Sentences with phrase «history rests upon»

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Nowadays, though no one doubts that the dramatic detail of the Flight of Helen, the Wrath of Achilles, and the rest, is imaginary, the poems are treated as valuable sources of evidence for the history of Greece and neighbouring lands shortly before 1000 BC Even our own Arthurian legends, I observe, are now treated seriously by quite serious historians, when they are seeking for light upon the dark age of Britain.

We can not do otherwise: no man can fashion world - history or the history of peoples unless upon his purpose and his powers there rests the blessings of this Providence.»

With this interpretation of the Christian philosophy of human history we have reached the affirmation upon which our entire argument rests.

For the law itself at its own legal level, this is the dominant and most characteristic trait, although obviously it rests upon the interpretation of history in terms of divine activity.

This faith, which sees Jesus as revelation of God in action in history, rests upon the commitment of men to the life which the story unfolds, or rather, to the person of Jesus himself — grasped in the depths of each man s existence as being what Whitehead said it was: «the revelation of the nature of God and of his agency in the world».

Much of the history of industrialization, like much of the operation of global capital today, rests upon the exploitation of laborers who have no choices and of parts of the world that have no power.

Seems they stumbled upon a hot wing sauce by accident and the rest is history.

Friends all wanted copies, a local publisher printed it, took it to a book fair, and the rest is publishing history: after BOY and GIRL versions first appeared in the late - 70's, Once Upon a Potty titles became best - sellers in the U.S., Holland, Israel & Japan; the hardcover books and animated VHS videos have sold over 4,000,000 copies since 1990 in the United States alone!

«This history is New York's history and it is the deeds and accomplishments of these men and women that helped build the foundation of equality and fairness that this state rests upon,» Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a statement.

«Black Panther» opens on a short re-telling of the history of the fictional country of Wakanda, an African nation that sealed itself off from the world upon discovering its technological advantages and was left undisturbed as the rest of the world was colonized by Western European powers.

Excerpted from the Foreword (page viii) One of the challenges of raising a child for African - American parents is that most history books are written from a Eurocentric perspective, and there isn't enough time during Black History Month to undo the damage inflicted upon impressionable young minds the rest of thhistory books are written from a Eurocentric perspective, and there isn't enough time during Black History Month to undo the damage inflicted upon impressionable young minds the rest of thHistory Month to undo the damage inflicted upon impressionable young minds the rest of the year.

Canadians, including the Algonquin Nation upon whose unceded territory our Parliament and Judicial buildings rest, are entitled to a monument or use that is fully inclusive of our history and identity.