Sentences with phrase «more ancient examples»

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For examples, in Ancient Byzantium, currency traders also referred to as money - changers, would help citizens in exchanging their... Read more

You would have to go back to the pyramids of ancient Egypt or the building of the Terracotta Army by China's first emperor more than 2000 years ago to find comparable examples of resource wastage on such a grand scale.

And more often than not, it imposes upon an ancient Near Eastern text Western assumptions regarding gender roles and the nuclear family, rendering the woman celebrated in Proverbs 31, for example, into little more than a happy homemaker prototype.

As in the Abraham stories, so too in the Jacob narratives, the sacredness and often the very name of ancient Canaanite sanctuaries are attributed to the visit of a patriarch to the scene, as witness, only for example, the stories of Bethel (28) and Peniel (32) This too contributes somewhat more subtly to the validation of Israel's claim.

We can't absolve ourselves from the onus that may be on Israel, for example, for its ruthless invasion of ancient Canaan by trying to explain it away, any more than we can absolve ourselves from the catalog of horrors that have resulted from the theocratic pretensions of the church.

For example, «the fresh and vivid style of Mark» has been explained as the result of Peter's vivid personal recollections — forgetting that people did not usually write that way in ancient times, but far more prosaically, far less romantically; the exploitation of literary personality is a very modern innovation.

The Song of Moses or Miriam (15: 1 - 18) has usually been taken as a later expansion of the original, very ancient two lines attributed to Miriam in 15: 21, although some have more conservatively maintained the originality and antiquity of the long poem.11 In any case, we affirm its relative antiquity, subject of course to modification (for example, to accommodate the reference to the tenth - century temple in Jerusalem, vv.

For example, the creation account of Genesis 1 is arguably more meaningful and more profound when we understand it, not as a modern science text, but as an ancient Near Eastern temple text that honors Elohim as ruler over creation.

Th two examples you mention are from almost ancient history and most of us think thre last ten years far more relevant when judging Wengers ability to managert than the decade befor elast, when he was much yojunger and still in touch with reality.

The next step will be to gather more ancient samples from before and after a major environmental change — the end of a glaciation, for example, or the arrival of humans in the New World — to see whether any epigenetic changes correlate with the environmental transition.

In carbon dioxide, for example, these multiple isotopes are found more often than expected — a phenomenon called clumping — which leads to a powerful tool for measuring the temperatures at which the molecules formed, now and in the ancient past.

For example, ancient Greeks and 19th - century Americans debated how cutting down forests might bring more rainfall to a region, or perhaps less.

RR Lyrae stars allow exact distance estimations and are found only in stellar populations more than 10 billion years old, for example, in ancient halo globular clusters.

The giant Kidd Creek mine in Ontario, Canada, is an example; miners there descend through shafts more than a mile deep to extract copper, zinc, and silver from an ancient chunk of seafloor.

For example, the ancient gene for HLA - A, which helps the body resist viruses like Epstein - Barr, is present in half of all modern Europeans, more than 70 percent of Asians, and up to 95 percent of people in Papua New Guinea.

Ancient Roman lavatories were a more social affair, as seen in this example from Ostia Antica, less than 20 miles southwest of Rome.

For example, «hard scientific evidence» shows that ancient people extracted opium from poppies, says David Collard, senior archaeologist at Jacobs, an engineering firm in Melbourne, Australia, who found signs of ritual opium use on Cyprus dating back more than 3000 years.

That could allow scientists to cross the ancient date with more modern varieties, in the hopes of creating palms more resistant to infection and drought, for example.

But it will take more examples of ancient bone tumors to draw broader conclusions, the researchers say.

As the authors show with examples from ancient and modern teeth, the method is valuable for understanding a health condition that today affects more than 1 billion.

And while much more remains to be understood about the mechanics of memory — how memories are stored and retrieved by the conscious mind, for example — Lømo's contribution gave the first answer to what had been a constant riddle since ancient times.

Likewise all animals share specific antiviral defence factors such as MDA5 - like RNA helicases, and interferon regulatory factor - like proteins, although other systems (for example, RNAi) have more ancient origins39.

But having more examples of ancient quasars will help experts to figure out what happened in those first billion years after the Big Bang,» the Carnegie Institution said in the statement.

Take, for example, a humorous approach to educating people about the benefits of ancient bone broth posted by the Food Renegade called, «America Needs More Brothels»!

There are lots of other changes this represents too, such as the presence of chemicals in our food supply (pesticides, herbicides, xenoestrogens, etc) that didn't exist in the ancient diet, as well as the dramatic changes caused by hybridization of many of our foods, which creates versions of fruits and vegetables bred more for size, sweetness, and appearance as opposed to natural nutrition... this aspect has decreased micronutrient content in the modern day food supply (just look at wild blueberries vs cultivated blueberries as an example of that with wild berries coming in at more than DOUBLE the antioxidants from ORAC testing).

Paintings and prints frequently carry particular meaning within Petzold's films, as examples of the ancient tradition of ekphrasis, probably none more so than in Phoenix's immediate predecessor Barbara (2012) with its conspicuous Rembrandt print, but likewise in much earlier works like Die Beischlafdiebin (The Sex Thief, 1998) with a Gerard Richter on the wall — another artist conspicuously engaged with multiple forms of peculiarly German afterness.4

For example, in the Mauritius series, learn how the island was formed, about the science and the ancient origins of the helicopter, how mineral deposits created gorgeous multi-colored sand found only on that island, how fish breathe, and more.

In one of the more extreme examples of ancient wisdom proved true, many education reformers are wondering if they should have been more careful about what they wished for in New York City.

For another, the ancient canines had to adapt to their new human environment in more ways than one — for example, their diet changed, which favored different physical traits.

Examples of boutique hotels with strong personalities: • The celeb - studded, 91 - room Hotel Byblos in St. Tropez on the French Riviera • A stylishly updated former convent with only 20 rooms, the Amalfi coastline - hugging Monastero Santa Rosa • A 12 - room, 400 - year - old gem in ancient Akko, Israel, The Efendi... MORE Hotel • All 21 suites of Southern Ocean Lodge open onto the wild coast of Kangaroo Island, called «Australia's Galapagos»

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History fans will enjoy the battle sites of the century - long «border warsâ $; a trip to Graaff - Reinet, South Africa's fourth oldest town with more national monuments than any other city in South Africa; and an expedition to Barkley East to see exceptional examples of ancient San rock art.

The Nintendo Classic Mini doesn't have a cartridge slot for example (all the games run off internal memory), and the console uses the much more modern HDMI connector to get data onto a television's screen, rather than the original's ancient aerial connection.

For example, Ancient & Modern, run by Rob Tufnell and Bruce Haines, is situated in no more than a corridor off Old Street; Associates, the yearlong project run by artist Ryan Gander that closed in 2007, took place in a boxlike storefront on Hoxton Street; and the Bethnal Green gallery Between Bridges is located in what can only be described as a stairwell leading to artist Wolfgang Tillmans's studio.

For example, ancient Greeks and 19th - century Americans debated how cutting down forests might bring more rainfall to a region, or perhaps less.

For example, regarding Abbott's claim that ancient climate change before humans could mean that more recent changes are natural, Pitman said: [110]