Sentences with phrase «recent turn of the century»

Around the recent turn of the century, things started to take a turn for the better in Downtown Los Angeles.

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After a downturn in violence in the early years after the turn of the century, deaths related to Mexican drug wars totaled 121,669 between 2006 and 2012, according to a recent report from the Justice in Mexico project at the University of California - San Diego's Department of Politic Science and International Relations.

The best example I can think of in recent years is that of the POM Wonderful bottle which resembles, in large part, a turn - of - the - century barbell standing on one end.

It started out as British and American investment at the turn of last century, then the Japanese arrived in a big way in the 1980s and 90s and in more recent times - New Zealand, China, the US again, Germany and Malaysia, to name just a few, have come and in some instances gone.

At the turn of the century (this most recent one, that is) the average age of the first time mom was nearly 25.

X-rays have been used to reveal living skeletons since the turn of the 20th century, but recent technological advances have substantially improved both the images and the potential for interpreting them.

There's something like 80 million people in the U.S. according the recent surveys that are interested in birds in one way or another, you know, feed birds or watch birds, take their kids to a wildlife refuge and yet we keep hearing about more and more reports of declines in birds, you know, doubling of the extinction rates in birds globally in the last 50 years and right now we are on the verge of what I call the third renaissance of bird conservation, first being the Audubon movement at the turn of the century, the second being the Rachel Carson movement of the»60s and third we are on the verge of it right now.

Viewed today, through the prism of De Niro's more recent exploits, this shot becomes a kind of metaphorical time - lapse of the actor's post-millennium career; beginning at the turn of the century with Analyse This and Meet the Parents and ending in the barren comedic wasteland of Dirty Grandpa.

Just as a «New Economy» failed to justify the insanity of the 2000 stock bubble at the turn of the century, the recent suppression of market volatility does not represent a permanent plateau of higher prices.

How to Spot a Market Bubble The bursting of two major asset bubbles — in home prices in recent years and Internet stocks at the turn of the century — has trained investors to scan the horizon for signs of where the next one might form.

This historic landmark is among the most elegant buildings in Wilmington and has had recent extensive renovations to bring back its turn - of - the - century grandeur.

Having turned 93 this past December, the iconic «painter of black» French artist Pierre Soulages would be highly deserving of a major retrospective; but his current show «21st - Century Soulages,» on view at the French Academy in the Villa Medici in Rome through June 16, is in fact devoted to recent work.

Also on show will be recent drawings in charcoal and pastel — done on the pages of turn of the century Rand Mines ledgers and old encyclopaedias.

As a departure point for her SFMoMA commission, Ms. Mehretu turned to 19th - century paintings by Albert Bierstadt and Frederic Edwin Church, layered with recent photos of civil unrest in cities including Ferguson and Baltimore.

In what is probably the most quoted line of art criticism of the recent century, Clement Greenberg first suggested this formula in a 1939 essay entitled «Avant - Garde and Kitsch,» which turned the tide of modernism with these words:

Drawn from the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, and featuring a number of recent acquisitions, The Kaleidoscopic Turn resonates with references to various artistic legacies of the 20th century from Op art to colourfield painting, offering a range of multi-sensory experiences including immersive installations, kinetic sculptures, video art, works on paper and painting in its diverse and expanded forms.

The origins of the blues lie in the vernacular culture of African Americans living in the Mississippi Delta and New Orleans around the turn of the twentieth century — people for whom slavery was a recent memory and basic civil rights were far in the future.

In addition to recent participation in Art Basel Hong Kong Encounters sector in 2015, Art Basel Unlimited sector and Gwangju Biennale in 2014, her previous group exhibitions include Open House, Singapore Biennale (2011), Asia - Pacific Triennial (2009 - 10), Documenta 12 (2007), Continuities: Contemporary Art of Malaysia At The Turn of The 21st Century, Guangdong Museum of Art, China (2004) and the Florence Biennale (2003).

It also seems that in recent times at least this is the latest in the season that such widespread snow has managed to affect southern Britain (Manley 1975, Eden 1995) and Manley (1975) suggests that the June 1975 snowfall was probably southern Britain's latest snowfall since the turn of the nineteenth century.»

But does that mean the public should doubt recent science concluding that the remarkable sea - ice retreat of 2007, which turned about half of the Arctic Ocean into an open blue sea, is unique in at least a century, and probably much longer?

In addition to surveying actual temperatures in recent decades, Meehl and his co-authors turned to a sophisticated computer model of global climate to determine how record high and low temperatures are likely to change during the course of this century.

However in John's recent weekly news (28 Dec) the 3rd article (Climate change 2013: Where we are now - not what you think) contained - «The new IPCC report tells us that half of warming (57 %) that should have already occurred has been masked by aerosols mostly emitted since the turn of the century in rapidly developing Asian nations (yes, warming would double if cooling smog pollutants were suddenly cleaned up in Asia).»

Despite the lack of an El Niño effect, 2017 is set to be the second or third hottest year on record; hurricanes unprecedented in their power pummelled the U.S. and Caribbean; the largest wildfires California has seen burned deep into the Northern Hemisphere winter; scientists warned the «Arctic shows no sign of returning to the reliably frozen region of recent past decades»; studies revealed an ecological armageddon amongst insect populations; droughts fuelled famine and insecurity across East Africa and the Middle East; the U.N. warned the number of chronically undernourished people has risen for the first time since the turn of the century due in large part to climate impacts.

This oscillation is even better modeled as a broken line, more precisely a series of ~ 30 - yr long linear segments, with slope breaks (singularities) in ~ 1904, ~ 1940, and ~ 1974 (± 3 yr), and a possible recent occurrence at the turn of the 20th century.

It was a surprise when evidence turned up, around the end of the 19th century, that the recent glacial epoch had been made up of several cycles of advance and retreat of ice sheets — not a uniform Ice Age but a series of ice ages.