Sentences with phrase «against the chaos of»

I wrote at the time, «I am at this instant wishing to propose that the Due Return is the occupant of a temporary anchorage against the chaos of our not knowing what to call anything anymore.»

While they may share common aspects of visual language, it is this rejection of ambiguities within data visualisation — echoed in a tendency towards an aesthetically resolved quality that buttresses against the chaos of the world — that marks the important point of separation between the two fields.

Not exact matches

However, a deep divide is emerging across the EU, with one side calling for further controls and the other pushing for each country to do their part, against a backdrop of widespread border confrontations and chaos.

In the midst of a week where Rob Ford, the Mayor of Toronto, admitted driving while drunk, was censured by his colleagues, and defended himself against accusations of sexual misconduct in the crudest possible terms, the author and university professor Richard Florida noted «Toronto's business leaders lie silent,» as the chaos continued.

But usually what you end up with instead is a never - ending, time - sucking battle against the natural tendency of spaces of all kinds to descend into clutter and chaos.

-LRB-...) Italy's political chaos, which inflamed the euro - zone crisis two years ago, could be the biggest test so far of Europe's defenses against a revival of the financial panic that has afflicted the region in recent years.

Surrounding this were the «waters of chaos», the cosmic sea, home to mythic monsters defeated and slain by God (Exodus 20:4 warns against making an image «of anything that is in the waters under the earth»).

In reality the God's act of creation is over against the power of darkness, formlessness and chaos, perphaps symbolized by the» Babylonian Power.»

The Father, in the Son, by the Spirit protects creation against a reversion to the chaos of Genesis 1:1, enables creation to flourish, and ensures creation's good, pleasing, and perfect purpose.

A second more compelling prophetic option entertains the notion that Yahweh the Creator is at work in the world, but has not yet fully defeated the primordial powers of chaos that are still at work in and against creation.

The text, along with lived reality, makes it credible to see that chaos is on the loose, pushing against the boundaries of creation.

It would seem to me that before the news of «that day and hour» can be received that those who claim to represent the holy spirit and yet keep the chaos and division thriving would first have to be gathered into one place where war could be waged against them in order that they should be overcome by the very spirit they have claimed to represent.

He wishes to internationalize the holy places in Jerusalem, which leaves me shaking my head in dismay (such an intervention would lead to a chaos of injustice and violence that would make the present Intifada war against the Jews seem like a picnic and would have dire consequences for the holy places themselves» so far still untouched).

Levenson's reading of biblical texts suggests a view of creation as «combat» against the onslaughts of chaos.

Even in the dark hour after he has become guilty against his brother, man is not abandoned to the forces of chaos.

Free to pit lives of healing and hope against a world of chaos and conflict.

Thus, against such forces of chaos «Yahweh is a man of war» (Exod.

Psalms 135 and 136 directly juxtapose these two events in successive stanzas, while Second Isaiah fuses God's assault against the primeval waters of chaos with his assault against the waters of the Red Sea:

Perhaps recent «developments» amount to nothing more than a suggestion or claim that, in at least most of the world today, there are alternative modes of punishment that are fit retribution and that can protect society against chaos.

First, it is important to remember that from an Old Testament Hebrew perspective, the forces of rebellion and chaos arrayed against God were often identified with the sea, and especially with the storms and waves that often rage across the sea.

Apart from the envisagement of the forms, creativity is «chaos, burning fire,» the divine - demonic power that the prophets of Israel struggled against in declaring Yahweh to be a God of justice.

Despite their very obvious christian undertones, I though that the last book contained an argument against religion (more - so organized religion, which is a bit different), where the donkey and the monkey pretend to respectively be and be acting for Aslan (the Jesus symbol) and their actions result in widespread chaos, and the eventual collapse of Narnia.

The second principle of the chaos theory is that while God originally created a beautiful and orderly universe that functioned in beautiful symmetry, once free agents used their freedom to rebel against God, many elements of God's creation spun out of control, that is, they no longer work in coordination with all the other parts of God's creation.

Narrow and constricted as it was, the order supplied to the European peoples by primitive Christendom, that premature construction of a supposed City of God on earth, may have seemed better than the chaos of a war of all against all.

Nearly every day, she faces obstacles nightmares are made of, fighting against the fear and the chaos to care for us.

Perhaps as a result of the unsettlement and chaos that accompanied the Jewish rebellion against Rome the evangelist left Palestine for Asia, where he later wrote the gospel, while John was still alive in Palestine, partly from recollections of what the apostle had said or written, but largely from his wider knowledge of traditions about Jesus and his teaching, and in the light of his own interpretation of the teaching and of the significance of the facts of Jesus» life.

I personally feel discomfort when watching Atletico Madrid play against any team as the game is full of chaos and intensity instead of entertaining football fans.

Further chaos and a tsunami of raw fan hatred across the whole stadium and demos against him, is the quickest way we will get the club to sack this fossil.

This is the chaos of modern academia where every department and division runs like its own little business, and most of them are pitted against each other to fight for those truckloads of cash, while the administrators act like its out of their control...

Undefeated Wisconsin is now the conference's last best hope for a playoff spot, failing mass chaos in other conferences in the final four weeks — but if the Badgers stumble in the Big Ten title game against a multi-loss East champion looking for one last handful of style points (assuming they survive a visit from Michigan later this month), their résumé likely won't hold up against the other one - loss teams under consideration.

More defensive chaos and costly mistakes led to Arsenal suffering the humiliation against a Swansea side albeit in the midst of a quite astonishing revival.

Some members of the Chelsea squad complained of still suffering the effects of jet - lag from the tour of America by the time they lost the Community Shield to Arsenal and there was a feeling of chaos inside the dressing - room ahead of the first Premier League game of the season against Swansea City.

Arsenal's Europa League campaign began in chaos with their game against Cologne delayed by an hour «in the interests of crowd safety».

A minister could use this power to start making changes on the ground - tinkering with law and regulators in a way that makes it all - but impossible for parliament to vote against the deal, because of the chaos it would trigger.

Otumfuo says elections in the country have over the years been characterized by chaos because police, who are mandated to maintain peace and order failed to apply sanctions against perpetrators of such violation.

Paterson's office was criticized for PATRONAGE, LACK OF LEADERSHIP, INDECISIVENESS and INFIGHTING, set against a backdrop of general CHAOS — in other words the office was a ZOOF LEADERSHIP, INDECISIVENESS and INFIGHTING, set against a backdrop of general CHAOS — in other words the office was a ZOof general CHAOS — in other words the office was a ZOO.

That the UK government is now in the position where the court has ruled against it and is insisting that parliament must vote before article 50 can be triggered underlines the chaos and confusion at the heart of the Tories» handling of Brexit.

My fears that the chaos at the Commission would lead the present young crop of the NDC to self - destruct was confirmed when I discovered on 29th and 31st July 2017 respectively that the author of the second petition for the removal of the two Deputy Commissioners was Emmanuel Korsi Senyo, the concerned citizen, who had acted in the past as an NDC surrogate commencing action against the General Legal Council in the Supreme Court in defence of Francis Sosu, who had contested the primaries in my constituency, Madina, for the NDC.

And although it has been claimed, with justification, that the Conservatives have been keen to contrast the supposed strength and competence of May against the «chaos» of Corbyn's bid for power, another key message from Theresa May's Manifesto is that the opposition is utterly unimportant.

It would create chaos where one group of MPs were being pitted against another.

He asked the people of the state to rise against such troublemakers, adding «We shall all rise up and confront any person or group that attempts to disrupt peace or cause chaos during the election.»

An unfocused, unfunny black comedy, Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb details the chaos that ensues after a nuclear attack is mistakenly triggered against the Soviet Union - with the film following a host of disparate figures, including George C. Scott's Buck Turgidson, Sterling Hayden's Jack D. Ripper, and Peter Sellers» title character, as they attempt to neutralize the threat.

When the zombie plague broke out, former UN investigator Gerry Lane (Pitt), his wife Karin (Mireille Enos), and their two children were deadlocked in traffic, leaving them no choice but to take their chances in the panicked chaos of a city overrun by a plague that turned its own people against it in a matter of seconds.

In Rossen's world, the only victories are won at the expense of those who believe in you, the creeds you've embraced, and the values you've gathered as fortification against the rising tide of entropy and chaos.

Looking at where we are now, marooned in the middle of an incessant torrent of useless, contradictory information, what Wayne's alter - ego, vigilante Batman, offers the broken backs of Gotham is a common, tangible villain — a scapegoat, a martyr, a way to channel the chaos against a clear antagonist.

By focusing on the harrowing and inspiring true story of one family caught up in the chaos and desolation, he has made an extraordinarily gut - wrenching, intense story of survival against all odds.

She's the one who made Quasar her champion and Protector of the Universe, and aided him in his fight against Maelstrom, the avatar for the chaos - driven Oblivion.

A film in 2015 that stick to the standard action formula of a flawed lead character full of angst helping some woman fight back against her tormentors would likely be fun and a big hit, but by going against the norm and embracing every bit of chaos in this mad world, Miller creates a new king of the road that's going to be hard for any upcoming blockbuster in 2015 and beyond to top.

Holmes is a trickster tweaking authority but ultimately upholding it against the dangerous currents of chaos.

Set to the backdrop of the Detroit race riots, the film's opening sequences paint a striking picture of a city in violent chaos, but its broad scope soon gives way to a more focused telling of police brutality against a small group of youths.