hate towards an enemey, even a made - up one Without a funeral, mourning, and a physical shrine, muslims are lost!

All the more reason, then, to be grateful to two Catholic University professors for having assembled a florilegium of brief texts from a century of Catholic social doctrine, and then artfully arranging them as answers to the real - world questions asked by business people trying to live their professional lives vocationally.

secular humanists always conveniently forget that more people have been murdered by evolutionists in the last century than then entire dark ages put together, i.e.: Hitler, Stalin, Mao

Not least by the number of posts above in which people have expressed their disillusion with the Christian Gospel because of some 19th Century self - proclaimed prophet with a zipper problem decided to re-invent it.

BillyD said: «Without arbitrarily labeling as mass mental illness, how do explain the personally experiential, spiritual revelations of countless people throughout the centuries, many by people previously not convinced by the faith of others?»

The volume is also divided into two separate stories, set a century apart: a long first - person narrative by a Handmaid in Gilead is followed by «Historical Notes on «The Handmaid's Tale,»» a fictive academic commentary by the urbane male editor of the anonymous woman's tapes discovered in the late 21st century, decades after Gilead's fall.

Who determines that this place is my place and, by definition, not your place, even though your people may have lived here for centuries?

@Troy in Austin - more people were killed in the 20th century by atheistically - driven ideology than by all religious - driven killings in all of history.

Without arbitrarily labeling as mass mental illness, how do explain the personally experiential, spiritual revelations of countless people throughout the centuries, many by people previously not convinced by the faith of others?

By the end of the following century, the people in these lands were largely Moslem, as a result of the militant spread of Islam.

But what the king decided to do formally and solemnly in the 14th century was inspired by sentiments that already ran deep in the national psyche and consciousness of the English people.

The people of the Old Testament were on a long journey by which they gradually matured in their relationship with God, over long centuries learning about Him and discovering always more about who He is.

«This filthy enactment,» he said, «was made in the nineteenth century, by people who could read and write.

By mid-eighteenth century, two religious titans of the Anglo - Saxon world, erstwhile allies, were at loggerheads over the question of just how many people were destined for an eternity in hell.

While it might be true that those who lived in the time of the Prophet could understand religion better than the people of today who must study Islam by means of documents only, we can not ignore the considerable change in the social situation and world conditions during the past fourteen centuries.

Perhaps it was the only way to preserve faith in God at a time when all the hopes of his people were dashed to earth by the Romans as they had been by the Babylonians in the sixth century B.C. (cf. Is 63:18; 64:11; Rev 11:2).

To deny that that Consti.tution begins with «We the People» and not «By the grace of God almighty» (like * every * other 18th century docvment did), is the lunacy.

Number one, Tacitus, a 1st Century Roman wrote about a person named Jesus being crucified for heresy against the Jewish people, executed by Pontias Pilate.

For the tradition to which Plato had been heir, paideia was as essential to the well - being of the public realm as of the political realm, by forming virtuous citizens capable of filling political roles wisely; for fourth - century Greek - speaking Christians paideia, while it aimed to shape persons» private interiority rather than their public political activity, contributed to the well - being of the public realm as a cultural realm accessible to any literate, educated person, Christian or pagan.

With carefully chosen words and images charged with first - century political meaning, he constantly reminded his followers that they were to be a set - apart people, a people who lived counter-culturally by loving their enemies, praying for those who persecuted them, lending without expecting anything in return, and surrendering allegiance to a crucified and risen Lord.

During this century Islam reached Timbuktu and was accepted by the people of the desert.

I think what most people HAVE N'T heard is that it was originally named the Cordoba Center (or complex); named after the Spainish city sacked and conquered by the Muslims in the 8th Century (just look on wikipedia).

Why don't people realize that the Bible as we know it was heavily edited, cut down and added to by the college of cardinals in the 6th century?

You may believe the Gospel of John is made up whole cloth too but it shows that, at the latest in the second century, that Christian understood themselves to be adopted into God's people not by blood by by faith (by faith we are saved through grace is how Paul put it).

One - eighth of the region's 481 million people belong to fundamentalist or evangelical churches, and in some countries, such as Guatemala, it is estimated that half the population will have switched into those churches by the end of the century.