Sentences with phrase «more venerable»

The Guardian may be the more venerable, trusted and authoritative news source.

There are few more venerable institutions within the legal profession than the Law Library of Congress.

While we don't necessarily share the Senator's view of the article on the whole (we felt it provided a relatively balanced discussion of the details and conclusions of the study in question), we do find some concern in the fact that the views of Myron Ebell (who actually works for the «Competitive Enterprise Institute», and not the more venerable «American Enterprise Institute» referred to by the Senator), were offered as a rebuttal to the conclusions of a team of respected scientists.

Dean's phenomenologically steeped work relates to radical experiments in film by the Canadian Michael Snow, but they are also part of a more venerable British pastoral tradition that has affected the arts of that island nation in literature and music as well as the visual arts.

Just as some of the best recent French art is made by artists who live or have lived outside France, many of its best exhibitions take place outside Paris, in the provinces, where regional institutions subject themselves to risks that their more venerable metropolitan counterparts are unwilling to undertake.

... [Trent Morse] traces a more venerable trajectory for the pen and its users, tracking its evolution back to Giacometti, with his... Read More

Backpacking in Ecuador is something often missed by visitors to South America due to its more venerable neighbours.

From the grip of the steering wheel to the road feel, it simply isn't up to snuff with other more venerable economy car companies.

Now the Japanese brand is turning its crosshairs to the Bavarian brand's more venerable M models with this: the RC F.

This season, three more venerable French fashion houses — Balenciaga, Sonia Rykiel and Emanuel Ungaro — got an injection of new energy, with the arrival of three hot, up - and - coming designers.

But speaking to him this week, it's clear that he seems to have understood something that the more venerable (and risk - averse) brands at Kering and LVMH are only just beginning to understand.

If the Republicans are to maintain their razor - thin edge in the state Senate in the November elections, they will now have to do so without the benefit of three incumbents — including two of their more venerable members: DeFrancisco and John Bonacic, a Hudson Valley lawmaker who recently announced his retirement.

Although I think I've read on this site that it's a saint's name, though, so it probably has a more venerable history.

The strength of these æsthetic sentiments makes it rigorously impossible, it seems to me, that Protestantism, however superior in Spiritual profundity it may be to Catholicism, should at the present day succeed in making many converts from the more venerable ecclesiasticism.

Take for example the weekend, or that more venerable institution, the Sabbath.

The Presbyterian Church USA was formed in 1983, the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod in 1847, and the Southern Baptist Convention in 1845, while the Episcopal Church claims a more venerable, or at least longer, legacy reaching back to Henry VIII's styling himself Supreme Head of the Church in England in 1534.

The «way of identity» is by far the more venerable and the more universal.

The poets of old to make all things look more venerable than they were devised a thousand false Chimaeras; on every Field, River, Grove and Cave they bestowed a Fantasm of their own making: With these they amazed the world....

Take a view of the Royal Exchange in London, a place more venerable than many courts of justice, where the representatives of all nations meet for the benefit of mankind.

Not exact matches

The Girl Scouts of the USA has been around for more than a century, but for much of the venerable institution's tenure, if you wanted to get your hands on a box of Thin Mints or Samoas, you had to cross your fingers for a door - to - door visit from a local troop or a sign - up sheet to be circulated through your office by a supportive parent.

In 1998, for the first time, the BJP gained more seats in parliament than Nehru's venerable India National Congress party.

Hence today even in the Church much more is called in question than in the recent past, changes are made much more quickly, and instead of venerable customs we meet much that is new and even questionable.

LaSalle Street Church in the Near North neighborhood looks like a venerable downtown First Church, but it actually began in the 1960s when evangelicals from institutions like Wheaton College and Moody Bible Institute sought to create a grittier, more streetwise form of church life.

It is as though Richard John Neuhaus and Michael Novack or, more frighteningly, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robinson have assumed the venerable mantles of Walter Rauschenbusch, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Paul Tillich.

Quietly and without showing emotion, the head of the Institute, a venerable monk of more than eighty year old, asked: «Why are Christians so aggressive in their effort to convent Buddhists to Christian faith?»

Daniel Westberg, an Episcopal priest and professor at Nashotah House who learned his trade from Oliver O'Donovan and Herbert McCabe, has given us a lively and learned introduction to moral theology, one that seeks to renew a venerable Catholic and Thomist tradition by rooting it more deeply in its biblical, evangelical, and Christ - centered origins.

(Chicago, Ill.)-- The space which played a key role in Chicago's second wave of House music throughout the 90's, Red Dog nightclub, was once a venerable launching pad for deejays like Derrick Carter, DJ Sneak, Cajmere (aka Green Velvet), Mark Grant, DJ Heather, Johnny Fiasco, Spencer Kinsey, and more; DJs who have gone on to tour the world and most of them still do to this day.

The dinner was free to all; and more than twenty thousand greasy fingers testified their owners» appreciation of the eatables, and gave at least one - third of the guests a reasonable excuse to get off that venerable truism about fingers being made before forks.

The venerable Stan Lee, himself a rags to riches story on the order of his Marvel character, Captain America, is credited with a large portion of the popularity of the ever more sophisticated world of the graphic novel.

Just as I spoke out against «experts» on The Today Show, and just as I have countered advice from the venerable Dear Abby — more than once — I start with a critical eye when people advise on matters they really don't have any expertise about.

China has four times more population, vast natural resources, venerable ancient culture, and the Chinese are in no way less intelligent, resourceful or determined than Americans.

Underlying the noise is a vision of a domestic banking and finance sector at least partly in line with the picture painted by the venerable Vince Cable: light years from the casino economy, there to perform a utility function, more Captain Mainwaring than Bob Diamond.

Thank you for schooling the Senate for 13 hours on the venerable Constitution and the limitations it imposes on government in order to protect life, liberty and the Read more»

«They have been exposed and discredited time and again by people vastly more qualified than you in arenas hugely more suited to the task than an undergraduate talking - shop, however venerable.»

I decided not to go into practice but rather follow the academic pathway further and so completed two more years of subspecialty training at venerable institutions such as the University of Toronto and Harvard University.

After the tears are kissed away, a time - honored ritual follows: a few squirts of a pain killing spray, a good slather of antibiotic ointment, an adhesive bandage, and then back to the neighborhood for more rites of passage.The venerable tools of this healing ceremony may take the form of commercial consumer products but they are rooted deeply in the chemistry and pharmacy of nature.The painkilling spray?

Even a venerable tool of navigation like a sextant knows nothing more about its location than does the Mona Lisa or the pigments of which she is painted.

Scientific American Previews the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) The venerable PC will try for a comeback against upstart tablet technology; automobile makers will demonstrate even more ways to transform their vehicles into gadgets on wheels; and content providers will talk up ways to further wed social media and television

That was Adam Andrascik's stance as he carved out a more «direct» aesthetic for the venerable French house.

It also gives a credibility to the U.N. and its goals for world peace through diplomacy that has been ridiculed by the Bush administration, as this unfashionable narrative holds the venerable institution up to more respect than it has received from most of the world community in the last few years.

Capturing the essence of its subject more than recapping her life and career, this verite - style documentary from director Sophie Fiennes follows the venerable Jamaican singer for several years, showing that she still has the same feisty spirit and magnetic stage presence well into her 60s.

by Walter Chaw The only genre that boasts more direct - to - video fare than horror is porn, and since we haven't quite reached the point of quiet desperation needed to begin reviewing porn, find here a smelted cheddar of four dtv horror features (actually, The Boogeyman got a theatrical release in 1980, though I can't understand why): the eighth film in Clive Barker's venerable horror octology, Hellraiser: Hellworld; The Boogeyman and its second sequel, the legitimately straight - to - video Return of the Boogeyman; and Kevin VanHook's The Fallen Ones.

The venerable manga and anime series may be more popular outside North America, but players will get a chance to see what the fuss is about when...

The film's quirky tone is a new enterprise for Park Chan - wook, but it goes to show exactly how talented he is, and that the venerable man has more surprises in store for us yet.

It has more cars (and cars everyday people can own) than any other racing sim EVER; easily has more diverse car classes (big rigs, ATVs, limos etc) than any driving sim to date; carries a venerable track list; is easier to pick up and play than any other driving sim; has graphics as good or better than any other racing sim, has a career that has good length and exciting challenges; and the best customization - both engine and graphics - of any car sim.

Rating: Hoopla Factor: Mired in the mess of editing cliches that betray this most modern version of the venerable franchise as «a Guy Ritchie film», Sherlock Holmes features a confused and incomplete storyline and seems more like a preface to its inevitable sequels than a fully realised feature film in its own right.

SIFF spotlights a gritty jailhouse riot (Cell 211), a 4th - century love triangle with Rachel Weisz at its apex (Agora), the latest effort by the venerable and indefatigable Ventura Pons (Drifting), a political thriller in the era of Pinochet (The Dancer and the Thief), movies about obesity (Gordos), Down Syndrome (Me Too) and more.

One of the most extensive studies of «Sesame Street» in more than two decades concludes that early viewing of the venerable educational television show appears to boost children's readiness for school.

Model United Nations Visit the Model UN Web site for more information about this venerable live simulation.

Nissan's success was no fluke — the Altima earned its sales fair and square by slowly edging into the spot once occupied by the Honda Accord: that of a reliable and comfortable, but more youthful, alternative to the venerable Toyota.