Sentences with phrase «civilisation as»

In order to ensure that the Committee is representative, membership is intended to be equitably distributed according to «geographical distribution and to the representation of the different forms of civilisation as well as of the principle legal systems».

I think it is very likely at this point that fossil - fueled industrial civilisation as we know it isn't going to last through 2100.

2009 also saw the release of the film, The Age of Stupid, which claims to be a documentary, but is in fact a fiction set in the future, charting the fall of civilisation as it was torn apart by Gaia's wrath.

A world beyond 2oC will threaten the very existence of civilisation as we know it.

I recently read a book called «After the Ice» a book discussing human civilisation as the last ice age ended, around 20,000 years ago.

The Bizarre World of Ancient Greece BBC doc on the lifestyles of the people who set the blueprint for civilisation as we know it...

The premise of Knack 2 is simple, and from the outset you can expect something quite basic; long dormant robots have been awakened and are destroying civilisation as we know it, there is somebody behind it all, but who?

You're not just in the heart of Melbourne but also in the centre of civilisation as you partake in some quality shopping on the nearby Paris end of Collins Street.

Leaked a few months back, Horizon Zero Dawn looks to be a third - person action adventure featuring a female protagonist on Earth after the death of civilisation as we know it.

Antonio Banderas is convinced the human race is living on borrowed time and he's branded the 9/11 atrocity «the end of civilisation as we knew...

Set in the distant future, a mysterious disaster has brought civilisation as we know it to an end.

Back in 2009 during the swine flu outbreak which supposedly nearly ended civilisation as we know it, one family used megadoses of vitamin C to save their dying father Allan Smith.

As a scientifically curious artist I was interested to read Laura Spinney's article on the possible collapse of Western civilisation as we know it (20 January, p 28).

Was the Indus civilisation as unique as Andrew Robinson suggests (17 September, p 30)?

In Victorian times, such individuals even considered anaesthesia during childbirth to be the end of civilisation as they knew it because of a biblical injunction that women ought to give birth in pain.

WINDBAG: Without reverting to hyperbole, this is the end of civilisation as we know it.

If we are to weather the coming storm of the Tory campaign, backed by hysterical newspaper threats of the «end of civilisation as we know it», then we need to start giving people some hope for their futures.

Above all, understanding human civilisation as an ocean into which many rivers flow and contribute guards against the conceptual possibility of hermetic civilisations destined to come into conflict with one another.

«inside the House of Lords, dinosaur opponents of the Bill were having a final go at killing it — declaring that gay marriage would be the end of civilisation as we know it.

Imagine civilisation as a huge building and society as its foundation, and the foundation of society being families and parents.

Although the enemy identified by the Brazilian was undoubtedly a noxious and dangerous threat not merely to the Church but to civilisation as such, I can not help thinking that the target identified by Trower has proved in the longterm to be much more insidious and destructive in the West.

Where Plinio Correa de Oliveira focussed on an enemy which put itself forward in open hostility towards the Church and civilisation as traditionally understood, Trower takes aim at a vague, ill - defined and chameleon - like philosophy which is hard even to identify clearly, a philosophy which does not really have a name, a philosophy which is frequently embraced by Catholics and other Christians all unawares that it is not compatible with their faith.

In a landscape inimical to wheeled transport, and with no native draught animals, such great civilisations as Chavin (about 1000 to 400 BC), Mochica (about AD 1 to 600) and Inca (An 1438 to 1532) managed remarkably well.

It's been used for over 5000 years by civilisations as ancient as the Babylonians and Ancient Egyptians.

Not exact matches

The general working theory for Christian missionaries was first formalized in St. Augustine's doctrine of «cognite intrare», or «compel them to enter», but was perhaps best summed up by J. C. Warner some 1500 years later: ``... the sword must first — not exterminate them, but — break them up as tribes, and destroy their political existence; after which, when thus set free from the shackles by which they are bound, civilisation and Christianity will no doubt make rapid progress among them.»

The religious aspects of the Jesuit missions were inimical to Enlightenment philosophes, but the story of the reducciones nevertheless helped thinkers such as Montesquieu to articulate new ideals as, in Imbruglia's words, «the creation of a utopian society became the mission of European civilisation.»

Thus modern science is built on Christian foundations, and this explains why there was no science as we know it in any of the ancient civilisations ofantiquity.

They should be seen as a call to Catholicism as it considers how to save Christian civilisation:

- succeeded in stirring up fear and rejection of others, intolerance and hatred through conflicts between civilisations which they cynically allow to be presented as a form of conflict which will dominate the future of the world.

The dramatic destruction of the Twin Towers in New York so grabbed world attention that it has been referred to as the clash of two civilisations.

To make love is to enter the cosmological wilderness, to go beyond the human artifacts of city and civilisation, to return to the depths of darkness where spirit embraces matter and the Cosmic Christ (37) is realised as earthy and untamed.

It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.

Before that time there existed Anglo - saxons and Germans, French and Normans, Italians and Danes: but during the Crusades the new concept of «Western civilisation», a cause common to all European nations alike, was created; and it was the hatred of Islam that stood as godfather behind the new creation... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/shiatalk/message/30296

That is why the crusades, despite their failure, can be considered one of the outstanding achievements of the medieval Church... As long as Christianity endures on earth, as long as there exists a civilisation from which Christian principles have not been wholly banished, there will be men to treasure these pages of sanctity and heroism, inscribed by the crusaders with their blooAs long as Christianity endures on earth, as long as there exists a civilisation from which Christian principles have not been wholly banished, there will be men to treasure these pages of sanctity and heroism, inscribed by the crusaders with their blooas Christianity endures on earth, as long as there exists a civilisation from which Christian principles have not been wholly banished, there will be men to treasure these pages of sanctity and heroism, inscribed by the crusaders with their blooas long as there exists a civilisation from which Christian principles have not been wholly banished, there will be men to treasure these pages of sanctity and heroism, inscribed by the crusaders with their blooas there exists a civilisation from which Christian principles have not been wholly banished, there will be men to treasure these pages of sanctity and heroism, inscribed by the crusaders with their blood.

We are the first civilisation to treat monetary accumulation as an absolute goal, and it has obscured the whole of our discourse about shared well - being, or the «common good.»

This is why movements such as Faith must continue to make their own contribution to the world of ideas: in the hope of building a better civilisation here on earth so that we may be worthy of our true home, the kingdom of heaven.

The development of universal human rights would generally be acknowledged as a prerequisite of modern civilisation.

Some commentators went further, and implicitly (and approvingly) placed the Pope's remarks in the general context of Samuel Huntington's famous (and widely contested) analysis of the relationship of Islam and the West as a being a «clash of civilisations».

Melanie Philips, in The Daily Mail, pointed to the way in which «as so often, [the BBC] has given undue airtime to extremists, thus lending credence to the false impression of the Pope's remarks», and she criticised the way the BBC had claimed that the Pope had «apologised», rather than simply expressing regret for the misinterpretation of his comments, «thus helping Islamic extremists believe that the forces of intimidation had cowed the Pontiff and scored a notable victory in the war against Western civilisation».

If civilisation prevails past it's present crisis», history will vindicate Rand as the greatest hero since Aristotle.

The equal dignity of all human beings, the freedom of the act of faith as the root of all the other civil freedoms, -LSB-...] are likewise central elements of the Christian Revelation that continue to model the European Civilisation.

The Christian foundations of our civilisation have been jettisoned as outdated and unnecessary by a large portion of our society but most especially by the political classes.

Another effect that gives cause for alarm is that a man who grows accustomed to the use of contraceptive methods mayforget the reverence due to a woman, and, disregarding her physical and emotional equilibrium, reduce her to being a mere instrument for the satisfaction of his own desires, no longer considering her as his partner whom he should surround with care and affection... [So] In preserving intact the whole moral law of marriage, the Church is convinced that she is contributing to the creation of a truly human civilisation» (HV 17 - 18).

If we consider the great civilisations of the past such as those of Egypt and Greece, India and China, we find great achievements in art and architecture, philosophy and drama, but nothing remotely like our own civilisation.

As Saint John Paul often declared, Christians today are called on to be «signs of contradiction» (rather than signs of the kind of unvarying conformity with «progress, liberalism and modern civilisation» which you will find in the pages of The Tablet and of Cornwell's books).

The famous (for liberals the notorious) article 80 of the Syllabus — which condemns as an error the proposition that «the Roman Pontiff may and ought to reconcile himself to, and to agree with, progress, liberalism and modern civilisation» — seems reasonable enough.

Is it not at least archaic, if not hopelessly irrational, to hold that one person, Jesus of Nazareth, born in obscurity two thousand years ago is, as the Second Vatican Council teaches «the goal of human history, he is that point in which the desires of history and civilisation converge.

As Stratford Caldecott has written in the latest number of the Chesterton Review (p. 1), «every civilisation is the product not only of the human imagination but of a religious worldview.

As a scholar of medieval technical progress of that epoch illustrates, «it was the building, for the first time in history, of a complex civilisation which rested, not on the backs of sweating slaves or coolies, but primarily on non-human power.»

Communication by writing was never as developed in the Jewish milieu as it was in the more agrarian less nomadic Indo - Himalayan and Chinese civilisations, until at least about the time we find the Wisdom literature, the time that is of the full penetration into the near East of the Romano - Hellenic culture of the West.