Sentences with phrase «full century of»

Can the great postwar movements encompass a full century of American art and an Edward Hopper retrospective?

A full 20 years later, after Judas and a successor brother, Jonathan, had died in battle, a third brother, Simon, took over, and through his diplomacy achieved Judean independence, establishing what would become a full century of Jewish sovereignty.

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There's little doubt that the 20th century was full of breakthroughs that changed history.

It seems that many of the trends that made their name in the middle of the 20th century are back in full force and being worn by a younger generation, many of whom weren't even born before Y2K.

They are complaining about countries working with China which are not even the EU members — some of them merely looking for an associate status because a full membership is a drawn - out obstacles race at the mercy of centuries - old regional hatreds and rivalries.

President Donald Trump is considering a full, posthumous pardon for Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight boxing champion, who was convicted of racially tinged federal morals charges more than a century ago.

Vice's other shareholders include 21st Century Fox, which is currently trying to acquire full control of Sky, WPP Group, the marketing services giant, and Technology Crossover Ventures, a leading investor in digital businesses.

The employment share of full time jobs was less than in 2008; and, the quality of jobs had sunk to its lowest level in a quarter of a century.

Our view: Full Senate should approve Mike Pompeo as secretary of state despite his hawkish outlook After more than two centuries, the list of cabinet nominees to be either rejected by the U.S. Senate or withdrawn from nomination is on the order of once...

Baseball had a whiff of offense in their air during a cold and wet April, when strikeouts exceeded hits during a full calendar month for the first time in the sport's nearly century - and - a-half history, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

Baseball had a whiff of offense in their air during a cold and wet April, when strikeouts exceeded hits during a full calendar month for the first time in the sport's nearly century - and - a-half history, according to...

«Twitter is one of the most widely used social media networks worldwide and despite the speed of technological innovation in the 21st Century, no other full - service bitcoin wallet offered this feature until now,» said Gene Kavner, founder and CEO of iPayYou as well as a former Amazon executive, as quoted by Pymnts.com.

Western intelligence has been a target of Kremlin spies for penetration and disruption for a full century now, since the Bolshevik coup took power in Russia.

Vice's other shareholders include 21st Century Fox, which is currently trying to acquire full control of Sky, the marketing services giant WPP Group and Technology Crossover Ventures, a leading investor in digital businesses.

General Assembly offers full - time immersive programs, long - form courses, and classes and workshops on the most relevant skills of the 21st century — from web development and user experience design, to business fundamentals, to data science, to product management and digital marketing.

Both a century of history, and our own experience in full market cycles before the recent half - cycle advance, argue against complacency here.

The author, a professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) in Manhattan, offers an extremely informative and not uncritical assessment of his own movement, identifying its roots in nineteenth - century Germany and following it to full flower in America.

While Americans could debate the overt reform proposals in President Ford's February order (see March 10 Century editorial, p. 211), we may never know the full content of Executive Order 11905, which merely hints that «in some instances detailed implementation of the Executive Order will be contained in classified documents.»

The press was full of discussion and prediction of the wonders that would take place in the new era which the new century was ushering in.

Halphen's argument runs like this: (1) by the end of the eighth century, Charlemagne had emerged as master of the West; (2) under these conditions, it was to be expected that a more general title should be added to his collection, to reflect his full power, when local conditions permitted; (3) local conditions in Rome in December, 800, demanded the intervention of an Emperor; and (4) Byzantine imperial power was at that time temporarily disrupted and incapable of intervening in Rome.

Now, this example is based on retrodictive reasoning, and it is full of traps; but in the context of nineteenth - century Britain, it might have functioned as a prediction.

The dynamics of a free and open society, in which the individual has full range for creative capacities, have shown their superiority over tyranny built upon a 19th - century ideology.

That such institutions are academically weak, Bible - thumping, 17th century good - old - boys clubs full of bigots and legalists.

Certainly primitive Christianity can not be perfectly understood without taking full account of all these items, and one may fairly question the legitimacy of any interpretation which does not make them even «essential» to Christianity's existence in the first century.4

The full implications of this probably became visible to Christian philosophers only with the resolution of the fourth - century trinitarian controversies, when the subordinationist schemes of Alexandrian trinitarianism were abandoned, and with them the last residue within theology of late Platonism's vision of a descending scale of divinity mediating between God and world — the both of them comprised in a single totality.

A nineteenth - century hymn illustrated by the use of paradox the belief that the incarnate one was also possessed of the full powers of God.

Unlike other books that seem to be outdated (according to some commentators on this forum), the Quran encourages research in this life and is full of scientific evidences that have been discovered only in the 20th and the 21st centuries.

If we go back to the nineteenth century, one of the major theories was the ether theory — the notion that space is full of a pervasive medium consisting of material particles with strange properties.

Had it not been for the unpleasantness of the sixteenth century, Lutheranism might have become a distinct tradition of spirituality — somewhat like the Franciscans or Dominicans — in full communion with the one Church that Luther wanted to reform.

Thus, even though prisons were among the first places of special need to catch the eye of the churches, it is only in the past quarter - century that the plan of full - time and specially trained chaplains, responsibly related to their churches as well as to their jobs, has become widespread.

At times, it seems that the purpose of listening is simply to occupy the time until Muslims, for example, make the same transitions that Catholics and Protestants did centuries earlier so as to «find themselves increasingly at home in a dynamic, liberal, and capitalist world that is full of many faiths and many cultures.»

Evangelicals stand in continuity with the Great Tradition of Christian believing, confessing, worshiping and acting through the centuries, while not discounting the many local histories that must be written to give a full account of Christian communities in any given era.

Christian liturgies and feasts today are full of elements borrowed down through the centuries from what we have pejoratively called «paganism.»

While Eusebius can be regarded as a serious, though by no means always an accurate historian, the numerous Christian Acts of various apostles, none of them earlier than the middle of the second century, are for the most part fictional romances, full of pious legend, but of little or no use as history.

The twentieth century was full of secular prophets who preached revolutions of the soul: Wilhelm Reich, Timothy Leary, D. H. Lawrence.

In the twelfth century, William of Malmesbury told an advisory horror story: «Othbert, a sinner» refused to stop dancing to his outrageous carols, so was cursed to keep dancing for a full year — till he danced into a pit.

The notion that the man Jesus of Nazareth bore this knowledge in his earthly life, however, is one of the clearest examples of a full - blown theological volte - face in the twentieth century.

Thus, for instance, Paul's apparent support of slavery lost its authority for us only after eighteen centuries and seventy or so generations, as the full implications of Jesus» message of the worth of each human being finally sank in and became authoritative instead (at least with regard to slavery).

The vocation of St. John as the apostle of the Divinity of Christ's one person has fed and powered the true development of the doctrine of the Church at all times, not least in the first centuries in which the true doctrine of both the divinity and the humanity are hammered out in great Councils, and the concepts are refined in the fires of contrary heresy against either the full Divinity or the full Humanity of Christ.

If you are educated and living in the 21st century, how then can you believe a book that is so patently foolish and so obviously a product of bronze age folk with little or no knowledge of the world and so full of inconsistencies and laughably foolish scenarios and notably misogynistic and brutal and racist and intolerant stories?

Before I know it, I am in full flow with a young mum, who tells me her 12 - year - old son can't wait to follow in her footsteps in the centuries - old art of bell - ringing.

To concern oneself with the resurrection hope simply for the purpose of grasping hold of what seems to be a viable approach to personal immortality does not, however, do full justice to this first - century doctrine.

Read the full story about the history of self - immolation, from 4th century Chinese Buddhism to North Africa today

Yet if Jesus were God and not man at all, there was no ground for the author of the fourth Gospel to say, «And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth» (John 1:14), or for the church to build its faith upon this foundation throughout the centuries.

Judaism had also a canon law; but it was still in process of evolution, in the first century, and many questions were still open, were still sub judice, and the full and final elaboration of the Halakak was only in process.

It was no easy business then, any more than it is today, and the parallels between the attempts by various regimes, both reactionary and liberal, to get control of the Catholic Church suggest that today's battles for religious freedom in full are not without their 19th - century precedents.

The doctrine (widely held until recently) that «matter» itself is fully real (rather than an abstraction, derived from intellectual analysis of concrete really - existing things, as Aristotle held), and that such self - subsistent «matter» is intrinsically inert (as opposed to self - organizing), arguably reached its full flower in the late Renaissance.18 Part of contemporary divergence between theistic and naturalistic approaches may be understood to arise from overly complete internalization (by both naturalists and theists) of the cosmology that emerged from the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century — the cosmology in which «matter» was full real, but intrinsically inert.

But you can't because Christian history is full of murder, torture, conquests, bloody civil wars, terrorism, the promotion of hate, etc., for centuries and centuries.

In the last century the Church was presented as a full and perfect society, on the same level as the state; at the same time, emphasis was placed on the hierarchical and juridical aspects of the Church as institution.

But the Bible is full of visual imagery — and for centuries many illiterate people have come to know and love God through mentally picturing the great events it describes.