Sentences with phrase «against groups who»

Not exact matches

The cable series follows a young computer programmer who works for a cybersecurity company but leads a secret life as a hacker who works with an insurrectionist group that launches cyber attacks against large corporations.

This is a group of people who refuse to inoculate their children against infectious diseases that ran rampant before vaccines were introduced, putting not only their own children at risk but also others who are too young or too ill to be vaccinated.

Simon Property Group Inc. filed a lawsuit against Starbucks on Aug. 21, claiming the coffee giant had not fulfilled its lease obligations and «put its stock price above its contractual obligations, the viability of Simon and its Shopping Centers, other retailers and consumers who count on the Teavana stores,» USA Today reports.

The president accused the protesters, who rallied against neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups in Charlottesville, of being «very, very violent.»

Newman, who had the backing of an array of national abortion - rights groups and two members of Illinois» congressional delegation, campaigned heavily against her opponent's voting record and promoted herself as a champion of «working families, healthcare for all, and everybody's rights,» she told Business Insider last year.

The study was designed so that each participant won two out of the four contests, but half the group faced off against the same opponent each time and won or lost by a narrow margin; these slight victories and losses to the same opponent encouraged feelings of rivalry among participants, who subsequently reported higher scores on the Machiavellianism scale.

But beyond the emotional impact, experts on extremism questioned whether the demise of Mohammed Emwazi, a Kuwaiti - born Briton who came to symbolise the brutality of Islamic State, would signify real progress in the fight against the group.

«IJ are some of the very few who fight against these arrangements between politicians and favored business groups,» says Thomas Firey, managing editor of the Cato Institute's journal Regulation.

One officer is notorious for harassing local black residents, to the point where he has been given a street nickname of «Bro Stupid,» said Burnell Williams, who works with at - risk youth and ex-prisoners for the nonprofit group Against All Odds.

You can work within the system, you can fight against the system, you can try to employ all these different tactics, but at the end of the day, having a group of comrades who are going to be your army in this battle is going to help immensely.»

After a breakout season in which he threw for 3,547 yards, 22 touchdowns, and 7 interceptions while completing 67 % of his passes, Keenum will have to prove himself on the big stage against a tough group of defenses, regardless of who the Vikings play.

In the case of the NEOs who head significant business segments, the Committee also compares compensation data for these positions against the pay for CEOs of smaller companies, as the size and complexity of certain of those business segments are similar in size and complexity to several of HP's peer group companies.

Mr. Trump also spoke at length about the standoff with armed protesters who last Saturday seized the headquarters at a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon, suggesting that he would have called the leader of the group to try to make a deal to end it — and would have acted against them if negotiations failed because «you can not let people take over federal property.»

«For us who are long - term investors, we tend to look at the group of people who are gathering in Vienna and say «they're fighting against history... The cost of producing crude, largely due to fracking technology, has dramatically changed the marginal economics of oil,» Hunt told Bloomberg Television.

But reformers are up against Chicago School economists who have been endorsed because their anti-government theories are so self - serving to economic groups that don't want to be regulated at all.

I think the issue here is whether any amateur fund manager (which I think is what we all are — including those financial advisers who create their own «homegrown» portfolios using trackers and bond funds) can seriously manage a portfolio for income or for growth and control against downside risk (in equities or bonds) as well as a good active management group like Invesco perpetual or M&G.

I have felt hate for my leaders who have put men, and groups, like him in positions where they can commit the most vile acts against their fellow men and women.

In a statement, the president and founder of the group China Aid, Bob Fu, said, «His arrest marks a major escalation in the crackdown against those who oppose the forced demolition of crosses.

The move placated some but not all the groups who opposed the mandate, and the stigma against the Obama administration in some religious circles remains.

They are members of a nationwide group known as The Initiative Collective — a volunteer crime prevention outfit that encourages people to fight back against violence using self - defense, armor and theatrics — in addition to doing general good deeds like fundraising, feeding the homeless and offering free martial arts training to anyone who wants it.

by Philippe Nemo Duquesne University Press, 155 pages, $ 18.95 Back in the late 1970s, Philippe Nemo was one of a group of young French philosophy graduates who turned against what was called the Generation of 1968.

However, some commentators have suggested that Gareth Lee who brought the case against the Ashers is a member of a secular activist group.

It's a way to justify what you don't yet understand, rather than acknowledging that it's just understandable at the moment, and it's acceptance amongst those who think like they do, it's the creation of a definable «evil» to fight against (satan, atheists, other religions, basically everyone except their small group of like minders... even other denominations that are nearly identical quibble).

Wesolowski's case provides a high - profile chance for the Pope, who has been accused by some victims» groups of downplaying the sexual abuse scandal, to take concrete action against one of the Vatican's own.

Throughout 2 Corinthians, Paul has been up against a group of religious pretenders, sheep - stealers who've discredited Paul by slinging mud.

I know people who for personal reasons are for or against certain religious / social / political issues who migrated to religious groups which identify as Christian (and agree with these peoples» personal opinions) so they presumably might have an ultimate authority to support their opinions.

The controversy pits leaders of religious groups that sponsor about 1 million Boy Scouts against activists who want the organization to end its ban on openly gay Scouts and Scout leaders.

Having seen an Arab chieftain's son, who had attended the American University in Beirut, make his decision between the old nomadic life of his clan, still living in tents, and the new town life which his education made possible, one vividly understands that, choosing the former, he inevitably chose submergence in the social solidarity of his group as against emergence into the individualism of a commercial community.

Sadly, these initiatives are fought tooth and nail by anti-gay groups (sadly pretty much all of which identify as Christian) who want to claim (against all evidence) that being gay makes you more likely to commit suicide not anything that you suffer as a result of being gay, just some arbitrary offense against God thing.

The common people accepted as a matter of course the control of these political and religious groups, save for chronic grumblings against those who touched their pocketbooks most directly, the hated publicans or tax - collectors.

My second observation is simply that, in light of the fact that the «gay community» is not separate from the «Christian community» and that there are many like Justin who identify as both Christian and gay, we have to move past the culture war mentality that pits these two groups against one another.

A group of the Wahhabis who went to great lengths in enforcing these doctrines and in standing adamant against any innovation, even including useful contributions of modern civilization, were suppressed by King Abul Aziz Ibn Sa`ud who believed in a wise, moderate policy of modernization.

Hate crimes are defined as criminal acts committed against those who belong to certain social, religious, ethnic or other group.

Francis was a big promoter of last year's peace deal with the rebel group but in visiting Colombia he will have to be sensitive to the viewpoints of the large number of conservative Roman Catholics who voted against the accord in a nationwide referendum.

See what Paul could have easily posted on Facebook to the Roman Church Facebook group page; if Paul were around today: «For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them.

In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.

When I have groups who try to make their religion political and force it upon me, then I am against it.

When I have groups who think their religious beliefs are superior to others» religious beliefs, then I am against it.

What is more perverse then using human - created mythology to discriminate against a group of people who had no choice in the matter?

There will be two groups in our membership: those who choose to discriminate against women and those who treat them equally with men.

The group has terrorized villages with unspeakable savagery against anyone who does not hold their radical beliefs: They've video taped beheadings, systematically executed Christian children and publicly crucified civilians...

The time was the Maccabean revolt (165 B.C.) of a group of Jews against Antiochus Epiphanes IV, who dedicated to Zeus Olympus the second (rebuilt) temple in Jerusalem.

If you were to go to Times Square in New York City — which recently fell to the bottom 10 (No. 91) of the Barna Group's list of most Bible - minded cities — and throw a rock, I bet you'd hit someone who could answer in detail the question, «What is Jesus against?»

Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Centre of Reform Judaism, also testified, as did the National Council of Churches, the Episcopal Church and a group of evangelical Protestants who signed a statement warning against global warming.

I am as much a Shadow as the next but going armed against those who are not armed is cowardice and makes such people no different than so many hate groups throughout history.

Burleigh builds a conclusive case that those most responsible for paving the way for Auschwitz were not Christians reading and preaching the gospel but instead were atheists, apostates, and revolutionaries who promoted a «hatred against the Lord and His Christ nourished by groups subversive to any religious and social order,» as the papal encyclical Dilectissima Nobis (1933) put it.

What I find to be so hypocritical is that pr - og - ay groups are so strongly against those of us who choose to voluntarily, and with informed consent, undergo se - xu - al re-or-ie-nt-at-io-n.

On March 26, a group of New York — based lawyers headed by Edward D. Fagan, who spearheaded successful suits on behalf of Holocaust survivors against European firms that collaborated with the Nazis in using concentration camp inmates as laborers, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn against FleetBoston Financial, the insurance giant Aetna, and railroad conglomerate CSX Corporation, on the grounds that these corporations are the successors of companies that profited from slavery before the Civil War.

9 A vivid illustration of the problem here raised for all moral judgments is given in the experience of a lecturer who asserted to a group of Southern people that no one could practice discrimination against another race and be a Christian.

If Nazi's / white supremasist hold a rally against people of color and various religions does that give anybody who is not part of that group to attack the Nazi's / white supremasists.