Sentences with phrase «from turn of the century»

Undoubtedly, the widespread acceptance of the study of comparative religion or the history of religions in American universities and seminaries from the turn of the century was greatly aided by religious liberalism.

Either way, the flood of 500 - homer entrants from the turn of the century has already slowed to a trickle.

From the turn of the century to 1956, Crampton made a series of heroic expeditions, studying the distribution and variation of Partula on Moorea and the surrounding islands.

From the turn of the century to 1920, the controversy which inspired the «Great Debate» that would occur in 1920 was on.

A trip to the library identifies her as Elise McKenna, an accomplished actress from the turn of the century.

Clever, witty, quirky, and a lot of fun, Men in Black holds up as one of the best big popcorn movies to come from the turn of the century.

The pictures are free of charge for educational and private use and record major domestic and international events from the turn of the century to the mid 1990's.

Those optimistic expectations from the turn of the century didn't pan out.

While it can be argued that today's MS might not meet with total approval of breeders from the turn of the century, the MS community has more or less adhered to the original concept - a miniature (albeit glamorized) version of the Standard Schnauzer.

Alpine - style 6 - story Resort Hotel dating from the turn of the century & set in its own private park facing Mont - Blanc.

Mundawora Mews was created from turn of the century stone farm buildings, nestled amongst ageless gums and pepper trees.

It is in a brownstone from the turn of the century and is within a quick walk of all of Boston's attractions.

Balboa Pavilion The Balboa Pavilion is one of California's last surviving waterfront recreational pavilions from the turn of the century.

Having grown up playing the sensational WW2 shooters from the turn of the century, the designers at Bulkhead Interactive have utilised the most up - to - date industry technology to create a visceral and heart - thumping multiplayer experience featuring raw, skill - based infantry combat.

I've been thinking about European abstract painting from the turn of the century.

The photographs are scanned from glass plate negatives dating from the turn of the century and printed on tyvek.

This volume surveys the history of modern art, from the turn of the century to approximately 1970.

Angie Rizzo (Curator, CCA), Thais Mather (Artist), and Lucy Madeline (Artist Activist Social Practitioner) present a survey of the feminist movement from the turn of the century to present day, discussing the various «waves» of the movement and current state of affairs.

While Frankenthaler often sent postcards to Truman picturing buildings or cityscapes, he preferred vintage postcards from the turn of the century.

I study old photos, books, magazines and postcards from the turn of the century so that my people, clothing and street scenes are authentic.

A graduate of Stanford, and Art Center College of Design, Case has developed a visual and material vocabulary that draws from turn of the century American painting, animation and this digital age of imaging.

There are old Victorian homes here as well as Craftsman - style homes from the turn of the century.

Inspired by the hardwood treasures once found in old train stations, taverns, and other buildings from the turn of the century, hand sculpted hardwood flooring is growing in popularity.

Not exact matches

After a downturn in violence in the early years after the turn of the century, deaths related to Mexican drug wars totaled 121,669 between 2006 and 2012, according to a recent report from the Justice in Mexico project at the University of California - San Diego's Department of Politic Science and International Relations.

The series is based on the life of the drug lord himself, though the trailer — with images ranging from a turn - of - the - century bandit to Richard Nixon to Guzmán himself — suggests it may touch on the history of the war on drugs that has bound the US and Mexico in an often uneasy and frequently bloody relationship.

The first president of eBay is betting on millennial audiences to turn him from a web 1.0 dot - com billionaire into a 21st - century entertainment mogul.

Coinciding with this period of elevated commodity prices, the share of the manufacturing sector in Canadian GDP has declined since the turn of the century from 18 per cent to around 11 per cent.

By the turn of the 20th century Gros Michel was exported from the Caribbean and Central America, where large - scale plantations were carved out of virgin rainforest.

The official archives of The Coca - Cola Company that includes exhibits such as the original stock certificates of forbearer Pemberton Chemical Company, an opportunity to sample 100 drinks from the beverage giant's portfolio of brands from around the world, a retail store, an advertising archive, a miniature bottling plant that allows you to see the process of turning the syrup into the finished product, an advertising theater with commercials from the past century in multiple languages around the world, and more.

Two momentous changes long ago transformed the legal world that Lincoln knew: increased specialization, prompted by the rise of corporate firms at the turn of the century, and a large influx of new lawyers from relatively unassimilated ethnic groups at about the same time.

It is from these districts, among the bachelors who lived in them, that the highest rates of suicide in our country have been reported since the turn of the century.

It turns out that the oldest codes in the Near Eastern legal tradition, Sumerian laws from the 21st century BCE, also have payment in place of retaliation.

An unbiased view would presume the numbers of homosexual men at that time to be quite small — most likely the 2 to 2.5 percent that is now reported — and as far as I can see from the evidence, these few homosexual men did little or nothing to influence the bachelor subculture at the turn of the century.

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The amazing appeal of Chateaubriand derives from his ability to turn the privileging of nature (the great innovation at the end of the eighteenth century) into an argument for sacrality, and to legitimize the spheres of the emotional and the aesthetic as valid replacements for those of the rational and the social.

Deeply indebted to the work of Albert Schweitzer from the turn of the twentieth century, he has cogently argued time and again for the historicity of the eschatological preaching of Jesus and the significance of the Passion.

But the development of Protestant theological education after World War II turned away from this early 20th century vision.

In the late nineteenth century another reason for turning from this doctrine of Wesley emerged in the form of depth psychology.

Fossil discoveries in China, «hailed as among the most spectacular in this century,» turned up seventy species from the Cambrian period with «the appearance of increasingly complex marine animals in a riot of shapes and anatomical designs anticipating much of life as it is today.»

5A reading of Bacon's New Organon reveals a more nuanced and less empiricist approach to induction than Whitehead (and other twentieth - century philosophers) usually give him credit, One text in particular refers to the ascent and descent characteristic of imaginative generalizations:»... from the new light of axioms, which have been educed from those particulars by a certain method and rule, shall in their turn point out the way again to new particulars, greater things shall be looked for.

Around the turn of the century, the staunchest Landmark advocates separated from the SBC to form their own denominations, which continue to this day, largely centered in Arkansas and Texas.

Irish people have turned away from the faith that sustained them through centuries of oppression.

But some Bunyan, writing Pilgrim's Progress in a prison where it was so damp that, as he cried, «The moss did verily grow upon mine eyebrows»; some Kernahan, born without arms and legs, but by sheer grit fighting his way up until he sat in the House of Commons; some Henry M. Stanley, born in a workhouse and buried in Westminster Abbey; some Dante, his Beatrice dead, he himself an exile from the city of his love, distilling all his agony into a song that became the «voice of ten silent centuries», or some more obscure and humble life close at hand where handicaps have been mastered, griefs have been built into character, disappointments have been turned into trellises, not left a bare, unsightly thing — such incarnations of fortitude and faith have infectious power.

Fox - Genovese's historical survey is even more general, organized vaguely to move from Genesis («male and female God created them»), to a literary analysis of 19th - century novels and the turn to romantic love, to the 20th - century denouement of marriage as a personal choice.

How we recall the struggle so manifestly going on in their minds as one after another spoke; their great fear of the Poonyatt Rajah, that he might curse them and turn them from the lands on which their ancestors had lived for centuries; their fear of the wrath of the demons; their hesitation to forsake what they and their ancestors had held sacred for centuries.

Islam turned its back on the science (mostly lifted from the Greeks and Romans) and the math (stolen from the Hindus that Islam was merrily murdering for being polytheists) and retreated into century after century of violent religious bigotry and intolerance.

Shortly before the turn of the century the Viennese politician Georg von Schönerer founded a movement that was known by its slogan «Away - from - Rome.»

They argue that pistis / pisteuo should be understood in the context of the client - patron relationship of the 1st century, turning God into a patron who'll rip eternal life from your hands if you stop believing.

I think most of the Americans are in lost... as most of them do not know who their father is and it is very unfortunate... even if they know who their father is, the mom has children from diff men outside of marriage... and while a child is being raised, watching what his / her parents do to enjoy their life... so things become normal when they grow up... like if you go back early nineteen century, women were not allowed to go to beach without being covered... and now it totally opposite... if you do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend before 15, the parents worries that their teenage has some problem... and lot more can be listed... And then you go to Church, what our children learn from there... they see in front of the Church an old man's statue with long beard standing with extending of both hand... some of the status are blank, white, Spanish and so on... so they are being taught God as an old dude... then you learn from Catholic that you pray to Jesus, Mother Marry, Saints, Death spirit and all these... the poll shows a huge number of young American turns to Atheism or believing there is no God and so on... Its hard to assume where these nations are going with the name of modernization... nothing wrong having scientists discovered the cure of aids or the pics from mars but... we should all think and learn from our previous generations and correct ourselves... also ppl are becoming so much slave of material things...

It became the source of the vast reservoir of missionaries who went from America at the turn of the century.