Sentences with phrase «as colonies of»

Roman flags didn't stand next to Christian flags in first - century house churches, and followers of Jesus viewed themselves as citizens of One: One Lord, One baptism, One kingdom of sojourners scattered across the earth as colonies of heaven.

«These peripheral glaciers and ice caps can be thought of as colonies of ice that are in rapid decline, many of which will likely disappear in the near future,» said one of the researchers, geologist Ian Howat from Ohio State University.

But, as Hartshorne comments,» [a] stone is better interpreted as a colony of swirls of atoms (crystals) than are its atoms interpretable as servants or organs of the stone.

The helpless Somalis can have no hope of a safe, prosperous future except as a colony of one of the civilized powers.

l) The main subdivisions of the class «societies of occasions» consist of the linear or «personally ordered» societies, the familiar example being a stream of consciousness» of a single person, and nonlinear societies, such as a tree considered as a colony of cells.

Caral, Shady theorized, may have started as a colony of Aspero, an agricultural outpost charged with providing raw material for nets.

Is it home to various Galapagos birds, such as Blue - Footed Boobies, Nazca Boobies, and Frigate Birds, as well as a colony of Sea Lions and numerous Marine Iguanas.

Here, visitors can check out lots of local birds in their native habitats, as well as a colony of Spider Monkeys.

Columbia of course starts as a colony of Spain.

Not exact matches

Maryam Henein, the director of Vanishing of the Bees, a 2010 documentary that explores the environmental ramifications Colony Collapse Disorder, dismisses the personified bee being backburnered as little more than a clever «healthwashing» - reminiscent corporate publicity stunt.

Eaton Construction from Portland, OR, boasts quality craftsmanship built on a family tradition of 400 years in the industry, starting with the arrival of Francis Eaton, a «House Carpenter» as described in the ships rolls of the Mayflower, to Plymouth Colony in 1620.

It is true that the US did not persecute the Jews - or at least, as one Nazi lawyer remarked in 1936, it had not persecuted the Jews «so far» - but it had created a host of forms of second - class citizenship for other minority groups, including Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, Puerto Ricans and Native Americans, scattered all over the Union and its colonies.

More than an engrossing collection of historical true - crime stories, though, the book functions as an unlikely financial history of the young United States, as it grew «from a patchwork of largely self - governing colonies to a loosely assembled union of states and, finally, to a single nation under firm federal control.»

But as Janigan details, regional battles over resources in the West go back to at least the 1860s when, shortly after Confederation, the new Canadian government agreed to pay # 300,000 to the Hudson's Bay Co. for the lands between Ontario and the colony of British Columbia.

In Africa, for instance, many former colonies maintain trade links with their ex-colonial power that are as strong or stronger than those with either neighboring countries or with the relatively newcomer of China — despite the decades that have passed since Britain and France relinquished their empires.

20th Century Fox released the film's prologue on Wednesday night, which shows the crew of the colony ship Covenant as they party one last time before going into cryosleep.

Pyrosomes belong to the genus Pyrosoma and are planktonic, bioluminescent cylindrical or cone - shaped colonies made up of hundreds of thousands of individuals, known as zooids.

What he meant was something «slightly more measured» than Elon Musk's idea of building colonies on Mars, as Recode noted in a post about Bezos's comments.

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The logic of the redemption narrative predicts that when Musk says that he plans to convert the world to solar power and establish a colony on Mars, he's entirely sincere, as crazy as he might sound.

Beijing is reluctant to offer democratic rights, and is seen by many as backtracking on previous commitments to allow a measure of self - rule in the former British colony.

Home of Plymouth Rock and the famed Mayflower landing, Massachusetts has a long history as one of the 13 original colonies.

Since the early days of Colorado Springs, there has been an outstanding creative class here, and in the early part of the 20th century we had even cultivated quite a reputation as an art colony.

Richmond has about 223,000 residents and is one of the oldest cities in the nation, as Virginia itself was one of the original 13 colonies.

The problem is that God has finally gotten around to punishing the American colonies for rebelling against the King and country that he choose as the scribes for the only valid translation of his word.

Many religious groups (such as the Quakers and Puritans) formed the first 13 colonies on the basis of their religious beliefs.

Or the colonies may break free, as did the United States and India, ever after bearing the marks of their institutional parentage.

America has so many people who identify themselves as religious because A) some of our initial settlers came to the colonies because their beliefs were out of line with the government ordained religion in their country.

At first America was perceived as an outpost of Europe, a colony.

What happened that the colony founded as the holy experiment for the Puritan brethren soon became suspicious and intolerant of many of the brethren?

Though the English allowed the Dutch Reformed Church to receive public support by taxation, they sought the official establishment of Anglicanism as the religion of the colony.

Thus, at the lowest level, electrons tend to unite and converge in the atom; atoms converge by molecularization, crystallization; molecules unite by polymerization; cells unite by conjugation, reproduction, association; nerve ganglions concentrate and localize to form a brain by what might be called a process of cephalization; the higher animal groups form colonies, hives, herds, societies, etc.; man socializes and forms civilizations as foci of attraction and organization.

Now imagine being born there, as something smaller than a grub, inside a cell at the honeycomb - like centre of the colony.

Infuriated by the moral decadence he finds about him, Lancelot Andrewes Lamar determines to create a stern new morality of his own, a revived courtly righteousness which will put an end to the American baboon colony, as he calls it, where men and women cohabit as indiscriminately as characters in a soap opera.

Peter Dobbins» decision to set his production of As You Like It in the Spanish colonies of the New World is a curious one, but the choice provides a unique and welcome spin to the usual forest setting.

After almost ten years of North American maneuvering, the U.N. Committee on Decolonization declared the island a colonial territory (over the protest of the U.S. and most of the island's population — who argued that in 1953, when Puerto Rico became a so - called «commonwealth» as a result of a popular election, it ceased to be a colony and became instead a «free associated state»).

I have every respect to those angels and consider bringing such subject up as disrespect for what those do to our world with their kindness... Those nuns and popes were once my teachers in the kindergarden in Aden Colony of Southern Arabia although I was considered as Muslim from Muslim parents... so you can say I hold for them great respect although we are from different religions beliefs...!

The hard sciences of physics and chemistry and biology are twisted into grotesque propaganda machines fueled by corrupted versions of sociology and psychology, where science itself dies alongside genuine inquiry and clarity of thought, as man is assimilated into a faceless colony of manageable data points.

That scenario was the Protestant Reformation, and it was an informing event in the background not only of the Puritans in New England but of most of the settlers in the middle and southern colonies as well.

During the years of colonialism the peoples of the colonies in Asia, Africa and the Americas were not considered as subjects with fundamental rights to be respected by the European colonizers.

Liberals believe all men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as evidenced by the 13 colonies of liberal (for their time) folks on the North American continent.

As the institution of colonialism strengthened its grip on other nations, the flow of resources from the colonies to the colonial powers intensified and thus the gap between them made wider.

As L.W. Brown notes there was a considerable Jewish colony in north - western India in the first century, which might have attracted the attention of the first Christian missionaries.

This will in a few years become a German Colony: Instead of their Learning our Language, we must learn theirs, or live as in a foreign country.

«3 Even before the establishment of the republic the British colonies had something of the same role which Benjamin Franklin described in 1752 in Poor Richard Improved as follows:

The emergence of nationalist tendencies in the colonies started to challenge the political domination of the industrialized countries, and as a result, the direct political domination by the rich over the exploited apparently became weak.

Just as a college, founded by a denomination, reaches for respectability, severs its church ties and becomes a secular university, and just as a colony, settled by citizens of a motherland, rebels and becomes a nation, so a dynamic spiritual movement tends to become one more institution, one more system, one more bureaucracy.

Just as Winthrop thought of Moses so Captain John Smith thought of Aeneas in what Howard Mumford Jones calls the «prose Aeneid» that he composed to recount his establishment of the English Colony in Virginia.23 But it was not so much Latin myth or legend that dominated the minds of educated Americans in the late i8th century as it was the history of Roman liberty.

But even before they had freed themselves from the bonds of English society they had undertaken an «Agreement» in Cambridge, England, the year before and bound themselves to a new covenant with obligations both to God and one another.16 The «Agreement» of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was a beginning that contained its own principle, just as, as we have seen, the acts establishing the new republic did.

The notion that this goddess is the axis of the Paraiyars» religion can be inferred from Oppert's etymological explanation: he claims that the name Ellamma is derived from the Tamil ellaam (all or everything) making her «Mother of All».13 In the colony of Malaipallaiyam the predominance of Ellaiyamman is preserved by referring to her both as the «Mother of all beings» and as the eldest sister of all the manifestations of Sakti14 The other common interpretation for the name Ellaiyamman stems from the Tamil word for boundary ellai, making her the Mother / Goddess of the boundaries.15 This is the most prevalent interpretation among the Paraiyars of Malaipallaiyam.