Sentences with phrase «from modern times»

But while it does go some way to present its world as a playground to explore, it doesn't actually hail from modern times.

FC Barcelona announce special «tifo» banner for Copa del Rey final FC Barcelona At the presentation of the book which takes a look at one of Catalonia's most famous writers and journalists from modern times and his relationship with the Club, Bartomeu went on to highlight just how relevant today many of Montalbán's views on the representative nature of Barça still are.

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He wasn't unintelligent, but he suffered from living at a time before modern technology.

All were exciting departures from the standard fuselage - and - wings template that has plied the skies since the dawn of modern commercial air travel, but, excitement or not, don't count on boarding one any time soon.

Now is the time for retailers of all sizes to rethink their industry and draw inspiration from platforms like Netflix and Pandora to get inside the head of the modern customer.

Many argue China's US$ 2 trillion in foreign reserves would protect it from any crisis, but Chovanec points out there have only been two times in modern history when a country accumulated such large reserves — America in the»20s and Japan in the»80s.

There's no doubt Twitter is a modern - day, real - time water cooler around which people from all over the world can gather to chat.

«In this unique exploration of the role of risk in our society, Peter Bernstein argues that the notion of bringing risk under control is one of the central ideas that distinguishes modern times from the distant past.

Phin Barnes, a partner at First Round Capital and an investor in startup Modern Fertility, says the number of pitches he sees from companies addressing women's health care has increased about 10 times in the past five years.

«This scenario reconciles the discrepancy in the nuclear DNA and mitochondrial DNA phylogenies of archaic hominins and the inconsistency of the modern human - Neanderthal population split time estimated from nuclear DNA and mitochondrial DNA,» says researcher Johannes Krause, also of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

The black - and - white, super-minimalist website is stark compared to any modern ecommerce site, but serves as a blast from the past time when buying things online was revolutionary.

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.

Instead, the training is about using precise modern techniques to break up fights among inmates or to extract prisoners from cells, Garcia said, noting that guards frequently storm into those situations five or six at a time and begin using elbows, knees, batons, or pepper spray to force inmates into submission.

«There's nothing like walking from the 1st floor of a modern looking expensive, trendy restaurant until you get out of the public area and go down the creaky unpainted wooded stairs and find a basement with damp stone foundation walls, puddles of water on the ground, and a crew of people cooking soup in a 10 gallon pot which is on the ground at the time.»

It is simply an add - on for modern times, a way of looking for a more complete picture of a company rather than one that separates the company from its context and only looks at its quantifiable assets and liabilities.

It's far too easy to believe, in our modern world, that you can graduate from a top 10 school, flawlessly establish yourself in the corporate world or with your own startup, build the perfect team, and either invest in perfect stocks or sell your own company for billions of dollars by the time you're 27.

In the wake of significant disruption, it is time to bring the legacy publishing business into the modern era and leverage innovative technology — from machine learning to artificial intelligence — to create long - term sustainability and vitality.»

When gold futures hit an all time high of $ 1,913 an ounce last Tuesday, it seemed our modern civilization was no different from the ancients in its love affair.

This means we may not see a clear - cut standard for some time, but for the first time in years, pipelines are being built from modern viewers» eyeballs to advertising dollars.

Or, rather, from the end: modern times.

Since that time, he has guided the company from its entrepreneurial real - estate roots to a modern, diverse, professionally run hospitality company — and a leader in the tourism industry.

Could it have been god telling us how to protect ourselves from disease, germs, and bacteria?Couldn't you see a scientist from today's time, going back to the bible days, and trying to explain, the things we as the human race didn't know till modern times?

Their presence is most obvious in the Reform branch of modern Judaism, which altered the traditional prayer book to soften or even erase the affirmation that God will raise the body from the dead at the end of time.

I mean that the atom bomb hid from us the ending going on all around us, and that far from destroying modern times, the atom bomb kept modern times alive for nearly fifty years.

Well, the concensus of most modern NT exegetes is that said simple, preacher man did not rise from the dead so bottom line it is time to admit to the fraud and to return our money.

Most have turned away from such silly things in these modern times, but not all.

Buber contends that the fact that the Holy Land is also inhabited by another people (as it always has been, from biblical to modern times) should not be an obstacle but instead is a challenge to embody that divine call in the modern world.

The remarks Badian made some time ago in connection with the study of the deification of Alexander the Great are apposite in this respect: «Modern Jews and Christians, or modern rationalists, from their different points of view, have always found it difficult to believe that the ancient Greeks took their religion seriously since it seems so patently absurd.&Modern Jews and Christians, or modern rationalists, from their different points of view, have always found it difficult to believe that the ancient Greeks took their religion seriously since it seems so patently absurd.&modern rationalists, from their different points of view, have always found it difficult to believe that the ancient Greeks took their religion seriously since it seems so patently absurd.»

The dispersal and re-emergence of Israel was not a self - fullfilling prophecy: the dispersal portion certainly was not, as the Romans did not conquer Israel with the intent to fulfill Bible prophecy; at the time of the prophecy, there would have been no reason to believe that there would be people who would try to Israel; the people who founded modern Israel were, at least in the main, non-religious and were not trying to fulfill the Bible's prediction; and finally, considering the almost continual obstacles (wars) faced by Israel since the day of its founding, sucess at restoring Israel was far from certain.

In Creating Catholics: Catechism and Primary Education in Early Modern France, Karen Carter examines catechisms and visitation records from multiple dioceses to explore why, by the time of the French Revolution, French Catholics knew» and zealously embraced» «the doctrines and behaviors of their religion.»

(CNN)- This country is changing rapidly, and at the very time modern medicine puts life - or - death decisions in our hands, organized religion has faded from the lives of many Americans.

In modern times the improvement in travel facilities has made it possible for large numbers of people to make the pilgrimage even from distant lands, an important factor in bringing the Muslims of the Far East into closer relations with their brothers of the Turkish and Arab areas of Islam.

In fact, by confusing Tradition with traditionalism and radically opposing the Scriptures to Tradition, much of the Christian wisdom Tradition, beginning with the writings of the early Church Fathers (& Mothers) and continuing even into modern time, the Protestant Reformers have cut much of the Western Church off from the ongoing Revelation of the Christian wisdom Tradition.

Its aim is to free that teaching from certain accretions and re-interpretations, often superficial and inaccurate, which have grown up around it in modern times.

It is from this time that medical and social acceptance of abor - tion can be dated, although previously the subject had not been discussed in public in modern times.

While monasticism in modern times has been deeply influenced by Dom Paul Delatte's rather rigorous interpretation of the Holy Rule (he was Abbot of Solesmes from 1890 to 1921) we find in Hugh Gilbert's firm but gentle hands a rather more humane understanding of the contemporary mind, particularly in his substantial treatment of the concept of obedience (a minefield for any Christian apologist) which stands at the centre of this present work.

But the modern Christian who sees time as creative, positive and humanizing finds the dialectic of withdrawal from time quite absurd, to say the least.

The one that has received most attention in our time is that stemming from Soren Kierkegaard and issuing in modern existentialism.18 I shall not develop this point beyond suggesting that here, too, concern with the ultimate import of the immediate situation associates ultimacy with immediacy in its concreteness.

The culture of Islamic countries has grown through the interaction of groups of Islamic peoples of widely varied ethnic and geographic backgrounds and through strong cultural influences from the non-Islamic civilizations of Greece, Persia, and India in the early days, and of western Europe in modern times.

From this God, in the fullness of time, would be born the modern subject who has usurped God's place.

the Indian literary critic, writer of the post-colonized English says, «English, in this context is decolonized through a nativization of theme, space and time, a change of canon from the Western to the Indian... «19 These stylistic changes in language influence the modern - biblical translation, especially in the Indian context.

Unfortunately, most of the traditional ones come from another era, another culture, a time a place and a context which seem only distantly related to us in these modern days whether we have been brought up in the West or the East.

It is part of the general secularization of the times, in which naturalistic interpretations of the social sciences, ethical determinism, Freudian and behavioristic psychology, the reaction from puritanism, the increasing complexity and impersonality of modern life, have all had a part.

The modernization perspective also suggests that a kind of wholesale movement in the world has been going on for some time — movement along the continuum from less modern to more modern.

At the same time that ministers were trying to relate Christianity to the crisis of the modern economic injustice, there were others busily engaged in attacking all who deviated from what they conceived to be the fundamentals of Christianity.

The Force Awakens confirms that blowing up two Death Stars doesn't necessarily mean good times are here to stay, which is why a whole new generation is going to have to look to Luke, Leia and Han to learn how to be heroes in their own time — learning from them, and applying their wisdom to a modern era.

I should have thought that a moderate, modern and rational atheistic mind could well accept that the physical matter ofthe universe fully contains the potential for life and needs only the stable incubator to begin a life process, and that any number of these life processes could begin at the same time, each distinct from the next within the correct environment.

How is it possible that two such mutually exclusive concepts of man could be championed from ancient until modern times — man, an animal; man, a God?

When, in the fifteenth century, Turkish con ~ quests and other factors had limited Christianity chiefly to Europe, the transition from the Europe of the Middle Ages to that of the Renaissance and modern times brought another major threat.

Most important, at a time in human history when there is urgent need for wisdom to guide us through a crisis of unparalleled proportions, it removes any interest in wisdom from the intelligentsia in general and the modern university in particular.