Sentences with phrase «well over a millennium»

Some argue, and I would not disagree, that they run more than 1,300 years into the past, and that what confronts us today is the contemporary expression of a civilizational contest that has ebbed and flowed for well over a millennium.

While the imperial family had existed for well over a millennium the imperial system which now emerged as an ideological technique for controlling the entire populace was something rather new.

The latest in the line of TPS - FPS - RTS - TSA - FUBAR - Knitting Simulators has been anticipated for well over a millennium since the previous Duke Nukem game (Duke -LSB-...]

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Pilbara - focused gold miner Millennium Minerals has reported good news in a gloomy industry with a maiden profit of just over $ 34 million for the first half of calendar 2013.

St. Louis was once corporate America's manufacturing backyard, but through strategic planning initiatives first launched at the start of the new millennium, the region has evolved into a vibrant hotbed of technology, as well as a cradle of entrepreneurship over the past decade.

This coming July, the world will mark the centenary of the First World War, the seismic calamity that began the 20th century as an epoch and that, in another hundred years, may well be regarded as the sanguinary first act in the end of Europe as «Europe» had been known for over a millennium.

A great attraction of the Catholic Church over the past two millennia, in the eyes of many non «Catholics as well as most Catholics, is her universal character.

This organic whole that began from an initial high bang and eventuated into the present universe is distinguished by a form of unity and diversity radical beyond all imagining: infinite differences, and diversity that is marked not by isolation but by shared atoms over millennia as well as minute - by - minute exchanges of oxygen and carbon dioxide between plants and animal.

Rave on Atheists, better than you have tried to bring down the Church over the millennia, and look, 22 new Cardinals.

The editors and their collaborators know better; but only in selected instances have some of them managed to transcend such limited conceptions in behalf of the central purpose of the volume as a whole: to demonstrate how the literary dimensions of these texts do, indeed, make credible the power and authority they have exhibited for more than two millennia in shaping decisively the lives and minds of thoughtful people the world over.

The human body has changed hugely over decades as well as over millennia, so why do we vary so much, and how will we evolve?

«We hope better understanding of yeast will allow us to tailor these organisms for specific uses, much as we have bred better varieties of domesticated plants and animals over millennia,» says Borneman.

In the past decade, paleoclimatologists have reconstructed a record of climate change over the last millennium by consulting historical documents and examining indicators of temperature change like tree rings, as well as oxygen isotopes in ice cores and coral skeletons.

So there was life without sex on this planet for well over 2 million millennia, some two - thirds of the total history of life.

The best evidence of this dependable rhythm of land building and sinking over seven millennia is underground.

A combination of good genes and a stable environment has allowed this particularly ginormous fungus to continue its creeping existence over the past millennia.

A good discussion of this can be found in the review paper by Jones and Mann (2004 — see section 2.9 therein)[Jones, P.D., Mann, M.E., Climate Over Past Millennia, Reviews of Geophysics, 42, RG2002, doi: 10.1029 / 2003RG000143, 2004].

[Response: Section 4.2 of the Jones and Mann (2004) review paper is a good place to start: Jones, P.D. and Mann, M.E., Climate Over Past Millennia, Reviews of Geophysics, 42, RG2002, doi: 10.1029 / 2003RG000143, 2004.

Mr. Cuccinelli is well known for his harassment of Michael Mann, a climate scientist vilified by industry apologists for creating the «Hockey Stick» graph illustrating the increase of average global temperature measurements over the last millennium.

However, one of the panel's reservations was that ``... a statistical method used in the 1999 study was not the best and that some uncertainties in the work «have been underestimated,»...» The panel concluded «Based on the analyses presented in the original papers by Mann et al. and this newer supporting evidence, the committee finds it plausible that the Northern Hemisphere was warmer during the last few decades of the 20th century than during any comparable period over the preceding millennium.

Virtuous, bookish, and with a knack for leaving sliding doors open, Maddie might as well be Laurie Strode for the new millennia, but where Laurie exerts her power over Michael Meyers with a well - placed wire hanger and a weak scream, Maddie uses her knack for narrative (she's an author, after all) for a brainy, meta - takedown of the masked intruder.

As the book's title suggests, the best model for parents and teachers — honed over millennia of human evolution and trial and error — is not the carpenter who works diligently from an established blueprint, but the patient gardener who provides a safe space to let nature take its course, and then gets out of the way.

The rise and fall of sea level over the millennia, coupled with natural karst topography and clear waters, results in a diverse submarine seascape of patch reefs, fringing reefs, faros, pinnacle reefs, barrier reefs as well as off - shelf atolls, rare deep water coral reefs and other unique geological features such as the Blue Hole and Rocky Point where the barrier reef touches the shore.

Taking place almost a millennium before the events of Skyrim, the main narrative of ESO consists of your character setting out to end the vile machinations of the Daedric Prince Molag Bal as well as to seize control of the imperial throne, which has been vied over by three different factions since the land's former leader vacated it.

Millennium Girl allows a player's characters to obtain additional skills they normally wouldn't be able to learn through the use of «Grimoire» — not only does it offer the chance to let a character learn a skill from another class, it also gives players the opportunity to have their characters learn over 200 skills from enemies as well.

Evolution is all well and good, but it normally takes place over millennia, not a couple hundred years.

Barcelona based conceptual artist Jaume Plensa has produced a rich body of work over the past 30 years and is best known in Chicago for the Crown Fountain in Millennium Park.

[Response: Section 4.2 of the Jones and Mann (2004) review paper is a good place to start: Jones, P.D. and Mann, M.E., Climate Over Past Millennia, Reviews of Geophysics, 42, RG2002, doi: 10.1029 / 2003RG000143, 2004.

If our best scientists, with the accumulated knowledge of millennia, can not agree on the seriousness of our current situation or what climate variables will come into play over the next century, then how the heck are they supposed to determine the exact size, number, and placement of massive sun shields to deflect the perfect the amount of radiation, without any unforeseen consequences?

Just as Lewandowsky couldn't take the perspectives of climate sceptics in good faith — he had to probe inside their minds, using a shoddy internet survey — Read does not take issue with the arguments actually offered by actual climate change - denying libertarians, he takes issue with his own fantasy libertarian, abandoning all the rigour and practice that the discipline he belongs to has established over the course of millennia, to score cheap rhetorical points.

As I was saying earlier, according to Hofmann et al the excess of CO2 over 280 ppmv during the previous millennium has been very well modeled as having a constant CAGR of 2.155 % and reaching 120 ppmv (as the excess over 280) in 2015.

Over millennia, marine life have endured and responded to CO2 levels well beyond anything projected, and temperature changes that put coral reefs and tropical plants closer to the poles or had much of our land covered by ice more than a mile thick.

To understand coral resilience in the face of the variety of onslaughts, coral reefs must be seen as dynamic systems that oscillate over decadal periods, as well as centuries and millennia.

The LML sedimentary record provides a well - controlled and annually - resolved record of category 2 — 3 hurricane activity in the Boston area over the last millennium.

TH: You spend a good deal of time making a case for how things have improved over the millennia.

This system comprises many physical, chemical and biological processes that need to be dynamically integrated to better predict their behavior over scales from local to global and periods of minutes to millennia.

In particular, over the past decade Ms. Kassabian has successfully defended various well - known service providers asserting safe harbor under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

The Origin Millennium finished the encode in just over three minutes, shaving over a minute and a half from the best times we saw from the AVADirect Avant and Origin Neuron.