Sentences with phrase «most ancient example»

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Julian the Apostate, Roman emperor from 361 to 363, the most gifted and most bitter of all the ancient assailants of Christianity, endeavored, with the whole combined influence of his station, talent, and example, to restore idolatry throughout the Roman Empire, but in vain.

Joseph's forgiveness of his brethren, for example, presents one of the most moving scenes in ancient literature, (Genesis, chap.

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.

For example, the percentage of ANI ancestry ranges from a high of 71 % in the Pathan ethnic group of northern India to a low of 17 % in the Paniya group of southwest India, meaning that the degree of ancient admixture is still measurable and significant in even the most isolated and endogamous ethnic groups.

But ancient - DNA sequencing is beginning to shed some light on the issue.11 For example, by comparing a human HAR sequence with the HAR sequence of an archaic hominin, researchers can estimate if the HAR mutated before, after, or during the time period of our common ancestor.12 This approach has revealed that the rate at which HAR mutations emerged was slightly higher before we split from Neanderthals and Denisovans.3, 13 As a result, most HAR mutations are millions of years old and shared with these extinct hominins (but not with chimpanzees).

Many ancient monuments were constructed with solar phenomena in mind; for example, stone megaliths accurately mark the summer solstice (some of the most prominent megaliths are located in Nabta Playa, Egypt, and at Stonehenge in England); the pyramid of El Castillo at Chichén Itzá in Mexico is designed to cast shadows in the shape of serpents climbing the pyramid at the vernal and autumn equinoxes.

Belief in an afterlife, for example, is common to most ancient civilisations, but it would be strange for a single fruit to be so regularly singled out if it wasn't particularly healthy.

For example, if tribes migrate (d) to a certain locale or are forced out of an ideal way of life due to cataclysm etc, (such as leaving fruit bearing tropical climates due to sea level rise in ancient prehistory as seen from underwater megalithic stone temples from around the world) then that does nt mean their way of life currently is the most ideal that the body thrives on, such as «paleo» diet or atkins diet or other FAD BULLSHIT low carb, high fat diets that are EXTREMELY HARMFUL AS CITED CONCLUSIVELY.

For example, in relation to «The Rime of the Ancient Mariner», Benton and Fox (1985) write that it «dramatises the relationship between teller and listener», in that the symbolic nature of events are accessible to most adolescent readers.

(Examples: because Athens» architecture is linked with Greek mythology, or because Athens is located in a beautiful place, or because famous ancient Greeks lived in Athens, or because most of the monuments are in ruins, etc.) This assignment will take at least one week to complete.

The current Year 10 students will then sit most of their GCSEs under the new system, but they might have some under the old system, for example if they are taking ancient history or ICT, while those pupils now in Year 9 will be fully «moved over» on to the numerical grading system.

But most of the Seven Seas titles I'm interested in aren't available digitally; The Ancient Magus» Bride and Haven't You Heard, I'm Sakamoto are just two examples.

It is one of the top ten drives in Africa following Barberton's Greenstone belt, an incredible mountain range with some of the best - preserved examples of Archaean Earth rock that hold some of the world's most ancient rock sediments.

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Chichen Itza is considered to be the most important ancient city of the Mayan Culture and has the most amazing examples of architecture in Mayan society.