Sentences with phrase «killed by our ancestors»

2) The so - called native americans have not «earned the right» to slaughter these birds just because they were killed by our ancestors.

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Indeed, a very early remnant of the witnessing tradition posited a striking contrast, as we have had occasion to notice before in Chapter Two: «The God of our ancestors raised up Jesus, whom you had killed by hanging him on a tree» (Acts 5:30, emphasis mine).

And Paleoindians, ancestors of living First Americans, rather handily made the native horses, elephants, and several species of bison extinct by driving them en masse over cliffs and into bogs where many were killed but few provided meat.

An argument could be made that the old puritan was too generous, thinking that God had killed his son for a thought crime rather than for a crime committed by ancestors who lived millennia ago.

It's home to most of St. Paul's 500 residents, the majority of them Aleuts whose ancestors were brought here by Russian traders more than two centuries ago to work the northern fur seal killing fields.

Although scientists are working on a cure, a new authoritarian government, led by Mayor Kobayashi (whose ancestor was killed in the dog - human battles), assumes control.

It's what kept our caveman ancestors alive: they had to focus on the negative or risk being killed by predators.

Those of us in the north are smart because the dumbest 60 - 80 % of our ancestors were killed off over thousands of years by difficult living conditions or never left to go north.

MRSA is an example of evolution by natural selection — what didn't kill its ancestors made them stronger, spawning a drug - resistant strain.