Sentences with phrase «with modern civilization»

There is no doubt that society is changing in the United States as well as in the rest of the world too and the rising divorce rates seem to go right along with modern civilization.

According to a large and growing volume of published studies, the artificial lighting at night that's synonymous with modern civilization carries with it a dark side: increased risks of obesity, Type 2 diabetes, breast cancer, prostate cancer, depression and, perhaps most obviously, sleep loss.

If this massive bubble of plasma and radiation is aimed right at Earth, it can pose a serious threat to satellite operations and even to power grids on the ground, along with modern civilization that depends on their electricity.

Rayder «is in tune with modern civilization, which is why he's so good with the wildlings.

They are no longer satisfied with the mere observance of the outward form of their religion but are looking for spiritual and moral guidance in Islam compatible with modern civilization.

Not exact matches

As my friend Pastor Richard John Neuhaus has so eloquently put it, «the Holocaust is in modern consciousness the icon of barbarity by contrast with which civilization is defined.»

If other things are against it, other things must go down... With the red hair of one she - urchin in the gutter I will set fire to all modern civilization.

Nor can the wish to replace orthodoxy with a more modern theology be a compelling motivation, simply because the hold of orthodoxy upon Western civilization has been so clearly broken that only a Don Quixote would choose to tilt in such a tournament.

You can't wrap your head around the bible because it is nothing more than an ancient fable from the past and has no relevance with the advent of modern science and modern civilization.

The Syllabus of Errors, issued in 1864 under the auspices of Pope Pius IX, famously ends by condemning the proposition that «The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization.»

The development of modern machine technology in industrial society has wrought profound changes in the relationship between work and leisure, with correspondingly far - reaching effects on the values of civilization.

Under modern conditions, with changes occurring so rapidly that most specific occupational preparation becomes quickly out of date, it even appears that a fundamental liberal education is the best vocational education, for it develops the powers of imagination needed to meet new situations and the understanding of interrelationships required by life in an increasingly interdependent civilization.

Since the heart of liberalism was its endorsement of the best in modern culture, scientifically based free inquiry, together with its technological benefits, would automatically advance Christian civilization.

As he should know from his own position as a Catholic professor at a secular university, the two great institutional legacies of the Middle Ages to modern civilization are the Catholic Church and the contemporary university, of which the latter is surely the more rigidly hierarchical: With its politically correct orthodoxies, its hegemonically imposed anti-hegemonic discourse, its salary - mongering, its freedom from taxation (how Constantinian!)

In the Greek dawn of western civilization, the word «theos» (god) had two primary meanings, surprising for modern men for whom the word is so heavily freighted with sophisticated meanings of utter transcendence acquired through centuries of Hebrew - Christian tradition.

He was also an intellectual, a philosopher, and moralist who continued throughout his life wrestling with the issues of modern civilization.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

That is, I believe, bad philosophy — and incompatible with the basic principles of our civilization and polity; but at least it does not rely on denying basic facts known to anyone who has taken the trouble to acquaint himself or herself with modern human embryology and developmental biology.

Modern civilization has largely lost touch with the natural world and its practical arts; perhaps this is why we create so many apocalypse stories.

But any house built today will provide for all the necessary functions of family life with the use of those instruments that modern civilization affords and with consideration of the services that the larger community now makes available to the home.

Blessed with a diverse variety, this ancient mystical land has it all - palm - studded white sand beaches, forested mountains cloaked in dawn mists, well - preserved ruins of historic civilizations, not to mention the excitement of Bangkok's modern metropolis.

For example, Kibbutzes or hippie communies in California don't need to spend money on R&D in agriculture, or defense, or large scale law enforcement (again, you may have the luxury to exclude 1 - 3 % of psychopaths / sociopaths from a small community, and not worry about said excluded psychopaths attacking you for your communal material possessions from outside since they are dealt with by outside society), or on disaster preparedness, or on medical R&D, or pretty much any other economic overhead of modern civilization.

It contrasted Europe with the linked cultures and civilizations of the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia and remote Far East, which early - modern Europeans saw as the East.

The team points out that the period of intermarriage overlaps with a time of huge social upheavals in India, including the collapse of the ancient Indus civilization — which thrived on the Indian subcontinent between about 2600 B.C.E. and 1900 B.C.E. — as well as large - scale population movements and the rise of the Vedic religion, the predecessor of modern Hinduism.

With crowdfunded projects such as American Gut, which already has thousands of participants who have had their microbiomes sequenced, and studies of people whose lives are very different from modern Western civilization, such as the Hadza of Tanzania, Yanomami of Venezuela and Matsés of Peru, we may be able to replenish our ancestral microbes and discover new ones that help to maintain health for individuals or entire populations.

Ancient civilizations also struggled with climate change just as the modern world is struggling today.

Significant epidemiological and clinical evidence has emerged that suggests AD belongs among the «diseases of civilization,» primarily caused by modern Western diets and lifestyles at odds with human physiology.

B.K.S. Iyengar called Shavasana the antidote for the stresses of modern civilization, but I think that is just until we learn to be more tuned with how we allow our nervous systems to react to external stimulation.

WHAT: In a dystopian future where the collapse of modern civilization has given way to a feudal society, seven rival barons — each with their own army of trained assassins — have divided control of an area known as the Badlands.

It introduces them to: - The term «globalisation» - The spread of artwork from ancient civilizations such as the Romans - The impact of trade along the Silk Road - The impact of colonialism on the spread of artwork and art techniques - A comparison of very local artists such as John Constable with modern global artists such as Peter Fischli and David Weiss.

Through her work with the PLC, she realized that although she did a great job teaching ancient civilization, she wasn't relating the subject to modern times.

If you're looking for a compact truck with some fairly serious off - road chops (for a stock truck at least) and don't care about a smooth ride or all the modern technology, then the Nissan Frontier is the truck for you (especially if you spend lots of time away from civilization where breakdowns can be more than just an annoyance).

My love for turn - based strategy games began with Sid Meir and Civilization almost 15 years ago, though modern day equivalents like Boom Beach by Supercell (made famous by their Clash of Clans game) do satisfy my love of the genre.

As modern civilization advanced, the practice was accepted to varying degrees, with the development of understanding the actions of hormones on the body, known as endocrinology.

Cats began their unique relationship with humans 10,000 to 12,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent, the geographic region where some of the earliest developments in human civilization occurred (encompassing modern day parts of West Asia).

With a vast history encompassing many centuries, Macedonia was a beautiful array of biodiversity, charming villages, and towns that embodied the juxtaposition of ancient and modern civilization.

Asia evokes exotic images of monks in saffron robes; bustling and colorful markets; roadside noodle stands; nomadic sheiks; islands in a warm, turquoise sea bordered by lovely beaches; soaring mountains with terraces of rice paddies; spicy cuisine that fuses East and West traditions; and ancient history and customs that live side by side the signs of modern civilization.

With its white villages atop lava rock cliffs and blue - domed churches overlooking a sunken caldera, this postcard - perfect Aegean island feels a thousand miles from modern civilization.

The architects and designers of this luxury hotel have tried to blend the architectural traditions of ancient Meluha with modern aesthetics to provide an amalgamated dose of two different civilizations.

Lead a civilization from the dawn of man to the modern age, and go head - to - head with history's most intrepid leaders as you wage war, conduct diplomacy, discover new technologies, and build the most powerful empire the world has ever known in a race for ultimate supremacy.

In the modern martial arts epic, the classic tension of star - crossed lovers is amplified by the presence of four reigning powers — clans with an ancient rivalry as old as civilization itself — and beliefs rooted in a tradition of warfare.

A modern civilization alive with crystal's songs of swords and sorcery.»

He invests these sites with new traits through his interventions, resulting in architectural travelogues dense with layers of suggestive symbols, as well as an incisive examination of the foundations and inventions of civilizations, both ancient and modern, revealing their simultaneously seductive and alienating features.

Some of the exhibitions include: Civilization and the Landscape of Discontent (1984), Still Life with Transaction (1984), The New Capital (1985), Modern Sleep (1986), The New Poverty (1987), Theoretically Yours (1992), among others.

And thus it would have meant the end of human civilization and essentially all modern mammalian — including human — life on essentially almost all the planet, since modern mammals can not survive with typical summertime afternoon heat indexes around 200 degrees F or have viable populations at even just 150 degrees F without suitable microenvironments to retreat into.)

Here's one word he certainly did know: pollution Here's another: conservation And our modern Robber Barons are more concerned with maintaining their profits than with the survival of our civilization, and perhaps our species.

The entire history of modern civilization that started with the first industrial revolution has been enabled by the burning of fossil fuels.

The controversial pipeline has become emblematic of our inability to reconcile world demand for fossil fuels with the environmental imperatives imposed upon modern civilization.

The primary current problem is that the climate alarmists are creating enormous problems in the generation and use of reliable energy necessary for the development and even the continuation of modern civilization, with adverse effects on the economy, human welfare, and even the environment, all for no significant benefits to anyone except vendors of renewable energy facilities.

«Modern industrial civilization, as presently organized, is colliding violently with our planet's ecological system.»