Sentences with phrase «against towns in»

Since then, Iron Dome batteries have intercepted about 350 rockets fired against towns in southern Israel, and, since Thursday, against greater Tel Aviv.

Not exact matches

The Pentagon holds a briefing Friday about the joint military action against Syria in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack on civilians in the town of Douma.

Cameron Bancroft, the player caught who was caught trying to rough up the ball with some yellow tape on the field during the Third Test against South Africa in Cape Town last weekend, has been banned for nine months.

Since Election Day, Philadelphia physician Rhea Powell has marched with other women in Washington, protested in her home town against the potential repeal of Obama's health care law and joined in airport demonstrations against Trump's immigration restrictions.

Bernie Sanders told a town hall meeting Monday that if he loses the Democratic nomination, he will help Hillary Clinton in the fight against Republicans, albeit he tied it to her supporting his plan for Medicare for all and more advocacy in fighting climate change.

«Dow Chemical is the employer in town, and I knew as we grew I'd be competing against it for a limited supply of qualified workers.

Around 1,500 members and supporters of the South African Federation of Trade Unions take part in a march through Cape Town city center on April 25, 2018, to protest against the government's proposed minimum wage.

In the same angry riff, unleashed during a small - town stop, Jean went on to declare to all jurisdictions: you're either with us, or we're against you.

The new lawsuit against the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was assigned to the same judge who ruled for the challengers earlier, U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen, who sits in the federal courthouse in the Texas border town of Brownsville.

Said Abdulbaki will seek the Wildrose nomination against Chestermere Town Councillor Heather Davies in Chestermere - Rockyview.

Any founder or entrepreneur that blocks a reasonable acquisition against the wishes of her investors, and then fails to deliver a comparable return down the road, won't raise another dime in this town.

Government troops firing machine guns mounted on tanks stormed a rebellious town in central Syria before dawn Tuesday as part of military operations aimed at crushing the six - month - old uprising against President Bashar Assad.

Downloading names, home towns, work histories and «likes» of 50 million users was not against the rules — at least in 2014 — but Kogan should not have transferred the data to Cambridge Analytica, Facebook wrote.

Kurdish soldiers, militia groups and coalition airstrikes led by the United States have been fighting back against the extremist organisation in Iraq since it began capturing towns and cities in the country.

I first heard of homeschooling as a child growing up in a college town in New England, when the only people who homeschooled their children were hippies living on communes in the country or academics and political activists protesting against the regimented and regimenting education «the system» provided for its own repressive purposes.

The violence in Gojra, a town of 150,000 that has long been a headquarters of the Anglican Church of Pakistan, was one of the worst attacks ever against the religious minority.

The whole town turned out against them because they had cast out an evil spirit from a young girl who was in the habit of sooth saying, which brought gain to her masters.

Having seen an Arab chieftain's son, who had attended the American University in Beirut, make his decision between the old nomadic life of his clan, still living in tents, and the new town life which his education made possible, one vividly understands that, choosing the former, he inevitably chose submergence in the social solidarity of his group as against emergence into the individualism of a commercial community.

A railway - car fire in the town of Godhra, which killed a number of Hindu pilgrims, erupted into a weeks - long concerted massacre directed against Muslims throughout the state.

At the outset of the Cape Town Congress, C. F. Beyers Naudé, doyen of church leaders in the struggle against apartheid, reminded us that Bonhoeffer would not have wanted us to ask about his relevance, but about the significance of Jesus Christ.

Nuisance troublemaking against Christians goes on quite unnoticed in the smaller towns and villages, but the problem in Islamabad became a cause célèbre because a number of diplomats worship in the house parish that seeks to build a permanent church.

If there is among you a poor man, one of your brethren, in any of your towns within your land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, but you shall open your hand to him, and lend him sufficient for his need....

So object to war, protest violence in its whole, speak otu against nationalist conflicts, go to town.

Against new knowledge, as men gain new wisdoms from science and new power in the universe, there is no Lordship of Christ over all the ages, unless His voice can speak with as much authority affirming and defining now, and a thousand years from now, as it did in the market towns of Galilee, in the Temple at Jerusalem, and along the shore of the Sea of Tiberias.

Alvin Plantinga, explaining the vehemence with which atheists like Dawkins use evolution as a weapon against theism, says that, «For the nontheist, evolution is the only game in town; it is an essential part of any reasonably complex nontheistic way of thinking...» (Plantinga 18 - 19).

Should we Christians be involved in things like Tea Parties, carrying signs, taking part in Town Hall meetings against government run health care, etc?

And if you are a pastor or church leader and another leader in town is behaving in strange and erratic ways, there is no need to accuse him of being of the devil or preach against him and his ministry from your pulpit.

So after the town clerk had quelled the uproar against him in Ephesus, he bade his Ephesian congregation good - bye and sailed away to Macedonia, covering all the churches in that province.

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They were arrested a month ago after leaflets allegedly bearing their names and featuring derogatory remarks against the Prophet Muhammad were found in the town, said Shahbaz Bhatti, the minister for minority affairs.

And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, «Grant me justice against my adversary.»

Threats by Muslim extremists against Coptic Christians in the past year have forced scores of Christian families to flee their homes in Dahshur and the Egyptian border town of Rafah.

The president's comments on the matter came during a town hall event in Maryland, when a questioner who identified herself as an atheist pressed Obama on statements he made as a candidate in 2008 suggesting he was against permitting discriminatory hiring among faith - based organizations backed by taxpayer dollars.

A Maryland town hall attendee who works for Secular Coalition for America asked Obama about statements he made as a candidate in 2008 when he said, «If you get a federal grant, you can't use that grant money to proselytize to the people you help, and you can't discriminate against them - or against the people you hire - on the basis of their religion.»

It has become socially acceptable to denounce the Catholic Church even in savage, vulgar, and offensive terms, and all this is occurring against a backdrop of low standards in education and increasing violence and drunkenness in our towns and cities.

And again Luther preached, in his boyhood town, though the parish priest was frightened and insisted on making an official legally witnessed protest against it, so that he could not be held responsible, apologising to Luther for this necessity.

They usually built their towns on islands adjoining the mainland for purposes of defense against the tribes of the hinterland, settled down and married African women, and traded in gold, slaves, ivory, and other African products.

How should they speak kindly and graciously but communicating basically: we don't want to see your parade or your genitals in our towns for all to witness; we don't want people with penises in our girls» locker rooms; we don't want our houses of worship spray - painted pink; we don't want to associate the fight against racism or slavery with the fight for «insert LBGT issue of the day».

The charges brought against Uthman, such as nepotism, were not so heinous as to justify the march of malcontents from the garrison towns against him at Medina or their penetration of his house and their brutal murder of the aged man in his room.

It's a gentle version that Brinley gives, and once the New Englandy town of Mammoth Falls starts to believe Dinky Poore's fib about the monster in Strawberry Lake, The Mad Scientists» Club picks up another classic element of boys» books» for that's the moment when Henry Mulligan, the club's vice president and chief of research, leans his piano stool back against the wall of Jeff Crocker's father's barn and begins to think about how the boys could use their radio equipment, a wrap of canvas around a chicken - wire frame, and a quiet outboard fishing motor to make the monster come alive.

A quiet area, in the southeastern corner of the Napa Valley, tucked up against the foothills of the Vacas Range, just outside the historic town of Napa.

Move aside cinnamon rolls, there is another roll in town, one that can definitely hold it's own against you, a much loved dessert!

New Liverpool signing Christian Benteke marked his debut for the club with a sensational goal in their final pre-season friendly against League One side Swindon Town.

The Chilean signed a contract which has made him the highest paid player in Premier League history, and is in line to make his debut for his new club tonight against Yeovil Town in the FA Cup.

Next Up: The Vols have a «Name your chosen point total» game against Georgia State in Knoxville on Saturday, then welcome Florida to town on September 15 and Akron on September 22.

That lion, for example, apparently refers to the fact that Burnley's Turf Moor was the first stadium visited by English royalty; in 1886 the grandson of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert Victor, visited the town to open a hospital, then attended a friendly against Bolton Wanderers.

The Hornets have also lost four Premier League matches this season by goals conceded in the 90th minute or later, including their last match against Huddersfield Town.

The scene steals your breath even before you encounter the town's women strolling arm - in - arm under moonlight or spot falcons glazing clouds smudged against an Andalusian sunset above that heartbreaking 18th century bridge that Donald Trump would turn into the bungee - jump capital of the world next to a Trump Casino and hotel.

Keane is yet to make his Premier League debut for his parent club, but did make his senior bow for United in a League Cup tie against Aldershot Town in 2011.

The youngster is yet to make the squad for their Under - 18 side, due to his commitments to the senior side and the Under - 23 sides instead, and after impressing and scoring against Chelsea Under - 23, was given a full 90 minutes of senior football as the Black Cats defeated Shrewsbury Town in the League Cup.