Sentences with phrase «by ancient wars»

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The war between Arabs and Israel goes back to an ancient feud over inheritance by half - brothers.

We are still at war, of course, but the situation of the Church has materially altered, and I suspect that, by comparison to the burden the First Commandment lays upon us today, the defeat of the ancient pantheon, and the elemental spirits, and the demons lurking behind them will prove to have been sublimely easy.

The result is that America is a nation deeply divided between people who are concerned about real - life issues — war and peace, social justice, the health and welfare of people — on one hand, and other people who are concerned, instead, about «values,» by which they mean adherence to ancient taboos, dependence on a magical God, enforcing acceptance of ancient creeds, requiring everyone to believe as they do, and finding safety in raw (though often hidden) social and economic power.

(Then I went on to say) I quite understand the ancient, binding custom of what is called the «ban» by the imposition of which, as the Jerusalem Bible apologetically footnotes, «in this war between Yahweh and Baal those who serve Baal suffer the fate of the conquered in the warfare of the times.»

While its leaders made the war effort, ancient Jerusalem staggered toward death, invaded by the empire, occupied by armies and eventually leveled, spent in self - deception and self - destruction.

Ancient historians tell us that severe hardships occurred when that crucial harvest was disrupted by war or social unrest.

The return to ancient faith and practice is increasingly seen as a way forward in churches polarized by worship wars and theological intransigence.

Now, keep going... and find out that the ancient Middle Eastern Hebrew ethnocentric war god, YHWH, is a fantasy, just like all of the other gods dreamed up by humans.

The wars fought by ancient Jews are corroborated in the records of the Assyrians and Babylonians.

When the majority are atheists, then you can decide, but when that day comes the ancient prophesies will be fulfilled and we will have war and rumors of war and famine and pestilence and we will become a backward, 3rd rate nation which will be over run by another people who are more deserving than us!

It is a strength of Miller's book that it confronts such questions by bringing up the particulars of courage and cowardice in reports and testimonies from the ancient Greeks to the Vietnam War.

Perhaps not in ancient times, but by today's reasoning, I seldom find «war» to be «just».

So when in middle age I come at last to believe that a nation builds up a moral treasury of merit by the sacrifices of its people in war and I begin to worry, like the ancient moralists did, that we grow fat, lazy and contemptible amidst our plenty, I don't have a leg to stand on.

The Governor who visited the ancient town to assess the level of destruction caused by the clash that ensured between the Hausa and Yoruba communities, expressed sadness over the incident, pointing that «it is disheartening to experience such wanton of destruction in Ile - ife again, after the end of tragic event of Ife / Modakeke war of fifteen years ago».

ICOM has since used satellites to survey damage to ancient mausoleums in Timbuktu during the 2012 civil war in Mali and plans to use them to assess destruction caused by the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

Reassured by his nondestructive technique, curators at the Smithsonian and several other museums agreed to let a team led by Moini sample silk objects spanning over 2000 years of history, from ancient Chinese silks and French Renaissance tapestries to a U.S. Civil War flag and silk spun last year.

A new study linking paleoclimatology — the reconstruction of past global climates — with historical analysis by researchers at Yale and other institutions shows a link between environmental stress and its impact on the economy, political stability, and war - fighting capacity of ancient Egypt.

Today, Yemen is racked by civil war and Islamic extremists who, in a campaign against heresy, have destroyed ancient mosques in the port city of Aden, and a multidomed shrine in the Hadhramaut region.

The Force is described to Luke in the original Star Wars as the source of a Jedi knight's powers, «an energy field created by all living things» that binds us and the galaxy together, and derided by an Imperial officer as «sorcerer's way» and an «ancient religion.»

For instance, the last forests near the ancient Nabataean capital of Petra, in modern Jordan, were felled by the Ottoman Turks during construction of the Hejaz railroad just before World War I.

Lee draws rhyme and reason out of Aristophanes» ancient play Lysistrata, transforming it into a searing look at the modern - day war zones that plague Chicago and every other American city ruled by street toughs offering nothing but guns»n' poses.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening January 16, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Chandni Chowk to China (Unrated) Action comedy about a humble chef (Akshay Kumar) from Delhi who moves to China after being mistaken by a couple of visitors from the Orient as the reincarnation of an ancient war hero.

RSPB Rainham Marshes in Essex, once used by the Ministry of Defense as a rifle range in both World Wars, is one of the few remaining ancient grassland and grazing marshes in the UK.

Play 1: The Olympics — Ancient and Modern «Ancient»: Sostratos (wrestler / boxer) Leonidas (runner) Gymnast «Modern»: Rower Swimmer Kallipateira (boxer's mother) Play 2: Modern Olympics 1896 - 1912 Narrator Athletes from: France, America, Great Britain, Greece, Sweden Play 3: Modern Olympics 1920 — 1936 (Impact of 2 world wars) Narrator Athletes from: Belgium, France, Netherlands, USA, Germany Play 4: Modern Olympics 1948 — 1964 (End of World Wars — The Soviet Union joins the Games) Narrator Athletes from: Britain, Finland, Australia, Italy, Japan Play 5: Modern Olympics 1968 — 1984 (Tragedy & Triumph) Narrator Athletes from: Mexico, West Germany, Canada, U.S.S.R., U.S.A. Play 6: Modern Olympics 1988 — 2004 (To the Future) Narrator Athletes from: South Korea, Spain, U.S.A., Australia, Greece Plus 2 Updates Plays 7 and 8 have been added, at the end, as updates (available off www.plays-r-ussell.com as separate scripts) Play 7 Beijing 2008 Play 8 London 2012 Other Olympic scripts by Sue Russell: ASSEMBLIES Brazil Host Country to the Olympics 2016 Assembly Olympics PRIDE Assembly (PSHE «team spirit» script) Rio 2016 Olympic Games Assembly - covering all 28 sports Rio 2016 Olympic Games Assembly including history events and ode History of the Olympics Assembly Olympics Assembly for Key Stage 1 Rio 2016 Paralympics 2016 Assembly GUIDED READING SCRIPTS Olympics PRIDE Guided Reading QUIZ Rio 2016 Olympic Games Quiz - 100 questions and answwars) Narrator Athletes from: Belgium, France, Netherlands, USA, Germany Play 4: Modern Olympics 1948 — 1964 (End of World Wars — The Soviet Union joins the Games) Narrator Athletes from: Britain, Finland, Australia, Italy, Japan Play 5: Modern Olympics 1968 — 1984 (Tragedy & Triumph) Narrator Athletes from: Mexico, West Germany, Canada, U.S.S.R., U.S.A. Play 6: Modern Olympics 1988 — 2004 (To the Future) Narrator Athletes from: South Korea, Spain, U.S.A., Australia, Greece Plus 2 Updates Plays 7 and 8 have been added, at the end, as updates (available off www.plays-r-ussell.com as separate scripts) Play 7 Beijing 2008 Play 8 London 2012 Other Olympic scripts by Sue Russell: ASSEMBLIES Brazil Host Country to the Olympics 2016 Assembly Olympics PRIDE Assembly (PSHE «team spirit» script) Rio 2016 Olympic Games Assembly - covering all 28 sports Rio 2016 Olympic Games Assembly including history events and ode History of the Olympics Assembly Olympics Assembly for Key Stage 1 Rio 2016 Paralympics 2016 Assembly GUIDED READING SCRIPTS Olympics PRIDE Guided Reading QUIZ Rio 2016 Olympic Games Quiz - 100 questions and answWars — The Soviet Union joins the Games) Narrator Athletes from: Britain, Finland, Australia, Italy, Japan Play 5: Modern Olympics 1968 — 1984 (Tragedy & Triumph) Narrator Athletes from: Mexico, West Germany, Canada, U.S.S.R., U.S.A. Play 6: Modern Olympics 1988 — 2004 (To the Future) Narrator Athletes from: South Korea, Spain, U.S.A., Australia, Greece Plus 2 Updates Plays 7 and 8 have been added, at the end, as updates (available off www.plays-r-ussell.com as separate scripts) Play 7 Beijing 2008 Play 8 London 2012 Other Olympic scripts by Sue Russell: ASSEMBLIES Brazil Host Country to the Olympics 2016 Assembly Olympics PRIDE Assembly (PSHE «team spirit» script) Rio 2016 Olympic Games Assembly - covering all 28 sports Rio 2016 Olympic Games Assembly including history events and ode History of the Olympics Assembly Olympics Assembly for Key Stage 1 Rio 2016 Paralympics 2016 Assembly GUIDED READING SCRIPTS Olympics PRIDE Guided Reading QUIZ Rio 2016 Olympic Games Quiz - 100 questions and answers!

For those more interested in unlikely and unwilling adventurers, Derelict by LJ Cohen reveals what happens when the remnants of an ancient war suddenly make their way back into the stars.

Undeterred by world war and enemy submarines, Amelia Peabody — archaeologist - sleuth — once again sets sail for Egypt, where ghosts of an ancient past and specters of a present - day evil hover silently over an inscrutable land.

Undeterred by world war and enemy submarines, Amelia Peabody — Grandmaster Elizabeth Peters's indomitable archaeologist - sleuth — once again sets sail for Egypt, where ghosts of an ancient past and specters of a present - day evil hover silently over an inscrutable land.

In A Game of Thrones, an ancient kingdom was torn by the ambitions of ruthless men and women; in A Clash of Kings, war, sorcery, and madness swept over the kingdom like a voracious beast of prey.

Domesticated since the dawn of man, they've been used as crucial communicators in war by every major historical superpower from ancient Egypt to the United States and are credited with saving thousands of lives.

Mystery, suspense and romance flourish against a backdrop of Civil War turmoil and ancestral strife — where immortality infiltrates the ancient air breathed by all who inhabit Overhome Estate.

The Cane Corso is descended from the war dogs, known as canis pugnax, used by the ancient Romans.

A list of military dog names and their meanings inspired by war heros, great generals, monster weaponry and ancient history.

Immerse yourself in ancient Roman history when we stop at Pont Du Gard, a UNESCO World Heritage Site built in the 1st century; visit the amphitheater in Arles, the city with the most Roman remains outside of Rome, Then, moving on to the Middle Ages, visit Rocamadour, a town perched high on a cliff; walk by the ancient battlements in the beautifully preserved, medieval town of Carcassonne; and visit Beaune's Hôtel - Dieu charity hospital, built in 1443 after the Hundred Years» War left many of the town's population destitute..

In Decay of Logos, you will journey through an ancient kingdom ruled by a warring King.

Cocoon is governed by deity - like beings called Fal» Cie that regulate its life and elements, and the people live within it, happy except for one main fear — a constant worry of an invasion from «Pulse», the uncharted world outside of Cocoon believed to be some kind of hell; legends of an ancient war between Cocoon and Pulse striking fear into peoples» hearts.

Developed by 343 Industries, get a glimpse at how they have taken «Halo 4» in new directions, introducing an ancient threat and the Master Chief's greatest challenge, as well as an innovative and fresh new take on multiplayer in War Games and Spartan Ops.

Blood and Wine is a 20 - hour adventure, coming in Q1 2016, that introduces a new game region, Toussaint, that's untouched by the war and presents a carefree atmosphere, hiding an ancient secret.

The setting of Antiquia Lost is a world diviided by three separate tribes that clashed in an ancient war.

In times of war, chase down the child of prophecy, a living weapon of power, foretold by ancient elven legends.

The Samurai clan has waged war upon the ninja clan for a hundred years, driving them deep into an ancient forest where they are protected by the magic of the spirits.

With the aid of the magical Shadow Core — a player - controllable platform, follow his courageous journey across an entire continent, braving war and ancient enemies, led only by a glimmer of a hope.

I will not go into spoiler - level detail, but while the initial outlook suggested that the story would end up a Final Fantasy IV - style afterthought, it ended up being the game's strong suit as a band of adventurers sought to destroy an ancient enemy and repair a world fragmented by a 1000 year - old war.

style afterthought, it ended up being the game's strong suit as a band of adventurers sought to destroy an ancient enemy and repair a world fragmented by a 1000 year - old war.

Total War: Rome II — Emperor Edition does not introduce any sort of major update when it comes to the look of the title, but even more than one year after launch, the experience created by The Creative Assembly looks very good, both when gamers are planning thier moves on the strategic map and when they are directly commanding armies in the tactical battles, a game that creates a very immersive take on the Ancient World complete with plenty of small details.

Realms of Ancient War, the explosive Hack»n' Slash (action - RPG) developed by Wizarbox, today presented a new trailer introducing the exciting local co-op mode, where coordination and teamwork are the essential ingredients of victory!

Developed by Marvelous Inc. and expanding upon the extensive Fate universe with a story from acclaimed series writer Kinoko Nasu (of Fate / stay night fame), Fate / EXTELLA: The Umbral Star features a diverse cast of «Servants» — ancient warriors of legend and imagination, always at their Masters» orders — who survived the Holy Grail War that took place on the Moon.

Developed by Marvelous Inc. and expanding upon the extensive Fate universe with an original story from acclaimed series writer Kinoko Nasu (of Fate / stay night fame), Fate / EXTELLA: The Umbral Star previously released for PlayStation ® 4 and PlayStation ® Vita, features a diverse cast of 16 playable «Servants» — ancient warriors of legend and imagination, always at the beck and call of their Masters — who survived the Holy Grail War that took place on the Moon.

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[Platforms: PS4, PSVita; Release: Winter]-- Expanding upon the extensive and much - beloved Fate universe with a standalone story from acclaimed series writer Kinoko Nasu (of Fate / stay night fame), Fate / EXTELLA: The Umbral Star, developed by Marvelous Inc., transpires on the new world of Extella through a diverse cast of «Servants» — ancient warriors of legend and imagination, always at their Masters» orders — who survived the Holy Grail War that took place on the Moon.

Developed by Marvelous Inc. and expanding upon the extensive Fate universe with an original story from acclaimed series writer Kinoko Nasu (of Fate / stay night fame), Fate / EXTELLA: The Umbral Star features a diverse cast of «Servants» — ancient warriors of legend and imagination, always at their Masters» orders — who survived the Holy Grail War that took place on the Moon.