Sentences with phrase «against progress»

We stand to fight and promote issues of national interest and fight against all «forces» that work directly or indirectly against the progress of our nation.

The dynamics in our home, in retrospect, seemed to work against his progress.

We tell our clients to «stay the course» because betting against progress is a losers game.

The group winners advance directly to the last - 16, while the runners - up face an away play - off round tie against those progressing through the domestic champions path.

This breeds a bias against progress — in the very institutions that control our politicians.

In his insensate rage against progress he stopped vaccination; consequently, small - pox devastated the Roman provinces during his reign, along with many other curses which his brutal ignorance brought upon the inhabitants of those beautiful and fertile regions.

If Greenpeace and those who follow their lead continue their misanthropic attempts to thwart the scientific development and evaluation of golden rice, they position themselves squarely against the progress of science.

On February 24, 2009, the attorney for Florida's utility customers announced a case against Progress Energy, alleging that the company owes its 1.7 million customers a $ 61 million refund for overpriced coal used during 2006 and 2007.

Jack D. Kingsbury (The Parables of Jesus in Matthew 13 A Study in Redaction Criticism [Richmond Virginia: John Knox Press, 1969)-RRB- solves the problem by making the good seed the product of the Church's mission and the bad seed the product of Satan's activity against the progress of the Church — i.e., the corruption of actual and potential converts.

It's clear that it is YOU that does not understand evolution, and what's worse is that you are passing this misinformation to your children and poisoning their brains against progress.

This initiative assesses governments against progress in implementing the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding.

In January 2016, McGovern resigned from Labour's policy review on child poverty and combating inequality, as a protest against Progress being described by shadow Chancellor John McDonnell as having «a hard right agenda».

The situation at the University of Virginia reminds us that hate still exists in the country, and that no matter how far we move as a society, that the fringe right will stand against progress.

The challenges confronting the present generation of Africans may be unique in their own rights, however, it can not be in doubt that a concerted effort of the kind that delivered victories over slavery, oppression, subjugation and colonialism is needed today in equal measure to defeat contemporary forces such as neo-colonialism, racism, exploitation, unfair trade and poverty which are militating against our progress.

Echoing criticisms levelled against Progress by Paul Kenny, the GMB general secretary, he added:» [Progress is] a party within a party, funded by external interests.

Styled with berets that reminisce on the Black Panther movement, nose rings, oversized hoop earrings, Nicholas K brings us back to a time that held «the promise of a global humanitarian community, communal diversity and unity» to show that we presently seem to be moving against progress.

The major Caucasian characters in the film are almost all forces of opposition: Tim Roth plays bigoted governor George Wallace as a weak man raging pitifully against progress, while Dylan Baker brings a perfect squareness to J. Edgar Hoover, assigned by Johnson to spy on and possibly discredit King.

You have something against progress and technology?

ON BEHALF of the Florida League Against Progress (FLAP), I want to thank Mike Royko for his excellent column about the plight of Siggy Rosenbaum.Life in Florida can be very tough for whiny Yankee retirees.

Three ecomodernist leaders, Mark Lynas, Ted Nordhaus, and Michael Shellenberger, in a blog post called «A Pope Against Progress,» identify Pope Francis as a representative of the traditional environmental movement they reject, writing that Laudato Si» «makes explicit the asceticism, romanticism and reactionary paternalism inherent in many aspects of traditional environmentalist thinking.

Only if one can with a straight face conclude that sovereignty trumps decency, or that the Constitution is a compact against progress.»

In light of the assessments and priority need, the group prepares an Annual Delivery Plan and reports against progress each year.

The medical journal links Gordon Brown's planned reforms of the NHS to its wider relationship with the Department of Health, which it accuses of narrow centralisation working against progress.

If Greenpeace, the APC and those who follow their lead continue their misanthropic attempts to thwart the scientific development and evaluation of golden rice, they position themselves squarely against the progress of science.

Recounting our nation's recurrent history of white militarized backlash after periods of ethnic progress, Dr. Carol Anderson, Associate Professor of African American History at Emory University, surmised in a recent Washington Post commentary that Ferguson was not about black rage against cops, but rather about white rage against progress.

I don't want people to think I'm against progress.

I can't see having my name associated with a place like Alabama, where they really haven't faced up to - problems, or a school like Georgia in a state where Governor Maddox actually seems to be against progress.

«And I presented that to the governor, and the governor felt strongly that the job here is not done and that in no way, shape or form should there be a certificate of completion on the project until EPA looks at the science and really weighs it against the progress that's been made.

and no voice for those against progress who hide behind religion.

If you needed confirmation that Gov. John Bel Edwards embraces attitudes about education that work against progress, look no farther than rema...