Sentences with phrase «facts of the history of»

«One of the most astounding facts of the history of religions,» Max Müller points out, (Will Hayes, How the Buddha Became a Christian Saint [Dublin, 1931] p. 7) is the admission of Buddha to the Roman calendar of saints.

This is precisely the role of theology, which is the exercise of reason on this particular fact of the history of salvation, the rightful content of the Christian faith.

One can allude to certain generally known facts of the history of art or the life of the church and can count on invoking certain associations.

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While the Prize itself is awarded only to living people (a fact that spares any blame to the Nobel committee for slighting Franklin), the history of science, say many, has glossed over her central role in the discovery.

For media history buffs, the fact that VandeHei and Allen are leaving to start their own media venture is a flashback to the founding of Politico itself.

Another layer to this story is the fact no other country in the history of the modern world has accumulated as much debt as fast as China.

For St. Elizabeth, the team turned to local history and the fact that the Hamilton region was home to a number of mills.

Secondarily, of that same 59 percent, those who go on to create and execute their own entrepreneurial ventures may in fact say that their degree in Art History (or Psychology or Political Science) helped.

«In fact, during the first week of holiday shopping, our sell - through of Apple Watch was greater than any week in the product's history.

Eliminating the dull jobs, plus the dirty and dangerous ones, has in fact been the point behind the entire history of technology.

The controlling and corrupting power of companies and governments come and go, but that fact is a constant force of history.

The fact that 75 % of the population has access to it, I think that we have a pretty decent infrastructure in Canada, with the history of regulation.

Before people had access to years of history online, fact checking generally came in the weeks or even months after a speech.

Even the fact that you were born at this time in history, that you were given a brain and a heart that you didn't have to earn, and that you get to benefit from the awesome power of modern technologies like the Internet — none of this was within your control, nor did you create these gifts.

The tale begins with the fact that one of the most celebrated authors in U.S. history, Mark Twain, has long been suspected of having ghostwritten The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant.

The latest season of HBO's «Game of Thrones» debuted with a record - breaking 16.1 million viewers and set off more than 2.4 million tweets — in fact, it became the «most tweeted - about [episode] in the show's history,» according to Forbes.

Still, such history may be reflected in the fact that there are few women among State Street's top leaders, most of whom began their careers at least 20 years ago.

If Dr. Mike Dunne of the National Ignition Facility in San Francisco allows himself a moment to ponder the fact his work might... umm... change the course of human history, he won't admit it.

In fact, the insurance operations have been a main driver of Berkshire's success for much of its history.

But the fact it's even happening is a sign of just how much Apple's fortunes have shifted from a year ago when its stock was on an extraordinary run that would make it one of the most valuable companies in history.

The fact is that some of the worst market losses in history were accompanied by persistent and aggressive Federal Reserve easing, including the entire 2000 - 2002 and 2007 - 2009 collapses.

This seems very counterintuitive at first, even if the history behind it is quite abundant, and very few economists seem aware of the problem (which is why most economic forecasts mistakenly focus on the pace with which reforms are likely to be implemented, and are always disappointed), but in fact the reasons are not so hard to understand.

In fact, we are in the midst of the second longest uninterrupted bull market in the history of the New York Stock Exchange.

The leaders of Animal Farm maintain thought control by obscuring the facts with smokescreens, rewriting history, creating conspiracy theories about pending attacks, faking victims, slander, scapegoating, murdering opposition, outrageous public works projects to keep the animals busy, and through a large group of useful idiots — sheep — that spread their message unthinkingly and distract dissenters.

The concept of increasing the limit one time was based on the fact that history had proven that no issue had been cause by this in the past.

In fact, the bears have been in control of TAN throughout most of its entire trading history, dating back to 2008.

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

In fact, the Bitcoin transaction log is probably the most strongly secured and verified transaction log in the history of mankind, because each step (aka block) in the log has been cryptographically signed using enormous computation that makes it essentially impossible to mess with.

«Social science tells us that people's experiences, people's demographics and people's histories come with them to decide questions of fact,» Aviram said.

President Trump often calls this tax cut the «biggest in the history of our country,» but The Washington Post Fact Check team gives that statement four Pinocchios.

In fact, having a positive payment history on loans and other forms of credit could improve your chances of getting a home loan.

In fact, this is the 2nd longest uninterrupted bull market in the history of the New York Stock Exchange.

In fact, a strong argument could be made that today's equity market is the most overextended in the history of the New York Stock Exchange.

You could have bought excellent companies like Conoco Phillips and got a yield of over 5 % plus this company has a solid history of raising their dividend... in fact they did so just recently.

Because of this long history, we know for a fact that stocks and bonds have low or negative correlations with gold, particularly during periods of economic recession.

The fact is that since 2000, the S&P 500 has achieved an annual total return of 4.1 % annually, and doing so has required a speculative push to valuations exceeding those of every other market cycle in history, including 1929.

If their robot executes trades with the kind of profit the site claims, then why would the people behind it want to hide that fact by providing no trade history at all?

In fact, there are only a handful of examples I can remember from recent history in Alberta politics:

In fact, however, the median P / E multiple of 16x for companies in the S&P 500 Index has not been far out of line with history over the last three years.

In fact, ours is the first cycle in the official history of GDP data to not even once see a 4 % GDP growth rate in any one quarter.

Articles Facebook, in fact, is the biggest surveillance - based enterprise in the history of mankind.

Check out our previous posts on 50 Interesting Bitcoin Facts, The Definitive History of Bitcoin, and Bitcoin: The Encryption Standard.

Humans have worshiped literally thousands of gods throughout history, and ever true believer of every one of those gods felt the same conviction that you do, despite the fact that there isn't a single shred of evidence that any of those gods (even yours) actually exists.

In fact, the Tanach is very clear to the Jews that the only covenant they have (and will ever have) is the one pounded out between G - d and the Jews on Mt. Sinai (which, if you read the fine print AND the NT is allowed to be understood / interpreted by designated leaders in the Jewish society; Jesus believed those people to be the Pharisees and told his JEWISH followers to adhere to Pharisee teachings... the Pharisees were the honorable, compassionate end of the theology spectrum in the first century instead of the bad rap they get from a mis - reading of the NT (done generally with no comprehension of Jewish culture or history).

The IRONY of history, In fact, is that for the first 200 years of what is called «Christianity,» people who wanted to follow Christ CONVERTED to JUDAISM.

Read the History Past and present cvheck the following link... It is nothing but violence... violence and Unjust violence... http://www.flagrancy.net/timeline.html This FACT and History of our USA

Religious people arent exempt, but in fact have a history of horrors that make SK stories look tame.

Except for the fact atheists share no common belief, moral tenets, history, culture, texts, goals, holidays, traditions, practices, places of gathering, or hierarchy...

Bootyfunk, as no one really knows all of the facts of history, I usually limit my arguments to what is going on TODAY.

Never - the-less, I am fascinated by biblical scholarship, the history of the early church, and at any rate think people should have the correct facts about what was written and what the original authors meant it to mean.