Sentences with phrase «civilisations in»

For 40 years, humans have been listening for the noise of other intelligent civilisations in the galaxy, and have heard nothing.

Greece is an incredible country full of stunning scenery and fascinating history, once home to some of the greatest civilisations in the ancient world.

Nowadays, visitors can enjoy the remnants of these civilisations in the stunning architecture of Cordoba, particularly in the Mezquita, a grand 8th century mosque.

However, what is clear is that they were one of the most advanced civilisations in South America's tropics.

Oman is immensely proud of its rich Arabian culture and history, with one of the oldest civilisations in the region, dating back over five thousand years.

Given that civilisations in globular clusters could be far older than the Earth, they could very well have colonised their entire cluster.

Dreamed up in 1961 by astronomer Frank Drake, the equation provides an estimate of the number of detectable alien civilisations in the Milky Way.

Historians have the concept of «high culture», which apply to civilisations in contact relative to each other.

Loss of respect for everyone and everything is a hallmark of a civilisation in ultimate decline.

The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China, 2 vol., abr.

This is what scholar John McMmurtry terms «the life - blind structure of the neoclassical paradigm»: the exclusion as a matter of definition of considerations such as human health and well - being, and eco-system integrity, that are actually fundamental to our continued survival as a species, let alone our civilisation in its current form.

The themes — breakdown of civilisation in the aftermath of an unnamed disaster, the nature of memory and consciousness — are profound, but the story has a compulsively readable narrative.

THE COLLAPSE of the Mayan civilisation in Central America some thousand years ago may have been caused by a severe drought.

In China the situation was different, and true sciences did flourish, as Joseph Needham has clearly shown in his Science and Civilisation in China.

This he sees as part of a wider series of natural upheavals that shook Aegean civilisation in about 1200 BC, the time of the Trojan War.

At the time, they were the most advanced civilisation in the world.

Armenia lies in the highlands surrounding the mountains of Ararat.There is evidence of an early civilisation in Armenia in the Bronze Age and earlier, dating to about 4000 BC.

There is evidence of an early civilisation in Armenia in the Bronze Age and earlier Like the Bosporan Kingdom, the history of Armenia stretches from the Golden Age of Greece through the Hellenistic Period to protracted status as a Roman

There is evidence of an early civilisation in Armenia in the Bronze Age and earlier In order to break the cycle of poverty, we must first start with the heart.

There is evidence of an early civilisation in Armenia in the Bronze Age and earlier, dating to...

For apart from ensuring the film an audience on both sides of the Atlantic, it enables Himelstein to import a theme more usually associated with Henry James than Wilde — the corruption of the New World by the Old — and also to introduce some amusing cross-cultural digs (like Darlington's mock approval of America as a society «that's gone from barbarism to depravity without bothering to develop civilisation in between»).

Add to this some really vomit inducing romance with Picard, really hokey sets, really fake plastic looking props, hokey fights and the very annoying practically perfect farm civilisation in their typically «I'm a goodie» beige / white loose fit garments.

Writer Alex Garland has always been adept at packing big ideas into genre packages, from the decay of civilisation in 28 Days Later to the spirituality of science in Sunshine.

But the film - which sees a Tarzan who has adjusted to civilisation in London returning to his roots - has swung back into action with John among its all - star cast.

Hoping to discover a lost civilisation in the treacherous, unchartered jungle, Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam) ignores the ridicule he faces from his contemporaries and devotes his life to his work.

The review also called for more emphasis on Australia's Judeo - Christian heritage, the role of Western civilisation in contributing to Australian society, and the influence of the country's British system of government.

Since then, she has contributed to almost every issue and has always met her deadlines, even when cut off from civilisation in the wilds of Nepal during the monsoon.

Given the expansive terrain, the heat and the lack of civilisation in many parts of the country, it usually makes sense to go hiking in a group.

If you're heading inland, the thermal spas of Pamukkale, the Museum of Anatolian Civilisation in Turkey's capital, Ankara, and the historical treasure trove of the Mevlana Muzesi in the beautiful city of Konya will delight.

Tate Britain Alison Black artseer.wordpress.com If you are looking for Civilisation in Tate Britain's Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation, you will have to keep on looking until the sixth and final room of the exhibition.

Selected works have been on display at the musée du quai Branly in Paris and at the Musée de la civilisation in Québec City.

To end humanities civilisation in one ignorant generation of one eyed wealth is remarkably dangerous by anyones definition of dangerous.

Cold, not warmth hold the real danger for life on Earth and our civilisation in the future.

We're doing something irrevocable to our planet... no other civilisation in history could have even conceived of affecting the planet this way.»

Further melting of the ice sheets will destroy the climate conditions which allowed agriculture and the rise of civilisation in the first place.

Alpha - Zero may have overcome thousands of years of human civilisation in a few days, but those same thousands of years of civilisation have taught us to register in an instant forms of communication that no machine is close to being able to comprehend.

I wonder if that's what will destroy western civilisation in the end.

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«In many ways, it actually helps the extremists, because they want to create a clash of civilisations between Islam and Christianity, or Islam and the West.

«Following the Gospels towards Easter, this book asks the reader what it means to dethrone Mammon in the values and priorities of our civilisation and in our own existence.»

In a book called «On the Road to Civilisation, A World History» (Philadelphia 1937) it said, «Early Christianity was little understood and was regarded with little favour by those who ruled the pagan world... Christians refused to share certain duties of Roman Citizens... they would not hold political office.»

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.»

Here is an ancient civilisation which was once dominant across the Red Sea in South Arabia but also in Egypt.

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.»

``... a new culture is foreshadowed in the turbulence and spiritual confusion of [our] times... our certainty of imminent change is based... upon the worldwide breakdown of established social order and traditional culture;... nowhere more marked or more disastrous than within that civilisation... that goes by the name of Christendom.»

His predominant theme is the rise of a liberal model of civilisation which he traces from Protestantism, with its «rejection of the normative significance of tradition in the field of Christian dogma» (p. 6), followed by the Enlightenment, which placed an absolute value on the individual.

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.

We need to reclaim the Christian roots of what is good in Western civilisation and be much stronger in our own defence of sexual and social morality, especially when engaging in discussion in the public forum.

- 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.

In him alone, above all in the Eucharist, do we find the key to love: the vision, the wisdom and the energy we need to build a civilisation of lovIn him alone, above all in the Eucharist, do we find the key to love: the vision, the wisdom and the energy we need to build a civilisation of lovin the Eucharist, do we find the key to love: the vision, the wisdom and the energy we need to build a civilisation of love.

The quotation captures the noble project of the book in this way: «The old Catholic religion - culture of Europe is dead... the inheritance of classical culture... has been destroyed, overwhelmed by a vast influx of new knowledge, by the scientific mass civilisation of the modern world.