Sentences with phrase «is an ancient institution»

The Gunnery (never properly referred to as the Gunnery School) is an ancient institution of high repute, so small that the absence of eight students in an eight - oared shell would seriously deplete the student body.

The House of Lords is an ancient institution creaking its way into the 21st century, and its infrastructure will struggle to cope with this latest influx.

Marriage is an ancient institution that spreads across the ages.

Not exact matches

We all are creatures of mingled good and evil; and, good institutions neglected and ancient moral principles ignored, the evil in us tends to predominate.

This is to affirm that, while the institution of Israelite prophetism developed relatively slowly and attained maturity relatively late, the essence of the prophetic was present from the Mosaic era, inherent in the faith of ancient Israel from her formation as a people out of Egyptian slavery.

For ancient Israel, it was the end of privilege, certitude, domination, viable public institutions and a sustaining social fabric.

Israelite prophetism, which began to emerge as an institution in the tenth century, is indebted to the office of seer, but also, as we are about to see, to the very different phenomenon of ancient Canaanite prophetism, long current in the land when Israel entered and settled there.

By the time of her wedding, she came to realize that there is no such thing as an entirely original wedding ceremony: «marriage means stepping into an ancient institution marked by hundreds of temporal particulars,» so your wedding's dearth of originality is no shortcoming.

But slavery in ancient Israel was a very different sort of institution.

«5 Yet other Europeans have envied our capacity to act without being immobilized by ancient institutions.

It was the schooling in local self - government and the institutions so developed back in the hills and valleys of ancient Palestine that gave the uprooted Jews immediately a social organism able to withstand the shock of exile and to support and adapt the community in its struggle to live in an alien environment.

In the words of an ancient prayer, it is the visible expression of «that wonderful and sacred mystery» which speaks to us and works on us, through the very imperfection, weakness, error, and even the sin of the empirical institution, to manifest in the world of time and space the abiding reality of God's operation in the event of Christ for human wholeness.

(39) The basis for that model is rooted in the social history of ancient Israel and is evidenced textually in the Old Testament tension between the transformative vision of Moses, which belonged to the earliest voice of liberated Israel, and the stabilizing tendency of royal theology which sought to build institutions and establish a reliable social structure.

The ancient rights, privileges, immunities and liberties of institutions» the Church, universities, guilds, localities» were redescribed as forms of oppression.

Here again we find that confidence in the institution which marked ancient Rome: a death sentence pronounced according to previously established procedures, for a crime previously defined as such, and in application of existing laws — that sentence is just.

Before dismissing Augustine as being ancient, his dilemma as being archaic and his solutions as being irrelevant, it is well that we take a close look at what has been happening in secular education and also at the relationship between human / social studies in secular institutions on the one hand and Christian institutions on the other.

A solution had to be found, but it would have to come from sources other than the old English order [that is, the «ancient realm or the Anglican tradition»] The deep - seated tensions of early seventeenth - century English society had to be solved by some rather novel rearrangements of political and legal institutions.

[7] So the love of the Sacred Heart is of one economy with the wisdom enshrined within the fabric of our ancient universe, but most especially in Scripture, the institution of the Church and sacraments, and above all the Holy Eucharist.

«What is being proposed here is not a minor social tweak, but a fundamental redefinition of an ancient institution, partly in order to signify the «modern» values of David Cameron's Tories.

Comparable institutions of ordeal in the case of confirmed or suspected unfaithfulness are found over the ancient world.

This is so regardless of whether, like the ancient Egyptian society, there is almost no contractual qualification of society, or, like modern societies, institutions arise through the entertainment of some idea.

When I saw who had written that, my hopes for an intelligent, or at least receptive, government response to the campaign against gay «marriage» then getting under way died within me: those words were written by Theresa May, the Home Secretary, and they appeared on the very morning she launched a «consultation» on the government's proposals to enforce a change in the legal definition of this ancient institution.

But also quite general problems of human society, such as marriage rules and incest, or even the organization of nature and the universe, may be the subject of [myths];... it is only philosophical interest, both ancient and modern, that tends to isolate the myths of origin and cosmogony, which in their proper setting usually have some practical reference to the institutions of a city or a clan.

It is not possible to build democratic socialism by using the institutions of the Ancient British State.

If Britain means anything that might sustain us in a period of international decline, if we have something in us to be proud of, it's not pomp and ceremony, or ancient institutions, or neat streets and tidy buildings.

There was palpable tension at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Oyo State today as some indigenes of the ancient city attacked persons believed to be indigenes of Osun over issue of ownership of the institution.

It's one of the most famous institutions of the ancient world, and it's astounding that the exact location has been unknown until now.

Nevertheless, Wogelius says that he and his co-workers are now approaching numerous museums and other institutions in an attempt to expand their fossil database and also compare the pigment patterns of ancient specimens with those of living animals in hopes of eventually deciphering the ancient colors.

There, Whitten was inspired by the ancient Cycladic and Minoan work of the region, recognizing their functional role in society as repositories of power, memory, sensuality, and spirituality, much like the African works he had seen in New York institutions.

Pellegrin is also Chief Executive of Cultural Affairs at two ancient Venetian institutions, I.R.E. and Fondazione Venezia, Venice.

Ancient African costumes and sculptures, especially masks, on display in museums, galleries and art institutions all over the world, were created for a performative purpose.

About the Jewish Museum Located on Museum Mile at Fifth Avenue and 92nd Street, the Jewish Museum is one of the world's preeminent institutions devoted to exploring art and Jewish culture from ancient to contemporary, offering intellectually engaging and educational exhibitions and programs for people of all ages and backgrounds.

The wing houses what the institution is calling its Museum of the Americas, covering 3,000 years of the art of the Western Hemisphere, from the ancient Americas through the early 20th century.

About the Jewish Museum Located on Museum Mile at Fifth Avenue and 92nd Street, the Jewish Museum is one of the world's preeminent institutions devoted to exploring art and Jewish culture from ancient to contemporary, offering intellectually engaging, educational, and provocative exhibitions and programs for people of all ages and backgrounds.