Sentences with phrase «against facing reality»

What exactly do the two of you have against facing reality?

Not exact matches

Passionate protests against Donald Trump's presidency have swelled the ranks of Democratic activists, but their new enthusiasm faces a hard reality: Republicans remain well - positioned to retain their grip on power in the 2018 elections.

His dreams of facing off against an allied Hitler and Stalin have given way to the reality of midwifing red terror.

The President has faced criticism in recent months for acknowledging that American history, and indeed Christian history, includes racism, violence, injustice, and oppression — particularly against minority and indigenous people — a reality some would rather sweep under the rug.

But «the reality of grief is the absence of God,» he noted, and we must guard against words offered «for self - protection, to pretty up a situation whose bleakness [we] simply [can not] face...» («My Son Beat Me to the Grave,» A.D., June 1983, p. 26).

Whatever «postliberal» Christianity is, it has to face the realities not only of «modernity» but also of «postmodernity,» and it needs to define itself against a right flank as well as a left.

If the City game as Wenger said shows we can beat anyone than we will soon find out when we play Spurs and an injury - ravaged Man U, both disciplined teams, that of course assumes reality doesn't show its ugly face against Leicester tonight.

The third is that while we are still in the Champions League — I invite you at this junction to pause, face the general direction of Manchester and laugh — and as great as it is to play against Europe's best (and second and third best) teams, the reality is this squad doesn't look up to the task of winning it.

According to GAW, «it is unfortunate that rather than face the reality and point out the state actors that are exporting suffering across the world, AI is pursuing a sick obsession of defending killer groups like the indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB), Movement for the Actualization of a Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and even accused the military of being harsh in its operations against Boko Haram even when it admitted that the terror group was committing crimes against humanity».

«Coming as it does, against the background of the widely acclaimed electoral reforms undertaken by the Jonathan Administration, the claim by Prof. Achebe clearly flies in the face of the reality of Nigeria's current political situation.

There's also the «Terror is Reality» multiplayer, where you face off against three others in the fictional zombie - killing sport in three different modes.

With astonishing, deeply personal access, this is the story of a brave group of citizen journalists as they face the realities of life undercover, on the run, and in exile, risking their lives to stand up against one of the greatest evils in the world today.

Faced with an endless cycle of memorize, drill, spit back and test, teachers have become the wardens of a new educational reality that pits the head against the heart.

Memorable storyline - Set against the backdrop of a world war, Gunther, Alicia, Largo and the rest of the fierce members of Squad 7 fight for personal reasons in the name of freedom, and the hope against all odds of liberating Gallia from Empire control, all in the face of the terrible realities of war.

I was prepared to recommend against lowering 3D resolution because of how blocky and ugly the game looked, but in reality, I forgot all about it once I started tracking another player until we faced off.

The trailer began with the recurring phrase: «This is a fantasy based on reality» and demonstrated new gameplay footage such as combat scenes with swords and guns, controlling a tank - like vehicle, climbing aboard a bipedal robot, and battling a huge creature (presumably from the TGS trailer), and Noctis facing off against a group of armed soldiers.

To make matters worse, you are now in a situation where you are facing the reality of dealing with an insurance claim or other legal action against the dog owner, as well as financial difficulties stemming from your medical bills and from being unable to work.

While acknowledging the reality of this threat, the Court noted that the argument «flies in the face of the rule against nonparty preclusion,» which «perforce leads to relitigation of many issues &» Smith, slip op.

Unfortunately, it's a reality you must face and need to take precautionary measures against.

Once you have faced this particular reality, you take the necessary precautions against loss or theft of property by getting a renters insurance policy.

Even in the face of substantial evidence, we still don't seem to get that Facebook was at the heart of what allowed a reality - TV star to become president, against all the odds.

A more accurate model is: politics is a system that 1) selects against skills needed for rigorous thinking and for qualities such as groupthink and confirmation bias, 2) incentivises a badly selected set of people to consider their career not the public interest, 3) drops them into dysfunctional institutions with no relevant training and poor tools, 4) centralises vast amounts of power in the hands of these people and institutions in ways we know are bound to cause huge errors, and 5) provides very weak (and often damaging) feedback so facing reality is rare, learning is practically impossible, and system reform is seen as a hostile act by political parties and civil services worldwide.

But in real life, or should I say augmented reality, the app looks at your face and maps you against a set of preset emojis.

Not only were / are the CREAcrats gutless in the face of the unconstitutional (but predictably successful, thanks to CREA's Quizling behaviour) Competition Bureau's bully - boy tactics, they remain gutless when faced with realistic questions from their own paying supporters, hiding behind the facade of feigned ignorance of the reality of the storm brewing against them.

When one Public Corporation (ie GMC) who shareholders have valued based on the licensing of several brands to competing businesses are faced with the reality of today's internet dominated marketing environment, plays one brand against another, the outcome is not nice.