Sentences with phrase «present years ago»

This flower man statue was a birthday present years ago from my friends of the birthday group, the little pewter sugar cellar with greens came from my friend, Gretchen.

The bag was a Christmas present years ago, but being classic comes out every so often and fits the bill perfectly!

And then there's this great tapas cookbook that I got as a Christmas present years ago.

A technological demonstrator, presented a year ago at the Paris Motor Show, the Sesto Elemento represents the future of super sports cars in line with the Lamborghini Manifesto: according to this, development focuses on handling and acceleration, with lightweight design an increasing priority — now and even more so in years to come.

The controls feel clunky and there are still the same clipping issues and animation oddities that were presents years ago.

Not exact matches

At least he hadn't until seven or eight years ago when his wife bought him an introductory helicopter flight for a birthday present.

Samumed was founded in 2008 and came out of stealth mode about two years ago when it started presenting some of its data.

A year ago, I had the pleasure of hearing Travis Wright present a keynote speech at #FlipMyFunnel Atlanta.

The coolest part (in my mind) was that my mom and dad gave me the laptop as a present 4 years ago and my in - laws gave me the iPod touch for Christmas 2 years ago, and it's changed my life forever!

«If you were a doctor a hundred years ago and you go back [to the present] now, you can't be a doctor,» Wim Elfrink, Executive Vice President, Industry Solutions and Chief Globalisation Officer of Cisco Systems, told CNBC's Innovation Cities.

That may present be an opportunity for visitors who couldn't afford a theme park vacation this year, but it won't be anything on the order of the fire sales held almost 15 years ago.

The case began several years ago when First Canadian, a title insurance company, sued the Law Society of New Brunswick for amending its professional standards to require a lawyer to be present when property owners swore affidavits for the sale or mortgage of a property.

Just over a year ago, the carmaker presented the Mercedes - Maybach G50, with a limited run of just 99 vehicles.

Even in Shakespeare's play, «The Merchant of Venice,» written more than 400 years ago, the character Antonio demonstrates his understanding of the concept when he says: «I thank my fortune for it — my ventures are not in one bottom trusted, nor to one place, nor is my whole estate upon the fortune of this present year.»

Fleetwide occupancies at the present time are lower than a year ago, with pricing at the present time slightly lower versus last year.

A year ago I wrote about a graph prepared by EU economists and presented by them at my Peking University central bank seminar.

If you published a post about a certain industry - related trend a few months, or even a year ago, don't cross it off the list of blog ideas for the present or future.

Other one - time factors were also present: April had two fewer sales days than a year ago, plus there have been a rash of management changes.

A year ago, then Finance Minister Doug Horner, looking ever so slightly pleased with himself, presented the first - quarter fiscal update for 2014 - 15 with its higher than expected oil revenues and a pro...

Years ago, when I was running my own brokerage firm, an opportunity was presented for me to hire a gentleman who possessed a PhD.

The spread between Australian 10 - year bond yields and comparable US yields narrowed from 250 basis points a year ago to about 100 basis points at present (Graph 30).

You ought to research it on the «Library» THe Holy bible of sixty - six books written over 4,000 years ago, with engravings some 5,000 years deep and intertwingled perfectly in prophecies tight up back and forth in the past, present and future to brilliant perfection.

I made that pilgrimage four years ago, taking my then 13 - year - old son to Germany (beware the Bar Mitzvah presents you promise).

To me my knowledge at the present, we have no idea and won't really ever know, what primitive dna looks like because we do not have any way of getting a blood sample from millions of years ago.

Many years ago I was added to the listserve for a group of Evangelical pastors, though not a pastor myself, and one day one of them asked the group about using stories or quotes in sermons without telling their people they were using them, that is, presenting the stories as their own stories and the quotes as their own creation.

3 Months ago, a person was hired (secretly) without the consent or vote of the vestry (they were presented with a «FAit - acompli» at the end of the meeting), and is being paid to do one of the jobs that I have been doing very well for years.

The book is presented as a follow - up to Alan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind, published nearly thirty years ago.

Unless God is able to present himself a little more convincingly than in some often reinterpreted texts from 2000 years ago, I prefer to accept that the universe we observe is the one and only existance.

How can someone 2,800 years ago, write about a Man who lived 2,000 years ago, so precisely; and we, in present times, can 100 % identify who he was writing about?

Many years ago, Dr. Frank Russell Barry, the present Bishop of Southwell, wrote a book entitled The Relevance of Christianity.

actually you do nt have to prove the many deities or Gods that they really exist, because they really had existed in their times, They are part of the evolutionary process for us humans to transcend to higher consciousness.To simplify the analogy, when we were young and we are in the lower grade school, we were taught simple subjects not advance literatures but simple stories even mythicals, The same with religion, thousands of years ago when there was no science yet, primitive people had a religion, of course man made faiths to conform with their state of mind or intellect.But later atfter thousands of years we evolve into a more educated people and so new concept of God again was presented to them, another man made concept, and this go on and on, until a few thiousand years ago.monotheism, Judaism, christianity, islam, buddhism, etc also evolved, But with the accelerated evolution, these faith again is threatend with obsolesencs because of of scientific developments and education.In panthroteistic faith, the future religion needs to conform to evolutionary process, This proves that God is always there guiding the change.And it his will that made this a reality in history since the begining of the universe 13 billion years ago, and this will continue to exist until He will completely fulfill His will to infinity, Thats PANTHROTHEISM, the futue, man made religion under His guidance through scientifiic evoluition after the Bi Bang

Though first presented some twenty years ago, Avery's ten rules remain relevant and urgent today.

The character of god is so pervasive, it's tough, now a days, to tell the difference between the cultural image of present day god and the one of the bible, or rather, even of the god only 300 years ago.

They accused me of reducing the Easter event to a mere change of outlook on the part of the disciples, or, in the manner of Bultmann, to a decision on our part, at this present time, to accept as our Lord the Christ who encounters us in the Easter preaching of the Church, to which the whole question of an event alleged to have happened two thousand years ago is irrelevant.

June 7, 2013 — The first - known definitive case of a benign bone tumor has been discovered in the rib of a young Neandertal who lived about 120,000 years ago in what is now present - day Croatia.

Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest population of poor people in the world, one third of our rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.

Twenty years ago the problem presented itself in different terms.

The vision for a coffee shop and church plant in our community first presented itself to me and my husband two years ago.

There's more there to validate what we also know later about Jewish culture because we can compare the present, 100 years ago, 200 years ago, etc. against 2000 years ago.

They were all cases dating from 1997 to the present, whereas the publicized Catholic scandals are typically from twenty to thirty years ago.

Another example was alluded to before: the fact that our world seems to have taken shape over a period of many billions of years, rather than having been created in essentially its present form a few thousand years ago, provides evidence against the view that the creation of our world required omnipotent coercive power; this fact is much more consistent with the view that the divine creative power is solely the power of persuasion, the kind of power we can experience working in our own lives.

Presented to the Symposium «Whitehead's Metaphysics» Canadian Philosophical Association, UPET, 24 May 1992 Twenty years ago this year, Ivor Leclerc published The Nature of Physical Existence (NPE).

It is clear, in the easy wisdom of hindsight, that the Democratic Party's descent into its present minority status began more than thirty - five years ago.

A powerful example is the effect that the evolutionary development of an organism that existed millions of years ago (such as the first organisms) has on my present physical existence.

One of the most disturbing developments in the Church recently has been the growth of a tendency among Catholics who a year or two ago would have been considered papal loyalists to be so confused by the public statements of the present Holy Father that they have become either tacitly or even openly critical of the way he is conducting his teaching ministry.

Peter bound this ritual in heaven on the day of Pentecost 2000 whatever years ago when he explained it to everyone present and future.

The most ironical feature of the present situation is that Protestants now find themselves in exactly the same position as the Catholics were four hundred years ago.

= > I was attempting to contrast economic realities thousands of years ago to the present.

Present USA resembles the Germany of 100 years ago.

2,000 years ago what you and I think of as «slavery» was present and considered acceptable, not just by pagans but the Jewish tradition as well.