He is lost in the twentieth century.

Were you born in the twentieth century?

My grandfather was born in 1920.

Were you born in the 20th century or in the 21st?

Well into the twentieth century, indigenous groups were effectively deprived of a vote and a voice.

In the twentieth century, the Cold War parity between Russia and America was apparent.

In the twentieth century, the US government spent billions of dollars to rebuild the European economy.

Smoking killed 100 million people in the twentieth century, mostly in developed countries.

This is how the Western world became democratic in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The US had one of the world s most successful stock markets in the twentieth century.

In the twentieth century, abuses of civil liberties were particularly severe during four periods.

That was true in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and it remains true today.

Throughout the 20th century, the use of Spanish declined, particularly after the destruction of the Spanish stronghold in the Battle of Manila.

In the twentieth century, Russia set an unquestionable record for all sorts of upheavals and social experiments that attracted the world s attention.

But when Europeans withdrew from the Muslim world in the twentieth century, these forces rushed back in to wrest control of politics.

The Iraq conflict, by contrast, is part of the world s first global insurgency the web of individual conflicts spawned by Islamist extremism, most of them related in some way to al Qaeda, and the global war on terrorism.

From its own experiences in the twentieth century, Europe knows what catastrophes can result when concessions are made to evil.

In the twentieth century, the superpowers supported insurgency and counterinsurgency as a type of proxy conflict.

Most Westerners think the answer is liberal democracy, as did many Chinese liberals in the twentieth century.

Some analysts see China playing a role today similar to Germany s role in the twentieth century.

Twice in the twentieth century in 1931 and again in 1969 70 France helped to bring down the world monetary system.

In the nineteenth century, some 80 million people crossed oceans to new homes far more than in the twentieth century.

In the twentieth century, knowledge creation became the job of specialists, which accelerated knowledge creation but retarded inter disciplinary application.

We must find ways to prevent the political polarization that gave rise to totalitarian systems communist and fascist in the twentieth century.

But at least it doesn t tax poor countries, as rich country imperialists did until well into the twentieth century.

The twentieth century was dominated by a debate over the social organization of the human condition based on alternative concepts of history and even of human personality.

For hundreds of millions of citizens in Communist run countries in the twentieth century, the me in the question was a dictator or oligarchy ruling with totalitarian or authoritarian powers.

Twentieth century plant breeders learned to accelerate genetic changes in plants with chemicals and radiation a rather shotgun approach to the genetic improvement of plants.

CANBERRA October marked 50 years since the Indonesian military launched one of the twentieth century s worst mass murders.

Here, the savings bank movement in the United Kingdom and Europe in the nineteenth century, and the microfinance movement pioneered by the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh in the twentieth century, comes to mind.

The true Che was a more significant figure than his fictional clone, for he was the incarnation of what revolution and Marxism really meant in the twentieth century.

France and other countries were willing to show solidarity, but Germany, traumatized twice in the twentieth century by runaway prices, was allergic to any buildup of inflationary pressures.

This meant that it was quite possible, at least during the twentieth century, for a Bahamian adult to live and die without experiencing more than one or two devastating hurricanes.

The mass killers who took power in the twentieth century were doomed to being killed in popular revolts or to being tried for their crimes that is, if they did not die in power.

Menachem Begin, a hawkish predecessor of Netanyahu as prime minister, once had the insolence to say to the great historian Yaakov Talmon that, when it comes to the twentieth century, I am more an expert than you are.

Moreover, like China, Japan was a society steeped in Confucian culture, which many Chinese reformers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries blamed as a critical impediment to their own country s development and modernization.

In classic business cycle theory, a boom is initiated by a clutch of inventions power looms and spinning jennies in the eighteenth century, railways in the nineteenth century, automobiles in the twentieth century. But competitive pressures and the long gestation period of fixed capital outlays multiply optimism, leading to more investment being undertaken than is actually profitable.

In classic business cycle theory, a boom is initiated by a clutch of inventions power looms and spinning jennies in the eighteenth century, railways in the nineteenth century, automobiles in the twentieth century.

Japan s leaders must recognize that the mindlessness with which they still treat the sensitivities of societies that suffered from Japanese imperialism in the twentieth century is as morally deaf as it is strategically damaging.

Such states are vulnerable, and the past is littered with small and successful globalizers that lost out because of power politics the Italian city states of the Renaissance, the Dutch Republic, or, in the twentieth century, Lebanon and Kuwait.

The most obvious explanation for the German peculiarity is an obsession with the lessons of German history, particularly the two episodes of runaway inflation in the twentieth century, in which holders of monetary assets were expropriated.

Indeed, metaphorically, military power provides a degree of security that is to order as oxygen is to breathing little noticed until it becomes scarce, at which point its absence dominates all else. In the twenty first century, military power will not have the same utility for states that it had in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but it will remain a crucial component of power in world politics.

In the twenty first century, military power will not have the same utility for states that it had in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but it will remain a crucial component of power in world politics.