Sentences with phrase «written by our ancestors»

One bases its evidence on research, one bases it evidence on what has been written by our ancestors.

the truth is the real truth not the biblical type that was written by your ancestors.

Oh, that's easy — all those classics of literature were written by Dead White Males (even when they were written by the ancestors of people now counted as chic minorities, by women, or both).

Not exact matches

I'm certain they will be cherished by my ancestors as I've cherished the writing of my loved ones who have passed on.

Jura Nanuk, founder & President of Central - European Religious Freedom Inst.itute, wrote the minister an open letter in which she stated: «Did it ever occur to you that instead of pretending to be a victim due to your hurt feelings you might show some compassion for people who were taken to the brink of extinction by your ancestors?

But this rejection, in turn, prompted Hamann to compose and publish a piece called To the Witch at Kadmanbor, a «letter» supposedly written by Nicolai to an old sorceress, asking her to translate Hamann's Monologue from the Chinese of the «Mandarin» who wrote it» a letter that, midway through its course, suddenly becomes a delirious monologue of its own (in which the witch now appears as the Fury Alecto, but with two faces, «a calf's eye like Juno's, and the watery eye of an owl») before concluding with the recommendation that Hamann be forced like his illustrious ancestor Haman — from the book of Esther — to mount the scaffold.

Written by one of his ancestors, an Anglican Divine, it took issue with all things Catholic.

Before he became pope, Benedict wrote that «our quarrelling ancestors were in reality much closer to each other when in all their disputes they still knew that they could only be servants of one truth which must be acknowledged as being as great and as pure as it has been intended for us by God.»

Even the stuff that some might be tempted to write off as ancient history is very much present for some: a 2010 statement by the Alliances des patriotes pour un Congo libre et souverain (APCLS — another armed group, this time from Masisi) declares, «We, the indigenous Congolese from Masisi, Rutshuru, and Walikale in North Kivu province, denounce the Machiavellian plan to exterminate [the people] in the land of their ancestors».

Rather than inheriting big brains from a common ancestor, Neandertals and modern humans each developed that trait on their own, perhaps favored by changes in climate, environment, or tool use experienced separately by the two species «more than half a million years of separate evolution,» writes Jean - Jacques Hublin, a paleoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, in a commentary in Science.

For example, Doolittle of Halifax wrote recently in commenting on an article by Doolittle of San Diego that they had discovered the reason for their common name: They shared a common ancestor eight generations back.

I took these comparative genomic scans to the next level by writing a computer program to identify DNA sequences that are conserved in other animals but have changed rapidly in humans since we evolved from our common ancestor with chimpanzees.

Remember the Ladies from a letter Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, dated March 31, 1776 «I long to hear that you have declared an independency - and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.

Like nearly all of our family legends, this one has to be taken on faith (my ancestors were not given to writing things down) but as a boy I was more than willing to do so, and ever since, I have been fascinated by the American bison, which at one time roamed through most of the North American continent, sixty million strong.

Irish author Sebastian Barry has written multiple novels about the McNulty clan of Sligo, Ireland, inspired by the lives of his ancestors.

The story of the game is that the book written by Sly's ancestors, The Thevius Raccounus, is losing the information right off the pages.

Written by journalist Paul Salopek, it refers to his journey retracing the route taken by ancestors who discovered the Earth 60,000 years ago.

Writing in The Australian today ex-Liberal politician and Cabinet Minister Ian MacFarlane compares celebrating the 26th January in Australia to celebrating the rape and pillage of his Scottish ancestors by the Vikings.