Sentences with phrase «over the course of centuries of»

The common argument against the validity of scripture is that over the course of centuries of reproduction it must have accidentally or intentionally changed.

Not exact matches

«Over the course of the 17th and 18th centuries, masculinity and rationality became intimately linked.

«When we think back over the centuries that Lloyd's has been doing business, of course we understand that women weren't even in the workplace for several hundred years,» said Beale.

Well, consider that franchising, one of the great game changers for small business over the course of the last century, today accounts for over $ 1 trillion in total sales and employs approximately 15 % of the US workforce.

It's about the history of an iconic, globally powerful brand that represents an unlikely subject for a product that has gone from highly controversial to somewhat of a commodity over the course of half a century.

Researchers expect that as climate change makes wildfires more likely over the course of this century, deaths and illnesses attributed to pollution from wood smoke will rise too, even offsetting gains made from cleaning up emissions from industry.

California's critical energy and transportation infrastructure faces significant climate related risks over the course of the century, including more frequent and intense wildfires, prolonged drought, and accelerated sea - level rise.

I haven't kept exact count, of course, but over the past quarter - century I have surely read (or tried to read) a couple thousand books on investing.

In Hawthorne's tale vice and providence together render judgment, but it is a slow, steady hand that rights evils over the course of centuries.

And if, over the course of a century, you have enough of those sporadic upswings in persecution sprinkled through the years, people are going to remember that century as one of persecution.

the first, that in the course of half a century technology has advanced with incredible rapidity, an advance not just of scattered, localized technical developments but of a real geotechnology which spreads out the close - woven network of its interdependent enterprises over the totality of the earth;

Put together the subscription base of America, The Christian Century, Commonweal, Crisis, Commentary, and First Things and you arrive at a total of a little over one hundred thousand, and many of those readers of course subscribe to more than one.

Over the centuries, these «alien citizens,» still far from their true home in the New Jerusalem that is history's promised consummation, have followed the course of Christian fidelity in accepting responsibility for the well - being of what is their home in time before the End Time.

She deftly summarizes the emergence of New York as the nation's economic capital, the history of debates over slavery, the emergence of the women's suffrage movement, and countless other currents, all of which shaped the 19th - century U.S. and the course of Beecher's life.

For example, even though the laws in the Pentateuch probably emerged gradually over the course of centuries as people sought ways to live in community, what does it mean that these laws became viewed as stemming directly from God at one point in the life of Moses?

Regardless of which of them FIRST occurred to you, it should have dawned on you shortly thereafter that the meaning of the term had changed over the course of a century.

And of course you must agree than that the bible is also a book of stories told over the centuries and also changed over the centuries to focus on what was and is politically correct.

Over the course of those 14 centuries, tens of millions of Christians have been swallowed up into the Muslim world.

A single - volume history of Istanbul from the seventh century BC to the present is an ambitious project, for no city has seen as much religious and political change over the course of its history.

Yet conservatives developed their political philosophy over the course of centuries with no help from Darwinists, and with no reference to shifting Darwinian stories.

Over the course of three seasons, the crew also questioned American Imperialism when the crew arms a group of vulnerable primitive aliens with flintlock rifles, possibly sparking generations of conflict, and one cast member even references botched foreign policy «of the early 20th century.»

The decline has continued over the course of this century.

They are living structures with boundaries built up over the course of sometimes many centuries for the purpose of encoding, storing, retrieving, and transmitting to the next generation a very important kind of information.

Over the course of the last century, the modern university has ceased to attend to character formation, or it has imagined that such attention should be an «extra-curricular» enterprise having little or nothing to do with knowledge.

A less sophisticated illustration of this can be seen in the way that science fiction has envisioned various atheistic scientific futures: over the course of the past century such visions of the future have shifted from being utopias to being dystopias.

Conversation about community over the course of the last century has paralleled the conversation about culture.

At the centre of the narrative, of course, is John himself, the most famous English actor in that mid-nineteenth century European drama of the breakdown of church establishments all over the continent, from the Dutch Afscheiding to the Scottish Disruption.

Over the course of several centuries, the West had progressively abandoned Christianity's marital architecture for human sexuality.

It has been pointed out that «over the course of the first centuries of the empire... the noun passio (also derived from the same verb «to suffer») came to have a positive valuation to refer to the «passionate» experience of heterosexual intercourse, where the inferior role was properly played by a woman and in which the man experienced his rightful pleasure.

The problem, of course, is that over the centuries Christians have behaved toward Jews more like Cain toward Abel than like Joseph toward his brothers.

These factors provide a bit more specificity and precision to the more innocuous» sounding proposition that 1.5 percent of 150,000 priests under hundreds of bishops engaged in sexual abuse over the course of half a century.

The figure of Simonini unites the farraginous mass delusions of the latter half of the nineteenth century into a single tale; and what draws his otherwise pointless and vagrant existence into a unity is the slow gestation, over the course of his life, of the Protocols.

It does not have just one sound, of course, given the variety of its acoustic expressions over the centuries and across the globe, just as our vocal folds can generate more than words.

Some may conclude that 1.5 percent of 150,000 priests over the course of half a century is not such a big deal.

I do, of course, leave room for the use of literary techniques such as metaphor, hyperbole, and poetic imagery, and also allow for minor errors to have crept in through the process of copying manuscripts by hand over the centuries.

This is why true religious adherents are so singularly closed minded, and why the bad ideas fostered by religious thinking — like creationism — repeat themselves over the course of centuries.

Two centuries of judicial interpretation of the United States Constitution have demonstrated that when the Supreme Court veers off course in a particular case or series of cases, continued constitutional litigation over the issue involved serves to correct their heading.

New arts and sciences appear and are perfected over the course of a few centuries.

Far from conforming fully to the ideals of the faith as Western Europe of these centuries was, in that small fraction of the earth's surface Christianity had more nearly free course over a longer period of time than in any other part of the world.

The Bible is a collection of 73 books written over the course of many centuries.

Although the first cookies date back to 7th century Persia, which was one of the first countries to use sugar in making sophisticated sweets and desserts, the techniques quickly spread throughout Europe, and over the course of the centuries evolved into exquisite flavors, and shapes — buttery, nutty, spicy, chocolaty, filled with jam, dusted with sugar!

Over the course of the 20th century, progress in the foodservice industry meant figuring out how to make food last longer, taste better and look more appealing to consumers.

Not surprisingly, the media feeding frenzy has resulted, anecdotal evidence suggests, in a sharp drop in youth football registrations for this fall's season, with parents fearful that playing football will almost inevitably expose their kid to an unreasonable risk of injury (which, of course, is patently untrue; more than 7 million kids in the U.S. currently play football, very few of whom, statistically speaking and despite a few well - publicized cases - are likely to end up committing suicide because of the hits they sustained playing the sport, and millions upon countless millions who have played football over the past century without apparent ill effect).

First published in 2013, A Healing Landscape: Environmental and Social History of the Site of Mass Audubon's Boston Nature Center by Scholar - in - Residence Steven Pavlos Holmes, PhD, tells the stories of the people who have lived and worked on the land over the past two centuries — including early farming families, a Revolutionary war soldier, pioneering birdwatchers, the residents and staff of the Boston State Hospital, and, of course, the Clark Cooper Community Gardens and Mass Audubon.

Magna Carta was repeatedly reissued over the course of the following century, as the 1225 version passed onto the statute books and became the authoritative standard handed down to future generations.

There was, over the course of the 18th century, a growing chasm between the new economic activities characteristic of commercial societies and the traditional values espoused by republicanism.

A recent study of bank credit in 17 countries over the last 120 years by Oscar Jorda, Mauritz Schularick and Alan Taylor found that the share of mortgage loans in banks» total lending portfolios has roughly doubled over the course of the past century — from about 30 per cent in 1900 to about 60 per cent today.

He even had a walk on part in Eastenders - playing himself of course, an act he has perfected over nearly half a century.

Shelley of course couldn't have imagined any of this hubbub, and indeed her tale has been wildly distorted in the popular imagination over the past 2 centuries.

Over the course of the 20th century, researchers discovered many new particles interacting in many different ways.