Sentences with phrase «with preceding centuries»

This is the first sea - level record from the southern hemisphere showing a significantly higher rate of sea - level rise during the 20th century as compared with preceding centuries.

Gehrels and others (2008) comment that this is «a significantly higher rate of sea - level rise during the 20th century as compared with preceding centuries.»

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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.

The reason the English took to their Marian devotion with such intensity and fervour is that, in their cherishing of marriage from the sixth century onwards, they could instinctively perceive how Mary was the exemplar (through the power of her own assent to God) and the national emblem of the way in which the spiritual precedes the physical.

With variation, but in essential correspondence of members of the plot, it happened of course throughout the spreading human family in the centuries and years, perhaps even months or days, preceding; and it has most assuredly continued to happen, in its significant essence, with persistence and always accompanying human carnage down to our own time and decade and, who knows, even day and hWith variation, but in essential correspondence of members of the plot, it happened of course throughout the spreading human family in the centuries and years, perhaps even months or days, preceding; and it has most assuredly continued to happen, in its significant essence, with persistence and always accompanying human carnage down to our own time and decade and, who knows, even day and hwith persistence and always accompanying human carnage down to our own time and decade and, who knows, even day and hour.

Concurrently with the shocks to the old order in Europe and the threats to Christianity, on the geographic frontiers of the faith the gains of the preceding two centuries were shrinking.

It reduced the compromises by the churches of the preceding century and gave rise to new movements which made Christianity more nearly in accord with the Gospel than it had been since its earliest centuries.

But Chaco was a wannabe compared with Cahokia — much smaller, far less populous, and without a centuries - long tradition preceding its development.

20th Century Fox's production of «How To Marry A Millionaire» was preceded by Alfred Newman conducting his overture from «Street Scene,» and like «Millionaire,» a certain fear of camera movement dominated the visual angles; for «Port,» the musical performance begins with a «flat» MGM logo in 1.33:1, and the familiar red Fox curtain appears in 2.35:1.

They did state with a «high level of confidence that global mean surface temperature was higher during the last few decades of the 20th century than during any comparable period during the preceding four centuries «-- this is equivalent to the strengthening of the statements made in AR4 concerning the last 500 years.

Of these 18 trees with the highest peak index values, 8 peak values occur in the 20th century and no more than 2 occur in any of the preceding 20 centuries.

The preceding excerpt from the prescient short story by John M. Crichton III, written in 2035 by the young great nephew of the famous twentieth century novelist, finally galvanized the public and with it, the Federal Government, into action.

You could start with the National Research Council report, which found «with a high level of confidence that global mean surface temperature was higher during the last few decades of the 20th century than during any comparable period during the preceding four centuries».

With regard to (c), in the poster the standard deviation of MRES for the century preceding the evident bump at 1970 in Figure 6 was less than 0.6 mK.

And that is of course preceded by a 0.5 degree Celsius increase long before humankind could have had anything to do with it in the first 50 years of the twentieth century.

That extra energy, together with the weak El Nino, is expected to make 2005 warmer than the years of 2003 and 2004 and perhaps even warmer than 1998, which had stood out as far hotter than any year in the preceding century, according to a NASA statement.

Each of the last three decades (2000s, 1990s & 1980s) is warmer than all preceding decades since 1850, with the first decade of the 21st century topping all the charts.

Using climate records culled from tree rings, glacial - ice layers and coral - growth layers, the three professors — whose research was funded in part by the federal government — determined in 1998 that temperatures have skyrocketed in the past century compared with the 500 years preceding it.

We find that years with a negative PMDI anomaly exceeding — 1.0 SDs (hereafter «1 - SD drought») have occurred approximately twice as often in the past two decades as in the preceding century (six events in 1995 — 2014 = 30 % of years; 14 events in 1896 — 1994 = 14 % of years)(Fig. 1A and Fig.

Taken together, the observed record from California suggests that (i) precipitation deficits are more likely to yield 1 - SD PMDI droughts if they occur when conditions are warm and (ii) the occurrence of 1 - SD PMDI droughts, the probability of precipitation deficits producing 1 - SD PMDI droughts, and the probability of precipitation deficits co-occurring with warm conditions have all been greater in the past two decades than in the preceding century.

The probability that a negative precipitation anomaly co-occurs with a positive temperature anomaly has increased recently, with warm — dry years occurring more than twice as often in the past two decades (91 %) as in the preceding century (42 %)(Fig. 1B).

That extra energy, together with the weak El Nino, is expected to make 2005 warmer than the years of 2003 and 2004 and perhaps even warmer than 1998, which had stood out as far hotter than any year in the preceding century.

First - generation, free - text search logic had nothing to do with the familiar way in which research had been conducted throughout the preceding century.