Sentences with phrase «as generations before»

In the old city, the restaurants have kept their traditional feel and design, still serving the same delicious local delicacies as generations before.

And they don't make as much money as the generations before them.

I identify because I went through it myself, but I appreciate it because Frances Ha captures a perfect snapshot of what is now the new norm among young adults — who seem to stay younger longer, but whose convictions, deep felt friendships, and ambitions are as strong as any generation before them.

People got little worried when Honda released the tenth - generation Civic that looks basically the same as the generation before.

Your generation, as the generation before, either didn't consider it a problem or didn't solve it.

(which BTW, we laid the groundwork for, as the generation before us laid the groundwork for Gen Xers) But the similarity you have with other generations when looking at Gen X is that you greatly underestimate us and the value we contribute — and that's okay — getting it from both ends and not being able to depend on the «insitutional systems» (like family, marriage, or work) for support like the generation before or after us has made us VERY strong.

Not exact matches

Coal has seen significant declines in recent years, accounting for just 9 % of electricity generation in 2016, down from around 23 % the year before, as coal plants closed or switched to burning biomass such as wood pellets.

«Every console generation going forward will be about half as big as the one before it» as consumers get more options to do something without a console, he explained.

If you'd only heard about Old Spice before 2010, you might be forgiven for thinking of it as a brand for an older generation — back then, it was a brand largely unnoticed by young consumers.

As the baby boomers — the oldest of whom will turn 70 this year — begin to retire, they often sell their businesses to a younger generation that is more diverse than ever before.

The Dallas - based integrated retail and generation company was previously known as Energy Future Holdings and before that, TXU Corporation.

Thanks to advanced tools such as lead trajectory and predictive lead scoring, savvy entrepreneurs have more weapons at their disposal than ever before in the quest for higher - quality lead generation.

Needs often attributed to Millennials, such as a search for purpose at work, are no strangers to the generations that came before.

As the world looks to recovery, a rare opportunity now lies before us as Canadians: the opportunity to build on our ingenuity, our immense natural wealth, and our values and stability; the opportunity to secure the future, for our generation, and our children's generatioAs the world looks to recovery, a rare opportunity now lies before us as Canadians: the opportunity to build on our ingenuity, our immense natural wealth, and our values and stability; the opportunity to secure the future, for our generation, and our children's generatioas Canadians: the opportunity to build on our ingenuity, our immense natural wealth, and our values and stability; the opportunity to secure the future, for our generation, and our children's generation.

And as the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada's own 2017 National Opinion Poll: Canadian Millennial Views on Asia revealed, Canadian millennials (aged 18 - 34) are more positive about Asia in general and more engaged with the region through work, travel, language, and social networks than any generation before them.

Millennials are viewed as more adaptable, creative and solo - oriented than the generation before them

While thinking about what to write, I suddenly had a moment of clarity as I stomped the snowy pavements of NYC, I want to dedicate my editor's letter to the pages I'm reading because they sum up in the most simple and logical way why we as a generation are mentally suffering more than ever before and how life could be infinitely more fun with a small mindset shift.

Unlike prior generations, millennials rely mostly on blogs (33 % selected them as their top media source) before they make a purchase.

Known now as the world's largest cell phone maker, Nokia started off as a pulp - and - paper company in the mid-1800s before expanding into power generation around 1900.

With the youngest boomer age 50 and most of the generation retiring over the next 16 years, making the right investment decision has become more crucial than ever before, as the risk of making speculative gambles can no longer be entertained.

The next generation of wireless technology, known as 5G, is such a leap forward that it's said to change everything — maybe even the U.S. government's view of a corporate merger it nixed before.

Fortunately, there are a number of strategies you can utilize to soften the blow, particularly before major life events such as selling your business or transferring wealth to future generations.

They where honed as verbal stories for generations before they wre wriiten down and then the «best» of the writing were collect and save in the bible.

Naturally, new generations can build on the knowledge and experience of those who went before... but they can also reject it, because it can never be self - evident in the same way as material inventions....

Whiteheadians seem able to imagine such ecstatically spanned unities - across - time on the so - called «microscopic» scale of the «specious present,» but give up on the idea as the scope of the temporal disclosure space is widened to the scale of human lifetime and of generations.7 But worse than this from the point of view of Heidegger's temporal problematic, by submitting the ecstatic unities of their «specious presents» to the before / after ordering and metric properties of linear time, at least in terms of their mutually external relations and arrangements, they give back ontologically every advantage they gained from the use of an cc - static - temporal disclosure horizon in the first place, even though it was only the single horizon of presence.

As a generation known for reacting (and often over-reacting) against those who've gone before us, have we made this mistake with holiness?

Two generations before the internet and social networking, the minister and grandfather of the self - help movement, Norman Vincent Peale, founded Guideposts as a place for what would eventually come to be known as user - generated content.

In other words, we need not compromise the historical tenets of the Christian faith to recognize that this generation has something valuable to contribute to the future of Christianity, as does Generation X, the Boomers, and the generations begeneration has something valuable to contribute to the future of Christianity, as does Generation X, the Boomers, and the generations beGeneration X, the Boomers, and the generations before them.

He is both the subject and object of our confidence, and as generations of saints who have come before us have testified in word and in deed, he is sufficient.

There Statius explains to Dante the generation of the embryo, and how the embryo passes through various stages before it can be considered a rational human: «This active power,» reads Robert M. Durling's translation, «having become a soul like that of a plant, but different in so far as it is still under way, while the other is already in port,»

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

But I wonder whether any generation before our own would recognize it as Christian theology.

As it was for generations of American parents before them, it is beyond their reach economically to provide for their children as well as they would wisAs it was for generations of American parents before them, it is beyond their reach economically to provide for their children as well as they would wisas well as they would wisas they would wish.

Islam was driven into expansions outer boarder came after the death of the Messenger of God and only went to outer the Arabian Penisular towards the Arabic countries boarders now because of the wars launched on their boarders by the Roman Empire before changing face when a new Religion was imposed that combined all Beliefs that was within it into one state religion based on which The Roman Armies became to be known there after as the Crusaders whom launched attacks by land or by sea on Islamic countries through many generations up to date

If 900,000 Muslims» acts are enough to term all Muslims around the world as terrorists and not as the ideology of a certain extremist group, then we Muslims can safely say that with a 100 times greater extremism on display by some Christians scores of generations of Christians before and after us should be termed terrorists.

Being the last revelation before judgement day, it is GOD's promise that that Quran will be preserved unchanged for the generations to come as Muhammad (peace be upon him) was the last messenger.

As Seerveld points out, «Generation after generation of Christian scholars kept reading past the obvious sense of what was before them and spent their sanctified ingenuity ascertaining the hidden «spiritual» meaning of the words, so as to lead the inexperienced laity into the way of mystical trutAs Seerveld points out, «Generation after generation of Christian scholars kept reading past the obvious sense of what was before them and spent their sanctified ingenuity ascertaining the hidden «spiritual» meaning of the words, so as to lead the inexperienced laity into the way of mystiGeneration after generation of Christian scholars kept reading past the obvious sense of what was before them and spent their sanctified ingenuity ascertaining the hidden «spiritual» meaning of the words, so as to lead the inexperienced laity into the way of mystigeneration of Christian scholars kept reading past the obvious sense of what was before them and spent their sanctified ingenuity ascertaining the hidden «spiritual» meaning of the words, so as to lead the inexperienced laity into the way of mystical trutas to lead the inexperienced laity into the way of mystical truth.

Younger generations treat sex not as the pinnacle of intimacy but as a first gateway through which all potential relationships must pass for screening before proceeding onward or not toward some ultimate plane of closeness.

Thus the ancient God of the way, the God who caused Abraham to «stray» from his father's house and went before him in his wanderings, is acknowledged by suffering generations as their Shepherd in the way of exile.

Whereas 85 percent of the silent generation — the generation before baby boomers — identify as Christian, only 56 percent of today's younger millennials do.

The council called on the new government to «restore constitutional order and affirm citizens» political, economic and other fundamental rights and freedoms» and to assert «the territorial integrity of Ukraine, whose independence is a gift from God and is valued by our entire nation, which is why we have no right to allow for its separation, as this would be a sin before God and future generations.»

I think most of the Americans are in lost... as most of them do not know who their father is and it is very unfortunate... even if they know who their father is, the mom has children from diff men outside of marriage... and while a child is being raised, watching what his / her parents do to enjoy their life... so things become normal when they grow up... like if you go back early nineteen century, women were not allowed to go to beach without being covered... and now it totally opposite... if you do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend before 15, the parents worries that their teenage has some problem... and lot more can be listed... And then you go to Church, what our children learn from there... they see in front of the Church an old man's statue with long beard standing with extending of both hand... some of the status are blank, white, Spanish and so on... so they are being taught God as an old dude... then you learn from Catholic that you pray to Jesus, Mother Marry, Saints, Death spirit and all these... the poll shows a huge number of young American turns to Atheism or believing there is no God and so on... Its hard to assume where these nations are going with the name of modernization... nothing wrong having scientists discovered the cure of aids or the pics from mars but... we should all think and learn from our previous generations and correct ourselves... also ppl are becoming so much slave of material things...

I also see a lot of the appearances (not sight specifically) as a guess at explanation or a story that was told through the family for several generations before being put into writing.

I used to think it was the old European women from three or four generations back that had religion and superst.ition fed to them in equal amounts — even some as recent as my mother's generation with the nuns» stories about lying before communion and having their tongue fall out of their mouths, or having the stone lions in front of the protestant church come to life and eat them or having the earth open up and swallow them because they didn't go to confession.

This leads him to his key point: «Let us make no mistake; the data we now have at hand should serve as a dire warning: Unless we act decisively, many of today's converts will be one - generation Jews — Jews with non-Jewish parents and non-Jewish children,» But Sarna concludes on a note that most Jews would find more hopeful: «Learned Jews and non-Jews have been making dire predictions about the future (or end) of the Jewish people for literally thousands of years — long before William Wirt and long after him — and, as we have seen, their predictions have proved consistently wrong.

This and the phraseology of procreation which the evangelist employs, «before they had sexual intercourse» (1:18 b),»... he did not know her...» (1:25 a), might suggest that the holy Spirit is the male partner of Mary and that Jesus» generation is to be conceived as the result of their sexual union.

Ours may be the generation that finally sees him ride in on the clouds, or we may meet him the same way generations before us have — one by one by one, as we close our eyes for the last time.

Even before important Christian beliefs such as the canon of Scripture (list of books in the Bible) and the Trinity had been carefully articulated, the mainstream of Christian believers and leaders had a sense of the essential truths that had been handed down from the apostles and the prophets, and passed along to each generation of Christians through Scripture, sermons, and baptismal creeds.

These institutions have resisted attack before, and in recent years, some of them seem to be reasserting their role as conveyors of the stories which bridge the generation gap and tell us again who we are and what we might become.

(Against Tödt [Son of Man, pp. 224, 50], who accepts the saying as representing a warning by Jesus to «the present generation, [which] though living before the end, does not watch the signs of the times... in the way Noah did» [p. 50,] and Colpe [TWNT article, C I 3a], who can find no ground for rejecting the saying in its earliest form.