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But in striving to achieve that goal, we must not risk the domestic equality gains that two centuries of social progress have delivered.
In this sense, the legacy of China's humiliation at the hands of the West and Japan in the 19th and early 20th centuries still exerts a powerful influence, despite the emergence of a globalized "New China" over the last two decades.
But for the better part of two centuries, its citizens have been suspicious of federal government power, including the power to run deficits, which is fundamentally a federal prerogative.
For the first time in centuries, our population could plateau in most of the world.
For the past three centuries, humans’ effects on the global environment have escalated.
During the past three centuries, the human population has increased ten-fold, to more than six billion, and is expected to reach 10 billion in this century.
That is why we need to invest now in other technologies that can complement renewables, and provide reliable electricity for many centuries to come.
They act like their hard-won social advantages are inexhaustible natural resources, rather than the product of centuries of development – a product that is far more fragile than is widely assumed.
With these two adjustments, the extinction rate has been about a 100 times higher than natural over the last two centuries.
The peaceful coexistence between the country's myriad ethnic, religious, and tribal groups is the result of a complex layer of concessions, compromises, tacit agreements, and other pragmatic arrangements perfected over the centuries.
And in order to overcome centuries of gender inequity, we need more momentum behind this agenda.
In their effort to overcome centuries of military and commercial backwardness, Muslims have sought to industrialize, rationalize administration, and adopt modern forms of political life.
The reason that climate change is a problem now is that over the past two centuries, some countries have been putting large amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
The warfare of the past centuries, in particular the bloody ethnic cleansings of the past decade, is not valid anymore.
Indeed, the effects of human behavior on the planet’s ecosystems have become so significant in the last few centuries that many scientists now believe that the planet has entered a new geological epoch, dubbed the Anthropocene.
Seen from a distance of centuries, perhaps all European history will appear as a lone day of vigor, of great discoveries of the mind and the ethos of expansion.
Its core idea – countering centuries of treating sovereignty almost as a license to kill – is that states must protect their own people from genocide and other mass atrocity crimes.
Only one-party rule would guarantee the continuing rise of China and put an end to centuries of national humiliation.
Typically, they want to escape conditions of hopelessness, as many Europeans did when they left their homes in the 19 th and 20 th centuries, usually for America.
European Myths, European RealitiesFollowing centuries of bold explorations in science, navigation and engineering, Continental Europe in the 20 th century launched major social innovations.
India’s Urban AwakeningWASHINGTON, DC – When the United Kingdom became the first country in the world to undergo large-scale urbanization in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the process transformed its economy and society.
The religious wars that ravaged Europe over the centuries took their toll on churches, icons, and paintings.
In fact, experience in recent decades confirms what should have been obvious from previous centuries: as countries grow and accumulate savings, they become increasingly prone to financial collapse.
Europe endured centuries of violent religious and national struggle, culminating in the horrors of the two world wars, before achieving its current stable state system.
Over the past two centuries, political leaders have become more accountable to constituencies within and outside of their countries’ borders, and voters have become less susceptible to lobbying groups and the media.
Instead of rejecting monetary theory and history, the army of Wall Street soothsayers should look beyond the Fed’s press releases and ask themselves: Does it make sense to throw out centuries of experience?
Through their ability to spread risk across broad portfolios, insurers have enabled high-risk activities for centuries.
MacKay gave examples, over the centuries, of social epidemics involving belief in alchemists, prophets of Judgment Day, fortune tellers, astrologers, physicians employing magnets, witch hunters, and crusaders.
Indeed, Confucianism became the official ideology of the Chinese state two centuries before the birth of Christ.
During the neo-Confucian renaissance of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a metaphysical dimension was added to fill a gap exposed by Buddhism’s inroads into China.
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