Sentences with phrase «times in the past century»

This happened all the time in past centuries, so it isn't totally out of line.

Consider this paradox: The economic returns to higher education are as good as they've been at any time in the past century.

Only two times in the past century have temperatures been colder than they are now!

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Rupert's son James, however, who is CEO of family holding company 21st Century Fox, argued that it was long past time for O'Reilly to leave, in order to try and mitigate some of the longer - term damage done by the allegations and the advertising exodus.

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.

It has topped $ 100 (in today's dollars) three times in the past half century — before the recessions of the early 1980s, during the 2008 recession, and most recently in April 2011.

More members of the U.S. House of Representatives are choosing not to seek re-election than at any time in the past quarter - century.

In times past there were two methods of engaging in this type of fraud, both of which can be illustrated by the practices of English goldsmiths in the 18th and early 19th centuries, the forerunners of modern - day bankIn times past there were two methods of engaging in this type of fraud, both of which can be illustrated by the practices of English goldsmiths in the 18th and early 19th centuries, the forerunners of modern - day bankin this type of fraud, both of which can be illustrated by the practices of English goldsmiths in the 18th and early 19th centuries, the forerunners of modern - day bankin the 18th and early 19th centuries, the forerunners of modern - day banks.

However, we should not allow us to be totally seduced by this Victorian version of the season, and recall that in the biblical stories, and in centuries past, this was a time when the world turned upside down.

In the past century, when Sayyid Ahmad led his followers against the Sikhs in the Punjab, the Pir Pagaro of that time offered him men and moneIn the past century, when Sayyid Ahmad led his followers against the Sikhs in the Punjab, the Pir Pagaro of that time offered him men and monein the Punjab, the Pir Pagaro of that time offered him men and money.

While it might be true that those who lived in the time of the Prophet could understand religion better than the people of today who must study Islam by means of documents only, we can not ignore the considerable change in the social situation and world conditions during the past fourteen centuries.

In fact, the only two times in American history when the gap between rich and poor grew were at the turn of the last century and in the past 30 yearIn fact, the only two times in American history when the gap between rich and poor grew were at the turn of the last century and in the past 30 yearin American history when the gap between rich and poor grew were at the turn of the last century and in the past 30 yearin the past 30 years.

Thus, even though prisons were among the first places of special need to catch the eye of the churches, it is only in the past quarter - century that the plan of full - time and specially trained chaplains, responsibly related to their churches as well as to their jobs, has become widespread.

Our own time is rightly understood as a time of the martyrs, and it is a most encouraging development that Christians today increasingly recognize and revere those members of the several ecclesial communities who, in the century past and still now, offer the ultimate witness to the lordship of Christ.

At the same time, the tone of this pontificate will certainly be distinct from anything in the past century.

But it seems to me that Dr. Altizer has fallen into a naturalization of historical time, that he has been led astray by his nineteenth - century mentors, who were battling against the rigidity of a mechanistic universe, for there is no doubt that in the mechanistic and objective sense the past is dead and unchangeable.

Conflicts in the Muslim World today, while occupying significant news time, A) pale in comparison to what non-Muslims have done in this past century and B) are mostly the result of secular governments in the Muslim World vying for power and resources C) often backed by non-Muslim armaments and vested interests.

This protest has, however, taken the form of an equally dangerous distortion of the gospel in the opposite sense which was brought forward in the most impassioned terms at various times in the course of the nineteenth century and then especially during the past twenty years.

It was the second time in the past two weeks that Ansar Dine, a militant group that seeks to impose strict Sharia law, has attacked the site's 16 mausoleums, built from mud and wood in the 15th century.

This feisty, fiery sixteenth - century Spanish mystic and reformer captivated me for precisely the reasons that Benedict mentioned this past July, when he praised Teresa as a model for the New Evangelization whose «luminous and engaging call» remains «familiar in our own times.»

In no similar length of time have its boundaries expanded so rapidly and so widely as in the past century and a halIn no similar length of time have its boundaries expanded so rapidly and so widely as in the past century and a halin the past century and a half.

In the great slaughters of the past century or two in Europe and America, Christians have killed Christians and Jews have killed Jews because they were separated by citizenship in time of waIn the great slaughters of the past century or two in Europe and America, Christians have killed Christians and Jews have killed Jews because they were separated by citizenship in time of wain Europe and America, Christians have killed Christians and Jews have killed Jews because they were separated by citizenship in time of wain time of war.

In this context it is difficult not to recall the observation of Eddington, made a half - century ago (NPW 47 - 58) that in Minkowski's time - space the past is separated from the future even more effectively than in the world of Newton: instead of an instantaneous three - dimensional cross-section, it is a four - dimensional region of «Elsewhere» which separates the causal past from the causal futurIn this context it is difficult not to recall the observation of Eddington, made a half - century ago (NPW 47 - 58) that in Minkowski's time - space the past is separated from the future even more effectively than in the world of Newton: instead of an instantaneous three - dimensional cross-section, it is a four - dimensional region of «Elsewhere» which separates the causal past from the causal futurin Minkowski's time - space the past is separated from the future even more effectively than in the world of Newton: instead of an instantaneous three - dimensional cross-section, it is a four - dimensional region of «Elsewhere» which separates the causal past from the causal futurin the world of Newton: instead of an instantaneous three - dimensional cross-section, it is a four - dimensional region of «Elsewhere» which separates the causal past from the causal future.

Christians in affluent countries in the twentieth century have grown used to such a fast pace of life and to such constant changes in the material environment that we tend to think that our problems are unique, that the past is worthless as a source of wisdom for modern times, and that our ancestors in the faith have little in common with us.

In times past, committees have been appointed to «revise the liturgy»; their task was to alter the punctuation and modernize the language of the 16th and 17th century liturgical forms.

In the past century theologians have at times attempted to escape the embarrassment of being unable to show how God acts in the natural world as understood by sciencIn the past century theologians have at times attempted to escape the embarrassment of being unable to show how God acts in the natural world as understood by sciencin the natural world as understood by science.

Dean Carlson's vision for the Farm Market, housed in a historic 18th - century barn, allows visitors to peruse the bounty of the farm in an atmosphere that captures the charm of a time past.

Like all the ships caught by the chain in the past four centuries, in time this freighter will be taken apart by the waves and digested by the slow chemical processes of the sea.

The name Matthew is also popular in England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Australia and Canada, Because of its popularity over time, Matthew ranks number 13 in the Top 100 Names of the Past Century.

The amount of time fathers spend on housework and child care has increased significantly in the past half century.

First Past the Post (or «FPTP» for short)-- the current system in use in the UK since mediaeval times to elect MPs and since the late nineteenth century to choose local councillors.

Thanks largely to medical advances ensuring that, for the first time in human history, most children get to grow up, our numbers have quadrupled over the past century to seven billion.

Looking at data from 1855 through 2005, Webster and Holland found that the total number of tropical cyclones per year doubled in that time, from an average of six at the beginning of last century to 14 over the past decade.

Several times during the past century, chemists dreamed up new reactions, only to see them fail in the lab.

Glaciers in Alaska's Denali National Park are melting faster than at any time in the past four centuries because of rising summer temperatures, a new study finds.

EOS scientists have earlier pointed out a large earthquake may occur any time in this area southwest of Padang — the only place along a large fault where a big earthquake has not occurred in the past two centuries.

In the past century, technological advances both provided and necessitated more precise measurements of time.

Some show far more variability leading up to the 20th century than the hockey stick, but none suggest that it has been warmer at any time in the past 1000 years than in the last part of the 20th century.

In the past few centuries, the subduction zone off the coast of Sendai has generated earthquakes of up to magnitude 8 or so, but nothing as powerful as a 9, which releases 30 times more energy.

Referred to for much of that time as a «food of the gods,» this botanical product has occasionally, in centuries past, even stood in for currency — its value on par with gold's.

It's the ocean «These small global temperature increases of the last 25 years and over the last century are likely natural changes that the globe has seen many times in the past.

It requires that the Sun's brightness increased more in the past century than at any time in the past millennium, including over the past 30 years, contrary to the direct space - based observations.

By this time, atmospheric CO2 concentration will probably have become sufficiently high (and we will be committed to further increases) that a climatic change significantly larger than any which has occurred in the past century could be unavoidable.»

It's true that at times in Earth's past the climate has been as warm or even warmer than temperatures projected for the end of this century and beyond.

«While this has been observed in ice cores a handful of times in the past 1,000 years, it had not previously occurred in this century.»

Sandbag training has undoubtedly been around for a long time, but it's perhaps only in the past century when it has been recognized as a legitimate form of strength and conditioning.

Life here began in Old Town, with its medieval roots; society was very different back when this part of town was still fresh faced and spry, though some of the old inns still stand if you feel like sampling a date from the heady and seductive Dark Ages... Then take a stroll through New Town, dripping in Georgian decadence; here, you will be reminded that once upon a time the dating scene was a raucous, dangerous place, full of lust and lewdness... Okay, perhaps not all that much has changed, but the point we are trying to make is that Edinburgh's dating scene has shifted across the centuries to become what it is today — fairly sedate compared with the city's tumultuous past, but no less magical or intoxicating.

«Season three of The Knick was set in 1947 and was going — at my absolute insistence — to be shot in anamorphic black - and - white,» Soderbergh wrote, adding, «It's POSSIBLE that may have contributed to its demise...» Fans of the show would note that moving to 1947 would represent a massive time - jump for the series, moving the story almost 50 years past its original turn - of - the - century setting.

«A Quiet Passion,» his latest film, goes back further in time than any of his past pictures, to the middle of the 19th century, and returns him to America, a place he has now visited three times in his filmography.

At the time, the 12 - story structure was the tallest building in New York City, and even retained that distinction past the turn of the 20th Century.