Sentences with phrase «against such things as»

They add the necessary umbrellas to protect against such things as theft.
This gives you protection against such things as a sudden increase in construction costs.
Then again, and extra five horses or pound - feet wouldn't likely help the Vette's case when pitted against such things as the Ferrari 458 Italia.
Man had made enormous strides in discovering the causes of disease, and is still fighting a long - drawn - out battle against such things as the incredibly minute viruses, and the apparently arbitrary cell - degeneration known as cancer.

Not exact matches

While there is no such thing as a 100 % foolproof strategy to protect you against fraud (although divvying your portfolio up into 30 - 40 stocks worth 2.5 % to 3.33 % of your overall wealth seems like a damn good defense mechanism), putting most of your money into stocks with records of growing dividends seems like an intelligent way to guard against corporate fraud, particularly if you have limited familiarity with reading 10 - Ks, annual reports, and other financial statements.
From our perspective, the financial sector side, in what sense does climate change pose new or different risks to the financial system, all the way from the obvious, such as the concept of stranded assets, which you've got lending all against those things?
In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.
One way to hedge against losses is to buy other expensive items during high prices, such as gold bars and / or jewelry or other things that have lasting value, and then if the price of Bitcoin tumbles it is likely you will be able to recover some of the losses through the sale of these.
Atheists, if you are so confident that there is no such thing as God, then why are you so intimidated by Him, to the point that you feel compelled to turn others against Him?
religion has a way of using those things that are inherent to us against us... such as sexuality.
BUT... if the Church is going to claim and treat sexual deviance (if in fact that is what they believe it is) with such force over and against all other indiscretions, how do they justify that... and how isn't it hypocritical of them when they simply wink at other things that are clearly outlined by Jesus» own words as grievous.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was due.28 And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, covenant - breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful: 32 who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they that practise such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with them that practise them.
There is no such things as an «idle» word which will not work for us or against us.
He would also tell me strange baseless things were wrong with me if I couldn't attend every service, such as my life is based on feelings not truth or that I think everyone is against me and he could help me.
Early stories such as the encounter with Yahweh at the burning bush, where Moses was warned to put off his shoes because the spot was «holy ground,» (Exodus 3:5; cf. Joshua 5:15) reveal the way in which this dread of holy things and places and this need of insulations against their dangerous potency issued in sacred rites and customs.
For example, against both dualism and reductionistic determinism and in favor of the pancreationist, panexperientialist view that the actual world is made up exhaustively of partially self - determining, experiencing events, there is considerable evidence, such as the fact that a lack of complete determinism seems to hold even at the most elementary level of nature; that bacteria seem to make decisions based upon memory; that there appears to be no place to draw an absolute line between living and nonliving things, and between experiencing and nonexperiencing ones; and that physics shows nature to be most fundamentally a complex of events (not of enduring substances).
There are indeed many intelligent, sincere, well - meaning people who say such things as: «Whatever the controversy, and however strong the scholarly arguments against it, I choose to believe in the supernatural aspects of my faith, simply because it is very important for me in the life of my faith to be radically aware of sacred mysteries.»
Berry says important things, but Warren spoke to people living in the «industrial» and «modern» world that was personal as such, and didn't make some ideological stance against what may have been the result.
No such thing as willful cooperation when the fascist authorities are holding the sword against one's throat.
Or what about the drowning of the Egyptian army in the Red Sea, the earthquake the swallowed up all those who followed Korah in rebellion against Moses, or the things that God allows Satan to do to Job, or even some passages in the New Testament such as the death of Ananias and Sapphira, or the bloodbath that takes place in the book of Revelation?
They might argue even (against Paul) that doing such things sends people to hell, rather than seeing references to the «Kingdom of God» or «Kingdom of Heaven» as Jesus used them, as being about out lives here and now and what we might accomplish as we follow Christ (to which a «beneficial» conversation is much more fitting).
The thought of every piece of private property — inherent in each piece as such — is at least turned against all wealthier private property in the form of envy and the urge to reduce things to a common level, so that this envy and urge even constitute the essence of competition.
It is against this background that our countryman, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, has rightly argued that the church has to be concerned about the secular things such as politics and economics, education, medical aid, the rent and housing, food prices et cetera.
He was pointing out that the Levitical prohibitions against homosexuality are part of the same law code which condemns many things, such as the eating of pork and the wearing of garments that are woven with two kinds of material.
Against this dualism, between the internal and external, private and public, a dualism which has led to the exploitation and oppression of many human beings, I contend that followers of Christ have no other option but to take an active interest in the earthly, secular things such as politics and economics because Jesus would not permit us the luxury of dwelling in a «spiritual ghetto unrelated and unconcerned with real life issues».
«God» endorses things that would curl your hair, such as slashing the bellies of pregnant women, and bashing children's heads against rocks.
Martin weighs the merits of his «all truths are timeless,» or can be so formulated without loss of truth, against what he takes to be my view (for no reason in my writings that I can see) that all are time - bound; he ignores the moderate or less extreme view that some (namely, truths about extremely universal and abstract, eternal and necessary things, including the essential structure of time as such) are timeless, and others (those about less universal and abstract, also non-eternal and contingent things) are time - bound, but this not in every way a careless thinker might suppose but in a definite and logically intelligible way.
For the overwhelming majority of people in all the world's history, life has been and still is quite without the «cushions» to which we have become accustomed, that is, such things as savings, or the privilege of credit, to say nothing of socially created buttresses against the fundamental threats of hunger and the elements.
My thought is as pure as that of anyone, and the thought of the man who is able to think such things will surely become pure — and if this be not so, he may expect the dreadful; for he who once has evoked these images can not be rid of them again, and if he sins against them, they avenge themselves with quiet wrath, more terrible than the vociferousness of ten ferocious reviewers.
As such, he is guily of the same thing he is rallying against.
Your boy - really smacks of alot of reverence?Franklin Graham has done many great things, such as head up a ministry called Samaritans Purse, which has done incredible work towards disaster relief.What have you done?He simply speaks the truth which is that this President has done more to distance himself against evangelical Christians by supporting liberal causes, using the world's largest stage to promote gay rights, and too many issues to mention that Mr.Obama's faith, or lack of, is obvious to everyone.Not to mention that he is the son of Billy Graham.
Yet I occasionally hear him also preach against many of the things our government is involved in, such as wars in the Middle East, the abuse and neglect of the poor in our cities, and the escalating violence of our police force.
There has never been such a thing as an easy game in football, but the most disappointing aspect to the fact that Arsenal are so far behind Leicester at the Premier League summit is that, aside from the trip to Manchester City at the end of this month, our run - in is against teams at the bottom of the table.
Things such as winning 65 % of the game you play against top 6 (Chelsea, City, United, Spurs, Toffees, Reds 2x) that is 8/12 the other 4 being a buffer kind of.
for example the bayern - madrid game robben was marked by two players almost all game he was neutralized by a disciplined marcelo does wenger even watch such games at home to learn a thing or two about tactics coz when we play bayern robben always scores the same exact goals against us with his left foot ffs, we shouldnt yearn for top 4 as we do nt deserve to be competing at that level honestly, sad to be writing this..
However, since the 25 - year - olds return to Old Trafford things have not necessarily gone according to plan and he has struggled to find the form that made him such a talent in Serie A. Although he won two trophies last season, the highlight coming as he was the catalyst for United's UEFA Europa League win against Ajax, he was recently dropped for a number of important games for the Reds.
And another thing, ammonium hydroxide has been APPPROVED by the FDA / USDA for use in a variety of foods as a preventive measure against foodborn illnesses caused by bacteria such as e-coli and salmonella.
Another cool thing about this whole cellular influence, is that it seems like baby's cells infiltrating Moms» bodies actually have helped some women develop stronger immunity against diseases such as Alzheimer's.
It no longer becomes mom against dad when discussing such things as: what to do when kids don't eat their suppers.
Two people could be against the same thing but for different reasons / rational and these attempt to explain that rational and as such can be viewed as the root of this disposition.
Recent events in eastern Ukraine, Palestine, and Syria should remind us that there is such a thing as the International Law of Armed Conflict or the International Humanitarian Law, which aims to limit the effects of conflict and protect civilians against the abhorrent nature and terrors of war.
In a kinder, saner country, we might even mention some of the things the right to family life has achieved, such as keeping elderly couples together when one of them is taken into care, or keeping domestic violence survivors with their children when defending them against their abuser.
With the Labour party in such obvious bad shape, the Tories may believe that doesn't matter quite so much, but there were signs today that things could be about to turn against the government there as well.
The party consultant said the environment that spawned such things as the #MeToo movement will also limit Cuomo's ability to go harshly negative against Nixon.
«Presently, the most important things you can do to protect against skin cancer are practice good sun protection, such as wearing sunscreen, protective clothing, and seeking shade,» says Shah.
Regarding the Primal Flora probiotic, the one thing I can say it is is REALLY expensive against a straightforward acidophilus probiotic such as this one:
Whole Wheat can have benefits such as aiding weight loss, lowering the risk of type 2 diabetes, lessening chronic inflammation and protecting against heart disease among other things.
I rail against such things with some regularity as readers of the newsletter will know.
There are many reasons: In order to protect the yoghurt against bacteria such as acid - resistant E. Coli, it gets scalded, which denatures the whey proteins, which is a bad thing.
I always fight against Fall because I love summer too much, but then I remember things such as knit sweaters and hot chocolate and I get over it ^ ^ This is the great list to get in on the new season x Ylenia Ambitieuse Paris
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