By the time we arrived and entered the building sacred music was already swelling out into the chapel-like auditorium with its discreet symbols of religious faiths.

By the folklorists ' definition, all myths are religious ( or " sacred ") stories, but not all religious stories are myths: religious stories that involve the creation of the world ( e. g., the stories in Genesis ) are myths ; however, religious stories that don't explain how things came to be in their present form ( e. g., hagiographies of famous saints ) are not myths.

By the time the traveller Pausanias visited Dodona in the 2nd century CE, the sacred grove had been reduced to a single oak.

By its very nature, secularism depends on religion for its sense of identity: by resisting sacred models, by insisting that man make history on his own, secular man identifies himself only through opposition to religious thought: " He man recognizes himself in proportion as he ' frees ' and ' purifies ' himself from the ' superstitions ' of his ancestors.

By maintaining Vesta's sacred fire, from which anyone could receive fire for household use, they functioned as " surrogate housekeepers ", in a religious sense, for all of Rome.

By 2011, some Anglicans were able to acknowledge that " The forced alienation of sacred places from one community to another leaves lasting scars.

By the mid 9th century, the Karluk confederation had gained control of the sacred lands of the Western Türks after the destruction of the Uyghur state by the Kyrgyz.

By 2011, some Anglicans were able to acknowledge that " The forced alienation of sacred places from one community to another leaves lasting scars "

By this he understood: ( 1 ) " the recognition and support on the part of the state of the religious expression of the faith of the community ," and ( 2 ) " that this religious expression of the faith of the community on the most sacred and most vital of all its interests should be controlled and guided by the whole community through the supremacy of law.

By 2011, some Anglicans were able to acknowledge that " The forced alienation of sacred places from one community to another leaves lasting scars "

By the time of Muhammad, it was already associated with the Kaaba, a pre-Islamic shrine that was revered as a sacred sanctuary and a site of pilgrimage.

By the time of Cicero, sacrilege had adopted a more expansive meaning, including verbal offences against religion and undignified treatment of sacred objects.

By the Middle Ages, the concept of sacrilege was again restricted to physical acts against sacred objects, and this forms the basis of all later Catholic teaching on the subject.

By analogy, they also tended the life and soul of the city and of the body politic through the sacred fire of Vesta, which was renewed every year on the Kalends of March.

By accumulating the canon, Guru Arjan wished to affix the seal on the sacred word.

By chance Professor Heggarty discovers a cutting from the Saturnian's sacred tree on Raeburn's desk destroys the fungus and Dart is dispatched to Saturn to obtain further supplies.

By a sacred spring on the mountainside, in " the Judgment of Paris ", the grown youth Paris awarded it to Aphrodite, who offered Helen for a bribe, earning the perpetual enmity of the discredited goddesses Hera and Athena to the Trojan cause ( Bibliotheca 3. 12. 5 ).

By this means the time of the catechumenate, which is intended as a period of suitable instruction, may be sanctified by sacred rites to be celebrated at successive intervals of time.

By contrast, sacred animals in other religions are thus seen as sacred to the gods, and thus to all humanity, rather than particular individuals or tribes, even though only those sharing this belief will acknowledge their sacredness.

By removing it from the sacred bounds of married life and childbearing, it has corrupted part of God's creation.

By uttering a sacred mantra, Zacek transformed into Karmatron for the first time.

By this body all the difficult problems are to be resolved and the Guardian of the Cause of God is its sacred head and the distinguished member for life of that body.

By living in harmony with all the scriptural tenets propounded by Bhagwan Swaminarayan, Pramukh Swami Maharaj is often described by followers as a personification of the sacred scriptures.

By the theory of minute constituents of things, and his emphasis on mechanical processes in the formation of order, he paved the way for the atomic theory.

By comparison to biotechnology, bioengineering is generally thought of as a related field with its emphasis more on higher systems approaches ( not necessarily altering or using biological materials directly ) for interfacing with and utilizing living things.

By contrast, the name ' man ' denotes real things ( men ) that have a certain quid rei.

By the time of Wisdom, he's the director of MI6 and has been knighted ; he believes MI-13 to be a doomed organisation and that MI6 should handle the " weird happenings ", to the extent of keeping things from the rival agency.

By such things as avoiding disturbance to the peace of mind of one's teacher, and wholeheartedly following his prescriptions, much merit accrues and this can significantly help improve one's practice.

* " By the very fact that you have conceived a different view of things than that which is maintained in the Church, you have already separated yourself from the Church.

By the 18th century the word theosophy was often used in conjunction with panosophy, i. e., a knowledge of divine things that is acquired by deciphering the supposed hieroglyphics of the concrete universe.

By explaining past changes by analogy with present phenomena, a limit is set to conjecture, for there is only one way in which two things are equal, but there are an infinity of ways in which they could be supposed different.

By the 12th and final season, series regular James MacArthur had left the show ( in 1996, he admitted that he had become tired and wanted to do other things ), as had Kam Fong.

[...] By nature, then, the drive for such a community exists in everyone, but the first to set one up is responsible for things of very great goodness.

By contrast, ontological reduction is the process of reducing things themselves to one another.

By the third issue in the fall of 1993 the " Net Surf " column began listing interesting FTP sites, Usenet newsgroups, and email addresses, at a time when the numbers of these things were small and this information was still extremely novel to the public.

# Integrate rather than segregate: By putting the right things in the right place, relationships develop between those things and they work together to support each other.

He then identifies her as the goddess of the hinge, who is elsewhere known as Cardea, a name Ovid does not use: " By means of her divine presence ( numen ) she opens things that have been closed, and closes things that have been opened.

" By believing that all things have souls like those of humans, killing an animal is little different from killing a person.

By proving his willingness to do things he does not like, if they are the right things to do, Tom earns himself a return to human form, and becomes " a great man of science " who " can plan railways, and steam-engines, and electric telegraphs, and rifled guns, and so forth ".

By the midpoint of the 2009 season, things had improved both on and off field for Melbourne.

By the end of Round 3, things were looking grim for the Tigers once again.

By learning about cells and how they function, you can learn about all types of living things.