Sentences with phrase «building tradition called»

It's possible, he said, that when pyramid building came into fashion at Sedeinga it was combined with a local circle - building tradition called tumulus construction, resulting in pyramids with circles within them.

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Capitalism, in turn, creates the economic base on which may be built, with guidance from religion and democracy, a more humane society of the kind called for by both Christian and Jewish traditions.
Thus the Commission called for a Christian concern for Higher Education which helps critical rational and humanist evaluation of both the western and Indian cultures to build a new cultural concept which subordinated religious traditions, technology and politics to personal values according to the principle «Sabbath is made for man and not man for the Sabbath», enunciated by Jesus and illustrated in the idea of Incarnation of God in Christ.
He consistently opposed what he called «nation - building» as an American responsibility and called for more «humility» in our relation to the rest of the world, striking an isolationist chord that has been perennial in our tradition.
recognizing that religious commitment (here called «priorities») and «excitement» about the content of Jewish belief are only two factors that might motivate Jewish practice, others being family tradition, spirituality and community building.
Christmas Eve in New Mexico is a very special night steeped in tradition and probably no other image symbolizes the season more than the flickering lights from the brown paper bags called luminarias or farolitos, that line the walkways and outline buildings and houses throughout the state.
4 - LOM was so unimportant that it turns out the character in the 4 - LOM package wasn't even 4 - LOM, it was a character called Zuckuss who was also a bounty hunter with no lines who also stood still as the camera went past him, along with a lizard guy, a guy with a coffee pot for a head, a guy covered in ACE bandage and Boba Fett.The new Star Wars sequels have built upon this tradition.
She took the county executive's name off dozens of county parks and municipal buildings, a tradition she called a «thoughtless exercise in vanity» during her campaign.
Paying homage to Hawaiian traditions, the center will be called Hale Huaka'i, which means «Adventure Center» and signifies a trip, voyage or a place to start your journey or embark on an adventure, often in a «hui,» or group to build connections with others.
Sometimes disparagingly called «crapstraction,» the prominence that casualist work has gained in art schools and MFA programs has caused palpitations among older painters who despair that exalted painting traditions — technical proficiency, «rigor,» and the craft of building and priming canvases, for instance — will perish.
«White - Tipped Blooming» exemplifies many outstanding characteristics of Surls's oeuvre, which call to mind the artistic traditions on which he builds his practice: the unique oak - and - steel construction consists of expressively carved biomorphic forms that conjure primitivist aesthetics and mythical imagery of early 20th - century avant - garde sculpture, while the humble, organic materials pay homage to American folk art.
So while Gizmo Green makes some contributions to reducing energy required to construct buildings by calling for materials extracted and regionally, living traditions do the same, and they also prefer materials that have been processed less, embodying less energy.
The New York Times reports how two new aviaries for vultures, brought to the brink of extinction by exposure to veterinary drugs, are being built, so that the ancient tradition of leaving corpses in so - called Towers of Silence to be picked apart by the giant scavenging birds can resume.
That recommendation calls urgently for institutional structures that can deepen our knowledge of Indigenous legal traditions, develop our comprehension of Indigenous institutions, and explore how those traditions might be worked with and built upon today.
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