Sentences with phrase «at periods in history»

As for the appropriative aspect, I'm looking at periods in history, film and TV.

For example, it is unlikely that there are any rules that define the ideal economic or political system for all people at all periods in history.

Man was beautiful and beloved and intelligent, he set a seal on perfection, and God had prepared a great destiny for him... but at each period in history, in relation to Sennacherib or to the politicians and technicians of our own time, we can still say and hear again what God says through Ezekiel to the prince of Tyre (Ezekiel 28: 1ff.).

Christianity has always faced both external and internal problems at every period in history.

«Whatever you might see as bad in Nigeria, other societies have gone through the same at some period in their history.

The pairing of otherwise phenomenally rare galaxies suggests that they reside within a particularly dense region of the universe at that period in its history, the astronomers said.

At this period in history, the Washington Post was a small - time newspaper, looking to compete with the big dogs, and in the hands of Tom Hanks, the Ben Bradlee of The Post is utterly tenacious.

And on a more philosophical level, the basics in life with regards to the advantages given to men at that period in history and the fight women had just to be acknowledged.

Future anthropologists will look back at this period in history and surely wonder, what was that pumpkin insanity all about?

When we look back at this period in our history, will we remember it only as a time when our industry thrived or also as a time when we gave of ourselves, helping more Americans become homeowners?

Not exact matches

The interbank rate has been at its lowest level, near zero percent, for the longest period in the history of the Fed.

While it's tempting to buy volatility at these low levels, history shows that in the absence of a catalyst, volatility can stay low for extended periods.

West: US Dollar «Like Slave Movies» Speaking in an interview for TMZ May 1, West hit out at the past four hundred years of US history with regard to slavery, calling the period a «choice.»

The chart below plots valuations at each point in history against the deepest loss in the S&P 500 during the following five - year period.

With the S&P 500 within about 8 % of its highest level in history, with historically reliable valuation measures at obscene levels, implying near - zero 10 - 12 year S&P 500 nominal total returns; with an extended period of extreme overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions replaced by deterioration in market internals that signal a clear shift toward risk - aversion among investors; with credit spreads on low - grade debt blowing out to multi-year highs; and with leading economic measures deteriorating rapidly, we continue to classify market conditions within the most hostile return / risk profile we identify — a classification that has been observed in only about 9 % of history.

«In the history of rules issued by DOL, frequently issues arise» around provisions that may have «appeared clear at first blush but [are] creating ambiguity, so this is a regular part of the regulatory process where you put out a rule [after] a robust comment period and finalize the rule and you continue that outreach.»

Obviously this set of scenarios — in which GDP grows on average at rates between 3 % and 6 % for ten years while credit efficiency is improved so dramatically that in 5 - 6 years China begins to deleverage and by the end of the period these growth rates can be maintained with no growth in credit — is theoretically possible, but just as obviously it is highly implausible, and I can not think of any country in history that has achieved such a turnaround in its financial sector without having first experienced a brutal financial crisis.

Sure, stocks can go down, but over any 10 year period in history they are always up at least 7 % per year when the gains and losses are averaged out.

We are at the end of an extended expansionary period, one of the longest in history.

We are at a time period in history where mortgage interest rates are at an all - time low.

Let us read history, our history, as a living account of what we once were, with the double - edged consciousness that all of this has gone forever and that, in spite of everything, that period of youth and every moment of our lives remain mysteriously present at the wellsprings of our soul in a kind of delectable eternity.»

At all periods of Biblical history and in diverse strata of the Biblical materials we find the affirmation that what characterizes Yahweh in disfunction from the objects of men's worship which are mere vanity is his ability to hear the cry of the oppressed and to save him from his oppressor.

We read in ancient history, that, at a certain period, many of the women of Sparta murdered themselves.

The question is therefore: Is the moment in time at which this absolute historical religion makes existentially real demands on men the same for all, or has the beginning of this moment itself a history and thus is not the same in time for all men, all civilizations and periods of history.

The Darwinian theory of evolution took form in a period of history when individuality was itself at a premium.

The writers accurate use of common names of the time shows they had access to reliable information about the people and places involved in the history of Jesus and that their writings took place at about the same time as the events (there would have been no way to access information regarding names of that time hundreds of years after the period, remember, no books, no libraries, etc..)

Both in private and in public, religion seems more vigorous today than at earlier periods in American history.

His Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh on The Presence of Eternity: History and Eschatology (Harper, 1957) and various books of essays — the most notable collections in English being Faith and Understanding (Harper & Row, 1969) and Existence and Faith (World, 1960)-- show over how long a period, and in relation to how many challenges, he worked out his own presentation of the Word of God to our time.

What is more, the direction of groups in general, at least in the later periods of human history, has been toward the suppression of the elements of personal relation in favour of the elements of pure collectivity.

We are at one of the most peaceful periods in history.

We are at one of the highest cost of living periods in history.

Any student of the Græco - Roman world at the beginning of our era who tries to penetrate beneath the surface of the political, economic and military history of the period and discern what was going on in the minds of men, becomes aware of a widespread expectation of a turn for the better in human affairs, even the dawn of a golden age, after the violent convulsions which had disturbed society for a century or more.

I think it was the last period in our national history in which being a Christian and being at what was felt as the cutting edge of fresh thinking and social transformation went easily together for large numbers of young people — and adults as well.

The entire period of the six time units or creative «days» dedicated to the preparation of planet Earth is summed up in one all - embracing «day» at Genesis 2:4: «This is a history of the heavens and the earth in the time of their being created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven.»

We are at one of the most productful periods in history.

The rugged terrain of northwest Arabia, of which Syria and Palestine, it has sometimes been remarked, may be regarded as merely the largest and richest oasis, the numerous mountain peaks, the volcanoes apparently active at some period in ancient history, the desert with its speaking silences, the uncertainties of the weather in a land where all is dependent on the annual rainfall — all these and much more of the same sort are reflected in Israel's religion.

This time period in religious history is known as the Second Wave, the First Wave being the birth of Pentecostalism at the turn of the century.

For good or ill, a greater portion of the U.S. population is religious than at any other time in the countries history, even the period of the «Great Revival» does not come close.

There are more worship songs being written today than at any other period in history.

In various contemporary ways of presenting Christianity there are marked divergences upon this point, as indeed there have been at most periods of its history.

First, at Crux, John Allen has been writing a series on Egypt's Copts, who are going through one of the worst periods of persecution in their long history.

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Thus, ecumenicity in the United States is proceeding at a more rapid pace than at any period in recent history.

For if the theological task can be defined in terms of facing the tension between the old and the new, then it is only to be expected that both the speed and the extent of the change, in which we are at present all caught up, will inevitably bring changes in theological expression greater than at any earlier period in Christian history.

In any case, editorial design here conforms to a consistent pattern, a pattern which reflects the faith of the community of Israel: at every decisive transition in her recorded history she hears from the lips of the preceding period's most influential figure a summary of her past precisely in terms of «the saving deeds of the Lord.&raquIn any case, editorial design here conforms to a consistent pattern, a pattern which reflects the faith of the community of Israel: at every decisive transition in her recorded history she hears from the lips of the preceding period's most influential figure a summary of her past precisely in terms of «the saving deeds of the Lord.&raquin her recorded history she hears from the lips of the preceding period's most influential figure a summary of her past precisely in terms of «the saving deeds of the Lord.&raquin terms of «the saving deeds of the Lord.»

Jesus stated that during our time period (that is called his invisible «presence» at Matthew 24:3, the KJV and other Bibles inaccurately reads «coming»), pseudo Christians or false Christians would be busy (along with the rest of the «world») with the mundane affairs of life, getting married, having children, eating and drinking, in which Jesus compared to the «days of Noah», and with the exception of Noah and his family, pseudo Christians would «take no note» that they were living during a critical juncture in human history.

The House of Representatives lists 142 members who claim to be Catholic — the greatest number in our history, and at a crucial period of moral peril.

I believe that the events described in Joshua and Judges happened within history as described, and at the period of time these books claim.

The general histories of the church mentioned at the end of the previous chapter also deal with the period covered in this chapter.

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