Sentences with phrase «against the progress of»

Jack D. Kingsbury (The Parables of Jesus in Matthew 13 A Study in Redaction Criticism [Richmond Virginia: John Knox Press, 1969)-RRB- solves the problem by making the good seed the product of the Church's mission and the bad seed the product of Satan's activity against the progress of the Church — i.e., the corruption of actual and potential converts.

Not exact matches

«They go against the very principles our nation was founded on, and they have the potential to undo decades of progress toward greater equality.»

Against the conventional wisdom of continual digital progress, printed books might very well be with us for the long haul for reasons that aren't entirely logical.

It's a fascinating story and one that offers hope that we can not only make progress against a litany of diseases, but also — just maybe — begin to reverse our soaring national health bill.

In some industries, you have to fight against decades of inertia and sluggish progress; in others, you have to fight traditionalism and entrenched modes of thinking.

And most of all, the industry needs to work with the FAA, rather than rail against it — otherwise, little progress will occur.

I'd try to make meaningful progress against one of those problems each day.

Less often discussed is holding up the values of scientific inquiry and progress against the anti-rational, fact - free messages that Trump has so willingly disseminated since he took the Republican nomination.

High performers are competitive, and they need to be able to track their personal progress against that of their colleagues.

«If we're going to make any sort of progress on winning this global war against Jihadism, we've got to focus on the ideology and win the battle of ideas, not just have a look at their propaganda tools and their frontmen and their symbols.»

But beyond the emotional impact, experts on extremism questioned whether the demise of Mohammed Emwazi, a Kuwaiti - born Briton who came to symbolise the brutality of Islamic State, would signify real progress in the fight against the group.

Members of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Demand Progress and other digital rights activists are calling for a «day of action» on Feb. 11 when they hope to rouse the internet community into collectively speaking out against the NSA and the government's other intrusive surveillance tactics.

Spending less than 1/5 of that time making progress against my most important tasks is well worth it.

Besides simply viewing meetings as «a big company thing,» entrepreneurs are «constantly pushing, and always on, they don't consider the important of cadenced checkpoints to measure the progress against their goals, and reevaluate that their previously agreed goals should continue to be their goals,» he writes.

Outside of mentorship, though, there is still a lot of progress to make in educating everyone about implicit biases against women (as well as people who are different from us).

Thiel, the venture capitalist and Musk's fellow PayPal co-founder, worries that pushback against A.I. has the effect of drawing more attention to the field, thus accelerating research and progress in the field.

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Let's not for a moment forget who we are up against — a politician committed to continuing the dismantling of decades of social progress and facilitating the de facto annexation of Canada by the U.S..

This framework considers the Chairman and CEO's self - assessment of performance against commitments in the year, both qualitative and quantitative, and also considers progress against strategic objectives, an analysis of IBM's total performance over a multi-year period, a competitive benchmark analysis, and other relevant information.

While everyone knows that the number of female investing partners is very limited, we aimed to establish a well - defined baseline against which to measure future progress.

The Committee was so concerned about issues of violence against Indigenous women and the violation of Indigenous Peoples» land rights that it called on Canada to report back within one year on progress made to implement its recommendations on these issues.

Evaluation measures include progress against business model and growth strategies, client relationship management, staff retention, and the evolution of asset allocation and product strategy in line with investor needs.

More than 60 % of shareholders of one major energy company recently voted — against management's recommendation — in favor of the company reporting on its climate progress.

However, the entire journey has not come without some hiccups, as a large part of crypto investors have pointed out the lack of progress and the general slow movement of the project, contributing to some degree of negative market sentiment against it.

Yet, against the passage of time, progress towards a more open, community - driven economic model is evident.

We work with all of the teams to help them understand how they can measure progress against their objectives.

The U.S. dollar rose slightly against a basket of major currencies helped by optimism about progress on tax reform legislation and lawmakers» efforts to avert a U.S. government shutdown on Saturday.

For those who are swimming against the tide of Crypto you are fighting progress.

, Michelle Barnes, Zvi Bodie, Robert Triest and Christina Wang evaluate the progress of the TIPS market toward providing: (1) consumers with a hedge against real interest rate risk; (2) holders of nominal bonds with a hedge against inflation risk; and, (3) everyone with a reliable indicator of expected inflation.

FOR ENTIRE 66 YEARS, ON DAY TO DAY BASES, ALL THEY WERE DOING IS CRIME CONTEMPLATING AGAINST US INSIDE OF THEIR BACK OFFICE CUBICLES (on job torture / bullying / mobbing and forceful unemployment to progress humanity as Obama exclaimed over and over) PER EEOC AND NOW, THEY WANT YOU TO RAISE COMMUNIST FLAG UNDER AMERICAN SKY!!!

Kant's approach may hold at bay the antihumanism of modern science (we are just clever animals in an insignificant corner of a vast cosmos), and it may serve as a bulwark against the ruthless rationality of economic efficiency and the putative demands of progress, but Michalson concludes that Kant's approach to the question of God makes theology less and not more plausible.

They see him as the head of a backward - looking, misogynistic organization that continues to thwart social progress by her stands against homosexual relationships and the use of prophylactics to thwart the spread of AIDS.

Bottum opines that we should prepare ourselves for the next chapter in the culture wars, in which the left here will get into step with its European compatriots, espousing a militant skepticism toward science while maintaining their polemic against the religious right, but this time for its uncritical embrace of scientific progress.

we would self sustain ourselves... they have been the prime reason fr th recession due to higher oil prices to indirectly stage war against america and the rest of the world... cowards... if ther was no oil... the time has come for the next era... we are not far away from that day... the world is changing... science is developing in exponential way... new species are still being found... ther is always a progress... and these extremists are travelling to the end of the road... which will form the next journey fr the major part of the other world... no oil... no islamist would be heeded anymore... those people ll crumble very soon

His job was to help regional United Methodist conferences throughout the country to organize against the introduction of gambling, but his progress has been slowed by organizational complexities.

The progress and development of the national bourgeoisie was being bought at the cost of a lost independence, the increasing misery of the masses whose traditional means of survival were destroyed by cheap, factory - made goods, and a tightening of military repression against the consequent popular unrest.

In his insensate rage against progress he stopped vaccination; consequently, small - pox devastated the Roman provinces during his reign, along with many other curses which his brutal ignorance brought upon the inhabitants of those beautiful and fertile regions.

The Negro people made remarkable progress from a condition of slavery to responsibility, and this against great odds.

Seemingly, despite progress made against discrimination / prejudice against external differences (colour / race / gender), it is still perfectly acceptable in some places to discriminate against internal differences (beliefs / ideology / worldview / sexual orientation etc.) and to do so with such vehemence as to rival some of those historical examples you cited.

The Guardian: Female bishops: EU anti-discrimination law may be the CoE's salvation While the Church of England's legalism has halted progress on equality issues by voting against the ordination of female bishops this week, EU anti-discrimination law may prove its salvation.

Recovery of that which has been wrongly taken and punishment of evildoing are not explicitly named as justifications for the use of armed force by states in international law, but arguably they have been subsumed into the concept of self - defense: the former being recast as defense against an armed attack still in progress, as in the recovery of Kuwait from Iraq in 1991, the latter being recast as the right of retaliation.

Jeffrey Burton Russell points out that among historians of science «there's a strong debate going on between those who understand that the development of science is basically a Western European phenomenon, and that this is because of its Christian or Judeo - Christian roots, and those who maintain that religion blocked the progress of science until the 18th and 19th centuries, and that [science has] to struggle against religion.

... [Americans] have become a nation that may defy every foe but that most dangerous of foes, herself, destined to a majestic future if she will shun the excess and perversion of the principles that made her great, prate less about the enemies of the past and strive more against the enemies of the future, resist the mob and the demagogue as she resisted Parliament and King, rally her powers from the race for gold and the delirium of prosperity to make firm the foundations on which that prosperity rests, and turn some fair proportion of her vast mental forces to other objects than material progress and the game of party politics.

In the progress of its philosophizing the human spirit is ever more inclined to regard the absolute which it contemplates as having been produced by itself, the spirit that thinks it: «Until, finally, all that is over against us, everything that accosts us and takes possession of us, all partnership of existence, is dissolved in free - floating subjectivity.»

Is there not reason for Man, become aware of the direction in which Life is taking him, to rebel at last; to go on strike against a blind course of evolution which may not, in any event, betoken any real progress?

We push back against the secular conceit that religion is a thing of the past and that progress necessarily means secularization.

Modernity, with its enthronement of «progress through technology» is, however, the concrete economic, social, political, cultural, and ecclesial orders against which liberation theologies direct their intellectual and religious dialectics.

if belief in white apples on mars caused wars, impeded civil rights and medical progress, and aided the spread of disease (not to mention had the effect of making us mindless, irrational zombies), we'd be against that, too!

But for the sake both of truth and continued human progress, the integrity and independence of science ought to be preserved against those who would compel it to state, as scientific fact, that something exists outside of its sole field of study, which is nature.

The failure is a theological one which can be understood only against the background of the distinctive heritage of these schools: the «progress,» so to speak, that they represent.