Sentences with phrase «early word for»

These early words for earth, in turn, are references to the Norse goddess Jörð, mother to Thor.

Not exact matches

Another Pentagon official similarly had words for Russia, responding to Russian claims that Soviet - era Syrian defenses blocked 83 missiles from a US - led strike earlier this month.
The most useful mental models and rules of thumb, in other words, are often dead simple, which is why an interview Adam Bryant of The New York Times did with Dropbox co-founder and CEO Drew Houston earlier this year is so helpful (hat tip to Business Insider for the pointer).
The last time I tried to adopt a slang word was early 1998, when I awkwardly used the word «dope» for half of third - period history class.
Another apartment that sold for $ 21 million at One57 went to foreclosure auction earlier this month, but there's no word yet on the result.
Even in its early stages, blockchain is acquiring such renown for potential that any business associating itself with the term can attract new investment overnight, prompting some to use «the B word» so casually that they've also attracted attention from regulators.
This early form of viral marketing provided a vehicle for word - of - mouth about the band and their extraordinary live shows to spread, and grew their fan base exponentially.
Earlier this month, the Merriam - Webster Dictionary added 850 new words and definitions to its online dictionary, including a number of words related to cyrptocurrencies, including the word «cryptocurrency» and the term «initial coin offering» (a sort of initial public offering for digital tokens).
In other words, it may be too early to determine whether female investors alter the funding equation for female founders.
Nobody knows exactly how the referendum will be worded, or right now whether there even will be a referendum, because, as you also noted earlier, the other politicians in Greece are now jockeying for position and are trying to get rid of Papandreou and to replace him, in a very opportunistic mood, to prevent any kind of a referendum happening at all.
[1] In the words of program founder Roland Tibbetts: «to provide funding for some of the best early - stage innovation ideas — ideas that, however promising, are still too high risk for private investors, including venture capital firms.»
For example, take the magic word we mentioned earlier.
In the early 2000s, practicing SEOs were sculpting content for target words to appear 5.5 % -6 % of the time.
It's expected that President Trump will give a speech early this month regarding the price of prescription drugs and that the lecture likely will include some harsh words for the pharmaceutical industry.
I shared what I learned about financial independence and early retirement with Mrs. Enchumbao and her no - so - exact words were: «So you mean to tell me that if we save and invest up to a certain amount, we can live off this money forever and not have to work for money again?»
In other words, even if we succeed in having good economic growth and sustaining it for a longer period than in earlier expansions, it will not solve all our unemployment problems.
Second: The Creation tale is simply a way for early humans to explain mans creation and «fall» from God's predetermined path... The old testament is full of stuff more related to philosophy and health advice then «Gods word» However, this revelation has not made me less of a christian... In Contrast to those stuck in «the old ways» regarding faith (not believing in neanderthals and championing the claim that earth is only 6000 years old), I believe God created the universe on the very principle of physics and evolution (and other sciencey stuff)... Thus the first clash of atoms was the first step in the billionyear long recipe in creating the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the planets, life itself and us.
Almost all the stories surrounding Jesus (if he did exist, some scholars say their is no proof of a historical Jesus) were borrowed from earlier myths and used word for word... as well as the rampant literary corruption and forgeries of Biblical Texts... It is also impossible for God to exist in the Christian version or form they created.
The evidence indicates that the written sources of our Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) are not later than c. AD 60; some of them have even been traced back to notes taken of our Lord's teaching while His words were actually being uttered... We have then in the Synoptic Gospels, the latest of which was complete between 40 - 50 years after the death of Christ, material which took shape at a still earlier time, some of it even before His death, and which, besides being for the most part 1st hand evidence, was transmitted along independent and trustworthy lines.»
In my earlier years of ministry I received some serious bruises when, with the best of intentions, confusion was the result for some, when trying to clinically use a surgeon's knife to separate individual words within a passage, which often resulted in a sad postmortem.
As recommended earlier, a dictionary is useful for gaining a better understanding of what words mean.
That is to say, might God be calling the church to a «new thing» in which not even earlier words of God — good and proper for their own time — can stand in the way of the broader community God now has in mind?
By expressing our needs (via tears and protest early on and through words after age two) and then having our needs met by those who love us, we learn that needs are good, that expressing those needs results in relational connectedness, and that others can be trusted to provide for us.
In bypassing questions as to the practice of the early Church in this matter it insists that the motive for celibate priesthood is found in the words and the mystery of Christ: «Perfect and perpetual continence for the sake of the
In the latter book Whitehead recognizes the danger that his earlier rise of «perception» can lead into confusion, and he acknowledges «that it may be advisable for philosophers to confine the word «perception»» to «experiential functions which arise directly from stimulation of the various bodily sense - organs» (AI 229).
Thanks especially to the critical study of Dr. C. Harold Dodd, as summed up in his notable little book The Apostolic Preaching, we have become familiar with the word kerygma, Greek for «the proclamation»; and taught by Dr. Dodd and those who have followed the line of enquiry which he laid down, we have come to see that this kerygma was the very heart of the earliest Christianity.
an earlier day now obsolete, the words: «We stand for all workers» having at least one day of rest in seven.»
Yet the early Church itself, when it departed from biblical idiom at the Council of Nicea and used for theological purposes a non-biblical word, homo - ousion, as the guarantor of true biblical meaning, gave Christians in later days a charter for translation — provided always that it is the gospel, its setting and its significance, that we are translating, and not some bright and novel ideas of our own.
Similarly, the Hebrew word nephesh may best be translated «breath - soul,» as is clear, for example, in the early story of man's creation: Yahweh shaped man from dust out of the ground, and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, so that man became a nephesh — that is, an animated being.
If for example the Christian Gospels are considered by themselves without any background of definite belief, or any authoritative norm of interpretation, all sorts of meanings can be put upon the bare words, the more so if the critic is ready and willing to make the early disciples of Christ neurotics, hysterics, or downright liars as the occasion may demand.
As for Hell I recall not a word about it from my early life.
Even when later connotations began to appear, the earlier ones persisted, as Joshua's words reveal: «Ye can not serve Yahweh; for he is a holy God; he is a jealous God.»
Note: Several friends who gave input on earlier drafts of this piece deserve tremendous credit for helping shape what you've just read; any hurtful or insensitive words are entirely my own responsibility.
Thank you for giving me the chance to express out but still I am hurt and a nice word will cool it of and guide me if wrong and about quitting I would because what I am doing now at CNN is taking almost my whole time since the Quran burnning issue and would out doubt I will go back to it and that's why I mentioned earlier that we back here worry about our daily bread and water for family support but needed from you in the free world to notice us out there and have your say on behalf of all heavenly beliefs that what is happening is wrong, One Nation Calamities to other nations benefit, profit?!
But all will agree in recognizing that early in the first century in Palestine there lived a man «mighty in word and deed» whose brief career, for the most part hidden from us, was an event of incalculable magnitude, not only because of its effects but because of what it was.
Its most controversial aspect was the early decision to eschew a screenplay and have the movie follow, Pasolini - like, the Good News Bible's rendition of the Gospel of John word for word.
Not the haburah fellowship meal celebrated by a group of Pharisees; no such meal existed (J. Jeremias, Eucharistic Words of Jesus [1965], pp. 30 f.) Not the Qumran communal meal anticipating the «messianic banquet», for all that this may have influenced the Christian practice, because that is simply a special meaning given to the regular communal meal at Qumran, whereas our evidence indicates that the Christian practice was something out of the ordinary which the early Christians did and which helped to give them a special identity.
Pope Francis has asked for forgiveness from refugees in Bangladesh for the hurt and persecution they have endured, and spoke the word he had avoided days earlier in Burma: «Rohingya».
That «sheol» or sprit world afterlife was in fact an Old Testament and even Torah - based belief and within that spiritual realm of sheol those spirits (all the spirits who were once living) were in either a state of happiness or in a state of limited ability to obtain happiness, or in other words a state of damnation or being in like a spiritual prison, which would later be further described in the New Testament (which the earliest figured written versions of the New Testament were written in Greek for newly gentile converts) as hell.
For us who are Christians all of this is demonstrated in the words and encounters of Jesus Christ as recorded in the Gospels; it is spelled out most clearly in the Epistles of John and in the letter of Paul discussed earlier.
«Full and free discourse» is, in other words, a summary expression of the internal conditions of discourse noted earlier: equal freedom of all participants to advance and contest any claim and the arguments for it, and uncompromised commitment on the part all participants to seek the truth.
In other words, for the purpose of finding the core or axis of missiology, we should dispense with what we earlier called a «deductive definition» of mission and focus on a «functional definition.»
One can not gain even a little acquaintance with the early church — which means, one can not do even a little reading in the New Testament — without recognizing not only the importance of what the word «Christ» stands for in its life, but also the richness and manifoldness of this same reality.
German Protestant theology had been dominated since the early 1920s by various theologies that had stressed and interwoven the concepts of revelation as foundational to theology and of the Word of God as a concrete address calling for a radical decision of faith or unfaith, with varying emphasis on whatever the address might actually say.
No one questions the words that Plato wrote, no one says «I doubt Plato really said that,» yet Plato was in existance around 400BC doing his teachings, but the earliest copies of Platos writings that we have in our possesion are from 900AD... that's a 1300 year gap as opposed to the New Testaments 25 - 30 year gap... That speaks for something, I believe.
There are, for example, signals used in animal communication, nonconventional signals which include some gestures, and single - word sentences such as the word «Tree» used by children in the early stages of language acquisition.
So the early church announced a season of Lent, from the old English word lenten, meaning «spring» — not only a reference to the season before Easter, but also an invitation to a springtime for the soul.
Tu fecisti nos ad te, domine, et inquietum cor nostrum donec requiescat in te — so Augustine said, in words I quoted in English earlier, I have given the Latin here because I wish to correct the usual and mistaken translation so often found, which makes Augustine say we are made «for God.»
One recalls here the earlier words of rebuke directed at Jesus, when he is criticized for his «eating and drinking»:» «Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!»»
The reason children require a number of years to develop mastery of certain basic concepts, according to some child psychologists, is not that they are slow in learning the words — they actually know the words quite early — but that they have to start experiencing the world in a new, more simplified way that corresponds with the classifications suggested by these words.4 For example, young children may know the words spoon, teaspoon, silver, knife, and metal but find it difficult for several years to apply them appropriately to objects in their environment, the reason being partly that these words form multiple and overlapping classificatioFor example, young children may know the words spoon, teaspoon, silver, knife, and metal but find it difficult for several years to apply them appropriately to objects in their environment, the reason being partly that these words form multiple and overlapping classificatiofor several years to apply them appropriately to objects in their environment, the reason being partly that these words form multiple and overlapping classifications.
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