Sentences with phrase «among early peoples»

Their new research analyzing more than 100 linguistic features suggest more complex patterns of contact and migration among the early peoples who first settled the Americas.

Among the Hebrews, therefore, as among early peoples generally, and, indeed, down to modern times, the process of courtship involved a commercial transaction.

At any rate, as is true among all early peoples, from the beginning till far down the course of Hebrew thought, thunder and lightning were regarded as special exhibitions of superhuman power.

As among early peoples generally, morals were to the ancient Hebrews what the etymology of the word suggests — mores, «customary behavior.»

As among all early peoples, necromancy, dealing with the dead, was an active superstition among the Hebrews.

Indeed, the identification of what we call spirit with the material body is clearly seen in the Old Testament, as among all early peoples, in the functions ascribed to the bodily organs.

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Early last week, I spent three days among some of the most powerful people in business, media, and innovation at Dell's 5th annual Dell Women's Entrepreneur Network, or DWEN, conference in Austin.

The poll does bring some good news for Clinton, though: She leads among people who voted early by 58 % to 41 %.

Among those early filers, women, low - income and young people especially may have done so because «they have a greater need for the cash,» according to the report.

What's next In March Wanelo added the ability for retailers to claim store pages on the site; Urban Outfitters, Free People and ModCloth are among those that jumped on board early.

Earlier this week, President Barack Obama unveiled executive actions on guns, which, among other things, are designed to make gun sales easier to monitor and keep guns out of the hands of people who are prohibited from having them because of criminal and certain mental health records.

Still, the Kickstarter effort yielded $ 408,000 for Bia and led to three early hires, including its head of customer service and its product manager, both of whom were among the 2,118 people who signed up to back the campaign.

Compared with some earlier cycles, the reduction in hours has occurred via a reduction in working hours across more people, rather than being concentrated among a group of unemployed.

It's a half - serious joke among people who bet early on cryptocurrencies and have watched their values soar.

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

Wright begins with a painfully short analysis of the early church and the assembling of the canon, noting that the emergence of Gnosticism and other heresies led to an emphasis among early Christians on the historical nature of the church as rooted in the Jewish story, stressing «the continuity from Jesus» day to their own, and indeed on the continuity of the people of Abraham, transformed through Jesus the Messiah but still obedient to the same world - transforming call.»

«Everyone arrives at the same time, at exactly the same place, and every year there are more and more people,» said Dr Husna Ahmed, principal author of «The Green Guide for Hajj,» a booklet promoting ecologically - sustainable practices among Hajj pilgrims, released earlier this week.

The Romans did not invent capital punishment, but they were among early practitioners of the art of putting to death persons adjudged guilty of heinous crimes.

Rather, the Bible is a gathering of traditional materials that gradually emerged among the people of ancient Israel and early Christianity and eventually became their authoritative statements about their God, the nature of their believing community and their terms for living.

In the East, the South, and the Midwest, even among persons who have no individual experience of these churches, there remains an established culture shaped by the earlier preeminence of these churches.

Among the early Semites the name represented fame or reputation; indeed it expressed and embodied the very existence and identity of a person.

But what happened in the early Church, as you know, was that they began to share everything in common and it says, «There were no needy persons among them.»

One can not but be impressed with its clear expression in a document so relatively early as one of the Balaam oracles: «Lo it is a people that dwelleth alone and is not reckoned among the nations» (Num.

Early Christianity announced the incarnation of this Person, and Justin makes the further claim that Scripture is the parent of all truth among the nations, and that the Lord who is revealed to us in the New Testament is the author and the hermeneutic canon of the Old.

A case of even the very earliest childhood experience now recollected by the oldest person among us, however, involves past occasions of experience from within the same living person and not occasions from another person in the remote past.

The traditional lists of early Roman bishops indicate, according to Eno, that «the collective leadership counted among their number men who stood out from the crowd; people perhaps who frequently exercised a de facto leadership but without being monarchical bishops.»

«Among them are children, pregnant women and the elderly, and it's tempting to think everything will be fine because we haven't reached famine conditions, but these people are in crisis and if we act early and act fast we can save lives.»

In earlier centuries they had had little active part in the propagation of Christianity among non-Christian peoples.

In the early days of Christianity, there was a general belief among Christians that the world was coming to an end in the lifetime of people then living.

Eventually, from this seemingly unpromising preparation but in reality, as one of the early Christians declared, «when the time had fully come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman» and «born under the law» — that is, among the people through whom God had sought to make preparation for that sovereign act.

The Ottoman Turks were one of several peoples whose early home was in Central Asia and among whom Nestorian Christianity had formerly counted adherents.

«The early Christians were not people of standing, but they had a secret power among them, and the secret power resulted from the way in which they were members of one another.»

The eunuch was a black person, so a member of the black race was among the very early recipients of the Christian faith.

When Peter proclaimed the gospel to the Roman centurion Cornelius, he effectively changed the policy of the early church, removing all distinctions among persons.

Among other things, as I stated earlier, this model reduces faith to a psychological gimmick in which people try to convince themselves that their beliefs are true beyond what the evidence warrants.

He has had to grow up fast, and rattles off the names of people who helped him through the early stages of his career when he struggled to stand out among the crowds of talented young Brazilian players.

You address a lot of topics so I'll try to respond to each of them: — «Divorce is much higher among people who don't go to college, people who marry in their teens and early 20s, people who get pregnant before getting married, people who've been divorced before, and people whose parents were divorced.»

Divorce is much higher among people who don't go to college, people who marry in their teens and early 20s, people who get pregnant before getting married, people who've been divorced before, and people whose parents were divorced.

The legislation is a spending bill that in part takes aim at standards the Agriculture Department proposed earlier this year to make school lunches healthier amid an obesity epidemic among young people.

A few sentences earlier Smith argues that a commercial society needs to be built on self - interest because people have many more exchange partners than they have friends — while benevolence is quite appropriate among friends and family members.

A YouGov poll for the Sun earlier this week discovered a significant decline in religious belief among young people.

Schneiderman has sued Trump over his executive orders barring entry to people from Muslim - majority countries, his attempts to repeal former President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act and his decision to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for undocumented youth brought to the United States in their early childhood, among other issues.

The measures come amid increasing concern about Britain's knife culture - a nationwide amnesty earlier this year resulted in 90,000 knives being handed in, and there have been a series of high - profile stabbings among young people.

Known as presbyopia, the condition is almost ubiquitous among people in their early fifties and older.

Americans were already «among the most sleep - deprived people in the world,» Erin Allday had reported just days earlier in the San Francisco Chronicle, and «getting less sleep all the time.»

«Although there is a high risk of progression to decompensated cirrhosis and liver cancer among patients with advanced fibrosis, limiting access to people who have already progressed to late - stage disease as compared to treating earlier to prevent these liver - related complications seems counter-intuitive as a public health strategy.»

People experiencing sudden cardiac arrest at exercise facilities have a higher chance of survival than at other indoor locations, likely due to early CPR and access to an automated external defibrillator (AED), among other factors, according to a study published online today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

I wonder if a technical culture that was better at avoiding premature claims of mystery reduction would find more friends among the sensitive, «spiritual» people I referred to earlier.

Among people living today, Sardinians retain the most DNA from those early farmers, whose genes suggest that they had brown eyes and dark hair.

We do know that the artists were among the earliest inhabitants of southern Africa, the ancestors of the modern - day «San» peoples.