Not exact matches
UNITED NATIONS / TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters)- The United States threatened unilateral action
against Iran on Monday after Russia vetoed a western bid
for the United Nations Security Council to call out Tehran
for failing to prevent its weapons from falling into the
hands of Yemen's Houthi group.
On the one
hand, B - schools rely on rankings as a benchmark
against their peers, a third - party guide
for students, and a marketing tool.
Wenger, on the other
hand, is purely an optimist who doesn't plan
for anything going wrong and is confounded when things go
against him.
SMAs, on the other
hand, give you flexibility to direct the buying and selling so you can manage the tax burden - offsetting gains
against losses,
for example.
CEO Travis Kalanick teared up at the company's all -
hands meeting shortly after the blog published, calling Fowler's experience at the company «abhorrent and
against everything Uber stands
for and believes in.»
By successfully filing
for bankruptcy protection, Gawker Media is protected from
handing over any money to Hogan, whose legal efforts
against Gawker (among myriad others) are reportedly being financed by Peter Thiel, who wants to sue the company out of existence.
A well - known journalist was arrested while covering a protest
against immigration detention, then was
handed over to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities
for deportation.
On the other
hand, average prices
for apartments rose 5 % over the quarter and by 2 %
against September 2015 reaching 755,000 rubles per square metre.
The bid
for Kuka, a high - tech robotics manufacturer, sparked controversy in Germany amid fears that key technologies were falling into foreign
hands at a time when China protects its own companies
against foreign takeovers.
Prior to this, banking officials in the state of Tennessee began taking matters into their own
hands and refused to wait
for the federal government or the Federal Reserve to take regulatory action
against bitcoin.
I find myself very concerned about the well being of innocent men and boys at the
hands of what I truly believe to be a feminist conspiracy
against the well being of men
for female domination.
«On the one
hand, I view this as a positive step forward
for the church, a church that has a history of extreme persecutions
against the LGBT community,» he said.
I've been an atheist
for more than 20 years, and I can count on one
hand the number of times I've felt like religion was truly being foisted upon me
against my will.
In upholding the prohibition
against artificial methods of birth control, the encyclical dashed the hopes of many believers
for a change in church teaching — hopes that had been raised when the National Catholic Reporter leaked the news that the lay and clerical members of the
hand - picked papal commission studying the matter had voted decisively to support the limited use of artificial contraception within the context of marriage.
(32) The punishment of those who wage war
against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main
for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion or the cutting off of
hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter.
On the other
hand such personalism iuris divini, which despite its importance can not here be proved theologically, is a principle of resistance
against the well - known dangers and shortcomings of democracy in large societies where self - government by the people,
for example, by plebiscite is no longer possible and the representation which takes its place be - comes more and moe autonomous.
It is also time
for us to stand
hand in
hand with the Muslim community
against those who aim to destroy our religions.
IVerse 5:33 = Indeed, the penalty
for those who wage war
against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their
hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land.
Stalin's murders, on the other
hand, were undertaken
against all groups he saw as political challenges to his power, and were therefore carried out
for a political objective.
But if, on the other
hand, the metaphysical assertion that God is the subject of all change is conjoined with an assertion of the reality of oppression, then we can deduce that God favors the struggle
against oppression, and that there are theological reasons
for holding that some things are lawful and some not lawful.
The hubris has gotten so out of
hand, in fact, that one prominent «presumption
against war» advocate recently proposed that the Catechism be amended, so that a consensus of bishops, the faithful, and theologians (the last presumably shaping the judgment of the first two) be required
for judging a given military action morally legitimate.
The tension that Israel knew throughout her life as a nation between faith in an electing, acting, covenanting God on the one
hand, and on the other the rational improbability, if not absurdity, of the divine promises implicit in her faith; the conflict between the divine demand to trust and the human doubt; the incongruity between divine promise
for the nation and the incredible historical odds
against fulfillment — all of this Israel is mindful of in the shaping of the stories, and in the reading and cherishing of the stories.
Does the change in me represent anything more than this: that the practical relevance, the struggle and the confessional character of my theological teaching have become visible to many, and now
for the first time to most,
against the background of a time which has taken shape at the
hands of National Socialism?.
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....
In a Western culture that is, on the one
hand, insouciantly «nonjudgmental» and, on the other, determined to exact the last ounce of blood from those responsible
for real or alleged crimes
against humanity, Tutu represents a seasoned sensibility that combines both judgment and mercy as essential components in coping with a far from satisfactory world.
Even if at this point God in heaven and all his angels were to offer to help him out of it — no, now he doesn't want it, now it is too late, he once would have given everything to be rid of this torment but was made to wait, now that's all past, now he would rather rage
against everything, he, the one man in the whole of existence who is the most unjustly treated, to whom it is especially important to have his torment at
hand, important that no one should take it from him —
for thus he can convince himself that he is in the right.
They have a parade of prophets — 400 of them — who tell the two kings to go to war
against Ramoth, «
for the Lord will deliver it into the
hand of the king» (1 Kings 22:6).
But Hitler, on the other
hand, was quoted as saying: «Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself
against the Jew, I am fighting
for the work of the Lord.»
11
For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; 12 they will lift you up in their
hands, so that you will not strike your foot
against a stone.
When America has made it very difficult
for Black folks; their only hope is some PERVERT crook like this one with a Bible in
hand just to comfort them and assure them that there's a higher power and that, all will be well
against any foe.
May they be remembered not only
for their acts of cruelty in this camp... but balance
against their cruelty the fruits we have reaped under the stress and in the pain; the comradeship, the courage, the greatness of heart, the humility and patience which have... become part of our lives because we have suffered at their
hands.
An unrepentant morning person, I signed up
for 7:50 classes and, even though it went
against his natural night owl tendencies, he woke up early just to eat breakfast with me: then love looked like 7:20 in the cafeteria, black coffee in
hand.
And I also know that by 2:42 a.m. when all has been restored and babies are sleeping again and the window is cracked open
for a bit of fresh air, when we are back in our bed and quietly groaning at how over-the-puking-thing we both are by now, it's then, when he reaches out
for me and moves the hair back off my neck before resting his calloused
hands on the baby still growing within me, when the baby rolls up
against his palm, and he whispers, «hey, you» quietly, it's in that moment that I think the love we make or find or reimagine at the unexpected moments is still the sweetest.
/ 9 / Then the devil took him to Jerusalem, and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple, saying to him, «If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here, / 10 /
for it is written, «He will command his angels concerning you, to protect you,» / 11 / and «On their
hands they will bear you up, so that you will not dash your foot
against a stone.»»
On the other
hand, he believed that necessities of state require the sacrifice of some of these principles (in particular, the prohibition
against murder)
for a greater good.
On the other
hand, if Jesus had been a military Messiah who avenged the Jews by leading a crusade
against Rome, then the command
for holy war would have been validated and given definitive sanction by the Messianic general.
Similarly, a momentary and passing sensitivity to time, or even a lasting one, are well known phenomena: when a decision has to be made in a fairly short span of time; when a job to be done is so urgent that its accomplishment amounts to a struggle
against time itself; or when in waiting
for pleasant or unpleasant events one's gaze becomes increasingly fixed on the
hands of the clock.
For me, on the other
hand, it counts heavily
against them.
She innocently slipped a quarter into the Pac - Man slot, curled her fingers around the controls, held the bright red ball of the joy stick firmly
against her palm, and there she remained — hour upon hour, quarter after quarter, desperately trying to keep her Pac - Man out of the voracious jaws of four different - colored and deceptively cute - looking monsters; trying to make him eat up the dots on the «table» and down the bunches of fruit which occasionally appeared; and sporadically trying to make him turn the monsters into frightened blue turn - tails by eating «energizing dots» — all of this in an attempt to build up points
for the owner of the increasingly blistered
hand.
-- but it did not occur to him that his clan could escape sharing his punishment,
for he also said, «Let thy
hand, I pray thee, be
against me, and
against my father's house.»
Mat 4:5 Then the devil * took Him into the holy city and had Him stand on the pinnacle of the temple, Mat 4:6 and * said to Him, «If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down;
for it is written, «HE WILL COMMAND HIS ANGELS CONCERNING YOU»; and «ON their
HANDS THEY WILL BEAR YOU UP, SO THAT YOU WILL NOT STRIKE YOUR FOOT
AGAINST A STONE.»»
Say, Psalms 91:11 - 13 — «
For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; they will lift you up in their
hands, so that you will not strike your foot
against a stone.»
11But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait
for him, and rise up
against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities: 12Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the
hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
On the other
hand, those theologians
for whom a specifically political responsibility is the demand of faith itself so react
against what they take to be misguided attempts to separate faith and justice as to give every appearance of simply identifying them.
5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, 6 and saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down:
for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their
hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot
against a stone.
She may wish she had been more like my friend Ruth, more ready to lean down and press her cheek
against her mother's and hold her
hand for those last few breaths.
Through him, the Church reached
for my outstretched
hand as I struggled
against drowning currents.
David G. Roskie's compelling study
Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modem Jewish Culture discusses the cross symbol's use not only in Chagall's painting, but in the literary work of Der Nister, Lamed Shapiro, Sholem Asch, S. Y. Agnon and the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg (Harvard University Press, 1984 [pp. 258 - 310]-RRB- In literature written before World War II (and under the influence of biblical criticism that had emancipated Jesus» image from its doctrinal Christian vesture), these authors used the cross symbol variously; for Asch, the crucified figure in all his Jewishness symbolized universal suffering; for Shapiro and Agnon, on the other hand, the cross remained an emblem of violence and a reminder of Christian enmity agains
Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modem Jewish Culture discusses the cross symbol's use not only in Chagall's painting, but in the literary work of Der Nister, Lamed Shapiro, Sholem Asch, S. Y. Agnon and the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg (Harvard University Press, 1984 [pp. 258 - 310]-RRB- In literature written before World War II (and under the influence of biblical criticism that had emancipated Jesus» image from its doctrinal Christian vesture), these authors used the cross symbol variously;
for Asch, the crucified figure in all his Jewishness symbolized universal suffering;
for Shapiro and Agnon, on the other
hand, the cross remained an emblem of violence and a reminder of Christian enmity
againstagainst Jews.
Notwithstanding the fact that there is no easy formula
for knowing how and to what immediate ends God is moving in the restless flux of happenings, the Christian confesses that the
hand of God is behind, within, and
against whatever transpires in the universe.
On the other
hand, the reality is that, «globalization requires the humiliation of hundreds of millions of people keeping them in constant insecurity, pitting them
against one another in a competitive struggle
for survival» 11.