Sentences with phrase «rise by century»

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Just a couple of weeks ago, any media company with significant TV - related assets — including Disney, Comcast, 21st Century Fox and Time Warner — got hammered by investors, after a loss of subscribers at ESPN (which is owned by Disney) triggered fears about cord - cutting and the rise of streaming services.

Sky rose 4.1 percent, making it one of the top performers in Europe, boosted by the news that Comcast, parent company of CNBC, and Verizon said they are interested in buying certain parts of 21st Century Fox.

High - quality swords treasured by collectors and warriors alike have been forged in the Land of the Rising Sun for centuries, and while the age of the samurai may have passed, the country remains one of the biggest exporters of high - quality kitchen and utility knives today.

And the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates they could rise by another meter or more by the end of this century.

Inadequate flood protection infrastructure, which right now might not contain high tides in El Nino years; Lack of action on annual sediment removal from spring freshets, which each year move over 30 million m3 of sediment and leave about 3 million m3 of silt in the navigation and secondary channels of the lower reaches; and, By the end of this century sea levels at the mouth of the river could potentially rise more than one meter due to climate change overtopping the diking system.

Many market experts and analysts now speculate that the 21st century will be remembered as the «Asian Century,» dominated by rising superpowers such as Indonesia, India andcentury will be remembered as the «Asian Century,» dominated by rising superpowers such as Indonesia, India andCentury,» dominated by rising superpowers such as Indonesia, India and China.

Second, the «dark ages» if by that you meant the post-Roman period in Europe, is a historicization that has found its way into popular culture — Originally the term characterized the bulk of the Middle Ages, or roughly the 6th to 12th centuries, as a period of intellectual darkness between extinguishing the «light of Rome» after the end of Late Antiquity, and the rise of the Italian Renaissance in the 14th century.

Two momentous changes long ago transformed the legal world that Lincoln knew: increased specialization, prompted by the rise of corporate firms at the turn of the century, and a large influx of new lawyers from relatively unassimilated ethnic groups at about the same time.

Upon the basis of Paul's teaching, taken alone, Christianity might possibly have foundered a century later in the rising sea of Gnosticism; possessing Mark's compilation of the historic traditions, later amplified by the other evangelists, the church held true to its course, steering with firm, unslackened grip upon the historic origins of its faith.

It is hard to notice the same enthusiasm among Leo's successors of the past century — or indeed even an awareness that the the implications of the phenomenal rise of science might be passing the Church by.

In the U.K. during the nineteenth century, standards of living for the working class rose by 1,600 percent.

With carefully chosen words and images charged with first - century political meaning, he constantly reminded his followers that they were to be a set - apart people, a people who lived counter-culturally by loving their enemies, praying for those who persecuted them, lending without expecting anything in return, and surrendering allegiance to a crucified and risen Lord.

And I am not ashamed of the very good news, first shouted by another unlikely woman in another garden, and then echoed through the centuries in every corner of the earth, that Jesus Christ has risen from the dead!

In 2007, on the hundredth anniversary of Pius X's anti-Modernist encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis, Peter Steinfels used his column in the New York Times to suggest that the encyclical was a «revival of the battle against liberalism that the papacy and much of the church had been waging throughout the nineteenth century — and tragically the purge the encyclical started crippled those very elements in European Catholicism that might have resisted the Church's sympathy for authoritarian regimes after World War I, when liberal parliamentary governments were besieged by rising totalitarianism.»

The rapid rise and spread of Communism must be accepted by Christians as the most seriously challenging deviant form of the Judeo - Christian heritage, just as, in the eighth century, the rise of Islam came about because of the tendency for Christian Trinitarian doctrine to revert to polytheism, adding weight to Mohammed's call for a pure monotheism.

The original quest had been brought to an end by the rise of the kerygma to the centre of twentieth - century theology.

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 Vatican's Exorcists: Driving Out the Devil in the 21st Century by Tracy Wilkinson Grand Central, 208 pages, $ 22.99 A pop treatment of a serious subject, focusing on the rise in the number of Italians seeking exorcism.

Luke had been at pains to make clear that the risen Jesus was no otherworldly spirit but a physical form with flesh and bones, 42 who consequently presented his disciples with infallible proofs.41 The risen Christ came to be regarded as having conducted a fresh ministry with his disciples, and in these forty days he «taught them about the kingdom of God».41 But since the experience of the risen Christ was not of this character at the end of the century when Acts was written, it had to be made clear that this kind of experience was brought to an end by a new event, the Ascension.

Ah yes, the good old days of the 20th century... when blacks were unjustly discriminated against, and Nazism rose to create world war and exterminate millions of Jews — all justified by their so - called Christian proponents.

We have seen that Paul denied that resurrection should be thought of in terms of flesh and blood, but by the end of the century this is exactly how it was conceived, and the materialistic descriptions of the risen Jesus were being used to counter certain known trends, which were then tending to remove even the historical Jesus from the material world of flesh and blood.

In the fifth century before Christ are to be found both the climax of this culture and its erosion by the Sophists and Euripides as well as the rise of Socratic existence.

From the third century onward the picture of the ministry was complicated by the rise of monasticism.

Only with the rise of the research university in Germany early in the nineteenth century and in America toward the end of that century was the focus on the classical Western languages and literatures gradually replaced by departmental specialization and the abandonment of required courses in favor of electives.

Given the challenges it faced over the centuries» most notably the rise, in the seventh century, of Islam, which deprived the empire of much of its wealthiest territory, and the brutal occupation of Constantinople by the Crusaders in the thirteenth century» its longevity as well as its brilliance is remarkable.

First, the rise of Darwinian evolutionary theory for almost the first time brought about efforts of some Christians to interfere with the scientific teaching to which by the late nineteenth century higher education was committed.

Thus in 1829 John Henry Newman — still at that stage an Anglican — affirmed that Christians become entitled to the gift of the Holy Spirit «by belonging to the body of his Church; and we belong to his Church by being baptised into it».24 And more than a century later, Michael Ramsay, Archbishop of Canterbury in the 1960s — whose meeting with Paul VI in the 1960s was a central moment in the ecumenical movement of that era — took a generally Catholic approach to baptism, if expressed in a somewhat vague, «Anglican» way: «The life of a Christian is a continual response to the fact of his baptism; he continually learns that he has died and risen with Christ, and that his life is a part of the life of the one family.»

Even when liberalism became so widespread among the educated classes, as it did by the end of the nineteenth century, that it was almost taken for granted, it was by no means securely institutionalized among the masses, as the rise of socialist, Catholic and fascist parties uncertainly or not at all committed to democratic institutions would subsequently show.

The report found, among other things, that 43 of the lower 48 U.S. states have set at least one monthly heat record since 2010, sea levels are expected to rise between one and four feet by the end of this century, winter storms have increased in intensity and frequency, and the past decade was warmer than every previous decade in every part of the country.

It reduced the compromises by the churches of the preceding century and gave rise to new movements which made Christianity more nearly in accord with the Gospel than it had been since its earliest centuries.

The mounting strength of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States has been a large factor, and this in turn has been due to the faithful efforts in the nineteenth century which laid the foundations for that strength and to the rise to comfort, and here and there to affluence, of Roman Catholic emigrants and their children, who, coming poverty - stricken to America, have profited by the development of the virgin resources of the land.

The very fact that, a) Jesus left NOTHING behind, no writings, no physical evidence, nothing written by any first century historian, and b) there were no less than 12 deities prior to Jesus throughout the world who were born of a virgin, taught at the temple when young, preached, healed, fed the hungry, were killed and rose from the dead.

Thus the rise of the Gospels, let us say, belongs in the last thirty years of the first century; the tradition that underlies them must, by the same token, be assigned to the period preceding.

The US Environmental Protection Agency points out that Earth's average temperature has risen by 1.5 °F over the past century, and is projected to rise another 0.5 to 8.6 °F over the next hundred years.

In the welter of religious medals brought up by divers of the expedition this past winter, there was one showing the profile of St. Rose of Lima, who lived an ascetic, near - masochistic life in the early 17th century.

According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, ocean waters are expected to rise between 10 inches and 2 feet by the end of the century.

Sea levels have already risen about a foot and could rise several more feet by the end of the century.

Atkins rejects the advice of the food pyramid, instead asserting that the tremendous increase in refined carbohydrates is responsible for the rise in metabolic disorders of the 20th century, and that the focus on the detrimental effects of dietary fat has actually contributed to the obesity problem by increasing the proportion of insulin - inducing foods in the diet.

No doubt by the end of the first quarter of this century, Juniper will have completely surpassed the likes of Rose and even Lily.

Evan Davis, BBC Economics Editor Free Trade Nation is history at its best: far - reaching and authoritative, its story of the rise and fall of free trade as a widely - held belief marked by justice, fairness and peace provocatively refashions the history of early - twentieth - century Britain, reminds us of an age when popular politics exerted real power, and forces us to rethink our contemporary views of consumers, markets and morality.

In 1987, for example, turnout inequality by class was almost non-existent and age - based differences were significantly lower; cleavages in both have steadily risen over the past quarter century.

Around twice as many civilians as soldiers were killed by deliberate political violence in the 20th Century, and recent events in Darfur, Syria and Iraq, as well as the rise in terrorism since 2001, highlight the endurance of mass killing into the 21st Century.

Separate research published by the Met Office today shows emissions of CO2 will need to be reduced close to zero by the end of this century if a rise in the mean global temperature beyond 2C is to be avoided.

Republicanism, it is often thought, lost out to liberalism in the 19th century by being unable to respond to the rise of commercial capitalism.

In the first decade of this century, the share of wages going to the top 1 per cent increased by almost 30 per cent, a startling rise in an environment of negligible growth.

The pamphlets warn that consequences of climate change in the UK would include summer heat related deaths, sea level rises and food shortages by the end of the century.

As long as you «label» people, and worse, categorise them with lame 20th Century, dubiuos, eponymous epithets, we will not truly rise as a Party - inclusive, dignified, judgemental only on merit with compassion for those who falter, nonetheless encouraging but challenging, a traditional values bias with an enforceable law and above all, opportunity for every man, woman and child backed by an efficient but inclusive state - especially for the sick, infirm and old - and your like will see us falter as a nation, only to facilitate prejudice, inequality (and worse, masqueraded as EQUALITY..)

New research suggests rising oceans could swamp the world's coasts by the end of the century — sooner than previously anticipated

The world can make lower sea - level rise outcomes much more likely by meeting the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of bringing net greenhouse gas emissions to zero in the second half of this century, the study shows.

He concluded his remarks by saying that sea - levels along parts of the Atlantic coast could eventually rise by 25 feet in the next few centuries.