Sentences with phrase «fifty years»

And for most of the last three - hundred - and - fifty years this effort to ground all human knowledge has focused upon the physical sciences; indeed, «since the period of Descartes and Hobbes, the assumption that scientific discourse was normal discourse and that all other discourse needed to be modeled upon it has been the standard motive for philosophizing.»

In this bed where she had lain nightly for over fifty years under the low sagged ceiling, a great little old lady had passed.

As Fr Richard John Neuhaus put it in First Things in 2002, «Forty and fifty years after the alleged misdeeds, there is no question of criminal action.

But on the whole, the changes that have been taking place in the past fifty years have been adverse to community.

Late last month, people from all over the globe gathered in Killarney, Ireland to honor a man who died fifty years ago, but whose legend has grown with each passing year: Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, Ireland's heroic priest who rescued some 6500 people in and around Vatican City during the German occupation of Rome....

It has now been almost fifty years since the Catholic Church created waves by opening the Second Vatican Council.

As foundation for understanding him we must reckon with the fact that for the past fifty years there has been an increasing amount of form criticism.

«The scientific materialism and the Cartesian Ego were both challenged at the same moment, one by science and the other by philosophy, as represented by William James with his psychological antecedents; and the double challenge marks the end of a period which lasted for about two hundred and fifty years.»

, a legendary basketball and baseball coach from Archbishop Molloy High School (Konchalksi's alma matter), where the two met over fifty years ago, and after which they remained close friends.

A hundred and fifty years later, though, it is hard to read his description of emerging Western secularism as anything but prophecy fulfilled.

In my opinion the condition of many of the peoples of the South has deteriorated in the past fifty years.

The result, by the time of the council's conclusion fifty years ago this December, was the irreversible triumph of a progressive Catholicism open to the modern world.

There have also, especially over the last fifty years or so, been a number of new translations of the Bible.

This yearning was shown by a stipulation in his will that no biography should be written until fifty years after his death.

As has been the case the rest of the cultural revolution of the last fifty years, the meritocrats will use their new freedom wisely, while the weakest and most vulnerable members of society won't.

$ 40 It would be hard to think of any book of moral phi «losophy written in the last fifty years....

That is exactly what I have been doing for fifty years, but now at the end of my journey I get to put everything I have learned together and spend my remaining years studying his Word more deeply than ever and communicating the results to God's people.

The problem is that many churches have fallen into the belief that Christians ought to live as though it were fifty years ago, that if we're traditional enough that'll somehow make us holy.

Fifty years ago every student in the world knew that there were 9 planets in our solar system.

Even after fifty years of studying and sharing I still get thrilled as I see the deep treasures of meaning about Galatians or Romans uncovered for the time to me, and then I have the privilege of writing them down to thrill countless others who will read them in the near future.

Fifty years ago, Americans might have dismissed the conservatism of Christians in the global South as arising from a lack of theological sophistication, and in any case regarded these views as strictly marginal to the concerns of the Christian heartlands of North America and Western Europe.

After having preached for some fifty years, still the answer as to why God allows suffering has consistently evaded him.

Since then I have spent well - nigh fifty years working on the history of our Revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval.

Will Herberg made the same point in 1962: «Today, unlike fifty years ago, not only Protestants, but increasingly Catholics and Jews as well, feel themselves to be Americans not apart from, or in spite of, their religion, but in and through it, because of it.»

For the past fifty years Muslim young men have been studying in the universities of the West and coming home with new knowledge and new conceptions of life.

This tragedy shook the new empire to its foundations and gave respite to Byzantium for at least fifty years.

But it is here, in my view, that the importance becomes manifest of an intuitive notion which, timidly evolved less than fifty years ago by a small group of human minds, is now beginning to pervade twentieth century thought as rapidly as did the idea of evolution in the nineteenth century.

Today, more than fifty years after the Holocaust, many of us need to be reminded that Pope Pius XII saved more Jewish lives than any other person, including Raoul Wallenberg and Oskar Schindler» men who are often, and rightly, treated as heroes for their efforts.

I grew up in a very religious home and was a devout Christian for over fifty years.

Fifty years ago religious teaching in the Turkish area was following about the same methods which had been used for centuries.

Some fifty years ago H. G. Wells, certainly an informed historian and keen analyst of human affairs, said of Jesus: «His is easily the dominant figure of history....

The beauty the world has to offer is what is lost by the «Rationalist,» the type of modern man whose character Oakeshott sketched in his most famous essay, «Rationalism in Politics,» first published in 1947 and republished fifty years ago in his essay collection of the same name.

This book is dedicated with gratitude and admiration to the Church of the Crossroads in honor of its fifty years of pioneering Christian service.

After more than two hundred and fifty years of rule by the Shi'a Fatimid dynasty, Egypt was once more governed by a Turkish ruler, Salah - al - Din Ibn Ayyub (known as Saladin), the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty which lasted from 565 to 650 (A.D. 1169 - 1252).

In one of our Federal prisons today is a man who for fifty years with unblemished reputation lived a life of probity and honor in his own community.

It may be five years or fifty years from now, but I hope and I believe that the time will come when Catholics in America will look back on 2002 and thank God that He visited us with «the rod of His wrath and the staff of His anger.»

Fifty years ago in our country the biggest employer was General Motors, and guys on the assembly line made the equivalent of $ 50 an hour today with job security and excellent benefits.

«Viewed in the perspective furnished by fifty years, that optimism is now a far - off and almost forgotten thing... We do not see a Christian century, either now or in any century.»

More than half of the mass shooters in the past fifty years committed suicide at the conclusion of their crimes.

Yet may we not claim, observing the precipitate growth of democracies and totalitarian regimes during the past hundred and fifty years, that it is the Sense of Species, which for a time seemed to have vanished from human hearts, dispelled in some sort by the growth of Reflection, that is now gradually resuming its place and reasserting its rights over narrow individualism?

In the United States, in the past fifty years, applying the dominant model to agriculture and to manufacturing has destroyed thousands of rural communities and hundreds of industrial ones.

Because, before him he sees fifty years of life ahead, and all the drama and achievement, and all the sorrow and pain of human life, from springtime to the grave.

In the fifty years since lupus erythematosus claimed her at age thirty - nine,....

Fifty years ago, Christians comprised the mainstream in America and were fully accepted as a cultural majority.

People make promises about what they are going to be doing fifty years from now.

But if the next fifty years brings more change than the last five hundred, how valuable will the solutions of the past be for the problems of the future?

Fifty years on the needs below would seem unmet:

Fifty years ago, on December 10, 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Their narrative history portrays it as being first given at the foot of Mount Sinai some twelve hundred fifty years before the birth of Jesus.

In fact the people of Massachusetts, who apparently approve of such behavior, elected him to serve in the United States Senate for nearly fifty years....