URS
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- proper noun
- Many athletes who competed under the URS code achieved great success in the Olympics.
- URS von Balthasar
- Hans URS
- URS von
Examples
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In doing so, it became closely allied with the ressourcement movement, which sought to return to the sources of tradition (Henri de Lubac, Louis Bouyer, Hans Urs von Balthasar).
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The three-letter code URS was used in numerous international sporting events during the Soviet era.
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See Hans Urs von Balthasar, Unless You Become Like This Child.
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Urs says:
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They were taken a stage further theologically by Hans Urs.
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Jonathan Ives is a project engineer with URS Greiner in Rocky Hill, Connecticut.
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In progress is an essay on the similarities and differences in the theological themes of Karl Rahner and Hans Urs von Balthasar.
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Hans Urs von Balthasar's theology is even more closely allied than Moltmann's with Armenian Christology.
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As Urs App argues, the Japanese may actually have regarded Xavier, who hailed most recently from India, as the representative of another Buddhist sect rather than an entirely new religion (221).
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Gerard Loughlin draws on the insight of Hans Urs von Balthasar to offer a solution to the dilemma regarding the historicity of the empty tomb and resurrection appearance accounts.
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Synonyms
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3.8
A former union of communist republics in eastern Europe and northern Asia
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5.3
A former large country in eastern Europe and northern Asia with a communist government
Surface Forms
Etymology
URS comes from the country name Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and was used as its three-letter sports code at international games. So when you saw URS on a scoreboard it showed an athlete from the Soviet Union.