Sentences with phrase «years following centuries»

The amount of greenhouse gas pollution released globally annually stabilized in recent years following centuries of growth, but there are no robust signs that emissions are falling.

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So the following year, when the secretary decided to go public in a Vanity Fair article with her account of a quarter - century spent working for Bernie Madoff, it was hard to begrudge her a voice.

Fox News parent Twenty - First Century Fox (fox) announced on Wednesday it had parted ways with the star cable news host, ending his more than 20 - year career, following the allegations from a number of women.

Following the sharpest decline in crude oil prices in at least a century, as well as a six - year bear market in metals, the global environment could be ripe for a commodity rebound.

Following the reintroduction of wolves, each wolf was averaging 22 elk kills per year, far exceeded the 12 elk per wolf projection as the existing herds were not prepared for the «sudden appearance» of the century - old apex predator after decades of tranquility.

On one occasion, following a war with France in the late 18th century, it suspended payment for 24 years.

Writing about a quarter of a century after the death of Jesus, he says that the tradition passed on to him, presumably when he became a Christian some twenty years earlier, contained the following statements: «that Christ died; that he was buried; that he was raised to life on the third day; and that he appeared to Cephas and afterwards to the Twelve.

The orthodox are stuck in the 19th century believing that they are following the religion of 3000 years earlier, when, in fact, most of their traditions are based on experiences in the diaspora of the last 1900 years, but mostly limited to the past 200.

In the following year, C. C. Morrison, then editor of The Christian Century, combined a series of articles from that periodical by D. C. MacIntosh, Max Carl Otto and Wieman into a book entitled, Is There A God?

Since ascending the throne of Saint Peter, Pope Francis has shown more than any pope in my life time (I am 68 years old and a Roman Catholic) that he follows the teachings of Jesus Christ and he is the biggest breath of fresh air the Catholic Church has seen in centuries.

Jerusalem was taken by Christian forces at the end of the First Crusade in 1099, but Western control of the city was short - lived — lasting only about 90 years — and Muslims consistently routed the crusaders in the decades and centuries to follow.

In the hands of St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle had been pressed into the service of Catholicism with great success in the thirteenth century, but the inadequacy of this static world picture, based on a pre-scientific understanding of the cosmos, to cope with new advances in the sciences over the last hundred years was, Holloway maintained, the principal cause of the chaos and rebellion in the decades following the Council.

Before I know it, I am in full flow with a young mum, who tells me her 12 - year - old son can't wait to follow in her footsteps in the centuries - old art of bell - ringing.

But to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.

Louis XIV's revocation of the edict in 1685 was followed by a massive flight of some 200,000 Protestants from France, and renewed persecution at home met with a sustained guerilla uprising in the rural area of the Cévennes in the early years of the eighteenth century, which diverted French military forces at a critical moment from their struggle against foreign enemies.

Doubtless their history contributed much — their national heritage and the discipline which the centuries brought; other peoples had comparable advantages and comparable stern molding, but save for their names, they are lost in the following years.

Fifty years ago religious teaching in the Turkish area was following about the same methods which had been used for centuries.

The Indonesian proclamation of independence on August 17, 1945, right after the Second World War, was followed by the 5 - year war of liberation against the Dutch Colonial Regime which colonized Indonesia for more than three and a half centuries.

Karl Barth, in his 1939 report to the readers of The Christian Century on «How My Mind Has Changed,» wrote the following concerning his theological pilgrimage during the 1930s: «In these years I had to learn that Christian doctrine, if it is to merit its name and if it is to build up the Christian church in the world as she must needs be built up, has to be exclusively and conclusively the doctrine of Jesus Christ - of Jesus Christ as the living Word of God spoken to us men.»

It was recognised in Edinburgh in 1910 that «the following ten years would in all probability constitute a turning point in human history and might be more critical in determining the spiritual revolution of humankind than many centuries of ordinary experience.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

The others followed by an interval of several years, the Fourth Gospel probably coming down into the early part of the second century.

It took Brazil 20 years from the 1980s to recover a breastfeeding culture after it collapsed following the entry of multinational companies such as Nestlé at the beginning of the last century.

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For centuries Larsen B seems to have followed a pattern of «growing like a fingernail until it calved an iceberg every 50 years or so,» Scambos says.

A leakage rate of 1 percent every decade could be «very serious,» he said, and would eventually lead to temperature spikes of about 3 degrees Celsius in the next century and a rise close to 4 degrees Celsius over the following 2,000 years.

The team's thousand - year historical record included noticeable changes in lead pollution from Rome following major events such as the Gothic Wars in 535 C.E., Byzantine repairs to abandoned Roman aqueducts in 554 C.E., and the mid-9th century Arab sack of Rome.

In its complexity it outshined all other objects for a thousand years following its creation sometime around the second century B.C..

In the five years following the Second World War, four giants of 20th - century physics fixed the divergence problem.

When they touched down on Mars the following year, the reality of rock - strewn desert vistas under pink skies at the two landing sites finally put paid to the more fanciful ideas about Martian life that had circulated for the previous century.

«AAAS Pacific Division: A Century of Meetings» traces the division from the drafting of its constitution in 1914, its participation at AAAS» annual meeting in 1915, and its first meeting, held in San Diego the following year.

In the years that followed, particularly after the Civil War, they rapidly disappeared, and before the end of the century not one still bred in Texas and perhaps not two dozen in Florida.

In 2016, following three years of bipartisan negotiations, Mr. Dooley oversaw the enactment of the» The Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act,» legislation which reformed the U.S. Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 and ushered in a new era for U.S. chemical regulations.

This he followed with touring - show appearances opposite such fading Hollywood luminaries as Veronica Lake and Diana Barrymore, then with a one - year 20th Century Fox film contract.

One of the early entries in the late - 20th - century resurgence of the Disney animated feature (following 1989's The Little Mermaid and 1991's Beauty and the Beast), Aladdin finally makes its long - awaited Blu - ray debut in a digital transfer that's every bit as eye - popping as what played theaters over 20 years ago.

Set at the end of the 19th century, Slow West follows the story of 16 - year - old Jay Cavendish as he journeys across the American Frontier in search of the woman he loves, accompanied by a mysterious traveller named Silas (Michael Fassbender).

In addition to plotting Deadpool 2's arrival, 20th Century Fox also announced plans to further expand Marvel's big screen presence next year with a pair of new X-Men films: New Mutants, an X-Men spin - off, arrives April 13th, 2018, while X-Men: Dark Phoenix, the follow - up to 2016's X-Men: Apocalypse that will center on Sophie Turner's Jean Grey, hits theaters November 2nd of next year.

Based on a screenplay by A Monster Calls author and screenwriter Patrick Ness, the story follows Anya, an unpopular 16 - year - old who gets stranded in an underground cave where she rescues Emily (Roberts), the apparent ghost of a teenage girl who died a century earlier.

Following the success of their spinoff Deadpool earlier this year, 20th Century Fox will start production on Gambit in 2016, and the studio is also developing The New Mutants and X-Force, although it isn't known when production will begin on those projects.

Writer - director Andrew Haigh follows up on the exceptional 45 Years, about a British couple who've been married for half a century, with a new film whose main character is a teenage American boy from a broken family.

The Dutch multi-instrumentalist starts off this year first with 20th Century Fox's Marvel superhero title Deadpool, followed by Warner Bros.» Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice which he co-composed with Oscar - winner Hans Zimmer.

Despite hinting at a break from music following last year's 12 - month celebration of a quarter of a century in the biz, Kylie Minogue has seemingly played us all for fools and is gearing up to release a new album this year.

The latest effort from Rodrigo Garcia, Albert Nobbs follows the title character (Glenn Close), a turn - of - the - century woman who has spent years working as a male butler, as her orderly existence is threatened by the arrival of a scrappy newcomer (Aaron Johnson's Joe).

Stuart Beattie directs the film following the antihero Adam, thrust into a centuries - long battle in modern - day after surviving all these years due to a genetic quick in his electrifying creation.

Last year 20th Century Fox hired Jack Paglen to write a script for Prometheus 2, Ridley Scott's follow - up to his Alien...

Although 20th Century Fox is said to be «reassessing» the future of the Alien franchise following less - than - expected box office takings for this year's Alien: Covenant, but director Ridley Scott seems confident that we'll get at least one more instalment, and has even been teasing the storyline in an interview with Empire.

Pope Gregory XIII then introduced the civil calendar we follow today, which takes care of the extra 11 minutes or so by eliminating the extra day in leap year centuries that can not be divided by 400, such as 1700, 1800 and 1900.

For Justin Perry, all of this — the landmark court case that dismantled Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools» (CMS) diversity - friendly school assignments at the turn of the century, the bitter wringing of hands that followed and, today, a school system seemingly more stratified than any other in North Carolina — began for him 17 years ago, in front of Charlotte's austere district courthouse on a spring day.

Following the lead of the maniacs that started the International Hill Climb a century ago, competitors show up at Pikes Peak year after year, bringing with them new technologies, faster cars, and a complete disregard for good sense or good traction.

How many great painters, writers and musicians were failures during their lives, but wildly successful in the years and centuries following their deaths?