Sentences with phrase «spans thousands of years»

In her BMW Art Car project, the artist spans thousands of years, paying homage to China's ancient spiritual traditions while also portraying its present jump into the new millennium.

Cinq - Mars said that it has been Ubisoft's longtime dream to bring the Assassin's Creed franchise to Egypt, and it was the ideal setting to show the beginning of the Brotherhood, given its rich history that spans thousands of years.

Its collection spans thousands of years of Peruvian history, and includes jewelry, ceramics, and even an erotic art exhibit.

The thinking on nonviolence spans thousands of years and many different cultures.

A movie that juggles half a dozen narratives and spans thousands of years, Cloud Atlas is a monumental achievement.

It reminds us that we need one another, that we're not alone, and that we have a great cloud of witnesses spanning thousands of years and hundreds of cultures from which to draw strength.

As we discussed last week, the Bible is an eclectic collection of letters and laws, stories and songs, prophecies and proverbs, philosophy and poems, spanning thousands of years and multiple cultures.

So everyone has their view and position on a traditional «habit» that has spanned thousands of years, languages and cultures.

It isn't even a single book — but rather an ancient collection of letters and laws, prophecies and proverbs, stories and songs, spanning thousands of years and written in languages and cultures far removed from my own.

To suggest that a collection of ancient texts, written by multiple authors and in multiple genres, spanning thousands of years and countless cultural contexts provides a single, uniform prescription for how to be a woman is absolutely ridiculous.

The 700 objects in the National Museum of the American Indian's new permanent collection span thousands of years.

A small piece of stromatolites encodes biological activity perhaps spanning thousands of years.

With a history spanning thousands of years, China is for many people the subject of a lifetime of study.

Its diverse personal collection contains over 65,000 pieces, spanning thousands of years of art history.

On this Custom program, Andes and Amazon adventure through Peru, you will discover splendid mountain panoramas, astonishingly diverse wildlife, the natural richness of the Amazon Rainforest — all a rich human canvas spanning thousands of years.

-- Enjoy a mature and highly - detailed plot spanning thousands of years — inspired by games like Shadow Hearts and Xenogears.

Featuring an eclectic cast of heroes and villains, Shadow of the Eternals will span thousands of years of history with an H.P. Lovecraft flare.

Build strong content knowledge By engaging students with art and artifacts spanning thousands of years, Museum visits build on classroom units of study with themes such as Archaeological Dig, Ancient Civilizations, Remembering the Holocaust, and The Immigrant Experience.

Curated by Sir Norman Rosenthal, the celebrated Collections section continues to bring new types of work to the fair and showcase extraordinary artworks and objects spanning thousands of years.

This exhibition showcases the rich cultural heritage of Northwest Coast Peoples through remarkable and powerful objects spanning thousands of years.

Collections with Sir Norman Rosenthal Curated by Sir Norman Rosenthal, the celebrated Collections section continues to bring new types of work to the fair and showcase extraordinary artworks and objects spanning thousands of years.

Visitors can browse the museum's 33,000 - plus works of art spanning thousands of years — from ancient Roman artifacts to paintings by Picasso and Jackson Pollock.

Not exact matches

According to Wikileaks, which announced the publication on Twitter and on its website, the emails span eight years and are from thousands of people:

Considering the populations had a chance to mingle in Europe over a span of a few thousand years, some sort of casual affair isn't all that surprising.

The Author correctly says «The Bible is an ancient collection of letters, laws, poetry, proverbs, histories, prophecies, philosophy and stories spanning multiple genres and assembled over thousands of years» but she forgot the most important thing - the bible is mostly a work of fiction.

Over the span of the past years, I have seen many missionaries spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on air flights, expensive hotel bills, and other expenses.

OK let me ask you this one thing this one thing.how much money and time and feeding the poor.in the country and place you live at right now???? In a three year time span @@@@@ jeeeezy I gave out of my personal money $ 20,000 Thousands us dallors that's more then 30 years worth of income in some of the most religious dirt poor countries that's a fact.you can't give or received with a closed tight hand of selfishness and bitterness now @@@@@@@@ jeeeez how much have you given too help feed clothed and shelter the poor?

The authors of the paper note «In this study, we found evidence supporting the occurrence of extremely large clones (up to 15 km) and life spans of thousands to tens of thousands of years.»

If this is so, then why must Scripture spanning a thousand years, and Christian doctrine that goes back almost two thousand years, accommodate themselves to the common sense of any particular time?

Your statement that the bible is «an ancient collection of letters, laws, poetry, proverbs, histories, prophecies, philosophy and stories spanning multiple genres and assembled over thousands of years in cultures very different from our own.»

The second and lengthiest part of Istanbul, «Byzantine Constantinople» (330-1453), spans more than a thousand years, from Constantine's ambitious reign to Constantine XI's demise in 1453, as Ottoman troops climbed over the rubble of the city walls.

The Bible tells of events over a time span of some two thousand years.

Oh, and the «writings / scriptures / call them what you will» span a thousand years or more, are a collection of letters, poetry, history, etc..

The Bible is an ancient collection of letters, laws, poetry, proverbs, histories, prophecies, philosophy and stories spanning multiple genres and assembled over thousands of years in cultures very different from our own.

There are 66 different books written over thousands of years time span and they all fit together perfectly cohesively.

Instead, it exhibits a variety of sexual mores, some of which changed over the thousand year span of biblical history.

She says «The Bible is an ancient collection of letters, laws, poetry, proverbs, histories, prophecies, philosophy and stories spanning multiple genres and assembled over thousands of years in cultures very different from our own.»

Architects have known for thousands of years that a curved arch is the strongest way to span a given space.

McLaren Vale's extensive natural and cultural heritage spans over thousands of years of traditional ownership by the Kaurna people and recently, has been shaped by European colonisation.

She found it poring over thousands of family photographs, eloquent images that span the years from her first date with Jackie, in 1941, to the October day in»72 when she wept at his grave.

For the first time, a dozen small black holes have been spotted within the inner region of the galaxy in an area spanning just a few light - years — and there could be thousands more.

Even if the near future doesn't unfold like the 2004 climate - gone - haywire film The Day After Tomorrow, scientists need to be able to produce accurate models of what abrupt change (more likely spanning hundreds or thousands or years, rather than days) would look like and why it might occur, explains Zhengyu Liu, lead author of the study and director of the University of Wisconsin — Madison's Center for Climate Research.

These vast, turbulent structures span hundreds, even thousands, of light - years.

My home town of Austin, Tex. is, like many cities, experiencing rapid growth and all of the challenges that go along with adding hundreds of thousands of people to a region in the span of several years.

«Evolution, the survival of the fittest, takes place over a span of thousands of years, but we can now direct proteins to evolve in hours or days,» said Jennifer Cochran, a professor of bioengineering who co-authored the paper with Thomas Baer, director of the Stanford Photonics Research Center.

Applying biomechanical formulae to a treasure trove of thousands of fossilized leaves of angiosperms — flowering plants excluding conifers — the team was able to reconstruct the ecology of a diverse plant community thriving during a 2.2 million - year period spanning the cataclysmic impact event, believed to have wiped out more than half of plant species living at the time.

«Evolution, the survival of the fittest, takes place over a span of thousands of years, but we can now direct proteins to evolve in hours or days,» said Jennifer Cochran, an associate professor of bioengineering who co-authored the paper with Thomas Baer, executive director of the Stanford Photonics Research Center.

The research by Washington State University, funded by the National Science Foundation, appears in the journal Geology and details a thousand - year span during which an explosion of sulfuric gas blocked out the sun and chilled the Earth.

The extra data spanning many thousands of years that this study uncovers will go a long way to matching model projections with past observations, helping scientists identify the most accurate models for making predictions of future climate change.

[1] The cause of the dust trap, in this case a vortex in the disc's gas, has typical life spans of hundreds of thousands of years.