Sentences with phrase «from early converts»

Nevertheless, many Mormons are Christian people who have been mislead into a church that believes, and conceals from early converts, a false religion.

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UPS said in early November the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority will provide $ 500,000 to develop a system for converting UPS's New York fleet from diesel to electric.

She's competing against WattUp from Silicon Valley's Energous Corp., which beams a 5.8 GHz radio frequency that wireless devices convert into DC power, and may debut in early 2016 in devices developed by SK Telesys (a Korean rival of Samsung) and manufactured by Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn.

Rather, CASPERSEN operated a Ponzi - like scheme in which he misappropriated investor funds from the Fake Fund Accounts and converted them to his own use and use by others, including by using investor funds to meet CASPERSEN's periodic interest payment commitments to earlier investors.

Finding success in the global marketplace can be daunting, especially for companies in the early stages of considering whether to convert their business from domestic to international.

Earlier this week we reported that Changpeng Zhao, Binance's founder and Chief Executive Officer, had hinted at the implementation of a «broom» that would allow users to finally convert their small fractions of various cryptocurrencies, colloquially known as dust, leftover from trades, i...

In Europe, Charlemagne, who in 800 A.D. became the first emperor in western Europe, after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire three centuries earlier and who was a pivotal figure in the Christianization of Europe, issued the Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae, which prescribed death for Saxons who refused to convert from their native Germanic paganism to Christianity.

Dan Rodger converted from atheism to Christianity in his early 20s.

Daniel Rodger converted from atheism to Christianity in his early 20s.

It claims descent from the Ethiopian eunuch converted by Philip in Acts 8, and dates formally to the preaching of Frumentius in the early fourth century and the acceptance of Christianity in A.D. 330.

The opportunity to try this significant experiment in an inter-racial, international religion of converted individuals was given to the early Christians and indeed was forced upon them by Judaism itself when it drove them from the synagogue.

The early apostles also knew, however, that the church would be restored in the latter days and in anticipation of that great day they spoke directly to you and me in Acts 3, «19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; 20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: 21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of rest itution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.»

In the early years of Islam, when the Muslim community was small and frequently under attack, the Prophet Mohammed sent a delegation of recent converts from the city of Mecca to the kingdom of Abyssinia.

In India, Radhasoami was attracting thousands of new converts yearly, especially from those lower classes which once provided Christian converts during the days of the mass movement earlier this century.

It occurs to me that had revival broken out in the early 60s, the Church was broadly rather cold and formal, hardly qualified to embrace numbers of new converts from a broken world.

And Buddhist monasteries have not been able to prevent their converts from continuing their earlier casteist practices.

But it was the cross that excited Cambridge University archaeologists, marking her out as an early convert to Christianity and - as the earliest Christians were from noble families - indicating she was of aristocratic or even royal blood.

«My advice, as I said earlier, is: First, that their synagogues be burned down, and that all who are able toss sulphur and pitch; it would be good if someone could also throw in some hellfire... Second, that all their books — their prayer books, their Talmudic writings, also the entire Bible — be taken from them, not leaving them one leaf, and that these be preserved for those who may be converted... Third, that they be forbidden on pain of death to praise God, to give thanks, to pray, and to teach publicly among us and in our country... Fourth, that they be forbidden to utter the name of God within our hearing.

Beginning primarily with the missionary activities of the Portuguese in India in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, Christian converts became for all practical purposes outcastes, cut off from caste and community.

The early Syrian Christians, being converts from Jews, might also have had a similar love for Aramaic (Syriac).

Studies of early Christian baptisms, as reflected in Pauline letters and writings of the church fathers, indicate that converts to the faith wore a garment symbolic of the old life, and when they arose from baptism their new life was symbolized by the donning of a white garment.

The early church faced a bewildering array of philosophical challenges and competitors, from Neo-Platonism and Manichaeism to the Roman mystery cults, with many of the great saints, martyrs and apologists of that age being converts from other belief systems.

The selection of topics makes it reasonable to assume that the purpose for which Q was written was to furnish a standing record from the sayings and acts of Jesus to support the teaching (Didache) with which early Christian missionaries encouraged and exhorted their converts.

The early 00's saw a huge push from USAID among other NGO's towards converting farmers to organic.

When I was taught maths in the early 70s, we (in the UK) were in the process of converting from imperial to metric so we were taught both, which I think has been useful!

They matched field goals in the third quarter, Seattle's Efren Herrera, the Dallas discard, converting from 45 yards and New York's Pat Leahy responding from 37 yards, and then early in the fourth quarter Herrera trotted onto the field in an attempt to break the 17 - 17 tie with a short field goal from 24 yards.

Dean almost marked the occasion with an assist early in the first half when he set up Manolo Gabbiadini with an inventive penalty award, but his Italian teammate - for - the - day failed to convert from 12 yards.

An early goal from Wahbi Khazri set the tone for the game, and although Anthony Martial did convert a smartly taken finish just before half - time, an unfortunate David De Gea own - goal from a Lamine Kone header gave Sunderland their first ever win against United at their «new» home.

Sebastian Giovinco got the hosts in front early from the penalty spot, converting the kick that he earned after Edson Alvarez was whistled for tripping the Italian in the area.

CHANCE: EARLY PRESSURE FROM CORNER - 4 mins Kane turned the ball across the face of goal but nobody in Lilywhite was there to convert and the Hammers conceded a corner.

Having not learnt from their earlier error, three Brighton defenders gravitated towards the Egyptian, who poked on brilliantly for the No. 9 to convert.

A minute earlier, Arsenal had taken the lead through Nacho Monreal, who converted a pass from Mesut Ozil.

The roster of sudden converts ranges from retiring pols opposed to enabling a first - time candidate «deeply flawed in endless ways» to public officials who have championed conservative values since the early 1980s.

Cuomo also floated the idea of raising revenue by taxing nonprofit health insurance corporations that are bought out by, or convert to, for - profit companies, and those who received a «windfall» from the federal tax plan, which went into effect earlier this month.

John Brownstein, chief innovation officer at Boston Children's Hospital and a Harvard Medical School professor, said during his presentation that his researchers have been collecting patient - generated information from alternative data sources and converting it into an early warning system for disease.

Where possible, the study also compared wines grown in «new» vineyards and those that had been converted from other agricultural uses like orchards, where farmers likely used arsenic - based pesticides that were popular in the early 20th century.

Subjects with serial MR imaging were retrospectively selected from a larger study, 12 provided they fulfilled any of the following criteria: 1) They had a diagnosis of early HD at the baseline assessment (n = 37), 2) they converted from premanifest HD to early HD during the study (n = 3), or 3) they were healthy controls (n = 19).

It is dense with information and I am now going back and making notes to try pull it together for my use — with a little difficulty at this early stage I have to admit (with a small added complication that we use kilojoules and kilograms here in Australia and have to convert from imperial, which of course is no big deal).

The result is early churn from users who might otherwise convert or maintain a longer subscription, not to mention a reputational threat when the media spots obvious fakes on a dating site.

Earlier I was testing on iOS version, and all modal dialog popups are returning values Galaxy Graphics launches it's first ipad app - converted from one of the most popular selling games, and right in time for the Christmas Season - Kawaii

Both Abde and McCray came to Casco Bay from King Middle School — the nearby early convert to expeditionary learning.

One early effort at reform was a proposal from the University of New Orleans (UNO) in the summer of 2001 to create and oversee a new charter school district, converting 10 existing public schools to charters.

The Renaissance Mastery Dashboard makes guiding growth easier, tracking and reporting on student data from Star Reading, Star Math, Star Early Literacy, and Star Custom, then converting that data into a unified measure of mastery.

I'm 15 months into my contract and want to try the early upgrade through Amazon because even the $ 199 upgrade is better than the $ 320 + TMo wants; if I switch away from the loyalty plan I just converted to from a MyFaves account, will a call to customer service (T - Mobile's, not Amazon's) let me get back on that better loyalty plan, instead of the Even More that Amazon wants from me?

i was struck by how many of those new writers came from or were converts to the world of self - publishing and it reminded me once again how powerful and useful Amazon's policy of accommodating self - publishers and small publishers has been in their development of a digital publishing platform (see my thoughts on this earlier in the week over on Medium).

The final potential drawback to EPubGen is that it only works with docx files, meaning it won't convert files from Word 2003 and earlier.

The remaining amount of Avigen cash after Avigen's wind - up activities are completed and less the $ 7 million in cash received by MediciNova (the «Net Cash Assets») will be sequestered and, unless converted earlier as described in the next sentence, not used until the later of March 31, 2010 or 12 months from the closing of the merger transaction (the «Final Conversion Date»).

If you convert money from a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA, that money has a restriction on free withdrawals, too: For converted amounts, account holders younger than 59 1/2 must wait five years before they can tap that converted amount free of a 10 % early - withdrawal penalty.

Surely LeRoy Neiman's sin — committed in the early 1950s, at the apex of Abstract Expressionism, and ensuring him a career of scorn — was to convert the hallmarks of painters like Franz Kline and Jackson Pollock (the splash, slash, dribble, and daub) into a signature for spasmodic expressionist / impressionist pictures of everything from Playboy bunnies to sporting events to presidents.

An early convert to the speed and brightness of acrylic primary colors, he bent Pop to his own purposes, which were to declare a clear break from Abstract Expressionism, as Pop was already doing, and to infuse the graphic punch of posters and hot rod decoration into high - minded abstraction.