Sentences with phrase «processes over billions of years»

This demonic reality is a creature, because without God's stimulation of the evolutionary process over billions of years, humanlike beings would not have arisen.

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«The acquisition of the Weather Channel is strategic, as we begin our process of investing billions of dollars over the next five years to acquire some of the best media assets around the world.»

These companies and others process more than 118 billion transactions per year, representing over $ 2 trillion of purchase volume each year, supporting nearly 4 million merchants.

The discovery comes at a particularly sensitive time for merchants, not only because this is the busiest time of the year for most, when by some estimates U.S. retailers will notch $ 630 billion in sales, but also because most merchants are now in the process of switching over to terminals that accept chip cards, also known as EMV cards.

Venture capital and private equity investors have pumped billions of dollars into the Indian startup ecosystem over the past few years, producing more than a dozen unicorns in the process.

«Based on the extensive public comments and evidence garnered during that process, the department determined that such conflicts of interest are widespread and could cost investors in individual retirement accounts (in one segment of the market alone) between $ 95 billion and $ 189 billion over the next 10 years,» wrote the Justice Department lawyers.

To this end, iShares Canada has seen the dollar amount of custom creations — a process by which institutional investors convert their individual bond holdings into units of ETFs — double in the past year to over $ 1 billion through June, according to BlackRock data.

The organic model we are suggesting pictures reality as composed of multitudes of embodied beings who presently inhabit a planet that has evolved over billions of years through a process of dynamic change marked by law and novelty into an intricate, diverse, complex, multi-leveled reality, all radically interrelated and interdependent.

If your brain is merely a minuscule portion and intermediate result of a guideless process of self - existing particles that just happened to unpack themselves from an unexplained singularity and arrange themselves into various integrated systems of matter and life of increasing complexity over billions of years, which will ultimately disorganize and dissipate into nothingness, why should any value be attached to your thoughts, or to your existence?

Q. 2 Likewise, we know that life on Earth evolved over the last approximately 3.5 billion years and likely began in a planet wide «organic soup» of complex organic chemicals in the primordial oceans, in an increasingly well understood process.

It is especially puzzling why the deity of traditional free will theism, who created the universe for the sake of soul - building, would have taken over 10 billion years simply to set the stage, employing an evolutionary process involving hundreds of millions of years of animal suffering prior to the rise of human beings.

It is the combination of these theological hypotheses that leads to the rhetorical question as to why this creator would have taken over 10 billion years simply setting the stage for the only part of the process in which something truly important is occurring.

Invest Northern Ireland (Invest NI) works closely with companies that are planning to invest almost $ 2 billion over the next five years, across a broad range of activities including product development, process innovation and international marketing.

Cuomo proposed directing $ 1.5 billion in one - time surplus funds — won through settlements from big banks — to a competitive process in which three of seven upstate regions would win $ 500 million over the course of five years.

More recently — after an abrupt request for more MTA capital funding at the end of the city's budget process, Mr. Cuomo asked the city to increase its share of payment for the state - run authority again last week — from a planned $ 657 million over five years to $ 3 billion over five years.

It had been thriving for well over a billion years when a new kind of cell appeared on the scene, one that harvested the sun's energy using a process that generates a highly toxic by - product — oxygen.

It's highly energy - intensive, accounting for between 2 and 3 per cent of the world's energy budget and emitting over a billion tonnes of carbon each year in the process.

• What were stars like when they first appeared in the universe over 13 billion years ago, starting the process of modern element production?

Understanding nebulae is critical for understanding the processes of star formation — indeed, it is thought that the Sun formed in a star formation region very similar to Lupus 3 over four billion years ago.

As a result, the planet has shrunk in size over billions of years because of the same processes that shaped the early evolution of Earth's atmosphere and very likely that of both Mars and Venus.

«When we look at the present day, we have a very high fidelity timeline over the last about 500 million years of what's happened on Earth, and we have a pretty good understanding that plate tectonics and volcanism and all these kinds of processes have happened more or less the same way over the last couple of billion years,» says Lindy Elkins - Tanton, director of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University.

They test their hypotheses about the universe by developing mathematical models that describe the underlying complex physical processes and run them on high - performance computers trying to reproduce the evolution of the Universe over billions of years.

This process — perfected over billions of years — is known as photosynthesis.

They transform their knowledge about the physical processes forming our universe into mathematical models and simulate the evolution of our universe on high - performance computers over billions of years.

Through this process, and over the course of more than a decade since the inception of the NNI, Federal nanotechnology R&D funding has grown from $ 464 million per year to $ 1.2 billion requested in FY 2018.

The overall heavy - metal abundance of the galaxy does change over billions of years as stars process lighter elements into heavier ones and recycle them back into star forming material at the end of their lives.

Over 3.8 billion years, nature has undergone a constant process of trial and error knew how to find solutions to most of the present problems that Humans are trying to solve in favor of a social, productive, organizational and sustainable economic ecosystem.

During New Year's Eve in 2012, the company set a new record by processing 18 billion messages, which marks a significant improvement over its previous single day record of 10 billion message a day.

It is all part of the $ 25 billion settlement reached this year between federal and state agencies and the nationâ $ ™ s five largest mortgage servicers over fraudulent foreclosure document processing (so - called â $ œrobo - signingâ $).

Billions of tonnes of carbon are held in coal seams, sequestered from the atmosphere over millions of years in a process that started in the carboniferous period several hundred million years ago.

As we approached the design process with Ford, which had decided to invest $ 2 billion over 20 years to transform the Rouge into an icon of 21st century industry, many wondered if a blue chip company with a sharp focus on the bottom line could take a step toward something truly new and inspiring.

Over 3.5 billion years of natural history have evolved innumerable examples of forms, systems, and processes that can be applied to modern green design.

The Department of Energy spent over four years evaluating the project before green - lighting a crucial $ 1.6 billion loan guarantee, though an Ivanpah manager says the process was «thorough and thoughtful.»

Currently, the collective stream of data and processed invoices represents more than $ 10 billion in legal spend, 2 million invoices, and well over 300,000 matters gathered over the past 4 years, with the volume of data available for analysis growing at a rapid pace.

Currently, the collective stream of data and processed invoices gathered over the past 5 years represents nearly $ 15 billion in legal spending, more than 3 million invoices, and well over 450,000 matters, with the volume of data available for analysis growing at a rapid pace.

The switching process is going to be quite huge and complex procedure over the upcoming two years, as the service is known to host playlists of more than 1 billion from 75M subscribers, along with having a music catalog of more than 30M songs.

Oxford, UK - based Aeriandi offers a wide portfolio of solutions for telephone - based commerce, from PCI phone payments and fraud detection, through to call recording and archiving and is the only hosted provider to process over # 1 billion in payments per year.

Mrs. Nonas has 17 years of combined experience; worked at Moody \'s Investors Service covering the entire spectrum of mortgage backed securities products and small balance commercial loans; at WestLB and Barclays Capital, was the mortgage lead on the risk management team underwriting over $ 15 billion in mortgage financing facilities, established warehouse lines of credit, reverse repurchase agreements, Asset - Backed Commercial Paper (ABCP) conduits and other credit facilities for subprime mortgage originators and servicers; developed a process to conduct and document on site due diligence at the counterparty \'s origination and servicing base of operations.

The company predicts it will process some $ 85 billion in residential sales over 40,000 square miles of territory in its first full year in 2018.