Sentence examples for time for advent from inspiring English sources

But this winter even the Catholic Church changed, producing a new version of the English-language mass in time for Advent.

Record numbers of migrants and refugees crossed the Mediterranean to Europe in October – just in time for the advent of winter, which is already threatening to expose thousands to harsh conditions.

Evans, born in 1928, came along just in time for the advent of the supposedly progressive system that led Michael Young, the mordant British sociologist, to coin the disapproving term "meritocracy".

It is preferable to perform learning in real time for the advent of streaming data sources, typically without a chance to revisit past entries.

For the word "advent" literally means "the coming," and in this sense, these weeks in December are indeed a time of "advent" for all of us -- whether we consider ourselves religious or not.

"While research using patient data has been carried out for some time, the advent of electronic health records is enabling a step change in the type and sheer scale of research possible, especially when different large health data sets are linked together," she said.

As my partner and I are both film nerds, advent is a time for watching Christmas movies: It's a Wonderful Life, The Muppets' Christmas Carol, The Bishop's Wife.

Advent provided a time for me to long for life, while in the valley of death.

If you aren't Catholic, you can still treat Advent as a time for personal one-on-one confession with God.

Though the Tories attacked us at the time, the advent of the new deal and tax credits meant that, for millions of people, work paid more than welfare.

And as Times Square is in so many ways the incarnation of urban life itself, so nostalgia for Times Square is nostalgia for a lost idea of urbanness, or of urbanity -- for a time, before the advent of television and the suburbs, and before riots and drug wars, when everyone knew that city life was the best life of all.