Sentences with phrase «by our ancestors as»

I'm certain they will be cherished by my ancestors as I've cherished the writing of my loved ones who have passed on.

Used for centuries by our ancestors as primary fuel sources, it has recently become subject of fierce rejection.

The socially - constructed complex systems we live in are the product of generations of decisions and actions by our ancestors as well as those now living, some of whom may be retired from positions of power and authority.

Not exact matches

As you can tell by my former student's name, his ancestors didn't come on the Mayflower or sign the Declaration of Independence.

Accompanied by a troupe of dancers with gongs, drums, and banners, and by Australian aborigines in paint and loincloths, she invoked ancestor spirits and indicated that the best «image of the Holy Spirit comes from the image of Kwan In... [who] is venerated as Goddess of compassion and wisdom in East Asian women's popular religion.»

There is plenty of evidence for evolution (althought we didn't come «from apes,» but from a common ancestor with apes) and literally no evidence that we were created as is by a deity.

«Has such a thing [as a plague of locusts wrought by God] happened in your days, or in the days of your ancestors?»

IF Bishop Eddie Long's ancestors had not been dragged out of Africa brought to the US as slaves, had their families pulled apart by white men treating them as animals and using them for breeding and labor to get rich, none of this would have ever happened.

But this rejection, in turn, prompted Hamann to compose and publish a piece called To the Witch at Kadmanbor, a «letter» supposedly written by Nicolai to an old sorceress, asking her to translate Hamann's Monologue from the Chinese of the «Mandarin» who wrote it» a letter that, midway through its course, suddenly becomes a delirious monologue of its own (in which the witch now appears as the Fury Alecto, but with two faces, «a calf's eye like Juno's, and the watery eye of an owl») before concluding with the recommendation that Hamann be forced like his illustrious ancestor Haman — from the book of Esther — to mount the scaffold.

We find direction in the present as much by studying our past errors as by finding inspiration in those occasions when our ancestors in the faith used their freedom wisely.

More generally, Montesino refers here to the universal humanity espoused by the Christian doctrine of monogenesis: that all people have Adam as an ancestor and therefore belong to the same race.

Often people insist that they as individuals have no responsibility for the sins committed by their ancestors or their nations.

And so may you pass from death to life, from the authority of tradition to the experience of knowing God; thus will you pass from darkness to light, from a racial faith inherited to a personal faith achieved by actual experience; and thereby will you progress from a theology of mind handed down by your ancestors to a true religion of spirit which shall be built up in your souls as an eternal endowment.

We are walking the sawdust trail as our ancestors did, only here the trail is marked by icons.

I have to tell you, I am staunchly conservative, as I'm sure you can attest, and I am against the unending flood of illegal and undocuumented immigration into the U.S.. But, like the statement says, what we need is a logical, enforceable, orderly process by which we, as Americans, can express the opportunities to come enrich our culture to future immigrants that so many of our ancestors enjoyed, which coincides with the Church's admonition to help the needy.

The fact is, it is Judaism that kept the Jewish ancestors of David Smolin Jewish enough to bring him into the world as one marked forever by the covenant.

>> > You are repeating youself... commonality can be equallly explained by a «common desinger» as a «common ancestor»

There is no such «direct» evolution: animals, bacteria, and algae have a common ancestor from which they have diverged, as can be shown by aligning and comparing amino acid sequences of proteins and nucleotide sequences of homologous ribosomal RNA molecules that are found in both bacteria and vertebrates.

And if they eschewed the economic benefits of reserved places in government service by refusing to claim any relationship with their ancestors castes, this was as much a testimony to their sense of dignity as human beings as it was a witness to their Christian faith.

This characterization is further enhanced by the activity of the magician, illegitimate priest as he was, who is commonly recognized to have been in some way ancestor of the modern scientist.

Indeed, a very early remnant of the witnessing tradition posited a striking contrast, as we have had occasion to notice before in Chapter Two: «The God of our ancestors raised up Jesus, whom you had killed by hanging him on a tree» (Acts 5:30, emphasis mine).

The promise of the soul and the afterlife is designed to make us not fear the end by viewing it as a new beginning, which it is, in a way, as we rejoin our ancestors in the carbon from whence we came.

One day, probably not in the near future judging by how much unspent energy there still is to tap, we will simply give up trying to fix what our ancestors broke, and just admit that our good intentions are just as naive and interfering as theirs were.

And on what is, in a sense, a higher level still we have the disquieting example of such animal groups as termites, ants and bees, our ancestors in the Tree of Life, which, afflicted by an evil of which we seem to perceive the symptoms in ourselves, have lapsed into a state of social enslavement — the very fate towards which an implacable destiny seems to be impelling us.

Indeed, it has been supposed by some that the teraphim, household gods, (Genesis 35:4; 31:19; 30 - 35; I Samuel 15:23; 19:13, 16; II Kings 23:24) were originally images of ancestors; that they were honored as such and were part of the apparatus of popular religion; (Hosea 3:4) that mortuary customs which the prophetic school later condemned grew up around them; (Cf. Deuteronomy 26:13 - 14) that the right of performing the necessary ceremonies for one's ancestors devolved upon a son and that this fact underlay both the sense of tragedy in being sonless and the practices of levirate marriage and of adoption to avoid such disaster; (Cf. Genesis 15:2 - 3; 30:3 - 8; Deuteronomy 25:5 - 10) and that this set of ideas and customs was an integral part of the whole clan organization of early Israel.

It is a melting pot of all nations, cultures and religions that is why everyone likes to come here... America is built by immigrants... even ur ancestors came from somewhere so don't act like ur own America... Muslim Americans have as much rights here in America anyone else.

It is much more probable to imagine generations of Muslims agitated by the same mysteries, moved by the same yearnings, troubled by the same questionings and doubts, and aspiring to the same peace as had generations of their ancestors who lived in the same environment.

Origins of such a notion go far back in human history, to primitive days when our remote ancestors thought that some special anima indwelt human bodies; it was given additional support by the teaching of certain of the Greeks, with their insistence on the soul as entirely distinct from, yet temporarily the tenant of, the body — at its most extreme this expressed itself in the saying soma sema, «the body is the prison - house of the soul».

«This was reported online by a journalist of a national paper, who described it as being intended to break a curse on her that was handed down by her ancestors, to prevent the curse being passed on to her children.

In this regard, they were encouraged by the words of Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI: «Our quarreling ancestors were in reality much closer to each other when in all their disputes they still knew that they could only be servants of one truth which must be acknowledged as being as great and as pure as it has been intended for us by God.»

Before he became pope, Benedict wrote that «our quarrelling ancestors were in reality much closer to each other when in all their disputes they still knew that they could only be servants of one truth which must be acknowledged as being as great and as pure as it has been intended for us by God.»

Here one finds the dull report of the census - taker, the uninspired but minute directions for the performance of the cult, stories of man's beginnings and that of many of the common experiences of his life, such as language, relationship of races, why the rainbow; colorful stories, of the might and prowess of ancient ancestors of the race, riddles, puns, fables, prayers, songs that have become almost the universal songs of the human race, the history of the rise and fall of dynasties, the preaching of reformers and prophets, the questioning of it all by men grown weary of the struggle, proverbial sayings of great wisdom; the dreams of conquest both of earth and heaven.

Bottomline, there are thousands and thousands of Ethiopian Jews and they've been in Ethiopia for as long as anyone can remember and, in fact, many of them grow up not knowing about the existence of very very light skinned Jews, (such as myself, of the Jews who fled to Northern Europe at the great dispersion after the destruction of the temple, and after thousands of years living in the frigid north, with low levels of sun, and exposure to the sun, our skin slowly became lighter and lighter, hence I am considered «White», but it simply means my ancestors gravitated northward to the land of little sun, and Ethiopian Jews, and of course South African and West African Jews (identified positively by DNA) have much darker skin, even to that of very very deep velvet Black...) Black is beautiful!

Fun fact: I happen to be of Czech descent (my mother's maiden name is Fitzek), but my ancestors came to the U.S. by way of Chicago and didn't bake, as far as I know.

Information on the History and Preparation of Traditional Irish Soda Bread as created by our ancestors..

Steelpan was inspired by the people of Trinidad, who turned discarded steel barrels into drums, creating music that is synonymous with the Caribbean today, just as their ancestors had turned a byproduct of the sugar industry into rum.

«Nevertheless, the same sexual strategies used by our ancestors operate today with unbridled force,» as the psychologist David Buss put it in The Evolution of Desire (2003).

Our ancestors didn't feel pressured to fall asleep by a certain time, and, as a result, they were probably less prone to self - inflicted bouts of insomnia.

Witnessing the destruction of our islands from afar during that time has upset us deeply, as has the refusal by successive British governments to allow us to return to the islands, even just to visit and tend to the graves of our ancestors.

Even the stuff that some might be tempted to write off as ancient history is very much present for some: a 2010 statement by the Alliances des patriotes pour un Congo libre et souverain (APCLS — another armed group, this time from Masisi) declares, «We, the indigenous Congolese from Masisi, Rutshuru, and Walikale in North Kivu province, denounce the Machiavellian plan to exterminate [the people] in the land of their ancestors».

So the «poison environment» is as a result of the harassment and overthrow of Nkrumah by the ancestors of your NPP.

The objectives of the celebration of the min Hogbetsotso is to whip up enthusiasm among the 36 Anlo communities and also to serve as a curtain raiser to ensure maximum in participations of by all the people of Anlo in remembrance of the struggles their ancestors went through to bring them to their present location from Notsie in the Republic of Togo.

«As the sons and daughters of the slaves, let us give life to our dead ancestors by speaking in a loud voice that says, «I have searched for you and I have found you.

He said kingship appointment is not an ordinary one but being permitted by yoruba culture and tradition as the king rules on behalf of the gods and is therefore accountable not just to men but to the gods as well for good governance and sustenance of the legacies of his ancestors.

By mapping persistent springs across the African landscape, the researchers have been able to model how our ancestors may have moved between water sources at different times and how this impacted their ability to traverse the landscape as the climate changed.

In a subsequent study, Orians and Heerwagen applied their evolutionary perspective to 35 paintings of sunsets, by such artists as Frederick Church and Martin Johnson Heade, on the theory that sunset would have been fraught with tension for our ancestors.

It was practiced by some of our earliest ancestors, such as Homo habilis and the even older Australopithecus garhi, who walked on two legs, but whose facial features and brain size were closer to those of apes.

The Purdue group speculates that a separate genetic archive may serve as a hedge against hard times, such as an extended drought, by allowing a plant to access genes that helped its ancestors persist.

Using genetic changes as a molecular clock, they conclude that Papuan and Aboriginal Australian ancestors diverged perhaps 37,000 years ago, long before Australia and New Guinea were separated by rising seas.

Several competing theories explain when and by what routes our earliest ancestors migrated out of Africa after they evolved there as early as 300,000 years ago.