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"Millennium" in a Sentence (26 examples)
The resolution made at the Millennium - to give all remaining dancing bears in the European Union the chance of a species-appropriate life in one place - has become a reality in 2007 with the transfer of the last three Bulgarian dancing bears.
How many centuries are there in a millennium?
The UN has set eight millennium development goals to improve living standards for the world's poorest people.
Some people thought the world was going to end with the last millennium, others in 2012... but we're still here!
The Millennium Development Goals aim to reduce hunger, poverty and disease.
We've already prepared for the millennium bug.
A thousand years make up a millennium.
Even now, in the second millennium, many women suffer discrimination in all aspects of life.
The advent of the euro is the beacon for the new millennium.
The Millennium Development Goals were supposed to be achieved by 2015.
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But these seekers, too, are saved - by virtue of the inherited symbolic aids of society, the rites of passage, the grace-yielding sacraments, given to mankind of old by the redeemers and handed down through millenniums.
How this happens no one really knows, despite the efforts of philosophers and psychologists over two and a half millennia to study the phenomenon.
The first known man-made tools, including spear points and axes, were associated with a hunting and gathering pattern that lasted, according to anthropologists, almost 200 millennia.
Magnolias are some of the most primitive of our flowering trees, and fossils dating back millennia prove that they have had little need to evolve.
After millenniums of austerity and poverty, the age of limitless “superabundance” was at hand.
usher in the millennium
The Nazis' concept for the so-called Thousand-Year Reich of their infallible Leader has been described as but a pale pseudoreligious false-prophet imitation of the Christian concept of the millennium of Christ regnant.
After the purifying judgments which attended the personal return of Christ to the Earth, He will reign over restored Israel and over the earth for one thousand years. This is the period commonly called the Millennium. The seat of His power will be Jerusalem, and the saints, including the saved of the Dispensation of Grace, viz., the Church, will be associated with Him in His glory.
An archangel ecstatically proclaiming the Millennium, and then finding that it clashed unpardonably with Henley and would have to be indefinitely postponed, could hardly have felt more crestfallen than Cornelius Appin at the reception of his wonderful achievement.
the end of the world would be heralded by a series of spectacular and symbolic events […]. According to most commentators, this millennium had already begun.
Conrad's later years unfolded in the shadow of the coming Millennium, when the end of the world was forecast.
Near-synonym: utopia
usher in the millennium
But the aggressive members of society are always tending to become bullies, robbers, and swindlers; and no one believes that such a state of things as we now live in is the millennium.
When rumour got afoot that in future mechanical power would be unlimited, the people expected a millennium.
A huge fireworks display was put on in Sydney to celebrate the millennium.
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