Sentences with phrase «with over a century»

And what are these dangers the author keeps mentioning but not enumerating and how do they compared to the dangers posed by organized religion and other organized philosophies like fascism and communism, «manifest destiny» and other philosophies that those oh so nobly «organized» people have «blessed» us with over the centuries?

With over a century's worth of experience, Finlandia has a history of great taste.

Plus they're produced by a farmer - owned co-op in Oregon with over a century of history.

The Chicago Cubs, a franchise with over a century's worth...

The Chicago Cubs, a franchise with over a century's worth of pain and suffering, finally ended the Curse of the Billy Goat and won the World Series in dramatic fashion last year.

With over a century spent on perfecting the processes, designs and materials used on their footwear, it's no wonder that Bass are the best around when it comes to long lasting, stylish and comfortable loafers.

The GA is a thriving community of practice with over a century of innovation behind it and an unrivalled understanding of geography teaching.

Lesson Study (LS) is an approach originally developed in Japan with over a century of use in teacher professional development, to examine teaching practice to improve teaching and learning.

With over a century of hospitality excellence to build on, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts looks forward to creating unforgettable and enriching experiences for years to come.

Although emissions from developing countries now dominate, the industrial countries set the world on its global warming path with over a century's worth of CO2 emissions that have accumulated in the atmosphere.

With over a century of experience in the legal industry, FindLaw has a proven track record of success, diversity of client base, extensive market share, and unparalleled industry expertise.

With over a century of service and being backed by a venerable parent company, you can trust that Lafayette Life will be around to ensure that your policies and annuities are paid in full when the need arises.

Traditional insurers, with over a century of accumulated data each, still enjoy a data advantage over newcomers.

With other 150 Agents and a management team with over a century of Real Estate experience we are positioned to deliver the best service, at the best price, and with guaranteed deliverables throughout the process.

Not exact matches

The bomb fell just over 29,000 feet from the plane and detonated 1,900 feet above Shima Hospital, an active medical center with a history dating back to the 18th Century.

Anything, these days, that's over a quarter century old has got to have the sense of getting a little long in the tooth, but with that comes total brand identity.»

As you're probably well aware, Oprah is the richest African American of the 21st century, and with a net worth of over $ 3 billion, she is regarded as arguably the most influential woman in the world.

Rockhampton, with a population of over 80,000 on the Fitzroy River, was expected to suffer flood levels not seen for a century and Stewart urged residents in low - lying areas to leave.

In a statement provided by 21st Century Fox, founder and executive co-chairman Rupert Murdoch said: «To ensure continuity of all that is best about Fox News and what it stands for, I will take over as Chairman and acting CEO, with the support of our existing management team under Bill Shine, Jay Wallace and Mark Kranz.»

U.S. profits expand with the overall economy, growing at an annual clip that has exceeded 3 % over the past century.

With British competition regulators having provisionally rejected 21st Century Fox's $ 16.5 billion bid to take over the British broadcast giant Sky, Fox has returned with new solutions that it hopes will please the watchdWith British competition regulators having provisionally rejected 21st Century Fox's $ 16.5 billion bid to take over the British broadcast giant Sky, Fox has returned with new solutions that it hopes will please the watchdwith new solutions that it hopes will please the watchdogs.

Lachlan, 42, is the new nonexecutive chairman of both News Corp. and 21st Century Fox — a stunning comeback for Murdoch's elder son, who in 2005 quit his News Corp. job over clashes with senior management and returned to Australia to build his own empire.

How else can you explain the meteoric rise of Amazon which not only survived every market tide over the turn of the century and beyond, but emerged even stronger with a brand set for world domination?

Over the last few days, leading CEOs, academics and designers spanning all industries engaged in an array of panels to grapple with hefty questions about business and design: What does it mean to be a designer in the 21st century?

In 2002, before the sale of PayPal even went through, Musk started voraciously reading about rocket technology, and later that year, with $ 100 million, he started one of the most unthinkable and ill - advised ventures of all time: a rocket company called SpaceX, whose stated purpose was to revolutionize the cost of space travel in order to make humans a multi-planetary species by colonizing Mars with at least a million people over the next century.

Byrne, who said he rarely applauds the SEC, said he appreciated the recent crackdowns, likening it to the crackdown of guys driving «around with stacks of stock certificates, selling to Grandma over the backyard fence» in the early 20th century.

[As trade barriers have come down over the past half - century,] small countries can now gain the advantages of large markets through trading with other nations.

In related news, John Bogle, founder of Vanguard, told Bloomberg in a separate interview he agreed with Gross that investors should expect lower long - term returns than average returns produced over the last century.

Over these five years, the iconic 130 - year - old organization has experienced a modern renaissance, with dramatic membership growth and a rediscovered relevancy for 21st - century business, government and thought leaders.

Over centuries, we have learnt that a reliable «store of value» and a «medium of exchange» must be scarce, difficult to procure, with a predictable supply.

But Berkshire is primarily a U.S. - focused company, with roots in American businesses that go back over a century.

Many Canadians would initially guess Asia Pacific immigration to Canada began in the second half of the 19th century with the arrival of thousands of Chinese who came over first for the gold rush and later to build the Canadian Pacific Railway.

The decades - long conflict that is currently raging over short - termism and activist hedge funds strikes me as analogous to the Thirty Years» War of the 17th Century, albeit fought with statistics («empirical evidence»), op - eds and journal articles rather than cannon, pike and sword.

As Tim's gambles on its very future with this merger, one wrong move and all the goodwill the company has accumulated over the last half - century could be wiped away like dribbled coffee.

Employee stock ownership of different magnitudes, from 5 - 25 % in stock market companies to 30 - 100 % in small businesses, appears in companies throughout the U.S., with plans designed by local entrepreneurs and companies based on their specific conditions, given the many formats that the U.S. government has recognized over two and a half centuries.

Combining safety, performance, and efficiency, Model S has reset the world's expectations for the car of the 21st century with the longest range of any electric vehicle, over-the-air software updates that make it better over time, and a record 0 - 60 mph acceleration time of 2.28 seconds as measured by Motor Trend.

From a small trading post in the 15th century to a metropolitan area with a population of over 14 million, this massive city dwarfs Thailand's other urban centers.

There is growing sentiment that our fiat currency system should be replaced with a hard anchor, such as the gold or silver standards in place in much of the world over the two centuries preceding gold's abandonment by the United States in 1971.

Looking over three centuries of Greek experience, Aristotle found a perpetual triangular sequence of democracy turning into oligarchy, whose members made themselves into a hereditary aristocracy — and then some families sought to take the demos into their own camp by sponsoring democracy, which in turn led to wealthy families replacing it with an oligarchy, and so on.

Let's start with a look at secular bull markets over the past century.

The charts indicate not only how we far we are in the current secular bull market which started around 2001, but it also puts it into perspective with data over the 20th century and even the centuries before.

With all the hoopla over the past few years regarding digital technologies and social media, it is easy to lose sight of this most basic principle, which has existed for centuries.

But as I noted last week (see Two Point Three Sigmas Above the Norm), nominal growth and interest rate variations have historically canceled out over the past century, with little effect on the accuracy of our valuation estimates — matched reductions in the growth rate and the discount rate really don't affect fair value.

Ever since their introduction to the United States over a century ago, credit unions have had a contentious relationship with the banking... Read More

Over the 20th century, average household size declined reflecting increased incomes and demographic factors, notably a lower birth rate and an increase in the share of single adult households with or without children (Graph 2).

There is little doubt that the Bible is rife with edits and insertions done by lowly scribes over the early centuries.

Hawthorne places his story in a cosmic setting with the intertwining of two family histories (the Pyncheons and the Maules) and their development over two centuries.

So her words are taken at face value with no corroboration whatsoever, and then embellished over the centuries by motive - driven commentators, novelists and artists?

Look at how much trouble less than a century of nuclear power has already caused on this planet... what are the chances of something more catastrophic happening with that and / or more powerful technologies that develop over the next several hundred years?

Jewish DNA has not remained unchanged, Jews have intermingled with people's from the nations they migrated too in Europe and Russia over the centuries.