Sentences with phrase «complex urban societies»

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The complex and pressing demands made upon Protestantism by the rising industrial and urban society have brought with them a renewed awareness of the role of the church as a ministering body in which both lay and ordained ministers are called as servants of the gospel, not only in the church but also in the world.

A thousand years ago, no one could have missed Cahokia — a complex, sophisticated society with an urban center, satellite villages, and as many as 50,000 people in all.

Being drawn to their uneasy balance of modernity and nostalgia, these paintings reflected a complex and contradictory attitude toward urban society and fashionable resort life, keenly depicting the social changes that made the sea - bathing fad possible, while, at the same time, reaching longingly back to classical themes of the nude in an idyllic landscape.

In particular, the PB framework is based on the fact — and I emphasise the word «fact» — that the relatively stable Holocene state of the Earth System (the past approximately 11,700 years) is the only state of the System that has allowed the development of agriculture, urban settlements and complex human societies.