Sentences with phrase «for over a millennium»

This coming July, the world will mark the centenary of the First World War, the seismic calamity that began the 20th century as an epoch and that, in another hundred years, may well be regarded as the sanguinary first act in the end of Europe as «Europe» had been known for over a millennium.

The Christian Church, particularly in Europe, was the center of intellectual life for over a millennium and had a powerful influence over it until recent times.

Matcha which has been consumed for over a millennium in Japan and China has now got its true recognition in the world with it being regarded as one of the most powerful super foods ever available.

For over a millennia, chanting, prayer, dancing, martial arts, chi movement, mantra, emotional release and other techniques have been used to counter this white noise.

Jet off to Sri Lanka to discover the city of Anuradhapura, which housed the palaces of Sinhalese kings for over a millennium.

And as complex as «Between Island and Mainland» (2012) and «Ferryman» (2012) appear, with their swirling / organic forms with interlocking edges, painted with varying differences in thinness, thickness, and modeling, they evoke so distinctly the serenity and simplicity of the Buddha Amitãbha's ascendance, the grace of which was so essential to Pure Land Buddhist painting for over a millennium.

This lasted for over a millennium until, even more suddenly, it warmed back up again and the rains returned.

It not a New Age thing, but has been done for over a millennium, especially in Buddhism.

Not exact matches

Pilbara - focused gold miner Millennium Minerals has reported good news in a gloomy industry with a maiden profit of just over $ 34 million for the first half of calendar 2013.

Representatives for most major firms - including Bridgewater Associates, Renaissance Technologies, Millennium Management and Two Sigma Investments — did not respond to requests for comment over the weekend.

While Reese says he doesn't know the exact reason, people have labored over the intricacies of language for millennia and usually consider themselves experts in their native tongue.

In the right set of circumstances, many multiples of that amount could incrementally flow into gold, a simple product that has been innately understood for millennia by human beings all over the globe.

There are plenty of extremes in Christianity, including racism and anti-Semitism to the point of genocide for over 2 millennia.

For over two millennia, men and women have given up earthly possessions, donned simple clothing, and lived with and served the underprivileged.

Yet for us this epistemological dimension of the redemption is not from the supposedly «incurably» dualistic nature of human knowing but from stubbornly dualistic theories of human knowing which over the millennia of their influence have whittled away wonder.

For James, the ongoing permanence and stability of a unified Roman Catholic that has weathered cultural change and religious persecution over the millennia, stands in contrast to a Protestant Church fractured into thousands of denominations and riven with differences.

It is easiest to critique Bingham by chiding him for ignoring the great stories that have been told over the millennia by Socrates and Aristotle, Moses and Jesus, Muhammad and Siddhartha, the Gitas and the Tao — all of which have nontrivial implications for the process of cultural evolution.

with over 2 billion of us, we may disagree on a lot — but we all agree on certain basics (that are intrinsic to the faith and have been for millennia)... for example, read the Apostles» Creed.

They would then abolish themselves as the tyrannical hierarchy they have been for over two millennia.

Over the millennia is has provided an occupation and a living for millions of people, and a means to control the masses.

In his September 1, 2011 column «Gay and Christian,» Russell Saltzman addressed my article in the New Oxford Review, in which I sketched a brief history of homosexual politics over the past two and a half millennia as a background for understanding the present controversy.

It is altogether another to recognize that such a God had tremendous power over the minds and faith of Christians for two millennia but has now ceased to wield such clout.

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son... to tell us that which is readily apparent, and to reiterate what people the world over had been proclaiming for millennFor God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son... to tell us that which is readily apparent, and to reiterate what people the world over had been proclaiming for millennfor millennia.

Further, for Kinzer, the renunciation of supersessionism means that God is still with the Jews, including non-Christian Judaism over the last two millennia.

Until a little over a hundred years ago men were using the same means of travel as had been used for several millennia — the horse by land and the sailboat by water.

So began the idea of a millennium, which even yet in Biblical fundamentalism exercises a potent sway over the imagination of many Christians, and upon which the curiosity of the credulous has worked for centuries in an endeavor to predict «times and seasons.»

In Exodus the related term «Hebrew» appears for a short while with prominence, perhaps and probably to underline the similarities in nature and function between this group and other such groups wandering over neighboring lands in the middle centuries of the second millennium B.C.

It enabled us Jews to survive for over three millennia, even though we usually lacked political and military power, koach.

The editors and their collaborators know better; but only in selected instances have some of them managed to transcend such limited conceptions in behalf of the central purpose of the volume as a whole: to demonstrate how the literary dimensions of these texts do, indeed, make credible the power and authority they have exhibited for more than two millennia in shaping decisively the lives and minds of thoughtful people the world over.

Some argue, and I would not disagree, that they run more than 1,300 years into the past, and that what confronts us today is the contemporary expression of a civilizational contest that has ebbed and flowed for well over a millennium.

While the imperial family had existed for well over a millennium the imperial system which now emerged as an ideological technique for controlling the entire populace was something rather new.

He went on: «But including Christian in our list [of principles] does not imply any requirement for individual faith, but it reflects the Judeo - Christian classical and enlightenment origins on which our laws, our social systems and our cultural norms have been built over two millennia.

The Bible is a record of encounters in a long story over millennia, a kind of Festschrift for God, a series of anecdotes, poems and stories about the perceived presence of the Holy.

It was precisely the votes of Catholic, especially Latin American, countries that put the UN vote over the top and made possible the creation of a Jewish State in the Land of Israel for the first time in almost two millennia.

Jody has over 25 years of experience in the water sector where she has been responsible for driving a range of initiatives including state water reforms under the National Water initiative, driving the momentum and integration of The Living Murray, delivery of environmental water with and on behalf of Basin states, development and implementation of a plan to avoid widespread acidification to the lower lakes of the Murray system during the Millennium drought and identification of the sustainable level of take to be embodied in the Murray - Darling Basin Plan.

Sarah says, «Kombucha has been fermented and brewed for over two millennia and has been said to have qualities that detoxify the body and energise the mind.»

The small size of the fruits were perfect for dissemination by birds, and the wild chiles spread all over South and Central America and up to what is now the United States border millennia before the domesticated varieties arrived.

Still waiting for their first win at Anfield since the turn of the millennium — only Arsenal hold a greater record over the Toffees than Liverpool.

He also made over 1000 league appearances, achieving his personal millennium milestone when he turned out for Third Division Leyton Orient in 1998.

Ferguson would later describe Hargreaves» Red Devils career as a «disaster», writing in his autobiography that he considers the midfielder, who made just 27 Premier League starts in four seasons, one of his worst signings in over a quarter of a century as United boss; a sad indictment for Hargreaves when you consider that flops such as Bebe and Anderson had pitched up at the Theatre of so - called Dreams since the turn of the millennium alone.

Stroll State Street for some serious displays and cut over to Millennium Park to see holiday magnificence.

As the new millennium dawns on a growing worldwide biomedical hegemony over birth, midwives, the daughters of time and tradition, find themselves negotiating their identities, searching for appropriate roles, and seeking new rationales for their continued existence.

And okay, let's put the men aside for a while, for, let's face it, the radical feminists constantly tell us that men need to be punished for running a patriarchy over recent millennia.

... for wasting billions on an NHS IT system that is billions over budget... for failing to reform welfare... for allowing Gordon Brown to impose a record tax burden... for presiding over massive family breakdown... for failing to build enough prisons to stem Britain's rising violent crime... for incompetence in Iraq... for surrendering to Sinn Fein... for ignoring moderate Muslim leaders in Britain... for releasing 1,000 foreign prisoners... for the Millennium Done...

The Millennium Excellence Foundation, the organization that hosted the 2017 Ghana Expatriates Business Awards, has said it is considering a court action against some two minority Members of Parliament over the cash - for - seat allegations.

WAWAYANDA - Federal regulators gave Millennium Pipeline Co. permission Friday to start building the 7.8 - mile natural gas line that will supply the Competitive Power Ventures plant, pushing the project forward even as a dispute continues over the state's denial of permits for that pipeline.

The Board Chairman of the Millennium Excellence Foundation, Victor Gbeho, has stated that donations were actively solicited for the Ghana Expatriate Business Awards on December 8, which has courted some controversy over extortion allegations.

Federal regulators gave Millennium Pipeline Co. permission Friday to start building the 7.8 - mile natural gas line that will supply the Competitive Power Ventures plant, pushing the project forward even as a dispute continues over the state's denial of permits for that pipeline.

In a related development, the Millennium Excellence Foundation, the organization that hosted the awards, has said it is considering a court action against two minority Members of Parliament over the cash - for - seat allegations.

The Smith and the Devil is the oldest they've found, spreading over seven millennia to encompass more than 35 languages — and the devil is still falling for the same trick that tripped him up in Asia Minor.