Sentences with phrase «times over centuries»

Built in 1729 for a prosperous East India merchant, the house has been extended and refurbished several times over the centuries.

This main gate to the city has been redesigned and rebuilt several times over the centuries.

Yeah, that's what they said when Luther started his mass exodus (The Great Apostasy)... and, probably at least 500 other times over the centuries.

Third hand accounts are the best you come up with but are contained in a book that has been revised countless times over the centuries so therefore has no credibility.

We've seen it play out hundreds of times over the centuries, and this is no different.

This is about the 8 millionth time over the centuries that somebody has said the world is coming to an end, and EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM HAS BEEN WRONG, starting with Jesus's promise to return during the lifetime of his own disciples!

It's about 100 times the force of CO2 during the first decade or so, about 35 times over century periods.

Not exact matches

Time Warner (TWX) was also down about 5 %, to its lowest level in 2015, and 21st Century Fox (FOX) was down a little over 4 %.

A quarter century after the Iron Curtain that once divided Europe opened, the European Union nations and Russia are again involved in a tug - of - war, this time over six former Soviet Republics.

There are many ironies: Germany, which so frightened Europe for nearly a century, as it had in late Roman times, is now being beseeched virtually to take economic suzerainty over chunks of the continent where the physical German occupiers in bygone days were violently unwelcome.

Dick Matland, president of Coronado Shores Co., has traveled to enough destinations to qualify for the Travelers» Century Club two times over.

In 2002, before the sale of PayPal even went through, Musk started voraciously reading about rocket technology, and later that year, with $ 100 million, he started one of the most unthinkable and ill - advised ventures of all time: a rocket company called SpaceX, whose stated purpose was to revolutionize the cost of space travel in order to make humans a multi-planetary species by colonizing Mars with at least a million people over the next century.

Interestingly enough, it's actually so simple, and so straightforward, that it would have helped almost any investor make quite a bit of money over the past couple of centuries regardless of market conditions provided he or she had a long enough time horizon.

The results add to investor concerns over the U.S. cable industry after disappointing numbers from Walt Disney, Twenty - First Century Fox Inc, Discovery Communications Inc and Time Warner Inc this week.

According to a survey by the Pew Research Center, Americans over the age of 64 are working more than any other time since the turn of the century.

Combining safety, performance, and efficiency, Model S has reset the world's expectations for the car of the 21st century with the longest range of any electric vehicle, over-the-air software updates that make it better over time, and a record 0 - 60 mph acceleration time of 2.28 seconds as measured by Motor Trend.

But our childhood has been over for centuries and our adolescence is ending, and it's time we grew up and accepted the painful truth: that we are here and we pretty much have no idea where we originated.

Liberal Protestants in the last two centuries also claimed to use Scripture as their sole norm, and over time came to distinguish revelation from the words of the Bible.

Through their «own» interpretation and countless translations over the centuries I don't believe it's quite «the word of God» as the church has asked us to believe all this time.

Groups or guilds of prophets are attested over the whole range of the history of the kingdoms from the time of Saul in the eleventh century B.C. until the fall of Jerusalem in the early sixth century B.C. Nor is there any question that these associated professional prophets were related to the cultus and / or the court and regularly discharged certain cultic professional duties.

It was nonetheless the logical conclusion of stressing time and experience over eternal creed, which Powell calls «the setting of the stage» for twentieth century thought.

(Exodus 3:13 - 14) In consonance with this traditional attitude, the Jews, from reverential motives, substituted adonai, meaning «lord,» for the sacred name in their reading of the Scriptures; as a consequence, in the thirteenth century Christian Hebraists mistakenly used the consonants of the name jhwh with the Hebrew vowels of adonai, thus getting Jehovah; but behind this later mystification lay in primitive times the recognized unwillingness of any god to surrender possession of his secret name, lest the possessor thereby gain control over him.

We must on no account think that now the Church has got over the Council it is high time to restore peace and order as if, as an Italian Cardinal is supposed to have said, the Council had produced only broken pieces which would take a century to put together again.

Over the centuries, these «alien citizens,» still far from their true home in the New Jerusalem that is history's promised consummation, have followed the course of Christian fidelity in accepting responsibility for the well - being of what is their home in time before the End Ttime before the End TimeTime.

The Century published a great many articles by Reinhold Niebuhr over a period of some 15 years, until Christianity and Crisis was launched by Niebuhr and associates at about the time America became involved in World War II.

I believe that we will have to arch over all of the phenomena of the past 17 centuries back to a time when the church was at its least Pagan.

Tate's thorough acquaintance with regional and national literature of the 19th and 20th centuries gave him an excellent vantage point for observing the evolution of southern literature over a considerable length of time.

You're surprised that a guy growing up over half a century ago in Irelandwas able to spend time with his family and read?

The Coptic and Russian Orthodox Church leaders have held a formal meeting in Russia for the first time in over a quarter of a century.

According to The New York Times, a third of Syria's 600,000 Christians have fled, Lebanon's Christian population share has shrunk from 78 percent to 34 percent over the previous century and only a third of the 1.5 million Christians who lived in Iraq in 2003 remain today.

Surely Paul was not thinking of time crisis over 16th - century indulgences when he wrote about «faith alone.»

For the first time in over a century, the pope is going to eschew convention and ditch his elaborate digs at the apostolic palace for the quiet of the Vatican's guest house.

After all these centuries of the practice of power and of theorizing about its nature and function, what is to be said about it that hasn't been said before many times over?

Social historians, however, have linked the rise of the national concern over matters of etiquette in the 19th century to the rise of the great industrial city precisely because the bold new cities were places where, for the first time, it was possible to live and work entirely among strangers.

For the first time in over a century, the pope is going to eschew convention and ditch his elaborate digs at the apostolic palace for the quiet of the Vatican's...

These not only survived until modern times in many indigenous cultures, such as those of the New Zealand Maori and the North American Indians, but they often continued beneath the surface of the post-Axial faiths, despite strenuous efforts over the centuries to destroy them.

Personal religious experience and inner feeling, therefore, began to take precedence over religious thought and dogma at the very time when traditional Christian doctrines were becoming increasingly out of kilter with the new ideas and advancing human knowledge of the last two centuries.

Sadly, however, over the last century, the Church has put very little time, energy, theological reflection, leadership training, prayer, or money behind this.

So began the idea of a millennium, which even yet in Biblical fundamentalism exercises a potent sway over the imagination of many Christians, and upon which the curiosity of the credulous has worked for centuries in an endeavor to predict «times and seasons.»

And one more thing, you are equal to those that have rewritten the bible over the centuries... paraphrasing is not a good thing to do, for it changes the words used and over time will change the overall meaning of the sentence.

Those in the far north benefit from having less light come in to their retina's, especially during times of snow... another example is the inuit people who naturally create a type of antifreeze in their blood... developed over centuries of a populous that is far more resistant to cold.

Europe's experiment in social Darwinism killed more People over the last century than all of Christianity for all time.

Pia de Solenni, an ethicist and moral theologian, said the significance of Jesus Christ washing the disciples» feet resounds over the centuries: «At that time and now there's that sense of hierarchy, or that clergy are set apart, that they're somehow preferred.

Furthermore, in the United States, for over a quarter of a century the writings of Professor Charles Hartshorne, including Beyond Humanism, The Vision of God, Reality as Social Process, The Divine Relativity, The Logic of Perfection, and A Natural Theology for Our Times, as well as many occasional articles and essays, have eloquently argued the case for «process - thought».

Your own ethnic group was most likely persecuted or the persecutor at one time or another over the centuries.

Over a century ago in England Samuel Wilberforce was so discouraged that for a time he avoided marriage, not wanting to beget children, «hostages to fortune,» he said, in so ill a world.

Far from conforming fully to the ideals of the faith as Western Europe of these centuries was, in that small fraction of the earth's surface Christianity had more nearly free course over a longer period of time than in any other part of the world.

The vast movement of religious revival which took place in the fifth century of the Hijrah (eleventh century A.D.) and led to the establishment of the Almoravid dynasty in Morocco and Spain gave a strong impetus to the spread of Islam among the subjects of the great pagan African Ghana Empire, whose sway extended at one time over the gold mines of the Upper Senegal and over the majority of the Berber tribes of the Sahara.

So because Medieval Europeans hooked on one religion created a calendar system centuries afterward, and over time, with the expansion of empire, it came to become the primary system, you think that's some proof of your beliefs?

However, the ability to understand what it takes to stand out from the rest in the crowded citrus - growing industry comes over time, and there aren't many producers that can boast continuous operations for more than a century like Limoneira can.