Sentences with phrase «against the king in»

Countess Meliara and her brother Bran lead a rebellion against the king in light of his secret plot to break the covenant the kingdom's people hold with the hill folk, but their army is ill - prepared and she falls into enemy hands — or at least, what she thinks are enemy hands.

Gregory ran unsuccessfully against King in 2016, losing 38 percent to 62 percent.

Not exact matches

The former CIA director was speaking on a flying visit to the region, where he had earlier in the day met with Saudi King Salman in Riyadh and stressed the need for unity among Gulf allies as Washington aims to muster support for new sanctions against Iran to curb its missile program.

Guy Fawkes Day, also known as Bonfire or Fireworks Night, is a celebration of the arrest of Guy Fawkes, who was guarding a stash of gunpowder in an assassination plot against King James 1.

American Lilly King took home the gold medal in Monday's 100m breaststroke final, then got in one last dig against Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova.

The company filed a new lawsuit Friday in King County, Wash., Superior Court, against seven owners of websites such as amazonverifiedreviews.com, paidbookreviews.org, and amazonreviewsstar.com, alleging the sites are creating false product reviews and misleading Amazon's customers with flattering, «inauthentic» reviews.

Former tennis player Billie Jean King says winning her historic match against Bobby Riggs was not only a huge stride forward for the sport, but for social change in America as well.

Reacting to a report in which 27 women came forward with new sexual harassment claims against Rose, King said she still considers her former cohost a «friend.»

A hearing is scheduled for today in the lawsuit filed against the driver accused of hitting two King High School students.

Over the last few years as the gold market turned down, it was up against the wind developing its deposit in the Valley of the Kings in northern British Columbia.

In his sustained apologia for Christianity, Chateaubriand hurls a cry of protest against the state - sponsored desecration of the basilica of Saint - Denis, centuries - old burial site of French kings.

The pastors would say it was King Solomon who was prophesied in 2 Samuel 7:12 - 14 but he wasn't flogged by men when he committed sin against God.

There were also the Northern Crusades undertaken by the Christian kings of Denmark and Sweden against the Pagan peoples of northern Europe in the 12th and 13 centuries.

Do you think Satan ever read the part, in the King James, where he loses the battle against God?

However there are parts that are clear, but if we are honest we want to ignore, re-configure, or just outright rebel against them because in our culture self is king.

The survey came against the background of a number of controversies touching the American Muslim community, ranging from King's hearings to the debate over plans to build an Islamic community center in lower Manhattan.

And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.

Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying, Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal: Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.

God spoke to the king in a dream (v6) ``... and so I have kept you from sinning against me.»

In Dawson's words, «[king and priest] were not individuals standing over against other individuals, but parts of a common social organism and representatives of a common spiritual order.»

Reuters: Saudi clerics protest against appointing women to advisory body Dozens of Saudi clerics staged a rare protest in front of the Royal Court on Tuesday against King Abdullah's decision to appoint women to a body that advises the government on new laws, a sign of growing conservative unease at modest social reforms.

In contrast to the king - realm model, where sin is against God, here it is against the world.

«We agree the movie as a whole promotes Christian values and a redemptive message; however, it does contain instances of street language and racial slurs against African - Americans,» Marty King, LifeWay's communications director, said in a statement to CNN.

King's murderers only succeeded in strengthening opinion against racism and apartheid.

«Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, does not first sit down and consult whether with ten thousand he is able to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

The things I find most appalling about religion reach a new zenith in Islam --(i) a dulling down of individual thought and a dogmatic requirement to conform to the views of the masses; (ii) a stultifying ignorant education system in which anything inconsistent with the Qur» an is not just discouraged, but censored; (iii) the subjugation of women to the point of educating them to be nothing but mindless f * king, breeding machines for their insecure husbands; (iv) a political class that feeds off the religious - based ignorance it imposes on its populations; and (v) a general back - sliding against the rest of the planet because heads are buried in Dark Ages mythology.

It is certainly not the power of «sight» he displays in verse 32, the fact that he can see what goes on in the royal palace, that he knows what decision the king has made against him, that he is aware of the king's intention to assassinate him.

12 Against the view of some who see in the 7,000 faithful who remain in Israel (I Kings 19:18) an early insinuation of the «remnant» idea.

Against the angry censure of a scandalized populace, Cromwell defends the whims of his king, to whom he stands in a relationship similar to Bonhoeffer's child to his father, or Mantel to her mother: a relationship in which loyalty to a flawed caregiver takes precedence over loyalty to truth.

And this regime was, naturally, a fixed hierarchy of social power, atop which stood the gods, a little lower kings and nobles, and at the bottom slaves; the order of society, both divine and natural in provenance, was a fixed and yet somehow fragile «hierarchy within totality» that had to be preserved against the forces that surrounded it, while yet drawing on those forces for its spiritual sustenance.

One of the charges against the king of England that was unfortunately struck out by Congress read in Jefferson's original words:

Martin Luther King and his followers engaged in open protest against clear instances of social injustice, and they did not share Booker T. Washington's aversion to civil rights agitation; quite the contrary.

A group of the Wahhabis who went to great lengths in enforcing these doctrines and in standing adamant against any innovation, even including useful contributions of modern civilization, were suppressed by King Abul Aziz Ibn Sa`ud who believed in a wise, moderate policy of modernization.

Pastor Rob Morris, who leads the Christ the King Lutheran Church in Newtown, violated the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod's rule against taking part in joint worship services, said the synod's president, Pastor Matthew C. Harrison.

Popular sports journalists like Peter King and Christine Brennan stopped using the name in print and former players, NFL referees and even President Obama spoke out against the name while Native American activist Suzan Harjo led a case that resulted in the U.S. Patent Office removing the trademark from the name, deeming it disparaging.

Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent to Jeroboam, King of Israel saying: «Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to hear all his words.

He who stood against king and court in defense of religious liberty, and saw his mother spend thirteen weeks in prison for refusing to pay a church tax.

Branch carefully follows King's path to the Dexter Avenue pulpit, describing his often tempestuous relationship with his father and tracing his maturation from a dandyish Morehouse College undergraduate to a thoughtful scholar - minister with advanced degrees from Crozer Theological Seminary and Boston University (where he met Coretta Scott, whom he married against the wishes of «Daddy» King) In one of his all - too - rare explorations of the intellectual underpinnings of the civil rights movement, Branch makes a solid case in these early chapters for the decisive influence of Reinhold Niebuhr on the development of King's moral philosophIn one of his all - too - rare explorations of the intellectual underpinnings of the civil rights movement, Branch makes a solid case in these early chapters for the decisive influence of Reinhold Niebuhr on the development of King's moral philosophin these early chapters for the decisive influence of Reinhold Niebuhr on the development of King's moral philosophy.

Mornings in Bodley, drowsing among the worn browns and tarnished gilding of Duke Humphrey, snuffing the faint, musty odor of slowly perishing leather...; long afternoons, taking an outrigger up the Cher, feeling the rough kiss of the sculls on unaccustomed palms, listening to the rhythmical and satisfying kerklunk of the rowlocks, watching the play of muscles on the Bursar's sturdy shoulders at stroke, as the sharp spring wind flattened the thin silk shirt against them; or, if the day were warmer, flicking swiftly in a canoe under Magdalen walls and so by the twisting race at King's Mill by Mesopotamia to Parson's Pleasure; then back, with mind relaxed and body stretched and vigorous, to make toast by the fire.

As late as the 1940s King George VI could still seek divine help against the enemy in World War II by calling for a national «Day of Prayer» (though the enemy was making similar appeals to the same God).

Jesus, then was cited before the prefect on the charge of claiming to be «king of the Jews,» or, in other words, of being a leader of rebellion against the emperor.

If you say «Society decides right or wrong» then you are saying that Martin Luther King Jr., Jesus Christ, Gandhi are the most evil people ever, because they pointed out they saw wrong in society and fought (not violently) against it.

People in Ameirca fight against even national holidays: most businesses do not get days off for President's Day, Veteran's Day, or Martin Luther King's birthday, and these holidays pertain to all of America.

But he knows that in Judah he will come up against the opposition of the priests and Levites who can not accept any king except a descendant of David.

The king slept the night on the threshold of the hut and when morning came, found the bearded man confessing that he had lain in wait for the king's return from the hermit's hut, having sworn to kill him for a judgment the king had once given against him.

In other books, McGrath (inter alia Professor of Theology, Ministry and Education at King's College, London) has battled against Professor Dawkins and the New Atheists.

King Ahab and King Jehoshaphat were planning on going to war against Ramoth in Gilead.

Some French Catholics saw Hitler as a bulwark against atheist Bolshevism: The last line of defense as the Red Army advanced on the bunker beneath the Chancellery in Berlin was manned by Frenchmen from the Charlemagne Division of the Waffen SS, who rose from their trenches to meet the Russian tanks with the cry of «Long live Christ the King!»

In allusive fashion such as the Orient affects, he told the blunt truth: «The enemies of my lord the king, and all who rise against you for evil, be as that young man is!»

After nearly four hundred years of the kingship the Judean people still refused to be regarded as pawns in the game of power politics; they had far - reaching rights — even against their kings — which they would not surrender.