Sentences with phrase «used over centuries»

We'll learn how ink, gouache and watercolor have been used over the centuries to create preparatory studies and finished paintings on paper.

It is impossible to fully appreciate the cathedral of Notre - Dame, Mont St Michel or the alignments of Carnac if you do not understand the reasons these structures were built and the way they have been used over the centuries.

Oddly enough there are other mainstream ways of banking that have been broadly used over the centuries.

The pattern in tables has been used over centuries by many cultures and has links to so many other areas of the subject.

The leaves, bark, and twigs of the plant have been used over the centuries to make medicine.

It has been used over centuries for many different reasons.

Some may have been used over centuries for a variety of purposes, others only once or twice, for a particular end.

@ iconoclast: you said:» «God» is simply a crutch that people have used over the centuries to explain the unknown, to quell fears and to provide psychological relief.»

«God» is simply a crutch that people have used over the centuries to explain the unknown, to quell fears and to provide psychological relief.

chris «Personal experience» has been used over the centuries as evidence for lots of things including fairies, UFO aliens, leprechauns, mermaids, ghosts, and... yes... all of the other gods and goddesses we've worshipped as well.

Gather clues, review the data and come to fact - based theories using crime scene analysis techniques that were used over a century ago and continue to be used today to figure out the mystery.

Easily one of the oldest structures in London, this near millennium - old castle sits on the northern bank of the River Thames, and has had numerous uses over the centuries.

This leads to a quadrupling of energy use over this century.

Most notable of these is the finding regarding the use of oil, coal, and gas reserves up to 2050 rather than their use over the century as a whole.

Not exact matches

Gynecologists have been using the speculum for over a century, and so far, it's worked.

I used smoothed silver prices over the last century to filter out short term fluctuations to highlight the basic trend of silver prices.

It's been used and perfected by the religious over centuries.

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.

Over the centuries Christians have used two disciplines for covering Scripture in a systematic way.

(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.

Atheists in the 16th and 17th century used to rail about Biblical facts that were incorrect, these things proved there were no God... One big one was that Israel no longer existed as a Nation on the earth... Well I bet they were rolling over in their graves when miraculously the nation was re-created in 1949!

Most of the prayers and hymns used in the churches over the centuries do not present the message of love leading to justice, but rather individualistic petitions to God, praise of God or sometimes a triumphalistic thanksgiving for being Christians.

In this new book he offers a snapshot of the penetration of what might be called «alien'thinking (though this is not a term Trower himself uses) into twentieth - century Catholic intellectual life, singlingout in particular two writers accorded iconic status over the years, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Karl Rahner.

Is it possible and after reading about it i kept on thinking «i will sell to my soul for 20 carats get out shut up i will never ever sell my soul to you oh god please help me and this is continuing for a few days i am afraid that i have sold my sold to the devil have i please help and still i think god's way of allowing others to hate him us much worse even you know and can easily think think about much better punishments like rebirth after being punished for all the sins in life and i am feeling put on the sin of those who committed the unforgiviable sin (the early 0th century priests) imagine them burning in hell fire till now for 2000 years hopelessly screaming to god for help i can't belive the mercy of god are they forgiven even though commiting this sin keans going to hell for entinity thank you and congralutions i think the 7 year tribulation periodvis over in 18th century the great commect shooting and in 19th century the sun became dark for a day and moon was not visible on the earth but now satun has the domination over me those who don't belive in jesus crist i used to belive in him but now after knowing a lot in science it is getting harharder to belive in him even though i know that he exsists and i only belived in him not that he died for me in the cross and also not for eternal life and i still sin as much as i used to before but only a little reduced and i didn't accept satan as my master but what can i do because those who knowingly sin a lot and don't belive in jesus christ has to accept satan as their master because he only teaches us that even though he is evil he gives us complete freedom but thr followers of jesus and god only have freedom because they can sin only with in a limit and no more but recive their reward after their life in heaven but the followers of satun have to go to hell butbi don't want to go to hell and be ruled by the cruel tryant but still why didn't god destroy satun long way before and i think it was also Adam and eve's fault also they could have blamed satan and could have also get their punishment reduced but they didn't and today we are seeing the result

Some Christian scholars are now more interested in the text as we have it and in the history of how it has been used and understood over the centuries by the Church.

The Bible states that Camels were in use domestically in 21st century BC, how common are bones from any animal to be found from over 4,000 years ago?

There is no room for quibbling over whether or not «grind» and «mill» were used sexually in the Greek language of the first century, and that this layer of meaning was familiar to literate Greeks.

In the sacramental mystery cults, which were so influential in the Mediterranean world of the first century, the term (or its equivalent,» Lady») was regularly used to designate the deity who was believed to preside over the cult.

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.

The concept of victims holding power over perpetrators has been used by Catholic hierarchy as early as the 15th century.

I do, of course, leave room for the use of literary techniques such as metaphor, hyperbole, and poetic imagery, and also allow for minor errors to have crept in through the process of copying manuscripts by hand over the centuries.

Their agricultural practices, learned over the centuries, conserved the soil and its vegetation for continued pastoral use.

Chinese Christians have treasured the gospel hymns brought to them by 19th - century missionaries, choosing them over songs using Chinese folk tunes or composed later by Chinese Christians and in a Chinese idiom.)

Similarly, in the late 19th century there were extensive debates among missionaries in Korea over the appropriateness of the term «Hananim» for the biblical God, and among missionaries in Japan over the use of the Shinto term «kami» for the God of the Bible.»

The «river stones» used to cook the soup are smooth stones, usually polished over centuries by moving water, that are about four inches wide and two inches thick.

Although the first cookies date back to 7th century Persia, which was one of the first countries to use sugar in making sophisticated sweets and desserts, the techniques quickly spread throughout Europe, and over the course of the centuries evolved into exquisite flavors, and shapes — buttery, nutty, spicy, chocolaty, filled with jam, dusted with sugar!

«Delivering something different for everyone, we use only top grade ingredients to produce superior products with a level of expertise and experience perfected over a century,» the company says.

The family of the farmer that grew this corn has a connection to the land for over a century, and the seed he uses has been passed down from generation to generation.

First, there was the influence all over Europe of Marco Polo, who, in the late thirteen century reported of the Asian origin of «ginger, galingal, spikenard, and many other kinds of spices» that were just starting to be used in the English kitchen.

Most of the spices used in Spanish cooking today came to Spain over several centuries, from distant lands and by many routes.

The name means «cheese on horseback,» because in the old days, back to the 14th century, it used to be transported strung up in pairs, hung over horsebacks.

He sure isn't afraid to use his legs this year to make yards; he has rushed for over 70 yards in four different games already this year, going over the century mark three times.

Old Sturbridge Village historians will dye wool as it was done in the early 19th century — in kettles over an open fire using natural dyes that produce a variety of colors.

Old Sturbridge Village historians will dye wool as it was done in the early 19th century — in kettles over an open fire using natural dyes that produce brilliant colors.

Women all over the world have taken a length of cloth and used it to extend their arms and hands and take some weight off their shoulders for centuries.

When cleanliness became a virtue in the 19th century, Ms. Boucke wrote, infants were regularly held over a chamber pot (see baby potties) until they learned the habit of using it.

I once read an article that talked about the radical changes in parenting and child - rearing expectations over the past century, and the author used the financial terms of asset and investment to make her point.

The line was created using family recipes handed down from decade to decade and utilizes the wisdom of pharmacologists who've been healing skin conditions for over a century with natural remedies.

Manuscripts in Europe from the 16th to early 20th century reveal over 100 medicinal uses for cocoa including stimulating breast milk production.

Carlisle has never been in the top 1000 baby names and has somehow reached popularity over a century ago — in 1893 — when it was used to name just 98 per a million babies.