Sentences with phrase «with conquest»

Of course, with the conquest of the land, there was a huge change in the albedo of the land mass around 450 million years ago, and the albedo changed completely when the vast majority of the land was eventually covered by plant life some 200 million years ago.

While Civilization and Crusader Kings fulfill the desire for sweeping campaigns with conquest and months passing each turn, Into the Breach feels much more focused, small scale, quick enough that it'll still be the same month when you finish your run.

We wouldn't have gone as far as we did only with the conquest mode.

With the conquest multiplayer alpha on the way, my gaze now turns towards upgrading the conquest gameplay in general.

Listen up as we talk about the Wii U, immersion breaking habits, and other news while we continue on with our conquest to beat every level in Dungeon Defenders.

Aside from Severn Darden, who relishes his lip - smacking heavy character, the cast seems disinterested; even series stalwart Roddy McDowall looks bored, perhaps depressed over the fluffy script and realizing that the sequels peaked with CONQUEST.

If we give literal, historical credence to the narratives of Israel's approach to the land, we can only wonder whether the present sequence is not disordered, with the conquest of Ammon to the north of Moab, and still further north, Bashan (vv.

The oblong game is pitilessly finite: Wholly concerned as it is with conquest and shifting lines of force, it is exactly and inviolably demarcated, spatially and temporally; having no inner unfolding narrative of its own, it does not end, but is merely curtailed, externally, by a clock (even overtime is composed only of strictly apportioned, discrete units of time).

(3) A society preoccupied with conquest, or enhancing its own power and position, may be classified as possessing a «moving - space» orientation.

EB: For them, evangelization is a word that rhymes with conquest.

His Turkish slaves who served as leaders of his armies carried on his work and consolidated the Muslim power with the conquest of Banaras and Bengal, carrying Muslim rule to the east coast of India.

But with the conquests of Egypt and Iran it became clear that Islam would not be an exclusively Arab faith.

Not exact matches

The game of dominating the world's resources, nation - states and alliances is like a combination of Go and chess, with the threat of military conquest or defeat always hovering over the statecraft and financial game.

«We're conquesting a target group, and engaging them with a brand, who do not want to commit to a three - year lease.

When Romulan warbirds fire disruptors and humans can only defend themselves with wooden shield with holy cross markings, you can tell me Romulan conquest of Earth is by intelligent design.

Before the Muslim conquests (it is interesting that papacy and Islam were established at the same time around 600 a. D.) there was a great Christian Church in the Roman Empire or later Eastern Roman Empire with a lot of free bishops.

He will set them off with communications of His presence which, though faint, seem great to them, with emotional sweetness, and easy conquest over temptation.

What with the Crusades, the Inquisition and forced conversion of native peoples, Christianity grew in large part because of violent conquest.

After listing Charlemagne's previous conquests as evidence of his power, he introduces the main theme with a rhetorical question: «Under these conditions, was it not to be expected» that the king should add a more general title commensurate with his authority?

Don Schenk is correct to disbelieve stories» told by presidents or others» of Jerusalem's streets running with blood to knee level after the Crusader conquest of 1099.

Temple life sanctified the conquest's booty, proving with every libation Jewish love for Creation.

This Kingdom has arrived, not with a trumpet's sound but with a baby's cries, not with the vanquishing of enemies but with the forgiving of them, not on the back of a war horse but on the back of a donkey, not with triumph and a conquest but with a death and a resurrection.

Although, as I believe, concord must of necessity eventually prevail on earth, it can by our premises only take the form of some sort of tense cohesion pervaded and inspired with the same energies, now become harmonious, which were previously wasted in bloodshed: unanimity in search and conquest, sustained among us by the universal resolve to raise ourselves upwards, all straining shoulder to shoulder, towards ever greater heights of consciousness and freedom.

The Arabs completed the conquest of the Levant within a few years of the death of the Prophet, their surprising success made possible by the inspiration of their new faith which filled their souls with confidence, and by the decline of the power of Persia and Byzantium as a result of their perpetual wars against each other.

The symbolic function of creation in valuing time and history becomes clearer when the Genesis accounts are compared with myths whose purpose is to legitimate cyclical time (as in the Babylonian myth of the primeval conquest of Tiamat by Marduk, alluded to in Genesis 1:2), or to those in which time itself is a negative aspect of a fallen order (as in Plato's myth of the fall of the soul, or similar myths favored by Hindu and Buddhist mysticism).

The emerging nation states began launching voyages of discovery and conquest, taking Christianity with them — first in Roman Catholic and then in various Protestant (or evangelical) forms.

The cross is not a symbol of conquest, but rather a means by which Jesus, the man actualized the highest possible state of intimacy (uns) with his pre-existent or creation - generating state.

But this historical dynamism has brought with it the idea of conquest and the consequent results in absolutisation of State power, world wars and threat of nuclear holocaust quite unknown to traditional societies.

His conquests are celebrated and the Davidic period is looked back upon with nostalgia as the time of Israel's greatness.

The same spirit in modernization has, along with missions of service to universal humanity making human life richer and fuller, produced also a good deal of power - crusades for conquest which has found expression in technology being used in the service of colonialism and transnational and national economic exploitation, totalitarian statism and destruction of nature.

Berry, like Adeimantus, has more in common with the Zapotec resistance to conquest in Mexico, and a spirited defense of one's own.

@Rainer Braendlein you know those verses out of context, you can do that with the Bible too and that's why the Bible has been used to justify slavery, white supremacy, conquest after conquest, and the white man's burden in Africa

With the Babylonian conquest it is absorbed into the all - embracing empire of the Middle East, which under various dynasties persisted through many centuries of the ancient world.

Events such as Japan's occupation of Manchuria in 1931 and its gradual penetration of China proper, coupled with Italy's mid-decade conquest of Ethiopia, demonstrated the virtual uselessness of the Kellogg - Briand Pact of 1928, even though almost all of the world's nations — including Japan and Italy — had ratified it, thereby proclaiming their renunciation of war.

In this faith he can work with courage and hope as the servant of God for the conquest of evil.

His own conquest of temptation was intimately connected with and, indeed, the very expression of, his holy love, his living for others.

In the conquest large numbers of Canaanites were not exterminated — not even conquered; but the Canaanites dwelt with the various tribes to the day of the historian (Judg.

After the conquests by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C., the ensuing domination by the Ptolemies and the Seleucids, and the conquest by Rome under Pompey in 63 B.C. with the annexation of the land as a Roman province, the dream persisted.

As was suggested earlier, those born near the turn of the century have seen within it amazing advances — not only in science, technology, and increased knowledge, but in the conquest of disease with the prolongation of life, an increase in the recognition of race and sex equality with accompanying legal steps; manifold ministries of welfare to the poor, the young, and the elderly; a growing concern for civil rights in many of its facets.

Many of the people returned a half century later, and the nation remained in unstable equilibrium until the conquest of Palestine by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C. Persecution under the overlord Antiochus Epiphanes, which forms the framework of the Book of Daniel with its lions» den and fiery furnace, led to the outbreak of the Maccabean rebellion.

To his readers, who as Gentiles had been taught to eulogize Caesar as divine and to view Caesar's and Rome's military conquests as «good news,» or who, with Jewish contemporaries, had concluded that the prophetic voice had been stilled — to them Luke writes of another source of good news: the story of Jesus, and he declares that the word of God is still to be heard: it had come to John.

Yet, wherever in their commerce, conquests, and settlements they came into contact with non-Christian peoples they developed agencies for spreading their form of the faith.

Islamic armies, imbued with what Mohammed claimed was divine authorization, imposed Islam by force over vast areas, all the while extorting wealth from subjugated Jews and Christians to fund their ongoing conquests.

In other words, the teaching that the death of Christ was (a) for sin and (b) in accordance with the scriptures was derived by both Mark and Paul from the primitive church; the doctrine of the Atonement is not Paul's unique and distinctive contribution to Christian thought, for it is really pre-Pauline; further, it is not at all the central, cardinal doctrine in «Paulinism,» but a subsidiary one; (Indeed, it is a component one — it forms part of the doctrine of the new creation in Christ) finally, the conception of the way in which Christ's death becomes effective, as Paul conceived it, is peculiar to Paul and finds no trace in Mark or indeed elsewhere in the New Testament (Save in passages demonstrable dependent on Paul)-- Paul thinks of it as a conquest of the demonic powers in the very hour of their greatest aggression and apparent triumph.

Fellow archaeologist John Garstang insisted that this could not possibly be true and set about (with further excavations at Jericho and soundings at Ai and Hazor) to restore archaeological support for the historicity of the conquest.

The site archaeologists have traditionally associated with Ai, nearby et - Tell, lacks destruction that could be dated to the time of Joshua, which raised questions about the accuracy of the conquest narrative.

Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, Benito Mussolini, Mao Zedong, Slobodan Milošević, NICOLAE CEAUSESCU... Atheists all... Just add up the deaths caused by Stalin and Chairman Mao... they dwarf the totals of the crusades and the inquisition and even the Spanish conquest of the New World... which had much more to do with gold than religion... but we will let it slide...

a few history lessons; 1) «The Battle of Tours followed 21 years of Umayyad conquests in Europe which had begun with the invasion of the Visigothic Christian Kingdoms of the Iberian peninsula in 711.

But... extirpate these heresies, proceeding against them with order and system,... using, you your temporal arms and I the spiritual, and thus zealously punish them as is right... and show yourself the true and undoubted successor of Charlemagne amongst whose other greatest undertakings there still resounds the fame of the conquest he made of the Saxons...» Campeggio replied in this way before the Emperor at the session following that at which Melancthon's text had been read.

Herodotus tells us that the coastal Ionian city of Phocaea, faced with the likelihood of conquest by the Persians, up and left, packing «even the images of their gods,» sailing out eventually to found a new city at Rhegium in Italy.