Sentences with phrase «habitation as»

While the seller is convinced that his home is an under - priced palace, the buyer looks at the same habitation as an overpriced dwelling that will take fix - up efforts to meet his needs.

The site shows evidence of human habitation as early as the Neolithic Period, and was primarily a fishing village for much of its history.

The Only Dating Guide You'll Ever Need The ancient city of Corinth showed signs of human habitation as far back as the Early Neolithic period.

For example, talk of coming down from heaven may have been appropriate in a world that conceived the divine habitations as almost literally «above»; it will also be appropriate as a useful metaphorical way of describing the presence among us of that which (again in a symbolic sense) is higher than human experience as such.

Not exact matches

As opposed to evolution that gives guesses and hypothesis, the 1st chapter of Genesis lays out how the earth was prepared for human habitation, in a logical, coherent and chronological way, just as when a builder lays the foundation for a home and proceeds to build it in an orderly fashioAs opposed to evolution that gives guesses and hypothesis, the 1st chapter of Genesis lays out how the earth was prepared for human habitation, in a logical, coherent and chronological way, just as when a builder lays the foundation for a home and proceeds to build it in an orderly fashioas when a builder lays the foundation for a home and proceeds to build it in an orderly fashion.

Acts 17:24 - 28 «24 The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; 25 nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; 26 and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, 27 that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, «For we also are His children.»»

Niebuhr viewed this construction in terms of developing the institutions and social organizations that could embody the essence of the Protestant spirit as «a life, a movement, which could never come to rest again in secure habitations.»

It is to see God's gift of the creation as not only a word about the earth «in the beginning,» but also the affirmation that God is present now through the spirit, overcoming brokenness among people and their habitation.

A man finds his dwelling - place distasteful, either because the chimney smokes, or for any other reason whatsoever; so he leaves it, but he does not move out, he does not engage a new dwelling, he continues to regard the old one as his habitation; he reckons that the offense will pass away.

The local habitation for much of his life was Salem, Massachusetts, with important chapters elsewhere: as a boy along the idyllic shores of Lake Sebago, Maine; as a student at Maine's Bowdoin College; as a young idealist at the Brook Farm Utopian community west of Boston (1841); as a married man in Emerson's Concord (1842 — 45); as a summer neighbor of Herman Melville in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts (1850); as a mature writer and consular official in Liverpool, England (1853 — 58); and as a traveler and resident in Italy (1858 — 59)-- before a final period of ill health and death in Concord (1859 — 1864).

While Paul's thought is by no means always clear, and perhaps from letter to letter not always exactly the same, it is nevertheless certain that his concept of resurrection can be clearly distinguished from that of the traditional «bodily resurrection».27 Paul does not speak in terms of the «same body» but rather in terms of a new body, whether it be a «spiritual body», 28 «the likeness of the heavenly man», 29 «a house not made by human hands, eternal and in heaven», 30 or, a «new body put on» over the old.31 In using various figures of speech to distinguish between the present body of flesh and blood and the future resurrection body, he seems to be thinking of both bodies as the externals which clothe the spirit and without which we should «find ourselves naked».32 But he freely confesses that the «earthly frame that houses us today ’33 may, like the seed, and man of dust, be destroyed, but the «heavenly habitation», which the believer longs to put on, is already waiting in the heavenly realm, for it is eternal by nature.

Eight acts of divine speech schematically represent the untold multiplicity of divine urgings whereby God shaped this world, originally without form and void, into that which we may celebrate as a fit habitation for man.

And as an active lover to his own city, wrought out over the covenant centuries for his glorious habitation.

(161) Is one who followeth the pleasure of Allah as one who hath earned condemnation from Allah, whose habitation is the Fire, a hapless journey's end?

But as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.

As Tolkien scholars have noted, it was from Cædmon's hymn that Tolkien retrieved the term «Middle - earth,» which was the poet's way of describing the habitation God made for humanity.

«Thou hast made us for thyself, O God...» At best, we men are pilgrims whose true Patria is the heart of God; we walk as wayfaring men in the company of the Son of God, seeking to do our duty and live aright in this world, but not ashamed to let it be known that God has prepared for us another habitation, «a city which hath foundations.»

Two of the Upangas give in question - and - answer form detailed classifications of living beings and a description of the world in considerable detail, oceans, islands, the palaces of the gods, as well as a classification of races and their habitations.

At last I perceived a beam of light glimmering at time top of the house (for such I may call the body I had been inclosed in), whither ascending, I gently let myself» down through a kind of chimney, and issued out at the nostrils as the window was wide open, I sallied forth into the open air: but, to my great astonishment, found myself unable to fly, which I had always during my habitation in the body conceived of spirits; however, I came so lightly to the ground that I did not hurt myself and, though I had not the gift of flying (owing probably to my having neither feathers nor wings), I was capable of hopping such a prodigious way at once, that it served my turn almost as well.

In 2017, the team will start to collect marine sediments to look for signs of habitation, such as stone artefacts or ancient human DNA.

A cylindrical colony, in which a twenty - mile long tube was lined with human habitations, also made the cut, as did toroid colonies, shaped like immense hula hoops.

As a certified snake - catcher with a permit to relocate venomous snakes away from habitation, I frequently speak to people about how they can reduce the risk of encountering an undesired reptile.

As an electronics engineer, spending 14 Sols at MDRS nudged me to think about the present and future technologies and infrastructure that has to be ready for future human habitation on Mars which I would consider working on, back at Skoltech.

Authorised suites, meaning that they have been built to code, have been inspected by a qualified inspector and are approved by the city as safe for human habitation.

If we can demonize the Pit Bull as being the outsider, not the guest at our table, but the wild intruder into our habitation, then we don't need to fear our own dogs, or our neighbour's dogs.

(rptref) As I write this article in 2017, your dog might be about 9000 dog generations away from its wolf dog ancestors that wandered into some primitive human habitation so long ago.

Animal Advocates has asked the mayors and councilors in the municipalities that unknowingly adopted «round - up - and - kill» legislation to consider if they would apply the same legislated solution to other animals that live near human habitation, and which many people consider pests, such as raccoons, squirrels, coyotes and bears.

Pariahs are considered ancient breeds, although it is not clear if these are the descendents of domesticated dogs that returned to the wild, or descendents of primitive breeds from the original domestication of the wolf, which continued to live over the years as semi-wild wanderers on the fringes of man's habitations.

This area includes Broughton Archipelago, a region noted for its rich aboriginal habitation, such as Mamaliculla, an abandoned native village on Village Island.

These artists strip human habitations of their domesticity, much as a photo by Louise Lawler shows gallery walls and floor just after an installation has come down.

Its purpose was to explore the imaginary dimension of habitation at the diasporian - communities that are created beyond national borders focusing on the experience of women, as well as the exploration of the everyday life mythographies in conditions of displacement, temporariness and deterritorialization.

Hite's sculptures — described as «hand - made habitations» — are constructed out of found materials like reclaimed wood and metal.

This is powerfully captured in his more recent series, Dirt Meridian, in which buildings and remnants of habitation appear as isolated objects within the seemingly limitless landscape of the West.

Playing on the red planet's singular appeal for the last century as a new frontier for human habitation, Meyer explores the line between art and utility through the lens of new, synthetic environments, where limited resources and new contexts will alter an object's ultimate function.

Contributory, if not more exactly causal, in both cases was Ad Reinhardt: Just as his death immediately before her decampment suggested the unsuitability of continued habitation in this place, his work allowed Martin to resume her own.

In (some) architecture (say, Mies), the old dictum of «less is more» may have some truth, because architecture operates as a context for human habitation and culture, so the human activity can bring alive the minimal design.

Victoria Miro is pleased to present Alex Hartley's most recent culmination of his on - going investigation into dystopian architecture, secular habitation and the construction of sanctuary as an inherent drive to form refuge from the world.

From walls to doors and fireplaces, these surfaces that wrap around or border zones of habitation are treated as animate.

These paintings explore our relationship with architecture as a way to expose the non-personal, collective consciousness concealed by our mortal habitation.

Predictable, woefully inadequate, jaded, pitiful, unconscionable leadership — whose failure to respond ably to the requirements of practical biophysical reality of the relatively small planet God has blessed us to inhabit and, I suppose, not to overwhelm — could have profound adverse implications for the future of our children, for biodiversity and the environment, for Earth as a fit place for human habitation and life as we know it.

Specific to gardening, plants have been used throughout history not only as adornment for indoor and outdoor spaces of human habitation, but also to modify microclimates for more comfortable habitation.

Landscaping has also been used for centuries as a method of microclimate amelioration for human habitation, including wind protection, thermal buffering, and atmospheric humidity modification.

Third, most of our top rank experts and the people in many places, the ones who refer to each other as «the brightest and the best» -LCB- and point to each other as the «smartest guy in the room» -RCB-, appear not to rejected adequate ways of communicating to the family of humanity about what people somehow need to hear, see and understand: the rapacious dissipation of Earth's limited resources, the relentless degradation of the planet's environment, and the approaching destruction of the Earth as a fit place for human habitation by the human species, when taken together, appear to be proceeding at breakneck speed toward the precipitation of a catastrophic ecological wreckage of some sort unless, of course, the world's colossal, ever expanding, artificially designed, manmade global political economy continues to speed headlong toward the monolithic «wall» called «unsustainability» at which point the runaway economy crashes before Earth's ecology is collapsed.

To longer follow an obsolete course of continuous, seemingly endless economic expansion will result in further biodiversity loss, even greater degradation of the environment and, perhaps, the irreversible destruction of the planet as a fit place for human habitation.

For too many leaders, the preservation of our wondrous planetary home as a fit place for human habitation by coming generations is kept «out of sight, out of mind.»

Surely the reasonable and sensible embrace of a «beautiful, low - consumption lifestyle» for the sake of a better life for a democratic majority of people; for the promotion of global biodiversity; for the protection of the environment; and for the preservation of Earth as a fit place for human habitation, could be one of the most powerfully sustainable and immediately effective behavioral changes the leaders of the family of humanity have made in a very long time.

Please forgive me for stating the obvious: there are mountains of scientific evidence, plenty of sound reasons and abundant common sense imploring the leaders of India, China, the US and the rest of the over-developed and under - developed world to consider that the seemingly endless, global expansion of large - scale industrialization and production capabilities, now overspreading the surface of Earth, could be approaching a point in history when these unbridled big - business activities could dangerously destablize frangible global ecosystems, irreversibly degrade the environment, recklessly dissipate Earth's natural resource base and, perhaps, destroy our planetary home as a fit place for human habitation by our children.

* «We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation,» biologist Barry Commoner, University of Washington, writing in the journal Environment, April 1970.

There can be no such thing as secure nation - states or a healthy global economy if potentially pernicious effects of human - driven climate change result in the Earth becoming unfit for human habitation by our children and coming generations.

As things now stand, the unrestrained and rampant expansion of the artificially designed, manmade global economy can be seen degrading the environment, dissipating natural resources and diminishing the capacity of Earth to provide a fit place for human habitation.