Sentences with phrase «traces back centuries»

Well, you're wrong, nothing is new, most of what we do traces back centuries.

Calls for change are almost as long - standing as the Lords itself — they can be traced back centuries.

Its roots can be traced back a century to three - time Democratic candidate for president William Jennings Bryan, who ran fundamentalist campaigns against the theory of evolution, which he argued was causing moral decay in the nation's youth by undermining the authority of the Bible.

Not exact matches

While the use of insurance to protect against loss can be traced back thousands of years, the modern industry only emerged in the 17th century.

«Traced back to the 14th century, espadrilles were favorable to peasants because they were designed to be disposable.

Early forms of crowdfunding can be traced back to the 17th century with popular application during the cooperative movement in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The London Stock Exchange is one of the worlds oldest and can trace its history back to coffee houses of 17lth Century London.

It involves policies that can be traced at least as far back as the «American System» of the early 19th Century, and it has been implemented in various forms by many different countries around the world during the past 100 or even 200 years.

Gouden Carolus Easter — The Gouden Carolus brewery traces its roots back to 15th century Belgium when Christian women were responsible for brewing beer and lived in communal settings known as Beguines.

This list can be traced back to the third century B.C. and expounded upon by Paul.

Rhetorical criticism of the Bible is nothing new; it can be traced back at least as early as Augustine, but the twentieth century practice of rhetorical criticism finds its origins in James Muilenburg's work with Hebrew poetry and Amos Wilder's lectures on early Christian rhetoric.

Owen traces antifoundationalism back to the attack on the pretensions of reason launched by Nietzsche in the 19th century.

But these traditions of authorship can be traced no further back than the second century AD.

The belief is explicitly affirmed in the second paragraph of the Shemoneh Esreh, or Eighteen Benedictions, a Jewish liturgy which has been traced back to the first century.

Much of what the bishops are saying can be traced back to the mid-nineteenth century and the work of Wilhelm von Ketteler, Bishop of Mainz, Germany.

The roots of the Second Axial Period can be traced as far back as 14th century Christendom, where it was already being called the «via moderna» or modern way of thinking.

Belief in a form of spontaneous generation can be traced back for centuries.

The Bene - Israel at Kalyan near Bombay traces its beginnings back to the second century BC.

Peter Leithart reviews Ephraim Radner's A Brutal Unity: Radner traces the murderous divisiveness of Christianity back to Epiphanius» fourth - century treatise «Refutation of all Heresies.»

Instead, while tracing back to the easiest access to North America scientists have agreed earlier in this century that Native Americans came mainly from North Asia through the Bering Strait land bridge.

In the sixth century before Christ, he understood with astonishing clarity the inward origins of public character and traced the good life back, behind taboo and custom, legality and form, to personal quality of spirit.

The tradition that this gospel was written by the apostle John can be traced back to the second century, but has been widely challenged during the last hundred years.

Tracing back the heritage of Blend Pak Inc. is like stepping back in time, all the way back to the 18th century when William Sutherland came to the United States from Scotland.

Historians believe that the history of jerk can be traced back to the Carib and Arawak Indians who inhabited the Caribbean islands before the arrival of Spanish explorers in the fifteenth century.

The modern, Internet - friendly coffeehouse can trace its existence back to the 15th century in the Ottoman Empire.

Tracing its roots back to the 19th century, Amorim (www.amorimcork.com/en/) is the largest producer and supplier of cork stoppers worldwide with sales of more than $ 680 million ($ 605 million).

In fact, the Easter Bunny as we know him today can trace his egg - loving roots back to an Alsace Easter tradition from the sixteenth or seventeenth century.

Compare that to Trinidad and Tobago where carnival can be traced back to the French aristocracy and their celebrations in the eighteenth century.

According to Wikipedia, the vegetable can be traced back to the fifteenth century in the Veneto region of Italy.

Indeed, labelling processes can be traced back through centuries of migration history at a local and regional level.

In it Black traces the roots of eugenics back to the 19th century, when British scientist Francis Galton and fellow eugenicists latched onto the newly emerging science of genetics as a key to improving the human race through better breeding.

So when early - 19th - century doctors in Europe discovered a milky white pus in the abdomens of women who had died of childbed fever, they traced the cause of their deaths to «clotted milk» that had backed up and clung to their intestines.

Citizens of the United States can trace their right to vote back to the end of the 18th century.

Current thinking about how spiral galaxies form traces back to an idea nearly 2 millennia old, to 2nd - century Egyptian mathematician Ptolemy.

[This article was originally posted on ScientificAmerican.com on March 17, 2010 and I am shamelessly recycling it here] In the mid-20th century the encyclopedic works of French mathematician Nicolas Bourbaki traced every mathematical concept back to the subject's foundations in the theory of sets — the stuff of Venn diagrams — and changed the face of his field.

Even at a relatively trivial level, it is useful to have Isaac Newton's «If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants» traced back to its origins in the 12th century.

Whether he's discussing the derivation of a star's name, traced back many centuries into the past, or conveying the appearance of a delicate wisp of nebulosity in a remote stellar nursery, Robert Burnham illuminates his subjects as few other astronomy writers have, before or since.

«Then we traced it back six centuries, and bingo, there it was, right at the center of our shell.

Currants» first record of cultivation and human consumption can be traced back to the Renaissance in Europe (14th and 17th centuries), when they started being grown in farms and gardens.

The ingredient is said to be traced back over a century for everything from skin issues to battle wounds so that's impressive.

So, we really can not omit the nautical stripe shirt — an iconic piece with a staying power so strong that it has surpassed trends, seasons, decades, and even centuries since its origins can be traced all the way back to the French navy in the 1880s.

The origin of the suit can be traced back to the 17th century, again to King Charles II, who introduced a more formal style of dress for the men in his court.

Which can be traced back to the 5th century.

While the French term «femme fatale» can be traced back to the early 20th century, the archetype — a dangerous woman who uses her beauty, charm and sexuality to tempt her lovers into deadly situations — has been around for centuries.

These initiatives use challenges to focus attention and effort on specific problems, and they can be traced back to the mathematician David Hilbert, who over a century ago defined a set of unsolved problems to spark progress in the field of mathematics.

Dana Goldstein's book The Teacher Wars traces versions of this idea going back for more than a century.

The Sheffield Institute of Education can trace its roots back over a century when teachers were first educated at the City of Sheffield Training College.

Rallying can be traced back to the nineteenth century and the 1894 Paris - Rouen Horseless Carriage Competition.

Nissan's famous Z sports car brand can be traced back almost half a century, to the iconic 1969 Datsun 240Z.

In English, variations on this proverb have been traced back to the mid 15th century.