Sentences with phrase «remarkable facts of history»

There are in the world today some 12 million people whose very existence is one of the most remarkable facts of history.

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Remarkable and significant as is the emergence of self - conscious persons by natural processes from the original «hot big bang» from which the universe has expanded over the last 10 - 20 thousand million years, this must not be allowed to obscure another fact about humanity, namely its relatively recent arrival in the universe, even on a time - scale of the history of the Earth.

The 12th and i 3th cepturies were a period of remarkable spiritual ferment in society and church, and to be ignorant of that fact is to be out of touch with important roots of today's society and Western spiritual history.

There is, however, a remarkable fact which appears when we look at the history of the doctrine of atonement.

What is remarkable is the fact that this definite option of contextual theology represents a crucial turning point in the history of theology.

With 15 strikes to his name, Ronaldo has registered more goals in the opening eight rounds of the season than any other player in La Liga history, a feat all the more remarkable for the fact that he missed one of those games — a 4 - 2 defeat against Real Sociedad.

Cuomo's absence from the agreement was all the more remarkable for the fact that it broke with a history of joint city - state supportive housing agreements that was begun by Cuomo's own father, Mario Cuomo.

Unlike The Silent Revolution, The Captain's narrative focus is not on the victims (who eventually become victors) of history but the perpetrators — a true rarity in the history of German cinema that is made even more remarkable by the fact that the film does not concern itself with the famous culprits (as does Oliver Hirschbiegel's Der Untergang [Downfall, 2004]-RRB- but, rather, with the «unknown» wrongdoers, that is, the «little guys» who, once afforded the opportunity, displayed the same murderous tendencies than their more famous leaders.

A remarkable deterioration prior to this, around 1810, was noted by Hubert Lamb, in «Climate, History and the Modern World», who remarked: «Indeed, the descriptions of «old - fashioned» winters for which Charles Dickens became famous in his books may owe something to the fact — exceptional for London — that of the first nine Christmases of his life, between 1812 and 1820, six were white with either frost or snow.»