In general, friendly contact with a member followed by contact with a clergyman will account for a major share of recruitment by the churches, making it quite evident that the extension of economic integration through co-optation is the principal form of mission in the contemporary church ; ;

As a whole it has been considered extremely valuable, being a clear, comprehensive and in general impartial account of events by a contemporary.

One account has it that the cannonball flew between the Captain-General ’ s legs before hitting the unfortunate colonel, whose torso fell at Marlborough ’ s feet – a moment subsequently depicted in a lurid set of contemporary playing cards.

It is however probable ( though no contemporary account of the Council's decisions has survived ) that no method of determining the date was specified by the Council.

Much of what is known of Allen's captivity is known only from his own account of the time ; where contemporary records are available, they tend to confirm those aspects of his story.

An account of the discovery was published in 1802 in an Italian newspaper, but it was largely overlooked by the contemporary scientific community.

After emerging in the early 1960s, the “ inherence account ” attracted numerous proponents and became an influential element of contemporary Berkeley scholarship.

The saint's body was claimed to have been discovered in a cave with a copy of the canonical Gospel of Matthew on its breast ; according to the contemporary account of Theodorus Lector, who reports that both bones and gospel book were presented by Anthemios to the emperor.

The seeds of heraldic structure in personal identification can be detected in the account in a contemporary chronicle of Henry I of England, on the occasion of his knighting his son-in-law Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou, in 1127.

The reformative Conservative Judaism, in some cases, explicitly interprets Halakha to take into account its view of contemporary society.

A critical account of Popper's thought, viewed from the perspective of contemporary analytic philosophy.

One contemporary French account described the barrage at Agincourt against French knights wearing plate armour as a " terrifying hail of arrow shot ".

The historian, with a vast chronological account of a people, parallels it with a skip trail which stops only on the salient items, and can follow at any time contemporary trails which lead him all over civilization at a particular epoch.

David Armstrong, perhaps the most prominent contemporary realist, argues that such a trope-based variant of nominalism has promise, but holds that it is unable to account for the laws of nature in the way his theory of universals can.

Charles Blattberg has offered an account which distinguishes between four different contemporary political philosophies: neutralism, postmodernism, pluralism, and patriotism.

Although Pius V is often credited with the origin of the Pope's white garments — supposedly because after his election Pius continued to wear his white Dominican habit — this claim must be regarded as legendary on account of the great number of contemporary portraits of earlier popes wearing the same white cassock he supposedly inaugurated.

* The Martyrdom of Polycarp: The contemporary account of his death in the letter to the Smyrnaeans.

Comstock intended Syracuse University and the hill to develop as an integrated whole ; a contemporary account described the latter as " a beautiful town ... springing up on the hillside and a community of refined and cultivated membership ... established near the spot which will soon be the center of a great and beneficent educational institution.

It is therefore possible that the Chronicles account is a product of the circumstances of the 8th and 9th centuries being projected back into the past to create an origin story of the ruling kinship appropriate to the contemporary form of the kingdom.

John Caius of Shrewsbury writes the first full contemporary account of the symptoms of the disease.

The Arab navigator, Ahmad Bin Majid, visited Bahrain in 1489 and gave a contemporary account of the country that the first Portuguese would have seen: " In Awal ( Bahrain ) there are 360 villages and fresh water can be found in a number of places.

According to a contemporary account by theologian, Sheikh Yusuf Al Bahrani, in an unsuccessful attempt by the Persians and their Bedouin allies to take back Bahrain from the Kharijite Omanis, much of the country was burnt to the ground.

The account of the contemporary chronicler William of Poitiers, states that the body of Harold was given to William Malet for burial:

The account formerly given of him, that he was the contemporary of Theocritus and a friend and teacher of Moschus, and lived about 280 BC, is now regarded as incorrect: it rests on a misreading of the Epitaph of Bion, a poem commemorating his death, which in early modern times was erroneously attributed to Moschus.

A contemporary account which sheds light on the circulation of the music between Catholic country houses, refers to the arrest of a French Jesuit named De Noiriche, who was followed from an unidentified country house by spies, apprehended, searched and found to be carrying a copy of the 1605 set.

One Fell Swoop was an adult contemporary album recorded in Nashville.

Madeline then joined contemporary pop combo Blue Mink, with whom she had a number of Top 20 hits with Philips Records in the UK, including " Melting Pot ", " Our World ", " Randy ", " Banner Man ", " Good Morning Freedom ", " Sunday ", " By The Devil I Was Tempted " and " Stay With Me ".

Per, vocalist of contemporary Swedish outfit Bruce Banner, is noted for singing in a number of these bands.

A contemporary report tells that Thorkell the Tall attempted to save Ælfheah from the mob about to kill him by offering them everything he owned except for his ship, in exchange for Ælfheah's life ; Thorkell's presence is not mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, however.

It is a rare contemporary glimpse into a late Gothic aristocratic English interior and tells a great deal about her status and lifestyle.

The poem tells of the Gododdin King Mynyddog Mwynfawr, and his band of warriors, who, after a year of feasting in their fortress, set out to do battle with the Angles somewhere in contemporary Yorkshire.

Plutarch, in his vita of Pericles, 24, mentions lost comedies of Kratinos and Eupolis, which alluded to the contemporary capacity of Aspasia in the household of Pericles, and to Sophocles in The Trachiniae it was shameful for Heracles to serve an Oriental woman in this fashion, but there are many late Hellenistic and Roman references in texts and art to Heracles being forced to do women's work and even wear women's clothing and hold a basket of wool while Omphale and her maidens did their spinning, as Ovid tells: Omphale even wore the skin of the Nemean Lion and carried Heracles ' olive-wood club.

The apostle Paul tells of his visit to the third heaven, the place, according to contemporary thought, where the garden of Paradise is to be found.

A contemporary account by Eddius Stephanus tells us:

The film tells the story of a contemporary cohabiting Indian couple and their subsequent struggle with an unexpected pregnancy.

A contemporary poem tells of a vow made by the earl on the eve of the warshe would not open one of his eyes while fighting in France.

It is a work of historical allegory which tells the story of the religious conflict in France under Henry III of France and Henry IV of France, and also touches on more contemporary English events, such as the Overbury scandal.

After the Doctor reveals to Barbara and Ian that he and Susan are aliens exiled from their own planet, he tells them he cannot risk their revealing information about the TARDIS to their contemporary world, and dematerialises the craft against Susan's protests.

It tells of the courageous insurrection of the Araucanians and also relates the history of Chile and of contemporary Spain.

In Norse mythology, Skáldskaparmál tells the story of how Odin brought the mead of poetry to Asgard, which is an indicator of the significance of poetry within the contemporary Scandinavian culture.

Jencks believes that contemporary science is potentially a great moving force for creativity because it tells us the truth about the way the universe is and show us the patterns of beauty.

The incumbent 7th Marquess of Bute, known as Johnny Bute, opened an award-winning contemporary visitor centre in 2001 that tells the story of the family and estate.

A contemporary — though hostile — Catholic source tells us that O ' Neill " strove to contain the raskall multitude from those frequent savage actions of stripping and killing which were after perpetrated and gave their enterprise an odious character as well in the opinion of their countrymen as of strangers " but that " the floodgate of rapine, once being laid open, the meaner sort of people was not to be contained ".

Set in contemporary London, the story tells why the protagonist wants to leave his family.

Giovanni Battista Agucchi, a friend and protégé of Cardinal Odoardo Farnese tells us in a 1609 letter, raised along with Sisto Badalocchio and a near contemporary to Domenichino and Lanfranco.

At the same time, the film also tells a contemporary story in which one of Santa's elves ( alternately referred to as the " Vendequm " onscreen ), a visionary named Patch ( Dudley Moore ), sets out to employ Santa's toymaking methods on his own, unaware that he might be ruining the magic of Christmas in the process.

The Hungry Tide tells a very contemporary story of adventure and unlikely love, identity and history, set in one of the most fascinating regions on the earth.

Eusebius of Caesarea, a contemporary ecclesiastical historian, tells a similar story: commanders were told to give their troops the choice of sacrifice or loss of rank.

The work also tells of gender roles in Japan and features of the contemporary Japanese family.

The Filth and the Fury tells the story from the viewpoint of the band members themselves ( albeit in silhouette during their contemporary interviews ).