Sentences with phrase «back by centuries»

They have not been held back by centuries of tradition and procedures which appear peculiar to a modern political system.

Skipping forward by month and back by century, we arrive at what is likely to be the year's most over-subscribed show: the National Gallery's Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure (26 June — 8 September).

Backed by a century's worth of knowledge and expertise, Cronheim Mortgage provides a vast array of real estate services, including debt and equity for investment grade real estate.

Either way, your furniture purchase is backed by a century long reputation for quality and value.

Not exact matches

It seems that many of the trends that made their name in the middle of the 20th century are back in full force and being worn by a younger generation, many of whom weren't even born before Y2K.

Add to that excellent health care backed by first - rate technology — medical tourism is a fast - growing industry here — and temperate weather throughout the year, and it's easy to see why tens of thousands of expats call this 18th - century colonial town home.

Backed by some impressive partners, Emotiv has a long - range strategy that sounds like a business - school case study from the 22nd century.

It had been almost $ 113,000 at its peak in 2007 and was $ 74,600 back in 1989, meaning that wealth for this group has declined by more than 40 % over the last quarter century.

Though beer production dates back to Greek and Roman times, it truly only fermented in the early 16th century under Emperor Charles V. Flemish by birth, this mighty Spanish ruler was not terribly fond of the local beverages and thus imported his own brewers.

By looking to Europe, which has meticulous data collection practices and a history of paid leave stretching back to the 19th century, researchers have been getting a better and better handle on the extent to which varying amounts of paid leave can save kids» lives.

For example, back in the 1970s, there were predictions that the world would run out of copper by the end of the century.

It involves policies that can be traced at least as far back as the «American System» of the early 19th Century, and it has been implemented in various forms by many different countries around the world during the past 100 or even 200 years.

That seems doomed to fail, as more than a century of case law dating back to the early days of the railroad suggests that provincial measures that directly thwart interprovincial infrastructure may be overruled by federal jurisdiction using 92 (10)(c) and this would be a prime example of when it should be (and has historically) been used.

Among the first publicly traded companies offering investors access to blockchain technology and cryptocurrency mining data centers, backed by over a century of expertise in technology, finance, and business.

To achieve their aim, the groups target and kill Muslim opponents, justifying their actions by invoking takfir, a doctrine, dating back to the seventh century, that specifies conditions under which fellow Muslims can be declared unbelievers who can be killed.

do I need any approval before I practice my religion, do I have to prove my religion before I practice, my holy book further describe that you must carry a gun in 21st century because there is too much crime in this world, but it doesn't say much about if I migrate to another country these rules will still apply, Or I should modified them according to my comfort, like talking in English which is not my religious language wearing pants or not, having education or not, standing in line or not, I am so confused what should I do can someone help me, should I go back to country where my religion originated or back in time ask my guru questions about western world confusion, or just decide by myself what suites me, or preach other develop country that you guys are wrong be peaceful.

Jesus also promised that prayer would work, He would be back in the 1st Century and did not deny the fact that the earth is flat, when tempted by Satan.

The Century welcomed the change in Cuba from Fulgencio Batista, who had been backed by the U.S., to Fidel Castro and criticized the Bay of Pigs invasion as a «debacle» (May 3, 1961).

There are also three paragraphs inserted into chapter 6 on «The Nineteenth Century» (SMW 153 - 55), indicated by the fact that «these individual enduring entities» in the very next sentence refers back to the final sentence just before the inserted material.2 Later new insights about eternal objects and God were added in the two metaphysical chapters, using the new concept of «actual occasion» for the first time.

And note those guillotined during the French Revolution and those Russians who died in concentration camps suffered these indignities as a direct result of the revolution of the peasants and poor abused by centuries of domination by religion - backed aristocracies.

This list can be traced back to the third century B.C. and expounded upon by Paul.

Last century, L Ron Hubbard wrote a book, as foolish as it is, making all sorts of outrageous and outlandish claims, backed up by zero evidence, and he has millions of followers.

It isn't found in any that date back later than the 8th century in fact and is not referenced by any of the early church writers before the 13th century.

In fact, one could argue that some of the Church's most notable movements and schisms have been triggered by overcorrections that take centuries to balance back out.

Owen traces antifoundationalism back to the attack on the pretensions of reason launched by Nietzsche in the 19th century.

At the moment the boast that they have given back some robbed property to the Christian Church, but they conceal that they have persecuted the Church for centuries and that there are nearly no more Christians in Turkey, because many Christian have been killed by the Turks and displaced.

Mark Bauerlein: Reading the 1991 novel A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin (a contributor to this month's magazine) is like going back to the great works of the 19th century.

I suspect that a future observer, looking back from some distance on the church in 20th century America, will not be half so impressed by the decline of the «60s and «70s as by the astounding boom period of the late «40s and the «50s.

This didacticism is redeemed from arid or smug judgmentalism by empathy, even for the destructive crusaders: «the historian as he gazes back across the centuries at their gallant story must find his admiration overcast by sorrow at the witness that it bears to the limitations of human nature.»

These principles have a notable ancestry within the Calvinist tradition with which I identify: from the concept of sphere sovereignty developed by Dutch theologian and statesman Abraham Kuyper, to the Politics of the sixteenth - century German Calvinist Althusius, all the way back to Calvin himself, who spent the greater part of his career struggling for the freedom of the Church in a city where civil rulers dictated ecclesiastical policy.

The tension, which dates back to the Hussite wars and the violent re-Catholicizing of the seventeenth century, was intensified by the nationalism of the last century.

We all know, no doubt by heart, the Jesus of the Apostles» Creed, which has turned out to be based not on a text Jesus taught his disciples but rather on the baptismal confession developed in Rome in the second century and projected back onto the beginnings.

The same longing for an experience of God's presence is expressed in a prayer by a twentieth - century Indian Christian leader, Chandra Devanesen, who was the first Indian to be head of Madras Christian College — a missionary college dating back to the mid-nineteenth century, at which I studied for a year in the 1960s:

These two cataclysmic conflagrations of our century, which broke the back of the liberal Protestant faith in progress, do not appear to trouble the adherents of Divine Principle, by and large members of a generation conveniently undistressed by stark memories of those «triumphs» for the heavenly side.

Details of that backstory emerge slowly during several days of sightseeing that include contemplation of Hieronymus Bosch's Last Judgment and Bruges's most important relic, a phial of the congealed blood of Christ brought back to Bruges from the Holy Land by a local 12th century crusader; as well as varieties of self - destructive behavior that betray in different ways Ray's internal anguish.

The conception of God as immanent in the world order was one of the ideas by which nineteenth - century theology sought to get God back into the world from which a strictly Darwinian interpretation of the natural processes would seem to have excluded Him.

Conflicts in the Muslim World today, while occupying significant news time, A) pale in comparison to what non-Muslims have done in this past century and B) are mostly the result of secular governments in the Muslim World vying for power and resources C) often backed by non-Muslim armaments and vested interests.

The clue to the interpretation of whatever intimations of the divine are given us in our common life is provided by the first century event to which we find ourselves inevitably looking back and by the historical community through which the concrete meaning of that event has been conveyed to us and in which, therefore, the event itself is in a sense perpetuated.

But his real history is much longer and much more extraordinary than could be indicated by these flares of war; it is a history that runs back three centuries into primitive America, a strange and unfathomable history that is touched by something dark and supernatural, and that goes back through poverty and hardship, through solitude and loneliness and death and unspeakable courage, into the wilderness.»

«Jesus on the Cross,» writes Teilhard, «is both the symbol and the reality of the immense labor of the centuries which has little by little raised up the created spirit and brought it back to the depth of the divine context» (DM 79).

May it happen — I have no doubt that it will, because I am profoundly convinced of the essential bond of complicity uniting Life, Truth and Freedom — may it happen that our descendants four centuries hence, being faced by some new parting of the ways that we can not yet foresee, will look back and say: «In the twentieth century they saw clearly.

Ceramic evidence indicates occupation of the City of David, within present - day Jerusalem, as far back as the Copper Age (c. 4th millennium BCE) with evidence of a permanent settlement during the early Bronze Age (c. 3000 — 2800 BCE) The Execration Texts, which refer to a city called Roshlamem or Rosh - ramen] and the Amarna letters (c. 14th century BCE) may be the earliest mention of the city Some archaeologists, including Kathleen Kenyon, believe Jerusalem] as a city was founded by Northwest Semitic people with organized settlements from around 2600 BCE.

The Israelites had been enslaved for more than two centuries; their backs broken by whips and their souls crushed under the weight of Pharaoh's mercilessness; their identity as the children of Abraham — God's chosen people — shadowed by their new title as slaves.

Back in the first century when the apostle Paul was establishing the first Christian churches, only pagans and Jews went for pharmakia products being pushed by Greek medical doctors and their trained associates in other lands.

I have very little doubt that our generation will be looked back upon with jaw - dropping incredulity by future historians who will marvel at how, in the 21st century, having peered at the mind numbing infinity from Hubble, delved into the quantum irrationality of CERN and unraveled the beautiful simplicity of the DNA codons, we still made important life decisions based upon the presumed wishes of some hokey, invisible, all - powerful sky - fairy dreamed up by some illiterate Arab tribesmen in a tent in the Middle East 2,000 years ago.

The last quarter of this century is marked by a growing recognition that the roots of the Holocaust are to be found in Christian teaching going back to the New Testament itself.

Of course, we look back to the first Christian century through spectacles which have been ground and colored by some sixteen hundred years of the history of the church as an institution coextensive with the state.

And it's hilarious how you dig back 1,000 years to reference fake «christian atrocities» while right here in the 20th century, atheism has killed millions of people... Mao's China, Hitler's Germany (eugenics, science, evolution... «building a better man»), Castro's Cuba, Kim's North Korea, Stalin's Russia... the «harm done by religion» pales in comparison to the harm done by atheism / godlessness...

The new aspects of external history and the related internal prophetic mind were initially produced in the middle of the eighth century simply by the aggressive ambition of Assyria backed, for the first time in several centuries, with the leadership and power to implement ambition.

As far back as Copernicus, but especially from the 17th Century enlightenment onwards, the discoveries made by the scientific method about the nature of our universe seem to have chipped away at the Christian world view.