Sentence examples for historical improvement from inspiring English sources

As Mr. Hardt puts it, "The thing we call Empire is actually an enormous historical improvement over the international system and imperialism".

I think that the greater danger occurs when scientific notions of progress (progress with a small "p," as Michael Ruse puts it) become embroiled with broader cultural notions of historical improvement (capital "P" Progress).

The EEA's 2011 report on air quality, released this month, shows broad historical improvements, levels of nitrogen oxide, ozone and particulate matter have risen, fuelling concerns about overall air quality, especially in urban "hot spots".

We conclude that paradigm shifts in soil mapping and classification can be better explained by not only their correlation to historical improvements in scientific understanding, but also by differences in purpose for mapping, and due to advancements in geographic technology.

So we face a dichotomy as the historical improvements of Moore's Law slow, while new compute-intensive applications require exponentially more capability.

New semiconductor technology nodes will still bring significant miniaturization and lower power over the next decade, but the cost is increasing and the historical improvements in speed are not achieved.

The MIT study advanced the statistical methodology of isolating the rate of historical technology improvement from other factors improving productivity (defined as initial production from wells) in the Bakken tight oil play.

Director of the Stanford Center on Global Poverty and Development, Miller conducts retrospective observational studies that focus both on historical health improvement and the determinants of population health in developing countries today.

My projects addressing this question are retrospective observational studies that focus both on historical health improvement and the determinants of population health in developing countries today.

It aggregates historical home improvement data about millions of U.S. homes, which allows it to tell you information about who the most popular contractors in your neighborhood are or even — in partnership with Realtor.com — what kind of work a previous owner did on the house you want to buy.

The University's strengths in the modern period are now growing across disciplines to match its prowess in historical studies, improvements that will add to "the rich and interdisciplinary tradition of Islamic world scholarship at this university, a tradition that already is internationally preeminent and clearly set to stay that way," said Stokes.