Sentences with phrase «world in the past century»

Not one scientific discovery of note, innovative firm of international importance, or contribution to universal culture has come from the Muslim world in the past century.

Any reasonable scenario for global development over the next century is likely to project technological change, which as we have seen in the past century would likely include changes in energy creation and consumption technologies, as well as the propagation of the kind of normal environmental policies that we have seen in the developed world in the past century, such as control of sulfur pollution.

Not exact matches

As much as the fall of the Berlin Wall or the rise of social media, the astonishing decline in world - wide poverty stands as one of humanity's greatest achievement over the past quarter century.

However, a stagnation or decline in height over the past century is an indication that certain countries in the developed, English - speaking world could do a better job of emphasizing good nutritional standards for their youth.

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.

In the past couple of centuries, the world has seen revolutionary innovations like the steam engine, the combine, the jet engine and the assembly - line robot.

It involves policies that can be traced at least as far back as the «American System» of the early 19th Century, and it has been implemented in various forms by many different countries around the world during the past 100 or even 200 years.

The steady lowering of international trade barriers over the past half century has been a driving force behind job creation and poverty reduction in countries around the world.

This conclusion is especially poignant in light of the past century, when violent suffering has taken on the proportion of two world wars, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bangladesh, Sudan, Congo, Hiroshima, the partition of India, the massacres of 1965 in Indonesia, Stalin's Russia, Armenia, Timor - Leste, Bosnia, and the global practice of abortion.

Further, Christians are still persecuted in much of the world up until today, and this last century has produced more martyrs than all the past 2000 years combined.

It might help if you paid more attention to real world matters and kept up to date with the century in which you live instead of living in the past and helping to repeat it.

Athiesm — Yet even if you add up all the murders from both the Roman Church (of the past) and the Muslim world, you will not come close to those perpetrated by Socialists and Communists in the 20th century.

However, we should not allow us to be totally seduced by this Victorian version of the season, and recall that in the biblical stories, and in centuries past, this was a time when the world turned upside down.

While it might be true that those who lived in the time of the Prophet could understand religion better than the people of today who must study Islam by means of documents only, we can not ignore the considerable change in the social situation and world conditions during the past fourteen centuries.

Yet, as Dale Ahlquist told me, «we need to expand our ideas about sanctity, and recognize the saints among us in the ordinary world» — not just mystics and martyrs from centuries past.

Life expectancy in the developed world has nearly doubled in the past century.

Is it not a scandal how few of the clergy and professors of theology decide to devote their lives directly to the study of the natural order — as more of them did in centuries past to the world's everlasting benefit?

The past half century or more has been a period of both confusion and daring innovation in the world of academic theology, with various great thinkers trying to work out new theological systems.

Or maybe there's resting going on for one big cataclysmic event... Do you really think the world is going to get off scot - free from all the filth it's been engaging in and spewing this past century, and especially this past decade?

It was a very popular view in the Nineteenth century, but two world wars and all of the atrocities that have taken place in the past 50 years or so has really put a damper on postmillennial teachings.

The whole world was for centuries imprisoned in the greatest of intellectual superstitions, the doctrine of causality as an absolute all - determining pattern, fully definite either from the beginning or throughout a beginningless past.

The foundations for our judgments and explanations may be in centuries past, but however timelessly truthful we are convinced they are, we are irremediably inhabitants of a postmodern, 21st - century world.

The technological developments of the past century provide the organizational basis for regional and world policies rooted in ecological considerations.

Within the past half - century, men in the Western world have plunged from the highest expectations that they have ever held concerning their future in this world to the darkest fears that they have ever known concerning that future.

Conflicts in the Muslim World today, while occupying significant news time, A) pale in comparison to what non-Muslims have done in this past century and B) are mostly the result of secular governments in the Muslim World vying for power and resources C) often backed by non-Muslim armaments and vested interests.

Together, they build in physical world that millions of children over the past century have discovered on a page — the Hundred Acre Wood, populated by Winnie (short for Winnipeg, the origin of the imaginary bear) and friends.

A second example involving religion comes from thinking about America's position in the world economy over the past half century or so.

Though the roots of this attitude can be found in ancient mythic and religious forms of thought, in the past three centuries the estrangement of human subjects from the natural world in turn has been built up in our imaginations under the influence of certain types of scientific epistemology and cosmology.

Observing that the attack on the World Trade Center was the first assault against the American mainland since 1812, Chomsky declared that between 1812 and 2001, the United States «annihilated the indigenous population (millions of people), conquered half of Mexico, intervened violently in the surrounding region, conquered Hawaii and the Philippines (killing hundreds of thousands of Filipinos), and, in the past half century particularly, extended its resort to force throughout much of the wWorld Trade Center was the first assault against the American mainland since 1812, Chomsky declared that between 1812 and 2001, the United States «annihilated the indigenous population (millions of people), conquered half of Mexico, intervened violently in the surrounding region, conquered Hawaii and the Philippines (killing hundreds of thousands of Filipinos), and, in the past half century particularly, extended its resort to force throughout much of the worldworld.

Catholics in Oregon, the far west of what in centuries past was called the New World, remember and talk about Francis and Clare, Augustine, Gregory, Catherine, Gertrude, Cornelius, Clement, Philip, Elizabeth, Luwanga, Miki, and thousands and thousands more.

In this context it is difficult not to recall the observation of Eddington, made a half - century ago (NPW 47 - 58) that in Minkowski's time - space the past is separated from the future even more effectively than in the world of Newton: instead of an instantaneous three - dimensional cross-section, it is a four - dimensional region of «Elsewhere» which separates the causal past from the causal futurIn this context it is difficult not to recall the observation of Eddington, made a half - century ago (NPW 47 - 58) that in Minkowski's time - space the past is separated from the future even more effectively than in the world of Newton: instead of an instantaneous three - dimensional cross-section, it is a four - dimensional region of «Elsewhere» which separates the causal past from the causal futurin Minkowski's time - space the past is separated from the future even more effectively than in the world of Newton: instead of an instantaneous three - dimensional cross-section, it is a four - dimensional region of «Elsewhere» which separates the causal past from the causal futurin the world of Newton: instead of an instantaneous three - dimensional cross-section, it is a four - dimensional region of «Elsewhere» which separates the causal past from the causal future.

In the past century theologians have at times attempted to escape the embarrassment of being unable to show how God acts in the natural world as understood by sciencIn the past century theologians have at times attempted to escape the embarrassment of being unable to show how God acts in the natural world as understood by sciencin the natural world as understood by science.

The biggest difference in our modern world is that fewer women die of childbirth complications in first world countries than they did in past centuries.

Over the past century, the United States had advanced to the world's leading nation — in terms of technology, finance, and in the broad accessibility to education.

In the 21st Century, in a highly competitive, fluid and fast - moving world we hold our own because of our ability to embrace the future rather than cling to the pasIn the 21st Century, in a highly competitive, fluid and fast - moving world we hold our own because of our ability to embrace the future rather than cling to the pasin a highly competitive, fluid and fast - moving world we hold our own because of our ability to embrace the future rather than cling to the past.

But in the past half century, studies of sightrestoration, most notably by Oliver Sacks and Richard Gregory, haveverified that some things can't be understood without experience.Objects, faces, depth — just about everything that helps us function inthe world — are meaningless when a person who has never seen before getssight.

In particular, the modelers could now reproduce in detail the pattern of warming, changes in rainfall, etc. actually observed in different regions of the world over the past centurIn particular, the modelers could now reproduce in detail the pattern of warming, changes in rainfall, etc. actually observed in different regions of the world over the past centurin detail the pattern of warming, changes in rainfall, etc. actually observed in different regions of the world over the past centurin rainfall, etc. actually observed in different regions of the world over the past centurin different regions of the world over the past century.

17 Mass insanity While physical health has improved in most parts of the world over the past century, mental health is getting worse.

Alhazen is just one of a multitude of scientists working in the Muslim world in centuries past who made significant contributions to the advancement of science.

Many of the Jewish subjects were descended from ancestors who presumably originated in the Levant but dispersed throughout the world before returning to Israel in the past few generations; most of the Arab subjects could trace their ancestry to men who had lived in the region for centuries or longer.

The field of genetics has seen astonishing breakthroughs and the development of world - changing technologies in the past half century.

«There's a perception that jellyfish numbers are exploding in the world's oceans,» says marine scientist Rob Condon of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama, «but there's no real evidence for a global increase in jellyfish over the past two centuries.»

Over the past century, especially after World War II, Western diets have shifted to include more animal foods, including poultry, which has risen to the top in U.S. meat consumption.

There's little doubt that Japan boasts some of the finest vintage fashion in the world, from immaculate Louis Vuitton Keepalls from the past century to perfectly preserved Helmut Lang Astro Biker jackets.

Notable among the many other supporting players are quite a few actors of color who, anachronistic as their appearance may be in 18th - century France, still offer up a pleasantly diverse set of faces that nod in the direction of an «It's a small world, after all» ethos that Disney all - too - often has ignored in the past.

THE WORLD MADE STRAIGHT, based on the novel of the same name by Ron Rash, is a poetic, savage film about the presence of the past asserting itself in the present as events in 1970s North Carolina are tinged with the repercussions of the Civil War battles fought there a century before.

A film of earthy passion and raw violence, it charts the volatile struggle between the socialist dream and the Fascist nightmare of Italy's agrarian past in the years between the World Wars, within a framework that opens on the turn of the century and the promise of the new century.

The head of the bureau is David (Jeff Daniels), who has prepared a video presentation that explains the backstory of this world: a nuclear war brought about by the advances in genetic manipulation a couple of centuries in the past.

During the past century, the United States led the world in the expansion of its education system, contributing to the dominant position of the United States in the world economy.

It reflects the turbulence of the past century, the expanding and changing roles of women, and the clash between those around the world with faith in freedom and those who place power above human values.