The last three volumes are again more dependent on the past, as Hardy's creative powers declined in his old age.

Personally, it is the Southerner's sexual coming of age, when, without any warning, unbreakable taboos are set up between himself and his past.

Since the Universe has a finite age, and light travels at a finite speed, there may be events in the past whose light has not had time to reach us.

This tension is best exhibited in the Cakkavatti Sihanada Sutta ( Digha Nikaya 26 of the Sutta Pitaka of the Pāli Canon ), the story of humanity's decline from a golden age in the past.

In most works the three-heads each respectively see and represent the past, the present, and the future, while other sources suggest the heads represent birth, youth, and old age.

The Tao Te Ching focuses upon the beginnings of society, and describes a golden age in the past, comparable with the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

: The nominee must be at least past the legal driving age and free of mental defect ( Northcutt considers injury or death caused by mental defect to be tragic, rather than amusing, and routinely disqualifies such entries ).

There in Geneva, he died past the age of 87, in 1767.

Few gladiators survived more than 10 matches or lived past the age of 30.

It has been identified with the current warm period, known as MIS 1 and based on that past evidence, can be considered an interglacial in the current ice age.

In 1952 he began a teaching career as a political theorist, first at Columbia University, then at Harvard University, then at Brandeis University from 1958 to 1965, where he taught philosophy and politics, and finally ( by then he was past the usual retirement age ), at the University of California, San Diego.

He laughed because Sarah was past the age of childbearing ; both she and Abraham were advanced in age.

He was the eighth of eleven children and the youngest of the five sons to survive past early age.

Thirty percent of the population is estimated to be under the age of 15, but this proportion has decreased considerably during the past decades.

Most patients with this disease do not live past the age of twenty-five, and death within ten years of symptoms is usually inevitable At this time there is no cure or treatment for this disease.

In 1837 Agassiz was the first to scientifically propose that the Earth had been subject to a past ice age.

Agassiz denied that migration and adaptation could account for the geographical age or any of the past.

Their age and distribution can be largely related to the rise and fall of sea levels during past ice ages.

These oppositions are inherent to modernism: it is in its broadest cultural sense the assessment of the past as different to the modern age, the recognition that the world was becoming more complex, and that the old " final authorities " ( God, government, science, and reason ) were subject to intense critical scrutiny.

During and after its golden age, the Dutch built up a commercial and colonial empire, which fell apart quickly after the Second World War ; the historical ties inherited from its colonial past still influence the foreign relations of the Netherlands.

The number of hard drug addicts has stabilized in the past few years and their average age has risen to 38 years, which is generally seen as a positive trend.

Content and performance expectations are based primarily on what was taught in the past to students of a given age.

In the past, PKU-affected people were allowed to go off diet after approximately eight, then 18 years of age.

`` No complaints or charges have been filed during the past year, either verbally or written, from any individual or group.

She got up, standing uncertainly for a moment, then moving aside to let go past her, talking, a group of young men.

In a turn of events that proved to be a minor embarrassment for the reorganized ownership group, Backman was almost immediately fired after management learned, after the fact, of legal troubles and improprieties in Backman's past.

As with any other ethnic group that has gone from troubled land to troubled land, many of them see it as their duty to educate future generations on their people's past.

The second study lasted 411 days in 2000 – 2001, in Ahmedabad, India, under the direction of a 21 member team of medical doctors and scientists led by doctors Sudhir Shah and K. K. Shah, a past President of the Indian Medical Association and current Chairman of the Jainist Doctors ' Federation ( the latter group aims to " Promote scientific research and medical education based on principles of Jainism ").

It became common for both the state and opposition group to receive foreign support, allowing wars to continue well past the point when domestic resources had been exhausted.

According to Jordania, this trance-inducing ability of dance comes from human evolutionary past and includes as well a phenomenon of military drill which is also based on shared rhythmic and monotonous group activity.

The move benefited United as they received a two-week break and won the 1999-2000 league title by an 18-point margin, although they did not progress past the group stages of the Club World Cup.

“ This produces a perceptual shift from thinking of oneself in terms of ‘ I ’ and ‘ me ’ to ‘ us ’ or ‘ we ’.” Only when an individual is salient with the in-group can he or she perceive responsibility for the harmful actions of the group, past and present.

The Pashtuns form the largest group, claiming to be descendants of ancient Israelites or Qais Abdur Rashid but scholars believe that they are a confederation of various peoples from the past who united under Pashtunwali.

group Idolisto during November 2005 showed that 57 % had begun their studies of the language during the past three years, 32 % from the mid-1990s to 2002, and 8 % had known the language from before.

On both occasions Scotland failed to get past the group stage.

Additionally, in the past there, was been a group known as the Conservative Trade Unionists or CTU.

Mazda has also made an effort in the past to sell some of Ford's cars in Japan, mainly through its Autorama dealer group.

As they ran past the control tower, Sniper 3 took one last opportunity to eliminate Issa, which would have left the group leaderless.

In the past, however, the group was much more diverse, and includes more than ten fossil genera.

The group includes Pat Conley, a mysterious young woman who has an unprecedented parapsychological ability to undo events by changing the past.

In the Free State of Saxony, the chairman of the Left Party group, Peter Porsch, could lose his mandate in the Saxon parliament because of his alleged Stasi past.

The NGO has stated that while most of these incidents remain defensive in nature and are not like the large offensives from years past, FARC actions have been growing since 2005, and the rebel group is currently carrying out intense operations against small and medium-sized Colombian military units in vulnerable areas.

A recurring plot device is the Temporal Cold War, in which a mysterious entity from the 27th century uses the Cabal, a group of genetically upgraded Suliban, to manipulate the timeline and change past events.

But here the tribe is conceived not merely as the group of its present representatives but as a historical entity embracing past, present, and future generations.

*" What if ... starring Secret Wars: 25 years later " the children of heroes are teleported back to earth where sometime in the last 25 years, a variation of " Days of future's past " is shown when the group is attacked by Sentinels

There have been political parties and opposition groups in the past — a group named Agzybirlik ( Unity ) was banned in January 1990.

The next scene shows Alvin as a huge group of RAGBRAI cyclists race past him.