Sentences with phrase «against the element of»

Sermons on these texts may take the form of preaching against the text — or against some element of the text.

Jesus did speak against some elements of the religious institution of His day.

the reason for the court's blocking of a travel restriction put in place by the President of the United States of America for purposes of national security was because the president (when he was a candidate) mentioned something about banning certain people (i.e. those people who believe it is their duty to enslave the world under sharia law because god tells them to) during this time of war against those elements of said group who actually practice what they preach

«Therefore, we are going to reinforce and reinvigorate the fight not only against elements of Boko Haram which are attempting a new series of attacks on soft targets, kidnappings, farmers versus herdsmen clashes, in addition to ethnic violence fuelled by political mischief makers.

The crew of the Essex must fight for survival against the elements of the ocean and a vengeful white whale in director Ron Howard's In the Heart of the Sea, starring Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy, Tom Holland, Jordi Mollà, Ben Whishaw, and Brendan Gleeson.

The crew of the Essex must fight for survival against the elements of the ocean and a vengeful white whale in director Ron Howard's In the Heart of the Sea, starring Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy,... Read On

As Bayonetta fights against the characters from heaven and hell, the game pits itself against the elements of time and relevance.

Not exact matches

Not surprisingly, Trump's remarks triggered outrage among the media because it amounts to a head - on attack against the principle of a free press — a fundamental element of the U.S. democratic system.

The belt also comes with a waterproof «Joey» pouch that can be nestled inside of the water resistant one for added protection against the elements.

The nomination of Garrett, who voted against reauthorizations of the bank in both 2012 and 2015, incensed many business interests, even those who agreed with other elements of the Trump agenda.

«An all - electronic format with barcode scanning brings elements to increase patient safety and decrease errors because the patient and the unit of blood are positively identified as well as matched against the provider's transfusion order,» says nursing informaticist Meg Furukawa.

Chief of staff John Kelly, and others in the White House, have come under fire for their handling of the Porter case and for reportedly knowing about elements of the allegations against him in the months before his resignation.

When your back is against the wall and you need a quick and easy integration of advanced web elements, Wix is a solid choice.

Executives who only a few days ago raged against all the elements of the current compromise now say it is the only possible deal, way better than two more - BC Premier Gordon Campbell topped that at five more - years of uncertain litigation.

That would include «all elements of U.S. power available to push back against these kinds of intrusions,» he added, including «our capabilities in the physical world.»

Flaherty had solid support from Ontario, however, and seemed also to be able to count on B.C. Having those two major provinces on - side was a crucial element in the federal strategy for pushing ahead against howls of protest, especially from Quebec and Alberta.

American Airlines CEO Doug Parker called the letter from Emanuel and other mayors to the Justice Department, which Emanuel's staff gave to Politico, «incredibly helpful» and one of the most important elements of the airlines» pushback against the government.

Nonetheless, diversification can be an essential element of an overall protection strategy against an increasingly uncertain future.

The significant data collection and research element of that project has already begun this summer, and will involve benchmarking Greater Vancouver against 20 similar regions from around the world, using relevant economic and liveability metrics.

If you want to combat the extreme elements within a group of people, you don't attack the people you suspect — the whole group will turn against you for attacking their members.

While the executive order notes a particular preference for persecuted religious minorities, other elements of the order work against these groups.

When Friedrich Nietzsche, in his several tirades against Christianity, points to these elements as of the essence of the biblical tradition, he is certainly correct — though not in the dark conclusions he draws from the observation,

Gabriel Marcel, the French «neo-Socratic» philosopher, has said, «The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

``... very strong politically correct and left - wing revisionist history attitude or tone that's also Anti-American (especially a vague charge against «U.S. foreign policy»), and strong anti-capitalist elements... blasphemy, implied urinating, vomiting, scatological humor, and comments on breast feeding and sexual parts of people's bodies; light brief violence includes beating on car window and trying to damage car, man comically shoves people off a stage, man burns books; sexual content includes homosexual references, implied adultery with a pregnancy out of wedlock, talk about a priest raping boy in the past, a giant condom balloon placed on church steeple, references to real condoms, implied fornication; upper male nudity, man wears a dress; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking and marijuana use depicted, including eating marijuana brownies; and, strong miscellaneous immorality includes lying, stealing, revenge, rebellion, dysfunctional family portrayed, father is a pothead and a drinker and lives in a trailer»

Indeed, the animal rights movement's fury against the speciesist use of animals» a necessary element for human flourishing, particularly in medical research» has increased to the point that scientists are now under threat of death by the most radical liberationists for daring to experiment on rats or monkeys to find cures for cancer and other human afflictions.

A second line of argument against the presence of any contingent element in God stems from the doctrine that God is Being.

In 2007, on the hundredth anniversary of Pius X's anti-Modernist encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis, Peter Steinfels used his column in the New York Times to suggest that the encyclical was a «revival of the battle against liberalism that the papacy and much of the church had been waging throughout the nineteenth century — and tragically the purge the encyclical started crippled those very elements in European Catholicism that might have resisted the Church's sympathy for authoritarian regimes after World War I, when liberal parliamentary governments were besieged by rising totalitarianism.»

Shalom's argument against the former relies on Grice's notion of «present total temporary states,» Shalom totally includes memory as an element in a «present total temporary state» and within this context charges that «what is called «memory» necessarily ceases to possess the property of «pastness» which is associated with memory» and required by Hartshorne's theory.

Whitehead's strategy against relativistic subjectivism seems to consist of two mutually reinforcing elements.

Large amounts of phosphorus could be from the moon impacting (moon surface = KREEP (potassium, rare earth elements, phosphorus)-RRB- Even in their picture showing meteorites landing on molten surface (lol) shows a glowing molten moon — they ignore the big blob in the sky and say «meteorites» instead of «ejecta» — they should be put up against a wall and shot with silly string and cast out into the outer darkness of unemployment to wail and gnash their rotting teeth.

The first element is the interconnected structure of existence, as outlined above, and as developed through process thought; the second draws from the profound insights of black and feminist theology relative to the shaping power of the «normative gaze,» or the tendency to value one's own kind as over against the other.

In that sense, then, God may properly be called «personal» — provided of course, that we are constantly on guard against restricting the sense of these «personal» elements in him to the merely human level on which we ourselves know personality.

(Elements and aspects of this new consciousness, its forms and contents, can be found in the following sources: William Braden, The Age of Aquarius (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1970); Charles Reich, The Greening of America (New York: Random House, 1970); Lewis Mumford, The Pentagon of Power (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970); Erich Fromm, The Revolution of Hope (New York: Bantam Books, 1968); Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization (Boston: Beacon Press, 1966); Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1959); Ferkiss, The Technological Society; Lynn White, Jr., Machina ex Deo (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1968), and Roszak, The Making of a Counter-Culture.

These are the elements of our dilemma: whose chief feature, in my view, is that we have been left with far too shallow and flimsy an idea of human personality [«Against Dryness,» Encounter, January 1961, p. 16].

There are ways of saying this, but we shall be better instructed if we test Kroner's statement that «Imagination maintains the original unity of elements separated by abstract thought» by testing it against a concrete instance of the Pauline style.

But these revolts against the church are not the most significant elements in the present situation, from the church's point of view.

We must not, however, overlook the element of justice in Bultmann's case against a certain kind of dogmatic orthodoxy.

It calls followers of Jesus to revolt against some of the «religious» elements of Christianity which have nothing to do with the kingdom of God.

The exercise combines elements of a rite of passage with characteristics of an endurance contest, pitting attendees against overheated (or overcooled) auditoriums, crowded lobbies, middle - aged men who don't use Flomax, and small doorways unable to accommodate large crowds.

In the struggle of the Reformation against all human mediators between God and man, this symbol was abolished, and, with that process of purification, the feminine element in everything of ultimate concern was largely eliminated.»

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.

An essential element of Hall's novel vision of the future is the idea that once technology has been fully established as a self - governing, self - sustaining system, a sort of «automatic rationality» with which we need no longer concern ourselves, we will be free to turn away from «actions over against nature,» to turn our attention «inward» to the sort of «actions» which enhance the aesthetic value of experience.

It is not clear whether the investigations relate to a plot against the Pope himself or an element of the visit.

«Similarly, the text neglects to mention that the Founders were reacting against several of the crucial elements of the moral, legal, and political tradition associated with Moses and the Ten Commandments.»

Generally speaking, this poses no problem as long as both the persuasive and the coercive elements are balanced against one another, and the only issue concerns the relative importance of each.

Against this background, she draws on a wide range of up - to - date research in the biological sciences, and while she aims to correct elements of the Catholic theological tradition, she is nevertheless keen to establish continuity with that tradition.

It should have a courageous word against the vices of pride and encouragement for the elements of the good life.

But few of us would endorse those elements of tradition that baptize patriarchal oppression, endorse violence against women, oppress lesbians and gays, exalt perpetual virginity as the superior state, or declare that heterosexual rape is a lesser sin than masturbation (on the view that the latter act contradicts nature while the former act, while also sinful, is in accordance with nature) The postbiblical tradition, like Scripture itself, does not provide one coherent, consistent sexual ethic.

Now this tendency, through the influence of grace, is not often exhibited in matters of faith; for it would be incipient heresy, and would be contrary, if knowingly indulged, to the first element of Catholic duty; but in matters of conduct, of ritual, of discipline, of politics, of social life, in the ten thousand questions which the Church has not formally answered, even though she may have intimated her judgment, there is a constant rising of the human mind against the authority of the Church, and of superiors, and that, in proportion as each individual is removed from perfection.

The indigenous elements were the waning aftermath of Lollardy, earnestly religious humanists, resentment against interference in Church life by the Popes, the decisive action of monarchs, and native leadership.