Sentences with phrase «work than the century»

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Smith started Vice as a print magazine with Suroosh Alvi and Gavin McInnes in Montreal more than two decades ago; with Smith at the helm as CEO, it's now a multi-platform content mill with a reported audience of between 250 million and 300 million people a month, many of them members of Generation Y. Smith made his money by convincing an older generation that Vice knows millennials better than they could ever hope to, and that pitch has worked: Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox paid US$ 70 million for a 5 % stake of Vice in 2013, and Rogers Communications (which owns Canadian Business) inked a $ 100 million partnership.

To me, this sounds a bit like targeting «early adopters» and using the 1800s version of «social media,» despite the fact that Twain was working more than a century before anyone had coined either term.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), formed more than half a century ago, has historically struggled with challenges facing the region because it works only by consensus and is reluctant to get involved in any matter deemed to be internal to any of its members.

According to a survey by the Pew Research Center, Americans over the age of 64 are working more than any other time since the turn of the century.

Shulevitz writes that, «More Americans work during the off - hours than they did half a century ago, the heyday of the nine - to - five, Monday - through - Friday workweek.

In his book, The Rise of Creative Class, Richard Florida says that fewer than 10 percent of Americans were doing creative work at the turn of the 20th century.

There are no surprises or exposés with respect to the internal workings of the K of C, but Kauffman supplies a useful account of the range of the organization's good works over more than a century, and the book is especially rich in its attention to the various faces of the anti «Catholicism that it attempted to counter.

We could use progressive strategies of redistribution to make everyone in America a comfortable consumer and still face widespread personal, working - class dissatisfaction if we don't address the basic human need for work, a need more fundamental than the desire to possess twenty - first - century consumer goods.

Treatments based on absolutely wrong ideas also worked centuries ago, for reasons other than the one imagined.

The general position of these writers, whose contributions vary considerably in approach and quality, is that Jesus made no claim of divinity for himself and that the doctrine of the incarnation was developed during the early centuries of the Christian era as an attempt to express the uniqueness of Jesus in the mythological language and thought forms of the Greek culture of the time.While recognizing the validity of the patristic theologians» work, which culminated in the classical christological definitions of Nicea and Chalcedon, the British theologians question whether these definitions are intelligible in the 20th century, and go on to suggest that some concept other than incarnation might better express the divine significance of Jesus today.

«His work in philosophy forms part, and a very important part, of the movement of twentieth - century realism; but whereas the other leaders of that movement came to it after a training in late - nineteenth - century idealism, and are consequently realistic with the fanaticism of converts and morbidly terrified of relapsing into the sins of their youth, a fact which gives their work an air of strain, as if they cared less about advancing philosophical knowledge than about proving themselves good enemies of idealism, Whitehead's work is perfectly free from all this sort of thing, and he suffers from no obsessions; obviously he does not care what he says, so long as it is true.

the «General Epistles» of John and Jude, and the so - called Second Epistle of Peter, which is probably the latest work in the New Testament, not much earlier than the middle of the second century.

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger and others were and are much taken with Cullman's argument that the confessional divisions of the sixteenth century are the work of God's «left hand,» and the resulting differences must somehow be given the opportunity to play themselves out rather than being «negotiated away» in ecumenical dialogue.

But he never asks what social, economic, political and ideological forces were at work in the creation of the modern scientific world view, any more than he looks at the role of those forces in the eighteenth century celebration of it, the romantic reaction against it, or the nineteenth and twentieth century codification of positive science.

The fact that an ancient table of contents, already referred to in the Latin version of the fifth or sixth century, omits mention of the Testimonium (though, admittedly, it is selective, one must find it hard to believe that such a remarkable passage would be omitted by anyone, let alone by a Christian, summarizing the work) is further indication that either there was no such notice or that it was much less remarkable than it reads at present.

The ecclesiology on which I am working concerns Chinese, Jews, Roman Catholics and Protestants within the horizon of a crumbling of modernity that brings Christians closer to premodernity than they've been in perhaps 300 years, and closer to the situation of the first centuries than they've been in more than a millennium and a half.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

The great persecutions of the third and the first part of the fourth century, if they had persisted, would probably have wrought far greater damage than they did.

The date of this work can not be fixed closely, but it is perhaps more likely to belong to the nineties than to the eighties or seventies of the first century.

Shi, president of Furman University, points out that during the»90s the work week actually increased for the first time in more than a century.

This is a higher proportion of women than would be representative of either Israel or Rome in a comparable group during the first century A.D., and gives evidence that the equalitarian spirit of Jesus was already at work in the Christian community.

While emphasizing that salvation takes place by grace, on the basis of the work of Christ rather than human effort or achievement, the Catechism seems reluctant to engage with the questions raised above and does little to reassure the anxieties of any readers familiar with the sixteenth - century debates.»

A German reaching the peak of his adult powers in the mid-twentieth century - some of whose early works were confiscated by the Nazi government - he eventually found a wider readership in countries other than his native land.

Process theologians believe that this revolution in our world view must be incorporated in Christian doctrine and that it brings us closer to the biblical view of the creative and redemptive working of God than theology has been since the first century.

The pope's encyclical, putting the issue of work in a modern context, states, «We are on the eve of new developments in technological, economic and political conditions... which will influence the world of work and production no less than the industrial revolution of the last century.»

There can be no doubt that what we identify in the Tetrateuch (Genesis - Numbers) as P employs and incorporates in the fifth century some material as old or possibly older than J. And J in the tenth century may well have had as a primary source an earlier effort to bring together coherently a wide assortment of stories deemed to have significant bearing on the life of the people Israel.2 Certainly individual units in the J corpus had been in existence for centuries before they were integrated; and beyond any doubt these units were often strikingly modified in meaning in the context of the J work.

Here corporate memory has been at work over the centuries, producing what is more properly termed «history of salvation» than «history.»

The cutting edge of philosophy for two centuries has worked more against this self - evidence than for it.

It was the twelfth - century philosopher, Chu Hsi, who lifted this book and the Chung Yung out of the Li Chi and, joining them with the Analects and the works of Mencius, formed the Four Books, thus giving them a greater importance than they had, tucked away in the Book of Rites.

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The city that less than a century ago was a fur - trading post known as Fort Garry was alive and throbbing last week with its birthday offering for Canada, the fifth Pan-American Games, and extraordinary charity was at work all over town.

But it worked a treat as the Gunners became the first team since Preston North End more than a century before to complete a campaign unbeaten.

Songbirds, river herring, and other animals and plants are returning to what was a working cranberry farm for more than a century and now features a free - running stream that nourishes marshland, an array of restored native plant species, and upland woods.

I suspect that their steady, distributed and unheroic work will do more to «move the government into the 21st Century» than the grandiose dreams of Gingrich's nonprofit, even if it does have a Menlo Park address.

«Rather than sending the bill to working families, and subway and bus riders already feeling the pressure of rising fares and bad service, we are asking the wealthiest in our city to chip in a little extra to help move our transit system into the 21st century,» de Blasio, who is running for re-election, said in an emailed statement Monday.

«Rather than sending the bill to working families and subway and bus riders already feeling the pressure of rising fares and bad service, we are asking the wealthiest in our city to chip in a little extra to help move or transit system into the 21st century,» de Blasio said in a statement.

Midtown Kingstonians live, work, play and travel (except along a 500 - foot stretch of closed - off Washington Avenue) above sewer and sanitary pipes installed more than a century ago.

«We are working with the county executive to ensure that Nassau County and the local communities receive increased benefits from this enhancement to a facility that has hosted horse race wagering for more than a century,» the agency said.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has postponed work to finish New York's third water tunnel, a project that for more than half a century has been regarded as essential to the survival of the city if either of the two existing, and now aged, tunnels should fail.

All this goes against the grain of the way that financing U.S. state and local government infrastructure worked for more than a century: through municipal bonds.

It's not simply that he is a towering figure whose name is synonymous with genius, someone whose work has profoundly shaped physics for more than a century.

For more than a quarter of a century, Baltimore has balanced his long hours as a leading scientific administrator — founder of the seminal Whitehead Institute, president of Rockefeller University and later, for nine years, of Caltech — with groundbreaking work in cancer, immunology, and AIDS research.

Groundbreaking work that began more than a quarter of a century ago has led to ongoing insights about brain organization and consciousness

«It just seems to be more of an opinion than a review of the facts,» says Daniel Carter, a biophysicist who formerly worked for NASA and now directs Century Pharmaceuticals of Huntsville, Alabama.

If you believe climate sceptics, a huge body of evidence involving the work of tens of thousands of scientists over more than a century should be thrown out on the basis of the alleged misconduct of a handful of researchers, even though nothing in the hacked emails has been shown to undermine any of the scientific conclusions.

For more than a century, the peer - reviewed paper has been the main way that scientists share their work.

«The big promise of such work is its ability to give us a sense of something like the entirety of, say, 19th - century fiction, rather than the small percentage of canonical texts that are usually taken as exemplary,» says Dames.

With 82 tenured / tenure - track and 40 additional full - time faculty, 1,300 undergraduate students, 700 graduate students and more than 23,000 alumni, we are working to leverage our partnerships with academic and industry partners — across disciplines and across the world — to contribute to solving the greatest global challenges of the 21st century.

It's home to most of St. Paul's 500 residents, the majority of them Aleuts whose ancestors were brought here by Russian traders more than two centuries ago to work the northern fur seal killing fields.

While working on a rare little known group of Oriental wasps that most likely parasitise the eggs of grasshoppers, locusts or crickets, not only did a team of four entomologists discover four previously unknown species, but they also found that another four species within the same genus (Habroteleia) were in fact all one and the same — a fifth species discovered more than a century ago.