Sentences with phrase «than a century old»

The intuitive notion of harnessing the body's own immune system to fight the enemy within is more than a century old — and seemingly, each time researchers have seemed close to turning that theory into reality, a new stumbling block appears.

Major cities still rely on water pipes and sewers more than a century old that regularly leak and burst, and would certainly not fare well in a major earthquake.

Even though the advent of hospital birth is still less than a century old, the hegemony of «birth as a medical event» is overpowering.

The Democrat says he will be asking state lawmakers to help with more changes at the more than century old fairgrounds.

The headstones were randomly scattered in a section of cemetery larger than a football field, and many were more than a century old.

But the modern era of science - driven assisted human reproduction is less than a century old.

Biology's concept of information is less than a century old, deriving from computer science.

After the environment ministry tripled the logging quota in March 2016, eight nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) accused it of breaking EU nature protection laws by not assessing the potential ecological impact of the additional logging and not sparing trees more than a century old.

Repair and replace the unprotected steel and cast - iron pipes, some of which are more than a century old.

Executives at Chrysler and General Motors who are now taking marching orders from the White House might take exception to that statement, but Ford described the shakeup and government bailouts as essential for an industry that is more than a century old and has often been stuck in a rigid mindset.

The basic technique of tandem mass spectrometry is more than a century old, but it was adapted to newborn screening about a decade ago by North Carolina and Pennsylvania.

The basic technology that transports electricity around the United States is more than a century old.

Aviation students at Rancho High School can now practice their maintenance skills on a model of a plane that is more than a century old.

Genesis brings potential risks, starting with the long journey toward sharing the same status as luxury brands more than a century old.

I look at the architecture of the houses, some well more than a century old but still sound and beautiful.

Most excitedly we relished a nostalgic ride with an original, more than a century old steam train.

The Blue Elephant Governor Mansion Phuket Cooking School & Restaurant offers cooking classes at a more than a century old elegant and historical mansion in Old Phuket Town.

What it does have is a more than century old church and an African American history.

Librettos: Manuel de Falla / Stokely Carmichael reveals the political content of an artwork that is more than a century old while inserting Carmichael's speech into another form so that viewers can consider his words anew.

Underwood set me to work dissecting water snakes, some more than a century old, to look for differences between the sexes.

The automobile industry had dozens of alternatives that were either ignored or tentatively explored (Henry Ford had intended the Model T to run on ethanol; the electric car is more than a century old).

The system, more than a century old, diverts cold high - elevation water from the West Branch of the Feather River into a canal that feeds into Butte Creek.

Now more than a century old, it is also our single largest source of greenhouse gasses which, the United Nations warns, are destined to drive «severe, pervasive and irreversible» climate damage by midcentury if left unchecked.

Now more than a century old, it is also our single largest source of...

The global conservation movement is little more than a century old and, throughout its life, has displayed a consistent and defining characteristic: a brave and worthy but often futile struggle against the forces of growing human consumption, typified by persistent and widespread declines in species» populations, habitats, and natural resources, and the rising specter of climate change.

The station is more than a century old, media outlets reported.

More than a century old, Protective Life is where you'll find some of the best value you can get on the market, dollar for dollar.

The Central Bank of India is a traditional bank which is more than a century old.

The march on Washington, a political tactic more than a century old, has shown itself capable of helping to generate historic change.

Coldwell Banker, a brand more than a century old, has some of the nation's top teams, he says, and the teams are often better recruiters than brokerages.

Gore: I'll always call the brick ranch house on my family's farm in Carthage, Tenn., home, but for the past seven years, my family and I have been fortunate to live in the vice president's residence on the beautiful grounds of the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C.. It's a large, white brick Victorian house that's more than a century old.

This more than a century old beauty beams with the old time charm with all the modern upgrades and conveniences.

' T was just before Christmas, and Joanna had a great idea: take a beautiful Victorian home that's more than a century old, restore it and turn it into a charming B&B — Fixer Upper style.

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Life doesn't get much sweeter than this two - tiered pool at Il Salviatino, a centuries» - old villa just 15 minutes from Florence in the heart of the Tuscan countryside.

The drug at the heart of four lawsuits in New Jersey is insulin — «a century - old medicine that for most of its history cost $ 15 or less,» write Barrett and Langreth, but «whose list price has risen more than 270 percent over the past decade.»

But rather than start up any old publishing company — after all, times and technology have changed in the last century — Gao would build an e-book empire that didn't rely on authors to pump out blockbuster ideas.

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

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.

Mindfulness may sound like the latest buzzword, but the centuries - old notion of enjoying the present moment is more than trendy philosophy.

Company loyalty runs deep at this more than century - old grocery chain, which spent $ 50 million on employee development last year (plus $ 5 million in scholarships) and filled half of its open positions internally.

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.

I understand the urge to refute the Bible, but this discovery says nothing other than the fact that we haven't found bones older than the 10th century B.C. Does that mean there are none?

In the hills above this chestnut tree and in the woods behind my house lie dead trunks, decades old — some of them more than three - quarters of a century fallen.

Mar. 12, 2013 — A century old mystery as to why, for some animals, it's the father rather than the mother that takes care of their young has been cracked by researchers at the University of Sheffield.

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.

The clergyman as counselor has a heritage which is many centuries older than those of the mental health disciplines.

It is quite probably older than R. Meir himself (second century AD), having been attributed to him because of his reputation for parables:

Yet even though the differences in usage between Old Testament and New Testament caused some second century Christians to conclude that two different realities were referred to, the apostolic church was adamant, that it was none other than the God of Israel who had spoken to men in Jesus.

same deal... jesus is love is older and the peaceful mohammad... and has more to do with Martin Luther in the 16th century than it does with jesus himself.

Since ascending the throne of Saint Peter, Pope Francis has shown more than any pope in my life time (I am 68 years old and a Roman Catholic) that he follows the teachings of Jesus Christ and he is the biggest breath of fresh air the Catholic Church has seen in centuries.