The concept of the Middle Kingdom at peace, strong and united under a forceful ruler, which had been only a longed-for ideal in the time of the Warring States, was finally realized by the establishment of a Chinese Empire under the Ch'in dynasty ( 221-207 B.C. ).

In early Christian belief, the concept of Kyrios included the pre-existence of Christ, for they believed if Christ is one with God, he must have been united with God from the very beginning.

Some currents of Neopaganism, in particular Wicca, have a ditheistic concept of a single goddess and a single god, who in hieros gamos represent a united whole.

Some currents of Neopaganism, in particular Wicca, have a bitheistic concept of a single Goddess and a single God, who in hieros gamos represent a united whole.

The Cappadocian Fathers asserted that God's nature is unknowable to man ; helped to develop the framework of hypostases, or three persons united in a single Godhead ; illustrated how Jesus is the eikon of the Father ; and explained the concept of theosis, the belief that all Christians can be assimilated with God in " imitation of the incarnate Son as the divine model.

On this scrap of information, united with the concept of the Antipodes inherited from Graeco-Roman antiquity, Schöner constructed his representation of the southern continent.

However an actual united German identity and ethnicity did not exist then, and it would take centuries of development of German culture until the concept of a German ethnicity began to become a popular identity.

For example, mechanics and mathematical analysis were commonly combined into one subject during the 18th century, united by the differential equation concept ; while algebra and geometry were considered largely distinct.

Champlain did not understand that the Algonquins were socially united by a strong totem / clan system rather than the European-styled political concept of nationhood.

Church Militant and Church Triumphant ( Ecclesia Militans, Ecclesia Triumphans ) These terms, taken together, are used to express the concept of a united Church that extends beyond the earthly realm into Heaven.

The concept of the " nation ," defined as a people united by linguistic and cultural affinities, produced an intellectual revival that laid the foundation for a subsequent struggle for political autonomy.

The concept of an acropolis and a building that agreed with renowned British Architect Sir Christopher Wren's theory that a public building should be a national ornament which establishes a nation, draws people and commerce and makes people love their country easily persuaded the then powers that be, who were at the time, preoccupied with the ideal of establishing a new and united nation.

An anti-war and principle Pakistan movement activist, Amin is widely regarded and considered a patriot who used his entire assets and struggle to keep the country united, and remained a respectable Bengali figure, although Amin opposed the movements that eventually led to the severing of ties between his Bengali people and the concept of a Muslim homeland in South Asia.

He continues by explaining the practice of tithing, the concept of loving one another and of being brothers and sisters, being united by their way of life under the teachings of Christ.

In the television series, after working together to defend the region against a group of poachers, the two countries, along with other nearby animal-controlled territories, form a " united jungle coalition ", a concept similar to the United Nations, which prevents major conflicts between the animal countries thereafter.

Though it was true that the American colonies had united in a federation, the concept would not necessarily work in Mexico, since the old provinces ( now called states ) had always been subject to a central government ; he felt that future state governments would take a selfish attitude causing disunity and chiefdoms.

The concept of a front organization should be distinguished from the united front ( a coalition of working class or socialist parties ) and the popular front.

In early Christian belief, the concept of Kyrios included the Pre-existence of Christ for they believed that if Christ is one with God, he must have been united with God from the very beginning.

Hegel does not deny this ; but, he adds, it is equally certain that being tends to become its opposite, nothing, and that both are united in the concept becoming.

Self-produced and self-recorded, Rapid City Muscle Car was the band's attempt at creating an eclectic concept album wherein each track was composed in a different musical style, yet were all thematically united through interconnected lyricism.

Occitania has been recognized as a linguistic and cultural concept since the Middle Ages, but has never been a legal nor a political entity under this name, although the territory was united in Roman times as the Septem Provinciæ and the early Middle Ages ( Aquitanica or the Visigothic Kingdom of Toulouse ) before the French conquest started in the early 1200s.

By over-extending the concept in this way Gumperz ' basic requirement that the community be united by routine interaction between its members could no longer be meaningfully evoked.

The PKI welcomed the launching of the Nasakom concept, seeing it in terms of a multiclass united front.

However, their most important goal was to foster loyalty to the concept of a united German national state as well as strong engagement for freedom, rights, and democracy.

Though the Shang did not have a concept of " medicine " as distinct from other fields, their oracular inscriptions on bones and tortoise shells refer to illnesses that affected the Shang royal family: eye disorders, toothaches, bloated abdomen, etc., which Shang elites usually attributed to curses sent by their ancestors.

Citizenship as a concept is generally hard to isolate intellectually and compare with related political notions, since it relates to many other aspects of society such as the family, military service, the individual, freedom, religion, ideas of right and wrong, ethnicity, and patterns for how a person should behave in society.

Mozi tried to replace what he considered to be the long-entrenched Chinese over-attachment to family and clan structures with the concept of " universal love " ( jiān ' ài, 兼愛 ).

Shared innovations, acquired by borrowing or other means, are not considered genetic and have no bearing with the language family concept.

For example Constantine started putting restrictions on the ancient Roman concept of patria potestas, the power held by the male head of a family over his descendents, by acknowledging that persons in potestate, the descendents, could have proprietary rights.

According to Herbert C. Brichtothe, writing in Reform Judaism's Hebrew Union College Annual, the family tomb is the central concept in understanding biblical views of the afterlife.

The " four-position foundation " is " another important and interpretive concept " and explains in part the emphasis on the family.

The pioneer system using this concept was IBM's CP-40, the first ( 1967 ) version of IBM's CP / CMS ( 1967 – 1972 ) and the precursor to IBM's VM family ( 1972 – present ).

The Fagaceae, or oak family, is a very slow evolving clade compared to other angiosperms, and the patterns of hybridization and introgression in Quercus pose a great challenge to the concept of a species since a species is often defined as a group of “ actually or potentially interbreeding populations which are reproductively isolated from other such groups .” By this definition, many species of Quercus would be lumped together according to their geographic and ecological habitat, despite clear distinctions in morphology and, to a large extent, genetic data.

The concept of human capital can be infinitely elastic, including unmeasurable variables such as personal character or connections with insiders ( via family or fraternity ).

Engels made an argument using anthropological evidence of the time to show that family structures changed over history, and that the concept of monogamous marriage came from the necessity within class society for men to control women to ensure their own children would inherit their property.

Malay and Indonesian villagers practice the culture of helping one another as a community, which is better known as " joint bearing of burdens " ( gotong royong ), as well as being family-oriented ( especially the concept of respecting one's family the parents and elders ), courtesy and believing in God (" Tuhan ") as paramount to everything else.

The concept of drive letters, as used today, presumably owes its origins to IBM's VM family of operating systems, dating back to CP / CMS in 1967 ( and its research predecessor CP-40 ), by way of CP / M.

It took until 1947 for the concept of " leptons " as a family of particle to be proposed.

The Wold Newton family is a literary concept derived from a form of crossover fiction developed by the science fiction writer Philip José Farmer.

Examples of this can be found in the works of Farmer that created the concept: several family members were present at the death of King Kong, thus firmly placing Kong in the universe, but Kong cannot be a family member as he is not human.

While in previous comic versions of the mythos, it was assumed the " S " simply stood for " Superman "; in Birthright, Waid presented the symbol as a Kryptonian symbol of hope ( borrowing and modifying a concept from Superman: The Movie, where the " S " represented the House of El, Superman's ancestral family ).

He aggressively preaches the concept of family honor to his son, Haemon.

Prior to that the concept " generation " had generally referred to family relationships, not broader social groupings.

A few years later the SH-3 core was added to the SH CPU family ; new features included another interrupt concept, a memory management unit ( MMU ) and a modified cache concept.

The city was patterned after the " garden city " concept that became popular in England during the 19th century, with most home sites sectioned off into plots to allow adequate farming area to support the family with fruit and vegetables.