Sentences with phrase «shrink as the century»

It's difficult to predict if or how fast these resilience areas could shrink as the century progresses.

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We're so used to the default trope that China is «the world's most populous nation» that it will come as a shock to many that, by some demographers» estimates, China's current population, 1.4 billion, will shrink to 500 million by the turn of the next century.

In spite of the fact that Socrates studied with all diligence to acquire a knowledge of human nature and to understand himself, and in spite of the fame accorded him through the centuries as one who beyond all other men had an insight into the human heart, he has himself admitted that the reason for his shrinking from reflection upon the nature of such beings as Pegasus and the Gorgons was that he, the life - long student of human nature, had not yet been able to make up his mind whether he was a stranger monster than Typhon, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, partaking of something divine (Phaedrus, 229 E).

Lawmakers did significantly restructure and shrink the program in the new Senate legislation, however, which is officially known as Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP - 21).

Carr's first novel was a surprise best - seller when it was published in 1994, but savvy trendspotters should have recognized all the ingredients that sometimes launch a literary thriller into the limelight: a mainstream crime - fiction plot (cops and shrinks track psycho killer) overlayed with some vivid history (late - nineteenth - century New York), and a famous hero (Teddy Roosevelt as the city's police chief).

Over all, open water has spread in the Arctic this summer nearly as much as it did last summer, when polar experts said the ice cap shrank far more than had been measured since satellites started scanning the region 30 years ago — and probably more than it had shrunk in a century or more.

The shrinking of a climate story that is competing on a page with national or foreign developments is as predictable as the retreat of mountain glaciers in this century.

The biggest shift in half a century is underway in the U.S. power sector, as electricity from coal plants shrinks and power from natural gas and renewables grows.

Colorado River flows will keep shrinking as climate warms Warming in the 21st century reduced Colorado River flows by at least 0.5 million...

People are not serving on juries, the media's coverage of the courts is shrinking, and America's common law is not developing on a case - by - case basis, as it has for two centuries.