Sentences with phrase «against the possibility for»

Not exact matches

As HuffPost reported on Tuesday, the judge who ruled against DAPA in 2015 had included among his reasoning the possibility that any DAPA applicants who offered their personal information to the federal government in exchange for protection from deportation could be at a heightened risk under a different presidential administration.

Obama gave The Atlantic several reasons for not enforcing the red line — uneasiness about a strike against Syria not being sanctioned by Congress, a lack of support from the international community and the American people, the possibility that the intelligence on the chemical - weapons attack wasn't 100 % solid — but did not mention the Iran deal among them.

The president's call for rejecting bigotry against gays and lesbians is complicated by the possibility that the gunman, Omar Mateen, may have been wrestling with his own sexuality.

That is defensible only if one is certain that the baseline level of possible robotic error in civilian protection exceeds that baseline level of human error... I, for one, would not bet against the possibility that for some military applications, we will some day come to see mere human judgment as guaranteeing an unacceptable level of indiscriminate and disproportionate violence.

Against her father's wishes, Elizabeth Arden left her impoverished family farm in Canada for Manhattan, an intoxicating place of wealth and possibility.

This is especially helpful for consumers who have stable but tight finances, as it protects them against the possibility of rising interest rates that could otherwise increase the cost of their loan.

There is equal evidence for the possibility that when you die, Osiris will weigh your heart against Ma'at's feather to determine what will happen to you in your afterlife.

By denying that the value in nature is static, Camus wishes to insure man against the possibility that a theocracy, for example, could assert rules based upon «eternal principles» to suppress freedom.

Biblical norms and historical models must be related to contemporary possibilities with an imaginative grasp of what this history is apt to imply for those who see it against the background of their own fears and choices.

For women, these fears are only heightened by a race against the clock, an arbitrary expiration date that all good Christian women should be wed by or lose the possibility of starting a family altogether.

These fears are not so different from the fear I see in the eyes of protestors carrying signs that depict President Obama as Hitler, the fear I see in the red faces of angry preachers urging their parishioners to «take America back for God,» the fear I detect in some of the books against emerging church, the fear I detect in some of the books in support of the emerging church, the fear I hear in the voices of both gays and the conservative evangelical activists who lobby against them when both sides consider for just a second the possibility that maybe they have it wrong.

A little thought about natural law makes clear that there is no other species than man so endowed with the possibilities of its own protection and thoughtful promulgation; no other species that can display such a reverence for life that it can fight against the dying of the light; no other that can so protect its weakest, most vulnerable members.

In challenging process theology to state explicitly that God sides with the oppressed, and to do so in a way that does not rule out the possibility of righteous counterviolence, I understand Jones to be challenging process theology to explicate the social - ethical consequences of accepting certain metaphysical truths in order that black theology might measure its ethical content against the needs of the struggle for liberation.

Theologians who have quite properly protested against the notion that God was such that he needed to be made friendly and available to his creatures by reason of some event (in this case the death of Christ) which opened up for him this possibility, have failed to see that in this inadequate and often misleading way of speaking, there was an insight of which they should have taken due account.

, 176, where he speaks of his generation's effort to defend itself against Christ; and Kierkegaard's Attack Upon Christendom, 160 - 161, where he critiques the Christian Church in history for trying to defend itself against the possibility of following Christ as the Pattern.

A perfectly simple psychological investigation of what offense is will explain this, and at the same time it will show how infinitely silly their behavior has been who defended Christianity by taking away the offense, how stupidly or impudently they have ignored Christ's own instruction, who often and with such deep concern warns against the offense, that is, intimates that the possibility of the offense is present, and must be ever - present, for if it is not present, if it is not an eternally essential constituent of Christianity.

No evidence for or against suggests all possibilities are equally possible.

But since the New Testament itself contains various kinds of social witness — as its use both for and against slavery and patriarchy, for example, shows — debate can degenerate into mere thrust and parry of proof - texts with no possibility of resolution, or of even honest concession that both sides can claim biblical warrant.

Reinhold Niebuhr is less dualistic in that he stresses the relevance of love as an «impossible possibility» to every human situation, but he warns so continually against a sentimental substitution of love for the requirements of justice that the major impact of his thought is a dichotomy in which again justice, and not love, is the determining principle of social ethics.

Basically freedom is not the capacity to choose any object or mode of conduct, but the freedom of self - understanding, of saying Yes or No to oneself, the possibility of deciding for or against oneself which corresponds to the knowing subjectivity of man.

The final three chapters summarily consider the evidence against and for the virgin birth, arguing that it is neither myth nor indemonstrable truth; instead the evidence for the existence of an historical tradition anteceding the Gospels, ultimately from Mary herself, is more credible than any alternative explanation; hence, for anyone open to the possibility of miracles, there is good evidence to affirm Jesus» virgin birth on the basis of the New Testament's testimony.

«Nor is it so clear, as people sometimes think, what are the possibilities for a Christian conscience in regard to the state's penal laws against termination of pregnancy.»

Allow for the possibility that a believer who has received the Holy Spirit can fall into unbelief and therefore guard yourself against that possibility.

The first city keeps the second in its place, warning it against reaching for the possibilities that do not belong to it.

But the fact of such rejections or choices is highly significant; and above all, to put it in a form of words, it is highly important that the important which is offered to each occasion as a possibility shall be decided for or against in an important way.

With it we know also that we are able to decide, in some genuine freedom, for or against these goals, in that we can cut off one possibility by adopting another.

Their invectives against the substitution of ritualistic correctness for righteousness leave open this possibility, and of the greater prophets Ezekiel alone, standing on the threshold of the postexilic period, expressly calls for a purified ritual as an integral part of the worship of Yahweh.

With de Lubac, and against postmodernity, the Church must restore to the human person a sense of the natural human capacity for the universal, and with it the possibility of an ennobling unity based on shared metaphysical truth rather than the negative peace of nonjudgmental tolerance.

To take an extreme speculative possibility, the Arizona shooter, if mentally disturbed, may for all we know have had a delusion that Giffords was the leader of an elaborate secret government conspiracy against him, so that from his point of view, the shooting was an act of self - defense.

Everywhere (And such is now the case almost everywhere in Christendom, which, as it seems, either entirely ignores the fact that Christ Himself it is who so frequently and with such heartfelt emphasis warned against offense, even at the end of His life, and even when He addressed His faithful Apostles who had followed Him from the beginning and for His sake had forsaken all — or maybe silently regards this as an extravagant apprehension on the part of Christ, inasmuch as the experience of thousands and thousands proves that one can have faith in Christ without having noticed the least trace of the possibility of offense.

Keeping in mind Pope Francis's witness against the ongoing power of this world's prince, we would do well to heed McLuhan's warning that «There is no possibility of returning to private dress for those who are awake to the need for hostility to the values of the world.»

But, in general, he was speaking up for the option and practical possibilities of a «true» Catholic Christianity, and against the sinful Christian vices of the (Christian) rulers and citizens of the day by showing the «natural» virtues of «good pagans» (who, incidentally, he depicted as practising euthanasia, an option for «reasonable» men unenlightened by Christian faith) in his imaginary faraway republic.

(For example, a Catholic diocese that has many employees, should not have to pay for stuff that is clearly against Catholic teachings... since, by default, everyone who works there is essentially required to be adhering to Catholic religious «rules»...)(*)(On the other hand — This really does give rise to some serious «slippery slope» possibilities... but I digress.For example, a Catholic diocese that has many employees, should not have to pay for stuff that is clearly against Catholic teachings... since, by default, everyone who works there is essentially required to be adhering to Catholic religious «rules»...)(*)(On the other hand — This really does give rise to some serious «slippery slope» possibilities... but I digress.for stuff that is clearly against Catholic teachings... since, by default, everyone who works there is essentially required to be adhering to Catholic religious «rules»...)(*)(On the other hand — This really does give rise to some serious «slippery slope» possibilities... but I digress...)

I caution against using it in general for baking because of the high acidity, which can cause batters to «break» — which is another possibility.

I don't want to say this, but in the interest of Arsenal's Ucl success over Barca, I want to say, if the Ucl attacking quality of Barcelona's 4 players of, Suarez, Messi, Neymar and Rakitic will play for Barca against Arsenal in both 2 legged ties, the Boss MUST consider the possibility of upgrading the Arsenal's 2 CBs & DM position with 2 or 3 top quality new additions of a CB, DM and a striker to face Barca and knock them out of this round of 8 fixtures.

In this world, fans actively root against their favorite franchise, hope for losses, and utterly disdain the possibility of making the playoffs.

It might be a push for Arsene Wenger to throw the new Arsenal signing straight into action against Sunderland on Saturday, but with The Mirror reporting that the Gunners are ready to announce the transfer of Mohamed Elneny from the Swiss champions Basel, it is certainly a possibility.

It really makes me laugh when the gurning media sycophants try really hard to make excuses for the likes of Pep G. 5 - 0 against RM last year and the possibility of the same sort of score line this year versus Barca — «but he was without 4 players... etc» — when did you last hear that for us?

Definite possibility Ying Yang, the lack of width against Reading was plain for all to see, although with Ozil / Ramsey likely to start on one wing interchanging with Cazorla I can't see us playing with much width in any case..

In fact I believe there is a possibility that one day the little Spaniard could become a manager of Arsenal, but I still hope that he will have to fight for his place against a new beast of a signing as well as Francis Coquelin!

Although there's a possibility that this ruling is reversed yet again, there's no doubt that Brady's absence would have a significant impact on the Patriots» win total along with the line for their Week 1 matchup against the Cardinals.

I hope I'm wrong but this could be the most damaging win when it comes to transfers... winning 1 game, after about 20 minutes of really good play, is of little consequence in the grand scheme of things... only those with the most selfish of intentions would suggest otherwise... the only reason we're even in this predicament, where were celebrating our first victory of 2018 against a bottom half squad who is managed by possibly the only individual more antiquated than our manager, is because of Wenger's ridiculous mishandling of his contract last year combined with his mishandling of the contracts of our top players this year; a fact that he himself admitted to... so before you get too excited about the possibilities of our current roster don't forget what has happened over the last several years and pray to the gods of football that real quality reinforcements like Auba are on the way, which could have happened years ago for less money and we might have been holding a trophy of some significance, or this brief respite will be followed by the usual mediocrity and stagnation

The Chiefs are No. 23 in the NFL in pass defense and No. 11 against the run, so an aerial attack is certainly a possibility for the Broncos, although snaps for Sanders may be limited.

His father, Nelson, says the possibility of a Vikings restoration exists, but that Peterson's camp blames Vikings chief operating officer Kevin Warren for fighting against his son's return to the field last season.

real talk, i think this is a great article, in my hometown there is a club which is in the second division of my country and some years ago there was a real possibility that we could promote to the first division but we did nt manage to and now its a bit more difficult but even then the fans who come, come for their entertainment and to be happy with their close friends drinking beers or a dad with his son etc. and we shout if we are winning and discuss every decision (mostly its right one but football fans do nt seem to agree with right decisions against their club) and we shout if we are losing too, because i do nt support a team to be sad..

While mentioning that there's a possibility that Higuain could be on the bench for Juventus» Serie A fixture against Atalanta this weekend, it's the second leg of the Coppa Italia semifinals on Wednesday night where Juve's No. 9 is looking to make his comeback.

Mourinho had mulled the possibility of a swap deal for Inter Milan's Ivan Perisic before the start of the season, only to eventually decide against it.

Juventus took on the side from Naples on the last day of the league knowing that a win against Napoli coupled with a Roma defeat, would provide them with a possibility of qualifying for the Europa League next season.

The injury - plagued Liverpool striker was on target against the Hammers yesterday, a club who are looking at the possibility of making a summer move for him, but despite that link and despite many observers saying it's time for him to be moved out, he's trying to remain positive.

I don't know if it'll mean a win for the Golden Eagles, but at least I won't be dreading the possibility of not getting a win against a conference foe this season.