Sentences with phrase «against the aggression of»

In the thousands, citizens engaged in a strategy of peaceful resistance against the aggression of the central state.

NATO exists for this express purpose to defend nations against the aggressions of Russia.

Not exact matches

Boehner's office said the speaker was «proud to be included on a list of those willing to stand against Putin's aggression.»

«It's clear that the Russian threat does not respect borders and indeed the incident in Salisbury was a pattern of Russian aggression against Europe and its near neighbours.»

SEOUL (Reuters)- North Korea said on Saturday U.S. missile strikes against a Syrian airfield on Friday were «an unforgivable act of aggression» that showed its decision to develop nuclear weapons was «the right choice a million times over.»

«The amendment to the underlying Iran sanctions bill maintains and substantially expands sanctions against the government of Russia in response to the violation of the territorial integrity of the Ukraine and Crimea, its brazen cyberattacks and interference in elections, and its continuing aggression in Syria,» said Republicans and Democrats on the committees.

Light says the calls to demilitarize police will not impact his sales, but regardless he is not proud of the way Lenco's vehicles are being associated with police aggression against peaceful protesters.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said: «President Putin regards the U.S. attacks on Syria as an aggression against a sovereign state in violation of the norms of international law, and under a trumped - up pretext at that,» according to the Russian Tass new agency.

Central Asians even see China as a hedge against potential Russian aggression; they are keenly aware that Chinese investments and Moscow's growing dependency on Beijing raise the costs to Moscow of conducting any sort of destabilization campaign in the region, along the lines of what Russia has done in Ukraine.

Then the guy is showing his support for violence against women on his web page yet he owns a business by the name of Aggression Fighting Championship... really?

George Bush, on the other hand, was the democratically elected leader of a free nation conducting what was, most would argue, a just war against Saddam's undoubted aggression.

It is a searing indictment of Christianity that a so heavily Christian nation could embrace Nazism and engage in so much outright aggression against other nations and peoples.

Meanwhile, Iraq's beleagured president Nouri al - Maliki accused the organisation of trying to destroy the «centuries - old heritage» of Christians in Iraq, he said: «What is being done by the Daesh terrorist gang [ISIS] against our Christian citizens in Ninevah province, and their aggression against the churches and houses of worship in the areas under their control, reveals beyond any doubt the extremist criminal and terrorist nature of this group, he said.

Your characterization of my comment as «guilt tripping» and «passive manipulative aggression» is pure bullshit and reveals your bias against me very clearly.

Muslim scholars said the key part of this passage, which forms the backbone of Islam's «just war» theory, is that, while self - defense is allowed, violent aggression, especially against innocents, is a grave sin.

An example: «One of the most important goods of human societies is that their defense against unjust aggression is fully justified.»

The evidence is compelling that U.S. officials consciously chose terrorists and terrorist tactics to carry out a war of aggression against Nicaragua:

It may be happening even among us today or yesterday or tomorrow, on a simpler scale, of course, with covetousness, treachery, murder, and possession all symbolized in aggression against the psyche of another, an adjacent person.

These wars have variously been understood as Western aggression against pacific Islam, a necessary defense against Islamic attack, a conduit for cultural and commercial exchange, a form of early colonialism, an expression of collective religious identity or social anxiety, and a symptom and vehicle of economic expansion.

Those people up top will be looked at as heroes fighting against the global tyranny of transnational corporate aggression!!!

As to the people of the world, Roach did not mention the international - law argument against aggression or anticipate the Security Council's declaration that Iraq was guilty of aggression and was a threat to international peace and security.

But though Article 2 of the Charter sought to outlaw any use of armed force between or among states except in defense against aggression, it did not clearly define what counted as aggression — a matter that remains unsettled, as the recent debate over what counts as legitimate preemption testifies.

When the allegedly sinful group was external to the society, the dialectic of saint and sinner could fuse with the notions of chosen people and holy war to justify extraordinary hostility and aggression against the despised group.

People would realize that it's up to them to stand against aggression and oppression and not wait for God to save them, nor would they accept their oppression as the will of God.

The proponents of the latter position believe that there are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

In 1637, the English colonial leadership in Connecticut sought to launch a war of aggression against the Pequot tribe for the sole purpose of acquiring their cultivated land.

And so, as all around me rage against the supposed aggression and wickedness of Vladimir Putin's Russia, I can not join in.

A true realism would distinguish between international police action to curb terrorism and wars of aggression against governments and their civilian populations.

Saul, deprived of Samuel's support and no doubt aware of his own inadequacy and Israel's against Philistine aggression, suffers from severe depression and ironically finds the antidote to his illness only in David's musical gifts (16:13 - 23, A).

Oddly absent from the authors» analysis is the central question of intentionality: in one case, participation in the crimes of a horrible regime; in the other, deterrence against aggression by a horrible regime.

It is our technical progress that now brings any one spot on the globe within a few hours» travel of every other spot, which makes it possible to send messages to all the earth at once and which makes no spot safe or secure against aggression.

«If we do move,» Rauf continued, «it will strengthen the argument of the radicals to recruit, their ability to recruit, and their increasing aggression and violence against our country.»

The nonpacifist is more likely than the pacifist to believe that God participates in human conflict, using stern measures and even if necessary the awful destructiveness of war, to protect a State against its enemies and to enable a State to protect the helpless against aggression.

If we do move, it will strengthen the argument of the radicals to recruit, their ability to recruit, and their increasing aggression and violence against our country.»

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

Our religious heritage not just our history of persecution, teaches us to appreciate the moral blessing and burden that come with the capacity to defend ourselves against aggression.

The same can be said of Chambers, of course, but what makes Holding stand out, for me, is the aggression and attitude he showed, most notably against the Chelsea thug Diego Costa in the FA cup final.

The standard Rambo set for himself throughout the last campaign, with 16 goals including some real belters and the FA cup final winner against Hull at Wembley, plenty of assists and his all - round game with heavy work rate and aggression in central midfield, has been weighing on him this season.

That act of aggression against our cultural enrichment commentator is a 3 year sentence.

If Liverpool can show the same level of tactical awareness, aggression and commitment against Spurs, Liverpool will certainly be on their way to three points, and the same is true of any other game this season.

The feeling that Holt bottles it as soon as he comes up against any type of aggression remains, but it would be foolish to ignore his performances against Hearts and Partick Thistle.

Blind's lack of staying power and aggression originally saw him caught out when thrown up against centre - forwards such as Bafetimbi Gomis and Graziano Pelle, who were able to roll him, almost effortlessly, to get goal side and leave the Dutchman flattened out in their wake.

In this second leg match they will need to show more aggression in attack, and to opens up, it they even intend to do something serious in Munich.Marseille group match against Bundesliga reigning champion, Borussia Dortmund showned that they are capable of scoring more than two goals on away matches to german teams.However, last time when Bayern lost by two goals difference at home was last year from borussia Dortmund when Borrusia footballers went on to win the title.

Some of these studies involved large representative samples from the United States; 2 some studies controlled for potential confounders, such as parental stress3 and socioeconomic status; 4 and some studies examined the potential of parental reasoning to moderate the association between physical punishment and child aggression.5 Virtually without exception, these studies found that physical punishment was associated with higher levels of aggression against parents, siblings, peers and spouses.

Jennings relied on the UN Charter definition of aggression as force used against the territorial integrity or political independence of a state.

Russia felt betrayed, double standards were applied where the West would get a pass for not sticking to the letter of international law to defend its interests far outside its borders, while the West would throw the book at Russia even when dealing with outright military aggression (note that Georgia launched a large scale military attack against Russian forces in South Ossetia).

The case for a military invasion, conquering and occupation of another universally recognized sovereign nation - a war of aggression, or pre-emptive invasion, is against International Laws.

Crimea is a territory of immense historical resonance to Russians, being embedded in their Golden Age literature of Pushkin, being the site of important historical sieges of resistance against Western aggression in the Crimean War and the Second World War.

Nations do not always retaliate against acts of aggression, because it will cause a full scale war.

Some observers (like The Washington Post) quickly suggest that the Russians offer the West «closer cooperation with Moscow in the global fight against terrorism «-- obviously, in exchange of loosening economic sanctions for its past and current aggressions.