Much progress has been made in the last two decades in developing techniques for understanding children, yet in almost any classroom today can be found children whose needs are not being met by the school program.

These incidents, typical of many others, dramatize the distressing fact that no controversy during the last several decades has caused more tension, rancor and strife among religious groups in this country than the birth-control issue.

Due to this difference in epistemology, anthropology as a discipline has lacked cohesion over the last several decades.

Roughly 26 % are followers of traditional forms of Protestantism ( Congregationals, Methodists, Baptista, Lutherans, Reformed ), but over the last decades there has in addition been a growth of Pentecostal communities and African Initiated Churches.

Over the last two decades of his reign, Alfred undertook a radical reorganisation of the military institutions of his kingdom, strengthened the West Saxon economy through a policy of monetary reform and urban planning and strove to win divine favour by resurrecting the literary glories of earlier generations of Anglo-Saxons.

According to John T. Townsend, " it is not before the last decades of the second century that one finds undisputed traces of the work.

For example, concerning the parameter of per capita income growth, development economist Ha-Joon Chang writes that considering the record of the last two decades the argument for continuing neo-liberal policy prescriptions are " simply untenable.

Nevertheless Thom's legacy remains strong, Krupp wrote in 1979, " Almost singlehandedly he has established the standards for archaeo-astronomical fieldwork and interpretation, and his amazing results have stirred controversy during the last three decades.

During the winter of 2010 / 11, which was quite severe compared to those of the last decades, the maximum ice cover was 315 000 km < sup > 2 </ sup >, which was reached on 25 February 2011.

In the last two decades of the 20th century, DNA was used to more accurately classify plants.

* c. 630 – 587 BC, in the last decades of the kingdom of Judah ( contemporary with Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Habakkuk )

In the last two decades, the Blue Crane has largely disappeared from the Eastern Cape, Lesotho, and Swaziland.

In the last few decades there has been a rapid decline in the numbers of wild mountain bongo due to poaching and human pressure on their habitat, with local extinctions reported in Cherangani and Chepalungu hills, Kenya.

In contrast, the Fitzroy Lions, a foundation club of the VFL / AFL, had been among the dregs of the league for the better part of the last four decades.

In the last two decades of his career, Chaplin concentrated increasingly on re-editing and scoring his old films for re-release.

Home to 120 species of fish and at least that many species of birds, the lake has shrunk dramatically in the last four decades due to the increased water from an expanding population usage and low rainfall.

The Concertación coalition has continued to dominate Chilean politics for last two decades.

Tourism in Chile has experienced sustained growth over the last decades.

In the last decades, they have switched from black and white to color.

( jälkeen Kristuksen, after Christ ) were largely used until the 1980s but have been mostly replaced during the last couple of decades with terms eaa.

He spent much of his last two decades unable to afford heat in winter and subsisting on old bread donated by the local baker.

In the early decades of the 20th century, churches sprang up in communities around the world, though in the last several decades of that century, there was a marked decline in membership, except in Africa, where there has been growth.

Although they had their best season in decades at 92 – 70, they lost key games against the Mets and finished the season a disappointing eight games out of first place while the Mets exploded past them by winning 39 of their last 50 games.

In the last decades of the 20th century cable traction in general has seen a limited revival as automatic people movers, used in resort areas, airports ( for example, Toronto Airport ) and huge hospital centers.

But in the middle of the last century an island woman named `` Karipo '' seized a spear in the heat of an inter-tribal battle and rallied the women after their men had fled.

That is, we must find Saxons in East Anglia, Kent, Sussex and Hampshire in the last half of the fourth century.

He turned from the flying trees to look ahead and saw with an inward boy's eye again the great fieldstone house which, built on one of the many acres of ancestral land bordering the west harbor, had been Izaak's bride-gift to his cousin-wife as the last century ended.

And the name Rayburn is one of the most dominant in the history of American politics for the last half century.

It still stands as a monument to the engineering skills of the last century and still serves in the gasoline age to carry heavy traffic on U.S. Route 250 -- the old Beverly and Fairmont Turnpike.

He is by no means the country boy he might have been in the last century, down from the hills with bear grease on his hair and a zeal for book learning in his heart.

It is to this same tradition that most of the creative figures in the last century and a half of American theology also belong.

A common criticism has been that many social science scholars ( such as economists, sociologists, and psychologists ) in Western countries focus disproportionately on Western subjects, while anthropology focuses disproportionately on the " other "; this has changed over the last part of the twentieth century as anthropologists increasingly, also study Western subjects, particularly variation across class, region, or ethnicity within Western societies, and other social scientists increasingly take a global view of their fields.

With the development of fast Internet in the last part of the 20th century along with advances in computer controlled telescope mounts and CCD cameras ' Remote Telescope ' astronomy is now a viable means for amateur astronomers not aligned with major telescope facilities to partake in research and deep sky imaging.

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As VanSlyck ( 1991 ) showed, the last years of the 19th century saw acceptance of the idea that free libraries should be available to the American public.

In the last decade of the 6th century, Aeschylus and his family were living in the deme of Eleusis.

The last Akkadian inscriptions in Mesopotamia date from the 1st century AD.

Abu Salih the Armenian, writing in the last quarter of the twelfth century, makes one early reference to this belief that they possessed the Ark.

The first autobiographical work in Islamic society was written in the late 11th century, by Abdallah ibn Buluggin, last Zirid king of Granada.

An image of the Indian rhinoceros, the image has such force that it remains one of his best-known and was still used in some German school science text-books as late as last century.

In the nineteenth century Samuel Sebastian Wesley ( 1810 – 1876 ) wrote anthems influenced by contemporary oratorio which stretch to several movements and last twenty minutes or longer.

The office of Lord High Admiral passed a number of times in and out of commission until 1709, after which the office was almost permanently in commission ( the last Lord High Admiral being the future King William IV in the early 19th century ).

Blake further argued that Disraeli's imperialism " decisively orientated the Conservative party for many years to come, and the tradition which he started was probably a bigger electoral asset in winning working-class support during the last quarter of the century than anything else ".

Bouldering's documented origins may be found in the United Kingdom, France, and Italy in the last quarter of the 19th century.

Over the last half of the 20th century, historical and archaeological research has increasingly supported the theory that the remnants of the Celtic Boii were absorbed into the Roman Empire and later intermingled with other Germanic peoples who chose to stay ( or were stationed by the Romans ) in the area.

It is unknown when Habakkuk lived and preached, but the reference to the rise and advance of the Chaldeans in 1: 6-11 places him in the middle to last quarter of the 7th century BC.

Bartók's music reflects two trends that dramatically changed the sound of music in the 20th century: the breakdown of the diatonic system of harmony that had served composers for the previous two hundred years ( Griffiths 1978, 7 ); and the revival of nationalism as a source for musical inspiration, a trend that began with Mikhail Glinka and Antonín Dvořák in the last half of the 19th century ( Einstein 1947, 332 ).