Sentences with phrase «of noble birth»

Black, Jewish and indigenous white working - class pugilists moved in the same circles as the European elite; and ladies of noble birth rubbed shoulders with the young women from the other side of the social divide; each seeking fame or the means to a living and a secure future.

«He was of noble birth,» Laval concluded, with the certainty of one who knows of what he speaks.

Her new series is called Princess Ledalia: The Rose Pirate, and, as the name might suggest, stars a young woman who was raised as a pirate but learns that she's actually of noble birth.

Allonsanfàn Paolo Taviani & Vittorio Taviani, Italy, 1974, 35 mm, 111m Italian with English subtitles In this dreamlike, 19th - century - set period piece, Mastroianni stars as Fulvio, an aging political revolutionary of noble birth who begins questioning his commitment to the cause.

Of Noble Descent - 5 March 2004 The law of first mover advantage means that some people have a head start when it comes to networking, but even if you aren't of noble birth, don't despair — you can still improve your network, starting today!

As Paul says in another letter: «Not many of you were wise by human standards,... powerful,... of noble birth» (1 Cor.

The Regular Clerics of St. Paul, better known as the Barnabites, were founded in 1530 by three Italians of noble birth.

(b) It is commonly assumed that Isaiah was a man of noble birth, related by blood to the wider royal family of Judah.

12 HE SAID: «A man of noble birth went to a distant country to have himself appointed king and then to return»... and then it leads on to tell the story.

with Paul's guidelines in 1 Corinthians 1 - 2, a community made by people which Paul describes as «Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth.

A man of noble birth, representing the power of Rome, endowed with authority over life and death, confronted by a barbarous colonial of no name or estate, a slave of the empire, beaten, robed in purple, crowned with thorns, insanely invoking an otherworldly kingdom and some esoteric truth, unaware of either his absurdity or his judge's eminence.

For consider your call, brethren; not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth; but God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong, God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.

For consider your call, brethren; not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth....

Rather than aristocratic images of noble birth, we are presented with a laborer's wife, from a poor village, the status of which — even among Jews — is suggested by the phrase, «Can anything good come out of Nazareth?»

Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth.

Not exact matches

I know our sovereign lord the king of so high birth, so mighty, so benign and merciful that I thought truly it had been an evil change for to have a foul stinking thief and to refuse a noble stately lion.

Thus they acquired a reputation for affluence and magical knowledge and, on the strength of their claim to «noble birth,» obtained the daughters of the local chieftains in marriage.

In many of the societies where a large number of scary beliefs about birth came from there was a difference between noble birth and peasants.

Furthermore, the birth spacing effects of breastfeeding, largely forgotten in our day and age, were well known in those times, and aristocratic families wanted to have many children, so that breastfeeding by the mother was definitely discouraged amongst the nobles.

You can work towards your very noble goal of preventing future traumatic births without your ridiculing, bullying, and spewing hatred towards other moms.

James Heckman, a Nobel Prize - winning economist at the University of Chicago whose research has identified the important role that social and emotional skills play in developing human capital, from birth to job training, said he thought the Noble approach was a crude one.

In her memoir, All of Me: How I Learned to Live with the Many Personalities Sharing My Body, Kim Noble (a name given to her at birth that she has now learned to respond to) describes, with great honesty and a bit of a dramatic flair, her experiences living with DID.

With the advent of superstores like Barnes & Noble and Books - A-Million, coupled with the birth of Amazon, Thackeray's could no longer compete and eventually closed its doors forever in early 2005, after being open for twenty - two years.

It can tell of the noble sacrifice or the birth of a nation, like the death of Marat or the triumph of Napoleon.

As David Barrett has written, by positioning themselves at the birth of the human race they stake their ground as «the first couple, a pop - evolutionist's Adam and Eve» (D. Barrett, «How to be a Young British Artist for fun and Profit», Tim Noble & Sue Webster The New Barbarians, exh.

She stops short of saying art is recession - proof, but points out the UK has had slumps before — and that the last one led to the birth of the Young British Artists (YBA) movement, as well as artists such as Martin Creed and City Racing (a not - for - profit gallery in Oval, run by artists Matt Hale, John Burgess, Peter Owen, Paul Noble and Keith Coventry, that lasted from 1988 to 1998) taking over empty properties and creating art spaces.

[First category:] Characteristics such as race, caste, noble birth, membership of a political party and gender, are seldom, if ever, acceptable grounds for differences in treatment... But [second category:] the Strasbourg court has given it a wide interpretation [to Art 14], approaching that of the 14th Amendment, and it is therefore necessary, as in the United States, to distinguish between those grounds of discrimination which prima facie appear to off end our notions of the respect due to the individual and those which merely require some rational justification.»

However, I've found a source who calculated life expectancy rates by looking at the birth and death records of English nobles in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

There are many reasons for an extended absence from the world of work and frankly most of these reasons are for a pretty noble cause of which you should be justifiably proud: the birth and rearing of young children or the care of elderly or infirm parents (being just a couple).