We quickly picked up wind and I watched the old town grow distant and thought for a moment about the centuries of action-packed history tightly compressed within those sturdy fortifications.
The cavalry charges of the K.K.K., done with moving cameras that hurtle backward at the speed of the gallop, are visually exhilarating and viscerally thrilling, despite the hateful and bloodthirsty repression that they represent; it's the kinetic model for a century of action scenes.
In 2012, Century of Action, a project of the Oregon Women's History Consortium, used the sculpture to promote women's suffrage by placing a "Votes for Women" sash across her chest as part of the organization's "Sash Project".
Methane is over 20 times more effective in trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide is over the course of a century, so action to reduce such emissions can have a significant impact on greenhouse gases over all.
What scares supporters of affirmative action is that Sotomayor's glossy attainment of the American Dream will eclipse the trend for minorities in America -- a downward spiral in recent years, even after nearly a half-century of affirmative action.
The history of Medicine is replete with examples of cures obtained years, decades, and even centuries before the mechanism of action was understood for these cures".
GAs have been in use for over one and a half centuries, but their mechanism of action still eludes pharmacologists.
While it is impossible to retrospectively determine effects, bison movements were undoubtedly influenced by more than a century of management actions and human-induced alterations to the environment.
In the latter half of the 20th century a new genre of action films centred on kung fu techniques and philosophies emerged and helped to promote international interest in the art.
His world was not theirs, the world of causes — social, historical, economic — but something almost causeless, the mal du siècle, in its turn-of-the-century form: the crippling of action by thought, the erasure of the present by the future (fantasy) and the past (remorse).
However much his writing might travel across centuries, a seam of authenticity, of action and accent, keeps us rooted in the realities of trench life.
