Sentences with phrase «nations people against»

: the protest by U.S. First Nations people against oil pipelines in North Dakota and two new studies on some expected effects of climate change.

Not exact matches

In The Wealth of Nations, Smith wrote: «People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public.»

As the United States and its allies contemplate military action against Syria for gassing its own people, Syria is poised to chair the United Nations committee responsible for banning chemical weapons.

um what are you nuts most of the people in BC has said they do not want another pipeline not ever so how is building a pipeline a matter of national unity i could see it as a matter of duty for us to stand in unity with the first nation people here in BC against the pipeline i really do nt see how building a pipeline could be a national issue because simply put pipelines do nt help the nation

Our government was founded by a combination of Christians and Deists, but having studied the actions of our government even against it's own people we haven't been a Christian nation since the beginning, much as some people want it to be.

This nation is a melting pot, and those crazy idiotic people believing in fairytales you're speaking out against and even demeaning....

«And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.»

It is a searing indictment of Christianity that a so heavily Christian nation could embrace Nazism and engage in so much outright aggression against other nations and peoples.

When someone calls that Imam one of the most evil people on the planet, when someone says he wants to build his center to train terrorists, when someone calls for amending the constitution to exclude Islam, when someone says our founding fathers wanted this to be a Christian nation and that they didn't want Muslims included, when Muslims are afraid to go out because they will be attacked, when Christian pastors are preaching against Muslims (as opposed to the belief in Islam), THAT is hatred.

And that presumption has severely weakened the Church in America of being the kind of community that produces people that can stand against the pretensions of a nation state that is out of control.

«4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.»

Estrangement and alienation are not biblical terms, but they are implied in the biblical description of the human predicament; the expulsion from paradise, the hostility between humanity and nature, the hostility of person against person, of nation against nation, and of the continuous complaint of the prophets against the rulers.

He simply outlines the reason why our nation would benefit by addressing the grievous wrongs perpetrated even in recent history against a specific group of people — of citizens — in our country.

The primary problem is that as a people, as a nation, and globally, we have chosen against God.

When God authorizes the nation of Israel to wipe out a people for instance, it is a lawful execution due to their rebellion and sin against God.

The United Nations reports that ISIS killed at least 232 people on Wednesday alone, in addition to using thousands of people as human shields to defend themselves against the Iraqi militia.

So Fred Phelps, if your son or daughter had just died in battle, would you want people to show up at the funeral to picket against the sins in or advocated by the nation they died for?

Reverend Wright's «hate» sermons against America and white people are virtually identical as Farrakhan's - who followed Malcolm X. Wright's «hate» speeches are a blend of The Nation of Islam and Black Nationalist Liberation Theology into a subversive Christianity, not recognized by most black Christians.

Since the beginning of last week, ISIS has taken thousands of people hostage from the outskirts of Mosul into the main parts of the city, and United Nations officials fear that the plan is «to use them as human shields against the Iraqi forces advance on Mosul.»

Title: «APPEAL TO ALL JEWRY: «WAKE UP»» The very reason that the nations of the world have historically risen against the Jewish people is for this G - d given gift of intelligence — of being a light unto the nations — «אור לגוים».

It's hard to understand a culture that encourages violence against women, violence against their neighbours, violence and hatred against other nations, suicide bombings, stoning people to death, so called «honor killings», chemical and biological weapons testing on prisoners, and a long list of other «not so nice» practices.

Last year, my wife, Bobbie, led a movement on social media called #middaybabymidday — mobilizing hundreds of thousands of people to set their alarms for midday and pray for the nations, to warfare against darkness and take a stand against the enemy that his plans shall not prosper.

Their position does not in fact preclude a concern for, or efforts to achieve, the common good, but it is a warning against supposing that there is one common way for all groups to relate to the nation and the common good of its people.

They warned Americans against the temptation to punish the German people and warned Wilson against politicizing the League of Nations.

Instead, as we all are aware, the institutions of the nation - state (prominently the family, the schools, the churches, the mass media) commonly teach ethnocentrism and prejudice against people who are racially or Ideologically either traditionally or conveniently used as scape goats.

What other country has used nuclear warfare against another people of color and it's nation?

Yahweh will wage warfare against people and nations that is both monergistic and antagonistic.

For this reason it is important that there be people in all nations who refuse to participate in a holy crusade against Russia and communism, however much they may be criticized for their stand.

Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize pAgainst a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize pagainst the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder.

He shall judge between many peoples, and shall arbitrate between strong nations far away; they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more; but they shall all sit under their own vines and under their own fig trees, and no one shall make them afraid; for the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken.

Rather than rejoicing with McLuhan over the diminution of space and distance between nations, people are fighting against collectivization by loudly asserting their own uniqueness.

Religious proponents of international law could draw on the prophets for biblical support: Amos, Hosea, Micah and others discerned Yahweh's law as both impartial and international, striking against the arrogant pretensions of all people and nations who violate human rights in the belief that God is on their side.

Is it appropriate for civilised nations to take action against a regime who is committing genocide against its own people?

«A nation» is composed of people (some of the population being Christian) and if they do nothing against their enemies, then they will be over run by those enemies.

Every single church in the nation can refuse to marry gays and preach against, but you can't make other people follow your moral code just because it's yours..

The early part of the decade was a tense time, with Senator McCarthy making his reckless charges and the nation on edge after a war in Korea against communist North Korea and the People's Republic of China (often termed Red China, even in the Century, for most of the decade).

Jeremy good message and quite relevant for today God is still looking at our hearts and motives for serving him or are we serving our own agenda as Jonah was.He did nt feel compassionate towards his enemies and who could blame him they had cruelly killed many Jews it was a question of life or death to his own people.The Jewish nation was no more deserving of Gods grace than the other nations that is revealed by sending Jonah to preach a message of hope and life.Ultimately God calls all by faith in him and is willing to be merciful to all nations and peoples that do not not deserve it just like us it is by grace that we all are forgiven.I am pleased that God is sovereign and knows whats best he is merciful to us.Our human nature is that it is better to kill our enemies before they can kill us and that is essentially Jonahs message that is why he struggled to be obedient to Gods will.Gods message is to forgive those that trespass against us and show mercy.Its complicated and it is natural to protect ourselves and our families from those who would seek to destroy them but ultimately its about trusting God with everything easier said than done.If it comes to a choice we will have to trust God and ask for his strength because we cant do it in ours.As Christ laid down his life for us are we ready to lay our lives and the lives of our families as a sacrifice for him.To me that is where the story of Jonah is leading to we have the choice to fight our enemies or to love them as God loves them.brentnz

He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide for strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more; but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and none shall make them afraid; for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.

When used in the historical terms with which I prefer to use it, globalization in so many ways sums up the dominant and encompassing reality (note that I underscore this word) of the collective life of people and nations in our time, so potent and full of issues and questions for or against human development, so that it presses upon everyone who wants to make sense of the times in which we live, or who wants to be concerned about «keeping and making life more human».

The Conference called the churches to bear courageous and unflinching witness to the nations that the base purposes of people, whether individuals or of groups, can not prevail against the will of the holy and compassionate God.

To mark the United Nations World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, The Salvation Army will begin innovative work in Nigeria and the Philippines.

To the contrary, «personal liberty is something Kingdom people are called to revolt against» (see The Myth of a Christian Nation, p. 86).

Wistrich argues that world leaders and people in occupied nations should have taken a more openly confrontational position against the Nazis.

The lawyer's argument, Forde writes, was that «someone or some group of people at Ole Miss» leaked to reporters, including SB Nation's, that the allegations were mostly not against the current staff.

Amat had come into California's Southern Section Division I championship game against Mater Dei High (from Santa Ana) as the top - ranked team in the nation — unbeaten, untied and unseen by the person who had made Amat No. 1 for most of the season in USA Today's Super 25 national high school football rankings.

«Unspeakable crimes against our nation in monstrous corruption and the abuse of people's mandate in reckless abandon... very reckless», she added.

The silence by President Buhari's administration has raised suspicion among the Ogonis that the federal government in collaboration with SHELL has opted for their usual strategy of divide and rule to set the Ogoni leaders and the people against themselves and also employing gradual frustration of the oil clean - up programme to force the collective loyalty of the Ogoni nation to join the ruling party in the country,» the statement said.

That wretched tradition has continued down through the foundation of Irish Republicanism by those who regarded their own Protestant and «Saxon» nation as the only true one on the Irish island, through anti-monarchist attitudes to Australian Aborigines from the Victorian Period to the present day, through Hendrik Verwoerd and Ian Smith, through attempts to abrogate the Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand, and through the patriation of the Canadian Constitution against the wishes, both of the Aboriginal peoples to whom the Crown had numerous treaty obligations, and of the government of Quebec.

He faces the Anti Gov forces arrayed against the American People, and seeks fair agreement to save our nation's economic health.

He is the author of Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse: A Field Guide to the Most Dangerous People in America, from Nation Books, and co-author, with Robert W. McChesney, of People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy.