Sentences with phrase «against his face as»

I'm pretty impressed that he takes care of the first step himself, even when his nosebleed lasts so long that he's holding another wipe against his face as he patiently sets up the bucket with his free hand.

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The plea sent directly to Uber Technologies Inc.'s 11 - member board comes as the ride - hailing giant faces a deadline to respond in court to the women's complaint against the company.

This fast train to war was sidetracked, however, as Russia and China succeeded in blocking concerted United Nations action against both Iran and its ally, Syria (itself facing a massive propaganda campaign alleging atrocities that can not be independently or fully verified).

As a product of the comics pioneer Will Eisner, the character was often pitted against his archnemesis, the Octopus, a mastermind and master of disguise whose face was never shown.

Against this backdrop, China is facing a plethora of structural obstacles as it aims to transition its economy into one that is based on consumers from one that depends on exports and investment.

Just as in your personal life, there will be times when your business is up against the wall and you find yourself facing major difficulties.

Macy's and other department stores, such as JCPenney, are facing off against Amazon — and coming up short, with hundreds of closures in recent years.

Your business will face a bunch of risks that it can't insure against, such as increased competition, declining margins, staff turnover, or the failure of a new product to make a splash in the market.

In his job as an activist at the Center for Popular Democracy, Barkan led a successful effort to get Fed officials thinking more about low - income Americans as they conduct monetary policy, often arguing against interest rate hikes in the face of high underemployment and weak wage growth.

As a result, Mackey now finds himself facing off against his own customers for the second time in less than a year.

Policy or no policy, wearing your face - computer to the movies probably constitutes as Glasshole behavior, a quality Google itself warns against in the company's handy Google Glass do's and don'ts guide.

The face - to - face meeting between Moynihan and Holder is being pushed as the bank faces the possibility of a lawsuit from the U.S. Attorney's office in New Jersey against Merrill Lynch's actions leading up to the mortgage crisis.

Facing off against a Texans team that gives the fifth most points up to tight ends in the league, he's a good play this week as well.

The city's leader was bound to be a woman no matter what, as Durkan faced off against another female candidate, Cary Moon.

In the same vein as Nintendo's «Super Smash Bros.» series and Warner Brothers» «Injustice» franchise, «Marvel vs Capcom» pits Marvel superheroes and villains (Iron Man, MODOK, and many more) against Capcom's most famous faces (Mega Man, various Street Fighter characters, and many more).

Although 3DR faced tough competition in the drone market against DJI, Anderson believes that the enterprise software market for drones won't be as cutthroat and that there is room for multiple competitors.

What I tried to do was come up with common characters we face at work — like the «manterrupter» who interrupts you in a meeting, or the office mom who ends up taking on the mother lode of menial tasks — as well as some of the internal barriers, like the feeling of being an imposter, and then digging through the research to find out how you can push back against these things.

The growing number of discrimination lawsuits against Tesla come as the company is also facing a unionization campaign from the United Auto Workers.

There will be a women's round robin and then an exhibition match as the pros from Heron Bay and Coral Springs Tennis Center will face off against their counterparts at Cypresshead and Parkland Tennis Center.

Just like a thorough vetting of cabinet nominees could have foreseen the scandals that later emerged, a thorough vetting and review process for the monster tax cut legislation would have cautioned against such radical moves in the face of massive maturing supply, a trimming Fed, and a debt - strapped consumer that is seeing higher interest rates on mortgages and credit cards as a result of the spike in rates.

As we begin the first quarter of 2017, we are mindful of the comparison we face against first quarter 2016 results, which benefited from leap year, favourable weather and continued momentum from All - Day Breakfast in the U.S.»

At its peak, the company had nearly 80 franchises across Australia as well as more than a dozen company - owned stores, but over the last few years, a number have closed and a disgruntled Brisbane franchisee launched an $ 800,000 legal action against Pie Face claiming they were misled over profit projections, which Homschek denied.

Now, years later after the win against Cryptsy, Silver has become the face of so many crypto class action lawsuits that, as he told Cointelegraph, he has moved from «D - list famous» in the crypto sphere to maybe «C, or C + to B -.»

«And today, after six years, I find myself before you to face a baseless accusation,» he said, describing the accusations against him as «lies and unacceptable slander.»

The danger the United States faces today is that the government debt crisis scheduled to hit Congress next spring (when Republicans are threatening to vote against raising the federal debt limit as the government deficit soars) will provide an opportunity for the wealthy to give a coup de grace on what is left of progressive taxation in this country.

This particular item can perhaps be dismissed as an oddity, but its appearance underlines the more general point that the most important intellectual and institutional expressions of the Christian faith, including Rome and Canterbury, have found almost nothing of value to say about the current Middle East crises, and more generally about the West's struggle against militant Islam and terrorism, and the terrifying possibilities now facing the entire civilized world.

I enjoyed reading your comments against Richard Rohr with a smile on my face as I imagine he is smiling too.

a statistically - insignificant portion has been burned by others as a protest against the islamofascists that have become the public face of Islam (largely through the silence of the supposedly less - radical majority).

In addition, the list also names archdiocese clergy still facing public accusations of child sex abuse, as well as those who died before public accusations of sex abuse against them could be fully investigated or were leveled in the first place.

He could also come out against guest worker programs and argue that those we invite to come to our country should be welcomed as future citizens rather than helots to be exploited and discarded if they should face a spell of unemployment.

As early as 1934, just one year after Hitler came to power, Prince Hubertus zu Loewenstein, representing a small but growing group of conscientious Catholics, made a dramatic interfaith appeal against Nazism: «Jews and Catholics must stand together, for we are faced with the same troubleAs early as 1934, just one year after Hitler came to power, Prince Hubertus zu Loewenstein, representing a small but growing group of conscientious Catholics, made a dramatic interfaith appeal against Nazism: «Jews and Catholics must stand together, for we are faced with the same troubleas 1934, just one year after Hitler came to power, Prince Hubertus zu Loewenstein, representing a small but growing group of conscientious Catholics, made a dramatic interfaith appeal against Nazism: «Jews and Catholics must stand together, for we are faced with the same troubles.

«Isn't the simplest touch of a child's arm on the face more important, isn't the good meal, the brush against a thigh, a hand held during a movie, a swim in the sea, aren't those things of equal importance as the sands of time come rushing down on our heads burying ambition and love, good and evil, breath, blood, brains, waste, memory, alike in the oblivion?»

Of course, you notably worded it as «won't let us catch them», when what is really meant by calling the terrorists cowards is how they hide amongst civilians, perform heinous acts of terrorism against civilians and then run off and hide in tunnels, houses, caves, etc, forever afraid to show their faces.

seems a bit of a random comment actually, the prodigal son is returning to the father, where did I suggest that God will smash in the face of anyone turning to him, as for those that refuse to accept or even fight against him or not return after turning away the bible is clear they come under the wrath of God.

If there is a God and there is just as much for as against, But lets say there is a God and he made everything Including you and He gets to make the rules because lets face it hes a lot bigger then you, So unfortunately he only wants those who believe in him based on the information given, Lets look at the facts based on the Book,, Some of his own angels turned on him and they see him every day... That had to hurt, So he decides With man he only wants those with the faith to believe based on His book and faith found thru the holy spirit, If you refuse to believe then he cant use you, cant trust you, so he will choose to toss you aside, Hey I understand It ai nt fair, Your important, Your Smart, But unfortunately hes bigger then you and he has the Juice, You either play by the rules or wait and see what not believing leads too.

It is has become commonplace to regard Ivan Karamazov's «Legend of the Grand Inquisitor» as a prescient parable glorifying human freedom and defending it against the kind of totalitarian threats it would face in the twentieth century.

Niebuhr saw facing this problem as returning to the early Christian attempt to formulate a way to live in a world both under the sovereign rule of God and corrupted and in rebellion against God.

And when we are at a loss against the hypocrisy and the casual violence of certain individuals and institutions, we will, as per Chief Jim Hopper, punch some people in the face when they seek to destroy the weak and the disenfranchised and the marginalized.

This flies right in the face of advocacy from assisted suicide promoters that legalization is needed as a «safety valve» to protect against unrelievable suffering.

The first is Caravaggio's «The Flagellation of the Christ» and shows a chilling and private event; we are the only witnesses to the three men, half hidden by darkness, who force the Lord against a pillar, grabbing His hair and kicking Him as they prepare to beat Him, the cruelty in their faces contrasting with His own quiet dignity.

Sometimes religion can be used by the patients as an effective defense against facing their problems realistically, but at other times it can be a powerful motivating and integrating force.

To a young academic such as I was, facing the corrosive impact of critical theory on higher education, Newman's ecclesiastical polemic against the «suicidal excesses» of unfettered human thought retained a powerful relevance.

Those of us who believe same - sex marriage to be a moral impossibility now face a very daunting challenge — how to live in a society that is moving so rapidly against our moral worldview, even as the society shared that worldview for over 2,000 years.

When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom to - day this poor people is plundered and exploited.»

The Islamic world encounters the face of Christian fundamentalism in the trigger - happy fundamentalist cowboy from Texas who, as president of the most powerful nation on earth, is ready to wage war against any nation that stands in the way of America's economic interests.

These fears are not so different from the fear I see in the eyes of protestors carrying signs that depict President Obama as Hitler, the fear I see in the red faces of angry preachers urging their parishioners to «take America back for God,» the fear I detect in some of the books against emerging church, the fear I detect in some of the books in support of the emerging church, the fear I hear in the voices of both gays and the conservative evangelical activists who lobby against them when both sides consider for just a second the possibility that maybe they have it wrong.

In his lengthy piece, Stetzer offers a forensic examination of Patterson's record detailing his intolerance of criticism along with a series indiscretions, including crude public comments about a 16 - year - old girl, scheming against the appointment of David Platt as new president of SBC's International Mission Board and his connection with Paul Pressler, who is now facing a lawsuit for sexual abuse allegations.

Instead of joining in a hue and cry against a churchman for engaging in this system in which every one of us is implicated, from which even the bishop's salary is derived, or hiding our Christian faces in shame because his hypocritical enemies hold him up as a «horrible example,» the clear call of Christ is that his followers should make a frontal attack upon the pagan system itself, and demand that our economic order shall give way to an economic order embodying the principles of the kingdom of God (July 17, 1929).

As I gaze out my window, for example, the data of my experience include people and cars, rocks and trees, the breeze against my face, the ideas I am entertaining, and the sensation of my elbow against the table on which I lean.

(p. 111) So long as such an anti-war stance, with its own sort of heroic aspirations, does not, through the sorts of errors mentioned above, condemn or spit upon the more tangible heroic feelings stirred up by the real wars that inevitably will come (and thus demand, as C.S. Lewis put it, «long - faced» warriors even for just wars), and so long as it does not plug its ears against the geo - strategic and national considerations that must remain part of all politics, she would broadly endorse it, and would encourage all of us, whether theists or not, to yearningly quest for a world without war that we nonetheless know can never fully arrive.