Sentences with phrase «time as a century»

If that happened, it would push sea levels up by five meters in as short a time as a century.

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Although society has come a long way since a half - century ago, Buffett recalls a time when women were kept out of the workforce and predominantly told to depend on marriage as their path to livelihood.

As the Wall Street Journal noted on Thursday, Snapchat parent company Snap Inc. has signed development deals in the past year with Walt Disney's ESPN, Discovery, the NFL, A+E Networks, Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting, and Vice Media, while the company is also reportedly in discussions with CBS and 21st Century Fox.

There are many ironies: Germany, which so frightened Europe for nearly a century, as it had in late Roman times, is now being beseeched virtually to take economic suzerainty over chunks of the continent where the physical German occupiers in bygone days were violently unwelcome.

As almost everyone knows, the city fell on hard times during the latter half of the 20th century — and still faces significant challenges.

The New York Times» James Stewart discusses Disney CEO Bob Iger's staying with the company past his 2019 contract as Disney buys some of Twenty - First Century Fox's assets.

«Affordable housing has been quite a serious problem for us,» says Philip Souza, owner of Century 21 Smith / Ring Inc. «The people who don't earn as much have a difficult time remaining close to work.»

20th Century Fox released the film's prologue on Wednesday night, which shows the crew of the colony ship Covenant as they party one last time before going into cryosleep.

Putin is a man of the times all right — as long as the times you're thinking of are the 19th century.

At the time, Simpson's trial was described as «The Trial of the Century,» and maybe it was hyperbole.

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.

From the time socialists coined the term «capitalism» in the mid-19th century, the word has been used mainly as an invective.

To address power and prestige, while it may be true that Britain's loss of reserve - currency status in the 20th century coincided roughly with its loss of political and military preeminence, I think it is incorrect to imply that Britain lost power and prestige after the Great War mainly or even partly because sterling lost its status as the dominant reserve currency (which in fact really occurred some time in the 1930s and 1940s).

Combining safety, performance, and efficiency, Model S has reset the world's expectations for the car of the 21st century with the longest range of any electric vehicle, over-the-air software updates that make it better over time, and a record 0 - 60 mph acceleration time of 2.28 seconds as measured by Motor Trend.

After all, markets rarely fall out of a bed in one fell swoop as they did in 1987 and, more recently, the turn of the century, so there's usually plenty of time to cut and run... we hope.»

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.

I've spent much of my time looking through history to read up on how the failure to wipe out the debt overhead led to the collapse of Rome's imperial republic, and to the Ottoman Empire as what was known as «the spoiling of Egypt» and «the ruin of Persia» toward the end of the 19th century.

When Trump and Daniels met for the first time, at the July 2006 American Century Celebrity Golf Championship in Stateline, Nevada, she was already porn - famous enough that the previous year she had a bit part in the 2005 Judd Apatow comedy «The 40 - Year - Old Virgin» (as a fantasy character).

This time, they collected Tier 1 capital - equivalent * numbers, as well as other balance sheet items, across 17 countries since the 19th century.

George Weigel, author of John Paul II's biography, Witness to Hope (HarperCollins), described the lectures as a «theological time bomb» set to go off sometime this century.

The valley of Hinnom (Gehenna) was outside the walls of Jerusalem, for a time thesite of idolatrous worship, including child sarcrifice, In the first century Gehenna was being used as the incinerator for the filth of Jerusalem.

It's time for Christians (Muslims as well) to wake up and join us in the 21st century.

The first century historian, Josephus wrote about him and expressed «Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure.

Perhaps it is now time to recognize that the third world - changing scientific achievement of the last century is not the unmitigated good that much of Western culture claims it is — and that treating the sexual revolution as a unambiguous, indeed undeniable, boon to humanity can lead to a lot of personal unhappiness, homicidal ghouls like Kermit Gosnell, and the deployment of coercive state power in ways that threaten civil society and democracy.

In fact, studies show each individual now receives five times as much information daily as we did a quarter - century ago.

I can't be sure about what, precisely, occurred twenty centuries ago, but, in our times, it is not Christianity that is persecuted so much as self - righteous, hypocritical egomania.

It's high time the Catholic Church embraced the 21st century with regard to women's reproductive rights and women's rightful place in the church, such as serving as priests and bishops.

These theological visions come from many sources, including: apocalyptic books of the Bible from Daniel to Revelation; a nineteenth - century viewpoint on the end of times known as dispensational premillennialism; and images of the so - called «rapture» popularized in novels such as Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth (1970) and the more recent Left Behind series.

19th century, archaeological finds (e.g. earth and timber fortifications and towns, the use of a plaster - like cement, ancient roads, metal points and implements, copper breastplates, head - plates, textiles, pearls, native North American inscriptions, North American elephant remains etc.) is not interpreted by mainstream academia as proving the historicity or divinity of the Book of Mormon.This evidence is viewed by mainstream scholars as a work of fiction that parallels others within the 19th century «Mound - builder» genre that were pervasive at the time.

Rome (CNN)- Benedict XVI's time as pope came to a historic end Thursday, as he became the first pontiff in six centuries to resign as leader of the world's Roman Catholics, who now number 1.2 billion.

An unbiased view would presume the numbers of homosexual men at that time to be quite small — most likely the 2 to 2.5 percent that is now reported — and as far as I can see from the evidence, these few homosexual men did little or nothing to influence the bachelor subculture at the turn of the century.

According to the article, it dates about teh same time as the bulk of the New Testament - 2nd - 4th century CE.

Ron Dreher calls it the Benedict Option as he believes it is time for Christians to copy the fifth - century monk St Benedict and pursue a «communal withdrawal from the mainstream, for the sake of sheltering one's faith and family from corrosive modernity and cultivating a more traditional way of life».

At the time of the purchase, wrote Morrison later, «I had no other thought nor ambition than to keep the Century within the Disciples denomination, both as to its editorial outlook and its constituency....

For example, from the time of 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy, the earth was viewed as the center of the universe, called the geocentric theory, with the sun and planets revolving around it.

This volume reveals why Bonhoeffer is the most fascinating and arguably the most significant of 20th - century theologians, particularly as we face the interruptions of our own time.

In the case of the creation story you must read it as if you were a hunter / gatherer (caveman) who did not have a concept of time (no watches, no calendars, most likely someone who didn't keep track of how old he was — think about indigenous peoples who had no contact with western civilization until the 20th century).

• W. H. Mallock, The New Republic: It defies reason that a professional economist should have written one of the most brilliant satires of the nineteenth century (it appeared in 1877); a conversation novel, in the manner of Thomas Love Peacock, and just about as ingenious as any of his; a grand and ungracious burlesque of the Oxonian intellectuals and writers of the time, many of them Mallock's friends.

Time to join the 21st Century, even in the Bible Belt, as difficult as that might be, for these old men.

Halphen's argument runs like this: (1) by the end of the eighth century, Charlemagne had emerged as master of the West; (2) under these conditions, it was to be expected that a more general title should be added to his collection, to reflect his full power, when local conditions permitted; (3) local conditions in Rome in December, 800, demanded the intervention of an Emperor; and (4) Byzantine imperial power was at that time temporarily disrupted and incapable of intervening in Rome.

Liberal Protestants in the last two centuries also claimed to use Scripture as their sole norm, and over time came to distinguish revelation from the words of the Bible.

Through their «own» interpretation and countless translations over the centuries I don't believe it's quite «the word of God» as the church has asked us to believe all this time.

Fathers especially can take as their model the patron of statesmen, St Thomas More, Lord Chancellor of England in the 16th century, who was once described in The Sunday Times newspaper as «the most saintly of humanists, and the most human of saints».13

In this, as in so many other instances in the present time and down the centuries, the Church is a voice of sanity and truth.

His range of experience was restricted by the kind of man he was; and this in itself raises certain difficulties if he is held up as an example to all human beings everywhere and at all times, for it is at least in some measure unreal to present a first - century Galilean as a model for the conduct of Western or African or Asian men in a twentieth - century industrial society.

Sometimes in direct attack, as in the Roman persecutions of early centuries and the Nazi and Communist movements of our time, sometimes through sneers and the opposition of hostile public opinion, Christianity has had to defend itself against those who believed the false or utopian ideas of its founder to be dangerous.

For the first time in history, at the invitation of the United Nations, we gather as Heads of State and Government to recognize the significance of social development and human well - being for all to give to these goals the highest priority both now and into the twenty - first century.

It is to be understood as a renewal and transformation of the Hegelian Christology of the last century in the setting of our time.

Photography unfortunately was not available in the first century CE so we must rely on rigorous historic and archeological testing: One result as noted many times:

Well as it seems that the enemy of today is the same enemy of many centuries ago that disputed God Allah from the time of His Messangers Moses, Jesus and Muhammed PEace be upon them all..!