Sentences with phrase «in a few centuries as»

The answer was disheartening: human civilisation and all human traces would be utterly wiped out in a few centuries as though we had never existed.

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Known to most Americans as the company pitched by Bill Murray in the 2003 film Lost in Translation, and to the discerning few as the company behind Japanese single - malt whiskies Yamazaki and Hibiki, Suntory was founded in 1899 in Osaka and created Japan's first native whisky a quarter - century later.

As the US was rising to its power and glory during the 19 th Century, we had a horrible civil war, 15 depressions [Yes, with a D.], few human rights, little rule of law, periodic massacres in the streets, etc., etc. yet we still became the most successful country in the 20 th Century.

The city of fewer than 5,000 residents was first known as Salt Creek when it was settled in the mid-19th century.

I have a hunch that, as history looks back on the twentieth century, the most chaotic of all centuries, certain Christian artists will be remembered simply because they hammered in a few firmly embedded nails.

This decision should not be interpreted as an incipient feminism in Southern Baptist life (out of more than forty thousand churches, only a few dozen have female pastors), but rather as an affirmation of a pattern of cooperation that has served Baptist mission causes well for more than a century.

Many want to get back as quickly as possible to the early church to reclaim a common patrimony for all Christians in the fathers and mothers of the church of the first few centuries.

someone has misled you about a few things but just as Jesus and his followers in the first century did anyone who follows Jesus teachings does go door to door and makes disciples, (Matt.28: 19,20) but the hope is for all not just 144,000.

«Few companies are as much as a century old, while many... tribes have had two thousand years or more in which to move towards organisational perfection, and to learn not merely how to live together, but to flourish as a group.»

Unfortunately, though, with people being discouraged to pursue the liberal arts in the 21st century, openings for these positions are becoming few and far between, and people who have that philosophical blood running through their veins sometimes take on preacher positions as a way to make ends meat, which is wrong because it is the essence of living a lie.

Is it not a scandal how few of the clergy and professors of theology decide to devote their lives directly to the study of the natural order — as more of them did in centuries past to the world's everlasting benefit?

Just as we do not practice medicine as it was practiced in the first few centuries A.D., we have to practice Christianity in the context of modern knowledge and science.

Some turn to the East, particularly to Taoism; some to Native American perspectives and other primal traditions; some to emerging feminist visions; still others to neglected themes or traditions within the Western heritage, ranging from materials in Pythagorean philosophy to neglected themes in Plato to Leibniz or Spinoza; and still others to twentieth - century philosophers such as Heidegger or to philosophical movements such as the Deep Ecology movement.9 As one would expect in an age characterized by a split between religion and philosophy, few environmental philosophers turn to sources in the Bible or Christian theology for help, though some — Robin Attfield, for example — argue that Christian history has been wrongly maligned by environmental philosophers, and that it can serve as a better resource than some might expect (WTEE 201 - 230as Heidegger or to philosophical movements such as the Deep Ecology movement.9 As one would expect in an age characterized by a split between religion and philosophy, few environmental philosophers turn to sources in the Bible or Christian theology for help, though some — Robin Attfield, for example — argue that Christian history has been wrongly maligned by environmental philosophers, and that it can serve as a better resource than some might expect (WTEE 201 - 230as the Deep Ecology movement.9 As one would expect in an age characterized by a split between religion and philosophy, few environmental philosophers turn to sources in the Bible or Christian theology for help, though some — Robin Attfield, for example — argue that Christian history has been wrongly maligned by environmental philosophers, and that it can serve as a better resource than some might expect (WTEE 201 - 230As one would expect in an age characterized by a split between religion and philosophy, few environmental philosophers turn to sources in the Bible or Christian theology for help, though some — Robin Attfield, for example — argue that Christian history has been wrongly maligned by environmental philosophers, and that it can serve as a better resource than some might expect (WTEE 201 - 230as a better resource than some might expect (WTEE 201 - 230).

The presently discussed theory and practice of human rights are very much as evolved in and by Western society during the past few centuries.

So, today's doubters need to be pressed hard as to why, if the alternative versions of Jesus (mystic, moral teacher, misguided healer) advanced over the last few centuries can be taken seriously, it never occurred to any sceptic in the ancient world to make these very obvious challenges.

He calls attention to (1) the degeneration in syncretism of the old Yahweh faith prior to the appearance of the eighth - century prophets; (2) a kind of «emancipation» from Yahweh in increasing dependence upon the maturing structure of the political state; and (3) the dissolution of the old tribal social order with the shift of economic power to the cities, the increasing inability of the farmer, because of the burdens of heavy taxation, to maintain himself as a free man, and the growing concentration of land in the hands of a few wealthy urbanites (cf. Isa.

Some of the concepts developed by the Fathers in the first few centuries of Christianity may be presented as follows:

We have said something about the place of the Bible in the living Christian tradition which preachers represent and for which they function; we have discussed a few of the problems or questions which are raised both for preachers and for people; and we have tried to sum up the theological and moral implications of the gospel as these have been worked out in the tradition down the centuries.

Centuries later, the struggle for freedom still continues, as peoples who only a few years ago lived under colonial rule now struggle for political and economic independence and for a recognized place in the international community.

Is it possible and after reading about it i kept on thinking «i will sell to my soul for 20 carats get out shut up i will never ever sell my soul to you oh god please help me and this is continuing for a few days i am afraid that i have sold my sold to the devil have i please help and still i think god's way of allowing others to hate him us much worse even you know and can easily think think about much better punishments like rebirth after being punished for all the sins in life and i am feeling put on the sin of those who committed the unforgiviable sin (the early 0th century priests) imagine them burning in hell fire till now for 2000 years hopelessly screaming to god for help i can't belive the mercy of god are they forgiven even though commiting this sin keans going to hell for entinity thank you and congralutions i think the 7 year tribulation periodvis over in 18th century the great commect shooting and in 19th century the sun became dark for a day and moon was not visible on the earth but now satun has the domination over me those who don't belive in jesus crist i used to belive in him but now after knowing a lot in science it is getting harharder to belive in him even though i know that he exsists and i only belived in him not that he died for me in the cross and also not for eternal life and i still sin as much as i used to before but only a little reduced and i didn't accept satan as my master but what can i do because those who knowingly sin a lot and don't belive in jesus christ has to accept satan as their master because he only teaches us that even though he is evil he gives us complete freedom but thr followers of jesus and god only have freedom because they can sin only with in a limit and no more but recive their reward after their life in heaven but the followers of satun have to go to hell butbi don't want to go to hell and be ruled by the cruel tryant but still why didn't god destroy satun long way before and i think it was also Adam and eve's fault also they could have blamed satan and could have also get their punishment reduced but they didn't and today we are seeing the result

Yet, fundamental Christianity has adopted as axiomatic truths certain statements and observations made by fallible «church authorities» in the first few centuries after Jesus» ministry.

Few irruptions in history have transformed societies so completely and irrevocably as did the conquest and expansion of the Arabs in the seventh century.

I think being written only a few decades after these events is about as good a deal as you can get w / ancient history; same goes for finding early 2nd century samples of m in Egypt.

Quite obviously, we do not know all that he meant by it — we can not hope to, separated as we are by twenty centuries from his time and dependent as we are upon a few meager records — but we are by no means altogether in ignorance of his meaning, and as historical research enables us to recover more fully the mental climate of Jesus» environment, our understanding becomes deeper and more adequate.

He has been especially important for those who lost their faith in Marxism, which for a few decades in the early — to mid — twentieth century served as a surrogate for theology and metaphysics.

Every since mankind has been as the Apostle described us in his epistle (Again, 2 nd Timothy 3:1 - 5; see also what Jesus said in Mark 7:20 - 23), the only thing that has «advanced «at our hands is our architecture, our technology, and our search for medicinal cures for what ails us.No one is denying that we've done tremendous good with these various advances, but we've also done awful, vicious, horrendous atrocities and brutalities as well.I've heard it quoted that out of all the centuries, millennia that we've considered ourselves «civilized», we've had only a few hundred years where something approximating peace has held sway among us.So again, I'm all world seeking to «make the world a better place», as it were; I just believe that mankind in his present moral, ethical, and spiritual configuration is capable of doing so.We can always enhance out technological prowess, improve our architechural designs, and make our drugs more powerful, but what about our hearts?

In the midst of the history of man, where races stream forth as from an inexhaustible spring into visible life and then disappear again after a few short centuries of stardom — what is the meaning of your insignificant life with its seventy, or «by reason of strength» eighty years?

After that, there were a few instances when popes condemned the Atlantic slave trade for its cruelties; and in the 18th and 19th centuries, Protestant abolitionists in England and America produced theological arguments against slavery merely as such.

the RCC lost its bid to control Europe a few centuries ago - that is the only reason Christianity isnt as effective as Islam in the micromanagement of peoples lives.

This older model can be interpreted as arising from the ethos of monarchy, which was prevalent both in the western world and in India during the last few centuries.

This new conception of nature was elaborated and fully explored in the course of the seventeenth century by thinkers such as Descartes, Gassendi, Thomas Hobbes, Robert Boyle, Leibniz and Newton, to name but a few of the most important.

Perdue says that Brueggemann is certain that the past has to make room for new ways of interpreting the scripture and that he deftly guides us in these new directions as one of those few individuals who have decisively shaped this theology in the 20th century.

A kind of nadir was reached a few months ago when Deane Ferm roasted me in the pages of The Christian Century as an exponent of secularism and a contributor to the God - is - dead movement.

The State makes laws which are plainly for the good of all, and the whole scheme is obviously making more physical and technical progress in a few years than was previously made in as many Centuries.

It started out as British and American investment at the turn of last century, then the Japanese arrived in a big way in the 1980s and 90s and in more recent times - New Zealand, China, the US again, Germany and Malaysia, to name just a few, have come and in some instances gone.

Even though Italy has produced a fair few race - winning drivers in the last half - century, such as Giancarlo Fisichella, Michele Alboreto, Riccardo Patrese and others, an Italian hasn't triumphed in the Italian Grand Prix since 1966, when Ludovico Scarfiotti won.

In the last few years, there have been countless titanic tennis matches worth of the Match of the Century designation, but those who woke up early and caught this one were left breathless by the sheer effort these two champions put into it, vaulting it up there with Nadal - Federer at Wimbledon a few years back as the best in tennis» new golden agIn the last few years, there have been countless titanic tennis matches worth of the Match of the Century designation, but those who woke up early and caught this one were left breathless by the sheer effort these two champions put into it, vaulting it up there with Nadal - Federer at Wimbledon a few years back as the best in tennis» new golden agin tennis» new golden age.

After an impressive goalscoring run for Everton's Under - 18s in the opening few months of the 2017/18 season, he became the first player to be born in the 21st century to play for the Blues» first team when - aged 16 years 286 days - Gordon came on as a substitute in the Toffees» 3 - 0 Europa League group stage win over Apollon Limassol in Cyprus.

As nutrition improved, there were fewer women with rickets, which causes bone deformations; many obstructed births in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were caused by abnormal pelvic bones in the mother.

Is the rising power and capital accumulation of FAMGA (Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon) together with advances in block chains and artificial intelligence leading to the concentration of wealth in ever fewer hands, obsolescence of manual labour and even the destruction of capitalism, as Karl Marx believed in the 19th century?

In the first few years of this new century, mass demonstrations have gathered momentum as the preferred manifestation of social and political conflict.

In the 20th Century so few Parliaments lasted the full five - year term that some commentators regarded four years as being a «full term», thus calling the 1979 — 83 Parliament a «full term»

The Labour government did reduce the national debt - as shown in the national accounts - as a share of national income at the end of the last century (although it's questionable whether most people would understand this to be the «last few years» of which Brown went on to speak).

Very few of the reforms suggested by the Moreland Commission under Mario Cuomo have been enacted over the past quarter century, and most are still talked about as potential cures for what ails Albany in the aftermath of an unprecedented streak of corruption convictions.

Surely in the 21st Century, the time is right for the Labour party to develop itself as a moderate sensible left of centre party, representing the many not the few?

For much of the past century, they have evaluated disease outbreaks with a comparatively simple set of equations that divide people into a few categories — such as susceptible, contagious, and immune — and that assume perfect mixing, meaning that everybody in the affected region is in contact with everyone else.

My husband and I spent our first few hours in Collata making formal presentations to the village officers, requesting permission to study two rare and precious objects that the community has guarded for centuries — bunches of twisted and colored cords known as khipus.

«It's shocking to see how few articles discussed risk to the general population, and when they did, they typically characterized risk as low,» said Pascale, who studies the social construction of risk and meanings of risk in the 21st century.

It makes sense that only a few genes would suffice to determine a trait such as body size, Ostrander says, because all dog breeds belong to the same species, Canis familiaris, and most have taken shape in the last three centuries.

It appeared that grave climate change could happen, and in the past had happened, within as little as a few centuries.