They were devised more than two centuries ago for a mostly agrarian world.

By the standards of centuries ago, we live in a world of unbelievable wealth.

Fourteen years ago, I first encountered this ordinary material, fishnet, used the same way for centuries.

Capitalism when it arose three centuries ago was simply the same activity on a larger scale.

LONDON Two centuries ago, Napoleon s arrival in Egypt heralded the advent of the modern Middle East.

Obviously, the traditional moral taboos surrounding money had to be loosened for capitalism to get going centuries ago.

BERLIN Two centuries ago the American and French Revolutions brought forth the natural law concept of inalienable human rights.

That s how language should be Alive, creative, inventive. Just like the language of the Sagas many centuries ago, says Ólafsdóttir.

Five centuries ago, Che probably would have been one of those priest soldiers exterminating Latin America s natives in the name of God.

It probably first established itself as a mindset when the Greeks, 25 centuries ago, perceived themselves as Western versus the Oriental Persians.

By the standards of centuries ago, we live in a world of unbelievable wealth. Within two generations human literacy will be nearly universal.

Perhaps the moral and intellectual tide will be reversed, and America will remain exceptional for the reasons that Tocqueville identified two centuries ago.

NadaMadridista On this day above all days we recall those who were murdered and tortured by the Spanish Inquisition 5 centuries ago. Moorish Andalus

He had to tour around Europe to support his family Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart but that was centuries ago, so we can make him an exception.

Four centuries ago, the consensus, in Western Europe at least, was that good and even adequate government in this fallen world was inevitably a rarity.

The plaintiffs are members of Europe s poorest and largest minority group the Roma, or Gypsies, whose ancestors are believed to have migrated from India centuries ago.

The causes of discrimination against women that we are witnessing nowadays cannot be viewed as a new phase of the same hegemonic culture of centuries ago.

And this is Goethe, who is neither Bulgarian nor a political scientist, some centuries ago he said, There is a big shadow where there is much light.

For the first time since the Revolutionary War, two centuries ago, America has had to turn to foreigners for financing, because US households have been saving nothing .

Like the murder of Archbishop Thomas Beckett in his Canterbury Cathedral many centuries ago, the crime was committed in the clear belief that it would please the king.

We're against lying, but we're covertly for it in ways that our society has sanctioned for centuries and centuries and centuries.

These leaders attitudes recall the worst behavior of their predecessors, many of whom engaged centuries ago with the West s rising imperial powers to halt the growth of indigenous industry.

Like the American revolutionaries of two centuries ago, Indian nationalists fought for the rights of Englishmen, which they thought the replication of the Houses of Parliament would both epitomize and guarantee.

The contrast says so much about the land of paradoxes that is today s India a country that, as I wrote years ago, manages to live in several centuries at the same time.

Four Centuries of Clinical Chemistry.

We have a historical obligation to protect by all prudent means at our disposal Europe's unification process begun by our forefathers more than fifty years ago after centuries of hatred and spilling of blood.

As Tommaso Campanella, a great philosopher who spent much time in prison and was tortured because of his ideas, wrote a few centuries ago, history is changed first by the tongue and then by the sword.

In, a month, you've grown centuries' worth.

Over the centuries, a unique Fijian culture developed.

It took the Romans nearly two centuries to complete the conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, though they had control of it for over six centuries.

These crude tools were around for thousands of centuries, until around 1.4 million years ago when Homo erectus started shaping single, thin stone blades, sometimes rounded ovals, but often in what are to our eyes an arresting, symmetrical pointed leaf or teardrop form.

The book s plot spans two centuries of revolution. Then, suddenly,

Nearly two centuries have passed since Tocqueville wrote his masterpiece.

In your eyes, we have become a thousand centuries smaller,

China has been trading with Southeast Asian countries for centuries.

Christianity grew rapidly in Sicily during the next two centuries.

It remained the sole athenaeum of southern Italy for centuries.

England's population between the 11th and 16th centuries remained at around 2.25 million, and China's population until the 17th century remained between 60 and 100 million for 13 centuries.

Indeed, the location of financial activity has changed through the centuries.

We forget that for centuries growth was essentially zero, he writes.

NEW YORK The Roma have been persecuted across Europe for centuries.

It has been cultivated and consumed for centuries in the region.

They shall consult together secretly You did tarry but ten ( centuries ) .

They shall consult together secretly You did tarry but ten ( centuries ) .

In a few months, the world is also going to celebrate the launch of a new invention from Microsoft Research, which I think is going to have as profound an impact on the way we view the universe as Galileo did four centuries ago.