Sentences with phrase «against history as»

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While the company amassed an army of fanboy followers over much of its history as the underdog in the epic struggle against the «evil empire» (Microsoft), it's perhaps understandable that haters are now popping out of the woodwork.

To develop your credit score, FICO analyzes your debts against your limits, your history of on - time and late payments, the number of accounts you have, the various types of accounts you have (such as revolving, installment and so on), the length of your overall credit history and the amount of new credit you've been applying or.

By anti-Semitism is here intended not the latent prejudice against Jews which is a common phenomenon in history and which, as Rabbi Joel Blau put it, «dates back to the beginnings of the Jewish people.»

The list of companies terminating their partnerships with the National Rifle Association is growing as public outcry against the gun group escalates following the deadliest mass shooting at a public high school in U.S. history.

Prejudice against Jews is at least as old as 1654 in North America and its negative evidences may be found in the histories of most of the clubs and colleges and residential districts of the country.

But Charlie Spies, who served as counsel for Mitt Romney's 2008 presidential campaign, said Giuliani's comments must be weighed against Trump's history of aggressively protecting his corporate and personal reputation.

If you have a good VantageScore ®, you're likely to have a good FICO ® Score, because both consider the same factors: Payment history: your record of on - time payments and any «derogatory» marks, such as late payments, accounts sent to collections or judgments against you.

These vendors generally have a history outside of social media, usually helping their customers to detect and protect against compliance violations in communication channels such as instant messaging or email.

Also in the post is a pretty concise narrative of each mind - boggling event that led up to this sell - off as well as a graph showing where it ranks percentage-wise against other Dow Jones nosedives throughout history.

As the name implies, the dividend appreciation index fund seeks to track a benchmark against stocks that have a history of increasing dividends over time.

But Charlie Spies, who served as counsel for Mitt Romney's 2008 presidential campaign, said Mr Giuliani's comments must be weighed against Mr Trump's history of aggressively protecting his corporate and personal reputation.

Against this backdrop, fiscal 2014 is shaping up as one of the best years in the company's history.

So our nonfoundationism is a decision against the progressive devotion to History; the point of life is to keep the people around right now as alive, free, and comfortable as possible, not to use them as fodder for some glorious future.

Many aligned on the left will see both of these as «making history,» finally striking a prophetic blow against the tyrannies of heteronormativity, discrimination, and the abuse of mother earth.

He also favored Toryism against Whiggism in politics and in history, and urged the cause of economic freedom as a precondition of political liberty.

«On the one hand, I view this as a positive step forward for the church, a church that has a history of extreme persecutions against the LGBT community,» he said.

Well, as predicted, the 9th Circuit did it again - Ruled against the TRAVEL BAN at such a dangerous time in the history of our country.

History repeats it self... See examples such as the separation of India in to India and Pakistan but left them Kashmir to fight over and remain alert against each other all those years, then another example is the Koreas South and North, then the case of Cyprus for Turkey and Greece, planting of Israel among the Arabs to control, exhaust them, consume their wealth and drain their resources?

The history of Italian unification» Italian fascism having more than a decade's existence as a special place in radicalism; the role of the papacy in severely constraining manifest forms of statist rule; the cultural tradition of Italian major cities, which had autonomous forms of city development; and the weaknesses of Italy with respect to economic concentrations of power in the early twentieth century» all argue against a muscular totalitarianism.

The Holocaust stands against, and for the most part outside, the history that is ours as Jews and Christians.

Faith has always been used as an excuse to commit crimes against humanity for the last 6000 years of recorded history, and it has always been a delusion.

And as a historian I am aware of the history of discrimination against both groups throughout U.S. history.

In Oriental Mysticism, Altizer describes faith as the «will to nothingness pronounced holy,» 33 and in «Theology and the Death of God,» he states that «eschatological faith is directed against the deepest reality of what we know as history and the cosmos.

For eschatological faith is directed against the deepest reality of what we know as history and the cosmos.

There is an old saying that history is but a series attacks upon the Word of God, like a blacksmith hammering away with great force against the anvil, there are times when it looks as though the church will not survive another strike.

Of course if anyone looks up, «No man knows my history» by Fawn M. Brodie, or «Under The Banner of Heaven, or Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond,» as well as google different questions about mormon secret names, White Horse Prophesy, Mormons becoming Gods, God was once a man on another planet, mormon bigotry against Blacks, Joseph Smith and his 14 year old wife (WHILE he was still married to his living wife Emma) Helen Mar Kimball... I could go on.

Earlier we had occasion to note the relationship between Jewish faith as portrayed for us in the Old Testament and the Christian event which is the subject matter of the New Testament; and how it was indeed inevitable and right that the primitive Christian community should see their Lord and apprehend his significance for men, against the background of the whole history of the people into whom humanly speaking he was born.

Paul did NOT come out against homosexuality as we know it today and this is clear when one looks at both history of the culture and even a basic semblance of textual analysis.

Self - schooled in the history of European nationalism — especially as championed by Giuseppe Mazzini in Italy — Savarkar sought to give expression to a broad cultural ideology that could challenge the British Raj, counter Western influence more generally, and provide intellectual defenses against Muslim beliefs and the allegedly culture - destroying work of Christian missionaries.

The psychic energy of contemporary pastors, theologians and church leaders has more often centered on the kerygmatic Word as it encounters «the problem of history,» on struggles against the idolatries of fascism and Stalinism abroad and racism, classism and sexism at home, or on the development of the professional skills of ministry.

It is as if we contemporary American Catholics take the patrimony for granted, forgetting that it must be constantly shored up against the erosion of history.

Unlike others before and after him who assimilate church history to secular history, Williams defined his own vocation as that of one standing committedly within the historic community of faith, charged with telling and interpreting the story of that community against the background of ultimate meanings.

Mantel's memoir, like the novels, is thick with smoldering grievances: against teachers («I don't know if there is a case on record of a child of seven murdering a schoolteacher, but I think there ought to be»); adults generally («In Hadfield, as everywhere in history of the world, violence without justification or apology was meted out by big people to small»); and above all, against the Catholic Church, which stood in judgment on her mother when Mantel was a child.

It was the book, taken as a whole, held up against history, held up against decency and hope, held up to the person I desired to be... I had to choose to cling to belief despite all of that and continue to fail to be a person of compassion and love or to begin to let go of that belief and make room in my heart for compassion and love.

Three major themes are rooted in Judaism without which Christianity, especially at this moment in the life of the church, would be adversely, perhaps fatally, affected: the Jewish sense of history as God's arena, the Jewish passion against idolatry, and the Jewish background which illumines the New Testament.

He saw modern intellectual history as a long, losing war against the nihilism implicit in modernism's rejection of the unevaluated evaluator who is the only conceivable source for ultimate premises.

As Phelps» daughter reminded me, there is a venerable American history of religious protests against the coercive power of the federal government, running from the anti-slavery and female suffrage advocacy of nineteenth - century evangelicals to the civil rights agitation of rabbis and members of the black church.

It is understandable that the idealistic emphasis on the efficacy of spiritual motives and forces, ideas, and energies in the philosophy and history of the early nineteenth century led to a reaction which urged students of social life and development to concentrate on the opposite viewpoint according to which spiritual developments have to be regarded as products of material conditions (Feuerbach, Marx, Engels, against Hegel).

As we grapple with a new war fought against a Muslim threat and new efforts, to control and transform a conquered people, history can provide insights not only into where we have been, but into where we may be going.

At all events, objection can not be raised against the interpretation of the whole account of the beginning of history as historical aetiology, on the grounds that the formation of Eve thus stated is not attainable aetiologically, thus showing the whole interpretation to be faulty.

I can argue from history and philosophy against religion and it is none of my business if others just simply believe as long as there are no victims.

, 176, where he speaks of his generation's effort to defend itself against Christ; and Kierkegaard's Attack Upon Christendom, 160 - 161, where he critiques the Christian Church in history for trying to defend itself against the possibility of following Christ as the Pattern.

His own pet proof of «why there almost certainly is no God» (a proof in which he takes much evident pride) is one that a usually mild - spoken friend of mine (a friend who has devoted too much of his life to teaching undergraduates the basic rules of logic and the elementary language of philosophy) has described as «possibly the single most incompetent logical argument ever made for or against anything in the whole history of the human race.»

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.

This verse, taken out of context, has been put to irresponsible use in the history of Christianity, as if it were a divine sanction on poverty and a discouragement to all attempts to fight against it.

Altizer's position represents his attempt to grasp the inner logic of the Incarnation, though he is fully conscious of the fact that the profanity of contemporary culture plays an essential role in his formulation of a radically immanental interpretation of Christ.31 He presents a telling case against attempts in Christian theology to conceive God as an immutable Absolute wholly unaffected by the contingencies of history.

Over the years history has often regarded revolution as a positive actions against oppression.

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.

A non-citizen man who can not voice a single opinion that is not fed to him by his controllers, a man who disdains this country, who is NOT a christian, whose mother's history was rewritten after he ran for office (she was a known wh * re not a «good citizen» as she is now portrayed, a man who is a racist against whites even though he is half - white, a man whose wife is disbarred....

Over against it he sets up a philosophical system of cosmic determinisrn, a sort of universal wheel of time on which life and nature and history are forever wearily repeating themselves as often as the cycle of time brings round once more the things that have receded into the past.