Sentences with phrase «century a person who»

In the 21st century a person who claims to have conversations with a supernatural being whom they believe is the creator of the universe is supposedely a contender for the job of POTUS?

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As a result, many people believe Carson is a flat - out mass murderer - not a hero who beautifully blended care for human health and nonhuman nature in one of the most important and challenging books of the 20th century.

The filmmakers filed a class action suit on behalf of people who paid to use the song, which became popular in the United States a century ago and has since spread globally.

For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach and then a year later left the classroom to start a company, I've seen firsthand just how much the community has invested in bringing in and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.

Today, the people of Ohio remember a devoted public servant who represented his fellow Buckeyes in the U.S. Senate for a quarter century and who fought to keep America a leader in science and technology.

Today, the people of Ohio remember a devoted public servant who represented his fellow Buckeyes in the U.S. Senate for a quarter century and who fought to keep America a leader in science and technology,» the president said.

As part of its 25th anniversary, CNBC is creating a definitive list of people who have had the greatest influence in business over the past quarter century.

«Affordable housing has been quite a serious problem for us,» says Philip Souza, owner of Century 21 Smith / Ring Inc. «The people who don't earn as much have a difficult time remaining close to work.»

The saying apparently dates back to the Han Dynasty, but Chen attributed it to the person who popularized it in the 20th century: Mao Zedong.

«What we are kind of obsessed with is how you get people recognition and value for who they are and for their accomplishments or skills or their commitments and we think a badge is a really elegant and effective and kind of 21st century way of doing that,» Thorne says.

The people who are going to succeed in the 21st century are going to have the old - power playbook and the new - power playbook, and blend those skills together.

It doesn't matter if the CEO has the most creative, innovative business plan of the century — if he doesn't also have people working alongside him who are dedicated, determined and hardworking, then his dream can't become a reality.

And in my book on morality and getting these people to grow up I again bring up the example of 19th century industrialists who were incredibly rich and often rather cruel in their business lives who reinvented themselves, so a Carnegie whose business career certainly wasn't exemplary in any moral sense.

People who might have been the best mentors in the world are not among us anymore, books carry decades and centuries of knowledge and wisdom.

«Some of the most successful men of the 19th century never went to college, and today, those who didn't go to college are more intelligent, better informed and less easily fooled than the people who did go to college.»

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.

We don't burn, hang or threaten people who disagree, as theists have done for centuries.

Stalin killed far more people in the name of atheism than anyone everyone else combined who killed in the name of a religion during the 20th century.

Ruether concludes: «The true struggle of religion in the sixteenth century and still today is not between the true god of the Bible and «paganism» but between the warlord gods of human sacrifice in both religions and the god of life who calls for compassion and mutual respect between peoples, a god revealed in Christ but also known in Quetzalcoatl.»

Rohr, who has also written «Quest for the Grail,» a book on mythology, says people have learned these hard lessons for centuries through myth.

Everything has its ups and downs, and since the sixteenth century there are indeed many people who have been «resistant» to the Christian construal of marriage, but it hardly seems true to say that Protestant and Catholic teaching have «had little effect on social reality.»

Millions of German - speaking people who had lived in Poland and elsewhere in central Europe for centuries fled their homes as the Red Army advanced, fearing (rightly) for their lives.

Jesus brought us all the rules of the Mormon church, but people killed Him and the rules Jesus taught were lost for 19 centuries until Joseph Smith, Gods new appointed savior, could find the golden plates (that nobody ever saw and all 6 people who claimed to see them later recanted and said they were lying).

And yet, for centuries, people kept being killed who would not turn from their faith in Jesus.

Recalling these heroic moments flatters Poland's patriotic self - image as a long - suffering but iron - willed people who have emerged victorious from more than two centuries of subjugation.

Dear Reality; Speaking as one who has had many, many clergy serving the needs of many people over a century I must take issue with you on your «no clerics, no nuns, no bibles» etc..

Having had the pleasure of knowing Hannah Arendt, albeit much too slightly, and moreover of having known more closely Heinrich Bluecher when I was his assistant in the World Civilizations program at Bard College in 1958 «1959, I can say there are few people who, in their writings and their persons, could face with such clear determination the heights and the depths of European civilization in the last century.

In fact the Book of Mormon talks about a separate civilization who arrived centuries before those of Jewish heritage; and not one verse of the Book of Mormon declares that there were NO other civilizations or peoples of other parts of the world also inhabiting the Americas.

A mark of our sad century is this: the best thing we have to do now is to make fun of people who, as recently as a century ago, still hoped.»

The people were forced to hear the stupid stories for so many centuries, and anybody who spoke up and said «that's ridiculous» got their head hacked off, that finally the people didn't know any better, and thought they were real.

In the case of the creation story you must read it as if you were a hunter / gatherer (caveman) who did not have a concept of time (no watches, no calendars, most likely someone who didn't keep track of how old he was — think about indigenous peoples who had no contact with western civilization until the 20th century).

Who determines that this place is my place and, by definition, not your place, even though your people may have lived here for centuries?

Jesus was a 1st century Jew, who were a Semitic people.

When we think of 20th - century political dissidents who were people of faith, these are the names that spring to mind.

And he repeatedly referred to Bostonians as a gritty people who would not give in to terrorism in the 21st century any more than they bowed to the British in the 18th.

The people of the Old Testament were on a long journey by which they gradually matured in their relationship with God, over long centuries learning about Him and discovering always more about who He is.

Unfortunately, though, with people being discouraged to pursue the liberal arts in the 21st century, openings for these positions are becoming few and far between, and people who have that philosophical blood running through their veins sometimes take on preacher positions as a way to make ends meat, which is wrong because it is the essence of living a lie.

Jewish historians used to speak of Moses Mendelssohn, the late - eighteenth - century German Jewish thinker, as the man who single - handedly launched his previously ghettoized people into modernity.

«This filthy enactment,» he said, «was made in the nineteenth century, by people who could read and write.

While it might be true that those who lived in the time of the Prophet could understand religion better than the people of today who must study Islam by means of documents only, we can not ignore the considerable change in the social situation and world conditions during the past fourteen centuries.

Even if you think Jesus had some nice ideas, these writings from someone who rarely presented Jesus» ideals well has done little more than divide people over the centuries.

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.

One clear example is the fifth - century interjection of «without cause» into Matthew 5:22, changing from «never be angry» to «never be angry without cause» (as though people who are angry ever think they don't have cause).

With carefully chosen words and images charged with first - century political meaning, he constantly reminded his followers that they were to be a set - apart people, a people who lived counter-culturally by loving their enemies, praying for those who persecuted them, lending without expecting anything in return, and surrendering allegiance to a crucified and risen Lord.

Furthermore, the story reminds us that people who worshiped the one monotheistic god of Abraham (Christians, Jews and Muslims alike) were all considered societal outcasts in 7th century Arabia.

If the current trajectory of the Catholic Church continues there will be no one left besides people who live in the 18th century with the desire to have it forced into government.

Today, as in the 18th century, people of great passion seek to discredit those who insist on saying: Slow down; let's think about this.

It is an astounding detail when you think about it: The God of all creation, the One who knows every corner of the cosmos and fathoms every mystery, the One who could answer every theological riddle and who, I suspect, chuckles at our volumes of guesses, our centuries of pompous philosophical tomes debating His nature, when present in the person of Jesus Christ, told stories.

Up until the 19th century the Church refused to offer Christian funerals for people who had committed suicide with a «sound mind» or for those who hadn't been baptised.

Centuries before the Karen people of Burma first heard the gospel, their poetry taught of one creator God who mankind had sinned against by eating forbidden... More