Sentences with phrase «stories handed down»

The CFO for Allen + Philp Architects in Scottsdale, Arizona, Allen is also a member of the Comanche Nation and is actively involved in efforts to preserve her tribe's dying language and stories handed down.

Religion is a nice fairy - tale, but is mainly just stories handed down over thousands of years based on fear and ignorance.

You seem to solely exist in the realm of quotes, opinions of others, stories handed down to you by those who traveled the road before.

Jesus was a man, nothing more, and the stories handed down about him have been blown out of proportion.

Theocracy is based on studies of an old book or two written by philosophers and politicians in addition to stories handed down over generations with no real physical evidence to analyze.

Still other material was found and used by Mark, including some that is clearly legendary — that is, «popular» stories handed down orally in extended form, and not necessarily all of them really Christian in origin — for example the great legends of the Gerasene demoniac, 5:1 - 20; the death of John the Baptizer, 6:17 - 29; the walking on the sea, 6:45 - 52; and the cursing of the fig tree, 11:12 - 14, 20 - 25.

Anything else is just strong opinion based on heresay, stories handed down thru time, and such.

It's not enough to take seriously writings based on other writings, based on word of mouth stories handed down from other writings and word - of - mouth stories from millennia ago when man didn't understand a lot of things and was afraid of them.

Everything they wrote was either a 30 year old story handed down to them, something they heard on the street, or their own opinions, or in the case of Revelation, a really, really bad acid trip.

Not exact matches

The Take tells the story of the growing number of factory workers in Argentina who, instead of acquiescing in unemployment when their factories are shut down, take matters into their own hands by occupying the factories and starting them up again, without the oversight, or permission, of their former bosses.

What's more, those stories were handed down for hundreds of years * before * the developed a coherent writing system!

We're buying it as history because the story has been sold + handed down, published + printed, drummed into everyone's knowledge base.

Their traditional stories, handed down from mouth to mouth through many generations, are in the Book of Genesis.

For example, a Heritage Foundation document titled «Time to Repeal Federal Death Taxes: The Nightmare of the American Dream» emphasizes stories that rarely, if ever, happen in real life: «Small - business owners, particularly minority owners, suffer anxious moments wondering whether the businesses they hope to hand down to their children will be destroyed by the death tax bill,... Women whose children are grown struggle to find ways to re-enter the work force without upsetting the family's estate tax avoidance plan.»

Ever since the publication in 1903 of Wilhelm Wrede's famous book on this subject, The Messianic Secret in the Gospels, scholars have been compelled to take seriously the thesis it set forth, namely, that the whole conception of the secret Messiahship is an intrusion into the tradition, either read into it by Mark or at a late pre-Marcan stage in the development of the tradition, and not really consonant with the story of Jesus as it was handed down in the earliest Christian circles.

Handed down verbally from generation to generation until somebody finally decided to put down in writing the most embellished version of the original story.

But here we may reasonably suspect a certain amount of embroidery, the more so since Matthew has also an edifying story about the traitor's remorse and grisly end — a story, by the way, inconsistent with another account of his death which is found in the Acts of the Apostles, not to mention a third divergent account which we know to have been handed down traditionally in the early church.

CW - Oh, non-believers know the stories of God's prophesied future «glory», but there have been many, many prophecies handed down throughout the ages from many ancient peoples and not one of them has panned out yet.

There were countless stories floating around, tons of accounts being handed down, massive amounts of material to include.

I have sat across the table at a coffee shop as a young woman, looking down at her hands, told me her story....

I like the story of the vision quest — going into the wilderness and then returning basing thing on ones own principles and values not what has been handed down.

Guttmacher's analysis comes as Time magazine reports in its cover story this week that pro-life supporters have been winning the battle against abortion since the United States Supreme Court handed down its Roe v. Wade ruling 40 years ago.

This is the whole point of form criticism — or tradition criticism, as it ought to be called: the units in the evangelic tradition were handed down orally, in separation, and in the form given them by the earliest preachers and teachers of the gospel, the «gospel» being, not the total story of the life of Jesus, but the proclamation of the message of salvation through him, a salvation fully to be effected in the future, though it could be realized in anticipation even now, before the final Parousia.

Old timey stories were handed down for generation upon generation of primitive Middle Eastern people before they were even attempted to be written down.

The bible is nothing more than a bunch of bedtime stories that were handed down from generation to generation, elaborated upon each time the stories were told, and finally put down in print and sold to a guilible public.

If you could go back and see the idiot they based the Jesus story on, you'd see someone who would spit on you for being a non-Jew and who would probably snarl about how his race is superior to yours despite being saddled with ridiculous random rules handed down by fat greasy slobs of rabbis for hundreds of years.

It must accordingly be assumed that even in the earliest period there already existed a fixed model of the Passion story, which could be expanded but not departed from, because it had been handed down from the beginning.

The story behind Mrs. Wilson's Mother's Hand - me - down chocolate cake: A cake that my mother used to bake was all part of an incident in my childhood that's as vivid as if it had happened only yesterday.

I tend not to believe anything anyone tells me until it can be proved by evidence or I can see it for myself (like the story bout some bearded guy up in the sky waiting for me to die so he can have me sit next to him forever) If it is true the institution where he studied should be closed down and the person who handed him his diploma should be taken out and shot (just kidding).

I have heard some crazy stories about where people have pumped: driving down the highway (hooray for hands - free pumping bras!)

This is hands down one of the most beautiful birth stories I have ever had the pleasure of reading!

The story of your nurses watch made me well up, how lovely to have something so personal and practical to hand down.

Yu's story was handed down for a millennium before entering the historical record, yet, geological evidence for the flood he mastered has always been lacking.

Nor is walking the kids to and from school, or going up and down the stairs of a seven - story apartment building with grocery bags in hand.

Here is a video from my instagram story about how to properly dry skin brush (as handed down by a lymphatic massage specialist).

Badass Fatloss on the other hand, shatters the status quo by using humor, sarcasm and down - to - earth language (tools we use when telling exciting stories anyways) to explain battle - tested, scientifically sound fitness techniques such as:

Hands down the BEST way to see the city and get the city's story right off the bat.

I've shared this coat on my stories before, but it's hands down the best coat purchase I've ever made.

On the one hand, you hear horror stories of psychos and unsolicited d *** pics, and on the other hand, you... They are looked down upon, especially when stepping into the dating arena again.

The metal gear series offers the best story telling of any game hands down.

Fish - out - of - water stories can become tiresome very quickly if they're not anchored itoeither a witty script or good performances, but at the very least., most films which go down this route at least make an effort to emphasise the differences in culture, even if it's just a passing, off - hand comment about how fast people move or the fact that there's no phone signal.

These women and their love story is about healing and finding truth in a world that has so often beat them down and kept them captive, be in figuratively or literally, and their journey offers them a chance to take their love, sexuality and future into their own hands.

Even knowing where this story ends, by using hand close - ups during tenser moments and making more intimate shot choices overall, Affleck puts you in the mix right alongside the six, letting you feel the revolutionaries bear down on you, too.

On the one hand, the new scenarios and characters can keep the story moving along without things getting too bogged down.

While such a heavy - handed approach certainly bogs the story down in parts, the film is worth seeing for Rogers» fantastic performance alone as well as the sheer bravery of story's final 15 minutes.

I wasn't too surprised to be let down but this movie, it was actually worst than the first and that was a bad movie, the second on the other hand has more of a story and feels like a genuinely longer movie (as well as more closer to the 2nd / 3d game plot).

In the hands of del Toro, the strangest of premises is transformed into one of the most consistently beautiful love stories to have played out on the big screen in years — and it's largely down to the strong sense of innocence and humanity that stops it from playing out like an interspecies freak show.

Right from the start of this segment, we know that the novel is going to tie into Amy Adams» story somewhere down the road and the fun is in trying to figure out what beats mean what to the real timeline, before the director shows his hand.

Much better characterization, a thoughtful story, great ensemble acting and the sort of steady photography that won't make you throw up in your popcorn, it beats Cloverfield hands down in every single department.

What we do know for certain from hands - off previews though is that Red Dead Redemption 2's story will recount the tale of how the villains of the first game, Dutch and the rest of the Van de Linde gang, became the characters Marston turned to hunting down in Red Dead Redemption.