Sentences with phrase «by century old»

This luxury private estate is situated on 20.000 m2 of pristine property facing the Balinese nature surrounded by century old trees, coco palms and many flowering vines and shrubs native to Bali.

Built on the Papagayo Peninsula in Costa Rica, this fantastic villa is surrounded by century old tropical trees and lush gardens.

First impressions are pleasantly met by the century old sandstone homestead flanked by plane trees, which welcome you as you drive in.

They're located in the garden wing surrounded by century old acacia trees, and have an excellent sunrise view.

Shaded by a centuries old Heritage oak tree, the 8,200 square foot Adoption Center features indoor / outdoor kennels, «get acquainted» areas, puppy housing, and a cattery for feline adoptions.

I stood in the crisp air, flanked by centuries old brickwork, and imagined who once populated this place.

Not exact matches

The plantation mixes centuries - old traditions — most of the work is done by hand — and the latest agricultural methods.

Smith started Vice as a print magazine with Suroosh Alvi and Gavin McInnes in Montreal more than two decades ago; with Smith at the helm as CEO, it's now a multi-platform content mill with a reported audience of between 250 million and 300 million people a month, many of them members of Generation Y. Smith made his money by convincing an older generation that Vice knows millennials better than they could ever hope to, and that pitch has worked: Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox paid US$ 70 million for a 5 % stake of Vice in 2013, and Rogers Communications (which owns Canadian Business) inked a $ 100 million partnership.

While FM radio is over a century old and has been superseded by other broadcasting technologies — including satellite — it remains one of the most reliable forms of communication around.

Señor Paleta, founded in 2014, has grown from a tiny operation selling at festivals and private events into a profitable company, surrounded by new and exciting businesses springing up in the area's century - old buildings.

This led me to the centuries - old service of factoring which I also discovered has never been disrupted by technology innovation.

The proposed mine sharply divided the inhabitants of the valley, which is dotted with centuries - old timber barns and onion - domed churches, and surrounded by sheer - sided mountains.

Whatever our religion or ideology, we are still trapped by the centuries - old Protestant ethic, which viewed long hours as a badge of moral seriousness.

«Crypto Valley was initiated by Johann Gevers after identifying Switzerland with its decentralized, citizen - controlled political system, its centuries - old culture of individual rights, innovation, and entrepreneurship, its neutrality, stability, and business - friendly environment... for building the new generation of decentralized technologies.»

Between 2000 and 2014, the number of Americans who were a century or older increased by about 44 percent, according to a 2016 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The best of the bunch is International Business Machines, a century - old tech company in the middle of a reinvention and plagued by pessimism.

A year ago I wrote about the comparative dynamics of three outstanding kinds of money of different generations — the older generation was represented by gold, the 20th - century generation was represented by the Dollar (Index) and for the modern generation I used the cryptocurrency Bitcoin (BTC).

Meanwhile, Iraq's beleagured president Nouri al - Maliki accused the organisation of trying to destroy the «centuries - old heritage» of Christians in Iraq, he said: «What is being done by the Daesh terrorist gang [ISIS] against our Christian citizens in Ninevah province, and their aggression against the churches and houses of worship in the areas under their control, reveals beyond any doubt the extremist criminal and terrorist nature of this group, he said.

By doing so, he stepped into a centuries - old debate about the origins and future of the oppressive social institution.

The important essay entitled «Jewish Intellectuals and the De-Christianization of American Culture in the Twentieth Century» holds that the old Protestant cultural hegemony was defeated in no small part by the growing number of Jews championing «a secular vision of American culture» in the «American academic and literary intelligentsia» and in the best and most influential universities.

Mar. 12, 2013 — A century old mystery as to why, for some animals, it's the father rather than the mother that takes care of their young has been cracked by researchers at the University of Sheffield.

You will observe that not one of the books of the Old Testament (in its finished form) is of earlier date than the eighth century BC Before that time there existed traditions handed down by word of mouth, and various documentary records and compositions, which were used by later writers.

The people of the Old Testament were on a long journey by which they gradually matured in their relationship with God, over long centuries learning about Him and discovering always more about who He is.

The 17th century portico - one of the oldest parts of the Grand Mosque, Islam's holiest - is being removed by Mecca authorities as part of an expansion project to create more space for soaring numbers of pilgrims.

From the days of Marcion in the second century, certain Christians, troubled by the anthropomorphisms of the early Old Testament and by the immoralities attributed to Yahweh, have discredited the Hebrew books and have even wished to drop them from the Christian Bible.

The real content of many so - called modern difficulties are as old as the eternal hills, as old as human pride, as hoary as the «non serviam» which was uttered by the first man and has been re-echoed since down the centuries.

During the construction of the current Basilica of St Peter in the 16th century, the old basilica was gradually dismantled, step by step, while its replacement was being built.

This model is rooted in an understanding of schooling already at least four centuries old by the time Christian churches appeared on the scene.

So, for instance, in 17th - century Europe a huge dispute arose over the Hebrew vowel points and accents, which were not originally part of the Old Testament texts but were inserted by the Masorete scribes hundreds of years later.

By the early - to - mid 4th century, the Western Christian Church had placed Christmas on December 25, [17] a date later adopted in the East, [18][19] although some churches celebrate on the December 25 of the older Julian calendar, which corresponds to January in the modern - day Gregorian calendar.

By subtle, unnoticed gradations the presentation of old patterns of thinking slips over into twentieth - century categories and phrases.

It was in this spirit of mediating tradition with the challenges of the twentieth century that the forty - two - year - old Dubois, recognized as a gifted theologian and scholar of Thomas Aquinas, was tasked by his superiors with strengthening the Catholic presence in Israel.

By the time separation achieved critical mass during the second half of the nineteenth century, the establishments of old had long since died out.

This hymn was published in 1745 by Charles Wesley expressing the centuries old Christian desire for the return of Jesus.

The Bible is a book of lies, written by charlatans with an agenda, and it has been used for centuries as a means to oppress innocent people, ratinoalize bigotry, justify wars, and as a hiding place for false prophets who bugger little boys and defraud little old ladies.

Set in the Holy Land in the first century, it tells the story of a young woman joining a new social movement led by Jesus of Nazareth - and the 43 - year - old portrays the Messiah himself.

We know that the fertile lands of the Near East were overrun during several centuries following about 2000 B.C. by desert invaders — the same groups referred to in the Old Testament as Amorites.

Part of the problem with Evangelical Christianity is that many wish to stay comfy in the dusty pews of centuries old Christianity rather than getting their toes wet by dipping their lives into today's uncertain post-modern society.

3) The 24/7 Sunni - Shiite centuries - old blood feud currently being carried out in Iraq, US Troops killed in action, 3,481 and 924 died in non-combat, 97,172 — 106,047 Iraqi civilians killed mostly by Sunni and Shiite suicide bombers.

The Catholic church is slowly disintegrating due to the centuries old abuse of children by pedophile priests.

(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

The Old Testament properly so called is the corpus of books, written and handed down in Hebrew (or in the kindred Aramaic), which were received as Scripture in the first century of our era by Hebrew - speaking Jews, representing the central tradition of Hebrew and Jewish religion.

«Crisis theology,» or neo-orthodoxy, was making inroads even in the pages of The Christian Century, and by decade's end Morrison himself was calling for a «new liberalism,» for the old had become static and sterile — an instance of arrested development.

The development of such a comprehensive view has long been a need, for it has become clearer and clearer as we have become familiar and involved with a constantly widening horizon of different musical aims and practices, that the old «common practice» theories of harmony and counterpoint could no longer be overhauled or extended, but had by necessity to be replaced by a way of description and analysis that treated the «common practice» of Western music from the late seventeenth to the end of the nineteenth centuries as only one instance of a much wider musical method and practice that could be applied to all of Western music, from its origins to the present, as well as to music of other cultures.»

Yet, less than a century and a half before, an 11 - year - old boy and his partly crippled great - grandfather had maintained a valley bottom outpost, unaided, against Indians, ice storms and wild animal depredations for almost six months until the rest of their family could return from a trip to Louisiana marked by a rash of mishaps.

Ah yes, the good old days of the 20th century... when blacks were unjustly discriminated against, and Nazism rose to create world war and exterminate millions of Jews — all justified by their so - called Christian proponents.

For example a century ago, the only transportation was the horse riding or camel or donkey and so on... you can not imagine at that time people would be thinking about travelling the globe in a day or two... and we do not know what is coming as every scientists theory is being abrogated by a new scientist and the old one becomes obsolete... these also proves that human theory can not be perfect and will never be perfect... there will always be modifications...

It is believed to have been written on gold plates, whose whereabouts was revealed to Joseph Smith as a very young man, but written and hidden away centuries earlier by Moroni, last remnant of the people who had migrated from the old world to the new.

Some of the «border - line» denominations founded late in the nineteenth century by emigrants and blue - collar workers are more responsivc to social injustice today than their old - line counterparts.

Since the nineteenth century, the sexual ethics of «the family pew» have been conceptualized in Old Testament terms without much reference to modifications introduced by Jesus» law of love.