Sentence examples for from the ascent from inspiring English sources

Last year, the BBC repeated the episode on Newton from The Ascent of Man.

The route down was different from the ascent, and we eventually found ourselves passing through a huge rock crevice.

He found inspiration in many places, from the ascent of angels, and Rumi's poetry, to the Terracotta Warriors, and a taxi driver in Sydney who knew his father.

The incoming prime minister, Viktor Orban, left, vowed Monday to defend Hungary from the ascent of a far-right party and its black-clad paramilitary branch, which have railed against the Roma community and called the capital "Jewdapest".

Because rainfall results from the ascent and cooling of moist air, the areas of heavy rain indicate regions of rising air, whereas the deserts occur in regions in which the air is warmed and dried during descent.

Can British TV in the 21st century match the heights it reached in the era of Civilisation, not to mention the similarly ambitious television essays it inspired and provoked, from The Ascent of Man to The Shock of the New?

(Some of his other writings have been made into films, including "Sotnikov," the basis for "The Ascent," from the Soviet director Larisa Shepitko).

If they combine moral firmness with quickness of mind, they are subject to a rigorous curriculum of higher learning that will prepare them for the ascent from the world of the senses to the world of intelligence and truth, a distinction and ascent whose stages are summed up in the similes of the Sun, the Line, and the Cave (508a 518b).

But both BBC2 shows beat the hour-long offerings on Channel 4 and Channel Five from 8pm, The Ascent of Money and The Gadget Show, which averaged 1.1 million and 1.2 million respectively.

It certainly reeks of the ring, and the plotline, culled from life, follows the ascent of Micky Ward Mark Wahlbergg), a welterweight from Lowell, Massachusetts, who became a world champion in 2000, and remains a hero to his people today.

"I think it's a future London as envisaged by the 7/7 bombers: explosions, the destruction of Christianity, the minaret of a mosque rising from the ashes, the ascent of Shariah law enforced by the Taliban guy in the hat, and the joyous harmony that would prevail in a Muslim Britain".