Sentences with phrase «on turn of the century»

A film of earthy passion and raw violence, it charts the volatile struggle between the socialist dream and the Fascist nightmare of Italy's agrarian past in the years between the World Wars, within a framework that opens on the turn of the century and the promise of the new century.

His current work consists of paintings and drawings on paper based on turn of the century French and German filet lace patterns, design - based imagery imbedded in instructional diagrams, and harkens back to the computerized digitization of 1980s era 8 - bit schemata.

The living room's slate - fronted fireplace encapsulates Viki's take on turn of the century meets contemporary.

Not exact matches

The best example I can think of in recent years is that of the POM Wonderful bottle which resembles, in large part, a turn - of - the - century barbell standing on one end.

At the privately - owned Castle Hotel & Spa — a refurbished turn - of - the - century castle perched above the Hudson on a sprawling hilltop in Tarrytown — evidence of the tourism push is tangible.

The series is based on the life of the drug lord himself, though the trailer — with images ranging from a turn - of - the - century bandit to Richard Nixon to Guzmán himself — suggests it may touch on the history of the war on drugs that has bound the US and Mexico in an often uneasy and frequently bloody relationship.

The first president of eBay is betting on millennial audiences to turn him from a web 1.0 dot - com billionaire into a 21st - century entertainment mogul.

A quarter - century down the line, analysts say, there's little reason to expect that the consumer will be more often flipping the pages of an e-book on their tablet computer than picking up a hardcover, and streaming video through their Web - enabled TV rather than turning on their Blu - ray player.

Also, after the technology bubble that occurred at the turn of the 21st century - one of the biggest bubbles of all time - people believed that another echo bubble was on the way.

He has indefinitely delayed the issuance of regulations on the use of, among other lethal substances, trichloroethylene, which has been known for more than half a century to turn drinking water into poison.

Canada's tax rate on corporate profits has fallen by more than 14 percentage points since the turn of the century, to just 15 percent this year.

Looking over three centuries of Greek experience, Aristotle found a perpetual triangular sequence of democracy turning into oligarchy, whose members made themselves into a hereditary aristocracy — and then some families sought to take the demos into their own camp by sponsoring democracy, which in turn led to wealthy families replacing it with an oligarchy, and so on.

The first decade of the 21st century, however, would bear witness to a spectacular turning point in the private launch timeline: the arrival on the scene of disruptive billionaire tech entrepreneurs with some truly ostentatious rocket - powered ambitions.

The next century will largely be determined by the company's response to aluminum's growing usage in key end markets, in turn, mitigating the effects of spot prices on operations.

Based purely on long - term cycles, a successful argument could be made that we have been in a secular commodity bull market since the turn of the century in 2000.

However, unlike the administration's failed attempt to turn the nation back to greater dependence on 19th century sources of fuel, its actions on trade are already having concrete impacts.

Thus university theology is characteristically in search of the very possibility of theology as such and tends, on the one hand, rarely to advance beyond prolegomena, programmatic probings, or an apologetic natural theology — unless it turns, on the other hand, with no little relief, to the very respectable study of the history of theology (as demonstrated, for instance, by the Bonhoeffer Society, the 19th Century Working Group of the AAR, the Tillich Working Group, or even the recently founded Karl Barth Society).

The issue was clearly focused at the three - quarter mark of the century by such developments as The Christian Century's series on «New Turns in Religious Thought» and an issue of Christianity and Crisis which asked, «Whatever Happened to Theology?century by such developments as The Christian Century's series on «New Turns in Religious Thought» and an issue of Christianity and Crisis which asked, «Whatever Happened to Theology?Century's series on «New Turns in Religious Thought» and an issue of Christianity and Crisis which asked, «Whatever Happened to Theology?»

He (and others) posit that the Muslim world turned it's back on science with the advent of fundamentalism around the 12th century — in the form of Al - Ghazali who (according to wikipedia) embraced a form of theological occasionalism, or the belief that all causal events and interactions are not the product of material conjunctions but rather the immediate and present Will of God.

Prayer but a shortened version of meditation that having come over the many centuries / as the art of true prayer in meditation was lost / where the focus of reality had turned to the external based on ideas belief / rather than practical spiritual experience of one turning the senses inward / thus knowing / not believing.

How we recall the struggle so manifestly going on in their minds as one after another spoke; their great fear of the Poonyatt Rajah, that he might curse them and turn them from the lands on which their ancestors had lived for centuries; their fear of the wrath of the demons; their hesitation to forsake what they and their ancestors had held sacred for centuries.

My contention is that it's been a focal point of church politics for centuries, and it is only now, when the tide of public opinion is turning, that the church isn't going to focus on it more.

As the church faced the cultural upheavals at the turn of the sixteenth century, the response was to attempt to preserve the established structures and to put a damper on creative initiative.

We all know, no doubt by heart, the Jesus of the Apostles» Creed, which has turned out to be based not on a text Jesus taught his disciples but rather on the baptismal confession developed in Rome in the second century and projected back onto the beginnings.

Islam turned its back on the science (mostly lifted from the Greeks and Romans) and the math (stolen from the Hindus that Islam was merrily murdering for being polytheists) and retreated into century after century of violent religious bigotry and intolerance.

Any student of the Græco - Roman world at the beginning of our era who tries to penetrate beneath the surface of the political, economic and military history of the period and discern what was going on in the minds of men, becomes aware of a widespread expectation of a turn for the better in human affairs, even the dawn of a golden age, after the violent convulsions which had disturbed society for a century or more.

Intentional reflection on the «foundation, motives and aim, and the nature of mission» has not been an integral component of modern missions.1 Now, at the turn of the twenty - first century, we are aware of the need to navigate a complex...

Much turns on the proper fifth - century translation of Greek words like «physis» and «hypostasis.»

And though, as I have said, this is a worldwide story, it centres on Ireland, for reasons we will go on to discuss, the most immediate of which was the publication last year of the report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse set up by the Irish government at the turn of the century.

On the other hand, they were captive of turn - of - the - century WASP models that called for assimilation, accommodation, homogeneity in American life.

Nicholas Frankovich's thesis about St. John is supported by scholars of distinction, but in that part of the essay, my point turns on the perception of the text, justified or otherwise, over the centuries.

I think most of the Americans are in lost... as most of them do not know who their father is and it is very unfortunate... even if they know who their father is, the mom has children from diff men outside of marriage... and while a child is being raised, watching what his / her parents do to enjoy their life... so things become normal when they grow up... like if you go back early nineteen century, women were not allowed to go to beach without being covered... and now it totally opposite... if you do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend before 15, the parents worries that their teenage has some problem... and lot more can be listed... And then you go to Church, what our children learn from there... they see in front of the Church an old man's statue with long beard standing with extending of both hand... some of the status are blank, white, Spanish and so on... so they are being taught God as an old dude... then you learn from Catholic that you pray to Jesus, Mother Marry, Saints, Death spirit and all these... the poll shows a huge number of young American turns to Atheism or believing there is no God and so on... Its hard to assume where these nations are going with the name of modernization... nothing wrong having scientists discovered the cure of aids or the pics from mars but... we should all think and learn from our previous generations and correct ourselves... also ppl are becoming so much slave of material things...

Thirdly, we turn to some Jewish beliefs of the first century which could have a bearing on the rise of the Easter faith.

If he is in a sensitive mood he may enter the Wadi Arab with bated breath, at each turn of the narrow glen almost expecting to meet face to face Thutmose's confident chariots moving northward to battle, as they did on that April morning nearly thirty - five centuries ago.

Tertullian famously queried around the turn of the third century CE (Prescription Against Heretics, 7).1 The question might just as well be turned on its head: What has Jerusalem to do with Athens?

As Angela described the many twists and turns of her mother's life, it dawned on me that Maria's life reflected the social and political transformations that defined life along the U.S. - Mexico border in the 20th century.

In a «great reversal» (Smith's term), evangelicals retreated from these reformist efforts around the turn of the century, fostering instead a social pessimism and an almost exclusive focus on evangelism and individual piety.

Almost a century and a half after Clement of Rome, Clement of Alexandria and his brilliant student Origen were self - consciously affirming, not that Christianity was like paideia, not that it could simply make use of received paideia, but that Christianity is paideia, given by God in Jesus Christ, turning on a radical conversion possible only by the Holy Spirit's help, and taught only indirectly by study of divinely inspired Scriptures in the social context of the church understood to be in some ways a school.

The turn began around the start of the new century when HBO's The Sopranos pushed Americans to question whether something had to be dumber just because it was on a smaller screen.

The most telling example of this is her comparison (complete with photographs) of turn - of - the - century women lounging on the beach in their terribly demure bathing suits and positively wicked grins, with the dull, distracted expressions of dutifully unrepressed nudists on their beach.

First, the American religious empiricists defend religion by placing it on a purely descriptive basis, using for this a radically empirical sensibility together with inductive generalization; but soon, as I have attempted to indicate, any circumspect reader can see the extent to which this description is loaded with temperamental and, possibly, contextual bias — and, further, by the specificity peculiar to Christianity and American turn - of - the - century neonaturalism.

Turning to SMW itself, it is surprising how insignificant are the references to Charles Darwin specifically or to the issue of evolution generally, even in Chapter VI on the «Nineteenth Century,» given the historical importance of Darwin in the development of modern science.

On this problem, too, the dividing line between the Reformers and ourselves fell in the 18th century, the period of the Enlightenment; and the pioneers were again the English Deists, who turned a skeptical eye to the wondrous events related in the Gospels.

Moses as well was Egyptian and on the exudes him and his people were turned to wander the deserts... those all from the area are descendants of those that were moving for centuries between reigns surrounding the area and they have every right for the holy land as any one else... Just remember that the ottoman army & leaders were all brought on their childhood from East Europian countries and then they got them educated and trained to lead the empire interests... So the people whom you call wanderers are decedents of such as those and Arabs of the Arabian Penisuler whom are known to trade between areas in what is called the Summer and Winter trade movement...

If food is destined to cost more, so be it — Americans spend an average of only 11 percent of their income on food now, while they spent more than 50 percent on food at the turn of the century.

Only 1 per cent view him as a «political revolutionary,» and the turn - of - the - century liberalism that saw him as moral teacher, prophet or itinerant preacher hardly shows up on the screen.

During the Victorian railway boom the railways expanded, and by the turn of the century Shepparton was central to a large network of regional branch lines on the Toolamba — Echuca railway line — lines leading to Cobram, Nathalia, Dookie, Picola and Katamatite.

The turn of the century brought more growth starting with the acquirement of the Sawyer House on the corner of School Street in «01 and later the Adirondack - inspired Cascade Lodge in «06.

The popularity of the dish exploded during the turn of the century when Irish immigrants in American were able to cheaply get their hands on this once hard to find meal.

Ken Burns turns his documentary eye on Jack Johnson, the champ who was a half century ahead of his time