Sentences with phrase «modern sea of»

This is largely due to an information - rich internet that has allowed younger generations to re-discover things that have been left behind in our modern sea of mass - produced consumer products.

Not exact matches

Tomorrow, on April 29th, Rome's white marble Trevi Fountain — its swirling waters and the charging baroque statues of Oceanus, his sea shell chariot and attendant tritons and horses — will all be turned blood red in a campaign to raise awareness about modern day Christian martyrs.

Relying on memories of his friend Fly's work as a law - copyist in 1840, and of the office at 10 Wall Street where he visited his brother Allan after returning from sea in 1844, Melville sets his story in a modern, nineteenth - century office building.

Despite the efforts of the Modern Church People's Union and «Sea of Faith» conferences and other theologically radical groups, many questioning followers of Jesus have drifted away from church life, or at least from participation in the church's decision - making forums, thus allowing undue influence to more traditional positions.

In the stormy sea of modern life, the Humanist (he used to be called the Rationalist) and the generalised agnostic is as much tossed on the waves as we are.

The dead sea scrolls, the accuracy of the modern day Bible when compared to those scrolls.

Modern Family members Ed O'Neill and Ty Burrell will play an octopus who's missing a tentacle and a whale respectively, Eugene Levy and Diane Keaton will lend their pipes as Dory's parents, Idris Elba and Dominic West are a couple of sea lions and Kaitlin Olsen will voice a lovable whale shark.

In Kerala, the fisherfolk know how fishing by modern boats destroys not only the livelihood of the fisherfolk but also the fish in the sea since unlike the traditional fishing community the boat fishing has no sensitivity to the natural cycle of fish life.

Hate to wake you up from a dream, no one BAR NONE has ever parted any sea or even a pond or walked on any body of water without the aid of modern equipment.

This age was based on isotopic dating of 5 meteorites and a representative sample of modern Earth lead from a Pacific deep - sea sediment, all of which plot along a linear isochron on a graph of 207Pb / 204Pb versus 206Pb / 204Pb (Patterson, 1956).

In the United States, we do not have lords as part of our social system so for our understanding of the word in modern usage we have to look across the sea to the United Kingdom where they still have parliament that includes a House of Lords.

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The modern life history of Georgia begins with two early Georgian kingdoms of late antiquity, known to ancient Greeks as Iberia in the east and Colchis in the west, around the shores of the Black Sea.

Twitter helps create the sea of information in which modern campaigns swim, and whether or not they're active on Twitter themselves, it's likely to shape the political communications environment in which they operate.

Twitter helps create the sea of information in which modern campaigns swim, and whether or not they're active on Twitter themselves, microblogging is likely to shape the political communications environment in which campaigns operate.

At the event, Mr Gove commented, «I think there may have been a danger that the Church clung to the 1944 settlement [which established the modern «faith» school system] because they thought, essentially, «The sea of faith is withdrawing, but this is a firm boundary.

President Mahama said these when he commissioned the new Lavender Hill, an ultra modern facility which will end the historic practice of discharging faecal waste directly into the sea and the Korle lagoon.

The move is a major sea change in the size and outlook of the French military in order to reflect the threat of modern terrorism.

To that end, new evidence supports a theory that some experts once considered unlikely: namely, that the forerunners of Madagascar's modern mammals reached the island millions of years ago by drifting from the African mainland across the Mozambique Channel on giant rafts of vegetation ripped from the shore and launched out to sea by violent storms.

The Museum of Modern Art's current exhibition «Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Waterfront» features ideas on how to stop lower Manhattan and other low - lying parts of New York City from going under when the sea surges during a big storm.

In a newly published article in the international journal The Science of Nature the multidisciplinary team of researchers report their analysis of the internal structure of tooth enamel in a fossil walrus from California, Pelagiarctos thomasi, and in teeth of modern pinnipeds the New Zealand fur seal and sea lion.

A member of the now - extinct hominid species Homo erectus engraved a geometric design on a sea shell nearly half a million years ago, long before the earliest evidence of comparable etchings made by modern humans, researchers say.

Such jet power is a cumbersome way of getting around the seas, and most modern cephalopods have largely abandoned it.

The Treptichnus burrows resemble those of modern priapulid, or «penis», worms — voracious predators that hunt in a remarkably similar way on modern sea floors.

Given that more than half a billion people live within a few meters of modern sea level, he said punctuated sea - level rise poses a particular risk to those communities that are not prepared for future inundation.

This year's Arctic sea ice cover currently is the sixth - lowest on modern record, a ranking that raises ongoing concerns about the speed of ice melt and the effects of ice loss on global weather patterns, geopolitical fights, indigenous peoples and wildlife, scientists said yesterday.

These proxies seemed to indicate that oxygen concentrations in the oceans rose in several steps, approaching today's sea - surface concentrations at the start of the Cambrian, around 541 million years ago — just before more - modern animals suddenly appeared and diversified.

Some of the site's most evocative evidence for the ancient Egyptians» seafaring prowess is concealed behind a modern steel door set into a cliff just 700 feet or so from the Red Sea shore.

Four hundred miles south of modern Cairo, Qena was the closest point on the Nile to the Red Sea and probably the starting point for voyages to Punt.

Shadowed by a support boat for safety, Ward and a crew of 24 — including her two sons — sailed their 66 - foot reconstruction, called Min of the Desert, on the Red Sea for two weeks, setting out from Safaga, a modern port not far from Mersa Gawasis.

Some ancient echinoids, ophiuroids, and asteroids had slipped the bottleneck and coexisted with the ancestors of modern - day sea urchins, brittle stars, sand dollars, and relatives, for many millions of years.

The findings are relevant to modern - day atmospheric models and to an understanding of what a loss of sea ice means to both sea and land temperatures.

Researchers from the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden examined woolly rhino and modern rhino neck vertebrae from several European and American museum collections and noticed that the remains of woolly rhinos from the North Sea often possess a «cervical» (neck) rib — in contrast to modern rhinos.

While sailing patches of particularly rough seas, the modern Vikings» sleep suffered.

Could our modern human ancestors have rafted out of Africa, crossing the mouth of the Red Sea 60,000 years ago to reach Saudi Arabia?

Our new understanding of climate and sea - level change sheds light on something that has long puzzled archaeologists: How did modern humans colonize the far reaches of the globe so quickly after their exodus from Africa?

New evidence even raises the possibility that our modern human ancestors may have journeyed by raft or simple boat out of Africa 60,000 to 70,000 years ago, crossing the mouth of the Red Sea.

Through phylogenetic analysis, the research team discovered that modern deep - sea mussels are the descendants of shallow - water mussels, and their ancestors migrated to the deep sea approximately 110 million years ago, providing evidence to support a hypothesis that their ancestors survived through an extinction event during the global anoxia period associated with the Palaeocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum which occurred around 57 million years ago.

The strange - looking beasts, which were about the size of modern - day sea lions, appeared to have the head of an ancient whale and the anklebones of an artiodactyl.

In the U.S. there was some alarm at the prospects of being unable to project power at sea should the nation need to go to war, and increasing effort was devoted to building the largest and most modern battleships in the U.S. Navy.

«Emergence of modern sea ice in Arctic Ocean, 2.6 million years ago.»

Turtles in this group dwell in tropical and subtropical oceans; among their representatives are the modern Hawksbill Turtle and the Green Sea Turtle of turtle soup fame.

Ambulocetus was about the size of the largest modern male sea lions, weighing around 300 kilograms.

Scientists compared the maps to modern charts, finding that more than half of the historical reefs have been replaced by seagrass beds or bare sea floor.

The authors write that their observation that the modern collapse of the LIS - B is a unique event supports the hypothesis that the current warming trend in the northwestern Weddell Sea is longer and bigger than past warm episodes.

Kooteninchela deppi lived in very shallow seas, similar to modern coastal environments, off the cost of British Columbia in Canada, which was situated much closer to the equator 500 million years ago.

But the aged drink had lost much of its fizz, containing much less carbon dioxide than modern champagne, likely because it had diffused out through the cork during its centuries under the sea.

Although it is true that some aspects of modern life can increase cancer, as Andy Coghlan in New Scientist put it, «most of them are down to poor lifestyle choices that people can do something about, not, as implied, because they are drowning in a sea of carcinogens from which there is no escape.»

Finding out how methane and other organic species are formed in deep - sea hydrothermal systems is compelling because these compounds support modern day life, providing energy for microbial communities in the deep biosphere, and because of the potential role of abiotically - formed organic compounds in the origin of life.

Studies of the modern species» blood - feeding physiology got a solid source of new data in 2013 when an international team decoded the genetic instruction book of the sea lamprey, a notorious invader of the Great Lakes.