Sentences with phrase «progress in the past century»

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A century later, we are living in the closing years of a pontificate that has, above all, taught Catholics not to be afraid» afraid of those who hate the Church so that we do not honestly contemplate the failings of our own past; afraid of the progress of science so that we needed to be reminded by the Pope «that faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth.»

The enormous progress which has been made in the understanding of foreign religions in the past century and a half proves that even if a total comprehension should be unobtainable a great deal of insight into their nature can be won.

It now seems all too clear that the various over-all solutions of the social problem which have been emphasized in the past two centuries by the believers in progress are not solutions after all.

The profound cleavage in every kind of social group (families, countries, professions, creeds) which during the past century has become manifest in the form of two increasingly distinct and irreconcilable human types, those who believe in progress and those who do not — what does this portend except the separation and birth of a new stratum in the biosphere?

Evans traces the past century of incremental progress in the field of biotechnology by using the example of the soil - dwelling bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis.

Over the past century we have become adept at suppressing the symptoms of respiratory diseases but we have made little progress in curing them.

While we've made considerable progress as a nation in the past century and a half to end the evils of slavery and segregation, we still have a long way to go to ensure that all of our nation's children are afforded the opportunity for an unfettered start and a fair chance that Lincoln talked about.

«We've heard several times over the past few years that nothing is more cognitively and physically taxing in the project - learning environment than managing student work groups,» McDowell writes in «Leading Student Work Groups in the 21st Century,» an in - progress article that discusses the tools, best practices, and scholarly strategies for student work groups in the project - learning environment.

The progress in education data over the past two decades surpasses that made during the entire previous century.

Ending the center - left / center - right coalition that has characterized the past quarter century of reform progress in primary - secondary education would be a big loss.

Since joining the University of Virginia's law faculty in 1998, Ryan has focused on how American law and politics have shaped education and opportunity during the past half - century, often impeding or undermining the progress they were intended to bring about.

We have been on a march for the past 25 years that had led us to what was rated as the best public school accountability system in the country, one that, when fully implemented would measure progress to postsecondary readiness at every grade level culminating in a high school diploma signifying college and 21st century career readiness.

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Encountering Ultra Beasts, meeting characters from games past, dealing with the Aether Foundation; as the story progressed we were left with face cracks of the centuries with each step we took into Alola — so why didn't our in - game avatar react the same way?

Contesting the progress - and - mastery saga of twentieth - century modernism, Chicago - based artist Tony Tasset spent much of the 1980s and»90s meticulously crafting insolent, critical objects, and the nine works represented in this ten - year survey (1986 — 96) unambiguously assert his past affinity for blunt deconstructionist strategies.

Similarly, his frequent adoption of «outmoded» media both provides him with a diverse artistic palette and a means of questioning the past century's faith in progress through technology and the avant - garde promise of continual artistic development.