Sentences with phrase «points in history with»

That's just an excuse for a player to roam through an assortment of cities at various points in history with lots of running, jumping, climbing, hiding, fighting, and killing.

Rove contrasted this point in history with where Republicans were four decades ago — a seemingly permanent minority party.

Not exact matches

The presumptive Democratic nominee enjoys the largest gender gap in recorded history, with a recent Pew Research poll showing her leading among women by 24 points.

A few days ago I was listening to a caller on an AM radio show promote the government's economic record by stating that there are more Canadians with a job today than at any point in Canada's history.

Up to this point in the short history of VR, however, the most premium games have been limited to people with a lot of extra cash to burn.

So while the time for VIX to fall back to 15 has, in the post-financial-crisis era, shortened compared with what was seen before and during the crisis, history still points to the likelihood that volatility will remain above what was seen in recent years.

For example, in «A Short History of the Income Tax,» John Steele Gordon points out that the U.S. income tax act of 1913 was only 14 pages long; by 1942, it had blossomed to 208 pages with over three - quarters of them «devoted to closing or defining loopholes» that tax lawyers and accountants were using to «game the system.»

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.

Start with production: there certainly was a point in human history when economic power was derived through the control of resources and the production of scarce goods:

Comparing the most recent distribution of estimates with previous points in history (see chart below), there is greater clustering around the mean and noticeably shorter tails, suggesting a lower likelihood of major price swings over the next year.

Fears of a trade war breaking out rocked the financial markets on Thursday afternoon, with the Dow falling 724 points, the fifth - largest point decline in history.

In part this reflects the starting point of many central banks that adopted inflation targeting: they generally had a poor inflation history and low credibility with the public and financial markets.

However, when the market has suddenly (once again) dropped 200, 400, and yes, even a 1000 point drop which recalibrated the historical record for the most, repeat, the most e-va — single point drop in the history of the markets, the reaction, along with reasoning was?

The Stock Market fell sharply today, the Dow's biggest point drop in history, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq also way down.

Steve Ketchum, executive director of Sound Point, told Bloomberg that in Puerto Rico, «there are no obvious great economic difficult situations... We are comparing Puerto Rico with some of the worst situations of sovereign debt in history and it simply does not make sense to us, especially since Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States.»

At the end of the day, the major averages finished down more than 7 %, and the DJIA had its largest point decline in history with a loss of 777 points.

Page had a longtime history of connections with the Russian government — so much so that in 2013, Russian agents approached him with the intent of turning him into an asset (a point the Nunes memo never notes).

«All three main political parties have at one point in Ontario's history struggled tremendously with energy planning,» noted the alliance in a release.

SARASOTA — The Stock Market fell sharply Monday, the Dow's biggest point drop in history, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq also way down.

This has left the U.S. economy with a much more leveraged balance sheet than before the last crisis, and with much greater sensitivity to equity risk and debt default than at any point in history.

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.

You're assuming that at some point in the history of the world NEW genetic information was added to a living thing (which doesn't happen) and then it happened over and over together with the power of natural selection until we arrived at modern man.

At one point the protagonist, John, has a conversation with History in which History informs him that the Landlord (God) has sent «pictures» of Himself to many of the pagans in the land who live apart from Mother Kirk (The Church).

The State of Israel was founded with at least some theocratic elements» at exactly a point in history when the Catholic Church was renouncing theocracy and withdrawing from secular governance.

From Zeus to Ra to Allah to any other deity that has come out of human history, the one thing that sets Yahweh apart to me is that here is a God who actually reached out in time at a point in human history to establish relationship with humans.

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).

But it is the decisive event in the history of the world: the focal point in God's dealings with his creation.

Though science has reached phenomenal heights in our time, it has at no point invalidated anything basic to Christian faith, and at no time in human history has the revelation of God in Christ shone upon the human scene with greater clarity and power.

Providing basic catechesis Leonard creates a simple introduction to the main points of Catholic teaching on the Sacraments, prayer, personal holiness and the call to evangelise those around us, with a bit of salvation history thrown in too.

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.

Let us see how St. Augustine unites this metaphysical doctrine with his faith that in Jesus Christ God has acted at a specific point in history to redeem man.

While decisive steps have been taken at several points in your history to place limits on the exercise of power, the nation's political institutions have been able to evolve with a remarkable degree of stability.

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.

Thus, for reasons quite different from those associated with the origin and meaning of the western calendar, the year 2000 appears to mark a significant turning point in human history.

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.

With a great deal of dry humor, Hugo Assmann wrote recently that he is astounded that no one pointed out to him in the 1970s how incredibly pompous the phrase «Pueblo oprimido, señor de la historia» (The oppressed people, lord of history») sounded.

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.

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.

Sometimes I wonder if perhaps the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous have, at some point in its 76 year history, contained individuals who possessed the ability to do great things — cure cancer, revolutionize politics, or contribute other great things to society — but whose minds became so polluted with AA propaganda that they shut off their own brilliance and chose to spend the rest of their lives «making their sobriety their number one priority» and believing humility to be more valuable than fulfilling their potential and allowing their greatness to shine.

There is an intellectual seductiveness to the idea of one blazing sun of truth, seen imperfectly from different viewing points in human history, with the perception becoming ever more ample as the different views are correlated and added up.

Are we still at this point in history where people are being ridiculously unaccepting of scientific fact to the point where they are even referencing studies that they can not come up with a source for simply because they do not exist?

«In the history of interpretation readers have struggled with this passage because her activities appear to be so worldly,» he notes, «but this is precisely the point: it is in and through her rich implacement that she manifests wisdom.&raquIn the history of interpretation readers have struggled with this passage because her activities appear to be so worldly,» he notes, «but this is precisely the point: it is in and through her rich implacement that she manifests wisdom.&raquin and through her rich implacement that she manifests wisdom.»

Religions which consider the mystic experience as the ultimate point of spiritual self - realization, consider history with its plurality as of no ultimate significance, and consider the many religions in history with their emphasis on nama and rupa as ultimately so relative and insignificant, that they are tolerated as equally true or untrue.

The fact is that Abelard was trying to say, with his own passionate awareness of what love can mean in human experience, that in Jesus, God gave us not so much an example of what we should be like but — and this is the big point in his teaching — a vivid and compelling demonstration in a concrete event in history that God does love humanity and will go to any lengths to win from them their glad and committed response.

In the totality of Jesus» human life, obedient to the will of God even to the point of death, there is the enactment, on the stage of history and in the circumstances of human existence, of the right relationship of that existence with GoIn the totality of Jesus» human life, obedient to the will of God even to the point of death, there is the enactment, on the stage of history and in the circumstances of human existence, of the right relationship of that existence with Goin the circumstances of human existence, of the right relationship of that existence with God.

So the quacks who used to identify science with History — the Progressives, Marxists, and so forth — were all too ready to kill the persons around today in the name of the coming of a perfected man at some indefinite point in the future.

Moreover, the faith that YHWH was the Lord of history meant that in contrast with the mythological cultures, where the gods were little interested in human affairs, the spotlight of divine concern was pointed directly to the human scene.