Sentences with phrase «at conquest»

«The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun» aligns the life of post-soviet rural residents and the futurological projects of Russian cosmism to emphasize that the goal of the early Soviet breakthroughs aimed at the conquest of outer space was not so much technical acceleration, but the common cause of humankind in their struggle against limitations of earthly life.

As long ago as 1970, in The Patient as Person, one of the truly important books at the dawn of bioethics, Paul Ramsey argued that, in a healthy society dedicated to research aimed at the conquest of disease, we would all regard ourselves as «joint adventurers» in the cause of medical progress.

Not exact matches

Facebook's latest conquest, the Oculus Rift, got top billing at this year's Comic - Con, as event goers were able to use the headset to hunt virtually for X-men mutants.

Over lunch at the Corned Beef Academy, Piola recounts a war story — his recent cold - calling conquest of Pittsburgh National Bank (PNB).

Before the Muslim conquests (it is interesting that papacy and Islam were established at the same time around 600 a. D.) there was a great Christian Church in the Roman Empire or later Eastern Roman Empire with a lot of free bishops.

If we also keep in mind Isaiah 45:7, this divergence in theology becomes explainable and the contradiction is exposed for what it probably is; a shift in the theology of the Hebrews, influenced by the dualistic Persian religion at the time of the Persian's conquest of Babylon in around 539 BCE.

Muchembled also resists a Western triumphalist narrative by suggesting that the taming of domestic violence was not simply the result of a progressive civilizing process» marking European civilization as the height of human evolution» but came at the price of colonial conquest on other continents and terribly destructive wars among nations in Europe.

Sure, religion plays a role in legitimizing power and rationalizing colonization (just look at the Spanish conquest of the Americas, for example), but if the Abrahamic holy books were really a good social agent the rest of the world would be imitating the most backward parts of the Middle East.

The best analysis of the conquest, by Benjamin Z. Kedar of Hebrew University, puts the death toll at around three to four thousand.

To be sure, the powerful sweep of these words at first suggests the grand images of conquest that belong to the mythology of the noble hero.

This is far from a comprehensive list and does not even begin to account for all the genocide at the hands of Christian conquests of Europe, etc., Muslim conquests of India (which is easily in the many millions), etc., etc., etc., since records were not always kept.

Their conquest is sometimes said to have begun in 378 when the Goths defeated and killed the Emperor Valens at the battle of Adrianople.

Someone took footage from a low budget movie called «Desert Warrior», did a fast overdub to add the offensive comments, and put it out on the net to obscure the fact that these people in the lands attacked by the US are actually angry over invasion, conquest, looting, drone strikes against civilians, torture, and being shot at by the United States on behalf of Israel.

Shame on liberals for allowing 7th century religious bigots to place a symbol of conquest at this site of human tradegy

If mission as conquest was the dominant note at the beginning of this century, mission as living in dialogical relationship is the emphasis at the end of this century.

At the level of spirituality, the role of the cosmic primal as well as the mystic unitive spiritualities in checking the messianism of conquest underlying modernization has also come up for universal consideration.

They had learned to write in hieroglyphic form, and there existed at the time of the conquest a vast body of writing, as well as stone carvings, but it was almost entirely destroyed.

«Don't hate me or reject me,» we say, «don't look at my soul — look at my book collection, my medals, my conquests.

The idea that the conquest of nature is inevitably used as a means to gain power over others is at best an unhelpful half - truth.

There was no exodus from Egypt and no military conquest of Canaan, at least not before King David.

In other words, the teaching that the death of Christ was (a) for sin and (b) in accordance with the scriptures was derived by both Mark and Paul from the primitive church; the doctrine of the Atonement is not Paul's unique and distinctive contribution to Christian thought, for it is really pre-Pauline; further, it is not at all the central, cardinal doctrine in «Paulinism,» but a subsidiary one; (Indeed, it is a component one — it forms part of the doctrine of the new creation in Christ) finally, the conception of the way in which Christ's death becomes effective, as Paul conceived it, is peculiar to Paul and finds no trace in Mark or indeed elsewhere in the New Testament (Save in passages demonstrable dependent on Paul)-- Paul thinks of it as a conquest of the demonic powers in the very hour of their greatest aggression and apparent triumph.

Fellow archaeologist John Garstang insisted that this could not possibly be true and set about (with further excavations at Jericho and soundings at Ai and Hazor) to restore archaeological support for the historicity of the conquest.

But... extirpate these heresies, proceeding against them with order and system,... using, you your temporal arms and I the spiritual, and thus zealously punish them as is right... and show yourself the true and undoubted successor of Charlemagne amongst whose other greatest undertakings there still resounds the fame of the conquest he made of the Saxons...» Campeggio replied in this way before the Emperor at the session following that at which Melancthon's text had been read.

Herodotus tells us that the coastal Ionian city of Phocaea, faced with the likelihood of conquest by the Persians, up and left, packing «even the images of their gods,» sailing out eventually to found a new city at Rhegium in Italy.

The conclusion is inescapable that there was in general a twofold origin of the church, with two centers in Palestine from the lifetime of Jesus down at least to the war under Hadrian, in Galilee, and down to the war under Nero and later, in Judea — and then on into the following centuries, when successive conquest and exodus scattered the little Christian communities far and wide, down to the Mohammedan conquest in the seventh century, and even to this day.

(The sons of Jacob, according to the chronology of the Old Testament, belong to a period at least 400 years before the conquest of Canaan.)

Six - hundred years later, when the Israelites come to Canaan in conquest, they begin their campaign by gathering at Shechem to remember the covenant, and build another altar to God (Josh.

Examples of this are found in some of the Egyptian people who joined with Israel at the Exodus (Exod 12:38), Rahab siding with the Israelite spies against her own people and then becoming one of the Israelites after their conquest of Jericho (Josh 6:22 - 23), and the Gibeonites choosing to be servants of Israel rather than face annihilation (Josh 9:9).

This tendency was set back at the time of the colonial conquest of Libya in 1911, which the socialists bitterly and in some areas violently opposed, and there ensued the dominance for a time of a militantly revolutionary faction led by Benito Mussolini.

Hence the tendency (which is also as old as the world) of the defenders of the Spirit to regard as diabolical, and to reject as being among the most formidable manifestations of pride, the irrepressible desire for growth and conquest, the unshakeable sense of power and progress, which at present fills the human breast.

It was the conquest of the people under Joshua, total, complete, easy, and sometimes, as at Jericho, Josh.

Most of the those big named strikers are already tied up in contracts which only then leaves the «Nearly Rans» or footballing journeymen who just want to finish their illustrious careers earning a big wage based on their previous conquests whilst still playing at the highest level.

Man City's dreams of a quadruple were ended at the DW Stadium by third tier Wigan Athletic, who added Pep Guardiola's side to their list of top flight conquests - they've already sent Wigan and West Ham out of the tournament, and have become the second team outside the top two divisions to beat three PL sides in the same FA Cup season (Millwall were the first one!)

Man City have bizarrely drawn every one of their five opening Premier League fixtures when at home, yet a draw would be a massive set back in their conquest to dominate football both domestically and continentally.

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Such an opportunity to effectively switch from possession play to direct attack will be crucial when away goals, at European fortresses, are required in the latter stages of Tottenham's next Champions League conquest.

In answering these questions, historians like Niall Ferguson have often been particularly guilty of looking at the net gain or net loss of empire only (in utilitarian fashion), ignoring all the suffering involved in imperial conquest and governance.

«We wanted to test if the conquest of Alexander the Great and other foreign powers has left a genetic imprint on the ancient Egyptian population,» explains Verena Schuenemann, group leader at the University of Tuebingen and one of the lead authors of this study.

The team wanted to determine if the investigated ancient populations were affected at the genetic level by foreign conquest and domination during the time period under study, and compared these populations to modern Egyptian comparative populations.

«The genetics of the Abusir el - Meleq community did not undergo any major shifts during the 1,300 year timespan we studied, suggesting that the population remained genetically relatively unaffected by foreign conquest and rule,» says Wolfgang Haak, group leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena.

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And recently a club promoter at Leeds Met University made national news when he posted a naked photograph of his 100th conquest on Facebook without her permission.

When Hannibal decides to take his conquest on the road from Carthage to Rome via the Alps, taking the elephants gives him some troubles — but not as much trouble as this movie had at the box office.

This landscape, particularly when viewed in the context of our genre films of the 1970s and «80s, is seen as both a danger and a potential conquest to the white man, while the native people (if present at all) are imbued with a mystical understanding.

But he adores her, and she's intrigued at being treated like a human rather than a conquest for a change.

The transformation of massively risky mountain - climbing, as an activity exclusively for scientists and highly - trained explorers to an adventure - tourism endurance test for the rich and obsessive, gets taken care of here in a series of three title texts at the beginning of the movie, starting with the ostensible conquest of Mount Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary's team.

Although the overarching plot involves the conquest of Thor's native Asgard by Hela, the goddess of death, Thor actually spends the bulk of the film in a comic subplot involving a gladiator planet ruled by an alien overlord played by Jeff Goldblum at his Goldblummiest: equal parts twitchy, smug, and louche.

He works at a smooth jazz radio station, where his boss (Thomas Haden Church) tells uncomfortable stories about his aggressive sexual conquests (The «joke» is that his tales have nothing to do with the topic at hand).

One terrific shot in the movie looks at the back of Roque's head, more specifically his ear, as he drinks up a ton of dizzying new knowledge, with more focus and determination than he ever uses while snorting up a line of coke or screwing his latest conquest.

New Event: The first round of Grand Conquests will begin at 4 a.m. PT on April 13.