Sentences with phrase «ancient part of»

Retailers» Black Friday ads and other parts of the holiday season are designed to tap into a very ancient part of our brains.

Set amongst London's iconic architectural landmarks, such as Norman Foster's Gherkin, The Leadenhall Building (aka The Cheesegrater), and the Lloyd's building by Richard Rogers, this open - air exhibition not only enriches the workday experience of City workers but draws cultural visitors into this most ancient part of the City.

The ancient part of Bari is moreover home to the main cathedrals and the castle which makes it an absolute must visit area in Bari.

This lovely apartment has three gorgeous bedrooms and was built around the medieval tower of Paluffo, the most ancient part of the estate.

The fear signal then zips to an ancient part of your brain called the periaqueductal gray, responsible for the fight - or - flight response, and speeds on to the hypothalamus, which controls the classic bodily fear responses: thumping heart, skyrocketing blood pressure, and rapid breathing.

But nutrition — including calories — was processed in another part of the reward center: the dorsal striatum, an evolutionarily ancient part of the brain that activates motor behavior.

The researchers inserted an optogenetic switch into a group of nerve cells located in the ancient part of the brain called the medulla, allowing them to activate or inactivate the neurons with laser light.

Dan suspects that these GABAergic neurons in the medulla have the opposite effect of stress neurons, such as the noradrenergic neurons in the pons, another ancient part of the brain.

In a paper published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team describes how images of snakes affect the pulvinar — a cluster of neurons in an evolutionarily ancient part of the brain called the thalamus.

You can remove someone's cerebellum — an ancient part of the brain that has about 50 billion neurons — and they may have motor problems and find it hard to walk around, but they will still be fundamentally the same person.

Dance is incorporated into the service because «dancing is one of the most profound and ancient parts of worship.

But the amygdala and the periaqueductal gray are ancient parts of the brain, dating back hundreds of millions of years.

Not exact matches

It's part of an ancient survival instinct that rewards social behavior.

Through its research, Google made the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle proud by proving, «The whole can be greater than the sum of its parts.»

Moderator: William V. Harris, William R. Shepherd Professor of History and Director, Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University Speaker 1: L. Randall Wray, Research Director of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability and Professor of Economics, University of Missouri - Kansas City Speaker 2: Michael Hudson, President, Institute for the Study of Long - Term Economic Trends and Distinguished Research Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas City Tuesday, September 11, 2012 About the Seminar Series: Modern Money and Public Purpose is an eight - part, interdisciplinary seminar series held at Columbia Law School over the 2012 - 2013 academic...

As part of the agreement, PREPA was supposed to modernize its ancient electric system, which had fallen into disrepair.

Is it any wonder the western world hates Muslims and Jews, when you maintain the ancient barbaric doctrines and then believe that it should be part of a modern society?

The Ancients saw the individual as a part of a whole, or as Peter likes to say, city fodder.

That is a misunderstanding that many people assign to atheism, but has never actually been a part of the words usage (even in ancient times, atheists were those without god, while other terms were used to refer to those that BELIEVED there was no gods).

b) seek professional help to figure out why you have the compulsions in the first place, and develop a strategy to help you replace your unhealthy addictions with healthy habits c) contact a wild - eyed shaman to tell you which parts of his ancient magic book, written primarily for an illiterate, credulous audience, apply best to 21st Century psychological issues.

And the Bible exposes such ones as part of a false religious «harlot», and given the name Babylon the Great (Rev 17:1, 2, 5), as ancient Babylon was the prototype in peddling false religion that has now extended to the ends of the earth.

Quite a few cities you've mentioned have been a part of Ancient Egyptian and Greek culture for years.

Blood moons were part of the shock and awe language of ancient divine warfare, along with the heavens being rolled up like a scroll and stars falling out of the sky (Isaiah 34:4; Matthew 24:29; Revelation 6:14).

Part of my own story is that I went for a big wander outside of my my mother Church, encountering different and new and ancient ways of experiencing and knowing and being changed by our big and generous God as if I were encountering occasional cups of water while in the desert, drinking each one down as if they were sustaining me for the next leg of the journey.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

Still, the themes of «scattering the proud» and «putting down» the mighty, while elevating the lowly in their stead, are an important part of the symbolism of comedy, and of the ancient repertoire of clowns and fools.

Part of the problem with the Bible is that since it is written in an ancient format, people have trouble reading and understanding it.

I'm a historian who feels a part of a great community and who wants to make sense of what ancient people said and to appreciate it.

The Queen will mark Maundy Thursday by taking part in the ancient ceremony of distributing commemorative coins to deserving pensioners.

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Ancient book have no part in the thought of modern humans.

Because they reveal Ancient Egyptian attitudes about death, and funerary items are part of the very limited historical information we have on that culture.

Though for us nature has been «demythologized» and «naturalized» — in large part because of this very passage of Scripture — for ancient Jewish faith a divinized nature posed a fundamental religious problem.

It offers examples of consummate literary skill; parts can be ranked with the best of the contemporary ancient histories; and nowhere else in all the world's literature and history is God so consistently and passionately the center of action and contemplation.

But such behavior on Odysseus» part should not lead us to think that ancient Greece was without concepts of right and wrong.

My contention is that this places Ivan's sensibility much nearer to the authentic vision of the New Testament than are many of the more pious and conventional forms of Christian conviction today The gospel of the ancient church was always one of rebellion against those principalities and powers — death chief among them — that enslave and torment creation; nowhere does the New Testament rationalize evil or accord it necessity or treat it as part of the necessary fabric of God's world.

It is as though a new and formidable mountain chain had arisen in the landscape of the soul, causing ancient categories to be reshuffled and uniting higgledy - piggledy on every slope the friends and enemies of yesterday: on one side the inflexible and sterile vision of a Universe composed of unalterable, juxtaposed parts, and on the other side the ardour, the faith, the contagion of a living truth emerging from all action and exercise of will.

@ 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.

It is part of «The Ancient Practices Series» of which, I have previously read two other books (the volumes on Pilgrimage and Sabbath).

All historians agree that the Indian church is very ancient but they differ as to how early the Gospel had been brought to India and who or what agency brought it and to which part of India.

But from what I understand out of the ancient monastic materials I work on, prayer is really an entire relationship, and the verbal part is only one element.

Part of the answer is that these ancient events are moments in a living process which includes also the existence of the church at the present day; and another part is that, as Christians believe, in these events of ancient time God was at work among men, and it is from his action in history rather than from abstract arguments that we learn what God is like, and what are the principles on which he deals with men, now as alwPart of the answer is that these ancient events are moments in a living process which includes also the existence of the church at the present day; and another part is that, as Christians believe, in these events of ancient time God was at work among men, and it is from his action in history rather than from abstract arguments that we learn what God is like, and what are the principles on which he deals with men, now as alwpart is that, as Christians believe, in these events of ancient time God was at work among men, and it is from his action in history rather than from abstract arguments that we learn what God is like, and what are the principles on which he deals with men, now as always.

Looking at the process of agriculture as an ecological activity of divine providence stems from our understanding that farming was an integral part of the ancient life.

He was able to be a part of the ancient tradition of Christian monasticism while being alert to ways in which that tradition could be enhanced, enlarged and made more available to today's world.

But because the couple are from the minority Parsi community - part of the Zoroastrian religion, a minority faith founded in ancient Persia - their fate highlights, some say, how prejudice against outsiders in Balochistan makes them easy targets for increasingly powerful criminal gangs.

It is probable that ancient men used the word «spirit» rather differently from us, for an unseen spiritual world was an accepted part of their world - view.

Curses were an integral part of the process of ancient Israelite covenant (cf. Josh 24, 1ff), regulating the behaviour of the parties concerned by defining unacceptable actions and attitudes.

Yep, that «believer» part and «leading of the Spirit» are two I don't use — they make a big difference when it comes to reading ancient texts.

Assimilation was simiply a part of a lot of conversions in the ancient world as far back as 4AD and simply got reinforced during middle ages.

A copy of this long lost gospel was discovered as part of a large collection of ancient religious texts unearthed near the Egyptian city of Nag Hammadi in 1945.