Sentence examples for recent age of from inspiring English sources

The name Anthropocene is derived from Greek and means the "recent age of man".

Even the Pollyanna chirp of the company's name was in step with the optimistic 60's, our most recent age of innocence; appropriately, its name is chaste: Marimekko means Mary Dress.

America's most recent age of rebellion may have reached its symbolic peak in the late 1960s – and its symbolic conclusion with the election of President Ronald Reagan – but in the 1970s, a more insidious spirit of rebellion thrived.

With a colleague, Eugene Stoermer, Dr Crutzen suggested this age be called the Anthropocene—"the recent age of man".The term has slowly picked up steam, both within the sciences (the International Commission on Stratigraphy, ultimate adjudicator of the geological time scale, is taking a formal interest) and beyond.

This may indicate either the recent age of the creek or of Smith Bay.

Preserved remnants of this now uplifted peneplain have survived at high elevations in this high-energy Mediterranean environment mostly because of the recent age of the vertical uplift, which has outpaced opportunities for denudation to erode all of the uplifting plateau.

The incidence of SAH increases with age, and this tendency is of peculiar note given the recent aging of the population.

This, coupled with evidence of increased rates of molecular evolution and recent age estimates of transcontinental clades, suggests that tribe Psoraleeae is a recent, rapid radiation [ 5].

It is interspersed with igneous intrusions of a more recent age, remnants of which formed mountain massifs such as the Cairngorms and Skye Cuillins.

So what can she do to connect better with the disaffected Sanders voters (whom she has just treated to the important but painful life-lesson of a excruciatingly narrow defeat) in time to win a national election against what may well be an opponent who fits the most recent age demographics of successful democratic candidates?

Although the use of this technique of using microwave irradiation in order to enhance chemical reactions is relatively of recent age the idea of using electromagnetic radiation to induce chemical reactions is a well known procedure in organic chemistry.