Sentences with phrase «shorter than centuries»

Not exact matches

The decades - long conflict that is currently raging over short - termism and activist hedge funds strikes me as analogous to the Thirty Years» War of the 17th Century, albeit fought with statistics («empirical evidence»), op - eds and journal articles rather than cannon, pike and sword.

The current commodity - induced profits recession may be short lived, but the real secular trend growth rate in EPS should be much slower than the past quarter - century.

Moreover — and this took me up short — my friend insisted that Eliot's role in the twentieth century was in any event more radical than conservative.

The historic fact remains, and we in the twentieth century, with a conception of God infinitely greater than that of any previous generation, may have to short - circuit the centuries and let the startling truth break over us afresh — that we live on a visited planet.

In short, I am claiming that Hartshorne is a more thoroughgoing personalist than Brightman, and that any version of personalism which does not treat Hartshorne's thought as personalistic is missing out on the most important corrective to and up - dating of personalist metaphysics and epistemology in the second half of the 20th century.

In short, were we dependent upon the epigraphical sources alone for information about ancient Israel, we would know little more than that an entity known as Israel existed toward the end of the 13th century BC, and that two minor kingdoms, called Israel and Judah, existed alongside each other in the central Palestinian hill country after the mid-ninth century BC.

The three short oracles in 24:204 are of other and later origin than the four major oracles, which (conventionally seen as E or JE) are certainly not later than the eighth century, betray characteristics of the tenth - century monarchy, and may rest on still older oracular models.

The advantage of having isotopes with short half - lives is that they need only be stored underground for centuries rather than millennia.

Short - lived climate pollutants are so called because even though they warm the planet more efficiently than carbon dioxide, they only remain in the atmosphere for a period of weeks to roughly a decade whereas carbon dioxide molecules remain in the atmosphere for a century or more.

Long on ambition but short on sensitivity, the detectors have seen more than half a century of innovation and improvements to isolate them from the slightest disturbances.

For the first time in centuries, the current generation of children will have a shorter life expectancy than their parents...

I'm Katie - I started my personal journey as a «Wellness Mama» almost a decade ago when my first child was born and I read that his generation would be the first in centuries to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.

The Short Version: For more than a century, The Trustees of Reservations has been preserving the open spaces of... (read more)

At more than half a century old most of me still works pretty well, the rest of me just wings it, at five feet five and a half inches tall or should i say short after reading...

It gives the idea of consumerism run wild the short shrift that it deserves (and the cynicism that an intervening quarter - century demands), touching on the original's explanation of the zombies» affinity for the shopping mall and the human heroes» delight at their newfound material wealth before becoming a bracing action film that, like Marcus Nispel's reworking of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the source of which didn't need updating as much as Dawn arguably did), is more firmly entrenched in the James Cameron Aliens tradition than the Seventies institution of disconcerting personal horror film.

Nothing short of a public mea culpa will even begin to earn back a trust systematically thrown away for more than a half - century.

With just 1,370 kilograms to pull, 0 to 100 km / h is done in 3.5 seconds while 200 km / h appears in 9.8 seconds, a shorter time than some cars» century sprint time.

The Story Behind the Story (from Johanna Moran's website) «More than a half - century ago, my father, a law professor, came across an abstract on the Oades case, and showed it to my mother, who was attempting to write short fiction in her nonexistent spare time.

OK, we're not reliving the halcyon days of the mid-20th century when short fiction in weeklies like The Saturday Evening Post paid more than the average book advance does today.

Now, if your lights are turned on, you're correctly thinking, «Yeah that's true in 529 plans because the time frame is much shorter than IRAs, and you're assuming paltry 21st century average investment returns.»

The departure was short - lived, however, ending when Hoptman returned to the city as a senior curator at the New Museum, bringing in works by painters like Elizabeth Peyton, George Condo, and Tomma Abts while also organizing seminal exhibitions including «Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century» — the influential show of provisional - looking sculpture that famously included a lot of paint — and «Younger than Jesus,» the first iteration of the museum's Triennial.

A short stack of catalogs for the Hammer Museum exhibition «Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College, 1933 - 1957,» San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's upcoming photographic show «Anthony Hernandez,» and «Three Centuries of American Prints,» from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., weighs in at more than 15 pounds — about the equivalent of a bowling ball.

Alemani even invited novelist Rick Moody to pen a short story set on the island; and, in a nod to the site's history as a locale for hospitals and asylums in the 19th century, Israeli artist Uri Aran will remake an abandoned office into a fictional examination room with doctors, patients, and strange «procedures» broadcast live — a piece of performance that is sure to be less Treasure Island than Shutter Island.

Along with my exhibition work, I have editioned more than 10 artist's books and was the Art Editor for the poetry journal Long News in the Short Century.

That's this century and not the post summer of 2016 nor 2017 — which is probably why Killian then said in @ 388 That study in no way says there should be a big sign of emissions now, only that future emissions should be higher than other studies have found because they were over too short a time frame.

Under this scenario, most of the clathrate deposits in the arctic (both tundra and shallow continental shelf deposits) could be released into the atmosphere in a fairly short period of time (less than a century), implying a rate of outgassing that makes 100 times present estimated levels a vast underforecast.

These analyses indicate that it is likely that greenhouse gases alone would have caused more than the observed warming over the last 50 years of the 20th century, with some warming offset by cooling from natural and other anthropogenic factors, notably aerosols, which have a very short residence time in the atmosphere relative to that of well - mixed greenhouse gases (Schwartz, 1993).

The 21st century (half that amount of time) has only been slowed 4 leap seconds, despite the length of day being roughly 0.77 ms (1.7 ms / day / century) longer due to gravitation drag than in 1970 and about 0.935 ms shorter than in 1960 when the second was defined..

There are fraudulent attempts to call this temperature differential a warming when these warm temperatures are nothing more than a consequence of the short - lived step warming at the turn of the century.

I am reminded of a phrase Abraham Lincoln borrowed from the great 17th century scientist, Pascal, «I have made this letter longer than usual because I lacked the time to make it short».

It may also be of interest that over the oceans the climatic sensitivity is I think unlikely to be the prevailing factor in assessing the attribution of flux anomalies, for periods shorter than about a century.

It's a useful way to look at the short term rather than centuries from now.

The researches thus «urge extreme caution in attributing short - term trends (i.e. over many decades and longer) in US tropical cyclone losses to anthropogenic climate change,» stating that «anthropogenic climate change signals are unlikely to emerge in US tropical cyclone losses on timescales of less than a century under the projections examined here.»

It seems shorter term have much higher need than decadal of century forecast and seems foolish that they using 50 % or more of resources.

A cooling trend is observed in the raw and USHCN V2 records for the past 12 years... In both the short and longer term cases the USHCN V2 adjusted data yielded trends that were roughly 1ºC per century higher than those found in the raw temperature records.»

Where ENSO or the solar cycles are so short they can not explain any trend greater than a quarter century, they are simply noise and unimportant.

But even if so, they make clear that they are using a different process designed more for the purpose than the data you have picked up compiled for the volcano paper, and they allude to this directly: «So while these reconstructions have proved valuable for studying climate variability and the role of various forcing factors acting on relatively short timescales, such as volcanic eruptions [Briffa et al 1998a], they are of limited use for judging the warmth of 20th century warmth in a multicentury context.

At shorter than half century intervals, their role may have been larger at various times.

He has also shown the effect of hurricanes of short duration, less than two or four days, on the trend of hurricanes over the past century.

These variations occurred parallel to climatic variations as indicated by δ18O of the ice; astonishingly, the changes took place within rather short times, no more than a few centuries or even less.

The Arctic ice sheet is thinning, and most of the planet's glaciers are retreating as climates warm, so the Jakobshavn glacier is carrying less ice, at a faster rate, over shorter distances than ever before, and by the end of the century could have shifted 50 kilometres upstream.

Steve: the link I provided is about lakes, both with long (more than a century) and short (since the 1980s) trends.

Your observation that paleo records tend to miss the shorter term variations seen in instrumental records is interesting, as this weakness would lead to doubtful conclusions that past centuries saw less climate variability than we now observe (Shaun Lovejoy article in Climate Etc. in January 2013).

In the 20th century the warming occurred in steps, within intervals shorter than 30 (e.g. 1978 - 1998) years, so there is a case to be made that there has been no change in climate since the beginning of the recovery from the Little Ice Age.

Nearly half a million lives cut short, often with untold suffering, by a commercial product that has been known to kill its consumers for more than half a century.

One does not imply the other — ENSO patterns in the models are better than ENSO amplitudes, for example — but I would agree that incorrect amplitude is not a source of confidence for the correct patterns, especially when the historical record is too short to accurately define the near - century - scale modes, whatever they might be.

The length of day was shorter in the 21st century than the 3 preceding decades.

Is it any wonder good people are increasingly looking for better alternatives than working in a private legal practice; clients are looking to other providers to add value to their businesses; and that external disruptors will continue to flock to the legal profession in droves to exploit law firms» soft underbelly - our lack of flexibility, failure to innovate, unwillingness to collaborate, our short term greed for the almighty dollar, our 19th century governance structures, absence of diversification - and most of all our cultural desert.

In fact it's been shown the the old «knob and tube» electrical wiring of the early 20th century is actually safer in terms of short circuits than many modern day systems.