Sentences with phrase «in earlier epochs»

The cassock is no longer the marker of respect it had been in earlier epochs but has become, after the revelations of rampant pedophilia and the churchly abuse of power in Catholic Ireland, a badge of opprobrium he wears with the stubborn martyrdom of a hair shirt.

Astronomers have never been able to study normal galaxies in much detail in this early epoch of the universe.

The carbon atoms that are essential to life on Earth were forged in the nuclear furnaces of stars that lived and died in an earlier epoch of the Universe, and which seeded the clouds out of which our own Sun and the Solar System were formed.

Smith referred a request for comment to his lawyer, Ken Clark of law firm Aird and Berlis in Toronto, Canada, who notes that many of the republications duplicated material from conference proceedings, which in an earlier epoch would not usually have been published.

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But it is too early to outline this new epoch in detail.

He and Other remarkably popular visionary leaders caused the period of the early republic to become, according to historian Nathan Hatch, «the most centrifugal epoch in American church history.»

If the epochs are that discrete, how can they, in their early phases, grasp the characteristics of their predecessors?

We shall return to Jeremias's work on the parables again and again, for it is epoch - making in several respects, but for the moment we want only to call attention to the consequences of this work so far as a general view of the nature of the synoptic tradition is concerned the success of Jeremias's work demands that we accept his starting - point, namely, that any parable as it now stands in the gospels represents the teaching of the early Church and the way back from the early Church to the historical Jesus is a long and arduous one.

From the first literary strictures against Judaism in ancient and early Christian times to almost any major manifestation of anti-Jewish animus in a later epoch, a crescendo in violence has unfolded, each grade of which has promised to be the upper limit but which unfailingly paled before what followed.

If at a certain moment in history a religious symbol has been able to express clearly a transcendent meaning, one is justified in supposing that this meaning might have been already grasped dimly at an earlier epoch.

This would imply a total community of about two million, a preposterous figure which may result from the retrojection of census figures compiled in the days of the monarchy, centuries later, to this early epoch.

Looking back in time to 16 different epochs between 11 and 13 billion years ago, the researchers discovered almost 4000 early galaxies, many of which will have evolved into galaxies like our own Milky Way.

They found six times as many of the most luminous galaxies in this epoch compared to earlier surveys, while the dimmer ones were about twice as numerous as previously thought, according to findings published 22 September in Nature.

MUSE's science goals include delving into the early epochs of the Universe to probe the mechanisms of galaxy formation and studying both the motions of material in nearby galaxies and their chemical properties.

The lion's share of the clay deposits found on Mars thus far have turned up in terrains that date back to the earliest Martian epoch, known as the Noachian period.

Then, as the world warmed early in the Holocene epoch, about 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, the pine gave way to a dense woodland of oak, maple, and birch inhabited by smaller prey like deer and wild boar.

Dr Knoll added: «In South Africa, Lesotho, Zimbabwe and Namibia, there is good record of theropod footprints from the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic epochs.

New observations show that tiny galaxies in the early universe could have triggered the epoch of reionization — a period when harsh radiation tore apart hydrogen atoms — which astronomers consider key to understanding how stars and galaxies arose from the universe's early dark void.

Although impressive, the number of galaxies found at this early epoch is not the team's only remarkable breakthrough, as Johan Richard from the Observatoire de Lyon, France, points out, «The faintest galaxies detected in these Hubble observations are fainter than any other yet uncovered in the deepest Hubble observations.»

The fossil was recovered from sedimentary rock strata that were deposited in an ancient lake roughly 55 million years ago, during the early part of the Eocene epoch.

The discovery of this quasar, named SDSS J0100 +2802, marks an important step in understanding how quasars, the most powerful objects in the universe, have evolved from the earliest epoch, only 900 million years after the Big Bang, which is thought to have happened 13.7 billion years ago.

Some scientists think that even in the early Noachian and Hesperian epochs, Mars was still quite cold and icy.

Most of these water - related surface features, however, date back to very early in Mars» history — the epochs known as the Noachian and the Hesperian, which ended about 4 billion and 3 billion years ago respectively.

Now the researchers hope that future observations of a large number of distant galaxies using the ALMA telescopes could help unravel how frequently such evolved galaxies occur in this very early epoch of the history of the universe.

Her thesis work was on the contribution of little galaxies to reionization, an epoch in early cosmological history that is still not well understood.

Vesta has an iron core, formed during the period in which the protoplanet was molten, at the earliest epoch of the Solar System; Dawn's measurements of Vesta's gravitational field have confirmed this.

Clay minerals in Martian impact craters have often been assumed to have been formed the planet's earliest epoch, then uncovered by the impact.

During the early Pleistocene epoch, ice cover in East Greenland was dynamic; in contrast, East Greenland was mostly ice - covered during the mid-to-late Pleistocene.

As of April 23, 2009, GRB 090423 is the earliest detected object in the universe, found earlier than GRB 080913 or 050904 during the Epoch of Reionization.

All three gamma - ray bursts (GRB 090423, 080913, and 050904) occurred during the Epoch of Reionization in the early universe.

With this exceptional leap in performance, new domains in infrared astronomy will become accessible, allowing us, for example, to unravel definitively galaxy evolution and metal production over cosmic time, to study dust formation and evolution from very early epochs onwards, and to trace the formation history of planetary systems.

The «YDB» event, which occurred circa 10,770 BC, is thought to have been caused by the impacts or air - bursts of several comets, resulting in massive shockwaves and firestorms sweeping across continents, initiating a 1200 year - long epoch of terminal environmental change and catastrophic faunal extinction, effectively wiping all but traces of early civilizations from the historical record.This book explores the forbidden and deeply profound secrets of a magnificent lost civilization, revealing knowledge long concealed in myth and legend.

Coming into their own in the VGM community music scene and who recently performed at MAGFest Labs and BitGen, Master Sword released two singles earlier this year and and EP Epoch in 2015 and now are revving up to release their first full - length album.

As today's instruments of meaningful articulation and expression are undergoing an equally dramatic reassessment, The Idiosyncratic Pencil will explore the early 21st Century artist's response to the rapidly evolving nature of image making in this breakneck, feverish, media - saturated, and over-stimulated epoch.

During the early 1970s he studied with John Baldessari at CalArts; he was included in Douglas Crimp's epoch - defining exhibition, Pictures, in 1977; he showed at Metro Pictures along with Cindy Sherman and Robert Longo during the boom years of the 1980s; and he spent his last decade as a recluse in a trailer in East LA.

As early as the Pliocene epoch, the stick as a specific, three - dimensional form has played a vital role in the technological, social, political, aesthetic, and religious development of humanity and some animal species.

What emerged was a painter consistently engaged with the art of earlier epochs, an engagement that Yuskavage has used throughout her career to push herself in directions that are rarely predictable or schematic.

He was also interested in art from earlier epochs and tribal cultures, as evidenced by Meisterwerken griechischer Kunst (Masterpieces of Greek Art, 1960) and Die Kunst New - Guineas (The Art of New Guinea, 1962).

«It is neither a «style» nor an «epoch» in art history, but merely a new means of expression, a different human language — one which is more direct than that of earlier painting.»

A long epoch — roughly starting as early as the 6th century — culminating in the 14th with the Black Death, unprecedented economic crises, riots and war.

He possessed a sensibility that was rooted more firmly in fine art, and while stylistically his work was closer to the «New York School» painters, his lyrical treatment of subject matter had much in common with the gentler compositions of an earlier epoch: that of the Impressionists, and with the paintings of French symbolist artist Pierre Bonnard (1867 > 1947), who endeavoured to evoke mystical ideas, emotions, and states of mind via the medium of scenes from everyday life.

``... an understanding of the behaviour of the marine - based West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS) during the «warmer - than - present» early - Pliocene epoch (approx5 — 3 Myr ago) is needed to better constrain the possible range of ice - sheet behaviour in the context of future global warming....

Actually, there is some interesting work being done by Matt Huber of Purdue, following up on some earlier ideas of Emanuel's, suggesting that the role of TCs in transporting heat from equator towards the poles may be more significant than previously thought — it also allows for some interesting, though admittedly somewhat exotic, mechanisms for explaining the «cool tropics paradox» and «equable climate problem» of the early Paleogene and Cretaceous periods, i.e. the problem of how to make the higher latitudes warm without warming the tropics much, something that appears to have happened during some past warm epochs in Earth's history.

He points to the early faint sun paradox, claiming that the negative feedback due to clouds is the reason that the oceans did not freeze in that epoch.

The changes are comparable in scale to those of earlier epochs.

For Siberia, at least, he had a point — so long as the warming did not soar higher than in the earlier interglacial epochs he had studied.

The Cosgrove Ice Shelf doesn't provide major drainage today for WAIS as it did earlier in the Holocene epoch, but it still has lessons to teach scientists about how outlet glaciers can react when exposed to warmer deep water, she added.

Note: The highest trend in the later epoch of the GISS - based «change data» is about 5 % higher than the highest trend in the earlier warming period.