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The Tokugawa Shoguns, who completed the reunification of Japan in 1600, remained in power for more than two and a half centuries.
Scientists worldwide agree that GM is merely a refinement, or improvement, over less precise and predictable genetic techniques that have been used for centuries, but this exquisite new means to develop plants with higher yields and innovative traits will be blocked by the disincentive of unnecessary regulations.
A poor country can easily compete with Sweden in a wide range of manufactures; but it takes many decades, if not centuries, to catch up with Sweden’s institutions.
But, while centuries of struggle to end colonial rule and apartheid have not changed this much, now Western influence is being challenged by China, which likewise covets Africa’s rich reserves of minerals and resources.
Consider, for example, the Indo-Roman trade that drove the world economy in the first and second centuries AD.
But we will never be dissuaded from helping our Syrian neighbors in their most difficult hour, given the special bonds emanating from centuries of shared history.
Although influenced over the centuries by Christianity and Islam, the Yezidi religion has ancient pagan roots that go back at least to the late Bronze Age.
Over the centuries, both Christians and Muslims dubbed the Yezidi “devil worshippers,” and subjected them to relentless persecution, which was especially extreme under the Ottoman Turks in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
For nearly two centuries the answer was almost always a resounding "Yes!"On every continent, the growth of organized labor seemed to herald the emancipation of common people and the demise of their oppressors.
For centuries, communities grew as economic opportunities expanded; for example, farmers had bigger families as demand for products increased, requiring more labor to deliver goods to consumers.
Back then, it was about a continent ravaged by a war in which Germany was the aggressor and Britain the victor; today, it is about a world in which global geo-politics is undergoing its most profound change in centuries.
The US is certainly not an empire in the way we think of the European empires of the 19th and 20th centuries, because the core feature of that imperialism was political power.
But, in the early 2000’s, globalization triggered the “second unfreezing” by facilitating rapid economic growth in Asian countries that, for two centuries, had been constrained by Western dominance, Cold War rules and institutions, and rampant poverty.
After being its own – and thus the world’s – worst enemy for centuries, Europe became a beacon of peace.
Both won independence from Spain two centuries ago.
The Jewish religious identity is a “wandering” one, which has held out against different civilizations, populations, and religions for centuries.
In Putin’s mind, the whole world has discriminated against Russia for the last three centuries.
For centuries, their ancestors emigrated in droves, seeking relief from material hardships and political persecution.
We will be illiterate, and it will be like we turned back time to decades or centuries ago.
Centuries of legal history show that this system, though far from perfect, is the fairest that humans have been able to devise.
For 70 cynical years, and for centuries before that, everything done in the name of Ukrainians was done without our consent.
Those who give credence to the rumor point to an early decision of his cabinet to allocate $17 million to renovate the Jamkaran mosque, where devotees of the 12th Imam have prayed for centuries.
The general public naturally has a hard time grappling with this complexity and uncertainty, especially since the changes in climate are occurring over a timetable of decades and centuries, rather than months and years.
During the next few centuries, Europe ruled the world, and Britain itself was the dominant European power.
Russia’s elites still largely think in the power categories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Propagandists have taken advantage of this quirk in our brain physiology for centuries, and today, this neuroscientific flaw can be individually targeted to weaponize populist politics.
Economic historians point to financial revolutions as setting the stage for strong economic development in England (in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, following the Glorious Revolution), in the United States (after Alexander Hamilton in the 1790’s built up major financial structures in a primarily agricultural country), and in Japan (after the Meiji Restoration).
Financial markets leaped forward in eighteenth-century Great Britain, and in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Japan and the US – a time when several key institutions, such as corporate law and the court system, were woefully substandard.
“We are dealing with a twenty-first-century world,” he tells me, “but our political system has not evolved since the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.”
The gap between them is so wide that they seem to be anchored in two different centuries.
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