Example collocations logo

Twentieth in sentence

802 examples of Twentieth in a sentence

What is at stake with the MDGs is the creation on a global scale of the same sort of public redistribution mechanisms that were progressively established in the world’s richest societies over the course of the twentieth century.
In the twentieth century, the United States took over that role, imposing its Pax Americana to provide security to most of Western Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America.
Consider the 1990s Bosnian War – the result of unfinished business from the breakup of the Austrian and Ottoman empires and the creation of nation-states earlier in the twentieth century.
The West is not trying, as it did during the Crusades or the Imperialist conquests of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to impose its religion or values on the Arabs.
The first autonomous (or self-driving) cars date back to the late twentieth century.
For most of the twentieth century, programmers were patently unsuccessful in designing chess computers that could compete with the best humans.
In Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer, France and Germany had two of the twentieth century’s greatest statesmen, leaders who were able to discern the broad sweep of history through the fog of quotidian politics.
Unlike the nuclear arms race of the twentieth century, the resource-security agenda is not linear.
So is it really in the interest of the US to try to "prevent other great powers from rising?"Shouldn't America's leaders be trying to shorten the period that other societies are vulnerable to the evils that made the twentieth century the bloodiest in the history of mankind?
The collapse of the USSR, President Vladimir Putin has proclaimed, was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the twentieth century.
The world wars of the twentieth century are a case in point.
In the nineteenth century, some 80 million people crossed oceans to new homes – far more than in the twentieth century.
Well into the twentieth century, indigenous groups were effectively deprived of a vote and a voice.
Profit rates of only 6-8% in the early twentieth century were enough to induce construction of new mills.
In the textile industry in the early twentieth century, for example, output per worker hour of Polish workers in New England was four times greater than that of Polish workers using the same machines in Poland.
But the aftershocks linger: Household-debt loads were still at 113% of disposable personal income in 2012 (versus 75% in the final three decades of the twentieth century), and the personal-saving rate averaged just 3.9% last year (compared to 7.9% from 1970 to 1999).
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Theodore Roosevelt was an activist leader, but he affected mostly timing.
Is there a plausible story in which, owing to different presidential leadership, America would not have achieved global primacy by the end of the twentieth century?
Given its economic size and favorable geography, structural forces would likely have produced some form of American primacy in the twentieth century.
As a result, by the middle of the twentieth century, the extreme social and economic inequality that had characterized industrialized countries seemed to be disappearing.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the anarchist movement killed a number of heads of state for utopian ideals.
The twenty-first-century world order will be dramatically different from that of the twentieth century.
During the twentieth century, oil was a limited resource; its price, it seemed, could only go up.
For much of the twentieth century, developing countries had two paths for economic success.
On the twentieth anniversary of the Machel report, the international community must draw a line and stop the war against children.
This imperative was evident in England’s pursuit of Flanders in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; in the economic and military pursuit of Britain by the US and Germany in the late nineteenth century; and in the rise of Japan, the East Asian Tigers, and China in the twentieth century.
In retrospect, that was one of the great non-events of the twentieth century.
The second half of the twentieth century witnessed the victory of the market economy over the administered economy.
The Malthus GunWASHINGTON, DC – Science and technology changed agriculture profoundly in the twentieth century.
Over the second half of the twentieth century, the hungry of the Earth shrank from half of its three billion human inhabitants to less than a billion of the current 6.5 billion.
BackNext