Sentences with phrase «by inhabitants as»

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And it's not just Deresiewicz who claims that Gen Y doesn't want to change the world so much as sell its inhabitants more stuff (or maybe, just maybe, change the world by selling more stuff).
Inquisitions, by contrast, usually succeed: The Catholic Church succeeded in stamping out broadly held heresies, as in the Albigensian Crusade of 1220 - 1229, which destroyed between 200,000 and 1,000,000 inhabitants of Cathar - controlled towns in Southern France.
Lewis» most successful novel, I believe, is the first part of his science - fiction trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet, in which a Cambridge don named Ransom is kidnapped by two diabolical characters, the scientist Weston and the entrepreneur Devine, and transported via rocket ship as a sacrificial victim to the inhabitants of another planet called Malacandra (Mars).12.
As inhabitants of the modern world, we are religious now perhaps to the extent of our desire to crack open the coffin of materialism, and to give to reality a larger, freer definition than is allowed by the militant materialists of the corporate economy and their political servants, or by the mechanical paradigm of reductive science.
Yet even a modest familiarity with the Scholastic tradition may lead one to wonder how many of the proposals offered as needed trinitarian novelties, here and elsewhere, have already been scrutinized, and perhaps found wanting, by the long departed inhabitants of that mostly uncharted land.
The inhabitants are usually thought to have been Essenes, who are mentioned by Josephus as an important group, numbering about four thousand.
After you have collected the results of several interviews, begin to read your notes as if they were spoken by inhabitants of a recently discovered village.
2 Many a reader has been perplexed by the fact that Abraham does not plead with God for the life of Isaac, as he had done for the inhabitants of Sodom.
«Many peasants and slum inhabitants need religion as a refuge in a society in permanent and progressive disintegration in order to deal with fear, threats, repression, hunger and death,» explained a report on the subject by Pro Mundi Vita, a Belgian - based Catholic think tank.
For all the new European inhabitants of America the Christian and biblical tradition provided images and symbols with which to interpret the enormous hopes and fears aroused in them by their new situation, as I have already suggested in using the terms «paradise» and «wilderness.»
Mastropaolo belongs to the subset of creationists known as Young Earth creationists, who believe that Earth and its inhabitants were created by God some several thousand years ago - an account of which is laid out in the book of Genesis, in the Bible's Old Testament.
[6] Tolkien saw no essential difference between Fairy Story and Myth («the higher and lower mythologies») for «the inhabitants of Olympus and Faerie live by the same life just as in the mortal world do kings and peasants», and this life is breathed into them by their author.
As such it is the unluckiest, the most tragic period in history: «And it shall come to pass that whoever gets safe out of the fire shall be destroyed by famine... for all the earth shall devour its inhabitants
(Job 26:6 [marginal translation]-RRB- Far from being consulted as «the knowing ones,» its inhabitants were conceived by those who had renounced necromancy as neither knowing nor caring about anything on earth:
For in this case Christians did not take the land by might of arms but by persuasion, and ruled not as foreign conquerors but as inhabitants and natives, harvesting the fruit of earlier centuries during which the bulk of the local population gradually adopted the new religion as its own.
There is even evidence that joseph smith thought the moon had people living on it — in 1892 a mormon article was written which says: «The Inhabitants of the Moon,» recorded Huntington: «As far back as 1837, I know that he [Smith] said the moon was inhabited by men and women the same as this earth, and that they live to a greater age than we do — that they live generally to near the age of a 1000 yearAs far back as 1837, I know that he [Smith] said the moon was inhabited by men and women the same as this earth, and that they live to a greater age than we do — that they live generally to near the age of a 1000 yearas 1837, I know that he [Smith] said the moon was inhabited by men and women the same as this earth, and that they live to a greater age than we do — that they live generally to near the age of a 1000 yearas this earth, and that they live to a greater age than we do — that they live generally to near the age of a 1000 years.
After the occupation, when the Americans took a religious census in connection with the religious legislation carried out by them, it was found, to their great surprise, that Japan, with only 89,000,000 inhabitants, registered 135,000,000 as the number of the faithful of all religious groups.
It includes Weaver's wonderful essay, «Up From Liberalism,» which is the account of a young man leaving his liberalism behind as he discovers that «we are inhabitants of a fruitful and well - ordered island surrounded by an ocean of ontological mystery.
Here are the the main things we know about refugee children in Europe, as taken from a survey of 870 inhabitants of the Calais Jungle by Refugee Rights Data Project.
Described as the haven of peace by its multicultural inhabitants, (indigenes, Igbos, Hausas, Bini, Ijaw, Tiv, Calabar, Edo, etc), it has, slowly but steadily, been taking locational advantage of being between Otukpo and Enugu, close to Obollo Afor and, therefore, direct to most Eastern towns such as Aba or Onitsha.
Just as in Scotland, where they voted for a party which espouses policies not so different from those advocated by Jeremy, the sort of «electoral credibility» which bubble - inhabitants believe in is worthless.
Article 14 of Part 2 of the New Hampshire Constitution states, «Every member of the house of representatives shall be chosen by ballot; and, for two years, at least, next preceding his election shall have been an inhabitant of this state; shall be, at the time of his election, an inhabitant of the town, ward, place, or district he may be chosen to represent and shall cease to represent such town, ward, place, or district immediately on his ceasing to be qualified as aforesaid.»
«The model behaves as if the food has been dropped in by a parachute, but in reality, local inhabitants and policymakers set policy for how the food arrives.»
Without a solution that better manages such reserves to reconcile the often competing needs of humanity and our fellow inhabitants of the planet, like the tiger, even these lands set aside as natural zoos may find themselves haunted by ghosts of species past.
However a human could rationalise the faulty belief by reinterpreting the metaphor in a newspaper style as «the cure for the political turmoil that beset the inhabitants of thalassemia».
Benson said the Chaco Canyon inhabitants traded regularly with the Chuska Slope residents, as evidenced by stone tool material (chert), pottery and wooden beams.
That includes San Francisco Bay, where the majority of inhabitants are alien species such as Chinese mitten crabs, New Zealand sea slugs and Japanese gobies — all brought by ballast water.
The latter infected the inhabitants of Libreville with the same frequency as by the dengue or chikungunya viruses.
ALMA gave talks as far south as Tierra del Fuego, with another 12 in the Metropolitan Region, while ExpoALMA was well received in Osorno, and the inhabitants of San Pedro de Atacama hung their wishes on trees, as part of the Japanese tradition of Tanabata, celebrated by ALMA and its Asian partner.
And on her first official day as a D.C inhabitant, she wore a laid - back ensemble of brown trousers and a white cotton tee — by designers Dolce & Gabbana and Bally respectively — paired with an Hermes Birkin bag (retail is around $ 10,000) and python Manolo Blahnik pumps.
The inhabitants of Birmingham live by the same double - edged sword as many other large cities: On one hand there are plenty of people from diverse backgrounds and occupations for you to meet, but on the other, city - dwellers who are hardworking, educated and successful tend to have little free time when it comes to socialising and meeting new people.
Paper Mario 64 and Paper Mario The Thousandth Year Door will always be classics games, as they have expanded the mario universe by setting grand, deep adventures revolving around interactions with its inhabitants.
This new land and its diverse inhabitants play a critical role in each quest as you strategically use the surrounding environment including terrain, vegetation and wildlife to your advantage in battle or become hindered by the hazards they present.
When written out as a list like this, one might expect the film to go through these problems like a tick - box of «working - class misery», or for the inhabitants of Bradford to be manipulated by a director wanting to take pot shots at modern Britain.
But there's absolutely nothing here so strange that it impedes the viewer's enjoyment; Shyamalan does a superb job of establishing this world and its inhabitants, as well as the rules that clearly govern their actions (eg nobody is terribly surprised by Story's presence, which does make sense within the context of the film).
Join forces with Toki and the other members of the Cosmic Cleaners as they set out to restore all of Earth's buildings, vehicles, inhabitants stolen by the envious Prince using...
The environment feels authentic, as do the inhabitants of the New York street where the phone booth resides, and there's some quality acting by Farrell (although his «New Yawk» accent isn't as authentic as it could be) and Whitaker in a supporting role as the cop who tries to keep the situation from escalating into another person dying.
And it appears that these inhabitants are just as worried about being taken over by «aliens» as we are.
Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.
On the Red Planet called Barsoom by its inhabitants he discovers that he possesses magical powers and becomes entangled in an inter-species war between the green skinned, four armed warriors known as Tharks and the redskinned humanoid factions of Zodanga and Helium.
As the vast crater blooms into a lush canyon surrounded by desert, its dozen - some inhabitants enjoy cheerful lives of digging up stones and unsuccessfully hunting rabbits.
As expected, Sayles offers up an incredibly vivid portrait of this small town and the various inhabitants within - ensuring that one can't help but feel as though they know the place by the time the movie concludeAs expected, Sayles offers up an incredibly vivid portrait of this small town and the various inhabitants within - ensuring that one can't help but feel as though they know the place by the time the movie concludeas though they know the place by the time the movie concludes.
Rules of Engagement) is a green, but very ambitious police officer who desires strongly to follow in his father's footsepts by becoming a detective lieutenant, which he attains by taking partial credit for the infamous Nite Owl murders, where three men barge into a diner and kill all of the inhabitants inside, including a former police officer named Stensland (Beckel, Blue Streak) Stensland's former partner is Bud White (Crowe, The Quick and the Dead), a rough - and - tumble cop as loyal as they come, but also willing to do the things that Exley is not, namely, to cross over the line of the law to see that justice is served.
With the heiress to the throne seemingly kidnapped by those who plotted the Empress» demise, the door is open for unscrupulous forces to use this orchestrated political turmoil as a way of achieving their goal of completely decimating the poor, plague ridden slums of the city and their inhabitants.
Beneath that simple, serene surface, however, lies a spirit of roiling anger and discontent, as Haigh's camera perceptively captures a landscape riven with poverty and social inequality: crowded soup kitchens, ill - stocked convenience stores cruised by can - filching shoplifters, and rusty trailers spilling out on to the pavements, their inhabitants gnarled by hunger, brutality and substance abuse.
Meanwhile, an invasion above New York City is led by the Dimension X inhabitant known as Krang.
By far the largest PSVR title to date and packed with enough content to keep players coming back for months, experiencing Skyrim as an actual inhabitant of the world is an experience like no other and truly makes you feel like an epic adventurer, at least until you take a coffee table to the knee.
In short this school has brought awareness among the inhabitants of the Pamohi and other nearby tribal villages regarding the importance of education and create an environment to attract children by not only imparting formal education but also vocational trainings and as the children are now attending school and parents are becoming aware, the problem of child labour in the villages have reduced to a great extend.
The Census held every year by the Government of the United States shows how in the last ten years its inhabitants in poverty have been rising from 11 to the current 15.1 %, encompassing 46.2 million people, which is a considerable figure for a country that is shown as a culmination of freedom and individual rights.
As we follow her spirited heroine on a perilous journey north in the hold of a ship to the rough - and - tumble world of San Francisco and northern California, we enter a world whose newly arrived inhabitants are driven mad by gold fever.
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