Sentences with phrase «by civilizations many»

Much of Bennington County is rural, covered by Green Mountain National Forest and mostly untouched by civilization.

There's a profound insight here about our Darwinian natures untutored by civilization or about the immaturity of even a precocious girl.

Do you discount the possibly that we could have been created by another civilization?

Hemmed in by civilization, resentful of kin,....

Few were the things provided by civilization — the rifle, the ax, gunpowder, pots and pans, and occasional trinkets.

«The kind, scope and intensity of such conflicts are largely determined by the civilization in which we live.»

Dogs, pickup trucks, campfires and an occasional howl in the desolate night are the background for hunters» tales of wily predators made even more clever by civilization

But most Maya people did not belong to the elite, whose world is the one more clearly reflected by their civilization's remaining art and architecture.

In 1877, Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli described seeing linear marks on Mars (canali; mistranslated as canals) that were thought to be constructed by some civilization.

The way our system works, it almost ensures that as an environmental threat grows, there is an institution in place that acts in a way to thwart the attempt by civilization to confront that threat.

A society of genetically altered rats comes to the aid of a mouse whose family is threatened by civilization.

If you're intimidated by Civilization this is an reasonable starting place for the 4X genre, but it's not for those seeking a deep or lengthy experience.

Though the island has been untouched by civilization, scary stories have reached the crew, including live - animal - capture expert Captain Englehorn (Thomas Kretschmann), Hayes (Evan Parke), Lumpy the Cook (Andy «Gollum» Serkis), and the skittish young Jimmy (Jamie Bell).

Beautiful wild beach, which hasn't been touched by civilization.

Fortunately, Manu has remained intact and untouched by civilization.

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The systems that set it apart, things inspired by Civilization, were a bit half - baked even in 1997, with trade, diplomacy and research existing in name only.

1st page conductors score from Civilization IV printed on High Quality Thick Presentation Paper and SIGNED by Civilization IV Grammy Award Wining composer Christopher Tin!

The first military strategy sim designed by Civilization creator Sid Meier is recalled by fans of the genre, of course, but often overlooked in retrospectives of the famed game designer.

Today, most of that landscape has been conquered and covered by a civilization whose aspirations now aim beyond the terrestrial.

As a side point, I beleive the data behind this plot does not back out the popular «heat island» effect of the temp stations in the US being heated by civilization.

Not exact matches

One such brilliant book was Civilization by Niall Ferguson (which I'm told was also made into this two - part TV series I haven't seen).

In his book The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future, Laurence Smith, a professor of geography and earth and space sciences at UCLA, argues that we're about to see a productivity and culture boom in the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resources.

I wrote my thesis on the philosophy of history with the central argument that Industrial Civilization would collapse and either be replaced by a new emergent socio - economic revolution an order of magnitude higher than industrialization and agriculture combined, or we would go back to the stone age or extinct.

If we judge a civilization's success by its endurance over time, then the Bushmen are the most successful society in human history.

«Human civilization was largely enabled by the domestication of livestock,» says Nicholas Genovese, Valeti's co-founder.

THE whole picture of industry, business, and amusements, then, may be summed up by repeating that while there are certain industries which Jews dominate and certain industries in which Jewish participation is considerable there are also vast industrial fields, generally reckoned as the most typical of our civilization, in which they play a part so inconsiderable as not to count in the total picture.

Our faith in this cornerstone of civilization is tested daily, it seems, by bigoted pronouncements from anyone who can get their hands on a microphone or a keyboard, and by images of angry, swastika - festooned men carrying tiki torches.

When a civilization is destroyed by hubris, those who are left behind are forced to rebuild society, this time learning from our past mistakes.

I've been reading an historical novel — World Without End by Ken Follett — and it's got me thinking about how Western civilization evolved from the middle ages to the age of enlightenment.

Using historical examples from the dawn of civilization, Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History, first published in 1992, demonstrates how a misinterpretation of the monetary system — especially by government — can lead to mischief.

When the compass was invented by the Chinese during the Qin dynasty (221 - 206 B.C), it radically changed civilizations and ushered in many years later the Age of Exploration in the 15th century.

Paul Ryan is making headlines in the campaign's closing hours by saying that President Obama's policies pose a threat to Judeo - Christian civilization.

It is a problem when a crisis that penetrates to the very core of our civilization is not being freshly and meaningfully addressed and interpreted by the institutional representatives of what is, arguably, that civilization's single most important formative force.

Would Judaism and the Jewish people have fared better or worse if they had not found themselves for the most part living in a civilization dominated by the Christian religion, which has claimed from the beginning to be the direct descendant and fulfillment of Judaism and the life of the Jewish people?

While the leader in waiting in Iran in the late 1970s was a cleric renowned for his hatred of the United States and western civilization, the man of the hour in Egypt is a deeply secular man whose rapid ascent in recent days is fueled in part by the fact that he is a fluent speaker of both English and American culture.

The Foucault by whom we are first moved to question modernity, the Foucault by whom we are first shown the absurdity of the modern project from its beginning, is not the Foucault of the epistemological Order of Things and Archaeology of Knowledge, but the Foucault of the historical Discipline and Punish, Madness and Civilization, and Birth of the Clinic.

What would have become of Judaism in civilizations whose character was shaped by religions such as Hinduism or Buddhism, which themselves had no original connection with Judaism at all?

I am unpersuaded by the argument that the designated - hitter rule threatens civilization as we have known it.

But they are required by the Quran to establish this global Islamic state on the rubble of every civilization, every constitution, every government.»

Such conversions are likely to grow more frequent as self - described «lovers of death» such as ISIS force the French to explain and defend a civilization firmly based, for all its inconsistencies, excesses, and aberrations, on the reverent love of human life demanded by the doctrine of the Incarnation.

We would get back hundreds years back from civilization by giving our country and our liberties to these people.

An entire people was mesmerized by the rupture of a culture and a tradition that were entitled to be called the best in Western civilization but that ended up as the worst ever in Western civilization.

It saw itself as part of a larger civilization, one that transcended the absolute Germanness proclaimed by Hitler, and it saw that wider civilization in terms of the ultimate relationship with God.

Muchembled also resists a Western triumphalist narrative by suggesting that the taming of domestic violence was not simply the result of a progressive civilizing process» marking European civilization as the height of human evolution» but came at the price of colonial conquest on other continents and terribly destructive wars among nations in Europe.

As my friend Pastor Richard John Neuhaus has so eloquently put it, «the Holocaust is in modern consciousness the icon of barbarity by contrast with which civilization is defined.»

But for arguments sake, if it did, out of the trillions of civilizations that must inhabit the universe, why would it like to read a novel by Steven King?

The Jesuit Alessandro Valignano (1539 - 1606) was among the first to articulate missionary policies, not only emphasizing the importance of «accommodation and adaptation to Chinese culture,» as historian Daniel H. Bays writes, but also «indirect evangelism by means of science and technology to convince the elite of the high level of European civilization.»

The whole subject has received careful treatment by David L. Hall, The Civilization of Experience: A Whiteheadian Theory of Culture (New York: Fordham University Press, 1973).

This is a clash of cultures, not civilizations as described by some writers.