Sentences with phrase «on modern times»

When I play a military shooter based on modern times, I want realism.

Agora proves that it is entire possible to have an old - school blockbuster (and I am talking Cecil B. DeMille and Alan Mann spectacle films with casts of thousands wearing togas and swords) coupled with science, mathematics and commentary on modern times nudge shoulders with romance, upheaval and politics of antiquity.

The past century and a half of papal teaching on modern times often seems a tangle: any number of different strands — theology, Thomistic philosophy, social theory, economics — all snarled together.

Or Russell Hittinger's path - breaking «Two Thomisms, Two Modernities»: «The past century and a half of papal teaching on modern times often seems a tangle: any number of different strands — theology, Thomistic philosophy, social theory, economics — all snarled together.

Not exact matches

In 2014, Halpern — who the New York Times recently dubbed the «hidden architect of modern comedy» — built a $ 7 million comedy club that focuses on long - form improv.

All were exciting departures from the standard fuselage - and - wings template that has plied the skies since the dawn of modern commercial air travel, but, excitement or not, don't count on boarding one any time soon.

Our modern world is a frenzy of endless digital connectivity, so many of us are finding it increasingly difficult to stay focused on one task at a time.

At the same time, Fisman and Sullivan take on some of the favorite punching bags of modern office culture — meetings, middle managers, expense reports, and the cubicle — and argue why there's good reason for them.

«You have to stop thinking of relating metallic value to value of the medal,» said Jim Greensfelder, a one - time Proctor & Gamble executive, software entrepreneur and former elected city government official who wrote «the bible» on the history of the modern Olympic Games medals.

The only time you'll likely notice its non-HD screen is when reading, as text may be more pixelated than what you're used to on a modern smartphone.

Another challenge is to strike the appropriate tone at a time when the initial shock over the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history has quickly given way to a vicious political brawl in Washington and on the campaign trail.

Clinically depressed and occasionally contemplating suicide, she considered herself as «poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless,» and later would look back on that time in her life and say she was «the biggest failure I knew.»

But Mackey, who co-authored a bestselling book on the theme in 2013, has become the closest thing to a modern - day spokesman for an idea that, dare we say, has found its time.

The beverage brand has also embraced modern times in the form of an Instagram marketing campaign, popping up on a handful of meme - centric accounts.

«There's nothing like walking from the 1st floor of a modern looking expensive, trendy restaurant until you get out of the public area and go down the creaky unpainted wooded stairs and find a basement with damp stone foundation walls, puddles of water on the ground, and a crew of people cooking soup in a 10 gallon pot which is on the ground at the time.»

The Apple (aapl) executive also commented on the First Amendment, which protects free speech — adding that at the time the founding fathers established this idea, there were no app developers, modern content creators, and other new forms of speech, notes 9 to 5 Mac.

It is simply an add - on for modern times, a way of looking for a more complete picture of a company rather than one that separates the company from its context and only looks at its quantifiable assets and liabilities.

The two - time university drop - out is well known for creating the biggest business software company in the world and taking on competitors like IBM and Microsoft to help define the modern technological age.

In the modern sales game, a vendor must nail two things: 1) Timing (knowing when to reach out, and 2) Expertise (demonstrating their expert status on a prospect's current environment, pain points, and initiatives).

That means on - demand office space that you can use full - time or part - time, complete with modern business technology.

«But this is the first time in modern history that the Chinese markets are on the global radar screen.»

In his keynote at Modern Customer Experience, Shashi Seth, SVP of Oracle Marketing Cloud, said that shift to revenue goals reflects the changed world we live in — a cord - cut world where users spend more time on technology, more time in their social spaces, more time seeking instant gratification.

Well we do offer traditional moving services or rather services that have being around for a long time, but we are also keen on addressing the needs of the modern customers.

We've spent time learning about various investment strategies for retirement based on Modern Portfolio Theory.

The massive spaceship will not only ferry people around on Earth in minuscule amounts of time compared to modern jet travel.

This time the criticism focused on a supposed lack of relevance to modern business.

That's why Hug Your Haters is the first - ever customer service book for modern times — it's based on the realities of customer expectations TODAY, not one, five, or 20 years ago.

With the experience of the past to draw upon and a large and growing set of studies on how different forms of employee share ownership and profit sharing work in modern settings, it is time to examine how ownership and profit - sharing policies can help make U.S. capitalism more efficient and equitable in the current economic environment.

Platinum is among the rarest precious metals on the planet and the modern needs of the human race dictates that its value will only increase over time.

Eve Tushnet has written beautifully on a vision of friendship for gay Catholics, encouraging them to recover a fundamental aspect of the Catholic tradition of human ecology that has been missing in modern times.

Historian Paul Johnson commented on the advance of atheism in modern history:» Nietzsche wrote in 1886:» The greatest event of recent times — that God is dead, that the belief in the Christian God is no longer tenable — is beginning to cast its first shadows over Europe.»

In modern times, we impose limits on our artists, and, as we do so, we draw walls around our subculture.

They have the strongest family values that I have seen in modern times and most all Mormon's have gone abroad on two year missions afterwhich they also serve in the military.

Daniel: «I just don't put such a high priority on aligning my thinking to this modern time or any time in history.»

If you are not permitted to challenge the Bible, then you will have a very hard time challenging modern psych as well, for they both take on the very unquestionable personality of the same alleged authority.

I mean that the atom bomb hid from us the ending going on all around us, and that far from destroying modern times, the atom bomb kept modern times alive for nearly fifty years.

But believers share with postmoderns the recognition that truth rests on a faith that has itself been the sole subject of the long attack of modern times.

• We've had bad experiences in modern times with the immanent eschatologies of the people who wanted to build heaven on earth or reestablish Eden — with Marxists and all the rest, who demanded, in one way or another, that the ultimate purposes of humankind be achieved.

The ban on contraception was put in by Paul VI in the 60s without real thought about modern times.

One regrets that in the interview Percy did not underline more firmly the relation of this fascination with the unreal as if real, this malaise of the modern mind, by turning to that other hero, who once for all rescued sign in relation to place, the Christ on the altar, in Whom the Word is a presence orienting time and place, the abiding Signpost in the desert.

In spite of the Emperor's nutty Luddism, as well as the fact that it was excessively dependent on foreign capital, Vienna was moving forward into modern times at an extraordinary rate: «The great public works which were inaugurated by the building of the Ringstrasse went alongside an equally spectacular renewal of the infrastructure.

Such hysterical contagion continues in modern times, merely taking on new forms.

In his fair and generally sympathetic review of my book Bergson and Modern Physics, David Sipfle raised some important and significant questions which clearly show how extremely complex the questions concerning the nature of time are and how difficult it is to agree on their solutions even for those who share a basic philosophical view.

(CNN)- The race for the Republican presidential nomination is on track to break new ground: For the first time in modern political history - some say ever - the GOP nominee could be someone who is not a Protestant Christian.

The continuity between man and the animals on the bodily level has become increasingly evident in modern times.

In the first place, these theologians are on the whole convinced that God is at work in the revolutionary movement of modern times.

For the first time in modern history, we have had Popes who as young priests met and worked with women at university as a matter of course and on ordinary terms.

We easily regard as the defeat and regression of the Church in modern times what is actually only the social manifestation of a state which has always existed, even in the so - called good old days, because even then people, on the average, had but little faith, hope and love of God and men.

The text of the modern day Bible has surely gone through a similar ordeal through the passage of time, as many many many men have had their hands on shaping the text that we read today.

we are discussing on the mentality of the people in their times in the past, not todays modern educated ones.Of course if you were the ones in the past you were a hardened atheist.