Sentences with phrase «far earlier date»

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The report also says that problems in the bank's sales culture date back to at least 2002, far earlier than what the bank had previously said.

ALL of the stories in the bible are versions of the same stories dating far earlier to pagan, ancient greek, and egyption stories.

13) «As far as hard dates go, the 2500 - 1500 B.C. suggested earlier for the introduction of the camel into Somalia is the best that can be done from available data.

3) Two pots of Egyptian provenance were found in Greece and Crete, both dating 1800 - 1400 BC, but both in area so far removed from the range of the camel as to suggest its presence in the intermediate areas (e.g., Syria or Egypt) during an earlier time.

The date of Christmas may have initially been chosen to correspond with the day exactly nine months after early Christians believed Jesus to have been conceived, [20] or with one or more ancient polytheistic festivals that occurred near southern solstice (i.e., the Roman winter solstice); a further solar connection has been suggested because of a biblical verse [a] identifying Jesus as the «Sun of righteousness».

- Two pots of Egyptian provenance were found in Greece and Crete, both dating 1800 - 1400 BC, but both in area so far removed from the range of the camel as to suggest its presence in the intermediate areas (e.g., Syria or Egypt) during an earlier time.

This coincidence between the apostolic Preaching as attested by the speeches in Acts, and as attested by Paul, enables us to carry back its essential elements to a date far earlier than a critical analysis of Acts by itself could justify; for, as we have seen, Paul must have received the tradition very soon after the death of Jesus.

As far as the winter solstice and Christmas, there is no date given in scripture for the birth of Christ it may have actually been spring, early church leaders decided to celebrate it when they did to stamp out other pagan celebrations at the time.

It is increasingly clear that Deuteronomy and the Priestly writings contain at least some material much older than is indicated by the usual dating of the documents.9 Increasingly, too, it would appear that scholars are disposed to accept the substantial reliability of the persistent tradition which sees Moses as a lawgiver.10 That law was an early and significant aspect of Israelite culture is further attested not only by ancient Near Eastern parallels but even more strikingly in the life, the work and the character of the first three great names in Israel's national history: Moses, Samuel and Elijah.

The news comes after Colchester Foodbank announced earlier this week it had been given bags of pasta and mashed potato it could not use because they dated back as far as 1977.

Second, Job's wealth is listed as measured in livestock and possessions, not money, which is further evidence for an extremely early date of the events in Job.

It was the further division of this Priestly source into an early and late Elohist, together with mounting evidence for the late date of the legislative core of P, that brought about a shift in the controlling critical consensus.

As with other pa - ssages in Josephus relating to Christian themes concern remains over whether the pa - ssage was part of Josephus's original text or instead a later addition — it can be dated back no further than the early 3rd century when it is quoted by Origen in Contra Celsum.

But Israel's thought on the problem certainly dates far back into an early period, for even in these stories, notably those of Samson and of Abimelech, judgment is passed upon their principals» conduct.

Further, because of the scarcity of regular clergymen the custom of hiring lay readers became common, and in some places these congregationally appointed officers were the backbone of the church.16 Hence it is not surprising that from an early date the greatest coolness toward and open opposition to completion of the Anglican Church in the colonies with an Episcopate came precisely from those areas where that Church was ostensibly established.

The Takeovers Panel said the interim orders have effect until the earlier of further order of the Panel, determination of the proceedings or two months from the date of the interim orders.

Fortunately, the tense relations between the Gagauz leadership and Chisinau, dating as far back as the early 1990s, did not lead to a military conflict.

A deal announced in November to bring the IDC and mainline Democrats together after the State budget is passed in late March or early April left many scratching their heads about the timing of both the announcement and the reconciliation date being so far away.

Carole Caplin, the former fitness adviser to Prime Minister Tony Blair, announced that the Metropolitan police had told her that her mobile phone was probably hacked, dating back to 2002 — along with the Milly Dowler case in the same year, this is one of the earliest cases so far discovered.

It is likely that the 11 days would be the longest New York City has gone without murders dating back much further than 1994 — the city is drastically safer than it was in the early 1990s and before, with murders down to record lows that would have been unimaginable in the 1970s or even in 1994, the first year the NYPD began tracking crimes using its CompStat system.

They don't have a position on whether parties can require an earlier date for party affiliation in order to vote in a primary, but Horner says six months is far too long, two weeks or 10 days would be more appropriate.

The significance of such an early example of the upright posture is that Bunostegos dates very far back on the evolutionary tree, pushing back the clock on when this posture shows up in evolution.

Egyptologists previously dated mummification's beginnings to the Old Kingdom period, about 2500 B.C.. However, after conducting the first successful chemical analysis of linen used in Neolithic burials, researchers announced in August they had discovered that people living in what is now Egypt were mummifying their dead much earlier — as far back as 4300 B.C., more than a millennium before the establishment of the Egyptian state.

The earliest confirmed evidence of controlled fire use dates to several thousand years ago but some palaeoanthropologists argue control began as far back as 1 to 2 million years ago.

Inhibitory cell - based neuro - therapy is a new approach and has shown promise to date in early animal studies, warranting further development,» says Cory Nicholas, a co-first author.

If Walshe confirms this earlier date, it would mean people migrated the length of the continent far faster than was thought.

Despite negligible nuances in the birds» plumage color, and limited differentiation in their vocalizations, WCS and NUS ornithologists identified a surprising genetic divergence dating back as far as the early Pleistocene.

«The trees could date from much earlier — perhaps as far back as 13 million years ago.

But according to radiocarbon dating of burnt wood bits found in the plaster and from surrounding strata, it is by far the oldest known Mayan writing — dating from between 300 and 200 B.C., which is roughly concurrent with the earliest writings of other Mesoamerican cultures.

One theory that has received little attention to date works on the assumption that the origins of many Himalayan species began far earlier, in southern Tibet.

The lion's share of the clay deposits found on Mars thus far have turned up in terrains that date back to the earliest Martian epoch, known as the Noachian period.

The earliest sightings of chloroquine - resistant parasites date as far back as the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Early declines, dating as far back as the 1700s, were probably the result of overharvesting in the rivers, dam construction blocking access to spawning grounds, and water pollution.

Ellis adds that one of the deposits dates as far back as the 4th century, which he says is a particularly valuable discovery, since few other ritual deposits survived from that early stage in the development of Pompeii.

«Our findings to date are very exciting however, and further expand previous insights on the importance of the early gestation period gained from famine studies in other settings.»

Given the number of genomes studied and the sophisticated analysis used, the date for when the species diverges is «the best estimate of what we've gotten so far, and it makes sense,» says Beth Shapiro, an evolutionary biologist at UC Santa Cruz, whose earlier work also suggested these bears split less than a million years ago.

The commercial whaling boats recorded sea ice and weather data in more than 400 logbooks from voyages dating as far back as the 1840s, with most taking place from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s.

I alluded earlier to some putative hominin remains dating back as far as seven million years but those were only known from a skull in one case and some teeth and limb bones in another case, and Ardipithecus is a partial skeleton with many, many, many bones preserved.

Haas concedes that further excavation at Aspero, which Shady plans to do this fall, may yield dates even earlier than the oldest known inland sites.

Black rats also appear in the islands in approximately the 7th to 8th century AD at port and cave sites, with a tantalizing potential earliest date of the 5th century AD at the port site of Unguja Ukuu in Zanzibar that requires further confirmation.

Dated to between 175,000 to 200,000 years old, the fossil is 50,000 years older than any other human fossil found in the region, suggesting humans left Africa far earlier than previously thought.

«Further fieldwork in sediment layers dating 3.3 - 2.6 million years ago is needed to verify that this site in Kenya reflects the emergence of a new hominin (early proto - human) behavior and is not an isolated incidence,» Hovers said.

These implements were radiocarbon dated, proving that a community of early rice growers existed in China as far back as 8,000 B.C. (Smith and Dilday 2003).

Its usage dates back as far as salt baths and cinnamon, two of the very earliest natural remedies.

While this article agrees with my long term research (some dating very early 1970s), I prefer documentation to further my own studies.

If you've been invited along with a +1, ask your date far ahead of time whether they would like to go with you and RSVP early.

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In the early infant days of online dating, features were few and far between.

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