Sentences with phrase «previous twentieth»

Thatcher comfortably outlasted all previous twentieth - century premiers, and historians had to delve back to the pre-reform career of Lord Liverpool — between 1812 and 1827 (and before that to Pitt the Younger, Henry Pelham or Walpole)-- to find a prime minister who survived longer.

Not exact matches

The historic fact remains, and we in the twentieth century, with a conception of God infinitely greater than that of any previous generation, may have to short - circuit the centuries and let the startling truth break over us afresh — that we live on a visited planet.

In the twentieth century, though we are more biblically illiterate than in any previous day, the Bible still makes its impact upon our literature.

The motu proprio, he insists, «compromises thecoherence of the Church's self - understanding and threatens to reduce the liturgy to a simple matter of individual «taste» rather than what it is meant to be: an accurate reflection of what we believe as Catholic Christians who live in the twenty - first century»: for that, of course is utterly different from what Catholic Christians who lived in previous centuries (and in the twentieth century before the sixties) believed: hence, the absolute indefensibility of what he calls «this medieval rite».

This is why Stott et al conclude that «Nevertheless the results confirm previous analyses showing that greenhouse gas increases explain most of the global warming observed in the second half of the twentieth century,» DESPITE their indications that HadCM3 underestimates the observed response to solar forcing.

Several previous analyses of tide gauge records1, 2,3,4,5,6 — employing different methods to accommodate the spatial sparsity and temporal incompleteness of the data and to constrain the geometry of long - term sea - level change — have concluded that GMSL rose over the twentieth century at a mean rate of 1.6 to 1.9 millimetres per year.

All of my previous year's random reading just consolidated and converged on this one moment, this image, which seemed to me to be the birth photograph of the twentieth century.»

Her previous books are Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America (2006) and On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century (1993).

Her previous books are Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America (2006) and On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century (1993 / revised second edition in 2008).

Her previous publications include Luc Tuymans and Cruel and Tender: The Real in the Twentieth Century Photograph.

Air, Condition builds upon a previous work by Meza for the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, titled Ghost Station and borrows its title from German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk's text Terror from the Air (2009), which posited that the twentieth - century began when governments manipulated the air for the purposes of war.

Previous exhibitions have featured Laura Owens (also paired with the Balfour collection) in 2000; Rudolf Stingel (with nineteenth - century botanical drawings by Indian artists) in 2006, and John Cage with Merce Cunningham (shown with early twentieth - century botanical drawings by Lilian Snelling) in 2007.

Volume Eleven was, for those knowledgeable of Mohaiemen's previous explorations, perhaps the more familiar of the two, delving into the ambiguities of South Asia's modern history — and, more broadly, that of the troubled twentieth century — via his reading of a Bengali great - uncle's writings of the 1930s, which displayed a disturbing sympathy for Hitlerian Germany as a potential counterweight to the English colonizer on the Indian subcontinent.

Focusing primarily on painters active in the second half of the twentieth century, including Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, R.B. Kitaj, Leon Kossoff, Paula Rego, F.N. Souza and Euan Uglow, the book begins by introducing the previous generation of artists, such as Walter Richard Sickert, David Bomberg, Alberto Giacometti, Chaïm Soutine, Stanley Spencer and William Coldstream, who set a new path for portraying an intimate, subjective and tangible reality.

Focusing primarily on painters active in the second half of the twentieth century, including Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, R.B. Kitaj, Leon Kossoff, Paula Rego, F.N. Souza and Euan Uglow, the book begins by introducing the previous generation of artists, such as Walter Richard Sickert, David Bomberg, Alberto Giacometti, Chaim Soutine, Stanley Spencer and William Coldstream, who set a new path for portraying an intimate, subjective and tangible reality.

This is why Stott et al conclude that «Nevertheless the results confirm previous analyses showing that greenhouse gas increases explain most of the global warming observed in the second half of the twentieth century,» DESPITE their indications that HadCM3 underestimates the observed response to solar forcing.

Because the analysis method and sparse data used in this study will tend to blur out most century - scale changes, we can't use the analysis of Marcott et al. to draw any firm conclusions about how unique the rapid changes of the twentieth century are compared to the previous 10,000 years.

The situation that we consider most likely is the repetition of a cyclic behavior that was observed during the twentieth century (Schle - singer and Ramankutty 1994) as well as during the previous hundreds of years (Delworth and Mann 2000; Gray et al. 2004; Chylek et al. 2011, 2012).

«Second, in contrast to the previously reported slowing in the rate during the past two decades1, our corrected GMSL data set indicates an acceleration in sea - level rise (independent of the VLM used), which is of opposite sign to previous estimates and comparable to the accelerated loss of ice from Greenland and to recent projections, and larger than the twentieth - century acceleration.

-------- http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/8/1/014013 Predictability of twentieth century sea - level rise from past data However, in combination, the use of proxy and tide gauge sea - level data up to 1900 AD allows a good prediction of twentieth century sea - level rise, despite this rise being well outside the rates experienced in previous centuries during the calibration period of the model.

Yes, for the Northern Hemisphere, the last decade of the twentieth century was warmer than the two or three previous.

Previous assessments of historic changes in drought over the late twentieth and early twenty - first centuries indicate that this may already be happening globally.

Within this uncertainty range, this reconstruction suggests that the pronounced decline in summer Arctic sea ice cover that began in the late twentieth century is unprecedented in both magnitude and duration when compared with the range of variability of the previous roughly 1,450 years.