Sentences with phrase «preceding century»

One of the many extrapolations of Nochlin's essay is that contemporary museum institutions continue to reflect the gendered and racist biases of preceding centuries by reinforcing the supremacy of specific master artists.

Until now, this odd trait had generally been attributed to the introduction of blonde genes by European explorers and traders in preceding centuries.

Nature was the great alternative background to the confusion in theology of preceding centuries.

Gehrels and others (2008) comment that this is «a significantly higher rate of sea - level rise during the 20th century as compared with preceding centuries.»

In fact, in 2011, the terms of trade were around 75 per cent above the average of the preceding century.

He observes, for instance, that throughout the preceding centuries of history man has been so busy surviving — living and dying like an overworked animal — that he has hardly had time to be anything other than decent.

In the Elijah texts (I Kings 17 - 19; 21; II Kings 1 - 2) the name Elijah occurs alone except in I Kings 17:1; 21:17; and 21:28 (the last is certainly secondary) and II Kings 1:3, 8 (which is also from later narrators than the original basic story of I Kings 17 - 19; 21).1 In all these it is «Elijah the Tishbite» as in the preceding century it was «Ahijah the Shilonite.»

This presupposed an extensive preparation in the preceding centuries, a preparation already witnessed to in the Upanishads.

He presents axial man in such sharp contrast with preaxial man that the continuity of the historical process and the numerous foreshadowings of axial man in the preceding centuries are obscured.

In the context of that story, the joy of Jesus» birth emerges from the suffering and sadness of those preceding centuries of longing.

In the preceding century, in the early days of the Swedish invasion, some missionaries came from England.

6 «Source» criticism ran its full, complex course in the latter half of the preceding century and the early years of the present century.

In the United States the increase both in numbers and in the percentage of the total population which had been one of the features of the preceding century has continued, and that in spite of participation in the War of 1914 - 1918 and the backwash against religion and morality which usually accompanies and follows war.

8:11) of the preceding century is answered out of the same essential prophetic faith addressing now a new time:

In the learned as well as in the popular religious literature of the preceding century, this question has been raised again and again — and with widely differing results.

Almost three decades ago a British epidemiologist named David P. Strachan proposed a simple, if counterintuitive, idea to explain why hay fever, eczema and asthma had become increasingly common over the preceding century.

Using samples from the stumps of giant sequoias logged in preceding centuries, the researchers will be able to push the record back even further.

It's some new shit, grounded in everything that's come to us from the preceding century; cinema, television, epistolary exchange, algorithmic processors, jazz's (and other ill suns like cubism, rock»n roll, or more recently, hip hop and techno, all instantiations of black aesthetics), it's a permutational, topological, syncretistic, re-indexicalisation of normative arrays, (hegemony / order).

In effect, even when MBH98 used data which weakens the difference between modern warmth and preceding centuries, they're criticized for it.

Only in that way can we truly build a world that is more just, more sustainable, more green and, most importantly, as habitable in 2100 as it was in preceding centuries.

So even though the precipitation coin is coming up tails only half the time, it means that over the past two decades we have gotten two tails - warm and dry in half the years, compared with only a quarter of years in the preceding century.»

Arid spells have been more frequent in the last two decades than in the preceding century.

That extra energy, together with the weak El Nino, is expected to make 2005 warmer than the years of 2003 and 2004 and perhaps even warmer than 1998, which had stood out as far hotter than any year in the preceding century, according to a NASA statement.

Taken together, the observed record from California suggests that (i) precipitation deficits are more likely to yield 1 - SD PMDI droughts if they occur when conditions are warm and (ii) the occurrence of 1 - SD PMDI droughts, the probability of precipitation deficits producing 1 - SD PMDI droughts, and the probability of precipitation deficits co-occurring with warm conditions have all been greater in the past two decades than in the preceding century.

The probability that a negative precipitation anomaly co-occurs with a positive temperature anomaly has increased recently, with warm — dry years occurring more than twice as often in the past two decades (91 %) as in the preceding century (42 %)(Fig. 1B).

We find that years with a negative PMDI anomaly exceeding — 1.0 SDs (hereafter «1 - SD drought») have occurred approximately twice as often in the past two decades as in the preceding century (six events in 1995 — 2014 = 30 % of years; 14 events in 1896 — 1994 = 14 % of years)(Fig. 1A and Fig.

That extra energy, together with the weak El Nino, is expected to make 2005 warmer than the years of 2003 and 2004 and perhaps even warmer than 1998, which had stood out as far hotter than any year in the preceding century.

We find that although there has not been a substantial change in the probability of either negative or moderately negative precipitation anomalies in recent decades, the occurrence of drought years has been greater in the past two decades than in the preceding century.

Now the temperature record (though only for 2008) can suddenly be trusted, and the widest possible inferences can be drawn from the latest figures, though not, of course, from the records of the preceding century.