Sentences with phrase «great centuries worked»

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No, we generally have translated greater output in the few hours of work per week over the last century.

But once his work began to be translated, his influence spread rapidly, until he is now widely regarded as one of the great philosophical minds of the nineteenth century.

Confessional Protestants — those whose churches explicitly hold to one of the great Protestant confessions of the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries and who value classical orthodox formulations as being faithful to scripture — should focus their ecumenical energy in dialoguing and working with those denominations which share their most basic commitments, especially to the Nicene Trinitarian identity of God.

Truth and Method is «one of the great philosophical works of the twentieth century» because it leads us where the modern mind» «which as a matter of fact is in a hopeless impasse,» notes Gadamer» will not go, resists going with every thought, yet absolutely needs to go.

First published in the early decades of the nineteenth century, it is a long narrative poem about a young woman of great beauty and culture, her misfortunes, and the burdens of karma; a work of genuinely moving brilliance, grim and sad at many points, but also somehow radiant.

With books which, like those of the Bible, were transmitted in manuscript for many centuries, the possibilities of variation are very great, and the work of textual criticism (as it is better called) is correspondingly serious.

Thinking of Michal Williams, sitting alone in the apartment, and reading these poems, I suddenly thought of another twentieth - century disaster - marriage, that of the great painter Stanley Spencer, whose visions of Christianity led him to paint the general resurrection in the small - town churchyard of Cookham, and whose Christ was a working - class Englishman of 1930s vintage.

The past half century or more has been a period of both confusion and daring innovation in the world of academic theology, with various great thinkers trying to work out new theological systems.

Because he worked with non-fundamentalists, Graham was «the greatest divider of the Church of Christ in the twentieth century.»

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The importance of the medieval thinkers Buridan and Oresme for science had been rediscovered by the great twentieth - century French physicist Pierre Duhem, whose own work Jaki has done so much to restore to the prominence it deserves.

... Dawson thought it strange that 16th - century men should read so many pagan classics and, philosophy and theology aside, so little of the great Christian works that had subsequently appeared, especially works of the imagination like the Cid or Parzival that were built around the question of what it means to live the Christian life in the world.»

Such notions offend the very nature of the American experiment and do a great disservice to the centuries of good work the Church has done.»

Social historians, however, have linked the rise of the national concern over matters of etiquette in the 19th century to the rise of the great industrial city precisely because the bold new cities were places where, for the first time, it was possible to live and work entirely among strangers.

The great persecutions of the third and the first part of the fourth century, if they had persisted, would probably have wrought far greater damage than they did.

To this end St Philip worked hard to invent diversions which would keep his charges occupied, especially at what he considered the most dangerous times — the long sultry Roman afternoons, and the period of the pre-Lenten carnival, when Renaissance society gave itself up to a distinctly un-Christian preparation for Lent (and if anyone doubts that Sixteenth Century Rome could be fully as immoral as our own times, let him read the Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, a great artist, but far from a good man).

Her work as an academic philosopher has dealt extensively with the figures and issues of that period, and in her discussions of fiction she has expressed particular admiration for the great novelists of that century, including Jane Austen, George Eliot and Leo Tolstoy.

In the nineteenth century great advances took place in medical care and hospital provision, associated with Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910) and her reform of nursing, Louis Pasteur (1822 - 95) and his work in the development of germ theory, and Lord Lister's (1827 - 1912) advances in surgery.

However, as in the seventeenth century the various later theories were not produced independently of each other but came to be developed by working through, and in divergence from, the first great attempt at a philosophical structure built upon a profound insight into the problems at issue, namely, that of Descartes, so in our time the new efforts which are required in the philosophy of nature will need to come to terms with the pioneering work of Whitehead.

Their national consciousness and their preaching made a great impact among the common people who faithfully carried their reformers» work throughout the following centuries.

Cantor recognizes this, and as he works his way through the lives of the great medievalists from the late nineteenth century through the present day, he is, like Plutarch, not afraid to distribute praise or blame to scholars and their works.

He illustrated his words with the great examples from Catholic history of priest - scientists whose work was revolutionary in terms of a scientific understanding of the world, such as the 16th - century Pole, Copernicus, whose astronomical observations demonstrated that the earth orbited the sun, and the 20th - century Belgian, Georges Lemaître, who was the first to propose a «Big Bang» startto the universe.

During that century, two great Quaker saints worked against the evils of slavery.

It was the twelfth - century philosopher, Chu Hsi, who lifted this book and the Chung Yung out of the Li Chi and, joining them with the Analects and the works of Mencius, formed the Four Books, thus giving them a greater importance than they had, tucked away in the Book of Rites.

«In the 21st century it is not enough to be a great place to work, we need to be great places to grow.

The Ethiopian government of Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has signalled that it is not impressed and that it will carry on with work on the multibillion dollar Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam — a move seen by some as raising temperatures further, possibly triggering the «water wars» that pessimists have long predicted will characterise the geopolitics of the 21st century.

'' [We] will now proceed with our planned creation of a new union to meet the great challenges facing working people in the 21st century,» they said.

For over a hundred and fifty years, his work has been quoted and re-quoted as the great exposition of the British Constitution, that elusive creature of centuries of parliamentary evolution, unwritten, often misunderstood, but real nevertheless.

Join us as we explore his life, work and greatest achievements and learn more about this fascinating figure in 20th century science.

Whether working in art, business, or clinical investigation, great problem finders can look at the same phenomena that others have observed — sometimes for centuries — and perceive gaps of understanding and offer new perspectives that lead to a creative solution.

Influenced by his work with fossils, George Gaylord Simpson, one of the great paleontologists of the 20th century, proposed his «evolutionary species» concept in 1951.

With 82 tenured / tenure - track and 40 additional full - time faculty, 1,300 undergraduate students, 700 graduate students and more than 23,000 alumni, we are working to leverage our partnerships with academic and industry partners — across disciplines and across the world — to contribute to solving the greatest global challenges of the 21st century.

I'm as much a fan of Mr. E = mc2 as anybody, but consider this: I'd be willing to bet that, when viewed from centuries hence, Einstein's most significant contribution to civilization will not be as arguably the greatest physicist of the modern world but rather as an inspirational role model whose life and work ignited the lives of countless other great young thinkers.

During the 1980s and 1990s, Hinton — the great - great - grandson of the 19th - century logician George Boole, whose work is the foundation of modern computer science — invented or co-invented a collection of machine learning algorithms.

Oh, to be a fly on a textbook when the century's greatest physicist walked home from work with its most influential mathematician

While working as a social demographer at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 2008, Song became interested in the sex ratio decline that came out of the devastating Great Chinese Famine in the mid-20th century.

As son of a family of scholars, Krishnamacharya, who, in addition to that worked himself a lot and with great attention on the ancient source texts, knew precisely where to look: already at the beginning of the 20th century, scholars knew that the Nāṭh tradition or, Hatha Yoga, had been passed on in the remote mountains of the Himalaya.

In a century where so many great works (and artists) have been fixated upon the chasms that divide us, Kie?lowski instead insists there's more connecting us than we can possibly know.

Jerome Robbins was considered one of the greatest choreographers of the 20th century and his works continue to be performed around the world.

Lured back to the industry by a friend, she started to work on Belle, the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha - Raw), the mixed - race daughter of a Royal Navy Admiral who was raised by her aristocratic great - uncle in 18th - century England.

English landscape painter JMW Turner, commonly exalted as «the painter of light», was one of the great artists of the 19th century, his work considered by art historians something of a precursor to the impressionist movement.

A Fanatic Heart: Bob Geldof On W. B. Yeats (2017 — UK — TV) Musician and advocate Bob Geldof examines the life and work of one of the 20th century's greatest poets, William Butler Yeats.

So please, voters, resist the urge to hand Damien Chazelle this particular award and go instead with the flavorful dialogue and novelistic texture of Hell Or High Water; the rich characterizations of 20th Century Women; the world - building and deadpan hilarity of The Lobster; or the all - of - the - above of Manchester By The Sea, which confirms Lonergan as one of the great dramatists working in movies today.

The great Ben Hecht (The Front Page, Twentieth Century, Gunga Din, Notorious, Kiss Of Death, and a whole lot of uncredited work on some of the best films of the 40s and 50s) wrote the screenplay.

France's «Of Gods and Men,» the grand prize winner at last year's Cannes Festival, offers up just such a message in a finely wrought, quietly observed ensemble piece starring Lambert Wilson and the 79 - year - old Michael Lonsdale, whose jowly, hangdog countenance has graced over half a century of great cinema.

Also valuable and worth noting is «La Vie En Rose» which of course featured a spectacular turn by Marion Cotillard that was unexpectedly celebrated by Oscar, Zoe Cassavetes «severely underrated, wry and sweet, «Broken English,» which includes a very winning and charming turn by Parker Posey; Susanne Bier «s Danish drama, «After the Wedding» and perhaps surprisingly equally engaging, her underrated survival and recovery drama, «Things We Lost In The Fire,» which is made great by Benicio Del Toro (and even Halle Berry evinces that she's capable of good work in spots), Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul «s always mysterious and bifurcated, «Syndromes And A Century» (which has elements of both sci - fi and comedy).

May 25 - June 7: To celebrate Bergman's 100th birthday, The Bergman Century features his greatest achievements, most controversial and innovative works and lesser - known masterpieces.

«The Education Redesign Lab holds great promise for building a new model for education that serves all learners and that is designed to foster 21st - century skills and knowledge,» says Ryan, whose Dean's Venture Fund provided initial financial support to launch the Lab's work.

Around the world, school curricula are giving greater emphasis to skills and attributes believed to be important for life and work in the 21st century.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.