Sentences with phrase «with turn of the century»

The largely incoherent plot has something to do with a turn of the century curse and a doorway to hell in the cellar of an old New Orleans hotel, but then plot in giallo is rarely more than an pretense.

With its turn of the century «period» style and dozens of interesting puzzles the game certainly steps in the right direction, but will players dive in to the world of Simon Graham long enough to wait for «Book II»?

Hotel St. Germain in Dallas is a luxury getaway with just seven plush suites decorated with turn of the century antiques, twelve foot ceilings and working fireplaces.

With the turn of the century came another successful year for British artists at the Venice Biennale.

She has brought to life real - estate dreams and what one can only imagine in a five - storey structure endowed with a turn of the century interior.

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With its velvet curtains, old - timey apothecary jars and turn - of - the - century piano, you'd never guess this used to be the garbage room.

But out of the dot - com rubble at the turn of the 21st century, new VCs entered the game — this time with startup experience.

The series is based on the life of the drug lord himself, though the trailer — with images ranging from a turn - of - the - century bandit to Richard Nixon to Guzmán himself — suggests it may touch on the history of the war on drugs that has bound the US and Mexico in an often uneasy and frequently bloody relationship.

Some of their clients, and in turn, influencers, included News Corp, Adobe, and 20th Century Fox, all of which had their own landing pages, with media like statistics, videos, quotes, and various relevant blog posts.

With the government still using floppy disks and checking for Y2K compliance, the private sector's creativity will help move the Trump administration past the turn of the century, presidential advisor Jared Kushner said Monday.

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?

This 16 - foot cedar canoe could have been plying Muskokan waters at the turn of the last century: steam - bent hardwood frame, wrapped in cedar with mahogany decks at either end.

Coinciding with this period of elevated commodity prices, the share of the manufacturing sector in Canadian GDP has declined since the turn of the century from 18 per cent to around 11 per cent.

The official archives of The Coca - Cola Company that includes exhibits such as the original stock certificates of forbearer Pemberton Chemical Company, an opportunity to sample 100 drinks from the beverage giant's portfolio of brands from around the world, a retail store, an advertising archive, a miniature bottling plant that allows you to see the process of turning the syrup into the finished product, an advertising theater with commercials from the past century in multiple languages around the world, and more.

With the national unemployment rate at 4.1 percent, a 17 - year low, there are more job openings in the retail industry than at any time since the turn of the century, government data show.

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.

The first decade of the 21st century, however, would bear witness to a spectacular turning point in the private launch timeline: the arrival on the scene of disruptive billionaire tech entrepreneurs with some truly ostentatious rocket - powered ambitions.

There are certainly problems with some of the earlier data, but this appears to be the slowest expansion since the turn of the 18th Century and our households are the main problem for the growth rate lag.

McKay contrasts the proud investigative journalism tradition that brought down the Standard Oil monopoly at the turn of the last century and the Nixon presidency in the 1970s with a form of business reporting that has been «notorious for failing to detect bubbles before they burst with calamitous consequences.»

Turn of the Century is a 90's cover band based out of Long Beach, CA, and they reached out to us with the desire to raise money for solar power in Puerto Rico.

How such a spirit of sobriety expresses itself, not simply in literary or philosophic reading lists, but in platforms and party rhetoric that can resonate with 21st century Americans, I to a large degree leave to others (our Pete comes to mind), even if my turning here to the example of Solzhenitsyn reminds me that faith in God's promises will be necessary to sustain us in the quite possible event that even our grasping and steadfastly acting upon the «most precise» political prudence might yet fail to stop catastrophe.

I agree with Nye, it will take a few centuries, but the craziness of creationism will be turned into the same category as terracentric universe.

Thus university theology is characteristically in search of the very possibility of theology as such and tends, on the one hand, rarely to advance beyond prolegomena, programmatic probings, or an apologetic natural theology — unless it turns, on the other hand, with no little relief, to the very respectable study of the history of theology (as demonstrated, for instance, by the Bonhoeffer Society, the 19th Century Working Group of the AAR, the Tillich Working Group, or even the recently founded Karl Barth Society).

Set in the turn of the century, it tells the story of a girl who is fascinated with the natural world and is trying to find her way.

Looking at the figures, showing steadily increasing numbers of pilgrims (with peaks in the Jubilee Years: next one 2021) it seems to me that the turning point in 20th Century numbers was in 1982, the first pilgrimage to Santiago of St John Paul II.

Fossil discoveries in China, «hailed as among the most spectacular in this century,» turned up seventy species from the Cambrian period with «the appearance of increasingly complex marine animals in a riot of shapes and anatomical designs anticipating much of life as it is today.»

In the late 13th century, very likely somewhere in England (perhaps in Salisbury), a marvelous double feedback mechanism was invented for turning the accelerating fall of a weight into a slow motion with constant velocity.

He (and others) posit that the Muslim world turned it's back on science with the advent of fundamentalism around the 12th century — in the form of Al - Ghazali who (according to wikipedia) embraced a form of theological occasionalism, or the belief that all causal events and interactions are not the product of material conjunctions but rather the immediate and present Will of God.

As with most academic traditions, and especially those that are viewed as soft, there are orthodoxies and fashions, and sometimes sudden turns, that are conventionally described — following Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions of almost half a century ago — as paradigm shifts....

Second, the increasing number of ministry entities associated with the SBC created the turn - of - the century version of «donor fatigue» in the convention.

But in Western culture, Bowman explains (echoing Nietzsche), primitive honor did battle for centuries with the Christ - ideal of inner virtue, humility, and turning the other cheek.

I think most of the Americans are in lost... as most of them do not know who their father is and it is very unfortunate... even if they know who their father is, the mom has children from diff men outside of marriage... and while a child is being raised, watching what his / her parents do to enjoy their life... so things become normal when they grow up... like if you go back early nineteen century, women were not allowed to go to beach without being covered... and now it totally opposite... if you do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend before 15, the parents worries that their teenage has some problem... and lot more can be listed... And then you go to Church, what our children learn from there... they see in front of the Church an old man's statue with long beard standing with extending of both hand... some of the status are blank, white, Spanish and so on... so they are being taught God as an old dude... then you learn from Catholic that you pray to Jesus, Mother Marry, Saints, Death spirit and all these... the poll shows a huge number of young American turns to Atheism or believing there is no God and so on... Its hard to assume where these nations are going with the name of modernization... nothing wrong having scientists discovered the cure of aids or the pics from mars but... we should all think and learn from our previous generations and correct ourselves... also ppl are becoming so much slave of material things...

If he is in a sensitive mood he may enter the Wadi Arab with bated breath, at each turn of the narrow glen almost expecting to meet face to face Thutmose's confident chariots moving northward to battle, as they did on that April morning nearly thirty - five centuries ago.

As was suggested earlier, those born near the turn of the century have seen within it amazing advances — not only in science, technology, and increased knowledge, but in the conquest of disease with the prolongation of life, an increase in the recognition of race and sex equality with accompanying legal steps; manifold ministries of welfare to the poor, the young, and the elderly; a growing concern for civil rights in many of its facets.

Chesterton rightly discerned that Nietzsche was the ultimate exemplar of the turn to the subject that began with Kant - indeed, that he would be the philosophical father of the postmodern and irrationalist century to come.

Tertullian famously queried around the turn of the third century CE (Prescription Against Heretics, 7).1 The question might just as well be turned on its head: What has Jerusalem to do with Athens?

Renting space in the magnificent Auditorium Theater, with its golden mosaics and turn - of - the - century opulence, Willow Creek Chicago has about 1,200 attenders after only a year of operation.

This migratory flow had increased dramatically around the turn of the century, with the construction of the transcontinental railroads and the All - American Canal.

A fourth problem with turning to 16th century modes of worship is that the loss of some of the traditions of the early church prevented the Reformers from making major advances.

Contending with Modernity: Catholic Higher Education in the Twentieth Century By Philip Gleason Oxford University Press, 434 pages, $ 35 We Catholics are united in the faith, but infinitely disunited in almost everything else,» said John Lancaster Spalding, Bishop of Peoria, around the turn of....

The most telling example of this is her comparison (complete with photographs) of turn - of - the - century women lounging on the beach in their terribly demure bathing suits and positively wicked grins, with the dull, distracted expressions of dutifully unrepressed nudists on their beach.

It is the turning of man against his humanity with which we are concerned, the self - sought dehumanization manifest in so much individual and social pathology in our century.

These prayers, written down ahead of time, often first spoken long before my birth, remind me to turn my thoughts toward the people I love, to forgive and ask forgiveness, to pray for my enemies, to plead for mercy for «the things I have done and the things I have left undone,» to remember the hungry and the suffering, to «bless the congregation of the poor,» to worship, to thank, to intercede, and to join with the whole community of saints who — this very hour, all around the world, and for centuries past and to come — are praying these prayers with me today.

First, the American religious empiricists defend religion by placing it on a purely descriptive basis, using for this a radically empirical sensibility together with inductive generalization; but soon, as I have attempted to indicate, any circumspect reader can see the extent to which this description is loaded with temperamental and, possibly, contextual bias — and, further, by the specificity peculiar to Christianity and American turn - of - the - century neonaturalism.

The effect of denominational size, we know from other research, can be linked in turn to the effect of immigration to the United States, to competition among denominations and between Protestants and Catholics for members, and to the so - called «baby boom» that followed World War IL In other words, in the United States, sectarianism has been associated with demographic expansion in the world system, just as it appears to have been in Europe in earlier centuries.

It is a subject worthy of reflection that the common «culture» we share even now is largely the product of a culture industry, itself a technological achievement whose advent roughly coincides with the completion and consolidation of American continental expansion at the turn of the twentieth century.

Henry's divorce from his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, led the king to split with the Catholic Church and found his own church, the Church of England, which in turn set the stage for the English Reformation and for religious battles which lasted for centuries.

Originating with Bernhard Weiss and Albert Schweitzer around the turn of the century, this understanding (in a stripped - down version) was propounded by Rudolf Bultmann and his successors.

(The Industrial Workers of the World, the «Wobblies» of the turn of the 20th century labor struggles, called Jesus «Jerusalem Slim» - giving Him a «Wobbly name» to signify that, while they had their issues with organized religion, thay saw Him as a kindred spirit).

It is also in this sense that I consider it the key and critical reality and component of the «turn» and transition to the 21st century and the new millennium that we need to approximate and deal with.