Sentences with phrase «span of»

In the span of two blocks we pass three residential houses, two apartment buildings, two churches, a microbrewery, a bakery and a photography studio.

For a brief span of time, Jesus exercises his dominion by teaching in the Temple and proclaiming in the capital of the nation the edicts of the kingdom of heaven.

While it is affected by the wars of Europe and either as a belligerent or as an active sympathizer with one or another of the contestants has been drawn into each of the general European wars which have been fought within the span of its history, geography has spared the United States the full impact of these wars and the nation has not been so severely impoverished as Europe, nor has its normal life been so badly disrupted.

«Attempting to depict the whole span of the biblical narrative from Genesis to Revelation is a bold undertaking.

In the span of a whirlwind romance, you've planned your whole life together, only to have your fantasies start ripping at the seam when you realize well, you're both imperfect human beings and maybe this time, you're not supposed to work the rest of your lives out alongside one another.

The 66 books of the Bible were written over a span of 1600 years, by 40 different writers.

That is, it was I, Norman Pittenger, then a young man and a somewhat eager theological student, looking forward to a long and I hoped successful span of years, who was brought face to face with the inevitability of my own entirely personal death.

For them microevolution is the change we have observed over just the short span of a human lifetime or within a few centuries.

This theory explains the fact that time seems to move more slowly to children than to adults in this way: an hour (or any unit of time) is longer relative to the span of time a child has lived.

Why should an individual's span of existence be finite?

You convince yourself it's only a phase, only one party, only a short span of time.

Neither does it negate the description of the life span of the house.

Anybody ever wondered why all the various «great prophets» — Moses, Abraham, Jesus, Mohammed, Mahavira, Voroaster, Buddah, Mani etc. all seemed to be «sent down» by their bosses within a span of about 2,000 years (or 1 % of our time on this planet) and all in Asia?

(3) «research traditions» (Kuhn) or «research programmes» (Lakatos), over a span of time, embodied in key examples («exemplars»), and

Although these essays were written over a span of time and for different audiences, they are held together by K.Cs deep and passionate concern for justice, peace and the integrity of creation, This is a book that should be read and studied by churches, grassroots people, policy makers, theologians and others who are seeking to create a world that is safe for all.

Look back at the Wall Street disaster of 2008, or the «Great Depression» before that, and TRY to find any system that has landed MORE people behind the poverty line in such a short span of time.

Yet we have been able to find a way of asserting the abiding worth of our mortal span of years, such that our having existed at all can be said to have had dignity and value.

Since the bible is a collection of individual books and letters, etc., written over the span of many years, by many different authors, some of which who wrote anonymously (including the authors of all four gospels), then we might say that it has no purpose other than what people use it for.

Whitehead does not say what the time - span of an actual occasion is, even in the cosmic epoch in which we live.

Back in the day the average life span of a human was 35 years, today its 75 years.

If my metaphor for ministry is apt, it should not only inform the life of the minister in full swing, but it should encompass the whole span of ministry.

Leisuretime activity is more frequently consummated within a brief span of time as compared with the years - long cumulative character of most work.

Natural selection of accidentally favorable adaptations during a seemingly endless span of cosmic and biological time provides an account of organic life that appears to make any appeal to divine influence or purposiveness superfluous.

The late 1970s were filled with «excessive and over-the-top drug use,» as described by one Scorsese biographer, and he would have four different marriages end over the span of 1970 to 1995.

The distinctions between Father, Son and Spirit are distinctions truly drawn of God, and not merely of the way that God appears to us to be, or of the way that for some brief span of time — he was.»

God did too, for in that span of an hour and a half, 15 - 20 people got saved, born again in their cars as we drove down the highway.

You forget the span of time it took me to make this happen — 4.5 billion yrs, ever thought of that figure.

The collapse of what I called the big story has raised the question whether there is any sense in talking about the span of man's life as a little story, and with the collapse of the little story it is a severe question whether the new does not become noise rather than information.

for starters where are you getting the information that you think they say the average life span of a comet is 100,000 years?

Professorships followed at Wuppertal, Mainz, and then, for the longest span of his career, beginning in 1968 and ending with his retirement in 1994, at Munich.

These treatments could be developed and used, but their use would be restricted to those who had not yet lived out that normal span of life.

However, in 2003, Mr. Schulman rolled up his sleeves again and published this essay, called «Gay Marriage — and Marriage» which leap - frogged even the span of his previous essay and made what must be called the definitive secular case against gay marriage.

This valley is crucial to control of the center of this country, today as in Joshua's time, for it is a wide span of fertile farmland nestled between mountain ranges reaching west to the sea and east to Jerusalem and the cities of Ramallah and Nablus.

His second visit to Jerusalem, with the collection taken in Antioch for the brethren in Jerusalem in anticipation of the famine (Acts 11:27 - 30), which I believe was the time of his private disputation as described in Galatians 2:1 - 10, is a rather long span of time to allow

Look at the age of fossilized bones, look at DNA evidence and all the other mountains of evidence about the LONG - TERM DYNAMICS of LIVING ORGANISMS on this planet over the span of BILLIONS of years.

We should not lose sight of the fact that, once he got to Lambaréné he did what he came to do, managing to devote the incredible span of 50 years to the health care of the Africans and Europeans living within a 200 - mile radius of his hospital.

Astronomical science says the average life span of a comet is less an 100,000 years.

Some drinking is not wrong, but getting drunk causes a person to lose all control of themselves, and generally a person can go from being happy to being furious in just the span of a few seconds.

Since «persons» are regarded by Hartshorne as «low - level universals» expressed by the total temporary state of whatever it is that constitutes a «momentary self» at any particular point in time, it follows that the word «person,» quite unlike the word «symphony,» does not simply refer to the completed totality of this or that particular series of the total life - span of that particular series of «momentary selves.»

The changes are extremely gradual, they can not be observed over the short time span of human civilization so far, and the term «species» is a man - made concept to make categorization of life forms convenient... it is not an immutable feature of the natural world as you seem to think it is.

Their great hope is that the attention span of the «unwashed masses» will wane, doubtlessly after some small concessions are made to generate some positive PR.

Certainly such arrangements display systemic properties, but the explanation of the world lies not in such properties but rather in the life - span of the essential components which give rise to the properties.

According to the scriptures, the span of time from Genesis to Revelation, from beginning to end, from Adam and Eve to Judgment Day, spans only 7,000 years.

You can't have one group say a process that has happened well beyond the span of man's existence is something that is now caused by a higher power.

Through a series of attending numerous churches over the span of several years, Shannon came to recognize that change in churches comes slow, but often the change we want to see in our church may actually be the change God wants to accomplish in our own life instead.

Think of it, the working life span of a human in economically affluent areas in those times is probably 50 years.

It ignores studies of the average life span of homosexuals, the rampant promiscuity, drug use, depression, and so on.

«All followers of Jesus are to practice watchful waiting upon Cod across the span of their years.»

Jesus was the only individual whatsoever to have been able to do this no one else would have ever even been even remotely close to accomplishing those great of tasks even if those tasks only took the span of a weekend

We basically solved all of the world's problems in the span of two hours... (can't explain the reasons here).