Sentences with phrase «modern times when»

You know you're living in modern times when you can control your Christmas tree lights using your smart phone.

While Google may have said goodbye to these interview questions, other employers haven't quite joined modern times when it comes to hiring.

Pricing broke the $ 50,000 ceiling, but in modern times when vehicle pricing is getting extravagant, this loaded - out tester somehow seems justifiable.

In the modern times when usual norms of the society are taking U turn, dating standards, choices, preferences and expectations are also changing.

Rather odd that a god never showed up in modern times when man has a better concept of reality.

In modern times when men believe in but one god, his militant character always comes to the front in war time, and his more pacific character is played down.

Not exact matches

Many argue China's US$ 2 trillion in foreign reserves would protect it from any crisis, but Chovanec points out there have only been two times in modern history when a country accumulated such large reserves — America in the»20s and Japan in the»80s.

The only time you'll likely notice its non-HD screen is when reading, as text may be more pixelated than what you're used to on a modern smartphone.

Another challenge is to strike the appropriate tone at a time when the initial shock over the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history has quickly given way to a vicious political brawl in Washington and on the campaign trail.

There are times when it is better to hold loosely to something because, in modern work culture, you either adjust quickly or you fail quickly.

The black - and - white, super-minimalist website is stark compared to any modern ecommerce site, but serves as a blast from the past time when buying things online was revolutionary.

In the modern sales game, a vendor must nail two things: 1) Timing (knowing when to reach out, and 2) Expertise (demonstrating their expert status on a prospect's current environment, pain points, and initiatives).

Sales are always hard, especially when times are good and investors are riding the coattails of one of the best performing bull markets in modern times.

When gold futures hit an all time high of $ 1,913 an ounce last Tuesday, it seemed our modern civilization was no different from the ancients in its love affair.

When looked at in this way, the advantages of automated trading systems are obvious, particularly in the modern world, where it is hard to find time for all of life's commitments.

My point was according to doctrine of the time, resurrections were fairly commonplace (in comparison to modern times, when we know the dead can not come back to life) and therefore not so special.

In any case, it's a great time to be an atheist when we can call modern religion by its real name, contemporary mythology.

We have entered times when many of Tocqueville's more depressing predictions about modern democracy are being borne out, and actually experienced, although of course in less dramatic ways that he sketched.

Bergson was the eloquent defender of this thesis in modern times (TFW), and Whitehead accepts it when he agrees that creativity is «inexplicable by forms.»

It is thus no surprise that modern science came into being during the High Middle Ages, when for the first time in history there was a society permeated with Christian beliefs.

While a definition of faith as subjectivity — i.e., authentic human existence culminates in faith — could be real in Kierkegaard's time, it can no longer be so at a time when the death of God has become so fully incarnate in the modern consciousness.

I actually do a presentation when I seek to explain the modern evangelical movement, particularly to movement leaders here in the United States or to missionaries who have been out of the country for a long time.

Indeed, so extreme is it that at times it seems to modern minds morbid, but this judgment is qualified when one recalls the historic setting.

Paul S. Boyer, professor of history emeritus at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, is the author of When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture (1992).

In When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture, Paul Boyer, a senior historian at the University of Wisconsin, and one of the best in the business, seeks to address the world of secularized academics and journalists who can scarcely imagine, let alone appreciate, the breadth and depth of popular apocalypticism in contemporary America.

Nevertheless, these judgments do not establish that Whitehead appreciated the necessity of subjective experience for the occurrence of prehensions at the time he gave the Lowell Lectures or even when he completed Science and the Modern World.

As an editor, I spend a lot of time asking people what they meant when they wrote «may» or «can» because the two are used interchangeably in modern English.

A number of modern urban newspapers, such as the Baltimore Sun, the Richmond Times — Dispatch, and the Hartford Courant ran advertisements before the Civil War for the sale of slaves or the recapture of runaways; all four of the major North American railroads own rail lines that were built with slave labor; the founder of Lehman Bros. bought slaves as workers for the firm when it was founded in pre — Civil War Alabama.

When, in the fifteenth century, Turkish con ~ quests and other factors had limited Christianity chiefly to Europe, the transition from the Europe of the Middle Ages to that of the Renaissance and modern times brought another major threat.

Although I believe that modern Christians can be instructed by biblical perspectives on church and family, I am not advocating a return to some earlier time when the church may seem to have been more faithful.

Most important, at a time in human history when there is urgent need for wisdom to guide us through a crisis of unparalleled proportions, it removes any interest in wisdom from the intelligentsia in general and the modern university in particular.

In modern times the term Aryan has become a racial term, as in Germany under the Nazis, when a sharp distinction was made between the Aryan and the Semitic elements in the population.

The naturalistic portion of modern culture strips the self of transcendence and reduces it to a stream of consciousness.12 When man is identified with the natural order, when time becomes everything, when history is self - explanatory, individuality is lWhen man is identified with the natural order, when time becomes everything, when history is self - explanatory, individuality is lwhen time becomes everything, when history is self - explanatory, individuality is lwhen history is self - explanatory, individuality is lost.

«god» was so responsible in making that «provision» for being «saved» that «he» waited tens of thousands of years after modern man arrived on this planet (dooming countless generations to «hell» because they didn't have a chance), and then on top of that «he» implemented «his» «provision» in the middle of a freakin» desert in a time when there was no Internet and at a time when those ignorant goatherding people thought the world was flat (thereby dooming countless more generations of people to «hell» because there was no way, for example, to even get the message to what would become the Americas 15 centuries later).

nice question — there was indeed a global ocean in earths history and it was salt water — according to modern science when the plates moved and enclosed land creating a land locked ocean which over time turn to fresh water by leaking the salt into the bedrock... or something like that — i have rough understanding.

Besides, Sephardic Jews are a group who spent a long period of time in the Iberian peninsula (until getting kicked out 1500 - ish), so it's hard to say that modern Sephardic Jews can be used as a baseline when trying to determine the «whiteness» of a Jew who lived 2000 years ago in a totally different place.

The cross and resurrection, when demythologized and reinterpreted in a modern setting, symbolize the suffering and triumphant love of God which struggles in every time and place, in every event and experience, to fulfill the potentialities of every creature.

Fr John Keenan: When I heard St Paul in that second reading on Sunday say «I didn't come to you with any philosophy or knowledge», I thought to myself that in modern times you'd be saying: «I never really came to it with any strategy, just a sense of the power of God.»

So must the student of comparative religion when he compares modern religious movements with those of ancient times.

Especially now, in deeply modern times, when history is such a terror.

As a Christian Gnostic, I don't have a hard time with this cartoon at all; If we read the Gospels carefully, when Jesus asked that He be believed in, it's not in the modern connotation of «I believe in Santa Claus», but in the first century idiomatic, «Trust me enough to emulate me through my teachings».

«But when the rabbis down the centuries look at the scriptures and interpret them in the light of their own time, and when we do that in the light of our modern morality — why bother with the scriptures at all?»

Abundant examples from good literature are available, from the time when «they» became fixed in our language up through the modern era.

But, in modern times, people still revel, even brag, about how hard things are for them, even when the hardship is unnecessary and purposely.

Also, when you sacrafice someone these days, in our «modern» times, make sure you sacrafice someone whose demise gives you and advantage in some way... usually stealing their lands or covering up some crime is a good reason.

I certainly get shocked looks from modern Christians when I suggest that homilies on «the Good Samaritan» should place it in modern context by renaming it «the Good al - Qaeda» or «the Good Taliban» or «the Good Hamas» — because, at the time Rabbi Jesus of Nazareth allegedly lived, the Jews regarded Samaritans the way we regard al - Qaeda or the Taliban or Hamas today.

To be critical of the prevalence of electronic media in worship is not to be nostalgic or wistful for a time when worship was untainted by modern technology.

When the Roman Empire collapsed, Christianity, although by that time closely associated with it, not only survived but won to its fold the barbarians who were the immediate cause of the overthrow, spread into regions in Northern and Western Europe which had not before known it, and became the chief vehicle for the transfer of the culture of the ancient world to the Europe of medieval and modern times.

He points out that Descartes was the first modern philosopher to address himself to the problem of justifying ontological assertions in general, having asked questions such as these: When can I correctly and legitimately say that something persists over a certain time interval?

Perhaps most of those who will read these words will have had times when they felt sure that God was speaking to them in some great service of worship, through the voice of a modern prophet, or in some soul - stirring personal experience.