Epochs

The naming of geological epochs is typically descriptive. ❋ Steven E. Levingston (2010)

They are at first sporadic and comparatively non-lethal: at certain epochs which we can determine, and for reasons which as yet we cannot, they break out into epidemics raging with frightful violence: they then subside into the endemic state and lastly they return to the milder sporadic form. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The most complete portion of the rock record where periods are divided into shorter time units called epochs, the fourth largest divisions of geologic time. ❋ Rcooperfreeport (2010)

Permian and Triassic periods were "epochs" -- to employ the language of the late Professor Edward Forbes -- "of great poverty of production of generic types." ❋ Hugh Miller (1829)

What may be called the epochs in its growth are finely treated by Coleridge in "The Ancient Mariner" and by Tennyson in "In Memoriam." ❋ Amory H. Bradford (N/A)

We may conceive that analogous separations were effected in the higher strata of the nebula at different epochs, that is to say, at different distances from the nucleus, and that they give rise to a succession of distinct rings, included almost in the same plane and endued with different velocities. ❋ Arago, Francois (1859)

Procksch injects the meaning "epochs" into the term is more than we can discern. ❋ 1892-1972 (1942)

I was also fascinated by the progression of his works, especially during the different 'epochs' such Blue / Red / Extremely Abstract and other colors / styles the defined the inspiration and character of his paintings. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The twenty-first century is not shaping up to be any different from previous epochs of human history. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You are busily all over the place and at the many epochs of your life, past and future. ❋ Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman (2011)

Through the rise and fall of empires, from the Pharaohs to the Ptolemies, through the epochs of the Greeks, Romans, Persians, Arabs, Ottomans, French and English, only the crocodiles stayed the same, until recently. ❋ Richard Bangs (2011)

Do we not reexamine situations and specific epochs from our own history to shed light on where we have come from to where we are going? ❋ Unknown (2009)

To have been able to start from a new source, and to keep this freshness with regard to whatever new expressions mark the different epochs of his career. ❋ David Galenson (2011)

It was practiced widely during the McCarthy era (Joe, not Gene), one of the more shameful epochs in American history. ❋ Grrm (2010)

All life is ultimately constructed of CO2 + H2O plus ash yet our restoration to the atmosphere of a bit of that quintessential “green” gas sequestered by creation in previous incredibly lush epochs causes paroxysms of fear based on ever diminishing evidence that an extra molecule or two per 10,000 will fry the planet. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority; but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.” ❋ Jack Watts (2011)

We read Homer to-day — telling proof that the chain of sympathy stretches unbroken through epochs of inventions and discoveries and revolutions. ❋ Unknown (2010)