Sentences with phrase «against things which»
Change is not always easy, and change is not always fun; I have come up against things which are difficult.
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One thing to know: While the Cardinals came up a bit short this season, Larry Fitzgerald had himself yet another career year, including a 119 - yard effort last week against the Giants in which he threw a pass that resulted in his first career completion.
Among other things, qualifying investors can get tax relief equal to 30 % of the cost of those shares, to be set against their income taxes owing for the year during which the shares were purchased.
On China — with which Trump has forged cooperation against North Korea but drawn sharp differences on trade — some 48 percent expect relations to get worse in the next year, while just 17 percent expect things to get better.
But it's clear from Zuckerberg that decisions will be weighed against the impact on Facebook's community — which arguably is the most valuable thing they have.
Sen. Bob Corker was the only Republican to vote against the bill, which, among other things, proposes to cut the corporate rate to 20 % while changing individual tax brackets and significantly undercutting portions of the Affordable Care Act.
But he implied that it would be patriotic for private Russian citizens to «start making contributions — which are right, from their point of view — to the fight against those who say bad things about Russia.»
From our perspective, the financial sector side, in what sense does climate change pose new or different risks to the financial system, all the way from the obvious, such as the concept of stranded assets, which you've got lending all against those things?
Renters insurance, which is a type of policy called an HO - 4, gives you some financial protection against natural disasters or common theft that can affect your living space and things.
In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.
Think about the language we use; the things we look at and so on... and to sign up to the White Ribbon Pledge, which is never to commit, condone or remain silent about violence against women.»
There is ample evidence for the existence of God, what you decide to do with this evidence is ultimately up to you, but do not claim that there is none... and I would submit to you that many people believe many things without evidence every single day... but do not lump all people of faith into one basket... I have personal proof that God exists, but proof for me may not be proof for you, some people can see something with their own eyes and still deny it, that is why I said it is ultimately up to you to decide what you believe... there is much evidence both for and against the existence of God, you need to decide which evidence you choose to believe...
But until we come to the end of ourselves then we are going to do and say what we want, even as it was with me: It's one thing to be a heathen, even as I was, but a whole other ball game to set our hearts on God and His truth; yet, that can only come when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired of our own lives and we just give up, we know then who has given up by the one they advocate for, even has given place to: Paul said; with my heart I want to do what is right, but my flesh does what I hate: This is when God's grace is sufficient, because our hearts are right with God, but our flesh is not: There is a war going on within these temples, therefore; even as our flesh wins out to do what we hate, our hearts are set on God and His ways which has been established in the Word of Truth, which then causes us to stand and speak forth what we believe, even as this causes a rending to happen within us, for Christ to be formed in us this needs to be, as we come up in His glories even for a better resurrection for them who believe: The heart wars against our flesh, even as Christ wars against the man of sin within: For out of the abundance of our hearts our mouth doth speak, therefore; if we speak not the Wholesome Words of our Lord, Then our hearts are still wicked: But to advocate for wickedness instead of Christ, one has become a teacher of lawlessness, he then advocates for the man of sin: Many who have come out of religion has done this, as they went from one mountain top «from the extreme right» of self exaltation (Religion) to the other mountain top «to the extreme left» of the (Heathen) and missed the valley in - between that is takes to humble us: One extreme to the other, and missed Jesus: Jesus is taking ones through the valley's to strip us down of all who we are before exalting us to be just as He, even as the Christ in us overcomes that man of sin (Adam) through theses valleys of contrast that cause a rending to happen within; and when we are rent in two, we stand on His word of truth, so we too can become one with Him, even as Jesus is with our Father: This is how Christ is formed in us: Thank - you Father; in Jesus Name Alexandria
Reagan said yes, and conservative leaders like Arthur Brooks («One of the things, in my view, that we get wrong in the free enterprise movement is this war against the social safety net, which is just insane.
It is one thing to offend by speaking truth, that'll happen, but any other type of offence is unnecessary and against the teachings (which show God's heart on the matter) in scripture for those who claim to «know Him».
I think by boycotting and lashing out against them, gays and lesbians are doing the very thing they claim to be victims of, which means their behavior is no better than those they oppose.
The woman claims to be Catholic yet condones fornication, contraception, and probably other things like abortion which the Catholic Church clearly states are against the faith (and teaches that they are, serious, mortal sins that unrepeated of before death, will put one to hell).
I'm curious Bruce, why would Christians say things like «Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.
But the claims of religion which touch upon things which can be observed and tested in the real world can be proven true or untrue as the evidence for or against those things is discovered.
We can dislike what they are doing, we can even speak out against things that are not right, yet we are to love them unconditionally, which admittedly, is difficult at times.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was due.28 And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, covenant - breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful: 32 who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they that practise such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with them that practise them.
Which makes one wonder how many others of Brand's generation might find Jesus compelling if they understood the things he was for, rather than just the things his followers stand against.
There is no such things as an «idle» word which will not work for us or against us.
He took the passage in Colossians about «all things» as his theme because he wanted to speak against the dualism of the church and the world which piety always presumes.
I'm not defending their current policies which need more transparancy and alterations to allow anyone to believe in any religion they want, but this article masks real religious injustice of the discrimination against Tibetians and their religious practices by making it a «Christian» persecution thing.
I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»
«They won't let me use the word «vagina» in my book because we have to sell it to Christian bookstores, which apparently have a thing against vaginas.
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.
Early stories such as the encounter with Yahweh at the burning bush, where Moses was warned to put off his shoes because the spot was «holy ground,» (Exodus 3:5; cf. Joshua 5:15) reveal the way in which this dread of holy things and places and this need of insulations against their dangerous potency issued in sacred rites and customs.
Sadly, these initiatives are fought tooth and nail by anti-gay groups (sadly pretty much all of which identify as Christian) who want to claim (against all evidence) that being gay makes you more likely to commit suicide not anything that you suffer as a result of being gay, just some arbitrary offense against God thing.
Another distinguishing characteristic was presence, which Lifton defines as a «kind of being - there or full engagement and openness to mutual impact — no one ever being simply a therapist against whom things are rebounding.»
Jud 1:14 It was also about these men that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, «Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of His holy ones, Jud 1:15 to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.»
Unlike the work of bulldozers, which Berry calls «a powerful generalizer» that works against the impulse «to take care of things, to pay attention to the details,» «good work is always modestly scaled, for it can not ignore either the nature of individual places or the differences between places, and it always involves a sort of religious humility, for not everything is known.
Unfortunately, few Catholics do this which is why so many of them do not understand why the Church stands against things like the HHS mandate and why non-Catholics like the author of this article don't understand it as well.
I don't consider myself «postmodern» or «emerging» but most of the postmodern / emerging philosophy and theology I have read is a reaction against a modern philosophy and theology which overemphasized «the many» (the human ability to figure things out on our own), and as a result, is not too humanistic, but is almost excessively spiritual.
No, I don't do those things because of the fear of punishment personally, but also agree with laws against those things because it hurts the society in which i belong, and would to not have those things happen to me.
Against this view, Iris Murdoch and others have used the insights of psychology and literature to focus on the common experience in which two people looking at an event see totally different things going on.
The emphasis, moreover, is not on the unity of things, not even the realized unity of Daniel, but on the meeting between man and what is over against him, a meeting which never becomes an identity.
Almighty God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, maker of all things, judge of all men: We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we from time to time most grievously have committed, by thought, word, and deed, against thy divine Majesty, provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against us.
I now turn to a short sketch of what I take to be Hartshorne's most important arguments against the classical attributes in Group I. Let us begin with absoluteness (in the sense of lack of internal relatedness), which is the key to the whole thing.
These two definitions indicate, as they should, the same thing, because closed - upness is precisely the mute, and when it is to express itself, this must take place against its will, as the freedom which is the ground underlying unfreedom revolts upon entering into communication with the freedom without; it now betrays unfreedom, and the individual betrays himself against his will in anxiety....
Only I - Thou sees this wholeness as the whole person in unreasoned relation with what is over against him rather than as a sum of parts, some of which are labeled objective and hence oriented around the thing known and some subjective and hence oriented around the knower.
This is a sin against obedience, which consists in not just hearing the Word of God but allowing it to change us utterly through a joy - filled submission to the divine will in all things and at all times.
It is hard to believe that he would want me to ignore all that, in favor of an old book, full of contradictions, which can not be tested in any way, and which says things we now see to be entirely against the ethics we understand so clearly.
Of course, there are things we can be unified on with people who do not follow Jesus, for Paul wrote that our struggle is not against flesh and blood, which means that if we find ourselves struggling with flesh and blood, we have been tricked into fighting the wrong thing.
One thing on which Rusty and I agree, however, is the need to keep fighting against the encroaching darkness.
But a just appreciation of God's general revelation of Himself should preserve the truth that Christianity has meaning for man precisely because it represents a fulfillment of the knowledge of God which is made possible through all the things which He has made, Nygren claims, of course, simply to be setting forth scientifically the fundamental Christian motif without arguing its truth or value against any other motif.
Over against it he sets up a philosophical system of cosmic determinisrn, a sort of universal wheel of time on which life and nature and history are forever wearily repeating themselves as often as the cycle of time brings round once more the things that have receded into the past.
But now if the individual, yes, if you, my listener, and I must admit to ourselves that we were far from living in this way, far from that purity of heart which truthfully wills but one thing; must admit to ourselves that the questions demanded an answer, and yet in another sense, in order to avoid any deception, did not require an answer, in that they were, if anything, charges against ourselves which in spite of the form of the question changed themselves into an accusation: then should the individual, and you, my listener, and I join together in saying, «Indeed our life is like that of most others»?
Paul clearly states that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities in high places; He is suppose to be setting a principal and he is in fact destroying the thing that God stand for, serving the flesh and the creation more than the creator who is blessed forever; Man will always have a battle between flesh and spirit; he is more flesh than spirit ever in his dress muscles and tight shirts; which has no place in the spirit;» dealing with matters of the holy ghost «he can speck it but he can «t live it; which is the trouble with a lot of modern day Christians; do as i say not as i do... old fashion parents had the same concept, its not just Eddie he got caught, he was just falling weak to the flesh and his own desires; only thing is, he is responsible for the souls of those under his leadership; He must answer and atone to God for those actions, you think for a moment we are being hard on him; God has a way of letting us know when we are wrong that lets us know we need to change.