Sentence examples for first exodus from inspiring English sources

In fact some researchers believe the first exodus from Africa could have been even earlier than the date for Dmanisi, by a pre-erectus population making Oldowan tools," he said.

Just about anyone who remained after the first exodus was spooked into leaving when officials came door to door, urging people to either leave or to sign forms declaring that they were voluntarily staying and to identify their next of kin.

Homo erectus, the big-brained hominid thought to have made humankind's first exodus out of Africa, is accepted as one of the many intermediate stages between a chimplike ancestor and modern H. sapiens.

TEMPE, ARIZONA--The long-legged, relatively big-brained hominid called Homo erectus has long been considered the Moses of the human family--the species that led the first exodus out of Africa more than 1.5 million years ago.

But now researchers have unearthed a skull--the smallest and most primitive hominid skull ever found outside Africa--that appears to bury the notion that big brains spurred our first exodus from that continent.

I returned to the text of Exodus with this in mind, thinking that perhaps the most crucial difference between that first Exodus and every journey that followed it, is that as Jews, we no longer wait to to receive the Torah.

Israel's occupation of the West Bank following the 1967 war triggered a second exodus of 140,000 refugees into Jordan.

Only a half-decade after Iraqi businessmen fled civil war in their country, a second exodus is depleting another stronghold of Mesopotamian enterprise.

First came the Palestinians – those who lost their homes when Israel was created in 1948, and a second exodus in the wake of the 1967 war.

These departures should be distinguished from a second exodus after around 10 minutes of many productions: in that case, the problem is right ticket, wrong show.

Those who do not want to take part either flee beforehand in the annual Twelfth exodus, or are virtually besieged in their homes as thousands of drunken people waving UDA and UVF flags cheer the marchers on.