Sentences with phrase «of eras of history»

«Rothko and Sugimoto think in terms of eras of history and eons of organic life, not the decades of their own lives,» Shiff writes.

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After all, he says, capitalism has largely ended world poverty, boosted literacy rates around the world, increased lifespans, and created an era of prosperity unprecedented throughout human history.

Galleries like «The Riverfront Era» and New Frontiers» illustrate the history of steamboats, railroads and other industrial western powerhouse industries.

Springer's proponents have highlighted his ability in the era of President Donald Trump to provide his own funding for a campaign and to connect with working - class voters familiar with his television show and history in Ohio politics.

Eli Finkel: We have arrived at a moment in history where the best marriages are better than the best marriages of earlier eras, while at the same time, the average marriages are getting a little bit worse.

It's a roundabout tale that begins with her burning out on a private equity job in 2006 and ends with her here at Patagonia's headquarters in Ventura, Calif., north of L.A., leading the iconic outdoor clothing and equipment maker through the most profitable and expansive era in its history.

How Microsoft's Brad Smith Navigates the Trump Era as the Tech Industry's «De Facto Ambassador» (GeekWire) Microsoft has a history of working with (and financially supporting) Republicans and Democrats in roughly equal measure, like many blue chip companies.

Each one of those companies has a rich history, and hasn't been able to acclimate well enough to the era of apps and online retailing - something Firebrand Group just finished covering in its Future of Retail orange paper.

I know that the election is very close, and that we're in the midst of one of the most partisan eras in American history.

At the same time, there are forces of society or order or organization, and, at any moment in history, it's the balance, it's the competition between forces of anarchy and forces of society that give the era its character.»

Among the recurring features of speculative episodes across history is the appearance of «new era» arguments to justify the elevated prices, coupled with arguments that historically reliable measures no longer apply.

«I got wiped out personally in 1968, which was the last really crazy, silly stock market before the Internet era... I became a great reader of history books.

The Harcourt General era of Neiman Marcus's history came to an end in April 2002 with the former company's announcement that it had liquidated its entire remaining stake in Neiman Marcus Group.

If a ban initiated by China's central bank this week marks an end to the first era of ICOs — the early gold rush before the regulators arrive — then Q2 2017 may turn out to be a peak quarter in the history of the industry.

This is the most important era in the history of legalization to date.

I wanted to learn about the last era of American history when public shaming was a common form of punishment, so I was seeking out court transcripts from the 18th and early 19th centuries.

Kim was quoted by the news agency as telling Moon that he felt «the national mission and duty to usher in a new era of peace and reunification after putting an end to the history of division and confrontation.»

The history of technology is of two distinct eras: information technology enhanced existing business.

Likewise, nearly all of our challenges during the advancing half - cycle since 2009 can be traced to my 2009 decision to stress - test our market return / risk classification methods against Depression - era data, which inadvertently led us to overemphasize «overvalued, overbought, overbullish» syndromes that had reliably warned of market losses in prior market cycles across history.

The most prolific bull market in modern American history started at the end of the stagflation era in 1982 and concluded during the dotcom bust in 2000.

Sheila C. Bair served as Chairman of the FDIC from 2006 - 2011, during one of the most turbulent economic eras in history, and was among TIME magazine's 100 most influential people.

The Sesame Street idea was a product of its time, a Great Society - era utopian project rooted in an understanding of history as «progressive.»

History written prior to the modern era is seen through the eyes of the victor.

I put forward the proposition that the distinction between NATURE and HISTORY doesn't address the challenges we face in the era of biotechnology.

When it comes to interpreting the communist era and modern Russian history, I discovered that Russians adopt different strategies of selective remembrance.

They evince a vibrant confidence that, as we cross the threshold of the Third Millennium, we may be entering upon the greatest era of evangelization in all of Christian history.

In the modern era, and perhaps in all of history, Jews have never been so secure as they are at present in the United States of America.

As writers on religion in 19th century America have emphasized, that era in our nation's history was one of undisputed Protestant hegemony.

Most persons in this era of history have never spent 24 - 48 hours without some form of media giving them an opinion, forming their worldview.

Original Sin: A Cultural History by Alan Jacobs HarperOne, 304 pages, $ 24.95 Chesterton said of original sin that it «is the only part of Christian theology that can really be proved»» by which he meant empirically demonstrated in every era, in every culture, and in every human....

Bandwagon «wave - of - the - future» theology has proven to be a very hazardous occupation in an era of accelerating change, especially when the continuities of history are not as evident as its discontinuities, and when the media focus the public eye upon society's distortions rather than its solidities?

Since the earliest days of slavery, through the Jim Crow era and into the criminal justice system today, the United States has been formed by its long history of racism.

His three - volume American history of the King era ends with At Canaan's Edge, a thoughtful, 1000 - plus page look at the final three years, ending in King's assassination.

It might not have influenced him, but it situates him in a particular era in the history of silliness, with the 1890s still an incense - drowned memory, and such figures as Baron Corvo — whom Williams quotes with approval more than once in his writings — hovering on the borders of literary life.

Let us have done with the stupidity which makes a stumbling - block of the endless eras of expectancy imposed on us by the Messiah; the fearful, anonymous labours of primitive man, the beauty fashioned through its age - long history by ancient Egypt, the anxious expectancies of Israel, the patient distilling of the attar of oriental mysticism, the endless refining of wisdom by the Greeks: all these were needed before the Flower could blossom on the rod of Jesse and of all humanity.

I must conclude that the cultural attitude toward sex, in terms of legalistic moralism, is not the Judeo - Christian attitude toward sex at all, but is rather a reflection of the way that an earlier era of our history related to the circumstances of sex.

Usually, not long after these rosy predictions of our future are made, humanity enters into one of the most violent and bloody eras of its history.

Israeli archaeologist Yosef Garfinkel announced earlier this week several findings which may contribute toward a positive case for the veracity of biblical history, in particular the question of whether a centralized Israelite kingdom existed during the era of the biblically purported King David....

For most of the Church's history (the early Church, the Church during medieval times, and the Reformation era), the Old Testament was read in this way — as a book about Christ and the Church.

So by stating that there must be a Christian presence in government you're kinda unconsciously outlining the mind controlling hypocrisy you're indoctrinated into, of early Byzantine cultists who subverted a good religion and plugged 2000 years of pagan rituals into a philosophy that was about love and created the most hypocritical, torturous, murderous, blasphemous, demonic and satanic era of human history, that would have made the devil himself, if he happens to be real, enthralled and delighted at the inhuman acts perpetrated by men who's skill lay only in great fornication and great defilements, that can only be possessed by those that truly revel in the pain and the blood of the innocent.

We treat racism as though it is the contained characteristic of a specific species of human beings known as racists, that lived in a prior era of American history, but have now nearly become extinct.

For the latter reflect the history of the Christian era and all that has happened in the centuries since Christianity came into being.

Or is it a blip on the screen of history, born of the Progressive era among minorities in a strange land, institutionalized in the New Deal, and now left in the dust by the neoconservative revolution?

The Soviet Union had a long history of state atheism, in which social success largely required individuals to profess atheism and stay away from houses of worship; this att itude was especially militant during the middle Stalinist era from 1929 — 1939.

Finally, if we are to take seriously an organic approach to narrative teaching, we will tell stories from different eras of history and different parts of the world, but we will also tell stories that are happening in our midst.

You will know from the NT gospels that Sunday (the first day of the week) is the day of the Resurrection of Jesus, and that from the following week on, from the apostolic era on down, Christians gathered on that day to celebrate what is the ultimate moment of our history.

Critics of regulation are quick to point out the evils of Lysenkoism, that era in Russian history when biological research was brought to a virtual standstill by political control.

One the one hand, paganism and mystical religions seek salvation in a vertical movement of integration with the absolute, either by an ascent into the One or by a descent into the soul, On the other hand, Judaism looks for salvation in the horizontal movement of history, in the advent of a new era.

If the Abraham stories are shaped by the first phase of Israel's history, that phase in which Israel became Israel, and if they are read and interpreted in Israel as a personalized account of her formative faith in her formative event, we may well wonder whether there is not a corresponding relationship between the Jacob stories and the middle phase of her history, the era of her autonomous existence in her own land, on her own soil.

Some of the bloodiest and cruelest eras in history have been when Christianity gained the power of the state and became the official religion of the government.