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They reject the widely accepted view, based on early sacred texts, that ancient believers did not ban the slaughter of cattle, and that such a ban probably became part of the Hindu moral code only around the fifth and sixth
centuries
AD, when the later Puranas were written.
These findings confirm a basic truth of economics, one dating back two
centuries
to Adam Smith: open trade promotes growth.
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.
Indeed, within a mere decade, more Chinese have come to live in Africa than there are Europeans on the continent, even after many
centuries
of European colonial and neo-colonial rule.
According to Alan Levinovitz, a professor of religious studies at James Madison University, Trump uses capitalization in his tweets much as medical quacks and religious charlatans did in their efforts to bamboozle the public in
centuries
past.
Its southwestern state of Kerala boasted a Roman port, Muziris,
centuries
before Jesus Christ was born; excavations are now revealing even more about its reach and influence.
After languishing for centuries, trade is once more shaping the relationship between these two world regions.
Rather, costs are low because for almost two
centuries
colonial powers and then domestic governments hobbled markets and restricted international trade, leaving a legacy of wages so low that they offset weaker productivity.
Two
centuries
after visions of social rationality flowered in Enlightenment thinking, the project suddenly seemed, at least superficially, to be inescapably doomed.
But Sykes and Picot did bring about a reconciliation between the two great Entente powers, and the regional order they created in the aftermath of
centuries
of Turkish/Ottoman rule endured.
And, in fact, many former colonies rightly argue that it is Britain that owes them reparations for
centuries
of oppression and looting.
For the British, however, the existence of contending claims is a major relief, as it helps the country to fend off a blizzard of demands to undo the manifold injustices of two or more
centuries
of colonial exploitation of far-flung lands.
Indeed, the location of financial activity has changed through the
centuries.
During the subsequent two centuries, Persia confronted the Ottoman Empire – the heart of the Sunni caliphate – for regional supremacy.
For centuries, Japanese minds, and Japanese borders, were distinctly closed.
Japan’s embrace of modernity came
centuries
later, with the decades-long Meiji restoration that began in the late 1860s.
For example, until the second half of the twentieth century, today’s eurozone members regularly slaughtered each other on
centuries
of battlefields.
The bedrock economic, social, and political institutions in Western societies took decades, if not centuries, to develop.
This aggressive, fundamentalist path is inexorably leading Pakistan back
centuries
in time.
Constitutional guarantees of these rights are the great achievement of the long battle for citizenship that marked the last two
centuries.
In China, though clerics and soldiers blocked development for
centuries
by forbidding any external contact, the rise of an anticlerical regime finally opened the way for modernization.
Making matters worse, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, much of the Muslim world was subjugated by European imperial powers.
After
centuries
of isolation, Japan’s Meiji restoration chose selectively from the rest of the world, and within 50 years the country had become strong enough to defeat a European great power, in the Russo-Japanese War.
“Feeling the Bern” (the mantra of Bernie Sanders’ leftist campaign) will not suffice to stop Trump from inflicting great harm to institutions that were carefully constructed more than two
centuries
ago to protect American democracy from demagogues like him.
Science under SiegeThree
centuries
after the Enlightenment first linked human freedom with the progress of science and technology, both are under growing attack--despite their spectacular triumphs.
If, however, we continue on our current path for just a couple more decades, we could trigger
centuries
of rising sea levels, even if we subsequently ended all greenhouse-gas emissions.
For centuries, China was by far the region’s largest and most powerful country, holding sway over the surrounding seas and treating most of its neighbors as inferior, vassal states.
After a gap of two
centuries
in which China was atypically weak, it is rapidly regaining power, and now wants to restore what it sees as the old order in East Asia.
If we use as our guide average material progress over the course of centuries, it might seem that necessity will again serve as the mother of invention, and that we will meet the population challenge, just as we have met previous challenges, through technological and institutional innovation.
But, in my view, “black swan” should refer to something else: an event that is considered virtually impossible by those whose frame of reference is limited in time and geographical area, but not by those who consider other countries and other decades or
centuries.
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