Sentences with phrase «periods in history as»

And it completely ignores the fact that until this hysteria, climate scientists used to refer to the warm periods in our history as «optima».»

Perhaps we should have a reminder graph at the top of this page which shows that our planet is on the downward path of a short [in climate terms] warm interglacial period in our history as we move into the next ice age.?

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In 2005, the BBC reported he would consider using the name «King George,» as «King Charles» is associated with some of the bloodiest periods of British history.

Historian, Alexandra Munroe, described the period as «undoubtedly the most creative outburst of anarchistic, subversive and riotous tendencies in the history of modern Japanese culture.»

As I begin another chapter in my life, I leave feeling fulfilled with what we have accomplished as a government and a country during one of the most challenging economic periods in our country's historAs I begin another chapter in my life, I leave feeling fulfilled with what we have accomplished as a government and a country during one of the most challenging economic periods in our country's historas a government and a country during one of the most challenging economic periods in our country's history.

He led Torstar through the most challenging period in its history, then signed on to place the greater Toronto transit system on a solid footing as president of Metrolinx.

And as a few of your readers pointed out, odds are there will still be something left from my investable assets as well, as they would only be exhausted, under the 3 % rule, if my future is as bad as the worst 50 - year period in history.

This aligns well with our own analysis, where as I've noted in recent weeks, the S&P 500 is priced to deliver one of the weakest 10 - year total returns in history except for the (ultimately disappointing) period since the mid-1990's.

Although he presided over one of the most prosperous periods in American history, Greenspan is remembered by some as making some significant errors.

Obviously this set of scenarios — in which GDP grows on average at rates between 3 % and 6 % for ten years while credit efficiency is improved so dramatically that in 5 - 6 years China begins to deleverage and by the end of the period these growth rates can be maintained with no growth in credit — is theoretically possible, but just as obviously it is highly implausible, and I can not think of any country in history that has achieved such a turnaround in its financial sector without having first experienced a brutal financial crisis.

In summary, a 23 - year period in which the US economy achieved the strongest real growth in its history is strangely characterised in some quarters as a «great depression», quite likely because so many economists and historians do not understand that real economic progress puts DOWNWARD pressure on priceIn summary, a 23 - year period in which the US economy achieved the strongest real growth in its history is strangely characterised in some quarters as a «great depression», quite likely because so many economists and historians do not understand that real economic progress puts DOWNWARD pressure on pricein which the US economy achieved the strongest real growth in its history is strangely characterised in some quarters as a «great depression», quite likely because so many economists and historians do not understand that real economic progress puts DOWNWARD pressure on pricein its history is strangely characterised in some quarters as a «great depression», quite likely because so many economists and historians do not understand that real economic progress puts DOWNWARD pressure on pricein some quarters as a «great depression», quite likely because so many economists and historians do not understand that real economic progress puts DOWNWARD pressure on prices.

Recent history has been better in general, as stocks have risen in all 11 rising rate periods since 1996, with an average gain of 9 % (median 5.4 %).

-- 4 reasons why «gold has entered a new bull market» — Schroders — Market complacency is key to gold bull market say Schroders — Investors are currently pricing in the most benign risk environment in history as seen in the VIX — History shows gold has the potential to perform very well in periods of stock market weakness (see chart)-- You should buy insurance when insurers don't believe that the «risk event» will happen — Very high Chinese gold demand, negative global interest rates and a weak dollar should push goldhistory as seen in the VIX — History shows gold has the potential to perform very well in periods of stock market weakness (see chart)-- You should buy insurance when insurers don't believe that the «risk event» will happen — Very high Chinese gold demand, negative global interest rates and a weak dollar should push goldHistory shows gold has the potential to perform very well in periods of stock market weakness (see chart)-- You should buy insurance when insurers don't believe that the «risk event» will happen — Very high Chinese gold demand, negative global interest rates and a weak dollar should push gold higher

As we have witnessed since April 2009, the central banks around the globe have created more credit (counterfeit «money») than in any other period in history and now that inflation is starting to once again emerge, they are threatening to raise interest rates to get ahead of the curve.

This book describes the experiences of the author as a recruit and bond seller with Salomon Brothers during the late 1980's - an important period in the history of Wall Street.

This is a critical time for the British, European and global economies; a decisive period for reform of the global financial system including its leading financial centre, the City of London; and a crucial point in the Bank of England's history as it accepts vital new responsibilities.»

Let us read history, our history, as a living account of what we once were, with the double - edged consciousness that all of this has gone forever and that, in spite of everything, that period of youth and every moment of our lives remain mysteriously present at the wellsprings of our soul in a kind of delectable eternity.»

In the Churches of the Reformation the immediate result was, undeniably, an outburst of religious spontaneity such as marks periods of expansion and revival, comparable with prophetic movements in the early Church and in the history In the Churches of the Reformation the immediate result was, undeniably, an outburst of religious spontaneity such as marks periods of expansion and revival, comparable with prophetic movements in the early Church and in the history in the early Church and in the history in the history of

The church in Asia has a long and rich history, dating as far back as the first century, and it includes periods of both blessing and hardship.

For the period from 1914 to the present, Blumhofer switches to the developmental model used by William Menzies in an earlier work, Anointed to Serve: The Story of the Assemblies of God (1971) She illustrates many of the points with fresh anecdotal material and brings into greater focus certain aspects of the history, such as the denomination's response to the New Order of the Latter Rain.

The writers accurate use of common names of the time shows they had access to reliable information about the people and places involved in the history of Jesus and that their writings took place at about the same time as the events (there would have been no way to access information regarding names of that time hundreds of years after the period, remember, no books, no libraries, etc..)

... So if you will, in the Christian idea of history, as opposed to the Jewish idea of history, which is its foundation, the church lives in this charged period between two poles of the First and Second Coming, so this idea of the Second Coming is intrinsic to the idea of Jesus Christ as a universal savior.

I think it was the last period in our national history in which being a Christian and being at what was felt as the cutting edge of fresh thinking and social transformation went easily together for large numbers of young people — and adults as well.

Someday we may be able to write a history of twentieth - century theology in the United States in which the many creative strands of Christian thinking during the period are displayed as shared sources for the emerging synthesis.

Maybe people are not «fence - sitting», as you so inelegantly stated, but rather like myself have made a firm intelligent decision that religions are the cause of some of the most devastating periods in man's brief history on this planet and hopefully one day we will get past the need to use religions as a crutch for a weak mind and instead select lifestyles such as Buddhism to evolve.

This translation sparked off the period in church history known as the Reformation.

The rugged terrain of northwest Arabia, of which Syria and Palestine, it has sometimes been remarked, may be regarded as merely the largest and richest oasis, the numerous mountain peaks, the volcanoes apparently active at some period in ancient history, the desert with its speaking silences, the uncertainties of the weather in a land where all is dependent on the annual rainfall — all these and much more of the same sort are reflected in Israel's religion.

In this period of history, when militant homosexuals not only reveal their liaisons and lifestyles but actively and articulately promote the homosexual relationship as a morally acceptable alternative to marriage, legislation that would require the military to accept homosexuals would do much more to violate the rights of heterosexual military personnel than it would to promote the rights of homosexuals.

The church possesses the Holy Scriptures, which are the record of the formative (and because they come from that earliest age in one sense also can serve as normative) period of the church's history.

This time period in religious history is known as the Second Wave, the First Wave being the birth of Pentecostalism at the turn of the century.

«The post-industrial period may well be remembered as the most irresponsible in history.»

We are living, I have argued, in a unique period of transition, marking a transformation as far reaching in importance as the leap that occurred when that biological man began to make history thousands of years ago.

And as a matter of fact, the history of the Church's use of Scriptures in her preaching and teaching has tended to move in an either / or pattern, there being periods of strong emphasis upon the Scripture as the body of authoritative tradition, provoking a reaction in favor of an understanding of Scripture as address to the hearers.

The most urgent immediate task, therefore, is the development of education on the basis of the sciences, both natural and social, for only with their help can society as a whole be taught to construct a life completely in accordance with that knowledge which has become the factor by which our age is distinguished from all preceding periods of history.

When the historical experience of the whole people is interpreted in such a way as to affirm the illimitable by virtue of an open frontier existing for a long period of their history, then it surely follows that that declaration of the eschatological character of all existence will not easily address them with quick and intelligible meaning.

The Babylonian deportation serves the same purpose in this historical scheme: it is an event of transition that terminates the age of kings and ushers in a new period of Israel's history as Jechoniah is carried into captivity with the Jewish people.

As such it is the unluckiest, the most tragic period in history: «And it shall come to pass that whoever gets safe out of the fire shall be destroyed by famine... for all the earth shall devour its inhabitants.»

In various contemporary ways of presenting Christianity there are marked divergences upon this point, as indeed there have been at most periods of its history.

Whereas for a brief period in history there were influential public arenas (such as UNESCO, the International Telecommunications Union, etc.) where such issues could be addressed, in a totally commercialized world marketplace such discussion may disappear.

«47 And third, it is through this work of reinterpreting its own traditions that Israel as a community develops a historical consciousness, thereby becoming a historical reality, if it is true, as critical scholarship suggests, that Israel did not exist as a unified entity until the amphictyonic period after the settlement of Canaan, then we can say that «by elaborating this history as a living tradition, Israel projected itself into the past as a single people, to whom occurred, as to an indivisible totality, the deliverance from Egypt, the revelation on Sinai, the wandering in the desert, the gift of the Promised Land.

As recently as the middle of the twentieth century, church historian K.S. Latourette described the period 1815 - 1914 as «the greatest century which Christianity has thus far known» in its 2,000 - year history.1 Christendom might be dying but Christianity was very much alivAs recently as the middle of the twentieth century, church historian K.S. Latourette described the period 1815 - 1914 as «the greatest century which Christianity has thus far known» in its 2,000 - year history.1 Christendom might be dying but Christianity was very much alivas the middle of the twentieth century, church historian K.S. Latourette described the period 1815 - 1914 as «the greatest century which Christianity has thus far known» in its 2,000 - year history.1 Christendom might be dying but Christianity was very much alivas «the greatest century which Christianity has thus far known» in its 2,000 - year history.1 Christendom might be dying but Christianity was very much alive.

In fact, the January - July period is the hottest stretch in American history as a whole, 3 entire degrees above the previous record.In fact, the January - July period is the hottest stretch in American history as a whole, 3 entire degrees above the previous record.in American history as a whole, 3 entire degrees above the previous record...

In an earlier period, this separation of the tragic dimension of history and of practical immediacy was not as sharply drawn.

Come now, you know why: Because of a brief period in history when a symbol that has been used around the world for thousands of years as a sign of good will was used to represent an evil socialistic nation whose leader ordered the death of millions.

In his monumental A History of the Expansion of Christianity Kenneth Scott Latourette refers to the period between 1800 and 1914 as «The Great Century.»

I believe that the events described in Joshua and Judges happened within history as described, and at the period of time these books claim.

Jazz, perhaps, but will it continue on as a living tradition in its own right or simply be remembered as a particular period or phase in the history of Western music, like the Baroque or Romantic?

This is the most fascinating volume as it charts the history not only of one of the most important periods in the recent period of the Catholic Church but also of one of the most important figures in our land.

«A reading of the Old Testament materials of the various periods of the history of Israel, in the light of the contrasts between these perspectives, shows that this tension existed throughout the centuries covered by the canonic literature as the two «trajectories» in the reading of history where the existence and vocation of the people of God is made explicit».29

This is the most fascinating volume as it charts the history not only of one of the most important periods in the recent...