Her miraculous progress in material achievements flows from other qualities far more worthy and substantial: adherence to principles and methods consonant with our religious philosophy ; ;

Since arriving here, however, I have formed a far different religious picture of present-day England.

Agnosticism is the view that the truth values of certain claims — especially claims about the existence or non-existence of any deity, but also other religious and metaphysical claims — are unknown and ( so far as can be judged ) unknowable.

The first case recorded of the partial exemption of an abbot from episcopal control is that of Faustus, abbot of Lerins, at the council of Arles, AD 456 ; but the exorbitant claims and exactions of bishops, to which this repugnance to episcopal control is to be traced, far more than to the arrogance of abbots, rendered it increasingly frequent, and, in the 6th century, the practice of exempting religious houses partly or altogether from episcopal control, and making them responsible to the pope alone, received an impulse from Pope Gregory the Great.

Therefore the interpretation of what kinds of sexual activity are acceptable for a layman is not a religious matter as far as Buddhism is concerned.

Hezekiah, the 14th king of Judah " did what was right in the eyes of the Lord " and institutes a far reaching religious reform, centralising sacrifice at the temple at Jerusalem and destroying the images of other gods.

The councils of Gaul held in the first half of the sixth century had given to bishops absolute authority over religious communities, even going so far as to order the abbots to appear periodically before their respective bishops to receive reproof or advice, as might be considered necessary.

Although noting in the introduction to ' The Protestors ' that ' Some recorded herein perhaps did not have " all the truth " — so the writer has been reminded ', Eyre nevertheless claimed that the purpose of the work was to ' tell how a number of little-known individuals, groups and religious communities strove to preserve or revive the original Christianity of apostolic times ', and that ' In faith and outlook they were far closer to the early springing shoots of first century Christianity and the penetrating spiritual challenge of Jesus himself than much that has passed for the religion of the Nazarene in the last nineteen centuries '.

The Druzes and their Christian Maronite neighbors, who had thus far lived as religious communities on friendly terms, entered a period of social disturbance in the year 1840, which culminated in the civil war of 1860.

The product of years of research and published shortly after his death, it shows how far Blake was inspired by dissident religious ideas rooted in the thinking of the most radical opponents of the monarchy during the English civil war.

He believed that his work so far had commended itself to the best minds and also to the dominant powers in the religious world.

He campaigned against the paying of tithes, which funded the established church and often went into the pockets of absentee landlords or religious colleges far away from the paying parishioners.

Due to religious upheavals of the Reformation the empire could not send troops, which it could not afford and which were too far away anyway.

Throughout his childhood, he would continue his religious education with the assistance of his relatives, including his mother's cousin, Ja ' far, and his elder brother, Morteza Pasandideh.

So far as we know, there is no religious establishment or organized body that has in its creed or confession of faith any article denying or affirming such a theory.

He has been living in Kraków since 1997 where he runs the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation aimed at providing education to the small local Jewish community as well as local Gentiles, and where he set up Pardes Lauder, a Jewish religious publishing house which has so far published more than 20 books, including a prayer book and Haggada for Passover.

While far from universal, ancestor veneration occurs in societies with every degree of social, political, and technological complexity, and it remains an important component of various religious practices in modern times.

However, Epirus had a far greater religious significance than might have been expected given its geographical remoteness, due to the presence of the shrine and oracle at Dodona – regarded as second only to the more famous oracle at Delphi.

But it would be going quite too far to see in rationalism Berengar's main standpoint, to attribute to him the deliberate design of subverting all religious authority — Scripture, the Fathers, popes, and councils.

If Iona was the greatest religious centre in Dál Riata, it was far from unique.

According to historian Robert Nisbet Bain, it was one of Elizabeth ’ s “ chief glories that, so far as she was able, she put a stop to that mischievous contention of rival ambitions at Court, which had disgraced the reigns of Peter II, Anne and Ivan VI, and enabled foreign powers to freely interfere in the domestic affairs of Russia .” She was also deeply religious, passing several pieces of legislation that undid much of the work her father had done to limit the power of the church.

The capability is very rare ; in " The Andorian Incident ", the Andorians, whose technology is far superior to Starfleet's in many regards, are explicitly stated not to possess the technology, and in " Chosen Realm ", a group of alien religious extremists who hijack the ship is unaware of it to the point that when Archer, choosing himself when their leader insists on sacrificing a crew member, takes the captain at his word when told that the device disintegrates matter rather than teleporting it.

He proclaimed religious freedom — in those times a revolutionary step, that not even the advanced Western Europe had taken thus far.

Noting the uncertainties surrounding events so far back in time, Herman te Velde argues that the historical roots of the conflict are too obscure to be very useful in understanding the myth and are not as significant as its religious meaning.

In vain did Rib-Addi send touching appeals for aid to the distant Pharaoh, who was far too engaged in his religious innovations to attend to such messages.

Solid brick buildings painted dazzling white, large domes and tall, picturesque palms stretched as far as the eye could see, while the wharves and harbor were filled with tall-masted sailing ships.

I was thinking of the heat and of water that morning when I was plowing the stubble field far across the hill from the farm buildings.

Each wonder can only be built once in the world, and requires a lot of resources to build, far more than most other city buildings or units.

In particular the flag has become a banner for pro-Europeanism outside the Union, for example in Georgia, where the flag is on most government buildings since the coming to power of Mikhail Saakashvili, who used it during his inauguration, stating: " European flag is Georgia ’ s flag as well, as far as it embodies our civilisation, our culture, the essence of our history and perspective, and our vision for the future of Georgia.

* 1348 – A strong earthquake strikes the South Alpine region of Friuli in modern Italy, causing considerable damage to buildings as far away as Rome.

Despite its short lifetime, some radon gas from natural sources can accumulate to far higher than normal concentrations in buildings, especially in confined areas such as attics and basements.

The so-called Ozieri culture was present here in the 4th millennium BCE while the Nuraghe civilization was present in the area around 1500 BCE, as traces of Phoenician buildings have been found not far from the city.

The most dramatic alteration to the original, Tudor court however remains the Victorian amendment of the north range, which involved the demolition of the original mediaeval chapel and the construction of a new, far larger set of buildings in the 1860s.

These cathedrals were the skyscrapers of that day and would have, by far, been the largest buildings that Europeans would have ever seen.

In 1861, another Great Fire of Southwark destroyed a large number of buildings between Tooley Street and the Thames, including those around Hays Wharf ( later replaced by Hays Galleria ) and blocks to the west almost as far as St Olave's Church.

They noted that although the blast wave was of about the same pressure as that of a high-explosive bomb, the duration of the effect was longer and that brick buildings were collapsed as far as 7, 300 feet at Hiroshima and 8, 500 feet at Nagasaki, while traditional wood houses were about the same, while reinforced-concrete structures suffered structural damage or collapse up to 700 feet at Hiroshima and 2, 000 feet at Nagasaki.

The colony is virtually self-sufficient as far as contracting outside labor, constructing its own buildings, doing its own maintenance and repair on equipment, making its own clothes, etc.

The public buildings uncovered so far at the city site of Salamis date to the post-Classical period.

The remains of the mill streams and buildings which housed the overshot water wheels are still visible at the site, and it is by far the best preserved of ancient mills.

The Forum proper included this square, the buildings facing it and, sometimes, an additional area ( the Forum Adjectum ) extending southeast as far as the Arch of Titus.

On May 2, 1983, Coalinga was struck by a 6. 5 magnitude earthquake that destroyed more than 800 houses and other buildings ; it was felt as far away as Los Angeles and western Nevada.

The city preserves a historic downtown district which includes historic buildings dating as far back as 1869.

There are ten buildings on the National Register of Historic Places and an entire 18 block district ( Clark District ) with homes dating as far back as 1854, and several dozen pre-1900.

Magnificent historical buildings, dating back as far as the 18th century, still maintain their significant architectural facades.

By far the most famous and visible sites are Hangars # 1, # 2, and # 3, which dwarf the surrounding buildings.

But by far the greatest part of it, including most of the black-and-white buildings, is Victorian, a result of what Pevsner termed the " black-and-white revival ".

The renamed Saccard soon realises that, far from the disappointment he thought the job would be, he is actually in a position to gain insider information on the houses and other buildings that are to be demolished to build Paris's bold new system of boulevards.

Due to an asbestos-related concern for the safety of the buildings, that visitor's centre ( including the planetarium ) was mostly demolished in 2003 leaving a remnant of its far end ; a large marquee was set up in its grounds.

He established it in several scattered buildings in the small town of New Boston, New Hampshire, which Babson chose because he thought it was far enough from big cities to survive a nuclear war.

Today, a farm museum with buildings at Rygnestad, far north in Valle in Setesdal and in Bø.