Sentences with phrase «than a century before»

To me, this sounds a bit like targeting «early adopters» and using the 1800s version of «social media,» despite the fact that Twain was working more than a century before anyone had coined either term.

But it worked a treat as the Gunners became the first team since Preston North End more than a century before to complete a campaign unbeaten.

The lands are commonly known as the Cowee forest, since the land was once owned by W.J. Cowee in Berlin, a forestry company that operated in the region for more than a century before selling to the Forestland company.

It stands in the center of Niagara Square as a memorial for a United States President who was shot and died in Buffalo more than a century before.

June 30: On this date in 1908, more than a century before Russians captured February's meteor on their smartphones, eyewitnesses near Tunguska saw a sky «split in two» and «covered with fire» when an asteroid detonated over Siberia.

Professor Drijfhout said: «The planet earth recovers from the AMOC collapse in about 40 years when global warming continues at present - day rates, but near the eastern boundary of the North Atlantic (including the British Isles) it takes more than a century before temperature is back to normal.»

Okay, so Paine and Mill spelled all this out more than a century before Milton Friedman penned his seminal piece on school vouchers in 1955.

Maybe not, but others in «Grand Illusions» had their staged photography more than a century before Cindy Sherman, while Alice Austen had a reclusive stage to herself on Staten Island.

In 1904, Bryant's daughter Julia gave Kindred Spirits to the New York Public Library in Manhattan, where it hung on public view for more than a century before being deaccessioned and acquired by the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

We can probably nudge this (to use Zebras expression) down a bit faster, but I posit this will not be easy in democratic societies, and so its still likely to be more than a century before we see a significant drop is population size.

Not exact matches

«Thanks in part to the forceful response to the crisis and policies throughout the eight years of the Obama administration to promote robust, shared growth, the US economy is stronger, more resilient, and better positioned for the twenty - first century than ever before,» the White House said in an email after the jobs report.

Late 19th - century Americans loved railroads, which seemed to eradicate time and space, moving goods and people more cheaply and more conveniently than ever before.

More than a century later, Selby's grandson published the never - before - seen photos in a book: «When San Francisco Burned: A Photographic Memoir of the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906.»

You will observe that not one of the books of the Old Testament (in its finished form) is of earlier date than the eighth century BC Before that time there existed traditions handed down by word of mouth, and various documentary records and compositions, which were used by later writers.

That was the century when, during two terrible years, the Black Death killed more than a third of the population from Iceland to India, returning four more times before the era was up; when gangs of terrorists roamed and plundered Europe without hindrance; when the Hundred Years War took on a life of its own, frustrating efforts to end it, «an epic of brutality and bravery checkered by disgrace»; when new weapons and errant knighthood brought an end to chivalry; when widespread peasant revolt was answered by terrible aristocratic repression; and when internal scandal robbed the church of its ability to comfort and save.

It isn't found in any that date back later than the 8th century in fact and is not referenced by any of the early church writers before the 13th century.

Luther described egoistic narcissism centuries before Freud and his «cure,» focusing on Christ rather than the imperial self, is a lot simpler and more effective than Freud's.

There is now an emerging suspicion that the universe is much more amicable toward life and consciousness than we would ever have thought before the advent of twentieth - century physics and astronomy.

The part of that story that is this story in a messy house at midnight with a loud clock ticking on the wall is what the Greek philosophy books said on that guy's shelf: That more than half a century before the Gospel of John was ever written, more than 500 years before God pulled on flesh and stretched out on straw, Heraclitus was the first Greek philosopher who used that word: Logos.

It is significant that interpreters, both of the Old and the New Testaments, have been able to determine much more clearly and precisely the «Eigenart» of these documents and their views of God, world, and men on the basis of studies in the religions of the ancient Near East than could be done before the discoveries of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Yet, less than a century and a half before, an 11 - year - old boy and his partly crippled great - grandfather had maintained a valley bottom outpost, unaided, against Indians, ice storms and wild animal depredations for almost six months until the rest of their family could return from a trip to Louisiana marked by a rash of mishaps.

This evaluation of the Gospel records has become clearer and more widely held during the last century or more, a period which has witnessed the development of biblical study on a scale more intensive than ever before, and using the valuable tools of historical and literary criticism.

The motu proprio, he insists, «compromises thecoherence of the Church's self - understanding and threatens to reduce the liturgy to a simple matter of individual «taste» rather than what it is meant to be: an accurate reflection of what we believe as Catholic Christians who live in the twenty - first century»: for that, of course is utterly different from what Catholic Christians who lived in previous centuries (and in the twentieth century before the sixties) believed: hence, the absolute indefensibility of what he calls «this medieval rite».

This vigor of a church unhampered by the close even though friendly control by the state has parallels in the enormous spread of Christianity through the Church in the Roman Empire before Constantine, in the vitality of the Church in Western Europe during the Middle Ages, and in the phenomenal expansion of Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from churches which were either independent of the state or were less trammeled by it than had been most of the churches of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.

These letters were written over a span of not more than twenty years just before and after the middle of the first century and therefore within what might be called the first Christian generation.

Smartphones and tablets in all their forms have transformed 21st century life altogether, connecting us to more people than ever before.

Both Noah and Methuselah preached for more than a century, before constructing the ark.

If that were the case, Christianity would have become just another philosophy and probably would not have lasted more than a century or two before it was replaced by something else.

Being the poor custodians of our planet, as we have proven ourselves to be, we have no right to expect more than a couple more centuries before the expected serious decline in the human population sets in.

The Armenian genocide is a haunting early portent of the puzzling century that brought the many countries of the world closer than ever before and at the same time bloodily illustrated how difficult true coexistence is.

On occasion the phrase was used to refer simply to the land of the Bible — that is, to the land the Israelites returned to from Egypt — but in all of Christian literature before the sixth century it occurs less than a dozen times, and usually as a phrase to reject.

There can be no doubt that what we identify in the Tetrateuch (Genesis - Numbers) as P employs and incorporates in the fifth century some material as old or possibly older than J. And J in the tenth century may well have had as a primary source an earlier effort to bring together coherently a wide assortment of stories deemed to have significant bearing on the life of the people Israel.2 Certainly individual units in the J corpus had been in existence for centuries before they were integrated; and beyond any doubt these units were often strikingly modified in meaning in the context of the J work.

Augustine's reflections may be more illuminative of the common subject than the later ideas of Thomas Aquinas; Luther may answer more questions of the modern student about his puzzling situation in guilt and anxiety before God than Schleiermacher; Bernard of Clairvaux may clarify the meaning of the love of God and neighbor more than a twentieth - century theologian.

As Browne observes, «Turks and Franks met as enemies, and two centuries later parted as enemies; and the enmity extended from them to the indigenous Muslims and Christians, who from this time onwards showed a mutual hostility far more marked than before.

Such is the history of chiles in Africa, which were unknown before 1500 but conquered a continent in less than half a century.

Painted in 1939, just before the outbreak of World War II, it then represented a new line for Picasso, whose abstract techniques have done more to influence 20th century painting than that of any other artist.

Fast forward to the last twenty years of reproductive medicine, maternity care, and pregnancy health in the United States and things look a lot different than they did just a half - century before.

In the year 1900, just over a century ago, one in every six American babies died before the age of one, and mothers were 100 times more likely to die giving birth than they are today.

In remarks given after the inaugural ride was over (but before the countdown to midnight), Cuomo noted that «this isn't your grandfather's subway,» name checking the design — which features expansive, column - free mezzanines and wide platforms — and the public art found throughout, which is indeed much nicer than what you'll find at most of the century - old stations in the system.

«As a consequence, the Onondaga Galleries has sent us invoices for rent... As someone who spent more than a quarter century in the private sector before joining county government, I can't say I blame them.»

It was also the case that, before the sixteenth century, it was very rare for a parliament to sit for longer than a few weeks so that a procedure for resignation was hardly necessary.

Really I should have ended that with of late, or than there had been before - certainly in the 20th century many Arab countries forged links with the USSR and many in Labour were either secretly Communists or had Soviet links; Soviet agents infiltrated Student organisations, Trade Unions and political parties.

The net result would be a federal R&D portfolio in the 21st century that would look significantly different from today: defense R&D would be less than half the total portfolio for the first time since before World War II, while the NIH's R&D effort would be almost as large as those of all other nondefense R&D funding agencies combined.

«It is very clear that industrial lead contamination was pervasive throughout Antarctica by the late 19th century, more than two decades before the first explorers made it to the South Pole,» he added.

Before leaded fuel was phased out from road vehicles last century, the atmosphere contained substantially more leaded particulates than today, says Cziczo.

Predictions that climate change alone could lead to the extinction of more than one - fifth of plant and animal species before the end of the century have often come under fire, and not just from climate - change deniers.

When the LHC is completed next century, it will allow physicists to smash particles together at higher energies than ever before.

The coin dates to a little more than a decade before the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 AD, and was found in rubble material outside the ruins of the 1st Century Jewish villas the team has been excavating.

The researchers discovered that the ancient human oral microbiome already contained the basic genetic machinery for antibiotic resistance more than eight centuries before the invention of the first therapeutic antibiotics in the 1940s.

Krauss: The last decade has seen more revolutions in cosmology than perhaps the century before it, and our picture of the universe has changed completely, but at the same time we are at the threshold of addressing questions that I think it would be fair to say, a generation ago we wouldn't have even, not only no one [that we wouldn't have] even thought of asking, but never would have imagined would be testable.