Sentences with phrase «as places of refuge»

The role of caves in Maya culture is principally ritual, although they have also been used as places of refuge, storage, clay quarries, and as a source for both ritual and drinking water.

It will also serve as a place of refuge, when the next hurricane inevitably comes, for over 900 community members given its disaster resilient design.

The cozy monstrosity is also, of course, the scheme of their marriage as a place of refuge from the impersonal, warlike society in which they carry on their ambitious professional lives, earning the salaries that buy conspicuous affluence.

Unfortunately, prayer — though often thought of as a place of refuge and safety — became a liability in this instance, in which grease from the sizzling fajitas popped right into Jimenez's face, burning his cheek.

The Industrial Revolution, immigration, the rapid growth of the city and seven - day work weeks first inspired the need for parks as a place of refuge.

«Sanctuary» is defined as a place of refuge or safety, a harbor and port in the storm.

It was they who constructed the buried town two centuries earlier as a place of refuge from the outside world.

While lacking a significant endowment, alumni network, or institutional brand, the new school soon enjoyed enormous success as a place of refuge for conservative scholars, some of whom went on to win Nobel Prizes and other honors.

We also were advised to use it during the day when Bear was in out - of - control mode, not as punishment but as a place of refuge where he could relax.

Heated, humidified homes can also be terrific breeding grounds for fleas, as well as a place of refuge for flea - carrying rodents.

«It's preferable to have an attractive carrier that loads both from the front and top, left out all the time for a cat to use as a place of refuge,» Becker says.

He will soon see it as a place of refuge and go in voluntarily.

With proper crate training, your dog will look at his crate as a place of refuge.

The mall, which is already set up to function as a place of refuge during emergencies, could also provide power to other places of refuge for medical services, warming during a dangerous cold spell or cooling during a heat wave.

A blue front door indicates the homeowner sees his or her home as a place of refuge.

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As i grew older i became more intellectually and scientifically driven and although i do still go to church when i can its more for me a place when i am having a bad day that is a refuge a place that i just feel at peace in probably because i grew up in a church was there every Sunday and every holy day of obligation with my parents it brings back peacful memories.

The African reality of a wholistic as opposed to a secular and a sacred life, the place of the black church as sole as well as «soul» refuge during slavery, and the gift of oratory made the preacher the symbolic head and heart of his people.

Nobody can get any relief from you — you follow us to our places of refuge, stomp all over our boundaries because you don't see any boundaries but your own as being legitimate, and basically rub a pound of salt in the raw gaping bloody wounds that you have given so many of us over the years.

Offering itself as the ultimate basis of reality and salvation, the sacred may either arouse a defiant emptying of the heavens and a repudiation of all sacrality in favor of secularity in a death of the gods, or become the place of evasion and retreat, a refuge from life rather than a response to it.

The African reality of a wholistic as opposed to a secular and a sacred life, the place of the black church as sole as well as «soul» refuge during slavery, and the gift of oratory made the...

For many moderns, Kant was a place of refuge, but Freud, the «master of suspicion,» invaded that sanctuary as well.

As a bookish kid struggling to find a place in a world of hunting, fishing, and athletics, I was offered refuge in art, literature, and music my ninth - grade English teacher.

It's a homecoming for them both, though depending upon which one you listen to, the leaders of the expansion Texans see the home of the NFL's 32nd franchise as either a place of exile or a refuge.

The Forest Charter formalised the right of unbonded men to access and use of the goods of the royal forests (grazing, fuel, food), while implicitly assuming the right to wander freely in the landscape as well as providing a place of refuge for those cast out of the social order.

Long before I began stockpiling a rather eclectic collection of curiously homoerotic Men's Fitness magazines in my closet as a randy teenager, decades still before the global pornification of the 21st - century Internet age, my tender childhood libido found a secret refuge amidst the colorful scenes contained in a handful of old university textbooks placed happily among my parents» bookshelves in the family room of our home.

Educational sites are more than just places for learning to read and count; they can also serve as refuges from the psychological impact of living in a war zone and as centers to furnish health information and instruction in protective measures, such as ways to avoid land mines.

Even today, most of us view online dating as a «last resort» — a pathetic place to find refuge, when all other portals to love and connection have closed.

It was also a place of refuge for law breakers who could make offerings and then leave as free men.

From ancient times, Olowalu was considered a place of refuge, or pi'u honua, by Hawaiians and many often describe it as a magical place.

We have taken care of every detail in our Hotel in Paracas, for nature is part of his best refuge, as well as in every part of you feel, which is part of the vast history of the place.

For centuries, the Catskill Mountain region has been serving artists as a place of inspiration and refuge from New York City.

«Memory, or an editing of memory, informs several of my pieces — material in a quilt, a pattern, the shape and feeling of a room — fragments that evoke a time and place, refuge, physicality, and act as talisman.

Open Sky also offers a larger narrative about the migration of people, while underscoring Wave Hill's character as an ideal environment for birds and a place of refuge along their journey.

A fantastical place of fear, desire, refuge, conquest and decay, the North has played an increasingly important role in the work of contemporary artists interested in the socio - political issues of colonization and pollution, as well as aesthetic notions of the sublime.

Taking place in high - rise hotel rooms, several stories above street - level, three films find K.E. and Meisenberg walled - in by the clean, generic spaces — it's as if the semi-reflective, screen - like windows offer refuge or vacation from the bombardment of city noise and visual overflow.

Other works in the show, organized by the Monnaie de Paris museum, portray homes as places of liberation, refuge and even creativity.

Snippets of forest, sunshine, and foliage congeal as places of haunting enchantment or spiritual refuge.

By building or buying a tiny house as a second home, we can have a place of refuge from our daily grind, without having to come up with the money (or taking out a big mortgage), and because a tiny house is, well, tiny, it can be outfitted and decorated much cheaper than a conventional home.

Also well built schools can act as places of shelter and refuge in times of difficulty and serve a further community need ---- what I am trying to say is that we must not forget peoples homes — after all without homes societies don't function either.

Douglas Inkley, NWF Senior Science Advisor and senior author of a report to The Wildlife Society, notes, «We face the prospect that the world of wildlife that we now know — and many of the places we have invested decades of work in conserving as refuges and habitats for wildlife — will cease to exist as we know them, unless we change this forecast.»

Douglas Inkley, National Wildlife Federation senior science advisor, notes, «We face the prospect that the world of wildlife that we now know — and many of the places we have invested decades of work in conserving as refuges and habitats for wildlife — will cease to exist as we know them, unless we change this forecast.»

But we know from research and the increasing number of calls to our advice service, that often families have been crying out for help before situations escalate, and that cuts to key early intervention and preventative services, such as refuge places for abused mothers, are putting more children at risk.

Because of the negative association with the crate, Sadie doesn't see it as a refuge, or a safe and relaxing place to be.