Just as tribal elders were consolidated and transformed into kings and bureaucrats, so too were shamans and adepts changed into priests and a priestly caste.

Just as the Athenians were preparing to sail home, on August 28, there was a lunar eclipse, and Nicias, described by Thucydides as a particularly superstitious man, asked the priests what he should do.

He never wore woolen, but linen garments as the priests did ... And indeed, on account of his exceeding great piety, he was called the Just, and Oblias ( or Zaddick and Ozleam ) which signifies justice and protection of the people.

Just as Buddhist priests used these songs to popularize Buddhist teachings, so did Ryūkyū musicians begin use Eisa dancing to popularize Ryūkyū music by replacing the Buddhist prayers with folk songs, which remain popular for Eisa accompaniment.

`` Just when you think you have it licked, this golf course can get up and bite you '', Player had said one afternoon midway through the tournament.

Just before the commission, in a letter to sportswriter Tim Murnane, Spalding noted, " Our good old American game of baseball must have an American Dad.

' Just think how rich they are, how many Pasternaks they have -- as many as there were Pushkins in the Russia of Tsar Nicholas ... Not much has changed.

Just as Claudius had criticized his predecessors in official edicts ( see below ), Nero often criticized the deceased Emperor and many of Claudius ' laws and edicts were disregarded under the reasoning that he was too stupid and senile to have meant them.

Just as Daken appears to have won Xavier pulls both of them onto the astral plane revealing that the psychic bomb had little effect on him because his psyche was already shattered.

While Just war theory is generally seen to set the background terms of moral debate, individual countries have more specific methods of upholding these ethical principles.

Just as human physiology and evolutionary physiology have worked to identify physical adaptations of the body that represent " human physiological nature ," the purpose of evolutionary psychology is to identify evolved emotional and cognitive adaptations that represent " human psychological nature.

They certainly appear to have questioned Paul's authority as an apostle, perhaps appealing to the greater authority of the Jerusalem church governed by James the Just.

Just the opposite is the case: abilities such as these have experienced relatively small gains and even occasional decreases over the years.

Just as Homer drew extensively on a tradition of oral poetry, sung by wandering minstrels, so Herodotus appears to have drawn on an Ionian tradition of story-telling, collecting and interpreting the oral histories he chanced upon in his travels.

As browsers have gained support for native hardware accelerated graphics in the form of Canvas and WebGL, as well as Just in Time compiled JavaScript, the speed difference has become less noticeable.

Just as man does not have unlimited dominion over his body in general, so also, and with more particular reason, he has no such dominion over his specifically sexual faculties, for these are concerned by their very nature with the generation of life, of which God is the source.

2: 11 )... R. Katina also taught, “ Just as the seventh year is the Shmita year, so too does the world have one thousand years out of seven that are fallow ( mushmat ), as it is written, ‘ And the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day ’ ( Isa.

Just have a good time and do a little business.

It was possible for the assembly to recall an ostracised person ahead of time ; before the Persian invasion of 479 BC, an amnesty was declared under which at least two ostracised leaders — Pericles ' father Xanthippus and Aristides ' the Just '— are known to have returned.

In his autobiography, Just One More Thing ( 2006 ), Falk said that his selection for the film from thousands of other Off-Broadway actors was a " miracle " that " made my career " and that without it, he would not have gotten the other significant movie roles that he later played.

According to anthropologists John Monaghan and Peter Just, Many of the great world religions appear to have begun as revitalization movements of some sort, as the vision of a charismatic prophet fires the imaginations of people seeking a more comprehensive answer to their problems than they feel is provided by everyday beliefs.

Just as colonisation and colonialism have been practiced throughout recorded history, political self-determination, on an individual level, has been documented similarly and cherished highly by collective peoples despite them ; ancient Mesopotamia and the later Greek city-states are early examples of its practice.

Just to the southeast of the park is Olduvai Gorge, where many of the oldest hominid fossils and artifacts have been found.

Just as Tolkien's literary theories have been seen to influence the tale, so have Tolkien's experiences.

In fact, the modern explanation of the uncertainty principle, extending the Copenhagen interpretation first put forward by Bohr and Heisenberg, depends even more centrally on the wave nature of a particle: Just as it is nonsensical to discuss the precise location of a wave on a string, particles do not have perfectly precise positions ; likewise, just as it is nonsensical to discuss the wavelength of a " pulse " wave traveling down a string, particles do not have perfectly precise momenta ( which corresponds to the inverse of wavelength ).

Just as Hart Crane had little influence on anyone except very reactionary writers -- like Allen Tate, for instance, to whom Valery was the last word in modern poetry and the felicities of an Apollinaire, let alone a Paul Eluard were nonsense -- so Dylan Thomas's influence has been slight indeed.

Just as Bates had been inspired to write her poem, Ward too was inspired to compose his tune.

Just over one gram of berkelium has been produced in the United States since 1967.

" The epistle has been traditionally attributed to James the Just since AD 253.

The James referred to in this passage is most likely James the first bishop of Jerusalem who is also called James the Just in Christian literature, and to whom the Epistle of James has been attributed.

Based in Paris, the paper had been established and was run by many activists connected to the revolutionary socialist League of the Just, which would come to be better known as the Communist League within a few years.

Just as it had been in Coornhert's time, supporting the Coster legend became a publicity stunt for one of Haarlem's most important businesses, and the Enschedé company complied by offering tours of the printing presses, and even opened the Museum Enschedé in 1904 on the Klokhuisplein ( now the location of a memorial plaque ).

Just a decade earlier, a whole host of similar models — notably the MG B, Triumph TR7, Triumph Spitfire and Fiat Spider — had been available.

Just before the coronation, a major conspiracy had been uncovered, which cast a pall over the celebration.

Just as intermedi had once been performed in-between the acts of stage plays, operas in the new comic genre of " intermezzi ", which developed largely in Naples in the 1710s and ' 20s, were initially staged during the intermissions of opera seria.

Just like the shell of a mollusk, a pearl is made up of calcium carbonate in minute crystalline form, which has been deposited in concentric layers.

Just after US and NATO forces launched strikes in Afghanistan, bin Laden released a video tape, stating, " America has been hit by Allah at its most vulnerable point, destroying, thank God, its most prestigious buildings ," referencing the September 11 attacks on the US.

Just after Didi and Gogo have been particularly selfish and callous, the boy comes to say that Godot is not coming.

Just immediately prior to his election as pope, Leo had been serving as the Cardinal-Priest of the church of Santa Susanna.

Since being fielded, Hellfire missiles have proven their effectiveness in combat in Operation Just Cause in Panama, Operation Desert Storm in Persian Gulf, Operation Allied Force in Yugoslavia, Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, in Operation Iraqi Freedom, where they have been fired successfully from Apache and Super Cobra attack helicopters, Kiowa scout helicopters, and Predator unmanned combat air vehicles ( UCAVs ).

It is also known for the large number of famous people who have been treated there, including mathematician John Nash, Douglas S. Holder, who ran poetry groups in inpatient wards for over a decade, published Poems of Boston and Just Beyond: From the Back Bay to the Back Ward.

Just as the individuals in the state of nature had been sovereigns and thus guided by self-interest and the absence of rights, so states now acted in their self-interest in competition with each other.

Just after the 3rd century, this niche had been covered over, as the whole room had been redecorated with white plaster painted with red bands