Year after year, decade after decade,
century after century, folks keep trying to fight the «war to end all wars,» but to no avail.
After a century in which our science and politics have rejected any belief in the unique value of each person, surely such a sweeping claim demands substantial supporting argument.
The events of that evening remind me of an experience in the last years of my father's life, a few months before he died,
just after his century birthday.
It's probably time to accept basic greenhouse effect equations now
too after a century and a half or so of their standing up to all alternatives.
In any other domain,
after centuries of failing to provide any real evidence at all, such a claim as «a god exists» would have been abandoned a long time ago.
But I also noted that, at least in today's world,
after centuries in which we talked far more than we listened, it is time to put listening first.
Year after decade
after century after millennium, these compressed snow layers trap air bubbles in them and become buried ice vaults, locking data into retrievable troves of climate and atmospheric information.
After centuries as one of Savannah's best - known gathering places, City Market now serves as a top celebration site.
Whatever it is, the particular hub defines the center around which each world faith rotates, endowing it season after season and century
after century with its characteristic ethos.
It was not «invented» by Calvin, but was
rediscovered after centuries of being hidden and corrupted by the Babylonian whore, the Catholic church.
«To try and compare Hitler and the Nazis - the millions of people who died in the Second World War, the Holocaust - with the free democracies of Europe coming together to trade and co-operate, and in the process to help to bring peace to the continent of
Europe after centuries of war, is frankly deeply offensive.»
The revelation has caused a sharp intake of breath among zoologists,
because after centuries of study it means we may have to rethink our ideas about insect physiology.
The artist Barbara Kruger told the New York Times that these shows are «playing catch -
up after centuries of women's marginality and invisibility», explaining these galleries are sensing opportunity «to cultivate a new market.»
A 2003 «Letter to President George W. Bush» (PDF) advised that «the uncertain link between industrial emissions and global
warming after a century of [greenhouse gas] buildup and decades of study points toward lower - range, benign warming scenarios.»
The neighbouring kingdoms of Oscia and Arcathia have been at a tentative peace for three years
after centuries -LSB-...]
«Since we began working ten years ago to pass effective tobacco measures around the world, global sales of cigarettes have
declined after a century of steadily increasing.»
jesus wouyld be disgusted by the catholic church AND the catholic religion... filled with hypocrisy... so sad that it still remains a
religion after centuries of abuse... centuries of tortue, hatred and abuse... why dear lord is trhe catholic religion still around?
But even in the corporate application which was originally intended, the principle became increasingly difficult to maintain, as century
after century passed, and the Jewish people found themselves in a worsening situation of poverty and oppression, in spite of their endeavours to keep the law of God.
Anglicans and
Ecumenism After centuries of «good and truly brotherly relations» things have got rough - there are «tangible difficulties», in the diplomatic language of church statements - between the Russian Orthodox Church and the churches of the Anglican Communion, and the Orthodox insist it's the Anglicans» fault.
While Gregory successfully sent missionaries to evangelise pagans in Europe, John Paul sought, with less success, to
re-evangelise after centuries of Christianity had started to flag.
This, by the way,
comes after centuries of pleading with them to return to God and cease their demon worship.
The Church is after all an institution that has seen to its own survival for century
after century under a great variety of political, economic, and geographical conditions, sometimes admirably, sometimes perhaps not so admirably, without benefit of counsel from the likes of me.
One of his earliest reports covered the establishment of the Federal Council of Churches, which took place a couple of
months after the Century was refounded.
But contacts alone need not retain in Edessa the memory of a Parthian
king after a century and half.
Not to mention the books of the bible were written 100 years or more after the Crucifixion and facts get a little
hazy after a century.
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After centuries without a homeland, climaxed by the Holocaust, the notion of a chosen people seemed only ironic.
Modern Atheists have tried to turn science into some infallible deity itself and as science has always proven itself wrong century
after century from claiming the world is flat to darwin's theory of evolution being proven wrong and needing to be re-hypothesized.
Belgium has survived an acute internal struggle between its French and Flemish populations by giving equal status to the
latter after centuries of subordination.
The notion that being female means self - sacrifice and always putting someone else's needs before your own isn't going to be something we can shrug off in a
generation after centuries of reinforcement.
There are a number of pillars of our democracy, one of them is the independence of the judiciary which we have maintained for centuries, and one of the others is the freedom of the press which we are still
maintaining after centuries.
Fishers have never been overly abundant in the mountains of the West Coast, and their population
plummeted after a century of logging and trapping.