Sentences with phrase «of nomadic living»

Especially since Cain goes off and builds a city... the exact opposite of nomadic life.

To this basic covenantal relationship the prophets constantly appealed; into its mutual obligations they poured ever new meanings; and at the center of its tradition they had the solid virtues of nomadic life where human ties are close, interdependent and cooperative, where men exist as brothers on a fairly equalitarian level and with a strong democratic sense of personal right.

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

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.

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.

Frequent goodbyes are an unavoidable part of the nomadic life.

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Sharing the miserable, inspirational, amazing, odd rhythms of nomadic life.

I never would have guessed that after several years of nomadic life, I'm finally ready to start thinking about finding a home, settling down, even learning how to do things around the home!

His understanding of the nomadic life is thinking globally and acting locally.

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.

He's a co-founder of WiFi Tribe, a community of nomadic professionals who live, work and travel the world together.

Apparently certain Hebrew - speaking clans, inhabiting the borderlands of Egypt as serfs of the Egyptian crown, were driven by increasing oppression to throw off their servile bonds and take to a nomadic life.

Convincing nomadic tribes to embrace Christianity and to adopt a settled agricultural life, the Jesuits spread the gospel and European culture while offering indigenous converts a measure of protection from the more rapacious aspects of Spanish colonialism.

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.

The passage from nomadic to agricultural life, and so out into the commercialized town life of Palestine, inevitably encouraged a growing individualism.

Indian societies like that of the Eskimos or the nomadic tropical tribes enacted great life - cycle rituals wherein the elderly would be set adrift on ice floes or would fail to ford the swift river with the rest of the tribe during a migration back to the mountains.

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.

There was a Nat Geo special not long ago that credited the transition of humans from nomadic hunter / gatherers to farming and communal living to the domestication of the dog.

One of the stories that helped to sway my thinking was the story of the nomadic Gabra people who have had much of their way of life fall apart due to changing climate.

If you go back 3000 years the tribe was exactly that, a small group of family / blood ties that lived together under a common father figure who like most nomadic groups often shared wives with the chief of the tribe.

The bible is based off of the interpretation of every day life by nomadic bronze aged tribesmen.

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.

It is important to note the role of the interpenetration of the settled and the nomadic life because it is not confined to Arabia or to the days before Islam.

(Even when Israel finally abandoned the nomadic life of her ancestors, the wandering spirit remained at the heart of its God - consciousness, and this served to make Israel's religious experience unique among the nations.

Sometimes the nomadic conquerors settle down and adopt the way of life of the conquered — and the cycle starts again.

The distinction between the commercial and agricultural settlements and the nomadic way of life is due mainly to climatic conditions.

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The reality of prison life is that it is nomadic.

The 85 personnel, who were dispatched from the Police Headquarters last week to calm tensions and protect lives and properties at Dwerebease and Hweehwee after reprisal attacks between nomadic herdsmen and some farmers, which led to the death of some 8 people, are struggling to access water which they say is affecting their work.

~ A.D. 1000 The Sami, nomadic Scandinavian reindeer herders who live north of the Arctic Circle, believe auroras were spirits of the dead.

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.

When abandoning nomadic life, some of our ancestors were playing it safe with grasses that are less nutritious but grow all year round

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.

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.

Granted, few of those folks still live like nomadic pastoralists, guiding their flocks of sheep with staffs.

For much of human history, our ancestors were hunter - gatherers, mostly nomadic people who lived by hunting, fishing and harvesting wild food.

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.

My life and SEAL's nomadic take - no - prisoners life - merging (or should I say colliding) for a period of time is what I needed.

Get ready to welcome people from all walks of life into your orbit and to do some nomadic traveling during the second half of the year.

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 Langmusi.

The males get thrust out into the nomadic life until they are big and strong enough to take over a pride of their own.

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.