Sentences with phrase «nomadic life in»

He grew up living a traditional nomadic life in the semi-arid country at the edge of the Gibson Desert.

Midnight rendezvous with Mr Crociere, a man who found inspiration to his nomadic life in atheism.

Experience nomadic life in Mongolia's Gobi and trace Russian history in St. Petersburg and Irkutsk.

Polanyi's portrait of the nomadic life in science of her émigré father and uncle poignantly highlights the intermeshing of career, family and international politics which affected so many both during and after the Second World War.

Not exact matches

The life of a «van dweller,» or a person who lives in a converted vehicle, is nomadic and legally precarious.

A penchant for holding onto everything that might come in handy in the future, plus a generally nomadic existence (home to the midwest for the summers, back to New York for school semesters), meant that I lived in a semi-permanent state of bare - boned survival and clutter.

A free documentary by The Guardian on life in solitary confinement was recently released and a new free short film on nomadic cultures throughout the world was released this Wednesday.

Their picture of nomadic existence in the debatable lands between the great civilizations of the Nile and the Euphrates is life - like and convincing.

The individual in every aspect of his life — economically, socially, intellectually, morally — was increasingly thrown on his own as his nomadic forefathers never could have been.

Having seen an Arab chieftain's son, who had attended the American University in Beirut, make his decision between the old nomadic life of his clan, still living in tents, and the new town life which his education made possible, one vividly understands that, choosing the former, he inevitably chose submergence in the social solidarity of his group as against emergence into the individualism of a commercial community.

-- Hebrew history begins, as has been intimated, in nomadic life.

There will be some nomadic guy living far out in the woods somewhere who did not get the memo.

He believed this loyalty was to be found in the past, in the wilderness period, and in addition to theological orthodoxy he thus instituted an ascetic mode of life (no drinking of wine, no holding of property, a nomadic existence) in order to restore the conditions under which Israel lived in the desert, which were favorable to loyalty to the one God and which were also a witness to confidence in God.

It is a collection of writings that was cobbled together by the Council of Nicea, written by multiple authors, containing collections of parables, stories, fables, myths, rules, laws, petty bigotry, tribal rivalries, lessons in life, morals, etc. that tell a story of a few small bands of nomadic middle easterners.

And certainly nomadic influence continued a potent force in Israel's life, reinforced by the steady infiltration of desert wanderers who entered and lived much as Abraham had done many centuries before.

-- while Yahweh was the god of nomadic life and the leader of his clans in battle.

To pass, as the Hebrews did, from nomadic wanderings to a settled residence, from the exclusive tending of herds to the culture of crops, from tents to villages and walled towns, involved a profound change in the life and thought of the people, and, not least of all, in their religion.

Nomadic offers a way for keeping pace with fast living style in timeless style, The AUTOMAT is a temperature - controlled food - dispensing machine, supplied with freshly prepared food.

Tsh and her nomadic family currently live in Bend, Oregon, but several dots around the globe have also been called home (her 7 - year - old has been on 60 airplanes and counting).

Today nomadic peoples sometimes herd cattle through the region, but people do not live in the Lake Natron basin.

Some 11,000 years ago, humans living in the ancient Middle East region called the Fertile Crescent shifted from a nomadic existence, based on hunting game and gathering wild plants, to a more sedentary lifestyle that would later give rise to permanent settlements.

These examples are crucial, Fry says, because our ancestors are thought to have lived as nomadic hunter - gatherers from the emergence of the Homo lineage just over 2 million years ago in Africa until the appearance of agriculture and permanent settlements about 12,000 years ago.

On July 17, more than 70 million tons of ice broke off from the Aru glacier in the mountains of western Tibet and tumbled into a valley below, taking the lives of nine nomadic yak herders living there.

Just generations away from a nomadic lifestyle, they chose to live in extremely crowded conditions.

The Natufians, who lived some 15,000 - 11,500 years ago, were of the first in the world to abandon nomadic life and settle in permanent settlements, setting up structures with stone foundations.

Technically, anthropologists distinguish civilizations in which many of the people live in cities and get their food from agriculture, from band societies, in which people live in nomadic or semi-nomadic groups, and tribal societies, in which people may live in small semi-permanent settlements.

Researchers have long assumed that as the first farmers settled down in Europe, life was more stable for them than for the nomadic foragers and fishers they had displaced.

De Boer has lived a nomadic life, learning lessons along the way that have proven useful in his U.N. post.

nomad (adj. nomadic) The name for someone who has not settled into any community or fixed site, but instead lives by moving from place to place over the course of a year in search of food and shelter.

In Tibet's nomadic Amdo region, where Goulongzhu lives, salty milk tea instead of butter tea is the norm because «in this area, the people are quite poor,» says Li Yi, owner of a horse trekking company in an Amdo town called LangmusIn Tibet's nomadic Amdo region, where Goulongzhu lives, salty milk tea instead of butter tea is the norm because «in this area, the people are quite poor,» says Li Yi, owner of a horse trekking company in an Amdo town called Langmusin this area, the people are quite poor,» says Li Yi, owner of a horse trekking company in an Amdo town called Langmusin an Amdo town called Langmusi.

We attended a Charity Event orgarnised by Fatma Hanke that took place at the Martin Luther Church here in Hamburg where we not only had some tasty foods, got to purchases original Maasai Accessories, enjoyed live dance performances but also had an opportunity to learn more about issues affecting the girl child in the nomadic communities.

We all live in nomadic time:)

I've lived a pretty nomadic life up until recently having taught in Botswana, Southern Africa for several...

I live a nomadic life and don't see a stop to that in my future.

Dwarves once lived the good life, enjoying a thriving society, but then in came the dragon Smaug, who claimed Erebor for himself, nestling into their mid-mountain pile of gold for a nap and turning the dwarves into a nomadic people.

In the end, his reward for surviving that game is a return to domestic life with his family, a far cry from his nomadic life as a warrior.

The movie follows Aisholpan, a 13 year old nomadic child who lives in the Altai Mountains in Central and East Asia, who decides she wants to become an eagle...

Miles Teller and Jamie Foxx pose for photos while attending the 2018 DirecTV Now Super Saturday Night Concert at Nomadic Live at The Armory on Saturday (February 3) in Minneapolis, Minn..

Flipping back and forth through time as Walls (Larson), a popular New York gossip columnist working in a posh Manhattan office circa 1989, ruminates about her and her family's nomadic life thanks to the wandering needs of her gypsy - like father Rex (Woody Harrelson), the movie is shaggy - eared melodrama that never earns the emotional connection with the audience it so clearly is aiming for.

Though it's been rightly celebrated for its guerrilla shoots and nomadic production history — depicting an adolescent's maturation from six to eighteen by reassembling the cast once a year, more or less in secret, for a few days at a time — Boyhood might be most impressive as a reflection on the impossibility of fully capturing what happens in all those «and thens» that constitute a life.

In Haigh's adaptation of the Willy Vlautin novella of the same name, Charlie Plummer (previously seen as the ill - fated John Paul Getty III in Ridley Scott's All The Money In The World) plays the introverted Charley whose nomadic life with his womanising yet loving father (Travis Fimmel) sees him transplanted to Portland, OregoIn Haigh's adaptation of the Willy Vlautin novella of the same name, Charlie Plummer (previously seen as the ill - fated John Paul Getty III in Ridley Scott's All The Money In The World) plays the introverted Charley whose nomadic life with his womanising yet loving father (Travis Fimmel) sees him transplanted to Portland, Oregoin Ridley Scott's All The Money In The World) plays the introverted Charley whose nomadic life with his womanising yet loving father (Travis Fimmel) sees him transplanted to Portland, OregoIn The World) plays the introverted Charley whose nomadic life with his womanising yet loving father (Travis Fimmel) sees him transplanted to Portland, Oregon.

Some aspects of nomadic life may be hard for children to watch (e.g., vultures feed on an animal carcass, children are separated from their parents), but these are not in the context of any gratuitous violence or sinister character.

Searching for spirituality, Beijing intellectual Chen Zhen travels to the pristine grasslands of Inner Mongolia to live among the nomadic Mongols - a proud, brave, and ancient race of people who coexist in perfect harmony with their unspeakably beautiful but cruel natural surroundings.

As her son, Robert, recollects his family's nomadic ways, he recalls that Miss Peggy has lived in 19 homes over the course of her life.

For much of his life he lived a nomadic existence, living in Chile, Mexico, El Salvador, France and Spain.

This is especially so in the middle section of the book where he and his family live a nomadic lifestyle — squatting for a time in the caves behind the Buddha statues in Bamiyan (see «Beyond the Book.»).

Born on the tundra in the 1950s, Victoria knows nothing but the nomadic life of the Inuit until, at the age of ten, she is diagnosed with tuberculosis and evacuated to a southern sanitarium.

Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus's landing had crossed the Bering Strait twelve thousand years ago; existed mainly in small, nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas was, for all practical purposes, still a vast wilderness.

In the high Altai Mountains of northern Mongolia, the nomadic Tuvan people's ancient way of life collides with the pervasive influence of modernity as seen through the eyes of a young shepherd boy.

By the end of the 1980s, almost all the Inuits in the area had left their nomadic lives behind in order to work in the mines run by Kablunauks (the Inuit word for Caucasians, meaning hairy eyebrows and bellies), a movement that was expedited by the tuberculosis epidemic.