Sentences with phrase «bound by its history»

«The alliance between the United States and Great Britain is a partnership of the heart, bound by the history, traditions and values we share,» they wrote.

«We shouldn't be bound by our history, but we should understand it better.

The Oranges is the story of two families, lifelong friends bound by history and tradition, swiftly ripped apart and forced to examine the reality of their existence.

Life inside an Image considers the museum as an image - capturing technology, bound by its history and architecture but also subject to shifting cultural frameworks.

Herbert Smith would do well to the learn the lessons of the past — but then this is a firm that has more often seemed bound by history than able to seek instruction from it.

Not exact matches

The wheelchair - bound genius who was stricken by Lou Gehrig's disease was most well - known for writing the best - seller A Brief History of Time.

After all, even if the door closes on the current debt - settlement model — if the industry's history is anything to go by — another is bound to open.

He spoke of Americans being bound to the region by forces of economics, history, and faith.

A Resurrection of his physical body, such as is implied by the empty tomb and by some of the stories in the Gospels of his appearances, would point towards a docetic Christ who does not fully share the lot of men; unless, indeed, bodily corruption were to be regarded as being bound up with the sinfulness of man which Christ did not share (but, unless we accept an impossibly literalistic interpretation of Genesis 3 as factual history, it is impossible to hold that physical dissolution is not part of the Creator's original and constant intention for his creatures in this world).

Miracles are, by definition, highly improbable, and history is duty bound to deliver us the most probable explanations.

Pius XI's words had such force because he bound himself to what had already been believed by Catholics throughout history and had been reaffirmed by his predecessors.

It is not without significance that the modern artist has given himself so fully to envisioning evil and nothingness, or has been so deeply bound to visions of Satan, of chaos, and of emptiness; for the artist can not escape the reality of his time by fleeing to an earlier moment of history.

This fundamental function of general civil religion could be carried out by churches that remained indifferent to the special civil religion embodied in such documents as the Declaration of Independence and bound up with the history of the American nation, but most American religious groups have been able to affirm both general and special civil religion as well as their own doctrinal peculiarities.

It is a history, and it has functioned — as history tends to function — as a binding agent, melding disparate individuals together into a single people by giving them a common past.

Steve... I think we're floggin» a dead horse here, but for what it's worth, understand that I'm not trying to convince you to think like I do, rather I wd hope that room wd be made for many theological differences.To think discuss and debate theology is well supported by the New Testament and history, and is perfectly within the bounds of what it means to engage our minds with the subject at hand.Theologians and biblical scholars have done this very thing for centuries, revealing a plethora of opinion on the evolving world of biblical studies.Many capable authors have written and debated the common themes as well as the differences between Paul, John, Jesus, the synoptics, etc..

Mathematics, by this definition, is bound up with intention and history whereby»... a new litter of pigs alters the meaning of every number, and of every extension of number, employed in mathematics» (ESP 232).

And because being in Christ is bound up with one and only one particular history — that of Jewish faith and of the man from Nazareth — it is simply not clear what it would mean to say that this perspective could in principle be gained by a7ny person anywhere with any sort of commitments.

Jesus is indignant that the scribes and Pharisees (1) will not enter the kingdom of heaven themselves and stand in the way of others entering it as well; (2) will do almost anything to win a proselyte only to make that proselyte twice as much a child of hell as they are; (3) confuse people by senseless oaths, telling them that if they swear by the Temple, their oath is not binding, but if they swear by the gold of the Temple, it is binding - the fools ought to realize, Jesus says, that the Temple includes all that is in it; (4) tithe some of their money but neglect justice and mercy and faith, which are weightier moral matters, when they ought both to tithe and perform these greater acts of righteousness as well; (5) are careful about outward cleanliness but careless about the inward disposition, so that they are filled with extortion and greed; (6) appear righteous but really are hypocrites, because their appearance hides all manner of iniquity inside; (7) pretend to revere the prophets of history whom their parents killed but continue to practice the evil of their parents by rejecting those whom God sends to them now (Matt.

And they are bound to be with us if our perspective is time - bound and world - bound; it is only by relationship to, and trust in, some Reality bigger and other than the world, yet working in and through the processes of time and history, that we can be raised above the level of immediacy into the sphere of ultimacy — and it is in that sphere alone, so far as I can see, that man can achieve any peace of mind.

After two thousand years of bitter estrangement and mutual contempt, both Jews and Christians are inclined to forget how closely they are bound together by common beliefs and a common history.

But man in fact does not live in an eternal present; his existence is bound by time and history.

By the same token, the course of nature can not be» «the history of matter»... the fortunes of matter in the adventure of nature»» (N 157, citing CN 16).3 Third, the passage of nature and our «inherence in the Whole» (N 159) create a unity of the body and nature, and bind observers together by creating a groundwork of intersubjectivitBy the same token, the course of nature can not be» «the history of matter»... the fortunes of matter in the adventure of nature»» (N 157, citing CN 16).3 Third, the passage of nature and our «inherence in the Whole» (N 159) create a unity of the body and nature, and bind observers together by creating a groundwork of intersubjectivitby creating a groundwork of intersubjectivity.

No; what makes one's pulse to bound when he remembers his own home under foreign skies, is never the rich man, nor the learned man, nor the distinguished man of any sort who - illustrates its history, for in all these petty products almost every country may favorably, at all events tediously, compete with our own; but it is all simply the abstract manhood itself of the country, man himself unqualified by convention, the man to whom all these conventional men have been simply introductory, the man who — let me say it — for the first time in human history finding himself in his own right the peer of every other man, spontaneously aspires and attains to a far freer and profounder culture of his nature than has ever yet illustrated humanity...

This possibility, I suspect, may lie close to the reason why Jefferson comes in for such criticism from Hamburger: if anyone in early American history embodies an unwillingness to defer to the past, and embodies the notion that a constitution needs to serve the living rather than remaining bound by the intentions of the dead, it is Jefferson.

I have always understood myself as duty - bound to intellectual engagement in the great choices of history and first of all in the great choices faced by my country.

The argument is, in outline, simple: Nature and history and divinity are bound together in one seamless web, they are under threat, they must be saved, we must save them, and we can do so by returning to a premodern world!

In My Blood: Six Generations of Madness and Desire in an American Family By John Sedgwick HarperCollins, 400 pages, $ 25.95 Dig deeply into any family history and you're bound to unearth a mosaic of tragedies and farces, but few families have given rise to as many prominent figures as the Sedgwick clan has, few have created such archival treasures, and few can trace their American lineage back to 1635.

But cases in other regions of the world and previous periods in Pakistan's history suggest that political elites and institutions — especially in societies with strong patronage networks — are usually change - averse and bound by structural constraints.

In a keynote speech this lunchtime, Mr Brown highlighted the close personal ties that bound England and Scotland together - two million Scots have English relatives - as well as those created by trade, geography and history.

Star clusters and galaxies both contain stars bound together by gravity, but while the members of a star cluster are thought to form simultaneously from a collapsing ball of gas, galaxies have richer histories.

About Site - The Kentishtowner website is dedicated to cultural affairs — art, food, film, booze, fashion, history, music — in this corner of central north London and beyond, we're not bound by boroughs or geography.

You don't need the whole family history, but by asking this question you're bound to find other details that have influenced your date's quirks and habits.

London About Blog The Kentishtowner website is dedicated to cultural affairs — art, food, film, booze, fashion, history, music — in this corner of central north London and beyond, we're not bound by boroughs or geography.

creates an enjoyable character out of Darwin by having great fun with the historical figure's true history, which is bound to permanently confuse little ones, or have them seek out the reality.

Bound by Flame's world is rich in history and personality.

The researchers found that six key policies had been implemented by all five states: adopting academic standards for teaching students about the history and culture of America's indigenous peoples, involving Native Americans on advisory boards, promoting Native American languages through teacher certification, allowing students to learn their native language as part of their education program, and providing tuition assistance for college - bound Native American students.

Recent successes include: No god but God (Random House), by religious scholar Reza Aslan; Morgan Spurlock's Don't Eat This Book (Putnam), a companion to his Academy Award nominated documentary Super Size Me; Fergus Bordewich's Bound for Canaan (Amistad), the first narrative history of the Underground Railroad; and Benjamin Kunkel's Indecision (Random House), lead fiction title by an editor of the new literary magazine n +1.

His favorite, in two beautiful leather - bound volumes, was Afghanistan in the Path of History by Mir Ghulam Mohammad Ghobar.

Like him or not, Jack Kirby is the single most important figure in the history of American comics by leaps and bounds.

Try explaining that to a self - published author who has finally typed up the story of her family, as heard from her mother, had it bound and made available through a community history website — and in the process been found by long - lost second - cousins in Canada.

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Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan: Though firmly bound by their shared history, each of these five independent nations has its own distinct identity....

Being bounded by the Pacific Ocean and the north and south arms of the Fraser River has provided Richmond with a rich maritime history.

Just judging by their history, this game is bound to be good.

Horror Month shuffles onward as we have news about Shin Megami Tensei, Bound by Flame and more, including a preview of NeocoreGames» Van Helsing sequel and a look at the history of horror movies as games.

Chucklefish Games — the studio to bring us Stardew Valley — has recaptured what that portable Civilization and handheld classic Advanced Wars gave us in the form of Wargroove, a four - player turn - based strategy game full of whimsy and fantasy, no longer bound by the rules of history.

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The Binding of Issac has quite a long history that dates all the way back to 2011 when Edmund McMillen decided to create something inspired by The Legend of Zelda and his mixed experiences with religion growing up.

Jaster's adventures will take him to five major planets, each with its own distinct set of races and cultures, and each with a well documented history that can be uncovered by those willing to explore beyond the bounds of what's necessary to merely beat the game.