Sentences with phrase «year history figure»

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Priced at $ 9.99 per month or $ 99.99 per year, Beats Music has reportedly struggled to poach subscribers from rivals Spotify and Rdio, but that didn't stop Apple from gobbling up Beats this summer in a cash and stock deal valued at $ 3 billion, vaulting Dre's personal fortune to $ 800 million and making him the richest figure in hip - hop history.

Lula leaves office on Dec. 31, his legacy as a transformative figure in Brazilian history all but assured thanks to massive social programs like the Bolsa Familia that have lifted millions out of poverty, the securing of the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, and a rapidly growing economy that's expected to become the world's fifth largest in the next six years and pay for it all.

Exactly 73 years ago, on April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide in a bunker in Berlin, bringing to an end the life of one of history's most notorious figures.

Baer too, has a history of passing around «whoa if true» rumors: Last year, he was a key figure in spreading the notion that US Rep. Kevin McCarthy was having an extramarital affair with a woman in Congress when McCarthy was a candidate to become speaker of the House.

But what about Namaan, a minor figure tucked away in the ancient history of the Northern Kingdom, whose full story occurs but once in the three - year cycle of the lectionary?

Reading all the comments, frankly why people should take some mythological figures and ancient history made out in mordern times to hate a section of people, frankly who knows how Jesus was and what exactly the «Jews» did to him 2000 years back, these are just stories made up in the minds of people.

Some fifty years ago H. G. Wells, certainly an informed historian and keen analyst of human affairs, said of Jesus: «His is easily the dominant figure of history....

Bearer of Bad You said» Whether jesus existed or not is completely irrelevant» - As of today and for the last 2,000 years Jesus remains the most significant figure in history.

Two hundred and fifty years before Christ, King Asoka, one of the noblest figures in world history and the great promulgator of Buddhism, proclaimed to his subjects not only tolerance but also love for other religions.

That's how two mid-20s players with spotty injury histories secured five - year guaranteed contracts for nine figures.

Russell is one of the most iconic figures in U.S. sports history due to winning 11 NBA titles in 13 years.

By offensive rating, this season was only the second - best in league history — a 108.6 figure, which is slightly lower than last year's 108.8.

I started googling way back in may who could we be buying gonzalo higuian, julio cesar and wayne rooney but realize going by history wenger just as no interest in buying world class players, he wants 2 buy d grade players and turn them up to koscienly nd nasri that will take years while da arsenal faithful pay handsome figures for dismal performances, fans allowed wenger 2 get away when he gets away with these lucky matches of fenerbache been strong on paper but a waste of tym on the pitch, also it happen at bayern but they put a slighty weak team but wenger runt his mouth around of how good da team was after that 2 - 0 win, not forgetting it was bould that got the team defense looking solid while wenger moan about referee decisions and no blame on team, I just feel we (arsenal) have allowed wenger and co to misuse us, so now our main target aim is benzema yet giroud plays more often than him for france, can any1 see how wenger is lowing our standards and expectations at arsenal, I wil be over da moon if wenger does not sign an extension wit us, after the gilberto days and disaterous results and teams we play, his approach to the game defensely which is pathetic and his annoying behaviour.So what if manu and chelski haven't really bought they are already strong it was seen last week now we should be worried about our selves since that villa defeat, jst imagine what the man's and london money maniac's are goin 2 do to us, I can see it already coming from wenger, if we find the right player we will buy him, after sept2, we didn't find da right player but the squad can challenge for the title, its so sick having 2 hear that crap, just take him psg, I just wish the fans would say we had enough of this bullshit transfer policies its time we stood up against these pigs of directors by protesting!

Desperate to keep the aging Zion Ice Arena from melting into history, people who cherish childhood memories of playing hockey or figure skating at the rink are working to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars by year's end to save it.

Andrew Cuomo has been a central figure in Albany for thirty years, and bears responsibility for the worst four years in the history of New York government.

James Watson, for those of you who are reading this magazine by accident, won a Nobel Prize in 1962 for figuring out the structure of DNA, went on to head the Human Genome Project, and then talked himself into trouble and out of a job last year when, in an interview with The Sunday Times of London, he made one of the more outlandishly racist remarks in history.

Cohen and his colleagues figured out the lake's environmental history 1,500 years into the past by taking cores of the lake's bottom sediments and analyzing the biological and chemical history stored in the sediment layers.

By adding together the life spans of the Biblical patriarchs, they pegged the planet's age at just under 6,000 years — a figure that stood virtually unchallenged until an 18th - century Scotsman named James Hutton began using deductive scientific logic to analyze the natural history of rocks.

But it's only in the last couple of hundred years, since Steno and the first geologists and paleontologists figured out how to read the history of the earth, and only in the last 50 years, since cosmologists figured out how to investigate the history of the cosmos, that we have seen David's second chronological revolution start to unfold.

With its construction soaring in cost to $ 50 billion — ten times the original figure — and falling 11 years behind schedule, it is the most expensive scientific experiment in history.

The exception was a 7 - year - old in the autistic group (Figure 4) who had a history of severe seizures.

I have been trying to figure out how to email this question directly, since I'm not sure where it fits... and I've been scanning your site to see if I can find it addressed - so far I haven't; I started eating very low carb in April of this year and have lost 24 lbs; better yet, I've completely «cured» my 35 + / - year history of carb bingeing, complusive eating and bulimia!

Consider this: Pilates was started by a man, Joseph Pilates; it's been a training vehicle for elite athletes, both men and women, for over 50 years; and men have figured prominently as instructors and promoters of the Pilates method throughout its history.

When you examine the lives of history's most creative figures, you are immediately confronted with a paradox: They organize their... Urban Ministries of Durham serves over 6000 people every year who struggle with poverty and homelessness.

On the video side, where everything is encoded in HD, we start with «It's Never Just a Movie: Chris Rock and Top Five» (20:08) considers the star - filmmaker's parallels to his character and his history in comedy, with looks at his comedy bits and home movies, as well as interviews of other influential figures, from over the years.

A nation with more than 2,000 years of history, Japan was firmly rooted in a tradition of honor and obedience that held the emperor as a figure chosen by heaven, at whose command young warriors would gladly sacrifice their lives.

The production's magic advisor David Kwong hosts «A Brief History of Magic» (11:52), which lives up to its name with a celebration of figures who contributed to the craft over the years.

Oscar, in preparing for a night out on New Year's Eve, manages to run into every important figure in his life and history over the course of a few hours, a sort of This is Your Life in film form, as an unmistakable cloud of dread follows him from place to place, event to event.

Fatih Akin — «In the Fade,» «The Edge of Heaven» Adolfo Aristarain — «Common Places,» «A Place in the World» David Ayer — «Suicide Squad,» «Fury» Nabil Ayouch — «Horses of God,» «Ali Zaoua» Siddiq Barmak * — «Opium War,» «Osama» Aida Begić * — «Children of Sarajevo,» «Snow» Emmanuelle Bercot — «Standing Tall,» «On My Way» Martin Butler — «Tanna,» «Contact» Patricia Cardoso — «Real Women Have Curves,» «The Water Carrier» Peter Ho - Sun Chan — «Dragon,» «Perhaps Love» Derek Cianfrance — «The Light between Oceans,» «Blue Valentine» Pedro Costa — «Horse Money,» «Blood» Garth Davis — «Lion» Bentley Dean — «Tanna,» «Contact» Lav Diaz * — «A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery,» «Norte, the End of History» Carlos Diegues — «Orfeu,» «Bye Bye Brazil» Nelson Pereira dos Santos * — «How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman,» «Barren Lives» Nana Dzhordzhadze — «27 Missing Kisses,» «A Chef in Love» Ildikó Enyedi * — «Simon Magus,» «My Twentieth Century» Amat Escalante — «The Untamed,» «Heli» Safi Faye * — «Mossane,» «Lettre Paysanne» Tom Ford — «Nocturnal Animals,» «A Single Man» Goutam Ghose * — «Dekha,» «Paar» Jessica Hausner — «Amour Fou,» «Lourdes» Joanna Hogg — «Archipelago,» «Exhibition» Hannes Holm — «A Man Called Ove,» «Behind Blue Skies» Ann Hui — «A Simple Life,» «Summer Snow» Christine Jeffs — «Sunshine Cleaning,» «Sylvia» Barry Jenkins * — «Moonlight,» «Medicine for Melancholy» Alejandro Jodorowsky * — «The Holy Mountain,» «El Topo» Kim Ki - duk * — «3 - Iron,» «Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring» Zacharias Kunuk — «Searchers,» «The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat)» Mohammed Lakhdar - Hamina * — «Chronicle of the Years of Embers,» «The Winds of the Aures» David Mackenzie — «Hell or High Water,» «Starred Up» Sharon Maguire — «Incendiary,» «Bridget Jones's Diary» Theodore Melfi — «Hidden Figures,» «St. Vincent» Kleber Mendonça Filho — «Aquarius,» «Neighboring Sounds» Brillante Mendoza — «Thy Womb,» «Kinatay» Márta Mészáros * — «Diary for My Children,» «Adoption» Takashi Miike — «13 Assassins,» «Ichi the Killer» Orlando Montiel — «The Son of No One,» «A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints» Jocelyn Moorhouse — «The Dressmaker,» «Proof» Kira Muratova — «The Tuner,» «The Asthenic Syndrome» Héctor Olivera — «El Mural,» «Funny Dirty Little War» Idrissa Ouedraogo * — «Tilaï,» «Yaaba» Jordan Peele * — «Get Out» Mohammad Rasoulof * — «Manuscripts Don't Burn,» «Goodbye» Eran Riklis * — «The Human Resources Manager,» «Lemon Tree» Arturo Ripstein — «Deep Crimson,» «The Beginning and the End» Guy Ritchie — «Sherlock Holmes,» «Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels» Anthony Russo — «Captain America: Civil War,» «Captain America: The Winter Soldier» Joseph Russo — «Captain America: Civil War,» «Captain America: The Winter Soldier» Mrinal Sen * — «The Case Is Closed,» «In Search of Famine» Cate Shortland — «Lore,» «Somersault» Peter Sollett — «Freeheld,» «Raising Victor Vargas» Juan Carlos Tabío — «Guantanamera,» «Strawberry and Chocolate» Rawson Marshall Thurber — «Central Intelligence,» «Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story» Johnnie To — «Election,» «Exiled» Tran Anh Hung * — «Norwegian Wood,» «The Scent of Green Papaya» Pablo Trapero — «The Clan,» «Lion's Den» Athina Rachel Tsangari — «Chevalier,» «Attenberg» Paula van der Oest — «Black Butterflies,» «Zus & Zo» Susanna White — «Our Kind of Traitor,» «Nanny McPhee Returns» Martin Zandvliet * — «Land of Mine,» «A Funny Man»

Widely considered her banner year as a professional skater, Harding landed a triple Axel in 1991 at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, becoming the first American woman to complete the difficult maneuver in the history of the competition.

Apatow, who deserves to be regarded as the preeminent figure in American comedy right now, has shown an uncanny knack for fostering bright young comic talent, and because he loves comics so much and is so fascinated by their process — the way John Cassavetes loved Method actors and their process — his productions tend to brim with scene - stealing supporting players, amusing non sequiturs, and running times (124 minutes in the case of The Five - Year Engagement) that few comedies in the history of moving pictures have shouldered without eventually buckling under.

She was born 121 years ago today, and we're taking a moment to pay tribute to one of the most pivotal figures in 20th century African American history: a true trail - blazer who, in spite of the insurmountable odds against her, managed to make her own mark in Jim Crow America — and she did so with both her dignity in - tact and an overwhelming sense of self worth.

The paper came to the attention of the Montana Historical Society, and she has been invited to read it this year at their «Jerks in Montana History» conference, a lighthearted look at the not - so - illustrious figures in Montana's past.

has become an indispensable figure in American education, and that the curriculum he has developed over the past 20 years — the Core Knowledge curriculum — restores the essential ingredients of a solid education, including history, literature, science, mathematics, art, and music.

Corey Engstrom's fifth - grade students built an early American colony this year, populating it with figures from history — but instead of using clay, cardboard, and glue, they made the colony digitally, inside a virtual world.

Whereas 24.7 per cent of pupils passed the five «core» academic subjects of English, maths, science, history or geography and a language last year, that figure fell to 23.5 per cent this year.

Jensen, as speaker of the state Assembly from 1997 to 2002, was «one of the most influential and divisive figures in Wisconsin political history,» the Associated Press noted earlier this year.

Public school districts are projected to lose more than $ 303 million to Commonwealth charter schools in the 2011 - 2012 school year (minus some short - term reimbursement), an increase of more than 9 % over last year, and the first time in the 15 - year history of this privatization initiative that costs have topped $ 300 million, according to figures recently released by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

Although the original Dodge Challenger muscle car lasted only five model years, the Dodge Challenger became one of the most storied muscle car nameplates in automotive history, with meticulously restored and rare examples today selling for six - figure prices.

I've been seriously working on research for my history of the Kindle for a couple of years now and I'm still figuring out how to capture the impact of the Kindle on the scale of both the publishing / technology industry and the individual reader.

Its first title is due out in December of this year and kicks off with one of the most iconic figures in history, Jesus Christ.

The teenaged Telegonus can hardly hide his astonishment upon discovering that his seemingly low - key mother, whom he has lived alone with for sixteen uneventful years on the secluded island of Aeaea, is related to illustrious gods and mighty Titans, and has been acquainted with already legendary figures in Greece's nascent history.»

Probably the best known figure in British history is Queen Victoria, mainly due to the many TV shows and movies that have been made in recent years about her long reign, or to the hundreds of books and magazine articles published since she first ascended the throne in June 1837.

I am looking at my account history for this fund, and I am trying to figure out how the math was done to come up with a 1 year return of 10.24 % mentioned above.

estimate of a security's dividend payments for the next 12 months; calculated using prior and / or declared dividends for that security; sourced from third - party vendors and derived using either a historical methodology (HM) or a projected methodology (PM), depending on available information; PM annualizes the most recent regular cash dividend; HM accumulates the regular cash dividends paid over the past twelve months; if there is less than one year of dividend history, the accumulated dividends are annualized; HM or PM figure, whichever is calculated, is then multiplied by the reported quantity of the security

As in 2013, insufficient collateral remained the most common reason cited for denying conventional purchase mortgage applications in Detroit last year, followed at a distance by insufficient credit history and too - high debt - to - income ratios (figure 7).

Boasting 1200 years of Austrian hospitality, the former inn once housed Haydn, and has a long history of serving famous figures.

The Diodoro, monument among monuments, with over one - hundred years of history, has been dedicated to the Greek historian Diodoro Siculo, a renowned figure who lived in the old town, telling the story of how distinguished travellers all over the world, discovered Taormina in their search of beauty and sun, art and culture.

They will introduce us to the early Assassins» brotherhood years, the history of Ancient Egypt and its remarkable figures, and Assassin's Creed Origins «both in - game characters and brand new ones.

Naturally, I dove into the beta and spent hours smacking around some of the most iconic figures in RPG history, and I'm happy to say that Dissidia is looking even better than when I gave it a shot at E3 last year, and will please shared fans of arcade fighters and Final Fantasy alike.