Sentences with phrase «hundreds of years until»

That southeastern region of Poland was then split from the country for hundreds of years until after World War I. Between the two world wars, the coal industry helped drive Poland's economic development.

This continued for hundreds of years until the Mexican Navy took control in the 19th century and the borders were established between Mexico and British Honduras (now Belize).

History and Health of the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Dog Breed: A luxury dog bred purely for companionship rather than for work, The breed was a popular lap dog for hundreds of years until the house of Stuart fell to the Tudors.

It was discarded for hundreds of years until some greedy corporations realized they could profit from it.

This plunder and revenge plunder went on for hundreds of years until Pope Urban II rather cleverly came up with a strategy to stop the warring that was threatening the Catholic Church's very stability.

This is why usury had been outlawed for hundreds of years until..

Not exact matches

Even though FanDuel has been around since 2009 and DraftKings launched in 2012, the regulatory scrutiny did not explode until this year, sparked both by the companies» aggressive advertising assault and by a September scandal around a DraftKings employee winning hundreds of thousands of dollars in a FanDuel contest.

Considering that story wasnt even created until a few hundred years after the supposed «ressurection», and the fact that the story exists only in your fable book (also compiled, and edited hundreds of years later), I do nt think claiming it to be true is the same as, you know, being true.

A couple of thousand years ago (and really up until a few hundred years ago, or less than that even, in some fields) there was no explanation for lightning, thunder, volcanoes, earthquakes, tornadoes, etc..

Additionally, most of the tribes Joshua defeated on entering the Holy Land did not live there until hundreds of years after Joshua.

And now this: a scientific report establishing that camels, the basic mode of transportation for the biblical patriarchs, weren't domesticated in Israel until hundreds of years after Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are said to have wandered the earth.

Yet if God wills that [this war] continue until all the wealth piled up by the bondsmen's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall he paid by another drawn by the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said «the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.»

This expanding revelation of Deity went on for more than three hundred thousand years until it was suddenly terminated by the planetary secession and the disruption of the teaching regime.

Facing East is certainly not an innovation, since, until the Second Vatican Council, it was the universal Catholic practice for at least fifteen hundred years, with some scholars contending that it goes back to the very beginnings of the Church.

The newer way of seeing Christianity has been in the process of being born for a couple of hundred years, but until recently, it was known primarily in the academic study of religion, including what happens in many mainline seminaries.

So he um... decided to wait until just a couple hundred years ago to improve the living conditions of people in the developing world?

True Christians were not permitted to serve in the military or otherwise participate in war or even commit violent acts until the concept of the «just war» — fighting only when doing so was required to protect the innocent against an aggressor — was developed hundreds of years after the death of Christ.

Even in the second century, a hundred years and more after the time of Jesus, there were doubtless still in circulation oral accounts of incidents in his life and quotations of his teachings which had not until then been committed to writing.

It was only until recently (maybe within the last two hundred years or so) that medical advancements have become so numerous and complex that only doctors can keep up to date on all of them.

«If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came,» Lincoln continued, then what other sense can this war have, except that God has willed that the war should be a mechanism of justice, «until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword»?

For over two hundred years» until the outbreak of World War I» the state system emerging from the Thirty Years» War achieved its objectives (with the exception of the ideological conflict of the Napoleonic period, when the principle of nonintervention was, in effect, abandoned for two decayears» until the outbreak of World War I» the state system emerging from the Thirty Years» War achieved its objectives (with the exception of the ideological conflict of the Napoleonic period, when the principle of nonintervention was, in effect, abandoned for two decaYears» War achieved its objectives (with the exception of the ideological conflict of the Napoleonic period, when the principle of nonintervention was, in effect, abandoned for two decades).

Nearly all of the Old Testament is written in the light of this tradition, but our only evidence for this migration is now embedded in traditions which were not committed to writing until some three hundred years later.

This view of the resurrection remained fundamentally unchanged until it finally collapsed within the last hundred years.

which would run through his mind a hundred times together, until one day out of breath with retorting, «I will not, I will not,» he impulsively said, «Let him go if he will,» and this loss of the battle kept him in despair for over a year.

After that the Turks were comparatively free from European attacks for two hundred years, and did not have to face another Crusade until about the beginning of the fourteenth century (the latter half of the nineteenth century A.D.).

Until a little over a hundred years ago men were using the same means of travel as had been used for several millennia — the horse by land and the sailboat by water.

To take a single example, last year I had the privilege of participating in one of these schools in a small university town, where in a parish of about one thousand members over two hundred persons (including a goodly number of interested «enquirers» who had heard of the program through a carefully planned advertising campaign) attended eight night sessions, held from eight until ten o'clock, with a choice among eight different courses, dealing with theological, ethical, historical, devotional, and scriptural subjects.

Feb. 13, 2013 — The greatest battle in Earth's history has been going on for hundreds of millions of years - it isn't over yet - and until now no one knew it existed, scientists reported Feb. 13 in the journal Nature.

Feb. 13, 2013 — The greatest battle in Earth's history has been going on for hundreds of millions of years — it isn't over yet — and until now no one knew it existed, scientists reported Feb. 13 in the journal Nature.

After two hundred years of peace, war broke out again until all members of the true Church were destroyed.

Concerning the Bible there was very little skepticism until about a hundred years ago, when the impact of the modern scientific age began to make itself felt.

Just until a few hundred years ago, the church KNEW that the earth was the center of the universe too.

Until only a hundred years ago the Gospel records of the «miracles» of Jesus were regarded as one of the most telling ways of substantiating the divine powers of Jesus and hence the Christian claims about Hun.

Until then, you believe what some people wrote in books hundreds and thousands of years ago.

Similarly, «playing God» pairs with the young gay protagonist of the video sitting in a pew with his mother, the same mother who harasses him until he shuts the door in her face at «paraphrase a book written thirty - five - hundred years ago,» and who aggressively makes the sign of the cross (to the lyric «preach hate») before storming out («holy water... poisoned») when her son brings his soon - to - be spouse home for dinner.

Frankly, I'm not sure these studies are accurate, since up until the last one hundred years or so, the majority of the population of the world was unable to read or write.

Also, for those who don't know, most Christians believed God was separate from Christ in body until the Council of Nicea several hundred years after Christ's death.

For though there is more to be learned about origins, which may do much to fill in the great gaps in our knowledge, and which may necessitate further radical revision in understanding, one thing is certain, and that is that the popular and simple view of origins which obtained among Christians until a hundred years ago has gone for ever.

All Christians and Jews, and that meant nearly all Europeans, accepted this simple view of origins as a matter of course until about a hundred years ago, and some Christians still cling firmly to it with varying modifications.

Believers have, by choice or by force, moved from country to country for hundreds of years to practice their beliefs, and until we are no longer cursed by the silliness of religion, one set of believers is likely going to make another group's life h3ll.

Until the Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians some four hundred years later, in 586 B.C.E., sacrifice was the predominant mode of divine service there.

It is said by some that the religion of the greatest sages of the East transcends, in its contemplative vision of God, the tradition of the Hebrews, at least until the writing of the «Wisdom» literature some two hundred years or less before the birth of Christ.

This method has a long history dating back to the ancient Romans, but wasn't perfected until several hundred years ago by the French, who are responsible for naming the system espalier (a derivation of the French word épaule, meaning shoulder).

The three islands of the Mascarene group — Réunion, Mauritius, and Rodrigues — weren't settled until more than a hundred years later, and it wouldn't make much sense to introduce chiles without someone to grow them.

Georgia remained a client state of Rome for several hundred years until the empire's ability to maintain its eastern territories disintegrated.

But, Pautzke thought, why not raise the fish in ponds until they actually felt the urge to go to salt water, use the streams merely as chutes to send them out to the ocean's rich feeding grounds, wait two years, and — presto — get back hundreds, thousands, even millions of big, healthy trout?

I'm a true gunner, I have been to see them live and never miss a match, use to spend hundreds a year on them until I found out more about Silent Stan and how all his sports teams are cash cows... I have researched our majority share holder, I have paid attention to the appointment of Gazidis and the role he was to then take over.

Then we disclose all of our crafting fails (like when I spent hundreds of dollars on a vinyl machine that sat in a drawer for a year and a half, doing nothing, because I didn't accept that I was terrible at crafts), and then we eat store - bought baked goods until we either forgive ourselves of our shortcomings or are numb to the pain of our shortcomings.

Humans have been breastfeeding since the dawn of time, and it was not until that last hundred years or so that women were given instructions for how to hold their babies at the breast.

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