Sentences with phrase «ancient group of»

The greyhounds belong to a very ancient group of dogs.

The most endangered tribe in the world live deep in the Amazon rainforest, they are an ancient group of around 400 who carry everything they own; their children, their weapons and their pets.

The most endangered tribe in the world live deep in the Amazon rainforest, they are an ancient group of around 400 who carry everything they own; t...

Sponges are an ancient group of animals that diverged from other metazoans over 600 million years ago.

Its small but important genetic tweak almost certainly came from an ancient group of pre-human relatives, scientists now report.

But in 2010, researchers discovered a finger bone from a previously unknown ancient group of pre-human folk.

Hagfishes are an ancient group of eel - like animals found at the bottom of the ocean.

Until now, many researchers had thought that the Botai culture, an ancient group of hunters and herders that relied on horses for food and possibly transport in what today is northern Kazakhstan, first harnessed horses 5500 years ago.

In an article in Nature, researchers from the California Polytechnic State University say that their specimen was one of an ancient group of conifer - feeding beetles.

If that's the case, Odontochelys may have descended from a more ancient group of armored terrestrial turtles.

Marine sponges are the most ancient group of multicellular animalsliving on Earth.

Indian night frogs are an ancient group of frogs, which diversified approximately 70 - 80 million years ago.

This frog genus is endemic to the Western Ghats of India and represents an ancient group of frogs that diversified on the Indian landmass approximately 70 - 80 million years ago.

The probe from DeLong and Hinrichs, on the other hand, had worked right away: The Hydrate Ridge sediments were loaded with their methane eater, which is not a bacterium at all but a species of Archaea, an ancient group of microbes that diverged from bacteria billions of years ago and are as distinct from them now, genetically speaking, as humans are.

Lungfish are members of an ancient group of lobe - finned fishes (Class Dipnoi), having a continuous fossil record originating in the Devonian period around 400 million years ago.

Genetic studies suggest that liverworts — humble, stumpy plants related to mosses, which now commonly grow on damp soils — are the most ancient group of plants alive today.

I'm not convinced that just because another ancient group of people believed it was a «hard dome» that necessarily we have to force that belief on the Hebrews.

Not exact matches

The group also took the ancient city and Assad - regime stronghold of Palmyra, in Syria.

More than two thousand years after the original Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was destroyed in an earthquake, a group of architects wants to build a 21st - century version of it.

An image taken by the Curiosity Rover has turned viral after a video posted by a group insisted that the image was the vestige of an ancient Martian tree on the planet as an assertion of life on Mars.

In the ancient Norse faith, Odin leads a group of Hunters during the time of the Winter Solstice, and they take shelter at a mortal farmstead for the night when a nasty storm hits.

Dalahäst The ancient Hebrews certainly seem to have hated a few groups of people.

It does not describe said individuals and their posterity, ancient or modern, as of less worth, or value as human beings than any other group.

what is best for the group» is what is written in the law, not YOUR opinion of what is written in an ancient book.

The terror group carried out its slogan, «We will break your crosses and enslave your women,» with literal precision against the ancient Christian community of several Middle Eastern countries.

The time has come to remove the distraction of a group gathered around a microphone and to rediscover our inheritance, to revive the ancient musical traditions of the Mass, which are inextricably linked to the liturgy.

Rather, the evidences of modern people - groups and ancient people - groups show a high percentage of humankind reaching for the supernatural no matter what life they have encountered.

After studying a series of Western societies from ancient Greece and Iran through the history of Israel, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and on into the twentieth centuries, Polak concludes that the most important single factor involved in the generation of change is the image of the future held by a given group.

I speak throughout Canada and internationally to churches, conferences, women's groups, universities, and workshops on topics ranging from spiritual formation, a sacramental view of living, being a Christian feminist, the ways that we can navigate change throughout our faith journey, the embrace of ancient church practices as a charismatic Christian, writing, social justice, and many other topics.

There are a number of discussion groups on the Bible and the ancient world and hundreds of Web sites that provide exegetical, archaeological or other helps.

And if your bias to an entire group of people based solely on what an ancient book tells you, then you're a bigot.

The seventh and last chapter, «The World After Jesus,» eloquently points to ancient and modern individuals and groups who have been faithful to the Spirit of Jesus, including those who have seen better by the gospel light than some who are privileged to carry it.

@ Cedar Tree:????? All sorts of miraculous, superhuman nonsense has been attributed to ancient rulers of other figures of yore whose existence was once accepted by this or that group and who may or may not have been based in part on some historical person or persons and absolutely NO ONE these days takes every word in every text written about these figures to be literal truth.

For a long time in Western history clergymen, like the priests of ancient Egypt, were the only learned group and hence represented the mystery and power of learning.

A more ancient view, still apparent at many points in the Old Testament, had been that righteousness was rewarded by prosperity and long life in this world, and misfortune was a punishment for sin; but as Israel suffered more and more adversity, and the most faithful individuals and groups were the most oppressed and afflicted, it came to be felt that the humble, the meek, the devout, the poor were the righteous people of God, and the mighty and prosperous were the proud, wicked oppressors.

One of the phenomena most difficult for the Catholic Church to understand, as Gilfeather O'Brien points out, is how the Guatemalan cofradias (religious fratemities based on the syncretism of Roman Catholic and ancient Mayan teachings) have been unable to compete with Pentecostal groups that offer «personal transformation of the kind the Catholic Church has desired but never achieved over the centuries.»

The idea of being sons of God recalls the ancient Semitic idiom used in the Old Testament to indicate belonging to a particular species or group of any kind (Ps 8:4; 90:3).

The contemporary renaissance of small groups in the churches follows an ancient, time - tested path.

Since institutional or public religion is a manifestation of group consciousness, the group consciousness and group conscience of ancient Israel constituted its experience of God's presence (INNW 32).

First, in the depths of the past, we find a thin scattering of hunting groups spread here and there throughout the Ancient World.

In any case the story reminds us again of the strong sense of group solidarity in the ancient East and specifically in ancient Israel.

However, if I was an ancient Israelite, and I saw things like the Red Sea parting, staff turned into snakes, and the Shekinah glory, and prophets predicting specific future events with 100 % accuracy, and other nations setting their face against Israel to destroy her and / or engaged in human sacrifice, and they weren't typical humans but were actually a group of hybrids like the Nephalim or the Rephaim that were polluting the gene pool to try to foil God's plan of ultimately bringing a Messiah to save all mankind one day, and God wanted them to repent and sent them warning after warning, and they refused, and God commanded me thus....

For Bell, there was something about standing up in front of a group of people and reading «an ancient text and then unleashing it in the space» that changed him.

Found in one of the ancient libraries one day was a group of rather better tablets of large size, which, when deciphered, turned out to be the story of creation.

«It seemed eminently natural, accordingly, to the ancient Hebrew,» writes Professor Paton, «that Yahweh should deal with the group rather than the individual, and should bring the punishment of the sinner, or the reward of the righteous, upon his family, his clan, or his nation, rather than upon himself.»

While we all take some inspiration from ancient paganisms, there are some groups who are deeply dedicated to studying the primary texts and archaeological records of their chosen cultural framework to try to make their paths as close to their spiritual ancestors as reasonably possible in the modern world — this includes the use of bonfires and occasionally animal sacrifice.

There's no reason to elevate the thoughts and experiences of certain groups in the ancient Middle East above those of philosophers and sages in ancient India or China.

In Jesus time when he fled Herod with his parents, the largest group of Jews where he possibly fled to, were located in Alexandria, a place where 300 years earlier Alexander, who conquered as far as India and tried to have his subjects learn about and understand each other... had followers that built the great library of Alexandria, holding much of the knowledge of the ancient world.

The term «Hebrew» appears prominently now (1:15, 16, 19; 2:6, 7, 11, 13) to remind us of the nature of this group in relation to the life of the ancient Near East.

It is the purpose of Exodus 1:1 - 7 to underline the fact that the total Jacob - Joseph group originally resident in Egypt was very small - simply, in terms of the ancient East, a family - but that life in Egypt was for a while benign, beneficent, and altogether blessed.