Sentences with phrase «at least understand history»

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He says he's followed the gold market ever since that pivotal day and recommends that everyone should have at least some allocation to precious metals: «I think if you don't own some gold in your portfolio now, you either don't understand history, or you don't want to understand history.»

Understand that your credit history must be clean for at least six months to provide a real shot at approval, and many lenders set their minimum scores higher than the FHA requires.

Religions of today, at least the Western ones I am most familiar with, seem to hold on to the old stories without understanding their original dynamic value and rather look to them for creating rules and reconstructing an ever more implausible history.

Our task is to work hard, master the arguments (scientific, ethical, philosophical, social), understand the history of how we arrived here, defy the temptation to give up through boredom, build a coherent movement of defiance, and thereby prepare if not ourselves, then at least the next generation, for the moment when the revolution collapses under the weight of its own delusions and contradictions.

For Christians, then, to recover and understand the meaning of the command to have «no other god,» it is necessary first to recognize that the victory of the Church in history was not only incomplete, but indeed set free a force that the old sacral order had at least been able to contain; and it is against this more formless and invincible enemy that we take up the standard of the commandment today.

We need at least a significant minority who have tried to understand the deep history of the great cultures of the world.

When we study the history of Europe and America we can assume at least a minimal knowledge about the influence of Greek, Jewish, and Christian religious thought and practices, but for the study of the history of Asia we must prepare ourselves by gaining a sympathetic understanding of the quite different religious ideas and practices of that part of the world.

In a few thousand years of recorded history, we went from dwelling in caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERE.

Yes, this messes a bit with our understanding of the inspiration of Scripture, but in the end (at least for me) it amplifies the grace of God for it shows that He was speaking His truth to lots of people at different times, not just to a select few Jews in a few hundred years of human history.

Though his distinction should not be stretched too far, it is quite useful at least as a starting point for understanding the meaning of revelation in history.

He either doesn't understand the history and impact of U.S. food / ag policy on our school food, or his producers have nixed any mention of that because, let's face it, there are advertising dollars from Big Ag at least partially at stake.

«These are important questions for understanding the history of Mars, its climate, and its potential to support at least microbial life.»

Additionally, the new history A-level will cover material from a span of at least 200 years, to ensure a broad understanding of the subject, and science subjects will require a minimum of 12 practical activities to better develop technical skills.

Still, you might want to at least peruse a wiki to get an understanding of the long, tumultuous history of the Tojo Clan.

At least not the main plot, in which two men bob and weave through a seventh grade understanding of American history.

Art, at least how we perceive and understand it in terms of modern and contemporary art history, is political.

The next several hours I spent examining his art, and what I found was rather curious: the lenses that proved most helpful in understanding the paintings were those that at first glance seemed the least important, namely my own experiences as a European expat, my history as a lover of all thing classical music, and my scholarly expertise in a number of nonwestern art traditions.

Before one relegates the entire field of rocket propulsion to engineering you really have to understand the history of nozzle development, e.g. Like gHz frequency digital modulators it's pretty much (at least was initially) more of an art than a science, let alone an engineering challenge.

For every ingroup, there must exist at least one outgroup... An understanding of ingroups and outgroups is critical to understanding our history.

What can law schools do differently to help students retain or at least better understand the importance of legal history?

At least a general understanding of the specific disabilities your clients may have, severity of those mental disabilities, as well as the client's personal background and history, is necessary.