Sentences with phrase «who less than a century»

In the last 20 years, a despised Catholic church has become allies with those who less than a century ago would have gladly snuffed them out.

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«Some of the most successful men of the 19th century never went to college, and today, those who didn't go to college are more intelligent, better informed and less easily fooled than the people who did go to college.»

In this perspective he was following a trail first blazed by a fellow Alexandrian a century and a half earlier, the Jewish philosopher Philo, a contemporary of Jesus who attempted to clothe the Septuagint in amenable patterns from Greek philosophy, particularly Platonism.11 His synthetic effort is echoed throughout the corpus of Clement's writings, which are far less systematic in approach than one would wish; the Stromata («Miscellanies») is less an orderly treatment of theological topics than a series of notes woven into a tapestry whose warp and woof are difficult to discern.12

The very fact that, a) Jesus left NOTHING behind, no writings, no physical evidence, nothing written by any first century historian, and b) there were no less than 12 deities prior to Jesus throughout the world who were born of a virgin, taught at the temple when young, preached, healed, fed the hungry, were killed and rose from the dead.

«Reducing greenhouse gas emissions while still growing as a company is one of the defining business challenges of the 21st century, and we're proud to be addressing that challenge head - on, starting with our new 2025 goal to achieve absolute reductions of no less than three percent year - over-year,» said Dean Scarborough, Avery Dennison's chairman and CEO, who will travel to Paris this December to discuss climate change with other business leaders at COP21.

That's way less time than it took the Cubs to win another World Series after their victory all the way back in 1908, so it's no surprise to see them acting like proud papa bears and showing off all these newborns who arrived in the world nine months after the Cubs finally closed the book on over a century of helplessness.

He has still only played less than a half century of Premier League games in his career, and it has been meteoric rise for the player, who only signed from Barnsley two years ago.

Another 2 to 7 feet of sea level rise is forecast this century, jeoparizing the homes and neighborhoods of the 5 million Americans who live less than 4 feet above high tide, as well as those of the hundreds of millions living along coastlines in other countries.

Ms. Duong noted that «The Cannon is named for Annie Jump Cannon, a pioneering American astronomer who classified the spectra of around 340,000 stars by eye over several decades a century ago — our code analyses that many stars in far greater detail in less than a day.»

It was also observed that in the 1960s the prevalence of coronary heart disease among the nomadic pastoralists in Xinjiang in northern China who consumed large quantities of animal fat from grass - fed, free - ranging animals was more than seven times higher than that of other populations both within Xinjiang and throughout China which consumed significantly less animal fat.33 These observations support the suggestion that cardiovascular disease was common among the Mongols of the 13th century who subsisted almost exclusively on a diet based on grass - fed, free - ranging animals.»

What emerges was — and is — less a retrospective of a single choreographer than a representation of a diffuse network of like - minded artists who redefined American culture in the mid-twentieth century.

The sea has also become a vehicle for political expression for artists such as Chris Jordan and Pamela Longobardi who address the polluting effects of global commerce, overpopulation, and climate change; in the 21st century, the sea as subject is less a metaphor of transcendental space than a very real place systematically being destroyed by human profligacy and waste.

I like this little dig at the denier - sceptic - contrarians who appear to be tree ring obsessed: «It is intriguing to note that the removal of tree - ring data from the proxy dataset yields less, rather than greater, peak cooling during the 16th — 19th centuries for both CPS and EIV methods... contradicting the claim... that tree - ring data are prone to yielding a warm - biased «Little Ice Age» relative to reconstructions using other high - resolution climate proxy indicators.»

Geologist Dr. Don J. Easterbrook, Emeritus Professor at Western Washington University, who has authored eight books and 150 journal publications, predicts that temperatures should cool between 2065 until 2100, and that global temperatures at the end of the century should be less than 1 degree cooler than at present.

«While we believe that the 20th century warming is real, we are concerned by claims that the actual trend is different from — or less certain than — has been suggested,» said Kealey, who has been appointed chairman of the foundation's investigative task force.

«The temperature change over the last century, even if it were all due to man, is so much less than the models predict,» said Lindzen, who has received government funding for his research during Republican and Democratic administrations, but hasn't conducted any research for oil or coal companies.

In their persecution of an aged colleague who stepped out of line and their call for scientists to be subject to a faith test, 21st - century climate scientists have shown less tolerance than a 16th - century monarch.

Visitors who come across the «Plastic Century» art installation while searching for a sip of water at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco tomorrow may find their options less than appealing: Drink from a trash - filled water cooler or go thirsty.In a piece commissioned by the academy to mark World Oceans Day (and the 100th birthday of iconic marine scientist and explorer Jacques Cousteau), artist Sarah Kornfeld, marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols, and futurists Stuart Candy and Jake Dunagan set out to show what a century of plastic has done to our environment — and specifically the world'Century» art installation while searching for a sip of water at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco tomorrow may find their options less than appealing: Drink from a trash - filled water cooler or go thirsty.In a piece commissioned by the academy to mark World Oceans Day (and the 100th birthday of iconic marine scientist and explorer Jacques Cousteau), artist Sarah Kornfeld, marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols, and futurists Stuart Candy and Jake Dunagan set out to show what a century of plastic has done to our environment — and specifically the world'century of plastic has done to our environment — and specifically the world's seas.

What's hilarious is watching people who have less understanding of classical laws of physics than 19th century physicists start babbling about 20th century quantum mechanics.

In addition, because workers» compensation benefits depend largely on the worker's salary, schedule loss awards have not increased for workers who earn less than $ 600 per week since 1992, nearly a quarter - century ago.

Century 21 spokespersons said the recruitment program is aimed at three demographic groups: successful experienced real estate pros, new salespeople who are in real estate school or have been in the business less than a year, and newbies just coming into the profession.