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Yet while teachers and scholars have traveled the world for
centuries
seeking employment and knowledge, the modern global educational marketplace is riddled with problems that impede academic travel and distort educational choices.
As a result, lifespan inequality is lower than it has been for two
centuries.
Two
centuries
ago, around 94% of the planet was impoverished.
After several
centuries
studying apes, we are familiar with every subtle difference in form between our species and theirs.
People of different nationalities and ethnicities have been living in this region side by side for centuries, sharing customs, traditions, bread and wine, and mutual respect for each another’s cultures and languages.
Christians and Muslims coexisted for
centuries
in Sarajevo, until Serb agitators, backed by armed forces, called for violent expulsions and murder.
First, whereas most environmental insults – for example, water pollution, acid rain, or sulfur dioxide emissions – are mitigated promptly or in fairly short order when the source is cleaned up, emissions of CO2 and other trace gases remain in the atmosphere for
centuries.
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.
Over the next three centuries, as the benefits of instituting a monopoly over money creation became more widely recognized, a slew of central banks were established, one for each politically bounded economy.
He knows that
centuries
of tight government control have made Russians obedient.
Governments will have to intervene to set these standards, as they did during the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries
to improve abysmal conditions in factories.
Russian society has been militarized for decades, if not
centuries.
Japan's emergence as East Asia's leading power in the nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries
involved three brutal wars in China, in which the Japanese army committed dreadful atrocities.
Today, Western universities are replete with distinguished Arab scholars in almost every field – the result of a brain drain that itself reflects the Islamic world’s
centuries
of decline.
Cultural traits that perpetuate poverty are, it is argued, born of
centuries
of social accumulation and cannot be changed quickly.
In the first century C.E., it continued its advance, spreading along the Silk Road to Central Asia and China, and finally made its way to Korea and Japan
centuries
later.
European countries’ success in overcoming
centuries
of animosity, and the development of a large internal market, has given them a great deal of soft power.
The last challenge can be stated as a question that is rarely posed: Is China’s political system an obstacle to renminbi internationalization?The pound sterling and the dollar, the principal international and reserve currencies of the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries
respectively, were issued by democracies.
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Liberal Party, not Labour, was the Conservatives’ main rival in the UK, thriving under the leadership of figures like William Gladstone and David Lloyd George.
Sumo evolved over many
centuries
as a peripatetic form of public entertainment in which the wrestlers, trainers, and promoters depended on local gangs to secure facilities and an audience, including selling the tickets.
In the United Kingdom, “defamatory libel” was for many
centuries
a criminal offense, but it fell into disuse and was abolished in 2010.
This approach can result in large rewards for important inventions--precisely what is needed if maximum incentive is to be given to people to develop bold new concepts--and has served us well over the
centuries
since 1624.
Gorbachev’s vision of European inclusion neglected
centuries
of Russian history; the West did not want Russian participation.
Turkey benefits from republican reflexes and values that have been built over decades, as well as from humanist wisdom anchored in
centuries
of history.
By the standards of
centuries
ago, we live in a world of unbelievable wealth.
Yet three
centuries
ago there was also technological progress, from the mechanical clock and the watermill to the cannon and the caravel, and on to strains of rice that can be cropped three times a year in Guangzhou and the breeding of merino sheep that can flourish in the hills of Spain.
Two
centuries
later that was no longer the case: by the end of the nineteenth century, median living standards in Britain and other countries to which the Industrial Revolution had spread were, for the first time in recorded history, light-years above any neo-Malthusian benchmark of subsistence.
When asked his opinion of the French Revolution almost two
centuries
later, former Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai reportedly answered that it was “too early to say.”
Global average life expectancy, for example, has risen from 31 to almost 73 years in just two
centuries.
Two
centuries
ago, the science and medical communities had not yet accepted the germ theory of disease, and the smell of beef was commonly thought to cause obesity.
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