Sentences with phrase «role as the century»

He joins in this role as the century - old Gallery strengthens its global reach and outlook to new territories, while expanding its digital platforms and welcoming nearly half a million visitors a year.

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In that spirit, the US Army has distributed reading recommendations so soldiers and civilians alike are able «to sharpen their knowledge of the Army's long and distinguished history, as well as the decisive role played by landpower in conflicts across the centuries.»

As one of a handful of female physicians in California at the turn of the 20th century, Peters occupied a tenuous role as a health authoritAs one of a handful of female physicians in California at the turn of the 20th century, Peters occupied a tenuous role as a health authoritas a health authority.

But the Arctic's «prime socioeconomic role in the 21st century will not be as a homestead haven but an economic engine,» he says.

Big Idea: Likely to be looking for a new role now that she will be stepping down from Shine, the independent TV production company she founded after a successful but tempestuous spell as No. 2 at her father's U.K. satellite broadcaster BSkyB and then sold to 21st Century Fox in 2011; now being merged with Big Brother - maker Endemol and American Idol producer Core Media; seen as more business - proven than Lachlan and not phone hacking - tainted like James.

Mr. Murdoch has held a number of leadership roles at Twenty - First Century Fox, Inc. («21CF») over two decades, including as its CEO since 2015, its Co-Chief Operating Officer from 2014 to 2015, its Deputy Chief Operating Officer and Chairman and CEO, International from 2011 to 2014 and its Chairman and Chief Executive, Europe and Asia from 2007 to 2011.

It's as if their role in this history is to carry on what Christians have been doing for the past two centuries, except in a modern rock context — Underground blaze the sound to Armageddon.

The history of Italian unification» Italian fascism having more than a decade's existence as a special place in radicalism; the role of the papacy in severely constraining manifest forms of statist rule; the cultural tradition of Italian major cities, which had autonomous forms of city development; and the weaknesses of Italy with respect to economic concentrations of power in the early twentieth century» all argue against a muscular totalitarianism.

Beyond the considerable body of research that has emerged in the past three decades which demonstrates that women played a far more generous role in the early Church than perhaps Neuhaus has imagined, my own Wesleyan holiness tradition has apparently escaped his ecumenical vision as well for it was already ordaining women in the nineteenth century.

It surfaced during the challenges presented to the role of the Church during the Age of Enlightenment in the 17th century; it makes strides upon the publication of The Origin of The Species by Charles Darwin in the 19th century; its has gathered force in the 21st century as the role of science in Western civilization is being presented with its own challenges... of still yet unanswered questions.

Francis's love of the Bible as a way to receive the medicine of salvation was another anticipation of Vatican II and its restoration of the Scriptures to a central role in Catholic life; and here, too, is a Franciscan lesson for the Church of the twenty - first century.

For the tradition to which Plato had been heir, paideia was as essential to the well - being of the public realm as of the political realm, by forming virtuous citizens capable of filling political roles wisely; for fourth - century Greek - speaking Christians paideia, while it aimed to shape persons» private interiority rather than their public political activity, contributed to the well - being of the public realm as a cultural realm accessible to any literate, educated person, Christian or pagan.

As a theologian at the University of Tubingen in the first half of the 19th century, Mohler played an important role in Romanticism and encouraged a rediscovery of patristic thought.

Moreover, the recent increase in the number of applicants for priestly formation demonstrates both the enduring influence of John Paul II (who many 21st - century seminarians continue to identify as their role model) and the importance of a strong sense of Catholic identity in attracting and forming future pastors.

He will examine the role of intimacy to the first, second, and third power (examples: the circle of Jesus» followers, the renewed intimacy on the basis of the experience of the sixteenth century Reformers, the Pietist group of the seventeenth century, etc.) As far as the constitution of religious groups is concerned we find a variety of principleAs far as the constitution of religious groups is concerned we find a variety of principleas the constitution of religious groups is concerned we find a variety of principles.

If our world and civilization have a future, it may be that in some future decade or century sex roles will be transcended; persons will be defined as persons and modes of relationship will be chosen, not imposed.

His primary role in the twentieth century was to unburden the consciences of clergy who no longer believed but wanted to maintain their roles and reputations as men and women of spiritual seriousness.

As one reads on, the church plays a lesser and lesser role, so that the student of European, and even American, history might suppose that the church had almost disappeared as a significant factor by the nineteenth centurAs one reads on, the church plays a lesser and lesser role, so that the student of European, and even American, history might suppose that the church had almost disappeared as a significant factor by the nineteenth centuras a significant factor by the nineteenth century.

We must recognize that it was as disturber and not as savior in some other sense that Jesus played his dominant role in the nineteenth century.

However, in the twentieth century, philosophy, at least as defined and practiced in the university, has given up that role.

The first volume of his labors, Earthly Powers, covering the years 1750 «1914, provoked a lively discussion (including a strong review by Russell Hittinger in First Things) about the role of religion as a rival to the secularist states emerging in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The author has a decided sympathy for the Huguenots (but also a distaste for Calvinist theology and the crusading zeal it inspired), and although he does not seem to have the same degree of sympathy for the «Catholic party,» his treatment of the seventeenth - century French Catholic revival and of Jansenism's role as a bridge by which significant numbers of leading Huguenots crossed over to Catholicism is masterful.

But the Century lauded the government's taking a direct role in the development of natural resources in such innovative projects as the Tennessee Valley Authority.

For like Whitehead and Dewey, Kadushin understood that the concept of organic thinking offered an approach to logic and the foundations of knowledge that was an alternative to the perversions of the sort of blind faith in natural science that had come to dominate the intellectual cultures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; an alternative that did not attempt to devalue science or replace it with a nonrational mysticism, but which did attempt to place scientific thought into a broader cultural context in which other forms of cultural expression such as religious and legal reasoning could play important and non-subservient roles.

During the nineteenth century, the spiritual power attributed to parents — especially mothers — gradually undermined the priestly role of the Protestant pastor as an agent of God's grace.

Except among small groups such as the Quakers and Shakers, the role of women in shaping Christian worship was negligible until the 19th century, when hymns written by women began to be used in church services.

- Operation Iraqi Freedom - The 24/7 Sunni - Shiite centuries - old blood feud currently being carried out in Iraq, US Troops killed in action, 3,480 and 928 in non combat roles as of 09/15/2011 /, 102,522 — 112,049 Iraqi civilians killed as of 9/16/2011 /, mostly due http://www.defenselink.mil/news/casualty.pdf

It is possible, of course, that water baptism continued to be practiced as frequently as ever, and the writers simply stopped mentioning it, but when we understand the cultural and religious significance of water baptism in the first century Mediterranean world, and specifically the role of baptism within the book of Acts, it becomes clear that water baptism served a special and specific role within the early church which became unnecessary later on.

Or in a larger sense, why has Christianity, which played a leading role in Western education until a century ago, now become not only entirely peripheral to higher education but in fact often come to be seen as absolutely alien to the educational enterprise?

However by the Reformation in the 16th century, Martin Luther not only translated the Gospels, but he interpreted them in printed sermons as well, and when John Calvin, Roger Williams and others broadly disagreed in print with Luther on such matters as what the scriptures said about the role of government in society, the whole matter of scriptural interpretation was opened to thousands of individuals who for the first time could read (or have read to them) the published documents.

12, in the main from a later, or B, source) These later narrative strands have tended to «modernize» Samuel's role as prophet and seventh - century Deuteronomic editing has doubtless idealized his function as judge.

- Operation Iraqi Freedom - The 24/7 Sunni - Shiite centuries - old blood feud currently being carried out in Iraq, US Troops killed in action, 3,480 and 928 in non combat roles as of 09/15/2011 /, 102,522 — 112,049 Iraqi civilians killed as of 9/16/2011 /, mostly due to suicide bombers, land mines and bombs of various types, http://www.iraqbodycount.org/ and http://www.defenselink.mil/news/casualty.pdf

Rather, he depicts Roosevelt as a major force in shifting the historic roles of the two political parties, whereby Democrats abandoned the habits of nineteenth - century individualism for «a spiteful and ultimately self - destructive inactive protectionism» and Republicans traded the moral paternalism of nineteenth - century Whigs for a «narrow and doctrinaire brand of «free enterprise.

When the astronomical revolution of the sixteenth century — in which the Italian philosophers of the Renaissance played a far more important role than historians of science admit — removed the universal cosmic clock, there were two alternative ways open to physics and philosophy of nature: either to retain the relational theory of time and to hold with Bruno (Bruno 1879, p. 144) that «there are as many times as there are the stars» (tot tempora quot astra), since there is no body possessing a privileged rotation motion, and the only body which allegedly had it — the sphere of the fixed stars — has been swept away; or to save the unity and homogeneity of time by separating it from any particular motion — and this is what Newton did, anticipated in this respect by Isaac Barrow and, in particular, Gassendi.

In the late 8th century Mary Wollstonecraft perceived that raising questions about the role of women in society raised the issue of the nature of structural relationships as a whole and the destructiveness of authoritarian models of social order.

In the United States in the nineteenth century, and well into the twentieth, it was understood that students should be prepared to play their roles as citizens of the nation.

It is also worth noting that as head of the CDF in 1990 Cardinal Ratzinger saw the description of the lowest authoritative level of the magisterium found in The Ecclesid Role of the Theologian (e.g. n. 24: «It often only becomes possible with the passage of time to distinguish between what is necessary and what is contingent») as «probably» applying to «the pontificalstatements of the last century regarding freedom of religion and the anti-Modernists decisions of the beginning of this century.»

Christianity was finished as a world - shaping force, according to the opinion - leaders of the time; it might endure as a vehicle of personal piety, but Christian conviction would play no role in shaping the twenty - first - century world.

Curiously, coconuts — so important in the Spice Islands — do not play a role in South African curries.Late in the seventeenth century, with the «revictualling» station in operation, commerce between the Dutch East India Company and the new Dutch colony of South Africa picked up considerably because of an important commodity: Malay slaves, referred to in South African literature as «the king of slaves.»

«My role as the executive chef will allow me and my brigade the opportunity to represent our Virginia Beach community with the culinary excellence that the Cavalier has been providing for almost a century, while working with our local bounty as intimately as possible,» says Elinan.

In the afternoon and evening sessions, Tom Brock and 2016 captain, Johny Marsden, took over the wicket - taking role from Pettman, ending up with seven between them as Cambridge were bowled out for 225, with only captain Tice reaching a half century.

The prevalence of the three - man midfield and the holding role and the changing shape of the Premier League to better fit the trends of the European game has led to arguments that players such as Roy Keane would no longer be able to find a place on the fields of the 21st Century.

In doing so, Macmillan pays specific attention to the role of concepts such as honour and masculinity and the overarching interaction between these archaic codes of behaviour and the social changes occurring at that time: «As Europe went through its rapid social changes in the last part of the nineteenth century, honour became both an attribute that the old landowning classes could cling to with increasing determination as something that distinguished them from the newly prosperous middle classes and, for the socially ambitious, a mark of a higher and better social status.&raquas honour and masculinity and the overarching interaction between these archaic codes of behaviour and the social changes occurring at that time: «As Europe went through its rapid social changes in the last part of the nineteenth century, honour became both an attribute that the old landowning classes could cling to with increasing determination as something that distinguished them from the newly prosperous middle classes and, for the socially ambitious, a mark of a higher and better social status.&raquAs Europe went through its rapid social changes in the last part of the nineteenth century, honour became both an attribute that the old landowning classes could cling to with increasing determination as something that distinguished them from the newly prosperous middle classes and, for the socially ambitious, a mark of a higher and better social status.&raquas something that distinguished them from the newly prosperous middle classes and, for the socially ambitious, a mark of a higher and better social status.»

Centuries of the Lords» role in the constitution are being adjusted or kept as a result of these changes.

However, throughout the second half of the 20th Century, national debt and public sector borrowing emerged as a structural problem in most developed economies, with large deficits being run year after year, as the role and «size» of the state has grown.

The role of the prime minister in the honours system emerged in the 17th and 18th centuries, as the personal rule and prerogatives of the monarch gave way to parliamentary sovereignty.

On Monday night, Teachout continued to play up her role as an Albany outsider, hoping for what she called the «upset of the century.»

The role of libraries has evolved in recent years, but they are still as vital to an informed society as they were a century ago.

DiCaprio won the Academy Award for best actor for his role in «The Revenant» as a 19th - century frontiersman who is left for dead after being mauled by a bear.

Because El Niño's warmer, drier conditions in tropical regions mimic the effects of climate change expected by the end of the century, those observations may be a sobering harbinger of the tropics» diminishing role as a...