Sentences with phrase «by his forebears in»

(Dr. Browning didn't contemplate the possibility that, without Jesus, there would have been no iconoclastic destruction of Scotland's ancient and beautiful Catholic churches, or no mass burnings of «witches» by his forebears in the kirk; but that, perhaps, would have been cutting a bit too close to the bone.)

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It was favored by one of the company's forebears, whose family business in London had traded decorative seashells earlier in the 1800s.

What we did not know, of course, is that, when the KJV was first published back in 1611, the Geneva Bible was the translation preferred by our Reformed forebears, who were suspicious of the king's motives in commissioning a replacement.

We need grace both to believe, as our forebears did, that we really do not know our own nature, any more than we know God's nature, till taught by Scripture and to apply this truth to our own sexual nature in particular.

American fundamentalists indeed retreated into the wilderness by the end of the «20s, keenly aware of their lost influence and their status as outsiders in a culture their forebears had done so much to shape.

We do not live, as our forebears thought, in a permanent, earthly home where our security is assured by the watchful eye and guiding hand of a parental God.

Our forebears, whose lives were contained by cultural and geographical horizons, had only the haziest knowledge of people who lived in other countries, and could afford to ignore them completely — as we can no longer do.

Our ancient forebears stood in such awe of the forces of nature that they created concepts, symbols and a language by which to understand them.

As a babe he was pinned to the mountain, his feet pierced with a nail, and Claude Levi - Strauss emphasizes the lameness implied in his name and that of his forebears.14 Oedipus was then blocked at the crossroads by Laius, and later stopped by the Sphinx.

20, 10) still discernible in Augustine's City of God and political writings — perhaps the best (i.e., most well — executed) instance of a Church Father justifying war in the face of the «nonviolent assumptions» held by his forebears and some contemporaries.

The sixties generation's inordinate self - regard; their demand to be given, without striving for it, all the goodies their society had to offer, including, of course, easy sex; their recourse to the instant and unearned sense of power and comfort supplied by drugs; their refusal to serve their country; their general ingratitude, expressed most of all in their declared intention to lead lives in no respect like those of their forebears — all these were translations of the hubris that, partly unconsciously but entirely influentially, constituted the basic underpinning of their upbringing.

It affirms that the «greatness of our nation» is rooted in the «legacy of our forebears» and will be measured by the «promise of future generations.»

This plea follows a long description of the wrongs and hurts suffered by the Scots - Irish forebears of the members of the jury, and of the hurts these forebears had laid on others in return.

Moody refused to become directly involved in the controversies created by the intellectual revolution of his day; he chose to ignore these as much as possible and to stand fast by the evangelical Protestantism of his forebears, yet his influence was as widespread as that of any Protestant in his time.

That democracy can be made to work, that by the scientific method we can gain mastery over the latent resources of the universe, that trial by jury is practicable, that torture is a foolish method of seeking evidence in the courts, that chattel slavery is a failure — such things we take for granted, not because we individually are wiser than our forebears, who disbelieved them all, but because we share in a social tradition which we did not even help to create, but which has shaped and conformed our thinking with irresistible power.

Back in 1975, Murray's forebear, a 24 - year - old polio victim named Bob Hall, set off a marathoning revolution by becoming the first wheelchair racer to complete Boston.

Our basic instinctual tastes were formed by the evolutionary pressures on our hunting / gathering forebears, who typically traveled 10 - 20 miles a day on foot in search of food, and didn't have have surpluses or much grain.

Your forebears formed the Council for Higher Cocoa Prices which was later succeeded by the National Liberation Movement.They incited the farmers most them found in their strongholds to support a federal system of government just to make the system ungovernable and to weaken the powers of the CPP administration.

As Michael Fry, the founder of independence site Wealthy Nation, said: «We must make clear to voters that they can most readily make their country better by emulating their Victorian forebears in the pursuit of profitable opportunities.»

The courtroom battle had raged since the Bush administration had announced in January 2009 its decision to take gray wolves — 66 of which were reintroduced to the region in 1995 after their forebears were wiped out by hunters and ranchers a century earlier — off of the Endangered Species List.

Every scene in School Pride feels like the seventh or 10th take and too contrived, even by the low standards of reality TV... I will say that School Pride seems less manipulative and showy than its forebears.

Bolstered by the «do whatever is necessary to follow your dream» motto of his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz (Benjamin Bratt), Miguel seeks to prove himself in a talent contest but his unorthodox means of obtaining an instrument catapult him and his dog Dante into the Land of the Dead, where he meets not only Hector (Gael Garcia Bernal), a good - natured con - artist, but many of his forebears, including Mama Imelda.

Xenoraid is the latest in a glut of indie retro - inspired bullet hell shoot - em - ups but does it expand upon the formula laid by its forebears or is it content to simply coast by on tried and tested mechanics?

Students should be broadly educated in the traditions, documents, literature, history, and understandings imparted by their forebears.

His forebears were Dutch Mennonite farmers invited by Catherine the Great in the 1760s to...

From the opening party at a royal palace in Bali, we caught a glimpse of the lives enjoyed by our glamorous forebears

The forebears of the current residents practiced an unusual burial practice by hanging and stacking coffins, hewed from tree trunks, in the limestone karst cliffs and caves near town.Day 1:0700 H — Early departure to Banaue via North Expressway.Rural towns markets, verdant farm lands and mountains are mosaic images that encompass the day.

To stop Oryx — who is leading a new alien race called the Taken in a war against the Guardians — the Vanguard send Guardians on a quest to become strong enough to stop Oryx by restoring the powers of their forebearers.

The roster ranges from New York painters like the emerging Samuel Jablon and the veteran Rochelle Feinstein to 40 - something Angeleno Amy Bessone, who contributes ceramics and paintings, to, in a nod to the artists» forebears, a video by the late artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.

These are structures that, like their narrative forebears, are settled but forever in flux; stable but retaining the ability to move — or be moved by another.

By melding these diverse and humble sources with polyester resin as a binding agent, Mallary sought to reconcile structure, gesture and content, in ways not unlike his abstract expressionist forebearer Franz Kline, whose paintings combined energetic brush work with architectonic forms originally inspired by his surroundingBy melding these diverse and humble sources with polyester resin as a binding agent, Mallary sought to reconcile structure, gesture and content, in ways not unlike his abstract expressionist forebearer Franz Kline, whose paintings combined energetic brush work with architectonic forms originally inspired by his surroundingby his surroundings.

Like their Conceptualist forebears in the 1960s and 1970s, these artists question objects as the sole conveyors of art, and their work is heavily shaped by the theoretical.

Part of a series in which Kosuth installs contemporaries or forebears, the exhibition will incorporate a selection of work by artists proposed by influential Arte Povera artist Emilio Prini (1943 — 2016), namely Enrico Castellani (b. 1930), Lucio Fontana (1899 — 1968), Yves Klein (1928 — 1963), Kosuth himself and Piero Manzoni (1933 — 1963).

Through his art Melvin Edwards placed himself in good company, and by measure of his long and continuing career he has faithfully done justice to his forebears while raising the bar for the next generation.

In fact, each of these operators has an eccentric take on the standards supplied by his forebears — in Poussin's case, the transparent pictorial window of Renaissance art, in Twombly's the in - your - face vehemence of the Abstract ExpressionistIn fact, each of these operators has an eccentric take on the standards supplied by his forebears — in Poussin's case, the transparent pictorial window of Renaissance art, in Twombly's the in - your - face vehemence of the Abstract Expressionistin Poussin's case, the transparent pictorial window of Renaissance art, in Twombly's the in - your - face vehemence of the Abstract Expressionistin Twombly's the in - your - face vehemence of the Abstract Expressionistin - your - face vehemence of the Abstract Expressionists.

Yet they all stand - or lie - in stark contrast to their obvious forebears, the images Yves Klein made in the 1960s by smearing pigment on bodies and using them as brushes.

It seems Humanity has «come down» from the trees to now need to live shaded by the surface for a time, that would at least be the more sensible thing, in line with our forebears realising that the trees would not transport them away from the approaching «cold».

I've heard this said countless times in recent years, previously by the Legal Complaints Service and its many forebears, and now by the Legal Services Board (LSB).

The aforementioned devices outed by FCC filings will most likely be revealed at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month, and are widely expected to retain the same design as their forebears.

The test for the recognition of native title was determined by the High Court's decision in Yorta Yorta.136 There the Court confirmed that to prove native title, claimants must show that the traditional owners group has existed as a community continuously since the acquisition of sovereignty by the British, and that in all that time they have continued to observe the traditional laws and customs of their forebears.

In the Yorta Yorta decision the Court confirmed that to prove native title, claimants must show that the traditional owners group has existed as a community continuously since the acquisition of sovereignty by the British, and that in all that time they have continued to observe the traditional laws and customs of their forebearIn the Yorta Yorta decision the Court confirmed that to prove native title, claimants must show that the traditional owners group has existed as a community continuously since the acquisition of sovereignty by the British, and that in all that time they have continued to observe the traditional laws and customs of their forebearin all that time they have continued to observe the traditional laws and customs of their forebears.

In Yorta Yorta the High Court confirmed that the applicants must show that the traditional owner community has existed as a community continuously since the acquisition of sovereignty by the British and that in all that time they have continued to observe the traditions and customs of their forebearIn Yorta Yorta the High Court confirmed that the applicants must show that the traditional owner community has existed as a community continuously since the acquisition of sovereignty by the British and that in all that time they have continued to observe the traditions and customs of their forebearin all that time they have continued to observe the traditions and customs of their forebears.

His Honour's reasoning suggests that in order to establish a native title right to control access, Aboriginal people would be required to demonstrate before a court not only the existence of a traditional right to control access to their land and the exercise of this right by the applicants, but also that the native title applicants and their forebears, in the face of inordinate risks, asserted this right consistently against non-Indigenous people through the post-sovereignty period.