Sentences with phrase «on germanic»

Last year Polish duo Lichthund released Lichtspeer, a pleasantly daft spear - throwing game based on Germanic myths.

Launched in September, IHG's Indigo Tianjin Haihe is located on Germanic Street in the Hexi district, close to the Hai River.

The battles near Alken Enge were waged during that part of the Iron Age when major changes were taking place in Northern Europe because the Roman Empire was expanding northwards, putting pressure on the Germanic tribes.

One could argue that that distinction was based on a Germanic assessment of Celtic people, and in fact, uncomfortably close to the Nazi view that Slavic people were subhuman, despite their blond hair and blue eyes.

Not exact matches

According to Nazi intellectuals, cherished holiday traditions drew on winter solstice rituals practiced by «Germanic» tribes before the arrival of Christianity.

By contrast, Front National leader Marine Le Pen, currently leading the opinion polls in France's Presidential elections due in May, routinely attacks the ECB's policy as too tight and Germanic (albeit she recently diluted her comments on taking France out of the euro into something much less coherent than the brutal «Frexit» she threatened earlier).

On the whole, the Latin races have leaned more towards the former way of looking upon evil, as made up of ills and sins in the plural, removable in detail; while the Germanic races have tended rather to think of Sin in the singular, and with a capital S, as of something ineradicably ingrained in our natural subjectivity, and never to be removed by any superficial piecemeal operations.

There were some influential neo-paganists in the Nazi Party, such as Heinrich Himmler and Alfred Rosenberg, but they were a minority and their views had little influence on Nazi ideology and Hitler denounced Germanic paganism in his autobiographical «Mein Kampf» and condemned Rosenberg's and Himmler's paganism as «nonsense».

HE wasn't from the Caucas mountains, he wasn't germanic, he wasn't Aryan, it» pretty clear here... on this one.

There is the famous remark made by Tillich, in his Germanic English, to fellow theologian Langdon Gilkey towards the end of Tillich's life, «Vy, Langdon, am I so soon on ze dust heap of history?»

He raised armies, successfully withstood the attacks of the Lombards, the latest of the Germanic barbarians to invade Italy, made his authority respected in Italy, Sicily, Gaul, Spain, and North Africa, attempted to curb the abuses in the Church in the Frankish domains, inaugurated the Roman mission to Britain, preached frequently, endeavored to enforce clerical celibacy, prompted monasticism and improved the quality of life in some of the houses which were lapsing from their professed ideals, and was the author of voluminous writings on theology that were long standard in the West.

As we have seen and will remind ourselves a little later, on entering the Empire many of the Germanic peoples were Arian Christians, and were separated from the Roman population, which was Catholic.

Through them, as through the monastic and popular, often «heretical,» movements, and through the Papacy and other ecclesiastical organizations, Christianity was being assimilated by the Germanic peoples, and these peoples were placing on it a distinctive stamp.

In the fifth century the West Goths (Visigoths) established themselves in Spain; the Vandals, defeated by the West Goths in Spain, moved into North Africa and with their fleets ravaged the Western Mediterranean; the East Goths (Ostrogoths) made themselves masters of Pannonia on the upper Danube; the Burgundians moved into Gaul; the Franks began that conquest of Gaul which in succeeding centuries made them the dominant Germanic power in Western Europe; and Anglo - Saxons moved into Britain.

History based on a social - kerygmatic interpretation of data covers the early and mid-20th-century methods known by the Germanic phrases «form criticism,» «tradition criticism» and «redaction criticism.»

The Wittenberg Luther found on leaving his refuge disturbed him deeply and led him to voice caution to the forces of change in both church and secular life, and to produce a flow of pastoral writings on all manner of subjects intended to restore order to Germanic society.

However, the most dread obstacle on 96th Street was an elderly blonde crab, who might have been German but was most certainly Germanic.

The centuries of isolation and all those wars between the Germanic tribes to the north and Latins on the south have left the place with a language all its own, called Ladin, and a people who are quietly proud to belong to the valley, not the country.

Records kept by the Romans describe the macabre rituals practised by the Germanic peoples on the bodies of their vanquished enemies, but this is the first time that traces of an ancient holy site have been unearthed.

The white girl with the big hoop earrings, the (fake) diamond stud in her nose, and the tattoo on her left tit of a phoenix, butterfly The Germanic peoples (also called Teutonic, Suebian, or Gothic in older literature) are an Indo - European ethno - linguistic group of Northern European origin

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The arrival of the film noir coincided with a new penchant, inspired by Italian neorealism, for moving out of the studio on occasion and onto the great rich set of the American city and its suburbs, a readily available set which became, sometimes with only minimal adjustment of light and shadow, fully as «Germanic» as anything constructed at Ufa in the Twenties.

High up there, it does genuinely sound like the Gallardo to which it's related, but in true Germanic fashion it's turned down to seven on the volume dial — it's like smooth orange juice as opposed to the full - blooded stuff with bits in.

Identifying a new «R» will take a trained eye: the changes are minimal, in the usual Germanic facelift style, and centre on an arguably more aggressive frontal design treatment and LED lighting front and rear.

After all, as Land Rover Design Director Gerry McGovern points out, the new vehicle sheds the rigid, overly square, Germanic lines of its immediate predecessor, which was designed and engineered under BMW ownership in the late 1990s and went on sale in America in 2002.

At that money most people will accept less power and fewer toys for a Germanic badge on the front.

There's no doubt that the Macan's interior feels a cut above those of its rivals, but thanks to widespread use of the colour black, it can still be a fairly dour and Germanic place to be depending on which model you're looking at.

There's a host of typically Germanic technology on offer, too, with Audi drive select, active shock absorber control and dynamic steering among the options.

Step on it, select Sport and the 4.0 V8 bi-turbo howls more like a car of northern Italian provenance than a Germanic two - tonne luxury four - seater.

We admire the Golf on many levels: Its 1.8 - liter turbo engine is powerful and efficient, the no - nonsense interior is mature, well - finished, and easy to use, and its Germanic road manners make it feel comfortable and competent.

The Bimmer on the other hand is a Germanic thoroughbred with some of the richest heritage in the automotive business.

However, Leofric is less certain of the man's guilt and comes up with an elaborate plan to reveal the true killer.Set in Angeln on the Jutland peninsula, homeland of the Angle people, Leofric: Sacrifice is a Dark Age short - story set against the Germanic migrations that lead to the creation of the new Angle, Jute and Saxon kingdoms in the east of Roman Britain - the Angle - Lands.

The British, still torn by Alsatian vs. Germanic factions, have not adopted the exact wording that would signify compliance with the FCI (world all - breed kennel club or association) breed Standard, which is the SV - WUSV document with the FCI stamp on it.

It was a party hostel filled to the brim with German high - schoolers running around on Adderall and shouting up the antique stairwell at the top of their strong Germanic lungs.

Due to its affluence and ideal location for trade, Majorca was an ideal target for pirates operating in the area, most notably the Germanic Vandals - who raided the city on numerous occasions during the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

The paint seems to have been laid on with an almost Germanic vehemence, as if she had begun paying close attention to painters like Georg Baselitz or Markus Lüpertz or Martin Kippenberger.

Lindner's Germanic sensibility led him to focus on forest interiors in the north, to close - up «portraits» of rotting stumps in watercolour and acrylic.

Despite some local protests, the town council instituted «bavarianization» in order to create a cohesive experience to the visitor: a schedule of annual events and the imposition of new tax laws, zoning regulations, architectural elements, and even a limited set of Germanic typefaces, on all commercial enterprises.

But will McDonald's new, Germanic design sensibilities demonstrate a true commitment to the environment or prove to be a side of super-sized greenwash?It depends on how you see it.

Further, our competence reflects a deep understanding of the duality of the Cameroonian legal system which is based on civil law (Romano - Germanic system of law) on the one hand and the Common law system on the other hand.

A teacher of German not only has the responsibility of successfully conveying the basics of the language to the student but also assess the influences on the language, its origins and its relations to other Germanic languages.