Sentences with phrase «against a ground of»

As an example of his work, Shozo Shimamoto's Bottle Crash performances consisted of the artist smashing glass bottles full of paint against a ground of canvas to create a pulsating field of color.

A dense cascade of red leaves appears to be falling down the canvas against a ground of various tones of green.

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Second, U.S. intelligence analysts should insist that a full review of Israeli's archival Iran files be completed to test their accuracy regarding post-JCPOA Iranian actions and resources against the findings of IAEA on - the - ground monitoring.

Dollar bulls in London took advantage of the holiday in most of the rest of Europe to push the currency to almost $ 1.20 per euro and helped it make good ground against the Swiss franc and the data - dented pound.

A culture of anti-Semitism is a fertile ground for breeding extremism and terrorist sympathizers, while a society with no tolerance for anti-Semitism presents a unified front against their agenda.

(Sure, a bunch of people will give up using FedEx — one of the few major companies to hold its ground against the boycott — but are they really going to boycott two dozen companies, and suffer that much disruption of your consumption habits?

US bases around the Middle East have been supporting the campaign against Taliban and ISIS militants in Afghanistan, and the number of US Air Force personnel on the ground there is relatively small compared to the scope of the US commitment to the war in Afghanistan.

Residents of low - lying areas in densely populated Miami - Dade County were urged to move to higher ground by Wednesday as a precaution against coastal storm surges, three days before Irma was expected to make landfall in Florida.

For dogs that spend a lot of time outside, you'll need a bed that will keep your dog off the ground and can stand up against some rough weather.

US Treasury yields are stable, holding on near their recent highs, but as sentiment improved the USD sold off against most of its peers with only gaining some ground against the safe - haven Yen.

The Yen is still on the move, after yesterday's short squeeze in the USD / JPY, as the safe - haven currency regained some of the recently lost ground against its peers.

Dollar claws back ground after Beige Book; Canadian dollar sells off after BOC decision Bank of Canada leaves interest rates unchangedThe U.S. dollar edges slightly higher against its main rivals on Wednesday as the British pound falls from a new post-Brexit high on disappointing inflation data, and the Canadian dollar slips as the Bank of Canada left rates unchanged.

IOTA is still advancing against most of its peers but is giving up ground to the dollar, which has extended this week's...

Australian Dollar: The Australian dollar has lost considerable ground over the past 24 hours when valued against its US Counterpart after ABS statistics showed overall capital expenditure dropped by 2.2 percent during the final quarter of 2014, a numbe...

The United Kingdom's sterling continued to lose ground against the United States dollar on the back of the United States Nonfarm payrolls report.

What if the new factor of digital metals become wildly successful in the coming years and adds to the already strong demand against finite above - ground holdings?

The dollar is gaining ground against all of its major rivals Tuesday afternoon.

But we are presented with an image of a man in decent (albeit tacky) attire that appears to be singing normally and a woman in indecent attire grinding against him while we are told that families are watching.

But that is neither here nor there with respect to Smith's main point, which is to propose, against the innumerable «spiritualities» with which we are culturally inundated, that ultimate wisdom and human flourishing are to be discovered in the historically grounded and communally normative religious traditions of the world.

He has begun to try to write against type and found little success when he plowed familiar ground: The dreadful Yellow Dog, which appeared in 2003, reads like a parody of a 1980s Amis novel.

I understand this grinds against human nature and our perception of what is fair and just.

I don't have a belief on the situation one way or the other, my grounding in the question of any God or gods comes from the lack of evidence for or against.

The experts have stated that social science has shown that the concerns often raised about children of lesbian and gay parents — concerns that are generally grounded in prejudice against and stereotypes about gay people — are unfounded.

But informing the whole is the image of Scripture as a painting, with Jesus the incarnate Word as the «ground» against the «background» of the triune God, and the Church and cosmos in the «foreground.»

When the winds of doctrine try to blow our beliefs to the ground, we turn our open hand into them, using their ideas to force our beliefs more firmly against the hand.

Remember when Jesus went against the law of Moses and picked a prost!tute off the ground and protected her from being stoned to death?

Jesus confronted his hearer with the question: «Does God intend us to feel so free towards him that we appeal directly to him over against the well - grounded fear of his judgement which we all have long since secretly known?

There are reports of thousands of American troops on the ground supporting the American bombing campaign against ISIS.

Early stories such as the encounter with Yahweh at the burning bush, where Moses was warned to put off his shoes because the spot was «holy ground,» (Exodus 3:5; cf. Joshua 5:15) reveal the way in which this dread of holy things and places and this need of insulations against their dangerous potency issued in sacred rites and customs.

(Wright offers some specific suggestions for preserving a liturgically - grounded reading of scripture — including warnings against dropping certain portions of scripture from liturgical readings because they are startling or strange, as well as warnings against making sermons the focus of corporate worship — that we don't have time to discuss in detail here.)

If it were on ground zero, i'd be against it for the safety of those muslims and because Ground Zero is considered a historical langround zero, i'd be against it for the safety of those muslims and because Ground Zero is considered a historical lanGround Zero is considered a historical landmark.

If you look at the Middle East and the rise of ISIS and targeted attacks against Christians, then you can see also where the Islamic extremists have been gaining ground in Egypt.

If I've learned anything over the past few years it's been that when the rains come down and the floods come up, when doubt and frustration whip like wind against my faith, all the apologetics in the world can't ground me like the simple, yet profoundly challenging teachings of Jesus Christ.

Since Capek's line of reasoning cuts against the indeterminist as well it provides no ground for rejecting determinism.

Vegetius tells us that when arranged in this way, and when each soldier understood that all he had to do was stand his ground, his little six - by - six foot section of ground, that those 16 men could stand up against 500 attacking enemies!

[2] You've probably all heard of King Leonidas and his 300 Spartan warriors who held their ground against the invading Persian army of over 240,000 men.

As Freeman Butts observed: ``... where the conception of a liberal education was firmly grounded upon religious and intellectual authority and discipline, the prescribed curriculum was more likely to be maintained longer against the inroads of the elective system with its attendant doctrines of freedom and flexibility.»

I am not arguing against Sherburne in favor of the view that God is needed as the ground of the givenness of the past and can fulfill this function.

If Phelps and his co-defendants are liable for the intentional infliction of emotional distress in this case, what is to prevent another judge and jury from ordering monetary damages in a case against the owners of the proposed Islamic community center near ground zero for inflicting emotional distress on the families of 9/11 victims?

On this ground, too, we should think twice before taking the years around 1960 as a standard against which the current vitality or impotence of the churches is to be measured.

The flip side of a bias against power and a suspicion of those entrusted with It is the tendency to automatically assign the moral high ground to those we deem to be powerless or «victims.»

Solzhenitsyn, on the other hand, has given up seeking the theoretical high ground from which to build a new philosophical system and instead articulates a strategy of resistance against any and all metaperspectives.

For this reason alone, Echoes of Discontent is an important corrective to the dominant culture's bias against religion and religiously grounded explanations of social life.

When the Anti-Defamation League - a leading Jewish group devoted to fighting anti-Semitism and «all forms of bigotry» - came out against the construction of an Islamic center and mosque near New York's ground zero last year, some critics alleged that the organization had lost its way.

All expressions of religion must in some sense share such a movement of negation, for religion must necessarily direct itself against a selfhood, a history, or a cosmos that exists immediately and autonomously as its own creation or ground.

But can we agree that we are called to be the hands and feet of Jesus, funding those on the ground, sending supplies and speaking out against hateful, violent, discriminatory acts?

25 Jehu said to Bidkar his aide, «Take him up, and cast him on the plot of ground belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember when you and I rode side by side behind Ahab his father, how the Lord uttered this oracle against him: 26 «As surely as I saw yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons — says the Lord — I will requite you on this plot of ground.»

Thus in the birth of the mental occasion the consequent of ideal novelty enters into reality and possesses an analytic force over against the synthetic ground.

They outlaw the discrimination against any citizen on the ground only of his religion, whether it be in the matter of public employment or access to public places and even charity.

The obligation to bear and communicate such meanings against his natural feeling and thinking was the ground of Jeremiah's discovery of his selfhood as «I.» Not the reception of the Word as such but the necessity to decide about it was crucial to the formation of this structure of existence and to its preservation and strengthening in the Jewish community.