Sentences with phrase «well over a century»

For well over a century, a range of men's footwear brands — Grenson, Church's, John Lobb, Tricker's and Crockett & Jones, among others — have called the East Midlands region home, producing more or less the same shoes, more or less the same way.

This has been a retail and commerce oriented city for well over a century.

There's well over a century of research on how religions originate, function in society and the individual psychology involved.

The Christian home has not functioned as a center for family Bible study for well over a century among most church members.

We face, in effect, a modern version of the Penal Laws, the legislation which for well over a century systematically excluded Catholics from public life by requiring them to publicly deny various parts of the Faith or to take Communion in the Anglican Church before they could hold certain jobs.

So I turned to the writings of the English cardinal himself and found an infallible sign of his genius: Well over a century and a half before Dennett sat down at his computer to write his book, Newman had already reviewed it.

For well over a century and a half this identification has been widely, and we think, rightly accepted.

We've been surrendering pieces of violence from the sport for well over a century now, and the game remains intact, no matter how loudly we've howled about it on the internet and pre-internet.

Wengwr always makes some changes for Cup games, but ultimately we are aiming for an historic treble in the competition, a feat that hasn't been achieved for well over a century, so we must also make sure we make no mistake in this game either.

This is their second, and they are three outs away from tying that mark set by the Tigers well over a century ago.

The famous tournament dates back to well over a century ago giving lower league clubs the chance to mix it up with the big boys of the Premier League.

The argument that has applied for well over a century — that in every area of life we need people at the centre to make sense of the world for us and take decisions on our behalf — has collapsed.

Presenting what he claims is the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, he attempts to challenge many of our Western assumptions about the origins and nature of democracy and political institutions.

But well over a century later, there has still never been an ethnically Chinese MP - and despite a Chinese population that has swollen to an estimated 347,000, there remains a visible absence of Chinese faces in British political life.

By the same token, I still believe that we need to rediscover and reinterpret the three overlapping political traditions — conservative, liberal and socialist or social - democratic — that have woven in and out of our history for well over a century; and that we have at least as much to learn from our complex religious traditions as from political ones.

But those have always been very much minority strands on the British left at all times for well over a century; so the choice has not been between Marxism and New Labour.

[4] And well over a century later, we see Paddy Ashdown, leader of the newly formed Liberal Democrats, returning to the idea of the labour - managed firm: «in some cases, the present situation will be reversed... with workers employing capital and even hiring their own management».

Mayor de Blasio tugged at the heartstrings of all New Yorkers during his State of the City address when he spoke of his immigrant grandmother, Anna Briganti, who well over a century ago forsook the beauties of Italy «for an apartment at 205 East 17th Street in Manhattan, just a short walk from here... a place lacking the tranquil comforts of her childhood.»

Leaving aside the debate about just how much influence Britain has within the EU anyway, would a Brexit really result in a diminution of power greater than the end of empire, or that which states like Greece gave up when they joined the Euro, or when Poland chose paralysis as its political system in the eighteenth century, leading to it disappearing from the map altogether for well over a century?

For well over a century after that, pay raises were left to amendment.

People had been seeking to ban alcohol for well over a century because its use was widespread and so were its effects.

I think your point that «He is the first Tory Prime Minister in well over a century not to enjoy a Lords majority... Every non-Tory Prime Minister in our history has had to cope without one, «is well made.

Well over a century later, memory is far from understood.

Organic chemists have known for well over a century how to chlorinate the carbons at both ends of a double bond.

Without risk there is no progress, as Wilbur and Orville Wright bravely demonstrated well over a century ago.

By contrast, majorities of those low in religious commitment say each of these potential enhancements is in keeping with other ways humans have tried to better themselves over the centuries.

«Regeneration is one of the great mysteries of biology that has puzzled developmental biologists for well over a century,» says Whitehead Associate Member Peter Reddien.

As the flagship hospital of CHI St. Vincent Health System, CHI St. Vincent Infirmary has provided the citizens of Arkansas with high quality healthcare for well over a century.

We've offered our patients this combined approach to cancer care for well over a century.

Doctors discovered (quite accidentally) well over a century ago, that operating on patients, or delivering babies, with unwashed hands, was a terrible idea.

It has been recognized for well over a century that the amount of carbohydrates consumed plays a role in the development of obesity.

While back in the earlier films Logan would unsheathe his adamantium claws and baddies would fall to the floor, you could see he was a formidable presence, but you could never truly feel the gravity of his power, or the emotional burden he's carried for well over a century.

For well over a century, lesson study (jugyou kenkyuu) has been an important part of ongoing teacher training in Japan.

Technology has been facilitating that use for well over a century, beginning with the «Jackdaw» kits of printed reproductions of historical documents.

For well over a century, lesson study (jugyou kenkyuu) has been an important part of ongoing teacher professional development in Japan.

For well over a century, Catholic parishes and schools have been serving the neighborhoods of Milwaukee.

She says colleges and universities have been operating by the same educational template for well over a century.

Fiat has been a major player in the European commercial van sector for well over a century, and for the last 35 years it's the Ducato panel van that has been the flagship of the range.

This no doubt will provide the newer generation a glimpse of literary works, most of which were written well over a century ago, titles which would have wilted away into oblivion without the digitization efforts.

Well over a century ago, Bastiat wrote about the seen and the unseen in economics.

Despite the knee - jerk reaction to sell telecoms when interest rates start creeping up, investors should take solace in the very secure and stable business that BCE runs, which has been rewarding shareholders for well over a century.

And it's a myth that's been propagated for well over a century now; check out this quote from a 1905 issue of Popular Mechanics, a popular (as the name implies) publication at the time.

The incredible beauty of the landscape through which it passes is a huge tourist draw, ensuring its survival for well over a century.

It's no secret that the company we now know as Nintendo was founded well over a century ago,...

The collections of British furniture and other decorative arts have been assembled for well over a century according to the tastes of such New York collectors as Judge Irwin Untermyer (1886 — 1973) who, in the assessment of Luke Syson, curator in charge of European sculpture and decorative arts at the Met, «put together the greatest collection of British works of art formed in 20th - century America».

Well over a century after the art academies in the western world opened their doors to women, it is strange and somewhat disheartening to find only one female name on this list.

Decades have passed since the imbalance was first raised by feminist art historians, and well over a century since the first women students were admitted into art schools.

The work in About Abstraction suggests a kinship with the Abstract Expressionist movement of 1940s SoHo and San Francisco, and illustrates the enduring vitality and power of nonrepresentational art for well over a century.

The Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Studio has served American artists for well over a century — and now, it's finally opening its doors to Untapped Cities.

Cooper Union was tuition - free for well over a century.