Sentences with phrase «event occurred first»

The answer depends on which event occurred first and how long each took — and right now, scientists just don't know.

Two feuding factions of Democrats in the Senate have agreed to reunite later next year and perhaps rule the chamber, but it can happen only if a number of events occur first.

Two feuding factions of Democrats in the State Senate have agreed to reunite later next year, and perhaps rule the chamber, but it can happen only if a number of events occur first.

Not exact matches

Server outages and bugs plagued Niantic's Pokémon Go at the height of its popularity last summer, and a similar situation occurred early into the game's first - ever, all - day ticketed event.

First, by discovering a contributing factor to the October 2014 U.S. Treasury Bond Flash Crash, this paper lowers impediments to action by both regulators and investors to prevent similar events from occurring in the U.S. Treasury bond market in the future.

«The concern of an event like this is always determining whether it's occurring in isolation or whether it's the first domino.

This is not the first time that a repatriation event has occurred.

Grant that some unit interval of temporal duration has occurred, say, the first Planck time (10 - 43 second) of the physicist's Big Bang event.

First he attempted to apply a logical argument, whose history extends back at least as far as Cicero's On Divination.4 According to this view, contingency (chance) and foreknowledge (fate) are contradictory assertions because a contingent event, being unnecessitated, can not be known until it occurs.

An event of a highly distinctive kind and of incalculable creative power occurred in first century Palestine; it was remembered as centered in and taking its character largely from a certain Jewish teacher and prophet.

I guess I have a problem with Aquinas too: the first motion and the first cause that he describes in his first two proofs are events or phenomena which would seem to occur within time, which has to come into being somehow.

I propose to study first an archetypical case: a secularization that occurred swiftly, with little anticipation, then a rush of public events, then a formal severance between the parties, and lastly a slow, even protracted process whereby the spirit and loyalty and identity of the institution is drained of manifest faith.

1) James has already stated that salvation is a gracious gift (James 1:17 - 18) See also: 1 Peter 1:3 2) James quotes Genesis 15:6 which claims that God credited righteousness to Abraham solely on the basis of his faith (James 2:23) 3) The «works» that James said justified Abraham was his offering up of Isaac (Genesis 22:9, 12), an event that occurred many years after he first exercised faith and was declared righteous before God (Genesis 12:1 - 7, Genesis 15:6).

The Gospels were first written down decades after the events supposedly occurred: can you at least concede the possibility that some events were at least exagerated, if not indeed fabricated?

In Washington's first inaugural address, occurring at the event that completed, as it were, the constituting of the new nation, he said: «The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered, perhaps, as deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.»

For the first time historical events appeared as radically particular, as confined in their meaning and value to the actual but singular process in which they occur, and thus as being wholly detached from a universal order or law.27

First it is a kind of event that occurred not only in the fellowship of Jesus but recurs again and again in later history where individuals are gathered in the same kind of fellowship.

In the difference between what is said (the message) and the saying of it (the event) the first distanciation occurs.

I believe the greatest positive event of the twentieth century occurred in Akron, Ohio... when Bill W. and Dr. Bob convened the first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.

First we must make it clear, as of course Michael Polanyi has done, that we adhere to the basic assumption that all local structural or physiological organizations and events inside the living being occur according to a local biochemical determinism.

The first being the time between when the alleged events occurred (4BC - 30AD) and when they were first reduced to writing (70AD) a period of about 40 years and a second gap between when the events were first reduced to writing and the oldest copies of those writings (about 250 years).

There is as well, however, a tension between narration and prophecy that first occurs at the level of the event in the dialectic of the prophetic event.

whatwhat, 1) James has already stated that salvation is a gracious gift (James 1:17 - 18) See also: 1 Peter 1:3 2) James quotes Genesis 15:6 which claims that God credited righteousness to Abraham solely on the basis of his faith (James 2:23) 3) The «works» that James said justified Abraham was his offering up of Isaac (Genesis 22:9, 12), an event that occurred many years after he first exercised faith and was declared righteous before God (Genesis 12:1 - 7, Genesis 15:6).

«Plus, there are so many important events that occurred in the life of the prophet during Ramadan that can inspire people... including the first [Quranic] revelations.»

Even so... many unrelated events of chance must occur in close enough fashion for even that first spark of life to occur... and then everything else is based on chance.

If God did in fact make a unique and supreme revelation of himself in that event; if God was actually in Christ reconciling the world unto himself; if something of decisive importance for humanity really happened in connection with the life and death of Jesus, however different may be the theological terms in which we attempt to express that meaning — if this is our faith, the church becomes immeasurably the most significant of human communities, for it was within its experience that the revealing event first occurred and it is in its experience that the meaning of that event has been conveyed from one generation to another.

And as regards the appearance to Simon, the text in First Corinthians, upon closer examination, calls into question the notions (1) that such an appearance was an «event» that occurred after Jesus had physically left his tomb and (2) that Jesus was made manifest to Simon in any visible or tangible way.

The first English Thanksgiving event occurred in 1578 in Newfoundland and, of course, Native Americans had celebrated the harvest for thousands of years before the English invasion.

Definitely the first time I have ever seen kissing occur during a sporting event.

I had to research my own life when I wrote my first book because it had been eighteen years since the events occurred.

This class is an ongoing event that occurs on the first Saturday and third Tuesday of each month.

The first thing that needs to be done is for you to observe your toddler over the next week and try to find common threads or events of when tantrums are occurring.

This will be the eighth Tough Mudder New England that Mount Snow has hosted in the past seven years, with the first event occurring back in May of 2011.

Although SIDS was once considered a rare event during the first month of life, in 2004 — 2006, nearly 10 % of cases coded as SIDS occurred during the first month.

Thank goodness Babies «R» Us has a Registry 101 event which occurs on the first Saturday of each month to help moms set up their registry and learn about the process.

Most of the meals occurred in the first half of 2014, when Kaiman was mulling a run for Nassau district attorney, in the event Cuomo called a special election to replace Democrat Kathleen Rice.

LIGO scientists still have three months of data to sort through from their first round of observing, and the analysis of the signal suggests similar events should occur multiple times a year.

«These organoids provide a major step forward in investigating the changes that occur during the menstrual cycle and events during early pregnancy when the placenta is established,» says Dr Margherita Turco, the study's first author.

Nearly 20 % of the adverse events occurred on the first day of the study.

It should also be noted that our findings apply almost exclusively to patients who are starting allopurinol, since nearly all of these severe adverse events occur during the first three to six months of treatment.

«We believe this first study of rogue waves occurring over space and time during hurricanes will help improve real - time forecasting for shipping companies and other organizations that need to understand the risk of extreme events in the oceans.»

Discovery of this unique event in the WAIS Divide record was not the first indication of a chemical anomaly occurring ~ 17,700 years ago.

Due to this uncertainty, many fundamental questions remain, not only about why the culture disappeared, but also precisely when these events occurred and how this civilization developed in the first place.

Yet an arguably more epochal event occurred the previous year, when the crew of Apollo 8 — astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders — embarked on the first voyage to lunar orbit.

This is the first coast - to - coast total solar eclipse to occur in nearly a century and the wide availability of television, the internet and smartphones alerted most adults to the event.

The first and third began with local transmission events, with new outbreaks occurring close to old ones, but the second appears to have started when the bacteria made long - distance jumps to areas in the north and southeast of the country, hundreds of kilometers away from Yunnan.

Ley's role was complex, and his life took an intriguing and meandering path through many of the 20th century's key events: the rise of airborne technology after the first world war; rocketry's beginnings; the Nazis» ascent; the cold war; the popularisation of the idea of space travel; and, finally, as apotheosis, the first moon landing, which occurred mere weeks after his death.

The infinitesimal probability of this event occurring existed in the first nanosecond of our universe and in every nanosecond thereafter.

For the first time ever, scientists have documented a widespread extinction of bees that occurred 65 million years ago, concurrent with the massive event that wiped out land dinosaurs and many flowering plants.

The summaries encapsulated stressful midlife events that had occurred in the first two and last two years of the past seven years.