Sentences with phrase «upon years ago»

I was wracked with emotions, desperate to see my mom's face when she first saw my sweet new angel, whom we named in honor of her, using her nickname my son bestowed upon her years ago.

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Popova began her blog by pulling together all the interesting things she stumbled upon while working at an ad agency a few years ago.

Criteria Corp became dog - friendly two years ago upon moving to a new location, and now allows employees» dogs to roam around.

Not surprisingly, binge - watching is also less frowned upon, with only 30 % of respondents reporting a negative view of binge - viewership (there would appear to be some self - loathers in that bunch) compared to two years ago, when more than half of respondents felt the term «binging» had negative connotations.

The idea had its genesis just three years ago, upon Tetrick's return to the United States after spending seven years working for nonprofits and international organizations on education and food supply in sub-Saharan Africa.

A little over 10 years ago, the HubSpot team took it upon themselves to coin the term «inbound marketing,» whereby marketing professionals take advantage of this new environment to reach buyers on their home turf.

HANK EVANS: Once upon a time I worked for a Canadian firm many years ago, and if you think our health care is screwed up, you don't want to be a Canadian.

«As with many great American institutions, i.e., General Motors, American Airlines, and many others who have utilized the strategic business tool called bankruptcy, Gary Busey's filing is the final chapter in a process that began a few years ago of jettisoning the litter of past unfortunate choices, associations, events and circumstances that visited themselves upon this great American icon, to enable the start of a new and clear path to peace, happiness and success with his career and his wonderful new soulmate, Steffanie, and their son, Luke.»

Upon hearing about this concept years ago in one of my workshops, a student approached me at a break and realized in trying to sell software to a heating oil distributor, he had lost a software sale to a delivery truck!

About 20 years ago when he was working at Bell Labs (now AT&T's Image Processing Research Department), he happened upon a way of thinking about teaching computers to see that wasn't really used outside of academia until about three years ago.

Even in Shakespeare's play, «The Merchant of Venice,» written more than 400 years ago, the character Antonio demonstrates his understanding of the concept when he says: «I thank my fortune for it — my ventures are not in one bottom trusted, nor to one place, nor is my whole estate upon the fortune of this present year.»

Years ago, Denver's economy was reliant upon the fossil - fuel industry, reported the New York Times.

Harshal Chaudhari became IBM's new CIO barely a year ago, in 2016, upon being tapped internally from his CFO post.

A year and a half ago, upon its approval by nearly 200 nations, The San Diego Union - Tribune Editorial Board called the Paris climate accord an achievement lacking in accountability because it would not punish countries that failed to live up to its high...

«Five years ago, MaRS set out to build a platform upon which the next generation of technology companies could scale,» said Dr. Ilse Treurnicht, CEO, MaRS Discovery District.

UpWest Fund III is built upon the vision we had six years ago when we first started investing in Israeli founders -LSB-...]

I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..

in the day, s that jesus our lord was on the earth (jesus) there was many people named jesus, just as among hispanic and central american peoples, it was a common popular name of many people, if you want to prove to your self that jesus was not married, look up what the apostle said,» i saw standing upon mount zion with the lamb 144,000, these are they that have washed thier robes and were not defilled with women, for they are virgins, jesus emphasised in parts the need and values of a husband and wife in a home, the two mary, s and the women that followed him and ministered unto him tells us the great importance of women, and women in the home, he wanted all married men to have thier own wife, in those days of so many years ago there was false prophets, storytellers, wild imaginations, he told us not to believe them, whether you are catholic, christian, islamic or any other, we can all take pride in the fact what the prohets, jesus and the apostles told us all fits jointly to gether, they were a work of love, to understand the christian bible correctly, islamic people are not rejected, but rather they are a equal, the angel told hagar to return to her mistress, he also told her he would make ishmael a blessing and his seed a great nation, regards

Yet, some 3,600 years ago, a man named Job was inspired to says that God «is stretching out the north over the empty place, hanging the earth upon nothing.»

Why has science lagged behind the Bible in knowing that the earth is «hanging upon nothing», as seen at Job 26:7, some 3,600 years ago?

For example, a man named Job, who lived some 3,600 years ago and was «the greatest of all the people of the East», made a startling statement, saying that God «stretches out the northern sky over empty space, suspending the earth upon nothing.»

(Job 26:7) Now how could Job know that the earth is» suspended upon nothing» over 3,500 years ago, since the earliest telescope was only made in the 17th century C.E. by Galileo?

If you doubt the accuracy of the Bible, then how was a man named Job able to say with precision that «the earth hung upon nothing» (Job 26:7) some 3,600 years ago, since the most learned men even a thousand years later held to the belief that the earth was held up by elephants standing on the back of a giant turtle?

Woman are treated far more equally than they were even 150 years ago, racial equality is generally agreed upon.

A few years ago when the number of languages into which it had been rendered was approaching the one thousand mark, it was decided to publish a volume in celebration of that event, to be called The Book of a Thousand Tongues, based doubtless upon the old hymn, «O, for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise.»

Its molten surface began to cool, and several billion years ago it acquired a solid crust upon which very primitive forms of life began to appear.

Upon further reflection, this tradition began for me around 15 years ago.

Therefore it was a disappointment when I researched a very important topic some years ago and came upon the following statement in Watchman Nee's book about The Spiritual Man.

Education suffers, research suffers, we all suffer the consequences of people adamantly insisting upon teaching arguments that were dismissed by science 150 years ago.

Some years ago I would probably have welcomed the suggestion made recently by a joint committee of the Christian Reformed Church and my own denomination, the Reformed Church in America, that these two denominations enter upon a united program of «Jewish evangelism.»

It was a year ago that I unleashed my first Carl's Rock Songbook entry upon the world.

I recall a wedding I attended many years ago, in which the ceremony, dictated by centuries of careful thought and adjustment — a «form» — was going very nicely; but then, alas, the presiding member of the clergy took it upon himself to step outside of the rules and add something of his own.

Some years ago, after a lecture I gave at an Ivy League university, an Orthodox student told me that she had wanted to major in philosophy but switched to psychology upon discovering that the philosophy department was populated by Christians.

Indeed, the very Summa of St. Thomas is still clearer, better expressed and more convincing than some of the manuals based upon it, which were my own staple diet here in the Eternal City nearly 35 years ago.

It began to happen a few years ago when a fundamentalist majority in the Southern Baptist Convention took control and insisted upon the inerrancy of the scriptures.

One of the quotes I pasted in the back of my Bible many years ago says, «Pray as if everthing depended upon God; work as if everything depended upon man.»

We must assume that under the rapidly mounting pressures forcing them upon one another the human molecules will ultimately succeed in finding their way through the critical barrier of mutual repulsion to enter the inner zone of attraction (This is an old idea which I advanced nearly twenty years ago in an unpublished essay entitled, The Spirit of Earth.)

Some years ago Alasdair MacIntyre wrote that the «new dark ages [are] already upon us»» a darkness brought on not by religion, but by the vanity, moral confusion and failure of the Enlightenment.

The Niebuhr - Williams - Gustafson study (H. Richard Niebuhr, The Purpose of the Church and Its Ministry [New York: Harper and Brothers, 1956]-RRB- of several years ago makes it unnecessary to dilate upon this first point.

You may have ansered your own question... so the materials of this universe, including the foundational material of this world may have come from billions of years ago... no reason not to reuse a perfectly good hunk of rock to create a world upon.

For example, John L. McKenzie, S.J., sees the Old Testament as a mythological hypothesis, deductively determined based upon the state of knowledge two or three thousand years ago.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called upon the king of Saudi Arabia to halt the executions of 14 young people for being involved in protests five years ago.

Pity Justice Kennedy, who cast the decisive vote eight years ago to permit «the most repulsive human conduct,» and now gazes upon the gruesome consequences.

Plants came out upon the land some six hundred million years ago, after the planet earth had shaped itself through a great series of transformations forming the continents, the mountains, the valleys, the rivers and streams.

State that religious rituals were decided upon by men thousands of years ago and that whether you follow all of the rituals or not will ultimately make no difference in how the world treats you.

I have very little doubt that our generation will be looked back upon with jaw - dropping incredulity by future historians who will marvel at how, in the 21st century, having peered at the mind numbing infinity from Hubble, delved into the quantum irrationality of CERN and unraveled the beautiful simplicity of the DNA codons, we still made important life decisions based upon the presumed wishes of some hokey, invisible, all - powerful sky - fairy dreamed up by some illiterate Arab tribesmen in a tent in the Middle East 2,000 years ago.

«creates complex explanations to (continue to) deceive» «usually at some conflict with real science» «soley based upon faith and a book written a couple of thousand years ago» «is a self - serving lout.

It's soley based upon faith and a book written a couple of thousand years ago.

Chief Justice Roy S. Moore of the Alabama Supreme Court insists upon resurrecting a doctrine of state's rights buried fifty years ago.

He went on to welcome the Pope as a defender of moral values and «a simple pilgrim who comes in humility and gentleness to pray where Jesus Christ the Messiah, peace be upon him, prayed and was baptised and began his mission 2,000 years ago.»