Sentences with phrase «years of the next century»

Then, perhaps in the early years of the next century, the climate could warm up a little as a result of human activity, especially the greater amount of carbon dioxide that will be released from the burning of fossil fuels.

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Some industry observers predict that retail will change more in the next five years than it has over the past century, and that the extinction of brick - and - mortar stores isn't far off.

In September, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan promised to spend a whopping $ 3 billion of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's extensive capital over the next 10 years, as it works towards its lofty goal of curing, preventing or managing all diseases by the end of the century.

In 2002, before the sale of PayPal even went through, Musk started voraciously reading about rocket technology, and later that year, with $ 100 million, he started one of the most unthinkable and ill - advised ventures of all time: a rocket company called SpaceX, whose stated purpose was to revolutionize the cost of space travel in order to make humans a multi-planetary species by colonizing Mars with at least a million people over the next century.

21st Century Fox is a household name and might also be one of the best companies to invest in this year and next year.

If we stay on our current emission pathway, this will change: The metro region will likely see 2 to 7 extremely hot days on average over the next 5 to 25 years, 4 to 17 such days likely by mid-century, and 11 to 59 days — nearly two months — over 95 °F likely by the end of the century.

From the perspective of someone interested in making investments with 20 + year holding periods in mind, you need to be careful of owning banks because of the debt to equity levels involved in the investment, you need to be wary of technology companies because they must constantly be innovating to remain profitable and relevant (unlike, say, Hershey, which could stick with its business model of selling chocolate bars for the next century), and retail stocks which are always subject to the risk of a new low - cost carrier arriving on the block.

Let's make the next 100 years of this great country Canada's Clean Growth Century.

Of course you know the Ottomans took Anatolia from the Greeks (modern day Turkey) and actually occupied the Balkans and butchered the Greeks and Slaves for the next 400 years, not to mention what they did to the Armenians and Kurds in the 20th Century.

Look at how much trouble less than a century of nuclear power has already caused on this planet... what are the chances of something more catastrophic happening with that and / or more powerful technologies that develop over the next several hundred years?

If what I think is going to happen economically does happen, he will forever be known as the 21st century Herbert Hoover and the GOP will be out of power for the next 40 years, as they deserve to because they created this current economic mess back with Reagan's cut taxes but not cut spending starting in 1980.

The higher criticism continued to be an important object of attention during the next several years, and the Century consistently supported its practitioners, publishing their articles and reviewing their books.

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.

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.

Concerns of the Disciples dominated the CENTURY's pages for most of the next eight years.

Next year, 2014, will see the centenary of the start of the First World War, the war which shaped the 20th century.

The Islamic conquest of Persia in the 7th century led to the downfall the all north of Africa and for next 800 years conquest and in wars in Europe manly Spain until 1553 Can you see why Americans see in 21th century an Islam invasion

At the turn of the century, they handed the Old Testament, now a thoroughly objectivized patient, into the next hundred years.

Since that was the fundamental debate of the International Missionary Council meetings for the first 60 years of the last century, it is there we will turn next time.

the translation you spoke of i know all about, name was joshua, then translates into greek, then into latin which was lassus, then in the (this is the important part) 6th century a.d. the latin starts to change... sometime in the next hundred years or so the latin translation became jesus, which is wrong on all accounts, so please, shut up, go away or speak truth with proof!

That freedom has imbued the Society of Jesus with a spirit of re-creation for five centuries, and I wouldn't be surprised if it continues to inspire Jesuits for the next 500 years.

The next quarter of a century leading to the year 2000 will present many such opportunities.

Chelsea is infront of us, the top 3 is already out of reach and watford buzz won't last and Chelsea will finish 4th... We will finish 6 behind Liverpool... The big 4 doesn't count us anymore... Spurs are solid as Chelsea who will actually fight for 3rd place with Spurs... I hope that you are pleased and sure you won't be mad if we finish 12th... Chelsea did a century ago with mourhino help and went right back on top of table... Oh, maybe we will do great next year, or the one after as long has it makes you happy... You should go and i'm sure you will get hired as Per... Please don't ever send comment, we real fans are in pain... Maybe you one of owners hiding or in another planet than football, just like them... Don't ever post comment, i felt to get a gun and shoot myself!

In what was a truly dismal season considering the standards Manchester United have set over the past quarter century, there have been a lot of murmurs that they need up to six or seven players in order to compete next year.

After being a secondary force for half a century prior to 1886, the Tory Party was then in office, alone or in coalition, for over 70 per cent of the time in the next 80 years.

2018 will be the year New York leads the way forward toward the next century of progress and achievement for all women and girls.»

Next year we could hold a wide - ranging and open debate about modernizing and reforming our government structure to meet the needs of the 21st century.

Assur, a 4500 - year - old temple - studded Assyrian city where kings and queens were laid to rest for centuries, is likely the next target, say archaeologists, who are desperately trying to piece together the extent of the damage.

Islamic traders introduced opium to China in the ninth century, and it was used for the next 800 years for the treatment of diarrhea resulting from dysentery.

Next week the Administration will submit the proposal — dubbed Information Technology for the Twenty - First Century, or IT2 — to Congress as part of its fiscal year 2000 budget proposal.

Spread the cost of reducing fossil - fuel consumption over the next century, and it turns out that the world would reach the same level of prosperity in 102 years that it is now projected to reach in 100.

A new study published in Nature Climate Change looks at the next 10,000 years, and finds that the catastrophic impact of another three centuries of carbon pollution will persist millennia after the carbon dioxide releases cease.

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.

Whereas most studies look to the last 150 years of instrumental data and compare it to projections for the next few centuries, we looked back 20,000 years using recently collected carbon dioxide, global temperature and sea level data spanning the last ice age.

While we have long range climate predictions that show a decline of snowpack by the end of the century and short - range rain and snow forecasts, until now there has been little information on what to expect in the next two months to two years.

By ALISON COOKE and JUSTIN MULLINS More than forty years since the invention of the synthetic shuttlecock, players at next week's All England Open Badminton Championship in Birmingham will still be using goose feather designs dating from the early part of the century.

The golden age of the toilet, though, only occurred in the later years of the 18th century and the early years of the next, due to the trio of Alexander Cumming (who invented a valve mechanism), Joseph Bramah (a Yorkshireman who improved on Cumming's valve and made the best lavatories to be had for the next century), and Thomas Crapper (another Yorkshireman who did not invent the toilet but improved its parts).

By Hansen's reckoning, where Washington now averages one day a year over 100 degrees, it will average 12 such scorchers annually by the middle of the next century.

Last year 53 nations crafted an agreement that will cut CFC production by 50 percent over the next decade; the chemicals may well be banned altogether by the turn of the century.

«If we have five to six degrees of warming in the next centuries, evaporation on the oceans may turn the Sahara into a savanna, as it was 10,000 years ago.»

Starting in the next century, atmospheric carbon levels could begin to approach those of hundreds of millions of years ago, and have their warming effect augmented by a brighter sun.

The study examined what is likely to be seen in terms of precipitation, snowpack accumulation and water runoff over the next century, versus the same data for the years from 1976 and 2005.

But unless such drastic action is taken in the next few years, we are headed for a very different world, one in which seas will rise by more than 5 metres over the coming centuries, and droughts, floods and extreme heat waves will ravage many parts of the world (see «Rising seas expected to sink islands near US capital in 50 years «-RRB-.

Now, 51 years after Feyman proposed «There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom» for science to discover, researchers in nanoscience and nanotechnology are gathering to imagine how this young field may change in the next half a century — and in the process, also change our world.

The film's title was chosen because it was the first year of the new Millenium and of the next century.

Holiday momentum boosted «The Post» (20th Century Fox) as it expanded over the Golden Globes weekend ahead of its national release next week — the best platform expansion in over a year.

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.

After dispatching his nemesis, the finale sees Steve's plane crashing in the snowy tundra — it is an anti-climax which pays short shrift to the romantic angle with Peggy in favor of making sure Rogers ends up in the 21st century in order to join forces with the rest of the Avengers next year.

Hopefully some of that life remains after 20th Century Fox completes a rumored plan of releasing six Marvel movies over the next four years, though.

In the Loop: Students and Teachers Progressing Together Looping — when a teacher moves with his or her students to the next grade level rather than sending them to another teacher at the end of the school year — was initially advocated by early 20th - century Austrian educator Rudolf Steiner and since has been used successfully for years in Europe.