Sentence examples for centuries of progress from inspiring English sources

STAMFORD Stamford Museum and Nature Center "Centuries of Progress: American World's Fairs 1853-1982".

To be reminded that, centuries of progress notwithstanding, human stupidity and aggression not only persist but, in certain individuals, flourish: this alone must rankle.

Let the pupils who cannot memorize the multiplication tables count coins, but don't deny the others the fruits of centuries of progress.

As they keenly point out, it is artists and poets who have led centuries of progress – politics has always followed reluctantly behind.

Continuing seamlessly behind the local memorabilia is a traveling exhibition, "Centuries of Progress: America's World's Fairs, 1853-1982," which originated at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Del., and lends its name to the entire Long Island Museum show.

Badinter calls it, grandly, an identity crisis "perhaps unprecedented in human history": a rejection of centuries of progress, at the end of which the tyranny of biological destiny, at least for Western women, was all but conquered.

And in Africa, after a century of progress, the rise in life expectancy stopped after 1990.

If these reforms go ahead, we risk throwing away half a century of progress.

The commemorators have every right to blend somber and light as they mark a half-century of progress.

The beginning of this chase marked the end of what had been three-quarters of a century of progress.

Climate change threatens to undermine half a century of progress in global health, according to a major new report.