Sentences with phrase «more ancient force»

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The autonomy of humanity from the realm of supernatural forces was considered by Marx as an axiomatic ontological truth that had been developed since ancient times, and he considered it to have an even more respectable tradition than Christianity.

Behind the mischief, however, lives an earlier and considerably more formidable deity whose nature incites both ancient philosophers and contemporary theologians to recognize humanity's creative force.

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Glacial Moment It's not much of a slope, but this hill, and others like it, are evidence of the ancient forces that ultimately brought me and more than 8 million other people to live in New York City.

External forces beating up the ancient moon may explain how it once maintained a magnetic field for more than 400 million years — longer than scientists had thought such a small object could be magnetized.

The fragment is one of many that probably broke off from an ancient section of crust called the Farallon plate, which began forcing its way under North America, moving from west to east, more than 200 million years ago — around the dawn of the dinosaurs.

Thus, this is why people are motivated to look at ancient climates where there are times of much larger temperature changes and forcing signals, that we can hopefully relate to each other to interrogate the sensitivity problem in a more robust fashion.

Estimating both the distance and recession speed of ancient Type - Ia supernovae allow astronomers to calculate the expansion of the universe, back during an era when matter in the universe was still relatively dense and expansion was still slowing under the influence of gravity and before its later hypothesized, subsequent acceleration from a mysterious repulsive force (more from NASA's Observatorium and NERSC's press release).

(Seattle Post Intelligencer) An ancient legacy of terror is unleashed when the accursed mummy, Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo), is resurrected — along with a force even more powerful: The Scorpion King (The Rock).

In his old age, John Adams recalled his youthful intimations of the providential forces at work: «There is nothing... more ancient in my memory,» he wrote in 1807, «than the observation that arts, sciences, and empire had always...

Then he stood before the grim fortress — wherein he found, not the innocent damsel of his youthful desires, but a terrifying beauty borne of an ancient evil that bound his soul to an even more primal force bent on regaining its place in the halls of human exaltation.

Syrian government forces recapture Palmyra The ancient site of Palmyra has once more returned to Syrian government control.

Rooted in the ancient belief that women more fully embody the generative forces of nature, possessing a greater connectedness to the surrounding environment, this exhibition provides a unique setting for art exploring the poetics of nature and the feminine divine.

They looked to ancient Greek literature as well as to «primitive» cultures for a more authentic connection with the underlying forces of nature, especially human nature, than contemporary Western society seemed to provide.