Sentences with phrase «early graves of»

Set at the top of a hill, overlooking the town, the cemetery is the site of early graves of the town's residents.

Not exact matches

For one thing, as we saw in the case of the early disciples, it is important that reason and faith communicate so we don't make grave mistakes when it comes to understanding the requirements of our faith.

In some sense, indeed, Kierkegaard's life could be written as a kind of dark comedy; despite his premature death, and a great number of sadnesses that afflicted him along the way, there was something enchantingly absurd about his character, a certain benign perversity that often prompted him to make himself willfully ridiculous, and a peculiarly touching element of the ludicrous that clung to him all the way to his early grave.

Every few years, beginning in 1967 with Death at an Early Age, Kozol has brought forth another book exposing what he regards as some grave injustice of American society.

Once we take into account the capacity of the ancient Jewish mind to create a story as a way of expounding and showing the relevance of a Biblical text (this practice will be described in Chapter 9), it is not at all difficult to see how the story of Joseph of Arimathea could have been partly shaped by Isaiah 53:9, «And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death,» found in the famous chapter on the suffering servant, which was certainly interpreted by the early Christians as a prophecy of the death of Jesus.

During the first Holy Week, Christians profess, a lowly cabinetmaker named Jesus came out of the woodwork to die an excruciating death upon a wooden Roman cross on a Friday, lie in a borrowed, dusty grave on Saturday and rise to defeat death early Sunday morning.

I'd rather have my colorful artwork of Jesus wrecked by a christian than my colorful statue of Muhammad or bin Laden causing me to land in an early grave.

Driving into the cemetery, we passed by hundreds of well - tended graves from the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries.

Human beings after death were, to the early Hebrews, still bodies, attenuated leftovers and shadowy replicas of the flesh, and these existences beyond the grave the Old Testament called rephaim — that is, shadows or ghosts.

Micah, the Ephraimite, had an image of Yahweh; (Judges 17:3 - 4) Gideon made one out of captured gold; (Judges 8:24 - 27) the teraphim were household gods, human enough in appearance to supply David with a substitute when he fled from his foes; (I Samuel 19:12 - 16 [cf. Genesis 31:17 - 35]-RRB- and, indeed, so customary were «graven images» that while early protests were made, as in the law of Exodus, «Thou shalt make thee no molten gods,» (Exodus 34:17.)

We noted earlier that one of our gravest concerns regarding this subject centers upon our loved ones who are taken from us.

Clearly the early Church only bothered itself with what Staupitz called «real sins»; shortness of temper can not have been a cause for confession unless it led to murder or grave slander or some other such definite abrogation of the law.

These difficulties are so grave, and with our present resources so definitely insurmountable, that a clear picture of the early ministry is simply beyond our reach.

This is one great example of where blindly following the mainstream advice can put you in an early grave.

(And anyway you know it's serious if I'm willing to break out the food processor the cleaning of which is going to put me in an early grave.)

It was a Halloween night after all, so it would have been appropriate for the undead arm of Morrow to send the Dodgers to an early postseason grave.

Wenger is sending a lot of Arsenal supporters to their early grave right here in Ghana.

We're more than happy consuming our way to an early grave, and this is just another aspect of that.

Had they not given me a steroid to accelerate his lung maturity when there were signs earlier in the week of pre-term labor, things would have been much more grave (another woman with a 33 week birth spent two months in the NICU).

Earlier he stopped over at Busunu in the West Gonja District on his way from Tamale to Bole to offer prayers at the grave site of his mother Hajia Abiba Nnaba Suluwu.

The problem of course is that Bharara danced on his grave a little early.

That of course sent that republic to early grave, and heralded military rule with its best - forgotten abuses.

So obsessed, so primitive, so provincial, so evil, so insensitive, so petty, so cruel, so crude, so paranoid, so deluded, so out of touch with reality, so reckless, so hateful and so obsessed with President Jonathan and the PDP is the Buhari Presidency that they went as far as to say that the great lady and former Minister of Information Mrs. Dora Akunyili was sent to her premature death and early grave because she was given a job by the former President.

he notorious activities of the dreaded cult group had sent many to their early graves with cruel killings through the smashing of mortar and pestle on victims» heads.

A statement by the police command on Friday noted that the notorious activities of the dreaded cult group had sent many to their early graves with cruel killings through the smashing of mortar and pestle on victims» heads.

«If you look at the timing of that bill, as well as the content, back in late spring and early June... there was grave concern that this would have a significant adverse impact on teachers, and that obviously didn't happen.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo won nearly every element of his hard - times budget proposal in talk with the Senate and Assembly, whose leaders acknowledged the state's grave fiscal crisis early on.

Another lawmaker, Ben Ololo (Nembe 2), urged the state Assembly to make provision for the prosecution and arrest of those involved in the sponsorship and hiring of the services of suspected cult members in the state, saying the development would save Bayelsa youths from early grave.

ATLANTA — Iceland's «woman in blue,» the partial skeleton of a young woman found in 1938 in a grave with Viking - era objects, was a child of some of the island's earliest settlers, researchers reported April 14 at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

EARLY ICELANDER A young woman now determined to have been one of Iceland's earliest settlers was found in 1938 in a grave with various Viking - era objects, including this pair of brooches.

Tall and grave, Belfrage resembles a young Max von Sydow striding through the bleak landscape of early Bergman movies.

Fry notes that the earliest widely accepted evidence of possible warfare is a mass grave of skeletons with smashed skulls and hack marks found near the Nile River; the grave dates back some 12,000 to 14,000 years.

A couple of weeks earlier, 10 grave - robbers had stumbled upon a -LSB-...]

The Raqefet cave remains are the earliest example found of graves lined with green and flowering plants.

Of course, by now even semiconscious adults in America are aware that a smoking habit is likely to kick them into an early grave.

These individuals include a man in his own grave and two preteens or early adolescents placed head - to - head in the same grave, near a piece of an adult's upper leg bone filled with a red pigment.

It's tough enough at the best of times, yet for some reason the advice seems to keep on changing, so you end up not knowing whether you are doing the right thing or eating yourself into an early grave.

Archaeologists have shed new light on the belief systems of early Mesolithic hunter - gatherers after analysing cremated remains and artefacts given as grave offerings from the earliest recorded human burial site in Ireland.

The team, led by Dr Aimée Little from the Department of Archaeology at the University of York, analysed cremated remains dating from 7530 - 7320 BC — the earliest recorded human burial and grave assemblage.

At the early farming site of Eulau, German archaeologists found four graves containing 13 individuals who had apparently met a violent death.

«The co-authors had a lengthy debate about why the semi-baked copper minerals were deposited in a burial, but then when our pigment specialist (Camurcuo?lu) mentioned earlier examples of green and blue copper pigments in graves and our excavation specialist (Farid) reported firing events that charred bones and materials in the shallow graves, the penny started to drop», she explains.

The war in Bosnia - Herzegovina had ended 10 years earlier, but thousands of people remained missing, many presumed buried in hidden graves scattered across the country.

You've heard a million times from health experts, bloggers, and on the news that sugar is terrible for you, but most people don't truly understand WHY it's so bad... In fact, most people falsely think that if they eat sugar, they can just exercise a little bit harder that day or the next day so they can «burn it off»... Unfortunately, that kind of thinking will lead you to an early grave.

This is one example of where blindly following the conventional nutritional wisdom can put you in an early grave.

There were also early herb vinegar formulas such the oxymel made famous by the father of modern medicine, Hippocrates, and the equally well known 4 Thieves Vinegar that supposedly kept 4 grave robbers from catching the plague during the middle ages.

Bread can only be called the staff of life if it has undergone careful preparation; otherwise bread can be the road to an early grave.

«You expect your friends to be inclined to see you in a positive manner, but they also are keen observers of the personality traits that could send you to an early grave,» said Joshua Jackson, PhD, assistant professor of psychology and co-author of the study, in a press release.

You know, that section of the population that has jobs they want to keep without being fired for indecent exposure; that have parents they don't want to shock into early graves.

Bye Bye Braverman is a bittersweet adaptation of Wallace Markfield's coldly cynical novel To an Early Grave.

M Emmett Walsh's sleazy private dick is the first great Coen character, and the brutal grave scene displays the influence of early collaborator Sam Raimi.