Sentences with phrase «about centuries from»

Latif's run was legendary, one that will be talked about centuries from now, when children ask their mothers to recount how the «Daigoslayer» brought pride back to America's SSFIV fans after years of humiliation at Japanese players» hands, before they go to bed.

Spirit Tracks takes place about a century from where Phantom Hourglass left off.

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Twenty - First Century Fox had previously rejected a bid from Comcast over concerns about the regulatory risks and its stock value, a regulatory filing showed.

While Americans were buying their first cell phones, about a quarter - century ago, Estonians were shut off from the world as an outpost of the Soviet Union.

From the 19th century until about World War II, this was the legendary winter playground of well - to do expats.

Dish hasn't been shy about using its new muscle against other content providers either: It has taken recent disputes with both CBS (cbs) and 21st Century Fox (fox) to the point where both removed their channels from the network, but ultimately signed new agreements at what Dish felt were more favorable rates.

It's about the history of an iconic, globally powerful brand that represents an unlikely subject for a product that has gone from highly controversial to somewhat of a commodity over the course of half a century.

The technology elite who are leading this revolution will reassure you that there is nothing to worry about because we will create new jobs just as we did in previous centuries when the economy transitioned from agrarian to industrial to knowledge - based.

Rupert Murdoch's Twenty - First Century Fox Inc, which agreed in December to sell most of its assets to Walt Disney Co for $ 52.4 billion, had previously rejected a bid from Comcast Corp over concerns about the regulatory risks and its stock value, a regulatory filing on Wednesday showed.

Deadpool 2 originally included a joke about Disney, but Ryan Reynolds was told by 20th Century Fox to cut it from the film.

Between 2000 and 2014, the number of Americans who were a century or older increased by about 44 percent, according to a 2016 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Inadequate flood protection infrastructure, which right now might not contain high tides in El Nino years; Lack of action on annual sediment removal from spring freshets, which each year move over 30 million m3 of sediment and leave about 3 million m3 of silt in the navigation and secondary channels of the lower reaches; and, By the end of this century sea levels at the mouth of the river could potentially rise more than one meter due to climate change overtopping the diking system.

The average everyone yells about includes data from the 19th century.

I wanted to learn about the last era of American history when public shaming was a common form of punishment, so I was seeking out court transcripts from the 18th and early 19th centuries.

The nearly century - old American Civil Liberties Union and its foundations raised about $ 146 million last year, and they're seeing record donations this year, with support from Alphabet Inc.'s Google, Lyft Inc. and other companies.

Global crude - oil production has risen about 30 percent this century; expanding from around 75 million barrels per day in 2000 to 95 million barrels in 2016, with the top 10 - producing countries accounting for more than 60 percent of the total production.

There is nothing new about transporting this form of crude oil — and after nearly half a century, there is no evidence that internal corrosion is caused by transporting oil from the Canadian oil sands.

What is certainly true is that in serious Christian reflection, questions about the shape and fate of community have come to displace the language of personal conversion, transformation, and development from the central place such language held in Protestant Christian discourse in the first two - thirds of the twentieth century.

From the 4th Century CE up to about 200 years ago (so roughly 1700 years) Christians spread their message via force.

I remember (but could not find to link) a splendid editorial by the Christian Century's David Heim (some uncertainty about the author) from quite a few years ago (presumably before the 2008 election) wryly encouraging evangelicals to enjoy their moment in the political and cultural limelight because it would prove fleeting.

the only surviving writings about Christianity from the first centuries after the apostles come mainly from men steeped in Greek thought and philosophy.

Two momentous changes long ago transformed the legal world that Lincoln knew: increased specialization, prompted by the rise of corporate firms at the turn of the century, and a large influx of new lawyers from relatively unassimilated ethnic groups at about the same time.

It's hard to consider fears about the world as the motivation for the rise in the horror genre when» from Mary Shelley's The Last Man to Max Brooks» World War Z, and from Richard Jefferies» After London to Cormac McCarthy's The Road» post-apocalyptic subject matter is hardly a creation or expression confined to this century.

By the second century, Roman soldiers were bringing their new faith to Britain, and in the middle of the third century St. Alban became Britain's first known Christian martyr, but we don't know much more about who these Christians were, and it is here that Malcolm Lambert begins in Pagans and Christians: The Conversion of Britain from Alban to Bede, producing a captivating narrative by squeezing what he can» but no more» from archeological evidence (mostly from burial sites) and the limited historical record.

(I suppose you could argue that information about Jesus could have been passed down orally from the 1st to the 21st century, but if you've ever played that game called Telephone, it should be obvious there would be little accuracy in this method.)

If the dogmas of the Christian Church from the second to the sixth century centuries express finally and sufficiently the truths concerning the topics about which they deal, then the Greek philosophy of that period had developed a system of ideas of equal finality.

Yes, the available history says that the heart was in the possession of the church about a century later, so either someone kept it for a long time after cutting it out of his corpse — yeah, that sounds likely — or it is a medieval «relic» that is actually the heart of a pig or a sheep that some clergyman sold along with genuine pieces of the cross and bones from St. Peter to make a buck on the rubes, uh, faithful.

... Enough said... Think about that one... We are not Perfect beings therefore Religion is far from being perfect... We can see this throughout History and even into the 21st century Religion is A Controlled Evil... Biggest Controlled Beauracracy Hoax over Man's Self yet - is Religion... Brilliantly orchestrated I must say though... Only the Weak Minded can be controlled by Religion... Blessed Be... 696969

Left - leaning news site Mother Jones warned readers about the potential «revolutionary outcomes, from upending a century's worth of settled corporate law to opening the floodgates to religious challenges to every possible federal...

Yet, as Dale Ahlquist told me, «we need to expand our ideas about sanctity, and recognize the saints among us in the ordinary world» — not just mystics and martyrs from centuries past.

Before, however, we look at the questions of intellectual openness, fellowship with other faiths and social engagement, it will help to see why many thinkers picture the new century — it seems presumptuous to speculate about the new millennium — as very different from the century that is drawing to a close.

And just think about this: Current estimates say that about 12 million Africans were shipped across the Atlantic for slavery from the 16th to the 19th centuries.

We know a little about how this happened from the writings of Gregory, later known as Thaumaturgos or «Worker of Wonders» (c.213 - c. 270), who was one of the leading third - century Christians in Asia Minor.

In an interesting new study, Melville's City (Cambridge University Press, 312 pages, $ 59.95), however, a scholar at MIT named Wyn Kelley demonstrates Melville's surprising distance from the rest of nineteenth - century thought about the city.

About as far from «arbitrary» as an event could be since they were noticed and measured by ordinary, untaught humans for dozens of centuries and led us to further scientific discoveries.

The fifth period was the third advance, from about A.D. 1500 to about the middle of the eighteenth century.

Vaticanus, dating from the fourth century, has been in the Vatican Library since about 1841.

But if we let our heritage slip from our hands, if we do not understand what we are, then Lincoln's great words about us, words we find it hard to understand in these closing years of the twentieth century — that we are «the last best hope of earth» — will in the end be nothing but a mockery, a sarcastic epithet for a fallen republic.

A brief recession followed, as the sixth period, from about the middle of the eighteenth century until A.D. 1815.

If, for the sake of creating convenient chronological pegs, we center the total exodus event in the date 1200 B.C., we can date the David - Jerusalem (or David - Zion) event about 1000 B.C. Saul, from one of the northern tribes in the confederation of Israelite tribes, formed an uneasy and incomplete monarchy in Palestine in the eleventh century B.C. with the help of the prophet - priest Samuel.

Even if they attempt to explain away «No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven nor the Son, but only the Father» (Mark 13:32), they can not explain away that most every Christian, theologian, scholar, and prophet from the first Century until the Nineteenth Century all believed that the church would go through the Great Tribulation and not escape through some secret rapture that would leave the world paralyzed.

How about studies from the 21st Century?

More particularly, and with pointed significance for the tale of Joseph, we know that Egypt, which earlier in this period controlled the affairs of Palestine, was itself under the rule of foreign dynasties (the fifteenth to the seventeenth dynasties) from a point in the eighteenth century to about the middle of the sixteenth century B.C..

about people who experience same - sex attraction trying to live a Christian life, this fuller exposition of his thought on the new ideologies presented a fascinating look into the way in which colonialism — discredited by liberals and to lesser extent many conservatives as well — has gone away from the actual military and political rule seen in previous centuries, to a stealthier and subtler form of the exertion of foreign power.

The Talmud is, in a sense, the business record of the House of Israel, extending over a period of about eight centuries, from 300 B.C.E. to 475 C.E. Much of it is concerned with the business of business or legal relationships, leading again to the charge that Jews are more concerned with mundane matters than they are with morality, more concerned with letter than spirit.

At an early date it was a favourite of those who expected the imminent coming of God's reign on earth; Papias (early second century) made use of it and supplied other traditions about future miraculous fertility from what (he said) had come from John the Lord's disciple.

«His work in philosophy forms part, and a very important part, of the movement of twentieth - century realism; but whereas the other leaders of that movement came to it after a training in late - nineteenth - century idealism, and are consequently realistic with the fanaticism of converts and morbidly terrified of relapsing into the sins of their youth, a fact which gives their work an air of strain, as if they cared less about advancing philosophical knowledge than about proving themselves good enemies of idealism, Whitehead's work is perfectly free from all this sort of thing, and he suffers from no obsessions; obviously he does not care what he says, so long as it is true.

The second view about the origin of Christianity in India is that Indian church was founded by Christians from East Syria during the course of the first three centuries.

In the 21st century, isn't it about time we stopped taking moral guidance from a collection of thousands - of - years - old stories that weren't very good guidance to begin with?

«We have no means of knowing how it came about that the name of Gondophorus whose time and succession had wholly vanished from the earth was still remembered in a syriac speaking country at least a century, perhaps considerably more than a century, after his death».