Sentences with phrase «old collection of»

I want to update it rather than filling it with my old collection of rose tea cups and such.

It is here in the office in the accessories — an old collection of yellow national geographics, yellow pencils, baskets, and even on the screensavers of our 3 computers!

Michael Doret grew up in Brooklyn, New York near the tattered remains of the wonderful old collection of amusement parks known as Coney Island.

The good news is that Jennifer managed to extricate herself from most of her old collection of high - fee funds without paying heavy penalties.

I converted much olf my old collection of txt files and pdfs into ebpub using Calibre, and I mail these to myself and usually read them in ibooks.

My only MG is a 5 - year - old collection of short stories (short stories, collections and otherwise, are always hard to sell), but I was never tempted to go ahead with the novels I'd had planned for those characters, not based on those ebook sales.

This nasty, smelly old collection of subway cars really was nothing like a modern clean train.

An almost 5,000 - year - old collection of precious stones may be the earliest evidence of shamanic rituals in Central America

Buffeted by the shifting winds of human genome research, government officials have decided to close an 8 - year - old collection of human gene maps maintained by Johns Hopkins University.

I found this recipe in an old collection of camp counselling ideas that I had held onto from my early 20's.

What a life to constantly have to say to yourself; «Hmmm, don't know what to think here... let's turn to this 2000 year old collection of stories from uneducated goatherders to see what they have so say... hmmm, very abstract....

So many words and so much time devoted to torturing meaning from a thousands year old collection of writings.

Abetted by both the «rights revolution» and the increasingly powerful environmental cause, the old collection of....

And no, a narrative in a 1500 - year old collection of short stories is not considered scientific evidence or proof of anything, no matter how many people believe it.

Again and again, Christians fall back on a 2000 year old collection of myths and fables.

Other than an old collection of supersti.tions and stories about talking snakes, burning bushes that speak, and commands to kill each other in the name of your imaginary sky ogre, you have none.

It is these oldest collections of sayings of Jesus that produced the picture of the real Jesus that I described at the beginning of this presentation.

(a) The block of chapters, 1 - 33, does not constitute an original unit, but results from the compilation of several older collections of material, each of which was gathered at a different time and by different hands.

Not exact matches

New Old Stock is a collection of antique photos, many taken by government agencies or discovered in estate sales.

Whether reminding us that we are but specks of dust in a big, fat world or the joy of growing old, this collection of poems is a wonderful break from the usual information and communication of daily life.

The challenge was that the IOC's digital archive was itself incomplete: it had only a rudimentary collection of historical materials — and some of those materials, especially older, pre-digital samples, contained errors.

California's fourth - largest metropolis offers a vast collection of neighbourhoods, all boasting their own unique personalities, including North America's oldest Chinatown, the gay and lesbian culture of the Castro, Haight - Ashbury's hippie heritage and the modern hipster - ness of Valencia Street.

Noting that «a lot of people in [Silicon] Valley» consider Apple to be «old - fashioned» when it comes to data collection and privacy, Jobs says that ultimately their goal is to make sure that people know what they're getting into, and what their data will be used for.

The photo collection features candid shots of Americans in old Halloween garb, in all their imperfections and unique grotesqueness.

Along the way, the 41 - year - old husband and father amassed a collection of luxury cars that has included a blue Ferrari 458 and a black Porsche Cayenne, according to state records.

Like Old Age Security and the Guaranteed Income Supplement, the Canada Pension Plan was placed under the general administration of the Department of National Health and Welfare, although the Department of National Revenue would take care of matters related to the collection of contributions.

Statutes of limitations offer consumers with old debts some protection from debt collection agencies.

If you have old balances of a significant amount and / or number, get quotes from a few different collection agencies.

A familiar but oldest payment collection platform called Bill desk is the backbone of this exchange.

Choosing only the finest materials and combining cutting edge manufacturing processes with age old skills of the craftsman we produce an unrivalled collection of traditional and contemporary styled razors, shaving brushes and shaving sets.

The Bible is just a disjointed collection of old myths, I have as much faith in it as the next Ponzi scheme.

The Bible is just a collection of old tribal stories to keep genealogies and establish some sort of behavior.

You get together and try to make sense of the Christian bible, as if it were a guidebook for living instead of a motley collection of old myths, political writing, poetry, and history.

The present volume is really a collection of studies, and it might easily have grown to twice its size if other topics had been included: for example the miracle stories — I should have liked to examine Alan Richardson's new book on The Miracle - Stories of the Gospels (1942)-- or a fuller study of the so - called messianic consciousness of Jesus, the theory of interim ethics, the relation of eschatology and ethics in Jesus» teachings — see Professor Amos N. Wilder's book on the subject, Eschatology and Ethics in the Teaching of Jesus (1939)-- the influence of the Old Testament upon the earliest interpretation of the life of Jesus — see Professor David E. Adams» new book, Man of God (1941), and Professor E. W. K. Mould's The World - View of Jesus (1941)-- or sonic of the topics treated in the new volume of essays presented to Professor William Jackson Lowstuter, New Testament Studies (1942), edited by Professor Edwin Prince Booth.

The bible is a collection of documents spread over a thousand years that itself is over 2,000 years old from an ancient culture no longer extant, and therefore should not be solely relied upon for a rule book for modern ethics.»

In the past two decades, the growing trend in both neuroscience and philosophy has been to counter the old reductionist tradition that we are nothing but a collection of neurons, nothing but the physical constituents of our bodies.

The venerable Durham Cathedral in England houses a manuscript containing a collection of eleventh - century Old English proverbs known as the Durham Proverbs.

The essays in Smith's persuasive book mostly concern how one collection of influential males (the new academic secularists) successfully wrested control of the institutions of national culture from another collection of influential males (the old Protestant leaders).

It brands accusations brought against the 50 - year - old from North Carolina as an «absurd collection of anonymous accusations, flights of fantasy, and random character assassination».

The original canon of Western Civilization was the collection of documents known to Christians as the Old and New Testaments.

At Joe's first mass, Father Stock, his old parish pastor and a money - grubber, takes advantage of having two newly ordained celebrants in his parish to take up a special collection.

The fashion industry is beginning to reflect this, with London's Selfridges store offering a «genderless shopping experience» with its gender neutral collections, and Louis Vuitton announcing 17 - year - old Jaden Smith (son of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith) as the new face of its womens - wear campaign, in early 2016.

I studied the bible intensely for almost 50 years; it is a collection of old myths that nobody should take seriously....

Some of the oldest and best authenticated collections of Sayings of the Lord were used in the composition of the Gospels, particularly the first and third, which taken together give a fairly full conspectus of the teaching of Jesus Christ.

(1) The collection of sayings of Jesus that in Luke 6 is called the Sermon on the Plain and in Matthew 5 - 7 the Sermon on the Mount is a very old collection originally composed as a unit in and of itself, with its own introduction, the Beatitudes, and its own conclusion, the twin parables of the houses built on rock or on sand.

In the 21st century, isn't it about time we stopped taking moral guidance from a collection of thousands - of - years - old stories that weren't very good guidance to begin with?

Thus the Old Testament is not to be read as an odd collection of curious stories and ideas from a remote and primitive world, any more than it should be taken, on all its levels indiscriminately, as a definitive statement of unchanging truth.

Produced in 2010, his most recent album, entitled Old Fashioned Hymns and Gospel Songs for Those Who Miss Them, is a collection of gospel songs featuring a number of guest artists.

As if the bible was anything more than just a spotty collection of old texts wrapped up together centuries ago.

«According to an oral memory of Joy's son Douglas [who would have been eight years old at the time], transcribed in the Marion E. Wade collection at Wheaton College, Illinois, the two of them were already lovers in 1955.