Sentence examples for great conjunction from inspiring English sources

"There's a great conjunction here of three winnable electorates, three very solid and attractive candidates, and the biggest environmental and economic issue to confront the electorate in Queensland in at least two decades," he says.

In humans, understanding iron transport and utility has recently been advanced by a "great conjunction" of molecular genetics in simple organisms, identifying genes involved in genetic diseases of metal metabolism and by the application of traditional cell physiology approaches.

"There's been a great conjunction of energies in Naples despite its marginality as a center of art," said Pierpaolo Forte, president of the Fondazione Donnaregina for contemporary arts, which runs Naples' main contemporary art museum Madre, just now emerging from a dark moment precipitated by budget cuts.

In an appendix, Kepler also discussed the recent chronology work of the Polish historian Laurentius Suslyga; he calculated that, if Suslyga was correct that accepted timelines were four years behind, then the Star of Bethlehem analogous to the present new star would have coincided with the first great conjunction of the earlier 800-year cycle.

It's not some sort of crystal ball-gazing... I do political astrology, which means I chart full moons and new moons and ingresses and eclipses and great conjunctions and cycle charts of the major planets.

The editors of Rosicrucian publications dated the death of their founder to 1484 and fixed the time of the discovery of his tomb as 1604 in order to coordinate the events with the last two great conjunctions of stars.

Pomponazzi makes the spontaneous generation of human beings dependent upon the conjunction of the superior planets Jupiter and Saturn, and thus introduces another Arabic theory into the discussion: Albumasar's astrological theory of the great conjunctions (Nardi 1965).

Astrologically, the end of 1603 marked the beginning of a fiery trigon, the start of the ca. 800-year cycle of great conjunctions; astrologers associated the two previous such periods with the rise of Charlemagne (ca. 800 years earlier) and the birth of Christ (ca. 1600 years earlier), and thus expected events of great portent, especially regarding the emperor.

We also present the first evidence of greater conjunction- versus single-task activity in the parietal cortex in a WM manipulation task.

That is, greater conjunction suppression in extrastriate visual areas might serve to reduce retroactive interference from task-relevant color and angle probe information at retrieval.

In support of this, examination of the time courses from angle- and color-preferred regions indicates that greater conjunction- than nonpreferred single-task activity is initiated early and sustained throughout the trial period.