Sentences with phrase «experienced by our ancestors»

His understanding of the challenges and opportunities experienced by our ancestors upon entry into the United States is evident.

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The conservative believes that we need to guide ourselves by the moral traditions, the social experience, and the whole complex body of knowledge bequeathed to us by our ancestors.

And so may you pass from death to life, from the authority of tradition to the experience of knowing God; thus will you pass from darkness to light, from a racial faith inherited to a personal faith achieved by actual experience; and thereby will you progress from a theology of mind handed down by your ancestors to a true religion of spirit which shall be built up in your souls as an eternal endowment.

The blood - and - guts tales told by the ancestors of today's journalists gradually evolved into more civilized literary forms, to provide more complex characterizations, to describe more universal human experiences, to explore more sophisticated levels of conflict.

I read an article once that said when a human gets stressed, her hypothalamus sends a message to her adrenal glands and triggers the same response her very distant ancestors would have experienced upon getting chased by a tiger.

Here one finds the dull report of the census - taker, the uninspired but minute directions for the performance of the cult, stories of man's beginnings and that of many of the common experiences of his life, such as language, relationship of races, why the rainbow; colorful stories, of the might and prowess of ancient ancestors of the race, riddles, puns, fables, prayers, songs that have become almost the universal songs of the human race, the history of the rise and fall of dynasties, the preaching of reformers and prophets, the questioning of it all by men grown weary of the struggle, proverbial sayings of great wisdom; the dreams of conquest both of earth and heaven.

Our ancient ancestors all breastfed their babies and toddler, so a new mother was always surrounded by a whole tribe of experienced, knowledgable and supportive women.

Rather than inheriting big brains from a common ancestor, Neandertals and modern humans each developed that trait on their own, perhaps favored by changes in climate, environment, or tool use experienced separately by the two species «more than half a million years of separate evolution,» writes Jean - Jacques Hublin, a paleoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, in a commentary in Science.

«As our nervous systems are a product of evolution and past experiences, one can reasonably expect that how well we memorize information today is influenced by natural selection that occurred amongst our ancestors long ago.»

2) The second reason why affirmations by it - self usually do not work is that: Most of our limiting beliefs were uploaded during traumatic life experiences by ourselves and / or our ancestors.

Your ancestors experienced periods of stress, but these were followed by periods of rest as well.

How faithful an adaptation he's hammered out remains to be seen, but if it remains close to the game, the film will involve Fassbender being kidnapped by a secret organisation, who force him to experience the memories of his assassin ancestors and send him on missions to locate artefacts that can control mankind.

«This internationally respected collection continues to grow and enthrall Museum visitors, and Eyes of the Ancestors allows this collection's history and magnificent holdings to be experienced by many,» stated Steven G. Alpert, author, consultant, collector, and contributor to the DMA's Arts of Island Southeast Asia collection and catalogue.

On the contrary, if you'd like to feel superior in your maximum temperature experiences and look down on your ancestors, you should trust the story told by the respectable long - lived trees (the green graph).

What lies in store for us is more like what the Victorian anthropologists identified as «dreamtime,» or «everywhen»: the semi-mythical experience, described by Aboriginal Australians, of encountering, in the present moment, an out - of - time past, when ancestors, heroes, and demigods crowded an epic stage.

John Byng - Hall, one of the UK's earliest family therapists, was evidently profoundly influenced by the public disgrace of Admiral Byng, his illustrious 18th - century ancestor, as well no doubt as viewed through the lens of Byng - Hall's own life - experience.