Sentences with phrase «than a century now»

For more than a century now economics has been advanced and practiced as a science, on the model of physics and mathematics.

For more than a century now, Chicago «s old - line families have initiated their offspring in the social graces by enrolling them in young people «s dance groups.

Overview Built in 1893, the Falaknuma Palace in Hyderabad has stood tall on a hillock overlooking Hyderabad for more than a century now.

Paul Larkin: For more than a century now we have decided that we are not going to make medical decisions, particularly involving pharmaceuticals by plebiscite.

For more than a century now, Protective Life has lived up to its name in protecting households and businesses all across the United States.

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Many of the structures and institutions he helped pioneer more than a century ago — in - house sales teams; geographic sales territories; sales conferences; quotas; training academies — we now take for granted.

Human slavery is more prolific now than during the 18th and 19th century, former President Jimmy Carter tells CNBC.

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.

IBM has been a heavyweight in the tech world for more than a century, but the computing hardware and software businesses that made it a giant are now dragging it down.

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.

Inadequate flood protection infrastructure, which right now might not contain high tides in El Nino years; Lack of action on annual sediment removal from spring freshets, which each year move over 30 million m3 of sediment and leave about 3 million m3 of silt in the navigation and secondary channels of the lower reaches; and, By the end of this century sea levels at the mouth of the river could potentially rise more than one meter due to climate change overtopping the diking system.

Our perspective is straightforward: on the basis of measures that have been reliably correlated with actual subsequent market returns in market cycles across a century of data, we estimate that the S&P 500 Index will be no higher a decade from now than it is today.

Bitcoinist: The pace of tech adoption has been accelerating from the 19th century onwards, with smartphone technology now only taking less than a decade.

• Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Violins of Saint - Jacques: No one in the twentieth century wrote more magnificent English, or prose of a purer purple; but, while his travel memoirs are now more widely appreciated than ever, his only novel (or novella, really) tends to be overlooked — a deftly constructed, economically proportioned, perfectly satisfying little tale about the small twilight world of a fictional French Caribbean island on its last day.

Many people now have ten more healthy years (or more) than people in previous generations, which makes 2lst - century Americans biological pioneers.

Lutherans today are both more sophisticated and more liturgically minded than they were in my youth and so they are less tolerant of the sentimental nineteenth - century gospel songs that for so long dominated Protestant hymnody, but they will now and then allow those of us at mid-life or beyond to sing again the songs we grew up with but which more informed tastes tell us (and we try to tell ourselves) we should not have liked as much as we did.

Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest population of poor people in the world, one third of our rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.

That there are now more Anglicans in Africa than in Great Britain, more Presbyterians in South Korea and Taiwan than in Scotland, and that there will probably be more Roman Catholics at the close of this century in the Southern Hemisphere than in the Northern, should give us all pause.

If we can do this better now than some time ago, it is we, not the exegetes of the nineteenth century, who understand the text «more literally».

It has always seemed to me, however, and I have been walking around this planet for half a century now, it takes more thought, action, trust, study and a far greater degree of intelligence to believe in something rather than nothing.

What do I mean when I say that our common sense is different now than it was in (for instance) first century Palestine or the fourth century Roman Empire?

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 single vision that has been on the rise since the 18th century is now more than ever the dominant cultural orientation.

On top of this, the Chalcedonian formulation itself now has more than fifteen centuries of tenure.

Its passing from the Middle Kingdom was even more complete than in the ninth century, for in that former eclipse it had continued among the non-Chinese peoples on the borders of the empire, whereas now even these latter had abandoned it.

But during more than a quarter - century of medical practice, I have been led by my clinical experience to reject the deterministic assumptions underlying the therapeutic worldview that now pervades American culture.

But it is here, in my view, that the importance becomes manifest of an intuitive notion which, timidly evolved less than fifty years ago by a small group of human minds, is now beginning to pervade twentieth century thought as rapidly as did the idea of evolution in the nineteenth century.

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If food is destined to cost more, so be it — Americans spend an average of only 11 percent of their income on food now, while they spent more than 50 percent on food at the turn of the century.

To say that we shall not make a perfect society in the next century or the next millennium is no excuse for failure to do our best to create an order relatively better than the one in which we now live.

They also remind us of some unpleasant truths: that virtually all of us in the modern world are now mere consumers of great urbanism rather than its producers; and that this earlier vision of cities is now so far removed from the mindset of the modern world that the project of reviving great urbanism may be one best regarded in terms of generations if not centuries.

The Apostolic Faith Mission no longer stands on Azusa Street, but a century after the mission opened its doors (and in some ways now more than ever) the Azusa Street revival in one way or another frames the identities of millions of Pentecostal Christians.

Jesus may still be regarded as a wise and innovative teacher who has exerted a great deal of influence during the course of the last 20 centuries, but he is now coming to be seen as one great teacher among others, rather than the incarnation of the one and only God, and the absolute Savior of all humankind.

Only a little more than a century ago, many of the very same passages now being invoked to argue that the scriptures label homosexuality a sin or that God can not countenance gay marriage were used to justify not «biblical marriage» but slavery.

It is now much more difficult for the local church to give an account of Christ than in former centuries.

English bishops are now generally freed from the responsibility of maintaining the medieval mansions in which some of them still reside; their salaries are now with a few exceptions equalized at # 2000 - # 2500, while most English dioceses achieve a minimum stipend for incumbents of # 500 or better.24 In available goods and comparable status this is probably somewhat but not much better than the «passing rich on forty pounds a year «25 Of two centuries ago.

Since Asians have been using soy for centuries - certainly longer than Americans - and their incidence of cancer is - or was, now that they are on the Western Diet - minuscule comparatively, it is difficult to point the finger solely at the soybean.

More than a century since the dish's creation, the Only Original Alfredo Sauce is now available for purchase at Zabar's in New York and online at http://www.alfredo1914.com/.

Baseball players have been exhibiting monumental deficiencies of integrity and character for well more than a century, and it's just now that Hall of Fame voters are going to take those words seriously?

Now, more than two centuries later, we have the wonder of the Trois Vallèes ski area, whose 40,000 acres stretch away so far below us that they seem to be half the size of Antarctica.

We're in the 21st century now, and things have changed — and two sports is way more than enough.

Songbirds, river herring, and other animals and plants are returning to what was a working cranberry farm for more than a century and now features a free - running stream that nourishes marshland, an array of restored native plant species, and upland woods.

Fathers now spend more time engaged in housework and child care than they did half a century ago.

By the early twentieth century doctors supplanted midwives in delivering babies, who now entered the world more often in hospitals than in homes.

The documents reveal a transition occurring in infant feeding in the early twentieth - century United States: now that industrially produced canned baby foods were more affordable and more available on grocery store shelves, parents were feeding their babies more fruits and vegetables than parents had previously, and feeding their babies these solids at earlier ages.

In fact, the Tea Partiers» online organizing may be more dangerous to Republicans than Democrats, as in the 2009 special election in upstate New York that swung a seat to the Dems for the first time in over a century (as an analogy, Joe Lieberman is still in office despite Ned Lamont, and Dems who want health care reform are now paying the price for his challenge).

Now in 2016, less than 1 % of the population are farmers, cars have existed for more than a century, and when most young people hear the word «Sabbath» they are more likely to think of Ozzy Osbourne than church on Sunday.

Fast - forward half a century and YouGov now says age is a more reliable indicator of whether a person will vote Labour than class.

Frank L. Ciminelli II is now the leader of LPCiminelli Inc., the Buffalo contractor founded by his grandfather more than a half century ago after his father's resignation.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has postponed work to finish New York's third water tunnel, a project that for more than half a century has been regarded as essential to the survival of the city if either of the two existing, and now aged, tunnels should fail.