Sentences with phrase «as historians of»

As historians of science have noted, scientists can be very creative when defending the paradigm that pays.

Its more than 4,000 members (Fellows), a third based overseas, include scientific researchers in universities, observatories and laboratories as well as historians of astronomy and others.

As a historian of that first Gilded Age, I see parallels between the power of the railroads and today's internet giants like Verizon and Comcast.

As a historian of trade, I thought it would be worth recalling some illuminating examples, each of which led to disastrous results.

It does slight justice to Father Copleston's own achievements as a historian of philosophy to whom students have been indebted for generations.

Same here Joey — I can't say that Luke has stood out as a historian of any merit in the classes I've taken...

Lord Zealous is correct; I as a historian of religion and — is she rubbing it in as she draws out the third syllable?

As a historian of spiritualities, I tend to see the Protestant split into many denominations as a bona fide parallel to the medieval and postmedieval multiplication of orders and spiritual ways.

One wonders how Eliade will respond to this nonbook, for it attempts to unmask him as a historian of religions and to unveil him as a Christian homo religiosus immersed in a labyrinthine world in which God is dead.

As a historian of performance, I am interested in how bodily presence and speech became issues in Paul's conflict with the Corinthian superapostles in the 50's CE.

Besançon first earned his reputation as a historian of Soviet politics and of Russian nationalism (toward both of which he entertains understandably dim views), and he thinks that the Russian nationalists of the nineteenth century, among their other sins, killed the genre of icon «painting when they began to praise the icon's superiority over Western art.

In other words, he foils the very work which he is expected to do as a historian of religions: to keep himself informed about the research of his colleagues, specialists in other areas, assimilating and confronting their findings, and finally integrating them in order to better understand his Greek documents.

He is not held to duplicate the efforts of specialists, just as a historian of the nineteenth - century French novel is not expected to duplicate the labors on the manuscripts of Balzac or Flaubert, the stylistic analyses of Stendhal, or the research on the sources of Victor Hugo or Gérard de Nerval.

What I noticed as an historian of education was his intellectual history of the culture - of - poverty arguments — a nice long chunk I would like most graduate students in the -LSB-...]

Despite Windmuller - Luna's credentials as a historian of African arts and architecture with a Ph.D from Princeton University and lectureships at Columbia University, and previous role as Mellon Collections Research Specialist (African Arts) at the Princeton University Art Museum, several people took to Twitter to criticize the appointment.

As an historian of Chinese art, I find it hard to know just how to respond to Ad Reinhardt's essays on the subject.

As a historian of science I am trained to analyze and understand scientific arguments, their development, their progress, etc., and my specific expertise is in the history of earth science.

Not exact matches

But Bush's choice to champion literacy is also indicative of her persona — and legacy — as a whole, say both Gutin and James Engel, a presidential historian at Southern Methodist University.

Meanwhile, as various pundits and historians across the globe debate if and how Trump's surprising political ascendancy will shift the overall tone of U.S. politics going forward, the candidate himself feels like only a win in November will make a difference.

Future historians will look upon this as the time when a strong hand brought the rule of law back to civilization.

Modest about her own pioneering achievements, she is on record (in an interview with computer historian Janet Abbate) as saying that her biggest contribution was to be «the grandmother of the web».

As it turns out, the one - time haberdasher from Missouri was even more blunt in his private correspondence — a fact that Truman historian Monte Poen uncovers in his illuminating collection of the former president's letters.

As famed historian, Will Duran said, «I think the ability of the average man could be doubled if it were demanded, if the situation demanded.»

As civil rights historian Taylor Branch wrote in a much - talked - about 2011 Atlantic article: «The tragedy at the heart of college sports is not that some college athletes are getting paid, but that more of them are not.»

As a historian by background who has written quite a bit on the Great War, it's always nice to see the media cover things that otherwise have been long forgotten outside the ranks of historians and buffs.

Historian Antony Beevor's sweeping history of the final months on the eastern front, «The Fall of Berlin 1945,» captured the mood in the room as victors and vanquished gathered to bring their conflict to an end:

«That much may indeed be true, but it was one of many of the tall tales that further evolved into a truism of sorts, that was basically «accepted» as such by historians, press and mafia history aficionados,» Cipollini said.

Historian, Alexandra Munroe, described the period as «undoubtedly the most creative outburst of anarchistic, subversive and riotous tendencies in the history of modern Japanese culture.»

Women's suffrage — or the political fight to enfranchise women — is widely considered to have begun with the Seneca Fall convention, as chronicled by this U.S. House's Office of the Historian.

Roberts cites an observation by labour historian Jan Kainer: «Women's labour organizing contributed significantly to the building and sustaining of rank - and - file participation, developing new democratic structures such as women's caucuses, organizing the unorganized, and forging political alliances with non-labour groups.»

«Lower oil prices have not proven to be as stimulative as economic theory once had it,» said Daniel Yergin, the energy historian and vice chairman of the IHS consultancy.

«Furthermore, in the main, historians educated as Keynesians and monetarists do not understand the economic history of money, let alone the difference between a gold standard and a gold - exchange standard.

Levitt has worked tirelessly to build development studies as a multi-disciplinary field of scholarly endeavour, in which development economics plays an essential role but must be complemented by essential contributions from other social scientists and historians.

Contemporaries and historians have viewed the Last Spike — as well as the iconic photographs of the event — as a moment when national unity was realized.

As we take an exclusive first look at Red Dead Redemption 2, journalist and historian Holly Nielsen explores how the first game is one of gaming's best examples of historical atmosphere.

As explained by Murray Rothbard (America's greatest economics historian), these pre-Fed financial panics «were a result of the arbitrary credit creation powers of the banking system.»

Perhaps not where anyone would expect him to be during the last weekend of the campaign, Liberal Party leader Raj Sherman was scheduled to spend today in the traditionally conservative voting Red Deer, where the Liberals nabbed prominent local historian Michael Dawe as their candidate in Red Deer - North.

As economic historian J.K. Galbraith wrote about the advance leading up to the 1929 crash, the market's gains «had an aspect of great reliability... Indeed the temporary breaks in the market which preceded the crash were a serious trial for those who had declined fantasy.

I don't know if Friday, Oct. 10th will be heralded by historians as the bottom of this bear market, a day on which the Dow hit an intra-day low below 8,000, but I think it might be close.

Jeff joined the organization as a market analyst and historian under the mentorship of his father in 1990 and became editor - in - chief some years later.

A 2011 Maclean's survey of historians on Canada's prime ministers ranked John A. Macdonald, of course, the top Conservative (in second spot, after Liberal Wilfrid Laurier) and pegged Borden as the next highest - rated Tory PM (in eighth position overall).

For as long as his story has been told — which, historians tell us, is longer than any other book in the Bible — Job has served as a patron saint of the downtrodden.

YOUR HISTORIANS tell us you killed another 13,000,000 (YES, not a typo, thats THIRTEEN MILLION) africans AFTER KIDNAPPING THEM from Southern Africa, all 20,000,000 of them and herding them like FARM ANIMALS to work as cattle on your farms.

A sense for this kind of paradox is what is really splendid about McDougall as a historian.

Historians will complain that the barbarians did govern parts of the Roman Empire for some time, and the dismissal of our own governing elite as barbarians has dangerous consequences, as Oklahoma City shows too well.

Increased recognition of the accomplishments of the Middle Ages (including the birth of engineering, social benefits such as universities, hospitals and the beginnings of corporations and labor guilds, as well as science, (all under the Catholic Church) has led to the label being restricted in application or avoided by serious historians.

As a historian I do not want people downplaying horrific events for modern points - be it the early persecution of the church, the Crusades, the holocaust - whatever it might be.

The first century historian, Josephus wrote about him and expressed «Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure.

Because it will come as a huge surprise to actual historians to learn of such sources.

Please, any Christian, honestly answer the following: The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife» comes from the field of: (a) Astronomy; (b) Medicine; (c) Economics; or (d) Christianity You are about 70 % likely to believe the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with only one man, one woman and a talking snake if you are a: (a) historian; (b) geologist; (c) NASA astronomer; or (d) Christian I have convinced myself that gay $ ex is a choice and not genetic, but then have no explanation as to why only gay people have ho.mo $ exual urges.