Sentences with phrase «about other centuries»

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«In the middle of the 20th century, it was the most famous, the most admired, the most widely respected company in the world,» says Quinn Mills, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School and the author of «The IBM Lesson» and other books about the company's history and culture.

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.

Other investors include Silicon Valley fund Technology Crossover Ventures, which invested $ 250 million in 2014 for a 10 % stake, and 21st Century Fox, which in 2013 bought what was then a 5 % stake in Vice for $ 70 million (it now owns about 3 %).

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.

Europeans killed Native Americans, Native Australians, caused ww1, ww2 (killed their own kind like no other), killed Mayans, killed Jews (holocaust), killed about every race on earth, slavery, bombed vietnam, laos, cambodia, multiple south American nations, African Nations, kill millions in Iraq, Afghanistan with carpet bombing, cluster bombing, napalm, drone bombing and Im not going to go to colonialism for centuries.

The author in her «wisdom» seem to think that Roman empire was the only place where Christianity spread, what about other locations in the world, including India where Christianity spread right in the First century.

One cause of this decline in awareness of Buckley's Catholicism may be the fact that he wrote less about his faith than any other major Catholic figure of the twentieth century — at least, if we calculate by sheer percentage of the prose he turned out in his hugely productive lifetime.

do I need any approval before I practice my religion, do I have to prove my religion before I practice, my holy book further describe that you must carry a gun in 21st century because there is too much crime in this world, but it doesn't say much about if I migrate to another country these rules will still apply, Or I should modified them according to my comfort, like talking in English which is not my religious language wearing pants or not, having education or not, standing in line or not, I am so confused what should I do can someone help me, should I go back to country where my religion originated or back in time ask my guru questions about western world confusion, or just decide by myself what suites me, or preach other develop country that you guys are wrong be peaceful.

In fact the Book of Mormon talks about a separate civilization who arrived centuries before those of Jewish heritage; and not one verse of the Book of Mormon declares that there were NO other civilizations or peoples of other parts of the world also inhabiting the Americas.

The Jewish scholar Joseph Klausner, for example, holds that the Pharisees and Sadducees were justified in their attacks on Jesus because he imperiled Jewish culture at its foundations, and that by ignoring everything that belongs to wholesome social life he undercut the work of centuries.2 Others within the Christian tradition have felt considerable uneasiness lest the words of Jesus about nonresistance imperil the civil power of the State, or his words about having no anxiety for food or drink or other material possessions curtail an economic motivation essential to society.

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.

One merely saying James was his brother, which can not determine that it was talking about any kind of divine being, and the other talks about him doing miracles, being the christ and what not, which by the way is generally thought to be a complete forgery and added in later by Eusebius in the fourth century.

Systematic philosophical thinking about urbanism antedates Christianity, going back to Aristotle, who wrote some four centuries before Christ that the best life for human beings is lived in community with others, and most particularly in a polis.

Walker Percy has taught me more about the human condition in the 20th century than virtually any other writer.

Until the nineteenth century, mathematicians traditionally held that the axioms of geometry, arithmetic, and other disciplines could be established as self - evidently true statements about objects in space.

Other than a book that was written down centuries after the events it speaks about occurred, what proof can you present?

Muneef, when you say «Deuteronomy 4:39 (Wrong) since it states that Jesus and God are one, but Right if was saying God is one and no other...», you do realize that Deuteronomy was written centuries before the birth of Jesus and says nothing about him.

We are so accustomed to thinking in other ways, thanks to centuries of philosophical and religious teaching, that we are very ready to talk about substantial selfhood.

In a 1998 exchange with Placher in the Christian Century, Gustafson charged that postliberals never give straight answers to questions about the historical credibility of biblical narrative or about the relation of Christian truth to the truth of other religions.

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.

Avoidance of the emotional side of the centuries - old discussion about faith and religion is the better way to reduce the noise and to understand the other side of the question.

James... I can certainly agree on yr point about self - deception, but remember how long it took the «entire package «to evolve as we know it today... the first list of «our 27 NT books» doesn't appear until the latter half of the 4th century and we know that many other books (that didn't make it in) were known, read and circulated for many generations after.

Is it possible and after reading about it i kept on thinking «i will sell to my soul for 20 carats get out shut up i will never ever sell my soul to you oh god please help me and this is continuing for a few days i am afraid that i have sold my sold to the devil have i please help and still i think god's way of allowing others to hate him us much worse even you know and can easily think think about much better punishments like rebirth after being punished for all the sins in life and i am feeling put on the sin of those who committed the unforgiviable sin (the early 0th century priests) imagine them burning in hell fire till now for 2000 years hopelessly screaming to god for help i can't belive the mercy of god are they forgiven even though commiting this sin keans going to hell for entinity thank you and congralutions i think the 7 year tribulation periodvis over in 18th century the great commect shooting and in 19th century the sun became dark for a day and moon was not visible on the earth but now satun has the domination over me those who don't belive in jesus crist i used to belive in him but now after knowing a lot in science it is getting harharder to belive in him even though i know that he exsists and i only belived in him not that he died for me in the cross and also not for eternal life and i still sin as much as i used to before but only a little reduced and i didn't accept satan as my master but what can i do because those who knowingly sin a lot and don't belive in jesus christ has to accept satan as their master because he only teaches us that even though he is evil he gives us complete freedom but thr followers of jesus and god only have freedom because they can sin only with in a limit and no more but recive their reward after their life in heaven but the followers of satun have to go to hell butbi don't want to go to hell and be ruled by the cruel tryant but still why didn't god destroy satun long way before and i think it was also Adam and eve's fault also they could have blamed satan and could have also get their punishment reduced but they didn't and today we are seeing the result

The CENTURY addressed other personal sins and moral failings, regularly speaking to the problems caused by lax divorce laws, and occasionally writing about the evils of gambling, tobacco, and the «sex consciousness» that would accompany the «vociferous demand for the teaching of sex hygiene» in public schools.

There are few other figures than the monarchs and their satellites — but that only reflects the character of the age — Roman history, Mediterranean history generally, in that century, was a history of Führers and Duces, strutting about imperiously and wreaking their destructions upon the earth.

Though it would be ludicrous for serious Christians to boast about the 20th Century, one of its few positive accomplishments, surely, has been a greater sensitivity towards «the other» — the racially, culturally, economically, sexually and religiously «different.»

In short, were we dependent upon the epigraphical sources alone for information about ancient Israel, we would know little more than that an entity known as Israel existed toward the end of the 13th century BC, and that two minor kingdoms, called Israel and Judah, existed alongside each other in the central Palestinian hill country after the mid-ninth century BC.

De Bruyn develops, for example, a complicated argument about how madness, misrule, and other social pathologies are «the inevitable products» of eighteenth - century polite society.

The key to Greer's interpretation» one that makes her short book on Shakespeare for Oxford's «Past Masters» series one of the finest essays on Shakespeare this century» is her insight that the persona of the Fool in Lear and other plays largely coincides with the self «portrait of the poet in the Sonnets: both persons, Sonneteer and Fool, are self «deprecatory, marginalized, and contemned, yet for that reason are lethally insightful about the flaws of the nobility.

In other words, Thomas, though perhaps written in final form about mid-second century or shortly thereafter, may preserve an independent tradition of sayings more reliable in some cases than those found in Matthew, Mark and Luke.

However by the Reformation in the 16th century, Martin Luther not only translated the Gospels, but he interpreted them in printed sermons as well, and when John Calvin, Roger Williams and others broadly disagreed in print with Luther on such matters as what the scriptures said about the role of government in society, the whole matter of scriptural interpretation was opened to thousands of individuals who for the first time could read (or have read to them) the published documents.

Apparently, various first century churches struggled with the teachings of Jesus, Paul, and others about the new roles women could assume in the Christian community.

It's always refreshing to hear some out of context quotes by some old white dudes from centuries ago about other people thousands of years ago.

Sixth century ideas in the 21st century has brought about more death, pain and destruction across the world than the ideas of any other one group in modern times.

Even if there is reserve about my suggestion that a founding trauma for recent British theology was the aggressive assault of positivist and analytical philosophies and their allies in the middle 50 years of the century — a full account would at least require interweaving with several other historical strands — it is still clear that the mood of the parents is rather different from that of the grandparents.

But - without going into great detail about the history and causes of 20th - century feminism - the genuine Christian aspects of the movement were swamped and crushed by other forces.

I have come to realize that my discovery about clouds is old hat, that many others made the same discovery years and centuries ago.

Then apparently the old stuff was outdated so he sent his son to «fulfill» the old scriptures but then the son doesn't write anything to replace it, then nearly half a century later other people start writing about the son and claim that as the updated word of God in the form of hundreds of letters to the different congregations, mainly from the new «leader» of the Church Paul, who again changed the tenor of the message.

For about a century now, no other issue in American Jewish life has evoked as much emotion and energy at the local level as has the struggle to keep religion out of their children's schools.

We may be tempted to leave out Philemon because it is so badly attested in the second century and because debates later arose about its inspiration; but we must finally — after all these calculations — remember that if the scribe wrongly calculated the number of pages for his book he could glue on others at the end.

In so far as the early Christian gospel was addressed to Jews and / or gentiles of the first century, it can certainly be understood in a more specific way if we know something about the first - century world; on the other hand, it may be that we shall be tempted to make what was intended generally more specific than it actually was when we relate it too closely to the first century.

How Big Data Can Predict the Wine of the Century While Moneyball, and Brad Pitts good looks, became the face that launched a thousand big data blog posts, I have often thought about other examples, which might appeal to those who prefer to pour a glass a wine versus pore over box scores and Hadoop clusters...

While we have known for centuries about the health benefits of all types of honey, recent studies have shown that only Manuka has an antibacterial component that sets it apart from other honeys.

The following quotes about moms were written as far back as the 18th century and come to us from many well - known authors, song writers, poets and many other influential people.

Visitors can talk with volunteers about activities such as giving tours to schoolchildren and other visitors; making floral arrangements and gardening; touring new exhibits; learning the opportunities for dressing up in costume to demonstrate 19th Century exhibits; or plying a hobby such as blacksmithing, printing or stone carving.

It is questionable whether it makes sense, in the 21st century, to reflect about questions of social justice, liberty, equality or other core concepts of political theory without taking economic issues into account.

Appointment is an alternative to elections, but it is unlikely, I think, that existing political elites would be likely to appoint delegates truly willing to ask sufficiently radical questions about what kind of constitutional design might best fit the United States (or any other country) in the 21st century.

And then there's the thing you don't talk about: Rangel is one of only two survivors of the «Gang of Four» Harlem Clubhouse he founded a half - century ago (the other is former Mayor David Dinkins).

If you go even further back in history the are about five other countries / empires with claims to the land in every century.