Sentences with phrase «second century people»

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Cambodia's second - largest city (home to around 250,000 people) doesn't feel at all like the capital, Phnom Penh; in fact, wandering around Battambang, I felt as if I had traveled back to the early 20th century.

The move from the potential «wars between nations» of the second half of the 20th century to the «wars among the people» at the beginning of the 21st century has a profound impact on defence industry.

A Desert in Bohemia is a welcome addition to the growing literature on what happened to ordinary and not so ordinary people in the bloody second half of the twentieth century.

From the second century on, the Christian thing has been understood as a kind of «forming» of persons» lives on the model of education as paideia.

Moreover, the changes from wordiness to brevity, and from the impersonal third person to the personal second, are absolutely in accord with the differences between the Lord's Prayer and other first - century Jewish prayers noticeable throughout the former.

You may believe the Gospel of John is made up whole cloth too but it shows that, at the latest in the second century, that Christian understood themselves to be adopted into God's people not by blood by by faith (by faith we are saved through grace is how Paul put it).

Since the early twentieth century, German Protestant theology has sought forms in which first - person confession and second - person address, or, in other words, witness and proclamation, can shape the exposition of Christian theology.

The Pax Romana or «Roman Peace» was a term coined by the people in power during the first - and second - century Roman Empire.

What are the unique needs of people in this community in the second half of the twentieth century?

Both the biblical and philosophical humanisms that emerged in the first and second centuries C.E. were fostered by and responded to two enormous social changes: new discrepancies of status (the same person could occupy more than one role in a pluralistic and mobile society), and the downward mobility of values.

Using some of the writings of selected early teachers of the faith, mainly from the second century, I attempt to raise questions regarding the way in which the person and work of Christ has been responded to and understood.

In terms of structure, however, it seems likely that the people who bore various titles in the first century — such as bishop or elder or healer or teacher — were not «officials» holding formal offices, as the bishops, elders, and deacons came to do in the early second century.

Scholars agree that the general structural form of what we now call the «ordained ministry» — according to which a particular person is given general oversight of all the activities of a particular Christian community — did not emerge in the church until early in the second century.

That their person, their life, and their bearing in death can none the less be honoured by Christians as the apologists of the second century have shown.

Later (as early as the beginning of the second century, and probably even earlier) there were people who took offence at this — people of Greek provenance.

Second, Dillard experiences her contemplative life very much as a late 20th century person, heir to the demythologizing that characterizes our time and culture.

That their person, their life, and their bearing in death can none the less be honoured by Christians, the apologists of the second century have shown.

According to this interpretation, then, the basis of Christianity is not found in the absolute uniqueness of Jesus as second person of the Trinity, but in the acts of faith that Jesus inspired and has continued to inspire in his own person throughout the centuries.

She leads social media for ministry intensives around the country, helping faith leaders explore authentic ways to enrich, engage and expand progressive communities in the 21st century, and is the proud proprietor of The Holy Heretic, a thinking person's tavern found in Second Life.

Christians flew under the radar, staying under the surface until the end of the second century, when they emerged as people with a visual and a literary culture.

But archaeology makes it very clear: Galilee was settled by people from the south, in and around Jerusalem, in about the second century BCE.

Ulpian, a Roman jurist who lived in the second century, urged that inebriates be treated as sick persons.

In this prestigious volunteer position Donna will lead over 100,000 credentialed practitioners including registered dietitian nutritionists, dietetic technicians, registered, and other dietetics professionals, into the second century of the Academy — focused on a global vision of «A world where all people thrive through the transformative power of food and nutrition.»

There is also a second challenge for the 21st century NHS which goes beyond technology — a rise in expectations about the care people want to receive.

«To try and compare Hitler and the Nazis - the millions of people who died in the Second World War, the Holocaust - with the free democracies of Europe coming together to trade and co-operate, and in the process to help to bring peace to the continent of Europe after centuries of war, is frankly deeply offensive.»

Cooper, a Democrat, cited 18th century scientist Alexander von Humboldt on three stages of scientific development: first, the experts say it isn't true, second, the experts say it's not important, and third, the experts attribute the discovery to the wrong person.

Capital of the Nabataeans, a desert people whose name derives from the Arabic verb anbata, «to dig for water,» Petra flourished from the second century B.C. to the second century A.D. on only six inches of rain a year.

There's something like 80 million people in the U.S. according the recent surveys that are interested in birds in one way or another, you know, feed birds or watch birds, take their kids to a wildlife refuge and yet we keep hearing about more and more reports of declines in birds, you know, doubling of the extinction rates in birds globally in the last 50 years and right now we are on the verge of what I call the third renaissance of bird conservation, first being the Audubon movement at the turn of the century, the second being the Rachel Carson movement of the»60s and third we are on the verge of it right now.

Oversees a number of sponsored initiatives to identify innovations with measurable results to suit unique needs of individuals and Nantes is named after an ancient Gaulish people, the Namnetes, who established a settlement between the end of the second century and the beginning of the

Kent's second novel, The Good People, is set in a superstitious 19th century Irish village struggling to deal with a series of unexplained events.

Second, three centuries of sometimes unimaginable mistreatment have taken their toll on the Negro people.»

In the new National Affairs, I argue today's K - 12 system is durable because, first, it's based on principles many people hold dear; and, second, it's terribly difficult to unwind century - old policies.

One of the quiet revolutions of the second half of the 20th century was the dramatic increase in the health and life expectancy of retired people.

And as this column has pointed out before, retiring in this second decade of the 21st century poses challenges for just about any healthy person who lacks an inflation - indexed employer - sponsored Defined Benefit (DB) pension plan.

From the second half of the 19th century, Gran Canaria started gaining popularity in European circles as an attractive base for recreational holidays; a place for people in need of a rest.

The action of the game is set on an island, ton which members of a secret society of influential people from the second half of 18th century arrive to hold their meetings.

In his most recent exhibition Queens of the Undead at the Institute of International Visual Arts — Iniva, in London, Donkor presented four of these highly regarded heroic women: «Queen Njinga Mbandi who led her armies against the Portuguese empire in Angola; Harriet Tubman, the underground - railroad leader who freed 70 people from US slavery in the 1850s; Queen Nanny who led the Maroon guerillas in Jamaica that fought the British in the 1700s; and lastly in what is now Ghana, the 20th - century anti-colonial commander - in - chief, Yaa Asantewaa».1 In the second part of the show, three large - scale earlier paintings were on display in which his primary source of artistic creation were contemporary facts of violent confrontations.

Originally inspired by an eighteenth - century silk needlepoint by Prudence Punderson entitled The First, Second, and Last Scene of Mortality (1776 - 83, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford), «Pilgrim» is a cyclical journey which alludes to various aspects of a person's life, presented through the images of women.

The advent of aerial photography has changed the way people see their world more than any other development since Eadweard Muybridge's seminal images of moving animals in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Breton's continuing links to Lam not only reflect the internationalist perspective that Breton and the other Europeans brought to the New York art scene in the early 1940s, but Lam's work and even the person of the artist himself (whose father was Chinese) also exemplify the rich mix of cultures in the New World that increasingly shaped the second half of the twentieth century and its art.

To feed those 9 to 11 bn people expected in the second half of the century, farmers will have to grow as much food in 40 years as they have grown in the last 8,000 or so.

Its 2030 pledges leave unresolved how to cut emissions of carbon dioxide essentially to zero in the second half of the century in a world heading toward 9 billion or more people seeking decent lives.

The consensus position, re-iterated over and over again, is a simple unqualified statement that because solar activity was not going up over the second half of the 20th century it can not have caused warming over this period It is always the same: people fight over faulty data.

Despite the lack of an El Niño effect, 2017 is set to be the second or third hottest year on record; hurricanes unprecedented in their power pummelled the U.S. and Caribbean; the largest wildfires California has seen burned deep into the Northern Hemisphere winter; scientists warned the «Arctic shows no sign of returning to the reliably frozen region of recent past decades»; studies revealed an ecological armageddon amongst insect populations; droughts fuelled famine and insecurity across East Africa and the Middle East; the U.N. warned the number of chronically undernourished people has risen for the first time since the turn of the century due in large part to climate impacts.

At some time or another, most people will have seen the hockey stick - the iconic graph which purports to show that after centuries of stable temperatures, the second half of the twentieth century saw a sudden and unprecedented warming of the globe.

Meanwhile, Bryan Jones, a demographer at the City University of New York, and colleagues report in the same issue of Nature Climate Change that the number of people who will want to switch on the air conditioning in the second half of the century will increase dramatically.

I am now officially the second most hated person in Wales [a wet, mountainous principality, abundant with sheep and disused coal mines; part of Britain since it was annexed by Edward I in the 13th century or thereabouts].

In the Cyber Century, every person with a smartphone is a reporter and it only takes seconds for an incident to go viral and stay there.

It finally saw explosive growth in the middle of the first decade of the 21st century and is now the second largest city in Sacramento County with a population of over 150,000 people.

NAR can provide immediate strategic value to Second Century Ventures» portfolio companies by allowing them access to the vast resources of a 300 - person organization with expertise, influence and power that comes only by being ingrained in an industry for over 100 years.