Sentences with phrase «say in a few centuries»

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In his book, The Rise of Creative Class, Richard Florida says that fewer than 10 percent of Americans were doing creative work at the turn of the 20th century.

Having had the pleasure of knowing Hannah Arendt, albeit much too slightly, and moreover of having known more closely Heinrich Bluecher when I was his assistant in the World Civilizations program at Bard College in 1958 «1959, I can say there are few people who, in their writings and their persons, could face with such clear determination the heights and the depths of European civilization in the last century.

The saying is, in fact, one of the very few sayings in the tradition, the authenticity of which has not been seriously questioned in more than half a century of intensive discussion of Jesus» eschatological teaching.

We have said something about the place of the Bible in the living Christian tradition which preachers represent and for which they function; we have discussed a few of the problems or questions which are raised both for preachers and for people; and we have tried to sum up the theological and moral implications of the gospel as these have been worked out in the tradition down the centuries.

His four remarkable days in the United Kingdom were an historic event that would have been impossible to imagine even a few short decades ago, to say nothing of a few centuries ago.

In Greco - Roman culture of the first few centuries, I look at house churches and say, «Yes.

The phrase should say that in a few centuries, the only worldview will be God's view.

Every since mankind has been as the Apostle described us in his epistle (Again, 2 nd Timothy 3:1 - 5; see also what Jesus said in Mark 7:20 - 23), the only thing that has «advanced «at our hands is our architecture, our technology, and our search for medicinal cures for what ails us.No one is denying that we've done tremendous good with these various advances, but we've also done awful, vicious, horrendous atrocities and brutalities as well.I've heard it quoted that out of all the centuries, millennia that we've considered ourselves «civilized», we've had only a few hundred years where something approximating peace has held sway among us.So again, I'm all world seeking to «make the world a better place», as it were; I just believe that mankind in his present moral, ethical, and spiritual configuration is capable of doing so.We can always enhance out technological prowess, improve our architechural designs, and make our drugs more powerful, but what about our hearts?

You could say that it is very disrespectful to the men and women who have worked very hard to give us all this knowledge and understanding of how things works over the last few centuries to still believe in these ancient stories.

Centuries removed, said Sharpe, very few people in England could pin down the history of the Gunpowder Plot.

Perdue says that Brueggemann is certain that the past has to make room for new ways of interpreting the scripture and that he deftly guides us in these new directions as one of those few individuals who have decisively shaped this theology in the 20th century.

In a passage which deserves a great deal of attention in our country, more than two centuries after it was written, he said: «The man whose life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occuIn a passage which deserves a great deal of attention in our country, more than two centuries after it was written, he said: «The man whose life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occuin our country, more than two centuries after it was written, he said: «The man whose life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occuin performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occuin finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur.

Could an interview with Sky's Sophy Ridge in March - when he denied sending a tweet saying the UK was «one of the few countries in the EU that does not need to bury its 20th - century history» while sitting in front of a giant screenshot of it - be the reason?

Citywide, the last four years have been the safest, with the fewest traffic fatalities in the century that records have been kept,» Spokesman Seth Solomonow said.

«The United Kingdom is one of the few countries in the European Union that does not need to bury its 20th century history,» the top Tory said.

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.

«It's shocking to see how few articles discussed risk to the general population, and when they did, they typically characterized risk as low,» said Pascale, who studies the social construction of risk and meanings of risk in the 21st century.

It makes sense that only a few genes would suffice to determine a trait such as body size, Ostrander says, because all dog breeds belong to the same species, Canis familiaris, and most have taken shape in the last three centuries.

«In just one month,» he says, «we found as many potentially active volcanoes as had been mapped on land during the last few centuries.»

This gave the researchers the capability to look for interacting dark matter, which would be expected to produce only a few signals per century per kilogram of xenon, researchers said in the statement.

Ellis adds that one of the deposits dates as far back as the 4th century, which he says is a particularly valuable discovery, since few other ritual deposits survived from that early stage in the development of Pompeii.

By analyzing the vivid colors in paintings by such artists as J.M.W. Turner, Claude Lorrain, Alexander Cozens, and Edgar Degas, some scientists hope to say something significant about volcano - related cooling — and possibly human - induced pollution — over the past few centuries.

But most models have focused on short - term timescales, decades or a few centuries at most, says Anders Levermann, a climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany and co-author of the new paper.

Some say guys are born with it, but not everyone follows the Dating as an institution is a relatively recent phenomenon which has mainly emerged in the last few centuries.

Researchers say the «perfect» number of friends Dating as an institution is a relatively recent phenomenon which has mainly emerged in the last few centuries.

Few will say it out loud, but it is the dominant thrust in the 21st Century Skills movement, which is backed by the same people who gave us Common Core, with its shift away from literature to «informational texts.»

Among a few Democrats in the Legislature who agree with the need to try charter schools is state Rep. Eric Pettigrew of Seattle, who has said this year's emerging ballot measure «will finally bring Washington into the 21st century in terms of educational opportunities for public school students.»

In many ways, charter schools were designed a quarter - century ago to help close the rich / poor college gap, though it has taken nearly that long, charter officials say, to do so for more than just a few students.

Some say that this behavior by book agents in the early 20th century was responsible for the trend of publishers beginning to print fewer titles and take fewer chances on newer and / or lesser known authors... another trend that continues today, and continues to be debated.

Like Broken Age, it's another softly - spoken point and click adventure, but here, it's so aesthetically brazen — especially as their own confidence in their methods has increased from release to release — that it's accompanied by this sense that its developers are from a far - future, and have time travelled back to now, dropped this on our laps, and humbly said «this is how storytelling in videogames will eventually work in a few centuries».

I stopped being a developer around a quarter of a century ago and have seen so many changes since then, with most of the exciting ones happening in the last few years,» said Ahmad.

Kuspit writes that «It seems possible to link Jukuchu's 18th - century Japanese nature paintings to 19th - century European paintings romanticizing nature... But European paintings that «romanticize» nature, whether as ingratiatingly idyllic or in stormy action, don't fully enlighten us about the truth of nature as Jukuchu's paintings do, however fewer the details of nature on which they focus, not to say meditate.

For example, [Kruss 1983] has this to say about the Lewis glacier on Mt. Kenya: «A decrease in the annual precipitation on the order of 150 mm in the last quarter of the 19th century, followed by a secular air temperature rise of a few tenths of a degree centigrade during the first half of the 20th century, together with associated albedo and cloudiness variation, constitute the most likely cause of the Lewis Glacier wastage during the last 100 years.»

If we're talking about a once - in - a-century event (the striking figure often used in the media), then we'll need quite a few centuries before we can say anything meaningful about their statistics.

A similar instability may exist there, and scientists say a rapid retreat could cause a rise of sea level of several meters in a few centuries.»

Michael, you claim expertise in this matter, and say that «biology and ecology may not be [my] cup of tea»... leaving the insult aside, where are all these putative species which have been driven extinct by the ~ 1 - 2Â ° temperature rise of the last few centuries?

WASHINGTON — Choices made now about carbon dioxide emissions reductions will affect climate change impacts experienced not just over the next few decades but also in coming centuries and millennia, says a new report from the National Research Council.

July 16, 2010 — Choices made now about carbon dioxide emissions reductions will affect climate change impacts experienced not just over the next few decades but also in coming centuries and millennia, says a new report from the National Research Council.

«If they move another 2 to 3 degrees poleward in this century, very dry areas such as the Sahara desert could nudge farther towards the pole, perhaps by a few hundred miles,» said study team member John Wallace from the University of Washington.

James Lovelock, of Gaia Hypothesis fame, says it's too late, the game's up, the climate is already in a feedback loop - «and before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable.»

:) Re early 20th century, I tried to say too much in too few words.

Within a few decades or a century, scientists say that the projected increase in the earth's atmosphere will give us little time to be able to deal with its effects.

Forecasts of human energy use and natural climate cycles might be stretchable a little further, say to 70 years rather than 40, as they both seem to obey fewer laws than technology, which is what human creativity has largely focused on in recent centuries that has any relevance to climate.

British scientist James Lovelock, who predicts a rise of eight degrees in temperate areas and five degrees in the tropics this century, says the tropics will become scrub and desert, leading to unparalleled human suffering: «Before this century is over, billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable.»

Bear in mind too that very few scientists close to the problem, when asked the specific question, would say there is only a very small possibility (for example, less than 5 per cent) that internal ocean behaviour could be a major cause of the warming over the past half - century (27).

Although we can not say at present whether more or fewer hurricanes will occur in the future with global warming, the hurricanes that do occur near the end of the 21st century are expected to be stronger and have significantly more intense rainfall than under present day climate conditions.

«On time scales longer than a few centuries, the net effect will actually be warming in these regions,» said Govindasamy Bala of the Livermore team.

«That gets attention and suggests there are more than a few partners in that firm that were against that merger,» says lawyer Mitchell Kowalski, author of Avoiding Extinction: Reimagining Legal Services for the 21st Century.

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