How to use indefinitely long period in a sentence? Find typical usage patterns (collocations)/phrases/context for "indefinitely long period" and check conjugation/comparative form for "indefinitely long period". Mastering all the usages of "indefinitely long period" from sentence examples published by news publications.
Day-Age creationists differ from young Earth creationists in how they interpret a number of crucial Hebrew words in Genesis, and thus how they interpret the geneologies and creation account contained in it. They point out that the Hebrew words for father ('ab) and son (ben) can also mean forefather and descendent, respectively, and that the Biblical scripture occasionally "telescopes" geneologies to emphasise the more important ancestors. This, they argue, renders genealogically-based dating of the Creation, such as the Ussher chronology, to be inaccurate. They admit that yom can mean a twenty-four hour solar day, but argue that it can refer to an indefinitely long period of time.
|
|
Scholars have both praised and criticized Williams’s dictionary. One of the first reviewers did both. Willem Pieter Groeneveldt praises Williams for "surpassing all those before him, he has given us a dictionary better than any existing before" and advises every student of Chinese to buy this "great boon to sinology" (1874: 226, 232); and yet he criticizes Williams for including "fanciful" etymological definitions based on character components instead of scientific philology, the "indiscriminate introduction of the colloquial element", and presenting yet another new system of romanization (1874: 228, 229, 232). The American missionary Henry Blodget's 1874 review in The New York Observer says, "this Dictionary, as a whole, is a treasury of knowledge in regard to China and Chinese affairs, a treasury accumulated by many years of study both of Protestant and Roman Catholic missionaries" (Williams 1889: 399). The British consular officer and linguist Herbert Giles published a 40-page brochure On some Translations and Mistranslations in Dr. Williams’ Syllabic Dictionary, saying that it is "though in many ways an improvement upon its predecessors, is still unlikely to hold the fort for any indefinitely long period" (1879: 1).
|
|
No results under this filter, show 2 sentences.