Sentences with phrase «than a century since»

And it's less than a century since the average American Lutheran church conducted services in German, Swedish, or Norwegian.

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/.

It has been more than a century since scientists discovered the first virus, and for decades it was known simply as a «very small disease - causing agent».

It's been less than a century since we've been able to treat people with type 1 diabetes (like my wife Monica) with exogenous insulin to keep them alive.

It's been more than a century since two different dogs of the same breed have won this show.

Aviation emissions now account for about three percent of annual CO2 emissions from fossil fuels, more than a century since Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first powered airplane flight.

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Major emerging economies like India insisted that they should not have to pay for the energy transition, since the world's pollution had been caused by more than a century of economic growth in the U.S. and in Europe.

21st Century Fox (FOX), for example, is only down by about 4 % since the beginning of the year, or less than half Disney's decline.

Merkur - and Dovo - branded razors have proliferated throughout the world since the firm was founded more than a century ago in 1906.

This index, whose history stretches back more than a century, had been a terrible performer since peaking nearly two years ago.

Since the start of this century, The Times found, price fluctuations of 4 percent or more during intraday sessions have occurred nearly six times more than they did on average in the four decades leading up to 2000.

Since the turn of the century, Kentucky Bourbon production has skyrocketed more than 315 percent (455,078 barrels were filled in 1999).

It's been close to half a century since Trump retained Cohn (and more than 30 years since the iconic fixer, who died in 1986, performed an act of legal brutality for Trump).

According to a survey by the Pew Research Center, Americans over the age of 64 are working more than any other time since the turn of the century.

With the national unemployment rate at 4.1 percent, a 17 - year low, there are more job openings in the retail industry than at any time since the turn of the century, government data show.

Conversion tracking is nothing more than a very rudimentary pixel tracking method — also around since the last century.

Canada's tax rate on corporate profits has fallen by more than 14 percentage points since the turn of the century, to just 15 percent this year.

It's been more than a quarter - century since the world's first exchange - traded fund debuted right here in Canada, and over the years those of us in the industry have got pretty adept at rhyming off the benefits of ETFs.

It's been more than a quarter of a century since Randy Hibshman first introduced Little League Baseball's Challenger Division in Coral Springs.

If the bible is from the men of the 1 st century, it is safe to say they were more advance in science than we are since it is recently we are finding these things out.

In the three centuries since the prince - elector of Hanover became George I of Great Britain, few power brokers have been more detached from the populace they affected than Rabbi Menachem Shach (1898 — 2001).

Since the time of Ibn Khaldun, more than five centuries ago, no great thinker has arisen in the Muslim world.

It has been more than a half - century since James Coleman and his team surveyed students in ten high schools to determine their values and interests and attitudes toward learning.

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.

Since Hippolytus tells us that it was used by the Naassenes, it can be dated no later than the end of the second century.

Though American Protestantism has recently produced more significant minds than at any time since the early 18th century, even the most important American theologians have had less influence here than Karl Barth or Paul Tillich.

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

Since, however, his interpretation set God's power, and will in the very center of history, and since he saw secular empires as stumbling inexorably through sin, rather than as representing progressive steps toward modernity, he was regarded until the mid-20th century as too archaic to be of Since, however, his interpretation set God's power, and will in the very center of history, and since he saw secular empires as stumbling inexorably through sin, rather than as representing progressive steps toward modernity, he was regarded until the mid-20th century as too archaic to be of since he saw secular empires as stumbling inexorably through sin, rather than as representing progressive steps toward modernity, he was regarded until the mid-20th century as too archaic to be of help.

Hitler and Stalin and Pol Pot ect ect ect murdered more folks this century than all religions combined since 0 A.D.

This book has been hailed by the editor of The Christian Century as «the most important interpretation of Christian missions that has appeared since the modern missionary enterprise was launched, a little more than a hundred years ago.»

The Roman Catholic Church, for instance, has seen more changes in the decade since Vatican II than it saw in the previous century.

It's no extravagance to expect even deeper changes in all Christian communions in the next 20 years than all those made since Paul left Tarsus 20 centuries ago.

talks so confidently about the inerrant, perfect, infallible character of the original Autographs of the Bible when no one has seen one for more than eighteen centuries Moreover, it is clear that originally no one thought the wording was perfect since copyists, translators, and authors had little fear of changing it.

Process theologians believe that this revolution in our world view must be incorporated in Christian doctrine and that it brings us closer to the biblical view of the creative and redemptive working of God than theology has been since the first century.

By the eleventh century most of the ulama were teaching that obedience was an absolute duty, even to an unjust ruler, since an unjust ruler was better than none at all.

The interesting question for us is why it is that the church in the West in the sixteenth century and ever since opted with the majority for the mechanistic view of the universe, particularly in view of the fact that the organic view is in many ways more supportive of Christian faith than the victorious mechanistic view.

In the nineteenth century, Abraham Lincoln did more than any other American to define the United States; and Americans, in turn, have been defining Lincoln ever since.

Those who remained loyal to the Church — and they were legion — were, in general, more faithful in their attendance upon its worship and more earnest in attempts to observe the requirements of their faith than had been the rank and file of church members at any time since the first three centuries.

When the astronomical revolution of the sixteenth century — in which the Italian philosophers of the Renaissance played a far more important role than historians of science admit — removed the universal cosmic clock, there were two alternative ways open to physics and philosophy of nature: either to retain the relational theory of time and to hold with Bruno (Bruno 1879, p. 144) that «there are as many times as there are the stars» (tot tempora quot astra), since there is no body possessing a privileged rotation motion, and the only body which allegedly had it — the sphere of the fixed stars — has been swept away; or to save the unity and homogeneity of time by separating it from any particular motion — and this is what Newton did, anticipated in this respect by Isaac Barrow and, in particular, Gassendi.

The report found, among other things, that 43 of the lower 48 U.S. states have set at least one monthly heat record since 2010, sea levels are expected to rise between one and four feet by the end of this century, winter storms have increased in intensity and frequency, and the past decade was warmer than every previous decade in every part of the country.

Moreover, Bergson insists that the partial eclipse of metaphysics since the last half century has been caused more than anything else by the extraordinary difficulty the philosopher experiences today in making contact with a science already much too scattered (CM 200).

It reduced the compromises by the churches of the preceding century and gave rise to new movements which made Christianity more nearly in accord with the Gospel than it had been since its earliest centuries.

On the other hand was vitality which expressed itself in striking movements and knit that church more closely under the direction of a succession of strong Popes than at any time since the thirteenth century.

Another question: why is it that, more than a century and a half since Darwin's theory (and it's still taught world - wide as an unproven theory) has the evidence increasingly pointed away from him, not in support of him», is utterly and quite refutably wrong by an abundance of verifiable scientific evidence.

In order to bring about a post-critical reconciliation of mind and nature we need a wider and deeper sense of the cosmos than our religious ancestors had or than modern science has given us since the seventeenth century.

Since the middle of the eighteenth century, the West's population has more than quadrupled while real income per head increased at least fivefold — an even faster rate than today's population growth in the Third World.

Since Sikhs have served America as doctors, lawyers and teachers for more than a century, any attack on their house of worship should be considered an attack on all houses of worship.

The late Pope did more than any pope of the last century to defend and reassert beyond any doubt the stable and objective character of Catholic teaching - more even than Pius X with his great encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis, since modernist incursions had become very much more powerfully established during the pontificate of the unhappy Pope Paul than they had been in the early years of the century.

In some respects the threats have been more serious than at any time since the disheartening four and a half centuries which followed A.D. 500.

Alongside the Christian believers there stand today, more ominously than at any time since the first centuries, the opponents of Christianity.