Sentences with phrase «time period in history»

This rug offers an incredible insight into the minds and abilities of the nomadic people who created it, and it also showcases a significant time period in the history of area rugs.

Students choose a time period in history from a provided list, research that era, and then choose the software they will use to showcase their research.

Think about your favourite time period in history.

We are at a time period in history where mortgage interest rates are at an all - time low.

Dispensations — Prescribed time periods in history that are certain to occur.

Not exact matches

Our social ills resemble those of April 3, 1968, when King stated that if given the opportunity to live in any period in history, he would have chosen that time, because «only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.»

By the time the public comment period had ended for proposed rule changes to net neutrality 10 days ago, the Federal Communications Commission logged close to 800,000 responses, making it the most commented - upon rule change in the agency's history.

Or if you read about fighting in Syria you might think we're living in exceptionally violent times, when in fact we're living in the least threatening period in history.

The combination of wicked overvaluation coupled with deterioration in market internals places current conditions among the most negative market return / risk profiles we identify (occurring about 8 % of the time across history, frequently with vertical losses emerging in those periods).

The only time this has happened in history for a three year period or more was during World War II, when we were obviously printing enough money to finance a lot of deficit spending on infrastructure and public programs.

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This is a critical time for the British, European and global economies; a decisive period for reform of the global financial system including its leading financial centre, the City of London; and a crucial point in the Bank of England's history as it accepts vital new responsibilities.»

Only for a brief period in the history of the West — the period of modern times — did anyone seriously suppose that human beings could hold knowledge without God.

I thank my correspondents for their kind words and for their interest in a turbulent period in our national history, the effects of which are self - evidently clear every time Senator Barrack Obama» quintessential candidate of the Authorized Version of the Sixties» speaks.

Those who take the time to peruse it carefully will find two things far more significant than transitory euphoria: they will understand why the constitutional period was the most compelling episode of political reasoning in our history; and they will realize how clearly a discussion of «first principles» is necessary for rescuing American politics from its parlous state today.

Those who take the time to peruse The Founder's Constitution will find two things far more significant than transitory euphoria: they will understand why the constitution period was the most compelling episode of political reasoning in our history; and they will realize how clearly a discussion of «first principles» is necessary for rescuing American politics from it's parlous state today.

The question is therefore: Is the moment in time at which this absolute historical religion makes existentially real demands on men the same for all, or has the beginning of this moment itself a history and thus is not the same in time for all men, all civilizations and periods of history.

There was indeed a brief period in the time following the experience of the resurrection when the believers expected the return of the Lord and the end of history so that a certain indifference to normal responsibilities in an ongoing history appears.

The writers accurate use of common names of the time shows they had access to reliable information about the people and places involved in the history of Jesus and that their writings took place at about the same time as the events (there would have been no way to access information regarding names of that time hundreds of years after the period, remember, no books, no libraries, etc..)

His Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh on The Presence of Eternity: History and Eschatology (Harper, 1957) and various books of essays — the most notable collections in English being Faith and Understanding (Harper & Row, 1969) and Existence and Faith (World, 1960)-- show over how long a period, and in relation to how many challenges, he worked out his own presentation of the Word of God to our time.

Found this, which corresponds to my understanding based on my reading of several histories of that time period, namely that we more or less just ignored it in a somewhat vain attempt to stay out of WWII.

Death is then, another instance of the more general way in which all history and all events move backward in time «from the Sasa period to the Zamani, from the moment of intense experience to the period beyond which nothing can go» (ARP 29).

I disagree that Crossan gets some kind of satisfaction by «debunking» religion — I believe Crossan is interested in history and how Jesus fits into what we know now about that time period.

Even a basic study of history indicates that Jews were MUCH safer living in Muslim countries than Christian countries for most of the time periods that both religions have existed.

It seems this has alternated a lot in history, but usually over a longer period of time, and reflected in changes in art and culture.

The entire period of the six time units or creative «days» dedicated to the preparation of planet Earth is summed up in one all - embracing «day» at Genesis 2:4: «This is a history of the heavens and the earth in the time of their being created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven.»

Luther's writings even fed the anti-Semitism that led to the Holocaust in German history and for a period of time separated Germany from the world.

This time period in religious history is known as the Second Wave, the First Wave being the birth of Pentecostalism at the turn of the century.

For good or ill, a greater portion of the U.S. population is religious than at any other time in the countries history, even the period of the «Great Revival» does not come close.

Often times I am looking for a clearer understanding of a time period in Christian history (generally because a modern author has made some wild and confrontational claim about how a certain doctrine or denomination arose).

There are Nine periods of history in which people in different cultures, locations on earth, times, thought very differently from each other regarding The Bible.

During this time Christianity expanded on a far greater scale than during any preceding period and Protestantism played a greater role in this expansion than did the other branches of the Christian movement.31 From within Protestantism came a surge of missionary endeavor unparalleled in strength and magnitude of goal in previous Protestant history, and perhaps unparalleled in the history of Christianity.

Jesus stated that during our time period (that is called his invisible «presence» at Matthew 24:3, the KJV and other Bibles inaccurately reads «coming»), pseudo Christians or false Christians would be busy (along with the rest of the «world») with the mundane affairs of life, getting married, having children, eating and drinking, in which Jesus compared to the «days of Noah», and with the exception of Noah and his family, pseudo Christians would «take no note» that they were living during a critical juncture in human history.

I believe that the events described in Joshua and Judges happened within history as described, and at the period of time these books claim.

Man was beautiful and beloved and intelligent, he set a seal on perfection, and God had prepared a great destiny for him... but at each period in history, in relation to Sennacherib or to the politicians and technicians of our own time, we can still say and hear again what God says through Ezekiel to the prince of Tyre (Ezekiel 28: 1ff.).

Thanks for the history lesson, but in present day times muslims are slaughtering Christians in Nigeria, Pakistan Egypt, Indonesia, Syria and it's wrong... period

The maturing of the Islamic Society in these three centuries was not complete, for some issues continued in all their urgency, but much of the pattern for later times was determined in this fascinating period of Islamic history.

By working that onto these «prophesies,» you get people in all periods of history looking around and seeing people being exactly like they've always been, an concluding that they must be in the end times with god's final judgment right around the corner.

I am sure you know at one point in history we had two claiming the position for quite a period of time.

Although firmly rooted in simple peasant cooking, the foods eaten in the Balkans reflect a wide variety of influences over a long period of time: geography and history, ethnicity and religion, wars and invasions, and new ingredients brought from other parts of the world,...

Experts say today's increased interest in spirits, cocktail flavors and craft distilleries resembles the period between 1850 and Prohibition — the only other time in history that drinkers and bartenders thrived.

In his free time, Robert likes to collect movies from all time periods and enjoys learning history.

Although firmly rooted in simple peasant cooking, the foods eaten in the Balkans reflect a wide variety of influences over a long period of time: geography and history, ethnicity and religion, wars and invasions, and new ingredients brought from other parts of the world, especially spices from the East and crops from the West.

When Seaman joined Arsenal, they were very much on the up and up — and his time with the club coincided with one of the most successful periods in history for the team.

Newton is now the only player in NFL history to start his career with five consecutive seasons of 3,000 - plus passing yards and 500 - plus rushing yards (in fact, he's the only player to have ever done that five times, period).

The supporters may recall that as Ranieri left, José Mourinho arrived to usher in the most successful period in the club's history, but yesterday was a time for Ranieri to emphasise the high points of his spell in England, such as the farewell he received at his final match in charge, a 1 - 0 home win over Leeds United.

However, Ferguson — who is regarded as one of the best managers of all time — has urged the club to back their coach, admitting it has been tough for Van Gaal as he has had to deal with a transitional period in the club's history.

The mission that I chose to accept was to travel back in time and forage through the annals of this week in Hammer's history; here is what I discovered for the period 5 - 11 September.

The Celtic culture is based in Medieval European history, and the names that came from that period of time have remained popular across the pond.

I made clear that those tactics only worked for a short time period for the most despicable regime in recent history.