Sentences with phrase «such remnants»

Actually only eleven Angas exist, the twelfth having beenlost, although at Pataliputra it had been constituted by the collection of such remnants of the fourteen Purvas as could then be recalled.

The other was the necessity to keep the law of the covenant within such remnants of the state as might remain and under any political regime that might temporarily hold sway.

When John the Baptist came preaching and teaching about baptism, he was calling such a remnant to make a public declaration of their desire to follow God in righteousness and faithfulness.

Not exact matches

(Exodus 20:24 [marginal translation]-RRB- The Old Testament as a whole represents an era from which the cruder practices of animism had been elided, but all the more impressive are the obvious remnants of the original primitivism, such as holy trees.

There will again come such a time in the days of the Anti Christ where the mark of beast will be upon the World and only a remnant of believers will survive.

Her ashes have a value as a concrete focal point for those who knew her, but the resurrection of the body doesn't pertain to this remnant as such.

In the face of such difficulties, liberal religious leaders have often presented themselves as a small prophetic remnant, despite the public's support for their causes.

In its advanced stage, the passive depletion has become active destruction: Remnants of associations historically charged with the cultivation of norms are increasingly seen as obstacles to autonomous liberty, and the apparatus of the state is directed toward the task of liberating individuals from any such bonds.

The such and such in this case is that «Catholicism will fail in America, or will at least be reduced to little more than a culturally irrelevant remnant.»

In the country east of the Jordan there seems to have been more than a single baptismal brotherhood; and the sect of the Mandaeans still living today in Baghdad and along the Euphrates — a sect which has called itself the John - Nazoraeans — may well be a lost remnant of such a group of Baptists.

While the prophets were announcing these great messages of moral responsibility, of impending doom if these were evaded, and of the hope of divine deliverance of the faithful remnant through the coming Messiah, the political fortunes of the people were anything but such as to nourish this hope.

There are remnants of «the revolution that never was», but their «demographics» are not such that they can anticipate a bright future ahead.

Problems such as the pope's claim to doctrinal authority are «in tension with the American temper and the very thing the U.S. Constitution was written to restrict,» but such problems, the book suggests, are passing remnants from the bad old days of Catholicism.

As ready to criticize such discrimination in the churches as elsewhere, they wrote in 1917, «Even in the Church of God there are still the remnants of this ugly and unreasoning hatred....

Such conditions, viewed from the standpoint of the Tao, are like remnants of food, or a tumour on the body, which all dislike.

The Guilty Remnant is arguably already among us in the form of groups such as the funeral - picketing Westboro Baptist Church.

In the East, after a pause, the tide of Islam was again surging and was threatening the remnants of such churches as had survived its first onrush.

Even so, such people are often accused of having a «hidden religious agenda» because of the remnants of the Hebrew - Christian tradition in the schools» religious values, holidays and customs.

Our Church is only a remnant of such fellowship.

In the fall (October), such a pattern could quickly redevelop after a short quiescent period over the summer, causing early and significant rains over central California, especially if old typhoon remnants are entrained into the low latitude westerlies.

Sometimes, I repurpose dinner leftovers into new creations such as transforming fajita beef strips into baked sweet potato toppings, putting pasta, rice or grain remnants into a soup or chopping up leftover veggies to eat cold in a salad.

Already, the lawless void in southern Libya is spreading chaos to other parts of North Africa: weapons such as RPGs, Semtex explosives, assault rifles, antiaircraft machine guns, and grenades have moved from the chaotic remnants of Libya's revolution to the incipient one in Mali, which is currently riven by an Islamist insurgency.

Even prior to the elections it was widely reported that the Saudi's preferred an Egypt run by the remnants of Mubarak's regime, such as Ahmed Shafik, than an Islamist candidate.

It is distorted if remnants from feudalism, such as primogeniture or entail, obstruct the free circulation of property, or if special privileges are granted to powerful groups, such as the «merchants and manufacturer» who try to influence legislation and present their own advantage as the general good of the country.

The second problem is that Momentum has become a battleground between three groups within the movement: the traditional (and by now rather old) Labour left, sometimes referred to as Bennites; younger, politically - engaged campaigners; and members of the various small political groupings to the left of the Labour Party, such as The Socialist Workers Party, Alliance for Workers» Liberty and the remnants of the Communist Party of Great Britain.

So, too, do astrophysical exotica such as neutron stars and white dwarfs — the remnants left by normal stars when they die.

The remnants of a circumplanetary disk could also give birth to moons, such as those seen around Jupiter in our solar system.

Little is known about the origins of such wayward stellar remnants.

Now, a new analysis of the remains of one such asteroid bolsters the idea that they are, in fact, the remnants of one of our solar system's lost planets.

But Michilli points out that in order to drive such strong magnetic fields, the supernova remnant would have to be a million times brighter than even the brightest remnant in the Milky Way, the Crab nebula (SN: 1/1/11, p. 11).

Young supernova remnants such as Cassiopeia A are among the most beautiful objects in the X-ray sky.

Their observations represent the first clear evidence for such efficient, «collisionless» electron heating at the reverse shock of Tycho's supernova remnant.

It's no surprise that such a space rock, or comet, exists — scientists expect such grist to be wobbling around the galaxy, the ejected remnants of planetary formation.

Some of Mars» several thousand elliptical craters may even have been formed by remnants of such moonlets crashing to the surface at a grazing angle.

Such grains originated more than 4.6 billion years ago in the ashes of Type II supernovae, typified here (upper left) by a Hubble Space Telescope image of the Crab Nebula, the remnant of a supernova explosion in 1054.

Paleontologists have long presumed such films to merely be carbon - rich remnants of tissues, Lindgren says.

The highest energy gamma rays originate in the graveyards of big stars, such as the spinning pulsar remnants of supernovae.

The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO), designed to detect gamma rays from distant astrophysical objects such as neutron stars and supernova remnants, had also begun recording bright, millisecond - long bursts of gamma rays coming not from outer space but from Earth below.

Such a radiation bath would have vaporized most of Mercury's crust, and over the eons the solar wind would have blown the remnants back out into the solar system.

And, if other forms of waste, such as the stalks of corn plants (corn stover) or the remnants of timber harvest are included, Klann says, «we have enough feedstock in the U.S. to offset 70 percent of the oil import.»

Therefore, the black hole remnants would be produced at an infinite rate; even such everyday physical processes as turning on a microwave oven would generate them.

It provides an overview of fifteen years of research that has successfully characterized the most abundant types of gamma ray sources, such as pulsar wind nebulae and supernova remnants, and made detailed measurements of individual sources as well as of entire regions of the Milky Way.

No one has actually seen a black hole, he says, and anything with a tremendous amount of gravity — such as the supermassive remnants of stars — could exert effects similar to those researchers have blamed on black holes.

Scientists think that streams of asteroid fragments — such as the remnants of interstellar collisions — can sail on nearly identical orbits.

Scientists have been arguing for decades over whether such structures are remnants of early microbial life, but the Australian formations are the best evidence yet.

No such supernova collision has ever been seen before, and Blair says by next century these two remnants will be completely merged into one giant bubble.

Vennes says it is probably a remnant from just such a supernova that occurred 5 to 50 million years ago, tens of thousands of light years away (Science, doi.org/cbxz).

Astronomers observed the N103B supernova remnant in a search for such a companion.

He and his colleagues compared the genomes of those snakes with the genomes of snakes such as vipers and cobras, which evolved more recently and have no leg remnants.

«For instance, maintaining and promoting connectivity among habitats and protecting pristine or remnant populations of habitat - forming species — such as coral and kelp — can dramatically foster recovery after extreme climatic events,» said Giulio De Leo, with Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station, who also worked on the study.