Sentences with phrase «against the past event»

Not exact matches

According to Michael Marzolini, Chairman & CEO of POLLARA, «Canadians believe it is important to build the Museum for Human Rights - they believe that remembering our past is good insurance against such events ever being repeated.»

By keeping the focus on the present, many of the unfortunate excesses of a confidential nature about past events are avoided and one of the chief complaints against sharing groups in the church is eliminated.

The events of the past 12 eras have renewed in us the conviction that we loose great dangers when our devotion to our Revolution, for the Declaration and the Constitution, lie dormant; or, equally great dangers when this devotion becomes unchained passion, a tempestuous agent to cloud our judgment when incautiously directed against distant nations.

For the benefit of other readers: reference for my quote in Austin's top post — google and research evangelical Scott Lively, Uganda, Pope Benedict & Anglican bishops regarding events for the past seven years resulting in hysteria and crimes against humanity there.

And like Genesis, it is a story told not out of academic interest in recovering the distant past and retelling that past for its own sake alone, but because the subsequent scenes of that history, including every «present» scene, are given sense and meaning only when viewed against this formative, exciting, and in every way remarkable first scene of the Exodus events.

Two lawyers at the center of events that led to criminal charges against former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and former Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto testified this past week that they had starkly different reactions when they realized the state constitution barred the town from guaranteeing loans for a private business.

Defenses against storms and floods, built on past events, will fail unless emergency planners use forward - looking data that account for rapid climate change

Now, for the past six years, I have had seven dresses that I always wear for formal events (black - tie, weddings): (1) a long sleeved, high - necked, knee length black lace dress by Lover, whose darts I removed entirely so that it falls straight from my shoulders to hips to knees in a very loose, comfortable cut (no need to pull any waists in, and I can eat as much as I like) that I made an underskirt for, so it can also be calf length (2) an ivory version of the same above, with the optional lace underskirt (3) an amazingly intricate ivory leather macrame flapper dress uner which I wear a dark brown long, stretch singlet dress (so comfortable again)(4) a vermillion small V - neck, long bell sleeved, straight cut, long, widens - at - the -(just above ankle) hemline dress I sewed in the most gorgeous lace for twenty dollars (5) a burgundy lace version of the vermillion lace dress in (4)-- for the same price (6) a knee length, Romance Was Born silk shift three sizes up so it sits away from the waist — again — its all about «a'll the better to eat dinner with, my dear», in a huge, wild sunflower graphic print before graphic prints were trendy: it's giant sunflowers against an intense turquoise background (7) a calf length caftan cut dress that I made from Japanese printed silk my mother had bought and kept for sixty years (it's just a giant square with a hole fro my neck and two for my arms, and has the best drape EVER owing to its being silk)

Jim Carrey is certainly known for doing things his own way and not necessarily taking the popular path, as he has done in the past with his crusade against preservative laden over-vaccination and his current fame as a Twitter ranter against both access to guns and violence in movies; a recent series of tweets targeted a film he actually appeared in, Kick Ass 2, which he now says he can not endorse with a clear conscience due to its level violence in the wake of the Sandy Hook shootings and many other similar events.

This past weekend, Compete hosted several Street Fighter pros and commentators at our offices for a public event where fans could sign up to battle against top SFV players.

As a pioneer of feminist art, her work was directed against the abuse of power, Western privilege, and male dominance, processing the subject matter from both current and past events, as the oppression of Jews and the Holocaust, the torture of women in Nicaragua or horrors of the Vietnam war.

It is possible to protest against tribalism in science without exploiting disgraceful events of the past through analogies.

With flight delays, storms, terrorist events, and other interruptions becoming regular incidents over the past few years, people are proactively buying travel insurance policies to keep themselves protected against any unforeseen circumstance.

For the past couple of years various communities have been a part of the MetroWest Master Association and have come together to celebrate the National Night Out Against Crime at the MetroWest Golf Club on Hiawassee Blvd.. The date for this year's event is August 2, 2011;