Sentences with phrase «point in its history as»

«We're at the first point in our history as humans where we might actually have some observations from other planets that we can use to test any of these ideas about life beyond our own,» says Lenardic.

The dangers of accepting a specific point in history as prove of a group's right to that land becomes apparent in examples such as the 1919 Paris Peace Conference:

A retailer at 13 times earnings is often a bad use of your research time, because it's unlikely to have absurdly high market power (due to the industry it's in) and it's unlikely to be absurdly cheap (13 times earnings is a pretty ho - hum price that most stocks hit at some point in their history as a public company).

Like an unreliable narrator he engages the audience with narratives that find their starting point in history as well as in personal stories, to finally being misrepresented or, better, reinterpreted in a series of endless and convoluted layers.

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The disintegration of investment in nonresidential structures and machinery and equipment subtracted almost a full percentage point from GDP; only 2009 and 1982 were worse in that regard, and neither of those years stand out as high points in Canada's economic history.

But the developments on Monday make it clear that, as this and the other threads surrounding the multiple investigations into Trump and his associates continues, the boundaries of legal precedent are being tested in ways unlike any other point in modern history.

Berman's death was one of a handful of unsolved cases — all of which shared Durst as a suspect — at the center of The Jinx, which aired last year and covered Durst's history of run - ins with the law as well as his ability, to that point, to wrangle away from any major conviction of wrongdoing.

As many others have already pointed out, Amazon's recent announcement that it will build a second headquarters in North America has set in motion what will become one of the biggest competitions in history among state and local governments for a corporate expansion project.

While the volumes of marketing research can point to the brands that are held in high regard in a given state — and why — much can be determined about a state's preference from something as simple as its Google search history.

The major index had the biggest point loss in its history, though its recent months of rapid growth means that as a percentage total the dip was less than 5 %.

And as a few of your readers pointed out, odds are there will still be something left from my investable assets as well, as they would only be exhausted, under the 3 % rule, if my future is as bad as the worst 50 - year period in history.

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In fact, looking back at history can offer some valuable insights as to how certain major benchmarks have behaved leading up to critical turning points.

However, living in India and having worked as analytics provider for a brick and mortar and ecommerce giant based in US, I can tell few points from my experience: 1: Ecommerce in India: There is a lot of potential but challenges are equally crippling: a: Flipkart recently got devalued from 15 to 11 billion and has failed to post profits in its entire history of existence.

As a result, even though expected returns on stocks were actually negative on a 10 - 12 year horizon in 2000, and are presently 0 - 2 % on that horizon, the expected return on a traditional portfolio mix is actually lower at present than at any point in history except the 1929 and 1937 market peaks.

This is not a discussion of whether Bitcoin is fraudulent or not, this comes down to a discussion of whether collectively as individuals at this point in history we want to put our faith in a currency backed by a centralized system or decentralized system.

The author, Christopher Jones, points out that stock owners already have exposure to real estate as large public corporations own most of the commercial real estate in the U.S. Given the short history of REITs, he is not convinced that they provide «meaningful» diversification and points out that home owners already have enough real estate in their household assets.

As they age, and given that folks are living longer today than any point in history, there is going to be massive demand for skilled nursing, assisted living, and independent living (Senior Community) facilities as well as all the square footage for offices to support those networkAs they age, and given that folks are living longer today than any point in history, there is going to be massive demand for skilled nursing, assisted living, and independent living (Senior Community) facilities as well as all the square footage for offices to support those networkas well as all the square footage for offices to support those networkas all the square footage for offices to support those networks.

This is a critical time for the British, European and global economies; a decisive period for reform of the global financial system including its leading financial centre, the City of London; and a crucial point in the Bank of England's history as it accepts vital new responsibilities.»

October has a frightful history of market crashes such as in 1929, 1987, the 554 - point drop on October 27, 1997, back - to - back massacres in 1978 and 1979, Friday the 13th in 1989 and the 733 - point drop on October 15, 2008.

«After seven years of the most accommodative monetary policy in U.S. history, the Fed on Wednesday, as widely expected, approved a quarter - point increase in its target funds rate.

With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work in times of dislocation.

@fimilleur from time to time mankind experiences the presence of God, there have been and continue to be events that testify to the presence of Him.The multiple gods you continually point to have an unique difference from the God who first revealed His presence to ancient men i.e. the Hebrews.The particular gods you mention roman etc. are all man made and in many instances men themselves i.e. hercules, but even the ancient greeks realized the limitations of their understanding and included an «unknown» God in their worship structure.many cultures did likewise, having a glimpse of God but not the fullness of understanding that was given to the Jews.Whether or not «we» believe, does not alter the fact that God exists as an unique being, whether or not «we» acknowledge Him «we» will stand before Him.You do not choose to understand, but we are actually standing in His presence right now as He is much bigger than the doctrines and knowledge man ascribes to Him those things you find so questionable are the misconceptions and misrepresentations of God made by men throughout history.

Of course, all that Paul VI did, as Anscombe among many other unapologetic Catholics then and since have pointed out, was reiterate what just about everyone in the history of Christendom had ever said on the subject.

As a matter of fact, if you go, I don't know, to a museum, you might find some of the proof of those other histories (outside of the tiny point christianity occupies in thousands of years of human history).

The first thing that must be said, however — a point only faintly adumbrated in the WCC statement's suggestion that Jesus had redefined the family — is that the fellowship of the kingdom of God, though it may be spoken of as a family, is neither generated nor sustained through biological transmission of life nor by the love given and received in the history of our families.

So if you have a triune god who is father, son, and holy ghost but you have a mother of the human manifestation of father / son god — then Mary is arguably the mother of god and in that way could be argued as the more divine at some point in the history of the transformation of the triune god in heaven to the triune god on earth and of course the few days when the triune god on earth was dead (but not really dead) before rising.

But things will start to change when we insist upon seeing the human person as the focal point of historical inquiry, the cynosure of historical meaning, the fleetingly visible figure to be sought in history's lavish carpet.

The point is that we need this hymn to restate and magnify our entire salvation history, to draw on Hannah's song in 1 Samuel, as well as on prophetic warnings about the day of the Lord as a time when all that we value will be called into question.

A Resurrection of his physical body, such as is implied by the empty tomb and by some of the stories in the Gospels of his appearances, would point towards a docetic Christ who does not fully share the lot of men; unless, indeed, bodily corruption were to be regarded as being bound up with the sinfulness of man which Christ did not share (but, unless we accept an impossibly literalistic interpretation of Genesis 3 as factual history, it is impossible to hold that physical dissolution is not part of the Creator's original and constant intention for his creatures in this world).

Just as the emergence of reflection was a crucial moment, a breaking point in the world of instinct, so religious belief is a unique event of ultimate import, a breaking point and crisis in human rational experience and history, both individually and collectively.

The installation of Hailemariam Desalegn as the prime minister in the fall of 2012 was a «Catholic» moment in the history of Ethiopia, which up to this point had been led by members of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.

The other side of this is whether Milbank can do justice to the particularities of history, such as the practice and teaching of Jesus in its Jewish context, and the complexity of crises, conflicts and points of tension.

The theology of the Mass is another area which we think is ripe for development, especially given the affirmation in Gaudium et Spes that «in her most benign Lord and Master can be found the key, the focal point and the goal of man, as well as of all human history» (n. 10).

It is scarcely questionable, however, that this symbol originally pointed to the final consummation of a dynamic process of the transcendent's becoming immanent: of a distant, a majestic, and a sovereign Lord breaking into time and space in such a way as to transfigure and renew all things whatsoever, thereby abolishing the old cosmos of the original creation, and likewise bringing to an end all that law and religion which had thus far been established in history.

Werner Jaeger, who has written the classic history of the idea of paideia, [2] pointed out in a later book on Early Christianity and Greek Paideia that Clement not only uses literary forms and types of argument calculated to sway people formed by paideia but, beyond that, he explicitly praises paideia in such a way as to make it clear that his entire epistle is to be taken «as an act of Christian education.»

Whereas they pointed to the pantheon of gods in their unseen heavenly world, the Bible pointed to one who was in no way to be identified with the gods of ancient man, but who was known to them in the sphere of human history as the deepest reality confronting them there.

Nygren can include election in his list of the themes which keep the dynamic aspect of the Christian doctrine of God, for election, as we have seen, means God's self - disclosure to a people at a point in history, his creation of a new relationship and the assuming of its consequences.

For the period from 1914 to the present, Blumhofer switches to the developmental model used by William Menzies in an earlier work, Anointed to Serve: The Story of the Assemblies of God (1971) She illustrates many of the points with fresh anecdotal material and brings into greater focus certain aspects of the history, such as the denomination's response to the New Order of the Latter Rain.

See the answer above — I see the Genesis narratives as God graciously reaching down to an ancient culture in order to communicate to them that he is their creator, that they are alienated from him, and that he desires that they be restored to fellowship through his offer of covenant with him (ultimately pointing to the need for God to step into history himself as the One who can keep the covenant on our behalf).

It presents ever - new facets when in the course of the intellectual history of mankind it is confronted with ever - new human experiences, because it points to the infinite mystery of God as the centre of our own existence.

Upon careful analysis, at least ten such points become apparent: (1) Blake alone among Christian artists has created a whole mythology; (2) he was the first to discover the final loss of paradise, the first to acknowledge that innocence has been wholly swallowed up by experience; (3) no other Christian artist or seer has so fully directed his vision to history and experience; (4) to this day his is the only Christian vision that has openly or consistently accepted a totally fallen time and space as the paradoxical presence of eternity; (5) he stands alone among Christian artists in identifying the actual passion of sex as the most immediate epiphany of either a demonic or a redemptive «Energy,» just as he is the only Christian visionary who has envisioned the universal role of the female as both a redemptive and a destructive power; (6) his is the only Christian vision of the total kenotic movement of God or the Godhead; (7) he was the first Christian «atheist,» the first to unveil God as Satan; (8) he is the most Christocentric of Christian seers and artists; (9) only Blake has created a Christian vision of the full identity of Jesus with the individual human being (the «minute particular»); and (10) as the sole creator of a post-biblical Christian apocalypse, he has given Christendom its only vision of a total cosmic reversal of history.

The issues of chief difficulty arise at the point of questions as to whether Jesus expected the Kingdom to come on earth or only in some realm beyond earthly history, and in the latter event, whether he expected earthly history to end very soon by a catastrophic divine intervention when he himself would return in glory to reign over a transfigured world.

Much of the history of biological life is built on opportunism; and, as evidenced in predator - prey relations, this opportunism is cruel, at least from the point of view of the victims.

In the history of the building and unbuilding of these structures — particularly the most massive projects such as Columbia Point in Boston or the Robert Taylor Homes in Chicago — one can read the story of the anemic American welfare state and the profound unease with which we have met the plight of the pooIn the history of the building and unbuilding of these structures — particularly the most massive projects such as Columbia Point in Boston or the Robert Taylor Homes in Chicago — one can read the story of the anemic American welfare state and the profound unease with which we have met the plight of the pooin Boston or the Robert Taylor Homes in Chicago — one can read the story of the anemic American welfare state and the profound unease with which we have met the plight of the pooin Chicago — one can read the story of the anemic American welfare state and the profound unease with which we have met the plight of the poor.

Since we can not survey history from some universal, purely rational point of view, narrative theologians argue, we have no choice but to operate out of the historical narrative in which we find ourselves — and for the Christian theologian that means the Christian narrative, shaped by the story (ies) of Jesus Christ as found in the Bible.

One discerning study of modern uncertainties about historical practice, by Joyce Appleby, Margaret Jacob and Lynn Hunt, even began by pointing out that their own participation in the historical profession, as women from nonelite social backgrounds, could not have happened without the intermingled social and intellectual changes of recent decades (Telling the Truth About History).

Gwinyai Muzorewa quotes with approval a fellow African — E. B. Idowu — as saying, «There is no place, age, or generation which did not receive at some point in its history some form of revelation» (ODA 9).

Bolle concludes his article rather pessimistically by pointing to the inevitability of retaining the question mark in the title of his article with the suggestion that separation of Christian theology and History of Religions could be seen as strength rather than as weakness on the part of each discipline.

But as many throughout the history of Christianity have pointed out — this teaching is nowhere to be found in the Bible.