Sentences with phrase «certain facts of history»

«One of the most certain facts of history is that Jesus was crucified on orders of the Roman prefect of Judea, Pontius Pilate.»

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To suppose that the scientific study of nature is a natural by - product of a certain stage of cultural development simply does not fit the facts of world history.

This «exception» seems to be the only one that has to be dealt with, if we leave out of account the fact that a thorough - going Vitalism, which after all is a doctrine quite commonly supported in Christian philosophy, would have to require a predicamental activity of God within the natural world and its history for the origin of life, too, and perhaps for certain definite categories of living things, unless of course such Vitalism were to hold that there has been «life» in the physical world from the beginning or that a special ratio seminalis of its own for life could have been created into the material world from the beginning.

A critical examination of the scholastic philosophy of nature may well give the impression that in its earlier history it often inevitably and of necessity took for granted certain processes of change as indisputable facts.

He has not really addressed the fact that the notion of climate, as distinct from the notion of weather, is not concerned with particular features of a single trajectory or history, but with the fact that there are some general features about certain kinds of time and system averages over many trajectories - and that these average features tend to show certain kinds of regularity or slow secular variation that are not apparent in a single trajectory (the term secular here has a technical meaning, not the common one of «not religious»).

There are myths which are pictorial explanations of certain facts in history.

Deep within the history of this loss there is the paradoxical fact that we lose our freedom in trying to make certain that we belong to a group or a power in which we can be free.

One can allude to certain generally known facts of the history of art or the life of the church and can count on invoking certain associations.

While it may seek (in its sincere expressions) only neutrality toward religion, strict separationism in fact evidences a certain hostility toward religion — the effect of which is to deprive society of necessary moral and spiritual resources, to misinterpret and misrepresent the history of our culture, and to provoke anger and resentment among those who never consented to make our public life a «secular» enterprise.

I am not really sure of the reasons for the delay in appointing Van Gaal, and can only speculate that he is not in fact the first choice, and they are still working on other possible targets — maybe Ancelotti, Klopp, Simeone or Guardiola, but one thing looks certain, United will have a non-British manager for the first time in our history.

Organ donors with a history of certain types of cancers who are excluded from transplantation in fact pose very little risk of cancer transmission to their recipients,» said Dr. Desai.

But certainly some of the comparison comes from the fact that all three novels are centered around young men whose stories coincide with, and in certain ways reflect, the changes that occurred in this country's social and cultural history.

This word is befitting for him, firstly due to the fact that one would literally be flattened under certain works if they were ever to fall (the marble blocks being one example), but also because the artist himself bears a certain pressure of accountability; the vertigo of global production and the weight of art history.

If you set aside conspiracy theories, and ignore the fact that sociological, sexual and racial factors often do stack the art - world deck against certain artists, this show allows you to understand why some moments are more doomed to the dustbin of history than others.

Like many of the German lots, «it encapsulates such a rich lexicon of memories and histories,» according to Klosterfelde, «its fragility suggesting the weaknesses of the past yet the fact it still barely remains intact evokes a certain hope for the future.»

The magnitude of this month's record, combined with the fact that seven months so far this year are now the hottest in history — including the last five in a row — means 2015 is now virtually certain to wind up as Earth's hottest year ever measured.

A certain amount of doubt and skepticism never did science any harm, in fact doubt and skepticism has been the flux for most of the great scientific breakthroughs in history, just ask Galilleo.

It turns out there's a long history of certain groups and individuals bent on misdirecting the facts to fit a narrative.

One thing is certain, based on past climate history and solar history, if in fact the suns magnetic activity slows, or collapses and we enter a prolonged period of little or no sunspot activity, we'll see a global cooling trend.

In fact I've seen them offer our clients their best rating in some cases where our clients have had: — asthma — Certain skin cancers — History of Anxiety or depression

√ Provide a reasonable level of diligence in an effort to discover certain facts about a candidate's history that could indicate propensities for violence, dishonesty, recklessness or other criminal behavior that could potentially resurface in a future workplace context.