Sentences with phrase «given era of history»

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At the same time, there are forces of society or order or organization, and, at any moment in history, it's the balance, it's the competition between forces of anarchy and forces of society that give the era its character.»

Most persons in this era of history have never spent 24 - 48 hours without some form of media giving them an opinion, forming their worldview.

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.

This fixes the dwindling number issue, maintains the respect and recognition of great Bears players from ALL eras of the team's rich history, educates the current fans, and gives an added incentive to players to play their best because of the number they're wearing.

That is what Kennedy suddenly understood he was responding to: «The recollection and power of another era was a reminder that our sports, as a part of and a companion to history, are a way to give context to our lives and to our collective past, present and future.»

History of the Wenger - era gives us more, Vieira and Fabregas have arguably been two of the better captains for us, while they lasted.

Body Adornment, Jewellery, Perfumes, Makeup An era is a span of time defined for the purposes of chronology or historiography, as in the regnal eras in the history of a given monarchy, a calendar era

An era is a span of time defined for the purposes of chronology or historiography, as in the regnal eras in the history of a given monarchy, a calendar era Eerie photographs reveal abandoned bedrooms and living areas of Victorian - era asylum that was still being used until last year.

An era is a span of time defined for the purposes of chronology or historiography, as in the regnal eras in the history of a given monarchy, a calendar era Keezhadi excavation leads to ancient civilisation on the banks of Vaigai Carbon dating confirms Keezhadi site is from Sangam era

Come to think of it, there's no reason why this film is set in the 1980s — everyone looks like they could be from the»90s or 2001, for that matter — except to give Carey a chance to cover and / or sample the R&B hits of the era (most prominently, Cherrelle's «I Didn't Mean to Turn You On»), which, in the film's storyline, are original hits by Billie — hence giving Miss Mariah a history - rewriting ego boost.

Pompeii delves just enough into history to give you a sense of how politics worked in the era (Jared Harris plays a Pompeii entrepeneur who has great plans for the city), and the battle scenes are well - staged and exciting, if noticeably bloodless (that PG - 13 rating must be observed).

«My EPIC era gives pupils a chance to show off their love of history, be creative and give them a chance to win a fabulous prize.»

She once asked me an innocent question about the equivalent of a 19th century bra, and I gave her the entire history of bustle era underpinnings, from the truth about corsets, to the fact that underpants and pantaloons hadn't become commonplace until the Regency era.

If one looks through the history of literature and letters, one indeed sees the outliers, the innovators and those ahead of their times all obscured, all ignored by the conventional wisdom of their eras, and yet it is always the innovators who push forward the language, and given the number of masters who have died penniless, money is no measure of the artistry or «authorhood» of a writer.

What amuses Perry is to populate her novels with prominent figures, and give us glimpses inside the lives of the people that made the era so significant in history.

Furniture has been specially selected among pieces from different eras in history to give the look of Anatolia with the harmony of past and present.

One of history's most important documents was sealed during the Plantagenet era, the Magna Carta - giving birth to English democracy.

Eastern And Oriental Hotel, a five - star Penang property founded by the Sarkies brothers in 1885, is steeped in history and gives the impression of containing a world within itself.A true homage to the British - Raj era, when it first opened it had the longest seafront (spanning 902sqft) of any hotel in the world, and went on to welcome world famous personalities of the time including Rudyard Kipling, Somerset Maugham, Douglas Fairbanks and more.Set along Lebuh Farquhar, it is the only hotel in Georgetown with prime sea - facing real estate, making it well placed for sightseeing opportunities, allowing guests easy access to several Penang landmarks such as Fort Cornwallis, the Penang State Museum and the 1903 Victorian - style City Hall.

Indeed, given the history of the company and this game, it could be taken as an amusing comment about Rare and its buyout by Microsoft in the Gamecube era.

Like the Minimalists, he belongs to an era of smug museum institutions, cramped official readings of sculpture's history, museums turning into global empires of the imagination, and office parks, while giving people a chance.

Leveille: It's a reinterpretation of Hylas and the Nymphs — which was a hugely popular Victorian - era theme.Some have criticized it for depicting male Victorian sexual fantasy, and I think it does, but I have no problem with that in the sense that all of art history has been an exploration of male fantasy so singling this one theme out for criticism seems absurd given the whole picture.

In his film Shirley: Visions of Reality, Austrian filmmaker, architect and experimental artist Gustav Deutsch recreates 13 of Edward Hopper's paintings, bringing them to life by telling the story of a woman whose thoughts, emotions and contemplations give us a glimpse of a fascinating era in American history.

[1] Read against the traumatic history — and current iterations — of racial terror, state violence, and surveillance leveled systematically at Black Americans throughout our nation's history, God Bless America's synthesis of flickering and fragmented sound, song, and image gives form to the restless, beautiful, subversive vibrations and tensions that underpin Black dissent in the era of Black Lives Matter.

Over the past few decades, the term «Anthropocene» has climbed out of academic discourse and into the popular imagination — a name given to the geologic era we live in now, and a way to signal that it is a new era, defined on the wall chart of deep history by human intervention.

The connection is that most (although not all) titles on nobility were personal rights incident to being the feudal owner of a parcel of land (the right to say who inherits land from an individual was originally entirely governed by law without the discretion of the owner to give it to someone else, but this was reformed gradually in the «early modern» period of English history and was fully reformed by the Victorian era except as to the titles of nobility historically associated with the land).