Sentences with phrase «known as the desert»

The Eastern Orthodox Church, for example and certainly not exclusively, endorses the teachings of pioneering Christian monastics known as the Desert Fathers, who placed great emphasis on living in continual «remembrance of death.»

Many of them became known as the desert fathers.

They became known as the Desert Fathers and Mothers.

Roborovski hamsters (also known as desert hamsters) are the most recent species of hamster introduced to the pet market.

The California gray whale, by the way, is also known as the desert whale, which I thought was appropriate for the Arid Lands Newsletter!

Leaving Gili Asahan and back on the mainland there are small home - stays and private accommodations spaced out along the road to Bangko - Bangko — known as Desert Point and the surfing Mecca for those in the know — located on the far southwest tip of Lombok.

The Arabian Ranches Golf Club — formerly known as The Desert Course, Arabian Ranches, was built as a true 18 hole, par 72, desert style grass course, a signature course designed by Ian Baker - Finch in association with Nicklaus Design.

The major North — South highway in the Hashemite Kingdon of Jordan is known as the Desert Highway.

Having been available to Xbox players on the PUBG test servers for a few weeks, we're excited to reveal that May 24 will be the public launch date of the Miramar map — also commonly known as the Desert Map.

Players control a party of four soldiers, remnants of the United States Army, known as Desert Rangers.

eXp Realty International Corporation formerly known as Desert Canadians, Ltd. (the «Company» or «eXp») was incorporated in the State of Delaware on July 30, 2008.

Not exact matches

One portion of the giant field, known as the Wolfcamp formation, was found to hold 20 billion barrels of oil trapped in four layers of shale beneath the desert in West Texas, the U.S. Geological Survey said in a report on Tuesday.

A government statement about the commission noted that the development of the province was important to the crown prince's plans for the kingdom, known as Saudi Vision 2030, and last week the Saudi news network Al Arabiya reported that Prince Mohammed had posed for selfies there with locals while touring the desert on a four - wheeled buggy.

Just as one can not know how many grains of sand are in the Sahara desert, one can not definitely know that God does not exist.

Part of my own story is that I went for a big wander outside of my my mother Church, encountering different and new and ancient ways of experiencing and knowing and being changed by our big and generous God as if I were encountering occasional cups of water while in the desert, drinking each one down as if they were sustaining me for the next leg of the journey.

One of the desert fathers tells us, «To my mind there is no labour so great as prayer to God: for when one wishes to pray to God, the hostile demons make haste to interrupt the prayer, knowing that their sole hindrance is in this, a prayer poured out to God... Prayer is the burden of a mighty conflict to one's last breath.»

God started with a small party in a garden, moved on toward some pow - wows at alters in the desert, then moved into a moveable tabernacle (kind of like an Old Testament RV), then reigned in a temple (especially the God - cave of the Holy of Holies, then disappeared while giving the Jews the silent treatment for some 400 years, then came back to the temple, then traveled the highways and byways with anyone who wanted to join the fun and whooped it up with society's outcasts and wedding attenders, then moved on to some public forums, then into some clandestine home groups and a few jail cells, and eventually made his way into traditional church as we now know it.

Professor Frank Vasek confirmed the age of a Creosote bush in the Mojave Desert known as «King Clone» using two different methods.

Even to this day, every school administrator knows that his former classroom colleagues regard him as having deserted «teaching» in favor of «educational administration.»

No more than if you found a watch lying in the desert, running or not, that you would or could assume it happened by accident... common sense would dictate that intelligent life had to have made this watch as complex things simply do not «create» themselves by accident, no matter how many millions / billions of years have passed.

We know that the fertile lands of the Near East were overrun during several centuries following about 2000 B.C. by desert invaders — the same groups referred to in the Old Testament as Amorites.

Very well said Tim — You forgot to mention to have the unbelievers explain fish skeletons scientists have found over the years in the clefts of mountain top ranges, shark teeth discovered all in the Arizona deserts — Of course we know it was the flood — To a lot of non believers I speak to; it's sad because as opposed to looking / researching God's many evidences that He has left there are so many willfully ignorant in listening to modern man's (& I might add) opinion with nothing to back up evolution theories.

We do not know the cultural background and ethnic origins of the tribes that took part in the movement which we know best as Joshua's conquest of Palestine, yet the influence of the Arabian Desert was strong upon them, if we may judge from such information as we possess of their social life in the immediately following period.

The men who deserted Ali and abandoned their faith became famous in history as unbelievers and were known as Kharijites — the people who have forsaken their faith.

For a peasant woman's child in occupied territory in an out - of - the - way corner of the Roman Empire to have become the man he did, attracting what looked like flash - in - the - pan attention during his brief years of ministry, unknown to most of his contemporaries and viewed as an upstart, a wonder - worker, or a fanatic by most of those who knew about him, dying a felon's death deserted by most of his close and trusted friends with the incredible rumor then circulated that he had risen again — what chance had he of any lasting fame?

In the time of the great Queen known as Victoria There arose in England a race of men Whose delight was in the desert, Who dreamed of Scheherazade and her tales of Haroun - al - Raschid, The greatest of the Caliphs, the master of disguise, Who glided half - hidden through the markets and alleys of Baghdad.

Moses as well was Egyptian and on the exudes him and his people were turned to wander the deserts... those all from the area are descendants of those that were moving for centuries between reigns surrounding the area and they have every right for the holy land as any one else... Just remember that the ottoman army & leaders were all brought on their childhood from East Europian countries and then they got them educated and trained to lead the empire interests... So the people whom you call wanderers are decedents of such as those and Arabs of the Arabian Penisuler whom are known to trade between areas in what is called the Summer and Winter trade movement...

We know from evidence gathered all over the productive lands around the fast Arabian desert (long ago the historian J. H. Breasted designated this area as the Fertile Crescent) of a widespread eruption of desert peoples, Semitic nomads, into the more sedentary areas.

Known for crafting unique deserts and dishes, Feldeisen brings nearly three decades of culinary experience to his role as executive chef.

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Kroenke cost cutting, I wasn't disappointed when he left for City, average player while he was with Arsenal, no experience as a manager, deserted us for big money, no, bring in a top manager like Simeone, Tuchel, Loew, Enrique etc etc...........

Barreling across the desert straightaway, air horns no doubt at the ready, Miller and Lange's Liberty Belle broke just about every record for such behemoths: in seven runs they smashed various standing - start and flying - start marks at a quarter mile, a half kilometer, a full kilometer and a mile — 14 in all, each of which has been certified by the U.S. Auto Club as a national record.

It is no doubt appropriate that, since the golf cart has been slowly coming into its own — and even creeping inexorably into the hardier climates of the North — it should attain full flower in Palm Springs, that burgeoning California desert resort area that refers to itself as The Winter Golf Capital of the World.

In furtherance to my above digressions, Kroenke has been using Le Prof technical and tactical management know how to cover himself from his lack his not financially investment heavily in the club as Le Prof has consistently delivered Champions League football to Arsenal for 19 consecutive seasons but last season when his technical and tactical nouns to get another CL spot for Arsenal deserted him.

They knew they had to take their chance whenever it arose and as a result their lack of composure deserted them.

I say «most everyone» because, unfortunately, millions of Americans live in what are known as «food deserts» (vast areas in low - income neighborhoods that are absolutely saturated with fast food chains and severely lack access to fresh produce and basic healthful foods).

Because HUMAN Healthy Vending co-founders Sean Kelly and Andy Mackensen know that there is a link between low access to nutritious foods and childhood obesity, they are on a mission to place these machines in areas where people need access to healthful meals the most, including in areas designated as food deserts.

According to Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign, there are 23.5 million Americans — including 6.5 million children — who live in rural and urban areas across the country who lack access to convenient and affordable nutritious foods known as «food deserts.»

The holiday, which celebrates the harvest, also helps commemorate the Jews» 40 years in the desert when they often lived in makeshift huts or booths known as Sukkahs.

Known for years as one of the city's «food deserts,» where access to fresh fruits and vegetables are scarce, the South Bronx has some of the highest diabetes and obesity rates in the city, according to the Department of Health.

Roaming this desert in what is now northern Niger was a very distinctive creature known as a pareiasaur.

The most eloquent messenger was Hebrew University archaeologist Yigael Yadin, known for his excavation of Masada, the desert fortress described as a scene of a shameful mass murder - suicide after a failed revolt.

The Almahata Sitta meteorites, a few hundred rock fragments that rained down on Sudan's Nubian Desert in 2008, included a number of coarse - grained, carbon - rich fragments known as ureilites.

That means New Mexico State University microbiologist Geoffrey Battle Smith has spent most summers commuting to work in a bumpy, 500 - feet - a-minute elevator down a 2,150 - foot mine shaft in the desert outside Carlsbad, N.M. Inside a tunnel, formally known as a drift, Smith incubates bacteria and mammalian cells in a steel vault the size of a garden shed.

A study by a team of archaeologists based at the University of Copenhagen published today in the Royal Society journal Open Science documents that the region now known as the Black Desert in eastern Jordan could sustain a population of wild sheep.

MUMMIFIED The 6 - inch - long body of a fetal mummy known as Ata, who scientists now say was a female, was preserved due to the arid conditions of Chile's Atacama Desert.

Swirling columns of sand and dust, known as dust devils, are a feature of desert areas on Mars and on Earth.

Since then we've learned that whale carcasses and fallen trees, known as «organic food falls,» are also able to sustain these sulfidic bacteria in the otherwise desert landscape that is the bottom of the sea.

Jack said: «We know that as recently as 6,000 years ago, what is now the vast, dusty and uninhabited Saharan desert was covered in lush grassland.

The participants took part in a memory test known as the «Treasure - Hunt Task», where they were asked to hide items around complex scenes (for example, a desert with palm trees) across two «days».