Sentences with phrase «cleared by a century»

Where that part of the argument is concerned, the way through the jungle of facts has been cleared by a century of research and discussion.

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21st Century Cures is expected to ultimately clear the Senate and be signed by President Obama.

This has become a forgotten epoch in financial history, yet it led to the first clear mathematical formulation of the quantity theory of money, expressed by Simon Newcomb already in the 19th century.

The divided PC government caucus also missed an opportunity to send a clear message that they embrace 21st century values by singling out the opposition Wildrose as the only party to unanimously vote against the motion — and remind Albertans of the infamous Lake of Fire.

In fact, the Tanach is very clear to the Jews that the only covenant they have (and will ever have) is the one pounded out between G - d and the Jews on Mt. Sinai (which, if you read the fine print AND the NT is allowed to be understood / interpreted by designated leaders in the Jewish society; Jesus believed those people to be the Pharisees and told his JEWISH followers to adhere to Pharisee teachings... the Pharisees were the honorable, compassionate end of the theology spectrum in the first century instead of the bad rap they get from a mis - reading of the NT (done generally with no comprehension of Jewish culture or history).

Personally, I think the evidence is pretty clear that Jesus was a pseudo-mythological persona created in the first few centuries by a small religious group.

On the reading I propose, the Reformation schism was brought about instead by contingent human choices in a confused historical context defined less by clear and principled theological argument (though that of course was present) than by a peculiar and distinctively sixteenth - century combination of overheated and ever - escalating polemics, cold - blooded Realpolitik, and fervid apocalyptic dreaming.

Furthermore, a Sumerian text from Nippur from the same early period gives clear evidence of domestication of the camel by then, by its allusions to camel's milk... For the early and middle second millennium BC, only limited use is presupposed by either the biblical or external evidence until the twelfth century BC.

There is no convincing evidence that He was called «God» in the first century, and indisputable evidence that He was not generally called by that name; but it is clear that He was thought of as being related to God as no other man could be.

The concept obviously underlying the use of the Word in the Elijah narratives makes clear that certainly by the eighth century the prophetic understanding of the Word was matured and substantially established.

Our study of the path followed by the idiom, however, has made it abundantly clear that while the Lucan tradition has been dominant throughout most of Christian history, it is by no means the only view that has been held by Christians, particularly in the first and twentieth centuries.

It is after all rather important to emphasize that in a seventh - century text, predating all reflection on language, wherever that reflection may have occurred, we find this clear statement: the fact of human speech comes from God; but language is made up by the human race, which decides for itself — arbitrarily — the words, the rules, and the syntax.

The development of such a comprehensive view has long been a need, for it has become clearer and clearer as we have become familiar and involved with a constantly widening horizon of different musical aims and practices, that the old «common practice» theories of harmony and counterpoint could no longer be overhauled or extended, but had by necessity to be replaced by a way of description and analysis that treated the «common practice» of Western music from the late seventeenth to the end of the nineteenth centuries as only one instance of a much wider musical method and practice that could be applied to all of Western music, from its origins to the present, as well as to music of other cultures.»

Luke had been at pains to make clear that the risen Jesus was no otherworldly spirit but a physical form with flesh and bones, 42 who consequently presented his disciples with infallible proofs.41 The risen Christ came to be regarded as having conducted a fresh ministry with his disciples, and in these forty days he «taught them about the kingdom of God».41 But since the experience of the risen Christ was not of this character at the end of the century when Acts was written, it had to be made clear that this kind of experience was brought to an end by a new event, the Ascension.

Ever since the end of the first century the traditional view of the resurrection appeared to embody reasonably clear and final answers to these questions and it was supported by the New Testament records, which quickly came to be regarded as historical evidence written by eye - witnesses.

It now seems all too clear that the various over-all solutions of the social problem which have been emphasized in the past two centuries by the believers in progress are not solutions after all.

By the first century, it is clear, Judaism was a fully - developed system of piety, that is, of pious observance — not a system of theology, nor a code of law, merely, but a system of piety.

This general view finds its fullest and clearest New Testament expression in the Fourth Gospel, was elaborated in the great creedal discussions of several centuries later, and was finally and definitively formulated by the Council of Chalcedon in 451: «One and the same Christ, Son, Lord, only begotten, acknowledged in two natures, without confusion, without change, without division, without separation; the distinction of the natures being by no means taken away because of the union, but rather the property of each nature being preserved and concurring in one person.

By the 13th century that attitude was clear.

This is indispensable if there is to be knowledge of the physical, as the history of philosophy of the last three centuries has made clear.10 The second is that mental acting is required by the physical in the process of physical acting.

The Anglican position was made clearer by the work of the Tractarian movement in the 19th century, which emphasised a Catholic understanding of the sacrament as an actual washing away of sin, a regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit and an incorporation into the Church.

Whatever the precise date of this passage from Jeremiah's prophecies — and, as is usually the case, biblical scholars disagree — the general historical context is clear: More than a century earlier the northern kingdom of Israel had been almost entirely annihilated by the Assyrians.

It seems as though, during the last half - century, the results of science and the beliefs of religion had come into a position of frank disagreement, from which there can be no escape, except by abandoning either the clear teaching of science, or the clear teaching of religion.

But archaeology makes it very clear: Galilee was settled by people from the south, in and around Jerusalem, in about the second century BCE.

Palmer makes it clear that though there must have been some doubt, dogmatically, about this in Luther's time, and in the nineteenth century, the conclusion must be drawn that the Church has definitely declined to believe that a plenary indulgence transferred by prayer to a soul in purgatory can guarantee its release, though the Church hopes, as it were, that Christ will respect her wishes in the matter.

It is by no means clear why this egalitarian Eden, which relies wholly on human will power, is less illusory — especially in this blood - soaked century when human capacity is unmasked — than the Jewish apocalyptic hope for the coming of God's kingdom.The value of these books is not in what they say about Jesus so much as in what their saying these things prompts one to think about.

The «canonical» history of Hebrews is somewhat confused by the fact that while it was used by many early Christian writers, some of them were aware that as it stands it can not have been written by the apostle Paul (see Chapter xix) We first encounter clear traces of Hebrews in the letter of Clement to the Corinthians, written at the end of the first century; but Clement does not say what he is quoting from.

Almost all its canons dealt with episcopacy and were authoritatively made a part of canon law by the Council of Chalcedon.4 These canons made clear that the bishops of a province, meeting semiannually in synod under the presidency of their metropolitan, constituted a collegium with a relationship to the metropolitan much like that of the second - century collegiate presbytery in relation to the bishop of the local church.

The Usk River Authority, and others like it in England and Wales, was set up by the Water Resources Act of 1963, and there were plenty of acts before that which made it quite clear that pulling out salmon, except with fully licensed rod and line, was distinctly illegal; but Si √ ¥ n Jones and his friends justify themselves on the basis of somewhat earlier legislation, instituted in the 10th century by an independent Prince of Wales, Hywel Dda («Howell the Good»).

By the 11th of November, 1918, the broad outlines of the 20th Century were set, though it would take a worldwide economic depression, a second world war, the collapse of colonial empires and a generation of Cold War for them become clear.

«The Mayor is playing his part, now government must too by taking on board calls for a diesel scrappage scheme and a new Clear Air Act fit for the 21st Century.»

«It is very clear that industrial lead contamination was pervasive throughout Antarctica by the late 19th century, more than two decades before the first explorers made it to the South Pole,» he added.

Derham's thermometer probably resembled a thermoscope, invented in 16th - century Italy possibly by Galileo, consisting of a fluid - filled jar and a clear tube topped by a glass bulb.

The Brazilian pepper tree, introduced into South Florida a century ago, began to spread widely only in the 1950s; it now fills significant portions of the Everglades, in part by exuding a poisonous sap and clearing space for itself.

Our planet has warmed by 1 degree Fahrenheit since the beginning of the century, but for reasons that aren't entirely clear, the Antarctic Peninsula — the stretch of land that reaches up toward South America — has warmed 4.5 degrees in just the past 50 years.

For example, by the 10th century, architectural clues to slavery become clear.

As a 2002 paper in Diabetes states: «The best evidence available suggests that childhood diabetes showed a stable and relatively low incidence over the first half of the 20th century, followed by a clear increase that began at some time around or soon after the middle of the century.»

By the middle of the 19th century, it was clear that there had once been a «Great Ice Age».

Even now, a quarter century after the onset of Reidenbach's symptoms, clear answers about the underpinnings of mental illness are hard to come by.

In the later, it is clear how much closer temperatures have come to the target the international community has set to keep warming within 2 °C (4 °F) above pre-industrial levels by the end of the 21st century.

Through their efforts, by the second decade of the 21st century, the picture had cleared.

Keynes, as an heir to the Darwinian legacy, may have been attempting to redeem the character of his great - great grandfather in the writing of the book, in order clear up his grandfather's lackluster image — one denounced particularly by those of faith over the century and a half since the publication of... Origin....

Ferdinand Directed by Carlos Saldanha Helmer Carlos Saldanha («Rio») had a clear vision for the film, based on the beloved children's book «The Story of Ferdinand» and produced by Blue Sky Studios, Davis Entertainment and 20th Century Fox Animation.

Decades, if not centuries, of behavioural research have established a rather clear picture of the tumultuous teenage years driven by sexual maturation, identity establishment, and social exploration.

«Backed by financial support for developing countries, a clear long term destination of climate neutrality in the second half of the century and a ratcheting up of ambition in a structured, transparent and timely way, the INDCs provide an inspiring part of what will become the Paris package,» she said.

The field continues to be dominated by twentieth century introductory textbook concepts, including such dichotomies as formative versus summative assessment, criterion - referenced versus norm - referenced testing, quantitative versus qualitative assessment, informal versus formal assessment — distinctions that often hamper rather than promote clear thinking about assessment.

«Seeing the places and hearing (sometimes directly) from Civil Rights giants also made it clear that the centuries of struggle were fought by ordinary people.

What it will take is a real clear delineation of what you mean by problem - solving, decision - making, and responsibility — things that are typically considered 21st century skills.

This is a fact that the U.S. Supreme Court made clear more than a century ago in Hunter v. Pittsburgh and has since been affirmed by the federal government through No Child, which holds states accountable for the quality of education provided with the use of federal dollars.

But we must start by recognizing two clear realities, so well outlined by Charles Barone and Mac LeBuhn of Democrats for Education Reform: (1) those who want to overhaul public education are taking on a culture, a philosophy, and a belief system that has been in place for over a century.