Sentences with phrase «centuries later point»

Gibson also notes that historical legends from several centuries later point as well to the possibility that the building is a priestly residence.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — America's energy security is at its strongest point in two decades, according to the latest edition of the U.S. Chamber Institute for 21st Century Energy's Index of U.S. Energy Security Risk.

He then points to the body of modern social doctrine from Leo XIII in the late nineteenth century to «my great predecessor John Paul II.»

So, for instance, in 17th - century Europe a huge dispute arose over the Hebrew vowel points and accents, which were not originally part of the Old Testament texts but were inserted by the Masorete scribes hundreds of years later.

It was common in the nineteenth century and even later to set Darwin over against Lamarck or vice versa, and by this means to point up the contrast between the inner and the outer orientation of evolutionary thinking.

But here, too, Kagan tends to focus on extremes, claiming that the commitment of America's founders to international law and diplomacy reveals a «psychology of weakness» that reflects the young nation's lack of power in the late eighteenth century; likewise, the secret yearning of the Founders to beat the Europeans at power politics pointed toward a properly imperial future.

I believe the best starting point in the tradition is Catholic thought of the late nineteenth century.

The impact of immigration is greatest among Catholics, a majority of whom may be Hispanic at some point later in this century.

As to when this idea that people weren't actually JUST heterosexual is a little more difficult to point to because same - sex relationships are all over ancient documents but it appears the concept came about circa - 1700s and the actual word homosexual came out a century and a half later.

For we have already pointed out that the biblical passage is late, and, though we can not date it within a couple of centuries, it is probably not earlier than Plato and may easily be as late as Zeno.

The teacher may wish to mention, either at this point or preferably later in the course, some of the modifications which twentieth - century physics has necessitated.

It should also be pointed out that Daniel was most likely written in the mid second century BC some 300 years later than Lawrence claimed.

Both of these points, that early statements were based primarily on the narrative of Scripture and the behavior of believers, will become critical later in this chapter for understanding how we as twenty - first century followers of Jesus can stand up for the truth without the damaging and destructive statements of doctrine that have divided Christianity for so long.

Moreover, he takes the portrait of Jesus in the gospels «as is,» without the surgical amputations of late - eighteenth - century Thomas Jefferson or the late - twentieth - century Jesus Seminar (whose two methodologies are uncannily similar, as Wills rightly points out).

As the libertarian blogger Megan McArdle once pointed out, that possibility is more likely than it sounds: With the advent of no - fault divorce and the extension of welfare benefits to unmarried mothers, the late twentieth century demonstrated that marriage is both more important and more fragile than reformers had thought.

probably points back to a Galilean usage in the first century: the later term still points to the «Nazarenes» as the originators of the sect — not as «from Nazareth,» but as observers of the Nazirite vow as a duty, not merely as a work of merit.

While my point of reference historically and theologically is the early church, most evangelicals make their historical and theological criterion in a much later time, say with the Reformation, with seventeenth - century orthodoxy, with Wesley, or with nineteenth - century Princetonian theology.

From a literary point of view, Deuteronomy shows dependence on JE, but no rapport with P. To narrow the span of years of Deuteronomy's possible origin, the eighth - century prophets betray no knowledge of it whatsoever; while late seventh - and sixth - century prophets (Jeremiah, Ezekiel, II Isaiah, Haggai, and Zechariah) all show at least some indirect acquaintance with it.

R.G. Collingwood pointed out in 1946 that by the late nineteenth century the idea of progress was becoming an article of faith.

@chad, you have some valid points, until late 20th century Christians were able to pray in schools, have the Ten Commandments displayed and mention God in the public arena.

Often, just raising awareness can change behavior, case in point being the anti-smoking campaigns of the late 20th century.

The other threat to republican virtue in the late eighteenth century, which formed a point of contention especially in the American context between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists, was the sheer size of the territorial state.

Back at Majnuna, McMahon points out another mass grave, dating to a century or so later, adjacent to the first pit.

A century later, we may be at another turning point, ready for something safer, faster, less intrusive, and more economical.

In response to a question about the White House budget proposal's potential impact on NIH's ambitions, Collins pointed to passage late last year of the 21st Century Cures Act, a $ 6.3 billion measure that authorizes a decade of funding for the «moonshot» program to cure cancer, the Precision Medicine Initiative, the BRAIN initiative and efforts to combat opioid addiction.

But as the German mathematician David Hilbert pointed out in the late 19th century, many of those arguments are logically incorrect.

That temperature reached the point in 2015 where it was 1 °C (1.8 °F) above that of the late 19th century at the same time as carbon dioxide levels likely permanently rose above 400 parts per million.

(Curiously, John Stuart Mill foresaw the potential problems with overpopulation from an utilitarian point of view in the late 19th Century.

Alfonso Gomez - Rejon's «The Current War» tackles a fascinating pivot point in technological and commercial history: the late 19th century battle between Thomas Alva Edison and George Westinghouse to fully electrify the United States.

During this time in cinema, the late 19th Century and early 20th Century, the film points out directors felt as if they were putting their dreams on film, such was the expansion of the craft and its ability to capture one's imagination.

As Horacia puts two and two together at a key point late in the film, Diaz gives his own spin on a hokey, century - old visual trope by placing the entire scene out of focus; his heroine only comes into sharp definition as she walks away, toward the camera.

For the source of the expression, some point to The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen, a collection of fanciful stories mostly based on folk tales that were first published anonymously in the late 18th century.

Many points along the coast were known as the Wall of Death; this one had reasons for the name so convincing that the antediluvian Tolowa fishermen had described it thusly, and centuries later the Russian otter - hunters had agreed — stayna greebel, of course — for, no matter the tide, a wicked current drew anything in its grip magnetically shoreward, with unexpected speed.

Schwab has pointed to possible historical parallels to the current era in late Elizabethan and early seventeenth - century England, when depression was described to have reached epidemic proportions.

With the inexpensive workforce that came after the Civil War when both soldiers and former slaves were in need of work, the furniture industry really started to bloom in the late 19th Century and many investors were interested in High Point because of its location, cheap labor, and cheap and efficient method of transportation.

In the late»90s, stock bulls would point out that there was no 30 - year period where stocks did not beat bonds in the 20 century.

Walk just ten minutes north of the parking area and you will find the original trail carved into the point by stagecoaches traveling down the coast in the late 19th century.

A half - century later, traveling with a companion is a moot point, as virtually no one in the universe likes to get up before 5 am like me.

While we can not go into such an investigation in depth in this article, we can point to a few striking characteristics of women artists generally: they all, almost without exception, were either the daughters of artist fathers, or, generally later, in the 19th and 20th centuries, had a close personal connection with a stronger or more dominant male artistic personality.

Painting's popularity has ebbed and flowed over the years, reaching something of a low point by the late 20th century in the wake of the conceptual and «anti-retinal» movements of previous years.

The museum at one point had 19th - century art in the collection, but a decision was taken around the late «70s to create a dividing line of around 1900 and deaccession the works pre-dating that.

Another focal point of the launch was the opening of Walter O. Evans Center for African American Studies, featuring a selection of close to 40 works from Evans» legacy collection of African American art - from 19th - century landscape paintings of the Hudson River School to works by masters of the Harlem Renaissance, as well as examples from the Federal Art Project of the 1930s and later 20th - century works by Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden, among others.

[14] It is difficult to make a claim for when the notion of the Gesamtkunstwerk was first employed from the point of view of a building and its contents (although the term itself was not used in this context until the late 20th century); already during the Renaissance, artists such as Michelangelo saw no strict division in their tasks between architecture, interior design, sculpture, painting and even engineering.

Later, the literary dimension of his work came to the fore with references to nineteenth - century poetry, after which it reached a new high point in large - scale, colored drawings in which — disillusioned and angry — he sharply criticizes George W. Bush's policies and the American war in Iraq.

By the late 19th century, American artists began to show an expanded interest in points beyond the traditional cultural centers of France, Italy and Germany — casting an eye on Spain, the Holy Land, Egypt and much of northern Africa.

While in the past Rafferty used the subject of mid to late 20th century comedy as an immediate reference point, her new pieces employ images of comedians and entertainers in a rather more open - ended way.

In his latest series, City Noir — Vanishing Points, he draws inspiration from the dramatic tones and moods of Film Noir to throw 21st - century urban landscapes into bold relief.

However, it has been claimed that the central Ionic portico, the focal point of the south front, was a little spoiled later by English architect Lewis Wyatt's 19th - century addition of a box - like structure above its pediment.

As John Hanhardt points out in his 1995 essay «Video / Media Culture of the Late Twentieth Century»,

His own pictures, which are reproduced throughout the book as a way of illustrating his points, reflect the work of late 20th - century British artists such as Gillian Ayres, Sandra Blow and Anthony Frost — near - abstract artists who used rich colour and biomorphic forms as their default means of expression.