Sentences with phrase «by that civilization in»

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

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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 resourceIn 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 resourcein 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 resourcein the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resources.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.»

His was not the carping of the exile who despises what he has left; it was the sharp, penetrating, and ultimately compassionate (because true) critique of one who mourned the catastrophic condition of contemporary Arab civilization, the hijacking of Arab politics by self - serving dictators, virulent anti-Semites, and Islamist fanatics, and the untold lives warped or lost in consequence.

If by God is meant the Ground of Being, the Essence of Being, the Absolute, the Weltgeist, and all similar expressions, the reply is still No, for according to Schweitzer such terms «denote nothing actual, but something conceived in abstractions which for that reason is also absolutely meaningless» (The Philosophy of Civilization [Macmillan, 1949], p. 304).

Civilization could be saved, she contended, only by a Platonic Christianity stripped of its carnal, Jewish side, through identification with the suffering Christ rather than in the hope of....

It surfaced during the challenges presented to the role of the Church during the Age of Enlightenment in the 17th century; it makes strides upon the publication of The Origin of The Species by Charles Darwin in the 19th century; its has gathered force in the 21st century as the role of science in Western civilization is being presented with its own challenges... of still yet unanswered questions.

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

«Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations; but, on a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions, which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other cause, produced despotism.

Sir Sayyid urged the Muslims to develop a new science of dialectics to counter the atheistic trends produced by Western civilization, and in 1292 (A.D. 1875) he wrote a commentary on the Qur» an in which he rejected the conception of Islam as a code of rules and regulations which, he said, can not stand the test of scientific scrutiny.

Mary's ancestry, like Joseph's, was characterized by the predominance of strong but average individuals, relieved now and then by numerous outstanding personalities in the march of civilization and the progressive evolution of religion.

The fact that we are in the midst of an enormous transformation toward a «universal civilization» suggests that only in a new confrontation with localistic, cultural and nationalistic idolatries of all sorts, and only by clariflying what universal realities are worth living and dying for, can we find hope.

Reason consolidates itself in terms of techniques, e.g., hunting, fishing, farming, handed down by the tribe to the next generation, evolving still more in terms of greater and more refined techniques and in terms of greater area of human activity; it unifies itself through the compilation of human experience not only in technique and art but in organized bodies of knowledge, the sciences, and all these achievements of reason resulting in a culture which in turn unify groups of people into cultural groups, civilizations, etc..

The Barefoot Lawyer: A Blind Man's Fight for Justice and Freedom in China by chen guangcheng henry holt, 352 pages, $ 30 A nnihilating a civilization that has withstood more famines, invasions, peasant revolts, civil wars, and tyrants than historians can keep straight takes work.

In literature, scenarios of the future are typified by Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World — both outlining horrifying prospects as the destiny of technological civilization.

It was in Western Europe, where it faced a much weaker paganism, was associated with the prestige of Roman civilization, and, while often favored by civil rulers, did not have to confront a continuously powerful state which controlled all phases of life, that the influence of Jesus was most marked.

The latest outrage by Muslims has nothing to do with the anti-Islam film but rather the unrest and attacks on US Embassies is a culmination of the rising tensions and deep - rooted hatred amongst civilizations in a divided world (Matthew 12:25,26).

«In time we will rediscover prayer as the invisible centre and foundation of culture... and from that centre will be born a new civilization... a Christendom, but distinguished from the old Christendom not least by the fact that it will be shaped by many religious traditions.»

Thus, at the lowest level, electrons tend to unite and converge in the atom; atoms converge by molecularization, crystallization; molecules unite by polymerization; cells unite by conjugation, reproduction, association; nerve ganglions concentrate and localize to form a brain by what might be called a process of cephalization; the higher animal groups form colonies, hives, herds, societies, etc.; man socializes and forms civilizations as foci of attraction and organization.

Because the odds of «dangerous» ideas espoused by a carpenter walking around, preaching in an occupied land peacefully overtaking the Roman Empire (the most powerful man - made force on the planet at the time) and shaping civilization, Western and beyond, are almost as remote as the odds of you forgoing your delusional confidence in your ability for rational thought or facts, giving him credit for being exactly who he said he was.

Man no longer lives in nature but in a civilization, in a world which is perhaps very inhuman, because made by man, but at all events in a man - made world.

The sum of the treasures of knowledge and culture has increased to such a degree that the individual in the time available in one lifetime can no longer have any direct contact with the whole of the benefits of civilization available nowadays and which are in fact known and enjoyed by one person or another.

At least not to the degree that Russell Core, the nature writer called to investigate the wolves plaguing Keelut, stands in for those raised by and to believe in civilization.

A group of the Wahhabis who went to great lengths in enforcing these doctrines and in standing adamant against any innovation, even including useful contributions of modern civilization, were suppressed by King Abul Aziz Ibn Sa`ud who believed in a wise, moderate policy of modernization.

Where in Genesis does it tell who created the parallel civilization of Nod where the first human baby created by God (who killed the second human baby) went?

A great many people have been shaped by the parables in the bible, which has improved our civilization.

From the beginnings of civilization, farmers have been intervening in the course of evolution by producing hybrid grains, and stock breeders have been domesticating animals that live longer or work harder or run faster.

Contrary to long - entrenched expectations, we witness a world in which different civilizations — defined by different cultures that are typically defined, in turn, by cult or religion — are the deciding factor in collective allegiances and conflicts.

The same people who brought you the forced destruction of civilization by Christians from Europe with the loss of cultures in South America, Africa and North America.

He observes in Madness and Civilization that medieval society, except for its treatment of lepers (and religious minorities), tended, less than ours, to incarcerate its own members for deviancy But by the 17th and 18th centuries, society imprisoned the idle, the poor, the insane and the criminal without distinction in the former houses of leprosy.

It inspired a great civilization in which others besides Muslims lived creative and useful lives and which, by its achievement, enriched the whole world.

Nye believes his book On the Origin of Species written by a man Charles Darwin in 1859 AD I believe my book Genesis written by Moses servant to the living GOD around 1400 BC Moses defeated Pharaoh and the Egyptians in probably the highest civilization at that time.

The Syllabus of Errors, issued in 1864 under the auspices of Pope Pius IX, famously ends by condemning the proposition that «The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization.»

In fact the drastic cuts in energy called for by the alarmists would impoverish civilization across the globe and doom the poor to perpetual povertIn fact the drastic cuts in energy called for by the alarmists would impoverish civilization across the globe and doom the poor to perpetual povertin energy called for by the alarmists would impoverish civilization across the globe and doom the poor to perpetual poverty.

He has been called by a modern English historian of Chinese culture «one of the most remarkable and brilliant men in history» (Joseph Needham, in Science and Civilization in China, 2 vols.

Built around 9600 B.C., the site predates Stonehenge by about 6600 years and places the origins of human religious experience much farther back in the historical progress of our civilization than scholars previously believed possible.

This essentially materialist approach — heroic valor, violent conquest, the clash of civilizations — gained increased academic standing from the neocolonial interpretation in René Grousset's three - volume Histoire des croisades et du royaume franc de Jérusalem (1934 — 1936) and the planned U.S. multivolume collaborative History of the Crusades devised in the 1940s by the group of Crusade historians that had gathered around Dana C. Munro (1866 — 1933) and later John La Monte (1902 — 1949).

Once in Africa, Schweitzer gradually came to understand what well may be the most important mistake made by the Europeans (and Americans) since the rise of Western civilization — namely, their pride in their superindustrialized «mastery» over the forces of Nature, a much - vaunted control which is leading to the destruction of our biosphere.