Sentences with phrase «against our principles in»

If we are given the option to make more money by going against our principles in any of these ways we must say, «No.»

The NEA, then a loose professional association, opposed collective bargaining as «unprofessional» and fought hard against the principle in New York City and elsewhere.

Not exact matches

Despite criticisms against religion, every major faith tradition in the world has core principles and values that can serve as an anchoring ethos for entrepreneurs and leaders.

The FCC's decades - long commitment to and enforcement of this basic principle — that ISPs don't get to pick winners and losers on the Internet — means Internet users in the U.S. haven't had to worry about whether ISPs might block or discriminate against certain kinds of content or applications.

It's that principle that led to the government's antitrust case against Microsoft; the company was accused of trying to use its dominance in PC operating systems to thwart competition in the nascent market for web browsers.

Things may be more tense in South Korea, where President Moon Jae - in has opposed in principle the idea of unilateral action against North Korea by the U.S. President Trump will also skip a visit to the demilitarized zone (DMZ) there.

One of those who find in the discipline more ideology than science, Orrell argues against 10 principles of economic orthodoxy, including the rationality and predictability of the market and its potential to provide happiness.

Gibney also explained how the fund's investment in Facebook stacked up against its principle of backing entrepreneurs doing valuable work.

By the early 20th century, bandwagons were commonplace in political campaigns, and «jump on the bandwagon» had become a derogatory term used to describe the social phenomenon of wanting to be part of the majority even when it means going against one's principles or beliefs.

A source familiar with the decision says the administration has reached an agreement in principle with Australia, Argentina and Brazil, which may avoid the need for tariffs against those countries altogether.

Interestingly, the biggest move here wasn't from customers themselves but from the European Union Court of Justice, which upheld the Right to be Forgotten principle in a May ruling against Google.

As a first principle, all segments of the population must be involved in the fight against climate change.

We have argued in the past that the fiscal credibility of a budget should be judged against four basic principles.

A recent SEC order instituting administrative and cease - and - desist proceedings against a small hedge fund manager confirms the principle that hedge fund investors — not managers — own the assets in funds and any assets generated with those assets, subject to specific exceptions.

Universal healthcare in America is financially unsupportable and against core American principles.

Participants in the conversation from all walks of life should seek to describe authentic human fulfillment and propose safeguards against the many opportunities for abuse, until a body of principles and a consensus about the best applications of genetic knowledge emerge.

Thus, the struggles against torture and terrorism require us to recover and recast a genuinely ecumenical and normative public theology, one willing to engage in the patient yet urgent task of identifying, clarifying and defending those universal principles of right and wrong inherent in the Christian understanding of life.

By denying that the value in nature is static, Camus wishes to insure man against the possibility that a theocracy, for example, could assert rules based upon «eternal principles» to suppress freedom.

On the basis of the First Amendment, as well as the general principles of the Constitution, he opposed public payment for chaplains in Congress and the military, spoke out against national proclamations of days of prayer (though as president he did «recommend» them) and while president vetoed congressional efforts to incorporate churches in the District of Columbia (fullest statement, V: 103 - 105) At the same time, Madison frequently opined that it was appropriate for private citizens to support chaplains and various kinds of semiorganized public religion through voluntary contributions (V: 104,105)

That we may, and ought, to resist, and even make war against those rulers who leap the bounds prescribed them by the constitution, and attempt to oppress and enslave the subjects, is a principle on which alone the great revolutions which have taken place in our nation can be justified.»

On the other hand such personalism iuris divini, which despite its importance can not here be proved theologically, is a principle of resistance against the well - known dangers and shortcomings of democracy in large societies where self - government by the people, for example, by plebiscite is no longer possible and the representation which takes its place be - comes more and moe autonomous.

This addition does, in principle, guard against a bibliocentrism that may distort our understanding of the biblical message itself.

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).

The emphasis on the right of the individual to pursue and obey one's «reason and conscience» even against the dictate of church, community and / or the State whether in the realm of scientific or religious truth was a basic principle affirmed by them in common.

In this sentence I have been recalling against Hartshorne one of the most well - known passages of Process and Reality: «In the first place, God is not to be treated as an exception to all metaphysical principles, invoked to save their collapse.

The study of the structures of religious groups should be carried on without prejudice in favor of one or the other principle of organization, e.g., the charismatic as against the hierarchical, or vice versa — and application of the general methodological requirement discussed above.

Speaking on BBC Radio Lincolnshire, Peter Tatchell said: «He can't perhaps comment about the individuality of that particular case, but he certainly could comment on the principle, which is that he has, in the past, supported legal discrimination against gay people.

She also likes to play Plants vs. Zombies (not while in motion, of course) even though the violent nature of the game goes against her Christian principles.

It was in principle open to new ideas and to criticism; so it could not defend itself against these.

I agree that with our current system the death penalty should be stopped, but I'm not against it in principle.

This affirmation of God's sovereignty and the principle of salvation by grace led to a series of criticisms against all worldly authorities that claimed to usurp the power of God, be it an authoritarian church, an infallible Bible or a mechanical sacrament that offered salvation in a simplistic way.

The social principles of Christianity declare all vile acts of the oppressors against the oppressed to be either the just punishment of original sin and other sins or trials that the Lord in his infinite wisdom imposes on those redeemed.28

In asking such a question, he offered us a perspective that cuts against both the statist liberalism that is now in power and the anti-statist libertarianism that asserts itself as statism's only principled alternativIn asking such a question, he offered us a perspective that cuts against both the statist liberalism that is now in power and the anti-statist libertarianism that asserts itself as statism's only principled alternativin power and the anti-statist libertarianism that asserts itself as statism's only principled alternative.

The usual formulations of utilitarianism assume an individualism that in principle works against the common good.

With these principles in mind, I want to push back against some of Azumah's arguments.

Newman recounts his realization of this principle in the Apologia: «It was difficult... to find arguments against the Tridentine Fathers, which did not tell against the Fathers of Chalcedon; difficult to condemn the Popes of the sixteenth century, without condemning the Popes of the fifth.»

Peirce's argument against determinism in «The Doctrine of Necessity Examined,» published a year earlier than his paper on evolutionary love, clearly lays the basis for the affirmation of radical creativity and the need for the principle of agape (6.36 - 65).

But instead of vengeful invective, over the following minutes, days and years he spoke simple, principled sense, refusing to give up the struggle, armed if necessary, against injustice until Apartheid was dismantled, but articulating a sense of place for all races in South Africa.

This principle is exemplified in the anti-Semitism which is an attitude of the weaker against the stronger.

They include the «chilling effects» of libel suits, the perennial conflicts between property and access, the three out of four publishers who intervene in news decisions affecting their local markets, the advertisers» freedom to move their money to where their interests are, industry self - regulation in broadcasting and advertising, the backlash against conveying under duress (as in a hostage crisis) points of view that are never aired as directly without duress, the flareups of book banning and censorship of textbooks, the rout of the civil rights movement, the retreat from principles of fairness and equality (even where never implemented), the attack on scientific and humane teaching, the threat of self - appointed media watchdogs to also spy on teachers in the classroom, and the general vigor of ancient orthodoxies masquarading as neo-this and neo-that.

Reinhold Niebuhr is less dualistic in that he stresses the relevance of love as an «impossible possibility» to every human situation, but he warns so continually against a sentimental substitution of love for the requirements of justice that the major impact of his thought is a dichotomy in which again justice, and not love, is the determining principle of social ethics.

In principle, Ivan does rebel against God on behalf of the suffering of children.

Lutheran ethics, following certain tendencies in Luther's own thought but neglecting his main intention, conceived the social orders outside the Church as necessary bulwarks against sin, but obeying principles of a different order from the demands of the Gospel of love.

seem to want to mold public policy based on the rantings of fictional characters created by a hypocrite who railed against socialist and collectivist principles and then collected her Medicare and Social Security benefits later in life, can we also consider alternatives?

Further, the formation of synods and federations in the churches, which conducted their affairs on parliamentary and electoral principles, took place under the guardianship of the princes who had supported the Reformation against Rome.

For what this truly and blessedly means is that God can not be less than man, endowed with personality, freedom und love, and that the mystery itself is free protective love, not an «objective order» which one can, after all, possess (at least in principle), and against which one could ensure oneself.

To me, it's just a messy mix of between racism and hypocrisy — they just don't like the guy because he's less than 100 % white and they're all still bitter about it, and they're fighting against many of the principles that is taught in their own New Testament.

In fact, most if not all of the relevant evidence, as the previous example illustrated, counts against the idea that physics can in principle provide a complete account of the physical world, especially given the existence of human and other animals in iIn fact, most if not all of the relevant evidence, as the previous example illustrated, counts against the idea that physics can in principle provide a complete account of the physical world, especially given the existence of human and other animals in iin principle provide a complete account of the physical world, especially given the existence of human and other animals in iin it.

On the other hand, he believed that necessities of state require the sacrifice of some of these principles (in particular, the prohibition against murder) for a greater good.

Hegel's position shows clearly how the idea of the state can act almost as a prophetic principle over against the extremes of totalitarianism or materialism, and how such a state might lie within the «divine strategy,» though only if, as we said earlier, we may be permitted to read his philosophy of history in a more flexible way than he may have intended it himself.