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How to use the word century in a Sentence? Page #11

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In these regions, at the current glacier loss rate, the glaciers will not survive the century.

Michael Zemp

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

If we've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue.

George H. W. Bush

added by Normando
5 years ago

It was unexpected that it( Reiwa) was taken from the Manyoshu, but it expresses Japanese culture in' kanji'( characters), it means' to get along well' and' to be tender' and shows an important value for 21st century Japan and the world.

Isao Tokoro

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The idea was that we want to celebrate the scope and range of Alabama history, the really big idea is to find ways to make Alabama better as we enter our third century.

Ed Bridges

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

This image has as much to do with overcoming communism in 20th Century as Green New Deal has to do with overcoming climate change in the 21st.

Though Lee

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Copyright does need to get updated for the 21st Century... record labels are not getting a fair deal out of YouTube.

Hayleigh Bosher

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Trump should be more open-minded and willing to accept all types of investments, if he becomes more tolerant of the world, then all the US-bound investments would ensure another century of American prosperity.

Ren Zhengfei

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Aebbe is an extraordinary figure an example of a powerful Anglo-Saxon woman who played a big part in establishing Christianity in the region during the seventh century, now that weve got evidence to pinpoint exactly where her monastery was, we can help bring her story back to life.

Manda Forster

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

It is my hope that your draconian inquisitions are not returning this committee to the dark days of 16th-century England.

Doug Collins

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

A taxation system for the 21st century has to built on what has value today, and that is data.

Le Maire

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We had over 200 years of slavery, we had Jim Crow for almost a century. We had legalized discrimination, segregation and now we have segregation and discrimination that is not legal but still exists and is a barrier to progress. We have disparities around housing. We have disparities around education. We have disparities around income. And we have to recognize that everybody did not start out on an equal footing in this country. And in particular black people have not.

Kamala Harris

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The colonia Roma is emblematic in the context of Mexico City. It's an old quarter, more than a century old, it's significant, it's symbolic. It carries for us very painful memories, like the earthquakes, especially 1985.

Carlos Solar

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Over the past half century, humanity has witnessed the destruction of 60 % of mammal, bird, fish and reptile populations around the world, we are the first generation to truly comprehend the reality of what we're doing to the natural world, and we may be the last with the chance to avert much of the damage. With this knowledge comes an extraordinary burden of responsibility that we all share.

Irish President Michael Higgins

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The facility at Oakden was like something out of the 19th century, bob was lying on a bed with just a sheet underneath him, there was no seat on the toilet, only paper towels in the bathroom. It was like a prison.

Barbara Spriggs

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

This is the climate crisis you haven't heard of, global warming is on track to transform the frigid, glacier-covered mountain peaks of the HKH cutting across eight countries to bare rocks in a little less than a century.

Philippus Wester

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The Sackler family has been connected with The Met for more than a half century. The family is a large extended group, and their support of The Met began decades before the opioid crisis, the Met is currently engaging in a further review of our detailed gift acceptance policies, and we will have more to report in due course.

Daniel Weiss

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We can see that the problem we've got now is that we've got a 20th century system for a 21st century climate.

Lily D'Ambrosio

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I support it, look, if Ronald Reagan didn't take the nomination away from Gerald Ford, and Ted Kennedy couldn't take the nomination away from Jimmy Carter, there is no way that a sitting president in the 21st century is going to be denied the nomination for a second term from his party if he wants it.

Jim Dicke

Found on CNN
5 years ago

( The study is) motivation to continue aiming for a zero-carbon world not long after the middle of this century, limiting temperature rise reduces the risks of irreversible damages.

Chris Smith

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Neomi Rao is a renowned constitutional and administrative law expert. That is why the President nominated Neomi Rao to the D.C. Circuit. The views Neomi Rao expressed a quarter century ago as a college student writing for her student newspaper were intentionally provocative, designed to raise questions and push back against liberal elitism that dominated Neomi Rao campus at the time, more than two decades later, Neomi Rao views can be found in Neomi Rao numerous academic articles and speeches. We are confident Neomi Rao will make an exemplary judge on the D.C Circuit.

Kurri Kupec

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We will take some rational economic decisions, we will restructure the GST and we will embrace investments from the Middle East and other parts of the world. We are the party of (India's economic) liberalization, we are the party that gave the fastest economic growth in the first decade of the century, and will do that again.

Rahul Gandhi

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

In the 20th century, steel, coal, automobiles, aircraft and ships — and the ability to produce things in mass quantity — were the sources of national power, the foundations of security and power are different today. The ability to create and use new technologies is the source of economic strength and military security.

James Andrew Lewis

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The star is named in honor of the great American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard, who was a pioneer of stellar photography and astrometry, edward Emerson Barnard recognized that this star had the largest known proper motion a century ago.

Paul Butler

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There's nothing new under the sun, i think many of Election Day , Trump are aware that President Wilson 100 years ago, a little over a 100 years ago, deployed the US Army to the Southwest border. That's over a century ago. The threat then was Pancho Villa's troops, a revolutionary raiding across the border into the United States, New Mexico, in 1916 and there's a more recent history of DoD support on United States : It spans four administrations and both political parties.

Election Day , Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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