Sentences with phrase «century people realized»

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I think you people fail to realize that LIFE EXPECTANCY WAS ONLY 35 TO 40 YEARS OLD THEN... marrying at 15 was very common up to the 17 — 18th century.

Articles in this area carried such stirring titles as «Goliath Rum on the Run:» The Century editors argued repeatedly that the use of liquor destroys social units — especially the family — and keeps people from realizing their natural potential.

Many had said that communism lacked popular support; few realized what pent - up resentment would boil forth once people were free to speak about the tyranny of the past half - century and more.

But for a century now people have realized that poverty is not a fate, not of the same nature as cyclones, but the result of forms of social and economic organization.

Why don't people realize that the Bible as we know it was heavily edited, cut down and added to by the college of cardinals in the 6th century?

Many people do not realize that the four Gospel accounts about Jesus (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) follow an ancient literary genre in the first century Roman Empire.

This will not happen until the people and leaders, after centuries of deprivation, finally reaching Deng Xiaoping's admonition in the end of the 1970s that «to get rich is glorious,» but also come to realize (if ever) that it takes much more than wealth and power to provide a good life for all its people.

Wow people, this is the 21st century, and at least people who voted for Romney in NH realize that.

Today Christendom no longer exists and we are moving towards a world in which the Christian peoples or the peoples that have formerly been Christian will be a minority... We no longer have any solid grounds for believing that the post-Christian era is likely to realize any of the humanitarian utopias in which the idealists of the nineteenth century put their faith.2

now I understand the problem why most people can not easily comprehend the reality of God, its because of lack of adequate knowledge of history.But I am optimistic that the process of change or evolution which will take centuries to be realized will be more easy and accelerated in the future, with better educational system.

But what few people realize today is that such a method of spreading news was commonly practiced in the first century Roman Empire.

Similarly, as we know that homosexuality is just as natural and God - given as heterosexuality, we realize that the Biblical injunctions against homosexuality were conditioned by the attitudes and beliefs about this form of sexual expression which were held by people without benefit of centuries of scientific knowledge and understanding.

People have been doing all kinds of religions, christianity, and islam for over 2000 years, praying to strange gods, not known to Abraham, Isaac, nor Jacob, all from the first generation of Adam, and of the covenant of the 10 commandments, and statues, ordinances, and judgments that are perpetual by YHWH, and the world has not gotten any better, since before the 8th century, this has happened, and at some point one must realize that this religion thing obviously is not working for us, the reality check is to «awaken'to the truth, and righteousness, of YHWH Our Righteousness, in Jeremiah 23:1 - 8, and not pagan religions, man - made, and all controlled for selfish gain.

One can, however, all too easily become caught up in change and complexity to the point where he loses sight of the elements of continuity between this century and former centuries, where he fails to realize that ministers today face essentially the same kinds of problems and deal essentially with the same types of people as their forebears did a century or two ago.

When you taste this cake it's hard not to realize why people have been making fruit cakes for centuries.

But, the shift from less urban to more urban areas, while relentless and continuing for centuries, has taken place more slowly than most people realize.

Few people realized that liquid incendiaries — naphtha, pitch, or quicklime — were used as far back as 875 B.C.. Later, in the seventh century A.D., a Syrian engineer named Callinicus invented a terrible cannon that pumped a fiery naphtha mix through bronze tubes at ships in battle.

It was assumed back in the 18th century, when people first realized — like Linnaeus and others — that plants have sex at all, male and female sex, it was assumed that the real function was to produce offspring, that is seeds, and that since they were both there, the plants fertilized itself.

For decades the live oak population has been in decline on parts of Stanford University's land, but few people realized it because the trees live for centuries, and only biologists noticed the absence of saplings.

«Many people may not realize that volcanoes are continuously releasing quite large amounts of gas, and may do so for decades or even centuries,» says volcanologist Simon Carn, an associate professor at Michigan Tech in Houghton, Michigan, and the lead author of the new study.

Few people realize that, despite the passage of a half - century, the wisdom of this practice is still hotly debated.

And this is the point where people need to realize there's a reason why the big eeeevil publishers were there in the first place and we didn't just outsmart the earlier centuries by «liberalizing» the industry.

What most people don't realize is that these horses have been used for many centuries as horses of not only war but draft horses who performed many labor intensive jobs.

In his epilogue, Bruce writes about how his biggest lesson compiling the book was the realization that a person living in one village for a lifetime often stumbles upon the same lofty wisdom that has taken civilizations centuries to realize.

In the»60s, people were only beginning to realize that while these materials are cheaper and easily replaced, they would stick around in oceans and landfills for centuries.

This is deep ecology in a nutshell, and by the first decade of the twenty - first century, the majority of educated people is finally going along with it, even if they may not realize where the idea came from.

Tracking the world's average temperature from the late 19th century, people in the 1930s realized there had been a pronounced warming trend.

Few people realize that, centuries ago, lawyers were considered to be «peacemakers» rather than gladiators.