Sentences with phrase «period in human history»

«Baby boomers like me have enjoyed the most benign period in human history.

More important is the acknowledgement, demonstrated by the action of world's most important oil producer, of the beginning of the end of the most prosperous period in human history — the age of oil.

At one earlier period in human history, women attained almost as great a degree of freedom and justice as in Euro - America in 1930.

This striking fact means that the seventeenth century is a very special period in human history.

The discovery of cave art in Sulawesi from that same period in human history means prehistoric Europe was not the only haven for cave artists.

The new projections are based on leading research into contemporary and historical climate data, but also new scientific reconstructions of the only comparable period in human history: the last Ice Age.

«The swastika is a symbol of a terrible period in human history.

Neuroscientists believe that the answer lies deep within our subconscious mind and the brain processes that evolved to adapt to a much earlier period in our human history.

By the term «axial» Jaspers intends to designate a major transitional period in human history and in our species» understanding of reality.

Posted on June 17 on the bioRxiv preprint server, the research supports archaeological evidence about the multiple origins of farming, and represents the first detailed look at the ancestry of the individuals behind one of the most important periods in human history — the Neolithic revolution.

These types of plants, vegetables, and fruits may have been grown during earlier periods in human history, but are not used in modern large - scale agriculture.

Some great comedies have arisen from the darkest periods in human history.

A majority of his works is based on the question of race and slavery, and that is one of the darkest periods in the human history, whose consequences are evident up to this very day.

Low solar activity has been connected with cold periods in human history, while high levels of solar activity have been connected with warming periods, like the recent one from the 1950s to 1998.

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Only for a brief period in the history of the West — the period of modern times — did anyone seriously suppose that human beings could hold knowledge without God.

These are positive advances in the background of large scale violations of human rights in periods of human history.

What is more, the direction of groups in general, at least in the later periods of human history, has been toward the suppression of the elements of personal relation in favour of the elements of pure collectivity.

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.

In the first chapter of my book Through the Moral Maze, * I talk about the most significant of those periods of great intellectual change in human history, the so - called «Axial Period» about 2,5 OO years ago, also sometimes called the period of «The Great Awakening.&raquIn the first chapter of my book Through the Moral Maze, * I talk about the most significant of those periods of great intellectual change in human history, the so - called «Axial Period» about 2,5 OO years ago, also sometimes called the period of «The Great Awakening.&raquin human history, the so - called «Axial Period» about 2,5 OO years ago, also sometimes called the period of «The Great Awakening.&Period» about 2,5 OO years ago, also sometimes called the period of «The Great Awakening.&period of «The Great Awakening.»

There have been other periods like this in human history.

In brief, my response to this fundamental affirmation of liberal Protestantism would he that the idea of the ultimate value and reality of the individual is historically limited to the classical period of modern Western culture, and that it can have neither a living meaning nor a truly human form in a post-modern or post-liberal period of historIn brief, my response to this fundamental affirmation of liberal Protestantism would he that the idea of the ultimate value and reality of the individual is historically limited to the classical period of modern Western culture, and that it can have neither a living meaning nor a truly human form in a post-modern or post-liberal period of historin a post-modern or post-liberal period of history.

We know very little about the first epoch of human history, that four million years or so when humans lived in an oral mode, because during that period they left almost no records of their existence.

Jesus stated that during our time period (that is called his invisible «presence» at Matthew 24:3, the KJV and other Bibles inaccurately reads «coming»), pseudo Christians or false Christians would be busy (along with the rest of the «world») with the mundane affairs of life, getting married, having children, eating and drinking, in which Jesus compared to the «days of Noah», and with the exception of Noah and his family, pseudo Christians would «take no note» that they were living during a critical juncture in human history.

site the washing of the feet and the drying with the hair... that my friends is a marriage ceremony in Judaic law and custom of that period and yes they did have a daughter named Sarah) but... not it seems to be a shock to many who really did not dig into their own religious dogma... blind faith is great if you can achieve it... normally people today need to inspect... inspect and you find the truths... then you will have faith based on the truth, not twists and turns and the human politics of history that changed historical truth.

Perhaps also sheerly by being written it would give some intellectualization to the fact that again, in the present period of human history, those great religions seem in some degree to be in process of ceasing to be quite so separate, even perhaps of ceasing to be quite so surely entities.43

We are learning about women in history, both individual women whose contributions have been ignored or forgotten, and the masses of women in all cultures and periods of history who have had tremendous influence on the evolution of human society, from the invention of agriculture to the «keeping of the faith.»

The Middle Ages were one of the most outstandingly creative periods in the whole of human history.

The judge presiding over the sentencing in an international criminal court near The Hague said Mr. Taylor had been found guilty of «aiding and abetting, as well as planning, some of the most heinous and brutal crimes recorded in human history» and that the lengthy prison term underscored his position at the top of government during that period.

The White House approved a report that found the earth is experiencing the warmest period in the history of civilization and humans are to blame, despite the fact that it directly contradicts much of the Trump administration's position on climate change.

Matt Cosad Climate change is happening rapidly, but it is arrogant of humans to believe that this period in earth's history is apocalyptic https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7276/abs/nature08649.html

[7] Human skeletal research is, therefore, vital for a more comprehensive understanding of this time period in Cambodian history.

William Ruddiman has proposed the early anthropocene hypothesis, according to which the anthropocene era, as some people call the most recent period in the Earth's history when the activities of the human race first began to have a significant global impact on the Earth's climate and ecosystems, did not begin in the eighteenth century with the advent of the Industrial Era, but dates back to 8000 years ago, due to intense farming activities of our early agrarian ancestors.

«Today, we live in an unusually cold period in the history of life on earth and there is no reason to believe that a warmer climate would be anything but beneficial for humans and the majority of other species.»

Added to this list of potential body toxins, petrochemicals, industrial waste, medical and street drugs, radiation (X-rays, nuclear fallout etc.) and tons of pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides, the result is an incredible chemical avalanche to have befallen the human race in a relatively short period of evolutionary history.

The Wind Rises grounds a human, personal story in a complex period of Japanese history and balances the tone well between nostalgic whimsy and harsh historical reality.

Their primary purpose though is to attempt to enrich what we're seeing with authentic human moments in a film where no period of history, even ones centuries before the invention of gunpowder, is safe from explosions that propel bodies like debris in graceful slow - motion arcs.

Many may wish to give the film a spot in their collections too, whether if it's as one of the 1980s» biggest blockbusters, as one of the Walt Disney Company's earliest and most successful Touchstone films, or more likely, as an amusing human drama which provides a unique and compelling take on a cinematically well - tread period of history.

In a new exhibit in London's Science Museum, «Robots — The 500 - Year Question to Make Machines Human,» depicts the 500 - year history of humanoid robots as a way to understand what was expected of robots in five different periods and settingIn a new exhibit in London's Science Museum, «Robots — The 500 - Year Question to Make Machines Human,» depicts the 500 - year history of humanoid robots as a way to understand what was expected of robots in five different periods and settingin London's Science Museum, «Robots — The 500 - Year Question to Make Machines Human,» depicts the 500 - year history of humanoid robots as a way to understand what was expected of robots in five different periods and settingin five different periods and settings.

Over an extremely short period of time in human history, power in the form of information shifted from a top - down to a horizontal democratic model.

He presided over the most tumultuous period in United States history, blazed a path for freedom and human dignity, and shaped a new vision for a still - young union.

To meet growing consumption demand, humans have impacted ecosystems more rapidly and extensively since 1950 than in any comparable period in our history.

This terrifying period in history often proves to be literary gold dust as authors explore the reactions of human beings forced into situations far beyond their control.

In related research, Viviani, Revelli, and Fall (2015) studied a short history that covers the global financial crisis, from 2006 to 2012, and concluded that companies with better social responsibility scores, including those linked to human resources, as provided by Vigeo Eiris, had lower downside risk during this period based on Value - at - Risk statistics.

Bajra Sandhi Monument is comprising of 33 diorama depicting the journey history from a period of prehistory (300.000 S.M) what its human being still go about and very base on the nature until the period of filling the independence (1950 - 1975) where Bali Island is built in all areas like politics, economic, and social cultural.

This phenomenon is not particular to this movement or time period, but rather, as Nochlin notes, to the plight of women throughout art history and human history in general.

This phenomenon is not particular to this movement or time period, but rather, as Nochlin notes, to the plight of women throughout art history and human history in general... Many of the most prominent female abstractionists socialized with their ale counterparts, or were involved in relationships with male artists.

Anthropocene, as you likely know, is the term applied increasingly by a range of scientists and others to this period in Earth and human history in which our species is influencing a host of planetary systems in big ways with long - lasting consequences.

We are changing the climate, but remember we are also going through mineral resources very fast, population is still exploding near exponentially, we are altering the entire landscape and biosphere of the planet often in destructive ways, and loading up future generations with huge levels of financial debt, all at the same time, and within a very short time period of human history.

wmar (3) wrote «All through human history we and society thrived in the warmest periods and suffered in the coldest.»

«Today, we live in an unusually cold period in the history of life on earth and there is no reason to believe that a warmer climate would be anything but beneficial for humans and the majority of other species.»