Sentences with phrase «up after centuries»

The artist Barbara Kruger told the New York Times that these shows are «playing catch - up after centuries of women's marginality and invisibility», explaining these galleries are sensing opportunity «to cultivate a new market.»

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He was the father of Toyota's manufacturing system, when Toyota was starting after World War II up to the early to mid-Twentieth Century.
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.
The accord, which seeks to phase out greenhouse gas emissions this century with a shift from fossil fuels, says in its Article 28 that any country wanting to pull out after joining up has to wait four years.
After putting Hulu up for sale, its parent companies, Disney, 21st Century Fox, and NBC Universal, CNBC's parent company, are announcing the streaming - video company is no longer for sale.
Regulators in Missouri, Utah, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere have called for greater scrutiny of Google and others, citing antitrust concerns; some critics have suggested that our courts and legislatures need to go after tech firms in the same way the trustbusters broke up oil and railroad monopolies a century ago.
Up until they made these discoveries anyone could have reasonably argued that camels were not domesticated until many centuries after the 10th century BCE.
So the bible stories are just that, stories written half a century after the fact and no without any other secular history to back it up.
At the close of the last century, as the reckoning was drawn up in Europe for the actions and reactions of the twentieth century, could we not have been forgiven for tending a little toward the view that we had, after everything, acquitted ourselves rather well?
The Waldensian church was founded by Peter Waldo in the 12th century after he gave up his possessions and took up a life of poverty and preaching.
That process is still occurring; the twentieth century saw the British and other European empires gradually disbanding, and it has ended with the break - up of communist Yugoslavia after the death of Tito.
After nearly a century of form criticism, all students of the Bible are aware how much the ancient social situation affected the meaning of the literature that grew up in its midst.
It is after all rather important to emphasize that in a seventh - century text, predating all reflection on language, wherever that reflection may have occurred, we find this clear statement: the fact of human speech comes from God; but language is made up by the human race, which decides for itself — arbitrarily — the words, the rules, and the syntax.
Is it possible and after reading about it i kept on thinking «i will sell to my soul for 20 carats get out shut up i will never ever sell my soul to you oh god please help me and this is continuing for a few days i am afraid that i have sold my sold to the devil have i please help and still i think god's way of allowing others to hate him us much worse even you know and can easily think think about much better punishments like rebirth after being punished for all the sins in life and i am feeling put on the sin of those who committed the unforgiviable sin (the early 0th century priests) imagine them burning in hell fire till now for 2000 years hopelessly screaming to god for help i can't belive the mercy of god are they forgiven even though commiting this sin keans going to hell for entinity thank you and congralutions i think the 7 year tribulation periodvis over in 18th century the great commect shooting and in 19th century the sun became dark for a day and moon was not visible on the earth but now satun has the domination over me those who don't belive in jesus crist i used to belive in him but now after knowing a lot in science it is getting harharder to belive in him even though i know that he exsists and i only belived in him not that he died for me in the cross and also not for eternal life and i still sin as much as i used to before but only a little reduced and i didn't accept satan as my master but what can i do because those who knowingly sin a lot and don't belive in jesus christ has to accept satan as their master because he only teaches us that even though he is evil he gives us complete freedom but thr followers of jesus and god only have freedom because they can sin only with in a limit and no more but recive their reward after their life in heaven but the followers of satun have to go to hell butbi don't want to go to hell and be ruled by the cruel tryant but still why didn't god destroy satun long way before and i think it was also Adam and eve's fault also they could have blamed satan and could have also get their punishment reduced but they didn't and today we are seeing the result
Now, after a century or more in which European and North American forms of Christian faith were exported to «mission lands,» we are receiving back the waves of an indigenization process that may either buoy us up or engulf us.
I've read tales of Spanish Conquistodoros in the 16th century killing Indian babies by taking them by the heels and bashing their brains out against rocks after they were baptized by priests, so that they might enter heaven, to ensure that they wouldn't grow up to become heathen adults.
It has been called «a sort of compendium of the proofs and promises of the resurrected Lord, made up some time after the beginning of the second century».3
A very scary and powerful 6th century church - it took many centuries after the monk came up with the idea for it to be implemented to any great extent.
We tend to think most immediately of religions and sects that have sprung up over the centuries after Jesus.
During the early centuries of Islam there grew up five schools of law in the Muslim world: the four Sunni schools of Hanbali, Maliki, Shafi`i, and Hanafi, and the Shi`a school which is sometimes called Ja «fari after the sixth Imam.
You begrudgingly accept evolution (about a century after Darwin proved it and after accepting Genesis as literally true for about 2,000 years) and that Adam and Eve was totally made up, but then conveniently ignore that fact that your justification for Jesus dying on the cross (to save us from Original Sin) has therefore been eviscerated.
After rising slowly until the seventeenth century, when it reached about 400 millions, the earth's population began to shoot up in an alarming fashion.
The morning after Benedict's speech, I caught a discussion on the radio in which two well - known historians, eager to add their reproach to the obloquy heaped on Manuel, agreed that the emperor was no different from the Crusaders» oblivious to the dolorous history in which the Crusaders two centuries earlier had burned and ravaged Constantinople, the seat of Manuel's government, during the Fourth Crusade and set up Western Christian rule in the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
It appears from the list of suggested authors that there were no Catholics writing in English after the death of Geoffrey Chaucer (with the notable but limited exception of Dryden) until Gerard Manley Hopkins took up his pen in the late nineteenth century.
Antonio Gramsci criticized Croce's History of Europe in the Nineteenth Century for beginning in 1815 and his History of Italy for beginning in 1871, that is, just after but not including the French Revolution in the one book or the Risorgimento in the other.3 He thus excluded «the moment of struggle; the moment in which the conflicting forces are formed, are assembled and take up their positions; the moment in which one ethical - political system dissolves and another is formed by fire and steel; the moment in which one system of social relations disintegrates and falls and another arises and asserts itself.
After half a century of discovering stars from Zelmo Beaty to Ben Wallace, master scout and storyteller Marty Blake is still sizing up every NBA prospect out there
No one could possibly say he wasn't up to the task of any given moment after what he did to the Patriots — the best franchise of this century — twice.
Here, tens of thousands of fans walk up narrow, winding underground tunnels, or double - park their cars in tiny, quiet, local streets, while the relevant football authorities seem content to carry on as if nothing at all — behaviour, the fan base, methods of transport, even the state of the grounds themselves, which like the rest of us start to look a bit tatty after the first half - century or so — had changed.
Watch all of the action from an enthralling quarter - final as three goals from Cristiano Ronaldo brought up his century in the UEFA Champions League and helped Real Madrid earn a 6 - 3 aggregate win after extra time in 2017.
After over a century of games for them in Ligue 2, Imbula got his big break in 2013 when he stepped up a division to join Marseille where he stayed until Porto came calling last summer.
He has brought in potentially great players, brought up wonderful youth players, developed the infrastructure to achieve great things, fought against the dinosaurs entrenched in the 19th century who are ¨ running ¨ the game, displayed dignity and nobility in the face of unremitting criticism from a small band of Arsenal ¨ supporters ¨ and the media, endured xenophobic pundits, questionable officiating, lean years after the stadium build, ever expanding competition for players from richer clubs and yet stayed true to his principles and still managed to bring in trophies and success over his 21 year reign.
Written by the award - winning Kevin Toolis, the one - man show is on its way to the Edinburgh Festival where, judging by the buzz it has already created after a short preview run in London, punters will be lining up with morbid curiosity to renew acquaintances with a man whom Toolis believes is the worst prime minister in over two centuries.
After a century of economic decline, New York's voters have a chance to wake up and decide on a candidate, Mr. Astorino, who will create instead of destroy jobs.
I can remember very well that in the eighties of the twentieth century I used to have nightmarish dreams of nuclear devices exploding on the horizon after which I woke up realizing that luckily it was just a dream.
After years of stealthy activity, the start - up is making big moves and revealing its plans to overturn more than a half century of tradition in aerospace manufacturing
The temperature records showed a warming spike after the 1970s, and the ice records documented that river ice is breaking up about nine days earlier now than last century.
Crona uses «Dyck words,» a formula named after the 19th - century German mathematician Walther Franz Anton von Dyck, to match up the genotype with letters.
But after a half century of detective work, a small group of scientists has come up with a novel and surprisingly effective means of defense: hijacking the beetles» sense of smell.
In science news around the world, NASA's Cassini mission is about to take its final plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn after 13 years providing an unprecedented view of the planet and its moons, a fight over whether to preserve or develop of one Europe's oldest gold mining sites heats up again, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the first cancer gene therapy for people, a U.S. court gives a green light to a $ 1 billion lawsuit brought by the Guatemalan victims and survivors of mid — 20th century syphilis experiments by research institutions including Johns Hopkins University, and more.
After abandonment, a lush carpet of grass springs up and these fertile «glades» — sometimes as large as a football field — remain visibly distinct from the surrounding savanna for over a century.
-- Charlene Colchester, via e-mail Bhopal should have been a wake up call, but it is unclear whether chemical plants around the world are any safer a quarter century after the December 1984 disaster — during which some 40 tons of toxic methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a pesticide plant owned by Union Carbide (now part of Dow Chemical), killing 2,259 people immediately and causing lifelong health problems and premature death for tens of thousands more.
Excavated from 1981 to 1990, Port Royal offers a glimpse into both the panicked moments after the earthquake and the everyday lives of Port Royal's 17th - century residents, commoners who rarely show up in historical documents.
The climate is highly sensitive to greenhouse gases after all, and global temperatures could still shoot up this century.
The big era of pipeline construction began a little later, starting after the Civil War and ramping up in the first half of the 20th century.
The findings come after UEA research revealed that up to half of all plant and animal species in the world's most naturally rich areas could face local extinction by the turn of the century due to climate change if carbon emissions continue to rise unchecked.
Now, after more than a century of mystery, researchers think they have figured out what causes the jets: constant pulsations inside the sun that drive gas up through narrow, magnetically confined tubes.
Named after the area of Philipsburg, the capital of the Dutch half of the Caribbean island of Saint Martin where they were found, the two men and one woman were accidentally dug up in 2010, along with artifacts dating to the 17th century.
Scientists had so far recognized only one giraffe species and up to 11 subspecies while the distinctness of each subspecies of the animal still remains unclear even after a century of research.
But to some people, the very idea of transferring genes between species conjures up mad scientists running amok — and so, two centuries after Mary Shelley wrote «Frankenstein,» they talk about Frankenfood.
By the time the hypothesis appeared in a popular book that was published in 1908, the burning - rate had already gone up significantly, so in accordance with that change they revised the doubling - time down to a few centuries, but it was still something of a scientific curiosity, the stuff of after - dinner conversations.
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