Sentences with phrase «ancient models of»

The ancient models of deportment have now become fashionable femme - fatales.

The model behind it... that traditional medicine, evidence based, medicine is outstanding at addressing acute diseases, but alternative and more ancient models of medicine has something to offer with chronic diseases, makes a great deal of sense.

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His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

The dynamics of the classroom thereby models that of the culture, teaching tomorrow's citizens the knowledge and appreciation they need of ancient authorities and fresh sassy pretenders to authority, and also teaching them the dialectical skill of marrying old and new, a skill which they will need if our nation is to long endure.

The sustained effort to care for the poor that came to characterize the church is derived, Brown suggests, from «an ancient Near Eastern model of justice» mediated through the church's liturgical use of the Old Testament.

Its model of excellence is an ancient paideia that once was so engaged because in ancient Athens it was ruled by political interests.

Today I want to introduce you to a pastor and a church that might be characterized by some as «nontraditional,» but that seem to me to be modeling a very ancient way of doing church.

Though the model of the Church as defending the ancient truths of faith against the attacks of modern atheism may have been the correct model during the years of Communist persecution, the contemporary, post-Communist Czech Church continues to maintain the model in massively changed times.

Besides being explanatory models of the phenomena of life, they also provided personality figures with whom ancient man could identify in the variety of human experience, such as wonder, despair, joy, sorrow.

Simplistic growth models such as unfolding flowers are deceptively attractive but inadequate when applied to the complexities of human life The recognition that «dying» precedes rebirth is a valuable part of ancient Christian wisdom (expressed symbolically by crucifixion preceding resurrection).

[19] An ancient hymn used in the Divine Office even says that the face of Adam was actually modelled on the face of Christ.

Thus, for instance, the philosophes of the secular Enlightenment (overwhelmingly male) frequently disparaged women as weak and emotional, and in seeking to restore an ancient, «classical» model of society undermined the rights women had enjoyed since the Middle Ages (a process which culminated in the laws of the Code Napoleon, promulgated in 1804).

(39) The basis for that model is rooted in the social history of ancient Israel and is evidenced textually in the Old Testament tension between the transformative vision of Moses, which belonged to the earliest voice of liberated Israel, and the stabilizing tendency of royal theology which sought to build institutions and establish a reliable social structure.

He believes that this model better fits what we know of the way early Jews handled revered or sacred traditions than does the Buitmannian one, which contends that the Gospel material was handled rather like ancient folklore such as Homer's Odyssey or Iliad.

Although the Jesus movement and Pauline Christianity never completely freed themselves from the patriarchy of the ancient world, they went far in replacing Greco - Roman male honor - shame patterns and related aristocratic forms of masculine dominance with servanthood models of male responsibility.

It should be added that Thucydides did not provide the only model known to ancient historians, in any event; Polybius, in the second century BC., severely criticized some of his predecessors for inventing speeches and said that the historian's business was to record what was actually said.

They will also be expected to adapt or create new forms of ritualized expression from existing or emerging patterns» e.g., ancient rites of initiation, the current rites of Baptism, Bar Mitzvah» a new or adapted rite based on these models.

It might be thought that the staff, the Greek gospel, and the Cardinals wearing dalmatics are of esoteric interest, but Mgr Marini's explanations show how these particular aspects of the papal Mass demonstrate continuity with the tradition of the Church's ancient liturgy as a model for liturgythroughout the Church.

Further, have you modeled every single aspect of your life after the Bible, I mean im quite sure we could find some areas in which you have «convenientlly» elected to ignore certain biblical edicts (either because you think they are unimportant, impractical, or irrelevant; I mean for goodness sakes, the stories are set in the ancient near - east, there is no way you could mimic every aspect of bibllical life).

These are invariably drawn according to the historian's implicit models of how the ancients thought their societies worked.

Some early Christian writers were aware of the importance of old manuscripts for the study of the Bible, and copyists during the Middle Ages, both in the East and in the West, made efforts to find ancient models.

Sustainable sourcing models, high - performance botanicals and ancient wisdom are leveraging nature's bounty, while supporting our health and the health of our environment.

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From names of ancient Rome, beautiful models, and fashion forward cities, Italy is full of traditional and unique names to choose from.

However it goes against both their ancient habit of centralism and their newer devotion to the US model.

Theoretical models of galaxy formation produce this arrangement less than 0.5 % of the time, and the researchers suggest that these planes of satellites might instead be the product of ancient collisions between massive galaxies.

3 - D printers can create models and prototypes, replicas of your head, even living tissues — and at Lehman College, they reproduce and reconstruct ancient fossils

The researchers started with a state - of - the - art climate model for Mars — one that assumes an ancient atmosphere composed largely of carbon dioxide (as it is today).

If the LHC finds the Higgs, it will verify the last, grandest aspect of the standard model and solve the ancient question of just what mass is.

In tracing back how people ended up in the Americas, NOVA presents an outdated model of ancient humans moving out of Africa along a single path through the Middle East around 80,000 years ago.

For example, «in population genetics we've been building models of human population history, and ancient DNA gives us a way of testing these models.

Even so, dynamic models reveal that the ancient Earth was spinning too slowly to toss off a chunk of its own heft, as in the fission model.

Using an interdisciplinary approach that combined evidence from climate modelling of large 20th - century eruptions, annual measurements of Nile summer flood heights from the Islamic Nilometer — the longest - known human record of environmental variability — between 622 and 1902, as well as descriptions of Nile flood quality in ancient papyri and inscriptions from the Ptolemaic era, the authors show how large volcanic eruptions impacted on Nile river flow, reducing the height of the agriculturally - critical summer flood.

The researchers were also able to fit the genomic data of modern and ancient humans into a simplified genetic model to reconstruct the deep population history of modern humans outside Africa in the last 50,000 years.

In the past decade, powerful new x-ray scans and three - dimensional computer models have transformed the analysis of ancient bones, teeth, and shells.

The team looked at previously dated meteorites that had evidence of explosive heating and ancient argon, and they modeled the collision and its blowback on the asteroid belt to pinpoint the timing of the planetary crash.

Other models of how these ancient behemoths evolved, including one in which black holes grow by merging with millions of smaller black holes and stars, await further testing.

Instead, Grotzinger says, their model was meant to duplicate how chemicals and sediments might settle out of water in a hot ancient ocean rich with the calcium carbonate typically found in stromatolite layers.

Terrestrial planet formation models indicate Earth went through a sequence of major growth phases: accretion of planetesimals and planetary embryos over many tens of millions of years; a giant impact that led to the formation of our Moon; and then the late bombardment, when giant asteroids, dwarfing the one that presumably killed the dinosaurs, periodically hit ancient Earth.

The findings are based on analyses of ancient plant leaf wax found in the sediments of the Gulf of Guinea in combination with computer models of the climate system.

Hanqin Tian, an ecologist at Auburn University in Alabama who studies modern grasslands, is working on models to correlate ancient grass production with the tree - ring records of weather.

Lead author William Taylor, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, says that this model «enables us for the first time to link horse use with other important cultural developments in ancient Mongolia and eastern Eurasia, and evaluate the role of climate and environmental change in the local origins of horse riding.»

Heckenberger, who spent so much time with the Kuikuro that the chief adopted him and gave him the name Maikejamna, believes that the complex, managed landscapes of this ancient society could serve as a model for sustainable development in the Amazon.

According to Usher, the play references not only Copernicus, but also Ptolemy, as well as Tycho Brahe, who pushed for a hybrid model of the solar system (a compromise that preserved elements of the ancient Ptolemaic system as well as the new Copernican model).

Salinity of the surface waters can be influenced by the amount of river water flowing into the oceans, yet no computer models of ancient ocean circulation had included this variable.

The amount of CP violation observed in experiments (and enshrined in the standard model), however, is far too little to explain why matter should have prevailed in its ancient war with antimatter.

«Ancient ecosystem response to «big five» mass extinction: Ingenious modeling shows that the stability of ancient ecosystems depended on species with important, big - picture roles in food web.Ancient ecosystem response to «big five» mass extinction: Ingenious modeling shows that the stability of ancient ecosystems depended on species with important, big - picture roles in food web.ancient ecosystems depended on species with important, big - picture roles in food web.»

That once - rejected work has now inspired two teams of planetary scientists to model what might have happened if an object roughly 10 times as massive as Ceres, the largest asteroid, smashed into ancient Mars.

But he cautions that the rapid increase in the extent of worms» burrowing modeled in the new study may have been limited to some areas of the ancient ocean and has yet to be shown to be a global phenomenon.