Sentences with phrase «than a century as»

Recognized for more than a century as the iconic address for Dallas hospitality, The Adolphus inspires each guest's journey by offering vibrant and storied surroundings, imaginative and collaborative food and drink, and locally celebrated amenities and experiences, all crafted and delivered with intuitive, memorable service.

The study, initially made public in draft form last July as a «discussion paper» so it could be circulated ahead of the Paris climate talks, holds that multi-meter sea rise could happen within a matter of decades, rather than centuries as previous estimates suggested.

It rode on the sheep's back for more than a century as the world's largest producer of fine apparel wool.

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Poet Emily Dickinson nailed it more than a century ago when she wrote, «They might not need me — yet they might — I'll let my Heart be just in sight — A smile so small as mine might be precisely their necessity.»

The philosophy of stoicism, founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early 3rd century BC, asserts that virtues (such as wisdom) should be based on behavior, rather than words.

Admirers of the tradition see the centuries — old spectacle of bullfighting as more of an art than a sport.

Brazil was the only main market to see profits decline, for a sixth consecutive quarter, as Latin America's largest economy emerges unevenly and slowly from its worst recession in more than a century.

The Brooklyn - based media company already counts Walt Disney and 21st Century Fox as minority owners, and Disney's most recent investment valued Vice at more than $ 4 billion, in 2015.

More than speculate, Johnson in fact tracked the major human advancements over several centuries to verify this pattern of one small idea linking to a web of other small ideas, and only appear as a single big idea in the rear view.

It shows Nintendo, which started life in the late 20th century as a playing - card manufacturer, staying true to its ethos of focusing on fun, rather than just flashy technology.

Founded more than two centuries ago by small medicines vendor and namesake Chobei Takeda in Osaka, Japan, the company was that nation's largest pharmaceutical firm by revenue as of 2014.

Smith started Vice as a print magazine with Suroosh Alvi and Gavin McInnes in Montreal more than two decades ago; with Smith at the helm as CEO, it's now a multi-platform content mill with a reported audience of between 250 million and 300 million people a month, many of them members of Generation Y. Smith made his money by convincing an older generation that Vice knows millennials better than they could ever hope to, and that pitch has worked: Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox paid US$ 70 million for a 5 % stake of Vice in 2013, and Rogers Communications (which owns Canadian Business) inked a $ 100 million partnership.

«Jack Johnson's reputation was ruined by a racially motivated conviction more than a century ago after he was charged with transporting a white woman across state lines,» McCain said in 2017 as he unsuccessfully urged President Barack Obama to issue a pardon on his way out of office.

As she explained at the Summit Conference in Los Angeles last weekend, a soulmate used to be something you found in religion — up until the 18th or 19th century, depending on how you mark it — rather than romance.

The move comes as part of Washington's rapprochement with Havana after more than half a century of enmity.

The United States on Friday dramatically eased restrictions on imports of goods and services from private Cuban entrepreneurs as part of Washington's rapprochement with Havana after more than half a century of enmity.

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.

More than a century later, the 1945 Legislature adopted it as the official state motto.

«No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you never should trust experts,» complained Lord Salisbury more than a century ago.

Even though Nicklaus surpassed him as the game's best player, and Palmer had last won a major more than a half - century ago, his popularity never waned.

Federal taxes, as a portion of the economy, are lower than they have been for half a century.

The chief reason the OMP has no foreign diversification is that long - run returns on Canadian stocks are better than the global average, and nearly as good as returns on U.S. stocks (best performing country over the past two centuries).

After Verizon announced slightly - better - than - expected first quarter results on Tuesday, analysts pushed Ellis about rumors that the company might bid for a major media company, such as 21st Century Fox (fox).

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Our view: Full Senate should approve Mike Pompeo as secretary of state despite his hawkish outlook After more than two centuries, the list of cabinet nominees to be either rejected by the U.S. Senate or withdrawn from nomination is on the order of once...

The city of fewer than 5,000 residents was first known as Salt Creek when it was settled in the mid-19th century.

This is because in China the gap between lending and deposit rates during this century has been much higher than in other developing countries, probably as part of the process of recapitalizing the banks after the last banking crisis at the turn of the century.

The reality is, our organization has been focused on issues that are region - wide for more than a century, because we understand that regional vision, leadership, and collaboration is critical to the success of not just our local economy, but the B.C. and Canadian economies as well.

During the middle of the 18th Century and well into the beginning of the 19th Century India produced far more textiles — and usually much cheaper and of better quality — than did England, but a number of measures aimed at undermining Indian textile producers and protecting British textile producers (tariffs that almost always exceeded 50 %, for example, and by 1813 were as high as 85 %) meant that at some point in the first half of the 19th Century the British textile industry had become the most efficient in the world and was able largely to eliminate the Indian textile industry from global competition.

It was only with the construction of a national railway system in the middle decades of the 19th century, using coal rather than muscle as its source of mechanical energy, that transport could achieve advances to parallel those already long achieved in the branches of industry in which cheap and abundant heat energy was the key to rapid expansion.

Three centuries later, in 1850 — 9, energy consumption had risen to 1,833 petajoules, a total more than 28 times as large as the earlier figure.

VICTORIA — After more than a century of unlimited donations, corporate cronyism and declining public faith in institutions, Big Money was finally banished from B.C. provincial and municipal elections today as bills 3 and 15 officially became law.

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.

If we assume that disposable household income is currently half of GDP, eight years of real GDP growth of 6.9 % and real disposable household income growth of 7.7 % will only raise the household income share of GDP to 53.1 % in 2023, a little more than 3 percentage points higher and still below its 21st Century average and leaving China as dependent as ever on investment and the current account surplus.

«The Smith Barney name stood for investment excellence for three - quarters of a century, and Morgan Stanley Wealth Management will provide the first - class service that has distinguished Morgan Stanley as a firm for more than 75 years.

That seems doomed to fail, as more than a century of case law dating back to the early days of the railroad suggests that provincial measures that directly thwart interprovincial infrastructure may be overruled by federal jurisdiction using 92 (10)(c) and this would be a prime example of when it should be (and has historically) been used.

Supermarket cost war and Black Friday bargains motivate buyers to bring Xmas paying forward The ongoing grocery store cost war and on - line revenue drove the strongest British isles retail income progress in much more than a quarter of a century this thirty day period, as consumers rushed out to bag...

At the same time, humidity will likely push the city toward as many as 23 days at HHSI Category III by the end of the century, with a 1 - in - 20 chance of more than 30 days per year at this level.

VICTORIA — New Democrat Leader John Horgan and health spokesperson Judy Darcy released the following statement to mark World AIDS Day: «World AIDS Day has been recognized for more than a quarter century as an opportunity for people around the world to...

This trend suppresses the demand side of the housing market, while the supply - side has been hindered by builders eschewing starter homes and moving up the value chain, as evidenced by the fact that the average size of a new single - family home is almost 2,700 square feet today, versus less than 2,100 square feet a quarter century ago.

In 2013, the city had more than 95,000 residents and is known as the «Druid City» for the large number of water oak trees plants along the downtown streets in the 19th century.

From the moment its doors opened more than a century ago, the Lord & Taylor building on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan has stood as a monument to old - school retail.

«Give to the Red Cross» doesn't cut it with a growing number of people these days, though quite a few media organizations and civic leaders have urged people to send their money to the American Red Cross, as they have done for more than a century.

As Germany prepares to mark Karl Marx's 200th birth anniversary, the revolutionary philosopher's legacy remains divisive more than a quarter century after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The most important component of global regulation are the negotiations around what is often referred to as «Basel III» and echoing the fears of any 19th century person contemplating a hospital stay, I am concerned that the proposed cures are worse than the disease.

More than a century ago, Frederick Winslow Taylor brought his stopwatch and principles of scientific management to the office, instilling efficiency as the highest calling in what was then a factory for processing paperwork.

Rather than debate academic studies about first - century womanhood, why not try out a biblical notion such as head covering and see what happens?

Muslims have done far less horrific, barbaric slaughter than Christians have through the centuries, yet you aren't railing against the far worse Christians as if they were ALL like that.

The latter brand any practice or teaching later than the third century of Islam (salaf) as satanic innovation (bida «-RRB-.

What Bronze Age man thought of as «sinful» is quite different than what 21st century man does.