Sentences with phrase «ancient societies from»

Ancient societies from all across the world have long understood and used the inherent principles of nature to heal and restore the body, mind and spirit.

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After studying a series of Western societies from ancient Greece and Iran through the history of Israel, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and on into the twentieth centuries, Polak concludes that the most important single factor involved in the generation of change is the image of the future held by a given group.

In addition, there are words and phrases that do not easily translate from one language to another, such as idiomatic expressions, word usages from ancient agrarian societies and so on.

We are in a crisis because of the present forms of industrial society, it says, and we need a change of course so radical it can come only from new values — or long - lost ancient values needing rediscovery.

This is a tiny hamlet of nineteenth - century settlement, much reduced from its ancient prosperity, yet the house is there, newly built from the ashes of its fiery ruin, Piety Hill, an Italianate pile, which began as a lumber baron's residence, sank to a refuge for impoverished gentry, and became the seat of a literary man — a history suggestive of larger changes in American society since 1918.

Such rebellion may also be the liberation from the unjust restrictions which an ancient society with fossilized traditions has fashioned for itself.

Supersti - tion will inevitably lose its place in society and be looked back on just as today we look back at ancient Egyptian, Roman, and Greek mythologies, except centuries and millennia from now it will be referred to as ancient Christian, Jewish, and Muslim mythologies.

The ancient dream of a society free from famine, disease, poverty, and despair is beginning to be fulfilled by the applications of science.

Derived from the Latin proletarius, «the one who produces offspring,» the term referred in ancient Rome to citizens without property, those whose children represented their only lasting contribution to society.

The alienation of the thinker from society is an ancient and a universal theme; perhaps its modern variant is the alienation of thought from society.

An ancient society ripe with mythology and trying to find meaning from every Thunderstorm, Every flood, every disease, every scary animal.

A solution had to be found, but it would have to come from sources other than the old English order [that is, the «ancient realm or the Anglican tradition»] The deep - seated tensions of early seventeenth - century English society had to be solved by some rather novel rearrangements of political and legal institutions.

The current situation in Syria is strong evidence of a more ancient and enduring norm from imperial and Cold War days: when a strong repressive state has one or two very powerful allies it can easily resist the wider will of international society and public morality.

Ancient Israel went from a rather libertarian society to a monarchy with no apparent violence.

The first was a constant influx of genetic material from ancient Africans, who had no Neanderthal DNA and who continued to pass through Western Asia for thousands of years as human societies grew in Europe and Asia.

Last week at the American Astronomical Society's meeting, astronomers announced the detection of a second type of radio static from the heavens, and although it may not come from an era quite as ancient as TV snow does, it may probe the period immediately afterward — an equally mysterious time when the first stars and black holes were lighting up.

After all, soil erosion from chemical - free tilled fields undermined the Roman Empire and other ancient societies around the world.

Ardren has «brought together studies from throughout the ancient Maya world to show that women were not sidebars in Maya society, but significant actors in their own right,» says Reese - Taylor, who is now building on Ardren's work as she looks for clues about powerful queens who were also fierce warriors.

Surprised by this find, Reese - Taylor returned from her trip wondering, «Was it possible that there were warrior queens in ancient Maya societies?

Michael Shermer, executive director of the Skeptics Society, argues that conspiracy theories come from an ancient human tendency to stay on guard against predators.

At a remote rain forest site in Guatemala last February, archaeologist David Lee happened upon the find of a lifetime: a royal tomb from the seventh century A.D. that suggests war was not strictly a man's game in ancient Mayan society.

Previous attempts to get DNA from parchment did not work well, but by using modern sequencing techniques, researchers can now get abundant livestock DNA from parchment, such as the 16th century deed from Lancashire, U.K., shown above, the team reports online today in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Not only is parchment plentiful, but as a legal document, it also has been carefully stored and often dated, making it a more readily available source of ancient DNA than bones.

To explore the transition to agriculture, scientists have looked to the Natufians, an ancient hunter - gatherer society that flourished from about 12,500 to 9500 B.C.E. in a part of the Middle East called the Levant, which includes pieces of modern - day Cyprus, Syria, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine.

Read previous Zoologger columns: How weakness makes the crayfish stronger, The heaviest animal in the air, Ancient air - breathing, triple - jawed fish, Horror fly returns from the dead, Even parasitic worms have a divided society, Shrimp plays chicken with its sex change, Death by world's longest animal, Live birth, evolving before our eyes, Sympathy for the piranha, The world's most fecund vertebrate.

Seeps from which gas and oil escape were formative to many ancient cultures and societies.

Just as biologists reconstruct extinct species, and archaeologists reconstruct ancient societies, linguists can reconstruct the pronunciation of ancient from modern words and show which languages have developed from the same ancestor.

Read previous Zoologger columns: Ancient air - breathing, triple - jawed fish, Horror fly returns from the dead, Even parasitic worms have a divided society, Shrimp plays chicken with its sex change, Death by world's longest animal, Live birth, evolving before our eyes, Sympathy for the piranha, The world's most fecund vertebrate, Whale - eater's helpful sulphur - powered guests, Horror lizard squirts tears of blood.

The study, published today in Science and funded by Wellcome and Royal Society, examined ancient DNA from some of the world's first farmers from the Zagros region of Iran and found it to be very different from the genomes of early farmers from the Aegean and Europe.

But there are some exceptions, including matrilineal societies like the Lycians of ancient Turkey, in which elite status and kinship passed from mothers to sons and daughters.

In fact, Hannam said, many societies have banned or limited the carving up of human corpses, from the ancient Greeks and Romans to early Europeans (that's why Galen was stuck dissecting animals and peering into gladiator wounds).

Archaeologists from Yale University and the Royal museums of art and history, Belgium have discovered ancient Egyptian rock inscriptions that can tell when a system of hieroglyphic writing began to attract broad layers of Egyptian society.

Ancient origins, evolution, and the future of bread wheat agriculture Originally formed during the spread of agriculture among settled societies, bread wheat came about from the hybridization between cultivated wheat (T. dicoccoides) and goat grass (Aegilops tauschii) about 8,000 years ago.

Now, interest in the ancient behemoths has piqued following the detection of gravitational waves from black hole mergers, the researchers wrote in the study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

How does an ancient practice, traditionally handed down from mentor to student, find relevance in a post-modern society?

Fallon explains that we have a natural craving for live culture sodas: «We offer the theory that the craving for both alcohol and soft drinks stems from an ancient collective memory of the kind of lacto - fermented beverages still found in traditional societies.»

As a society we've come a long way from ancient yoga teachings in where sitting 12 hours / day (often in forward flexion, forward head) wasn't a norm.

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Society is tending away from the clutches of ancient taboos and senseless inhibitions.

More important in that department is the debut of a CinemaScope visual style, which cinematographer Leon Shamroy anchors through often hauntingly precise coloration and lighting, in addition to a tight scope which is intimate and grand enough to immerse you into George Davis» and Lyle R. Wheeler's Oscar - winning art direction, which is immersive enough by its own right, utilizing Paul S. Fox's and Walter M. Scott's impeccable set decoration and Charles LeMaire's and Emile Santiago's costume designs to restore the look of Ancient Rome - from its high society to simple villages - lavishly.

Join symbologist Robert Langdon (Academy Award Winner Tom Hanks) and cryptologist Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou) in their heart - racing quest to solve a bizarre murder mystery that will take them from France to England - and behind the veil of a mysterious ancient society, where they discover a secret protected since the time of Christ.

I bet they will say to you years from now, «Hey, do you remember when we did that green - screen presentation on ancient Egyptian society?»

What these ancient maxims suggest is that societies distant from us in time and place have something important to tell us regarding our efforts to educate young people for character.

Dr. Blair Green grew up in Manhattan and received her bachelor's degree from Vassar College with a major in biology and a minor in ancient societies.

It is one of the ancient villages in Bali where its society life different from the other village exist in Bali Island.

In this exhibition we see a blend of ancient archaeology and modern design, in a sequence of twelve scenes from the private life of a couple from the highest echelons of Roman society and their... Read more

Taking a look around, it is clear that the alternate symbolism of orientalism and freedom encapsulated by ancient Phrygian headwear and then the red freedom cap has not completely disappeared from society.

Amy Pleasant's exhibition «re / form,» at Whitespace Gallery through February 15, presents a lineage of human history and responses to issues of identity, from ancient to modern times, caused by weighing one's role in society against one's place in nature.

A group exhibition, Gravitas, takes inspiration from ancient Roman society, in which gravitas heralded the transition from youthfulness to adulthood.

For instance, tirelessly spinning The Chariot of Greenwich (2013)-- a replica of the ancient Chinese two - wheeled vehicle — and the two videos Report of the chairman of the Committee on Standard Time, GH Wood, 1884 (2018) and Lecture delivered to the China Society on The Yellow Emperor's South Pointing Chariot, by George Lanchester, 1947 (2018) tell the story of the south pointing chariot, a compass from China 2600 BC to London 20th Century and the Prime Meridian in Greenwich, the so - called center of the world — who has the power to claim the beginning, the zero point of time?

John Mashey, a self - described «ancient UNIX person» who worked at Bell Labs from 1973 to 1983, posted some thoughts about how the labs shaped R and D efforts and investment to raise the odds of breakthroughs that could improve society.