Sentences with phrase «closely at the branches»

Look closely at the branches of the trees to catch a glimpse of a monkey.

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What we have learned from numerous archeological finds from the mid-1940s and 50s is that, not only was Christianity comprised of many different communities with many different gospels and belief systems in its earliest stages, but that Christianity itself springs from Essenism, a separatist - extremist sect that had existed at least 100 years before Jesus, and most closely resembles the Branch Davidians of Waco, TX.

Another of the authors, Stephen Levinson, comments, «This is a bit of an unexpected finding, since many have thought that grammar might give us deeper insight into the linguistic past than vocabulary, but there is still some reason for caution: we compared highly conservative vocabulary with an unfiltered range of grammar variables, and the language family is unusual for the way it diversified during colonization of successive islands, But what is clear is that grammar and vocabulary changes are not closely coupled, even within branches of a family, so looking at them both significantly advances our ability to reconstruct linguistic history.»