Sentences with phrase «centuries people around»

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From deserted Olympic venues to silent amusement parks to hotels that haven't had guests in centuries, abandoned places continue to capture the imagination of urban explorers and curious people around the world.

Cambodia's second - largest city (home to around 250,000 people) doesn't feel at all like the capital, Phnom Penh; in fact, wandering around Battambang, I felt as if I had traveled back to the early 20th century.

VICTORIA — New Democrat Leader John Horgan and health spokesperson Judy Darcy released the following statement to mark World AIDS Day: «World AIDS Day has been recognized for more than a quarter century as an opportunity for people around the world to...

The most important component of global regulation are the negotiations around what is often referred to as «Basel III» and echoing the fears of any 19th century person contemplating a hospital stay, I am concerned that the proposed cures are worse than the disease.

America is not inherently Christian, nor is Christianity inherently American — it might surprise many people, but there are faithful Christians around the world and across the centuries who had nothing to do with our modern style of Christmas celebration.

akin is a guy that is insensitive to the people around him unless you're from the 10th century if conservative Christians are rallying around him then maybe they're not so christian after all.

It is a place (around the first century, a rabbi postulated that the maximum time spent there would be a year)... in which a person is can essentially be purged of their unrighteous DEEDS, and come close to G - d.

But «liturgy» literally means «the work of the people,» and the people of God have been sustained through the centuries by rhythms and practices that help us remember our story, remember our saints and sing the eternal song that echoes around God's throne.

it was a collection of oral and written tales form the area that the people who wrote it hoped would teach morals to jewish children.as the pagans that lived around them did not have theytype that the first century jews would have aproved of.

For example, in the nineteenth century we of the West began to be aware of other cultures, of other peoples and civilizations around the world, in a way that had not before been part of our consciousness.

But somewhere around the 18th century, people started reading the Bible differently.

A Millennium People's Assembly Network (MPAN) is at work drafting a «People's Agenda and Vision for the 21st Century» and planning regional People's Assemblies around the world.

First Century writings about Jesus, his personal traits, his teachings, the people around him, his concept of «Messiah,» his travels and final trip to Jerusalem, the crucifixion and responses thereafter.

«Russians, Chinese, North Koreans, and other none religious peoples around the world have been waging war and torturing and killing people for centuries in the name of non religion.»

The Russians, Chinese, North Koreans, and other none religious peoples around the world have been waging war and torturing and killing people for centuries in the name of non religion.

As Geifman notes, Russia's «urban populace swelled from around 9 million people in the mid-19th century to about 25 million in 1913, with inhabitants of most major Russian cities increasing four - or five-fold,» leading to a «breakdown of social values.»

Slave people for centuries, kill around the world, and now even stop them from getting married is not so peaceful.

The century ended with about 21 million refugees around the globe, including about 6 million internally displaced people and more than 300,000 child soldiers (under the age of 18), girls as well as boys, engaged in armed conflicts.

These prayers, written down ahead of time, often first spoken long before my birth, remind me to turn my thoughts toward the people I love, to forgive and ask forgiveness, to pray for my enemies, to plead for mercy for «the things I have done and the things I have left undone,» to remember the hungry and the suffering, to «bless the congregation of the poor,» to worship, to thank, to intercede, and to join with the whole community of saints who — this very hour, all around the world, and for centuries past and to come — are praying these prayers with me today.

I specifically got a few emails yesterday from people who question their faith, because these tragedies hit too close for comfort, even though similar tragedies occur around the world every day and have been going on for centuries.

Ceramic evidence indicates occupation of the City of David, within present - day Jerusalem, as far back as the Copper Age (c. 4th millennium BCE) with evidence of a permanent settlement during the early Bronze Age (c. 3000 — 2800 BCE) The Execration Texts, which refer to a city called Roshlamem or Rosh - ramen] and the Amarna letters (c. 14th century BCE) may be the earliest mention of the city Some archaeologists, including Kathleen Kenyon, believe Jerusalem] as a city was founded by Northwest Semitic people with organized settlements from around 2600 BCE.

She leads social media for ministry intensives around the country, helping faith leaders explore authentic ways to enrich, engage and expand progressive communities in the 21st century, and is the proud proprietor of The Holy Heretic, a thinking person's tavern found in Second Life.

But archaeology makes it very clear: Galilee was settled by people from the south, in and around Jerusalem, in about the second century BCE.

In the coming century the leadership is likely to pass to people's mass movements around popularly felt issues.

Around the seventeenth century the Jesuit priests came to El Salvador and educated its people.

And Here We Are At the Table gives such great inspiration with lively, fresh flavors that people from around the world have enjoyed for centuries.

Our officiant gifting us with a 6th century stone from the abbey, which was passed around to all of our people; they held it tight and channeled their happy thoughts and well wishes into its porous surface.

Ernest Hemingway was one of the more interesting people of the 20th century, but my affection for him lay in the fact he was a lot more interest - ed in the world around him.

I do understand that homeschooling, while having been around for centuries, can often rub people up the wrong way, I do hope that my readers will read to the end and enjoy a glimpse into a different possibility for their families.

So with all of the modern hobbies available, why are more people passing their free time with activities that have been around for decades — or even centuries?

It's called juicing, and it's been around for centuries, but is now making a big comeback, thanks to all the benefits it brings to so many people today.

Whether one wants public support for the media or not is a political question (and one all developed democracies have answered in the affirmative in the twentieth century), but as people's media habits and the economics of the industry change, effective intervention probably ought to be built around the «information» part of the sentence quoted above rather than the «several large sheets» part (just as «public service broadcasters» have in many countries sought to redefine themselves as «public service media organizations» to emphasize their cross-platform ambitions).

«We are excited to announce this list of New York leaders who have joined Marco's growing team from around the nation and who believe Marco Rubio is the person to lead the United States into a New American Century.

Hellman's play was «eerily prescient,» she mused in her acceptance speech, implicitly connecting the 20th - century work to Trump and the Women's March with a quote from the playwright: «There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it, and other people who stand around and watch them eat.»

«By the end of the century, people in developed countries could live on average around 89 years, compared to about 81 years in developing regions,» the report said.

While a century ago there were fewer than 20 cities holding more than 1 million people, there are now around 450, of which at least 10 have a population of more than 10 million.

In science news around the world, NASA's Cassini mission is about to take its final plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn after 13 years providing an unprecedented view of the planet and its moons, a fight over whether to preserve or develop of one Europe's oldest gold mining sites heats up again, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the first cancer gene therapy for people, a U.S. court gives a green light to a $ 1 billion lawsuit brought by the Guatemalan victims and survivors of mid — 20th century syphilis experiments by research institutions including Johns Hopkins University, and more.

-- Charlene Colchester, via e-mail Bhopal should have been a wake up call, but it is unclear whether chemical plants around the world are any safer a quarter century after the December 1984 disaster — during which some 40 tons of toxic methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a pesticide plant owned by Union Carbide (now part of Dow Chemical), killing 2,259 people immediately and causing lifelong health problems and premature death for tens of thousands more.

THE CHALLENG Geothermal energy has been around so long that it hardly deserves to be called «alternative»; people have been tapping hot water below the Earth's surface to generate electricity for a century.

Birthrates are falling around the world; by the end of the century the number of people on the planet may top out and, in an unprecedented reversal, start to decline.

Roughly 80 percent of people around the globe identify with some type of religion, and scientists have been seriously pursuing insight into the evolutionary benefit of religious practice since the early part of this century.

Social psychology crystallized in the 19th century around a concern with crowd behavior: Why do otherwise reasonable individuals become irrational or even dangerous when placed in a mob of people?

The findings suggest that people used to trade on a wider scale in the middle - modern ages around the 17th century AD than is currently thought, the team adds.

Phil: Maybe so, but in the 21st century, I think, [the] fear is that it will be worse because we have global travel, airplanes, people are going back and forth all the time, we ship animals across nations, so things move around very, very, fast now, and once they get out, if you don't spot it in time, they get out and they can really take off.

People have been diving around the Florida Keys for over a century, yet we can still go five miles offshore and find an entirely new species of sponge that has anticancer properties.

Around 1500 instrument - carrying balloons have circled the globe this century, but Earthwinds Hilton aims to be the first to include people.

In total, just over 10,000 people have died — an awful toll but hardly comparable to the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed around 50 million, or the Black Death, which wiped out half the population of Europe in the 14th century.

What is emerging from the research is that Antarctica is a far more dynamic place than anyone could have imagined a century ago — and that what happens there can have dramatic consequences for millions of people around the world.Now, instead of mapping new geographical discoveries, scientists are seeking to map the inner workings of the strange forces at play in Antarctica, from the biological mechanisms that allow tiny organisms to seemingly awake from the dead, to the little - understood forces that are gnawing away at the continent's ice — with increasing vigor.

Around the 16th Century, when people brought tomatoes to the Mediterranean Basin and even farther north, the plants had to adapt to the shorter days of a northern summer.

For more than a century, radiotherapy has been used to treat millions of people with cancer around the world.