Sentences with phrase «of old society»

While there are all sorts of reminiscence of old society and the America as we know it, foliage is growing everywhere as if nature is striving to retake the planet.

The 1900s were the last steps of old society and the first steps of the new life that awaited people.

Among those who shared this general analysis there was a division between those who placed emphasis on overthrowing the present system as a necessary precondition for the realization of a more human society and those who emphasized the present embodiment of a new style of life «in the pores,» so to speak, of the old society.

It was brought into being out of the older society of the Jewish people («the old Israel») as the new community («the new Israel») which was responding in discipleship, in love, in worship, and in service to that which Christians believed God had done in Jesus Christ.

Japan is one of the oldest societies on earth - over 25 percent of its citizens are over 65 - and most project that it will continue to age rapidly in the coming decades.

Not exact matches

The Society of Actuaries reported in 2000 that there is an 81 % chance that one or both members of a 65 - year - old couple will live to age 85, and a 58 % chance that one or both will make it to age 90.

By the postwar period, people in advanced societies had long since shed the old, laborious ways to embrace a sedentary duo of desk work and television watching, hopping into private automobiles to shuttle between the two.

In 2014, the Society of Actuaries released a new mortality table in which the average lifespan of a 65 - year - old man jumped from 82 to 85 and that of a 65 - year - old woman from 85 to 87.

All the old abuses in society, universal and particular, all unjust accumulations of property and power, are avenged in the same manner.

The Canadian Paediatric Society also expressed concern that no limits will be put in place to limit the concentration of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in cannabis products available to 18 - to 25 - year - olds.

That $ 10,000 is going to be invested in the securities or funds you select, compounding for you until retirement or you reach the age of 70.5 years old and the government forces you to begin drawing down the money so as not to take advantage of the tax benefits for too long, enriching your heirs beyond what society considers worth subsidizing.

Increasing the eligibility age for Old Age Security (OAS) and the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) to 67 from the current 65 would address the reality of an aging society and longer life expectancy.

Indeed, such accusations carry little weight in a society that has not forgotten that opposition to the old regime could mean death or imprisonment or the cutting off of one's livelihood.

Communism westernized the Russian political imagination in a perverse way, to be sure, but its triumph put a complete end to older, more traditional ways of understanding society as a hierarchical system underwritten by a sacred authority.

Today's society has a basis of right and wrong, which for an older person would associate with basic Christian teachings of loving your neighbor as yourself.

Again, sadly, the church is trailing far beyond society in equality for women, though we have come a long way from the women as property upheld in the Old Testament and still prevalent in many other parts of the world today.

But older participants were much more positive, with three of every four older participants saying that marriage still had an important place in society.

They created or enabled the Permissive Society that shattered millennia - old values leading to the decline of marriage, a level of narcotics - abuse never seen before in a developed country, an epidemic of sexually - transmitted diseases and the industrial - scale production of bastard children.

Supporters have praised the government for supporting the elderly, who are some of the most vulnerable in society, while critics have said increasing the state pension is a ploy to secure votes from older people, the majority of whom vote Conservative.

So, no, demonizing Bush is not going to work in this election, and» as demonstrated in the recent special election in New York's ninth congressional district» the seniors will no longer be swayed by dark warnings that the GOP will end medicare and social security» these older people realize that the programs of the New Deal and the Great Society have become unsustainable and that» somehow» a real and drastic change must happen, soon.

Don't you really mean below, cause if you are reading messages newest to oldest (like the rest of civilized society) you would not know what people are planning to say!

It happens in every under developed society because of old traditional rules and customs and everyone knows that, no need to further argue on that.

Tanakh (Old Testament), Matthew's Bible, The Message, Modern King James Version, Modern Language Bible, Moffatt, New Translation, James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Pesh.itta, New American Bible, New American Standard Bible, New Century Version, New English Bible, New English Translation (NET Bible), New International Reader's Version, New International Version Inclusive Language Edition, New International Version, New Jerusalem Bible, New Jewish Publication Society of America Version.

God is so far removed from today's society as a whole, but he is the same God of the old testament as he is the same God of the new testament and the present day.

I believe that forcing young children to swallow the indoctrination of religion before they are old enough to decide for themselves is symptomatic of the greater problem in society today; be it Christian, Muslim, Hindu, or any other recognized religion.

Inherited wealth doesn't yet play a big part in our society but given time - and the repeal of the estate tax - we will grow ourselves a hereditary elite just as set apart from the concerns of ordinary Americans as old Horace Havemeyer.

About 40 % of evangelicals between the ages of 18 and 29 are likely to say homosexuality should be accepted by society, compared to 24 % of evangelicals who are older than 30, according to the 2007 religious landscape survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.

Will the challenge be taken up, or will we continue to be dished out the tired old nostrums of the permissive society with little to back them up?

So far as I know there is no issue in our society today on which the old - line churches are giving effective leadership of the sort I have been outlining above.

It seems that you can not otherwise control yourself nor think of any reasons to behave well in society without your old - time Middle Eastern Hebrew fantasy threats and promises.

They said (this is the New York Times» summary) «in some cases they [the Roma] were simply following age - old Roma traditions and generally operate outside the norms of society in «the style of the Middle Ages.

He desires here to record his deep appreciation of the service of these men: Dr. Henry E. Allen, University of Minnesota, read the chapter on Moslem Sacred Literature; John Clark Archer of Yale University, on the Sikh Scriptures; Swami Akhilananda of the Ramakrishna Vedanta Society of Boston, and Swami Vishwananda of the Vedanta Society of Chicago, on Hindu Scriptures; Dr. Chan Wing - Tsit (W. T. Chan), Dartmouth College, on the Chinese Literature; Dr. Clarence H. Hamilton, of Oberlin Graduate School of Theology, on Buddhist Scriptures; Dr. D. C. Holtom, on the Japanese Sacred Books; Dr. Charles F. Kraft, of Garrett Biblical Institute, on the Old Testament; Dr. George E. Mendenhall, of Hamma Divinity School, on the Babylonian Literature; Dr. Ernest W. Saunders of Garrett Biblical Institute, on the New Testament; and Dr. John A. Wilson of the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, on the Egyptian Literature.

God started with a small party in a garden, moved on toward some pow - wows at alters in the desert, then moved into a moveable tabernacle (kind of like an Old Testament RV), then reigned in a temple (especially the God - cave of the Holy of Holies, then disappeared while giving the Jews the silent treatment for some 400 years, then came back to the temple, then traveled the highways and byways with anyone who wanted to join the fun and whooped it up with society's outcasts and wedding attenders, then moved on to some public forums, then into some clandestine home groups and a few jail cells, and eventually made his way into traditional church as we now know it.

Jewish society has always been patriarchal, and Matthew leans heavily on the ideas and practices of the Old Testament.

The findings are supported by Bible Society's earlier «Pass it On» report, in which 43 % of eight to fifteen year olds indicated they had never read, seen or heard the story of the Crucifixion of Jesus.

Like I said, its hard to argue with older members of society.

As feminists lifted to consciousness the age - old pattern of male domination and destroyed its self - evidence, they could call for a post-patriarchal society.

These essays make a large distinction between the place of the old in society and their place in the church.

Future generations will again pose the question of truth as an element of society, hence the old question of the ecclesiality of Christian truth is still a new question.

That is the focus of the Old Testament's Jubilee proclamation, a policy designed to reduce the excesses of greed and to avoid splitting society into landed and landless factions.

The role of work is an old theological problem dressed up in new clothes in an industrial / technological society.

Ironically, it is some of those dissident elements of the old tradition that may well contain seeds of the religious dimension of the future global society.

Our society is not the same as that of first century Palestine, where families were close - knit and stable and elders were respected and those few who lived to a ripe old age could count on living out their years as an honored member of an extended family.

Bultmann incorporated what he regarded as the results of these previous inquiries, but his own scholarly interests took him in other directions, for he was not moved by the old fascination with historical research, the life of the church in society, or the life of Jesus.

Of course, some people will cling to this old paradigm for as long as possible, just like we have people who belong to the Flat Earth Society, who believe the creation story in Genesis is to be taken literally, and who believe the lunar landing is a hoax.

Moreover, it is arguable that the Whiteheadian analysis of the self is morally unacceptable; for insofar as each momentary self is held responsible for the actions of its predecessors in the personally ordered society of which it is a member, the Whiteheadian analysis involves the Old Testament practice of visiting the sins of the fathers on the sons.

This is a society in which money and power are more important than people, health is a negotiable commodity, old - age a curse, worker slavery a new form of more profitable production, the poor are disposable, and the earth's destruction an increasing reality.

Indeed, this age - old dilemma is at the heart of much contemporary political debate between democratic socialists and democratic capitalists in modern Western societies.

To critics of this type its stories sound like quaint old myths that are rather interesting vestiges of a primitive society but of no particular significance.

Islamic society is regarded as the inheritor of the centuries - old interaction of East and West, and a transmitter of classical and Persian culture.