Our most elemental and unavoidable impressions, he says, are those of being involved in a large arena of powers which have a longer past than our own, which are interrelated in a vast movement through the present toward the future.

Going through the Imperial Gate in the wall, I entered the grounds of Topkapi Palace, home of the Sultans and nerve center of the vast Ottoman Empire, and walked along a road toward another gate in the distance, past the Church of St. Irene, completed by Constantine in 330 A.D. on my left, and then, just outside the second gate, I saw a spring with a tap in the wall on my right -- the Executioner's Spring, where he washed his hands and his sword after beheading his victims.

In lieu of the amanuensis to the blind or illiterate bard, one may conceive of a man who heard a vast store of oral poetry recited, and became intimately familiar with the established aids to poetizing, and himself wrote his own compositions or his edition of the compositions of the past.

In the past two centuries, it has become a vast subject with applications in areas as diverse as signal processing, quantum mechanics, and neuroscience.

He concluded that, in the relatively recent past, Switzerland had been another Greenland ; that instead of a few glaciers stretching across the areas referred to, one vast sheet of ice, originating in the higher Alps, had extended over the entire valley of northwestern Switzerland until it reached the southern slopes of the Jura, which, though they checked and deflected its further extension, did not prevent the ice from reaching in many places the summit of the range.

Because access to media has increased so quickly through a vast number of mediums such as computers, cell phones, stereos and televisions, adolescents ’ use of media has skyrocketed in the past decade.

While current zoning laws do not require building remodelling to remain historically accurate, the vast majority of houses and structures remain architecturally as they were constructed, often more than a century past.

It has grown in the past several years to a two-day festival featuring a vast variety of activities.

Stone is the one category of material which is used by ( virtually ) all human cultures and, for the vast majority of the human past, is the only record of human behaviour.

The coal industry in the region, needing vast areas of land, destroyed dozens of Lusatian villages in the past and threatens some of them even now.

He saw acts of corruption among candidates, such as bribing " the constituents with vast quantities of beer, while impressive parades wound their way through New York's crowded streets, past masses of billboards, all exhorting the public to vote for the different political candidates ".

In the past few decades, paramyxoviruses have been discovered from terrestrial, volant and aquatic animals, demonstrating a vast host range and great viral genetic diversity.

The Earth has a vast range of landscapes including the icy landscapes of polar regions, mountainous landscapes, vast arid desert landscapes, islands and coastal landscapes, densely forested or wooded landscapes including past boreal forests and tropical rainforests, and agricultural landscapes of temperate and tropical regions.

Preserving the past are the numerous museums, libraries and the Mother Cathedral itself, all holding a vast richness of history and treasures.

In the vast majority of cases, patience, training, and consistency of care will help the pet overcome its past.

" God shows Moses a vision depicting some of His vast creations including a vast number of worlds created for other people — a sampling of what God created in the past and what he will continue to do forever.

As one of the first public universities established in the early 19th century southwestern frontier of the US, the University of Alabama has left a vast cultural imprint on the state, region and nation over the past two centuries.

Due to its vast cultural diversity, geography and its natural beauty, Nepal has been able to portray itself as one of the beautiful shooting location for filmmakers in the past couple of years.

In 2010 a study published in Nature found that " marine phytoplankton — the vast range of tiny algae species accounting for roughly half of Earth's total photosynthetic biomass-have declined substantially in the world's oceans over the past century.

An intellect which at any given moment knew all of the forces that animate nature and the mutual positions of the beings that compose it, if this intellect were vast enough to submit the data to analysis, could condense into a single formula the movement of the greatest bodies of the universe and that of the lightest atom ; for such an intellect nothing could be uncertain and the future just like the past would be present before its eyes.

In December 2008, a delegation of Lakota Sioux, including Talon Becenti, delivered to the U. S. State Department a declaration of separation from the United States Citing many broken treaties by the U. S. government in the past, and the loss of vast amounts of territory originally awarded in those treaties, the group announced its intentions to form a separate nation within the U. S. known as the Republic of Lakotah.

A follow-up of his Linear Partial Differential Operators, it " illustrate the vast expansion of the subject " over the past 20 years, and is considered the " standard of the field ".

Her later work was more introspective in its lyrics as opposed to aggressive ; Hole's Celebrity Skin and Love's solo album, America's Sweetheart, focused more on celebrity life, Hollywood, and drug addiction, while also carrying on past themes of vanity and body image, and Nobody's Daughter was lyrically reflective of Love's past relationships and her struggle to sobriety, with the majority of its lyrics having been written while Love was in rehab in 2006.

Peter Raven, past President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( AAAS ), states in the foreword to their publication AAAS Atlas of Population and Environment: " We have driven the rate of biological extinction, the permanent loss of species, up several hundred times beyond its historical levels, and are threatened with the loss of a majority of all species by the end of the 21st century.

However, the Christian majority of the past, constituting around 65 % of the population at one point, has been shrinking, while the number of Muslims has steadily increased to its present 45 % of the population due to immigration from Muslim countries.

According to macrobiotic advocates, a majority of the world population in the past ate a diet based primarily on grains, vegetables, and other plants.

The term preterism comes from the Latin praeter, which is listed in Webster's 1913 dictionary as a prefix denoting that something is " past " or " beyond ," signifying that either all or a majority of Bible prophecy was fulfilled by AD 70.

Under the " first past the post " system the candidate with most votes ( a plurality ) wins, even if they do not have an absolute majority ( more than half ) of votes.

Subsequent elections in 1970 and 1974 gave Mancham a small majority in votes, but a large one in seats, through the " first past the post " voting system.

In the past, science fiction television shows have maintained a family friendly format that rendered them suitable for all ages, especially children, as the majority of them were of the action-adventure format.

" The dissent also characterized the majority as " myopic " for only considering legal history of " the past five years ".

Though coalition and minority governments have been an occasional feature of parliamentary politics, the first-past-the-post electoral system used for general elections tends to maintain the dominance of these two parties, though each has in the past century relied upon a third party to deliver a working majority in Parliament.

have been the subjects of numerous studies conducted over the past century, although a majority of the recent research has focused on enhancing the knowledge of the wine industry.

In the United States, as the majority of elections are conducted under the first past the post system, election thresholds do not apply in the actual voting.

The modern Internet operates with significantly more peering locations than at any time in the past, resulting in improved performance and better routing for the majority of the traffic on the Internet.

In contrast to President Abraham Lincoln's more lenient Ten Percent Plan, the bill made re-admittance to the Union for former Confederate states contingent on a majority in each Southern state to take the Ironclad oath to the effect they had never in the past supported the Confederacy.

It has in the past occasionally forced ill or pregnant members to have to attend parliament when a party's majority was only slim.

However, by this time, inflation was on the rise, and the great majority of the people had gotten little benefit from the economic boom of the past decade.

One way that journalists inflate uncertainty is by describing new research that contradicts past research without providing context for the change Other times, journalists give scientists with minority views equal weight as scientists with majority views, without adequately describing or explaining the state of scientific consensus on the issue.

Under the first past the post ( FPTP ) single member voting system the highest polling candidate is elected as opposed to a candidate that has an absolute majority of votes.

As of the mid-20th century, the majority of the inhabitants were Arvanite ; a thing that changed during the past 20 years due to settlement of a lot of Athenians on the island to the degree that nowadays Arvanites are a fraction of the population, living mainly in Salamina town, Ampelakia and Moulki ( Aianteion ).

According to him, past labels used by the media include " silent majority " in the 1960s, " forgotten middle class " in the 1970s, " angry white males " in the 1980s, " soccer moms " in the 1990s, and " NASCAR dads " in the 2000s ( decade ).

The votaries of Hindutva believe that the way Muslims and Hindus have treated each other in the past is a one-way compromise and they intend on making society more balanced and fair towards the majority Hindu population.