(n.) A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things.
(n.) A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago.
(n.) A division of the Roman people formed according to their property, for the purpose of voting for civil officers.
(n.) One of sixty companies into which a legion of the army was divided. It was Commanded by a centurion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(2) This "paradox of redistribution" was certainly observable in Britain, where Welfare retained its status as one of the 20th century's most exalted creations, even while those claiming benefits were treated with ever greater contempt.
(3) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.
(4) "There is sufficient evidence... of past surface temperatures to say with a high level of confidence that the last few decades of the 20th century were warmer than any comparable period in the last 400 years.
(5) The results indicate that the legislated increase in the age of eligibility for full Social Security benefits beginning in the 21st century will have relatively small effects on the ages of retirement and benefit acceptance.
(6) We asked our team to design the 22nd century newsroom.
(7) Photograph: Dan Chung Around 220,000 live in this mud-brick labyrinth; some homes date back five centuries.
(8) During the twentieth century complex medical and social changes have resulted in changing attitudes to and experiences with death.
(9) For more than half a century, Saudi leaders manipulated the United States by feeding our oil addiction, lavishing money on politicians, helping to finance American wars, and buying billions of dollars in weaponry from US companies.
(10) The concept of anticipation, the occurrence of a genetic disorder at progressively earlier ages in successive generations, has been debated from the early years of this century, with myotonic dystrophy as the most striking example.
(11) Urban ambulance systems emerged in the second half of the 19th century as an outgrowth of military experiences in both Europe and America.
(12) Gerson Zweifach, general counsel for both News Corp and 21st Century Fox , Murdoch’s film and TV business, said: “We are grateful that this matter has been concluded and acknowledge the fairness and professionalism of the Department of Justice throughout this investigation.” It is understood there has been no background settlement with the Department of Justice in order to avoid a full-blown investigation, contrary to speculation in New York over a year ago that the company was looking at a possible payment of over $850m.
(13) Barbacoas is a small port town in south-west Colombia, which linked the southern regions of the country in the 19th and 20th century.
(14) It has been a place of pilgrimage for many centuries and a tourist attraction probably since Roman times.
(15) His first ball reaches Ali at hip height and he flicks him to fine leg for a boundary that takes him to a quite epic century.
(16) It begins with the origins of treatment in the self-help temperance movement of the 1830s and 1840s and the founding of the first inebriate homes, tracing in the United States the transformation of these small, private, spiritually inclined programs into the medically dominated, quasipublic inebriate asylums of the late 19th century.
(17) A review of the literature reveals that the numerous procedures now available to repair the nose had already been devised by the middle of the nineteenth century in Germany and France as well as in England.
(18) The basic study of medicine of the early 18th century is described with the help of the example of Halle university.
(19) Nevertheless, the historic poll is being touted by foreign governments as the first credible election in half a century.
(20) The impetus for the creation of an epidemiology of mental illness came from the work of late nineteenth century social scientists concerned with understanding individual and social behavior and applying their findings to social problems.
Lombard
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Lombardy, or the inhabitants of Lombardy.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Lombardy.
(n.) A money lender or banker; -- so called because the business of banking was first carried on in London by Lombards.
(n.) Same as Lombard-house.
(n.) A form of cannon formerly in use.
Example Sentences:
(1) Conditions have been described which allow an in vitro indefinite multiplication of differentiated murine macrophages (Lombard et al: Biol Cell 53, 219, 1985).
(2) Overall, Lombard Street argues that an ECB bond-buying plan would push down short-term borrowing costs (assuming the Bundesbank doesn't block it), but would do little to really fix the crisis: We always come back to a simple point – without economic growth, there can be no end to the euro crisis.
(3) The purpose of this study was to investigate the Lombard effect on the speech of esophageal talkers, artificial larynx users, and normal speakers.
(4) But Pascal Menges, manager of the Lombard Odier Global Energy Fund , which invests in the energy sector, sees failure as the driving motive behind the deal.
(5) The results of these experiments indicate that interference with speech intelligibility is directly related to elicitation of the Lombard and sidetone amplification effects.
(6) The Lounge was a speakeasy in the 1920s and hosted Humphrey Bogart, Carol Lombard, Gary Cooper, John Wayne and Clark Gable.
(7) The report by the respected economic analysts Lombard Street Research echoed fears from City analysts that the G20 conference at the weekend was unable to agree a plan to promote growth in the global economy.
(8) The Lombard effect was found to be extremely stable and robust.
(9) This composition is supportive of the functional role in audition proposed for the muscle by Lombard and Straughan (1974).
(10) Charles Dumas of Lombard Street Research has put some hard numbers on this trend.
(11) Dario Perkins of Lombard Street Research warns that public opinion in all the struggling economies – Portugal, Greece, Spain and Italy – is likely to become increasingly impatient if the universally prescribed recipe of austerity fails to improve people's lives.
(12) Put differently, they performed the role of the avant garde, a term whose transposition from the military to the artistic realm might have been made for the futurists, whose ideas and antics travelled faster than the Lombard Battalion of Volunteer Cyclists and Automobilists formed by their leaders when they joined up.
(13) Jamie Dannhauser, analyst at Lombard Street Research, said the PMI data was consistent with Spain and Italy going back into recession, adding that the loss of momentum for the eurozone should be a serious concern for the European Central Bank, which has twice raised interest rates this year after becoming alarmed at rising inflation.
(14) Maya Bhandar at Lombard Street Research, says that the economy is contracting at an annualised rate of 14-15% in the current quarter.
(15) This restaurant was built in 1902, and Carole Lombard and Clark Gable honeymooned in the hotel upstairs.
(16) The present study reports three experiments that test the robustness of the Lombard effect when speakers are given instructions and training with visual feedback to help suppress it.
(17) Any impairment of audio-phonatory control by background noise is followed by an increase in both the intensity and pitch of the speaking voice (Lombard reflex, 1911), thus increasing vocal strain.
(18) Vocal therapy and voice training may have a favorable effect on the Lombard reflex (probably by improvement of the kinesthetic control mechanism) so that the speaking voice in a noisy environment is raised less with less vocal strain.
(19) Charles Dumas, the eminent boss of economic analysts Lombard Street Research, describes in his latest monthly review how Japan's refusal to adapt has cost its citizens dearly.
(20) The Lombard effect is the tendency to increase one's vocal intensity in noise.