As a result, an economy regarded as
primitive a generation ago now boasts some of the world's leading technology firms such as Huawei, the telecoms giant.
Not exact matches
The stories in Genesis predate its author, Moses, by several
generations, these stories were passed on by word of mouth by a
primitive people for years and years before they were put down in writing.
Even in the work of harmonization, however, there may be found the influence of a
primitive unity, preserved in the memory of
generations in spite of different editorial tendencies.
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.»
But when the later Gospels were written, the
generation which had known the
primitive tradition at first hand had passed, and the empty tomb seemed as early as any other part of the tradition.
As we have seen, the
primitive Christians, whatever Jesus» own view, confidently expected within their own
generation the fulfillment of the hopes of the prophets and apocalyptists and were sure that Jesus would shortly come again in glorious power to judge the world and to redeem the contrite.
This hermeneutic situation is as
primitive as the two others because the Gospel is presented from the time of the second
generation as a writing, as a new letter, a new Scripture, added to the old in the form of a collection of writings which will one day be gathered up and enclosed in a canon, the «Canon of Scriptures.»
Old timey stories were handed down for
generation upon
generation of
primitive Middle Eastern people before they were even attempted to be written down.
Second, when one turns to anthropological study of
primitive cultures, one discovers a somewhat startling revelation; namely that the economic factor of life more than any other factor has dictated the ethical behavior norms, particularly those norms which relate to the various
generations.
All through American history, especially Protestant history, the winners of disputes seem to be those who have best made the case that they represent the authority and purity of the simple Bible and the
primitive Christian
generation.
Primitive photosynthetic microbes were around and may have played a role in the
generation of methane and minor usage of carbon dioxide.
(rptref) As I write this article in 2017, your dog might be about 9000 dog
generations away from its wolf dog ancestors that wandered into some
primitive human habitation so long ago.
Other Super FX titles followed — including the superb Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, which harnessed the power of the chip for advanced 2D effects and is also included on the SNES Mini — but by the time Star Fox 2 entered development, the
primitive 3D visuals it was capable of creating looked a
generation behind what Sony and Sega were promising with their PlayStation and Saturn consoles, due to arrive in 1994 in Japan.
Naturally, as a first
generation game on a first
generation console, Combat is noticeably
primitive.
Procedural
generation has been around in video games for decades — 1984's Elite used it to create its own (very
primitive) galaxy to explore, and ancient UNIX dungeon crawler Rogue used it back in 1980 (in the process spawning an entire genre of games with unique, procedurally generated levels).
Critics have come down hard on notions of the
primitive that made Africa fodder for past
generations.
Frowned upon by
generations of art historians as the last expression of irrationality (as opposed to perfect perspective) the
primitive painters played a pivotal role in bridging Medieval styles with the resurgence of classicism characteristic of Renaissance artists and architects.
At the forefront of a
generation of young artists bringing a contemporary West Coast sensibility to the forms of European Modernism, Curry's collages and sculptures have freely mixed the current pap pantheon with
primitive anthropomorphic silhouettes reminiscent of Henry Moore and Picasso.