Sentences with phrase «allegiance as»

From the point of view of retaining talent, how we do business is as important to retaining employee allegiance as pay.

«I am not a scientist» is now rivaling the pledge of allegiance as an oath taken by Republican Party leaders.

Gain the prince's allegiance as part of The Exiled Prince downloadable pack included in the BioWare Signature Edition, or available separately for $ 7 or 560 Microsoft Points.

With the invocation of national allegiance as an inherent contradiction, the documentary blooms its larger, allegorical inklings.

There is an overwhelming mass of noise from certain quarters easily betraying their political allegiance as they invoke the name of the Supreme Deity (God) and their local «gods» (conceived and characterized in diverse senses and guises) to sustain the NPP's Akufo - Addo that he is divinely destined to defeat President Mahama at Election 2016.

Now Rooney has weighed in on the discussion, claiming his disappointment was natural given his allegiance as a lifelong Everton fan and the importance of the fixture.

Gradually that way of life began to claim Gimbutas» entire attention and her allegiance as well.

His purpose is to milk his followers of as much money and allegiance as possible.

Jack Barsky, a former KGB spy and author of «Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America,» explains how Americans have historically been naive about the Russians.

The adoption of political viewpoints and allegiances as part of your identity is a wholly toxic form of human weakness.

Note: Party allegiances as shown here indicate party membership before the dissolution of all political parties apart from the NSDAP.

This action - packed horror comedy tells a blood - spattered tale of basement butchery and shifting allegiances as these unlikely adversaries enter a deadly showdown.

Not exact matches

The report went on to note that one official thinks it's a «fool's errand» to estimate Taliban strength as «the fighters often change their allegiance from one terror group to another»:

(And not, as others have suggested, because of any sort of allegiance to the Sino - Russo friendship.)

And there is also no doubt that Apple's devices have benefited from group infatuation, a phenomenon that has often favored a product or a class of designs based on an allegiance that the devotees themselves have difficulty defining in coherent terms, as by people willing to pay high premiums for German engineering even after decades of Consumer Reports evaluations have failed to demonstrate any stunning superiority of German cars over Hondas and Toyotas.

As has been pointed out by several observers of Fowler's claims over the past few days (to the genuine surprise of many) an HR department's primary allegiance is to the company, not to its workers.

We've also targeted stocks with key advantages, such as brand allegiance or high barriers to entry for competitors.

Many China politics experts and some party insiders attribute the downfall of Sun Zhengcai to his reputation as a possible leader whose rise and allegiances lay in his ties to senior party figures other than Mr. Xi.

As noted here previously, «polluter pay» is a principle to which the Conservatives — or at least Stephen Harper and John Baird — have pledged allegiance in the past.

In fact, the average Gen Y mother now defines «brand loyalty» as a window of allegiance lasting 6 - 12 months before she moves on to explore alternatives.

Several others, including a biotech firm that changed its name to Riot Blockchain, Long Island Iced Tea which changed its name to Long Blockchain, and Hong Kong - based UBI Blockchain have all seen stocks surge as a direct result of their newfound allegiance with crypto tech.

You have simply asserted allegiance to a character in a story repeatedly while dismissing the work of those genuinely curious as to how the universe works.

One of the biggest problems with Christianity today, as with all religions, is their absolute and unquestioning allegiance to the past.

No, they don't want to have holidays or say the pledge of allegiance but they have no problem citing 1st Amendment rights in going door to door pushing their religion down people's throats or getting out of their responsibilties as American citizens by showing respect to the flag.

I have no allegiance to John Calvin, one positive contribution he did make was expounding upon what is known as the doctrines of grace, i.e. the 5 points of Calvinism.

The prime proponents of ID are the fine folk at the Discovery Inst / itute who openly admit that they purpose is NOT to teach what they think is true, but rather to use ID as a «wedge to defeat scientific materialism and its destructive moral, cultural and political legacies» and to separate science from it's allegiance to «atheistic naturalism».

@KatMat: your analogy would begin approaching realism if: — during the pledge of allegiance kids were forced to say «one nation under The Orioles» — our nation's currency said «In Dallas Cowboys We Trust» — if millions were slaughtered, tortured and burned to death because they weren't fans of The Pittsburgh Penguins — if NASCAR fans endlessly attempted to have Intelligent Car Driving taught beside Evolution in science class as a possible explanation for how mankind developed — if «the 5 D's» of Dodgeball (Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, Dodge) were constantly attempted to be made into law so everyone would live by the same ridiculous notions, even if those notions knowingly discriminate — if nutters constantly claimed America was founded on the principles of Darts, even though our country SPECIFICALLY calls for a separation between Darts and State because the founders knew the inherent dangers of Darts becoming government instead of staying in the realm of sport where it belongs

Because seminarians have been trained by theologians who are more shaped by their graduate school training than by their ecclesial identification — they see themselves as process thinkers or Barthians rather than as Baptists or Episcopalians — we have seminarians who attempt to make congregations fit the images of their theological allegiances rather than trying to respond to the theological resources of the congregation.

i go to my town hall meeting quite often and its hard for me just to sit their during the pledge of allegiance, because it would offend my ancestors, to swear an oath under your god no i will have to sit their as you prey death upon me and mine.

Giving all other powers their due and their respect, we Christians can not as a matter of total confidence or supreme trust embrace the flag, support the government, or pledge allegiance to the country for which they stand.

As such, I declined to pledge allegiance to a flag that wasn't my own.

On the other hand, I want as well to share faith and Christian hope with these people, to avoid shutting off genuine interpersonal encounter and my own self - disclosure because of any false allegiance to psychotherapeutic norms — and I doubt that empathy alone constitutes such a sharing.

As followers of Jesus, our allegiance is first and foremost to the Kingdom of God, which expands not through power or war or elections, but through service and love.

Allegiance — As followers of Christ, our first allegiance is to the Kingdom of God, not to any kingdoms of this world.

No doubt this will be helpful for purposes of interfaith dialogue or in interfaith settings such as public education where particular religious allegiances must remain muted.

In later life he will not be as free as we often think him to be to make a favorable response to the claims of Christian allegiance.

And we believe moral claims, such as that we owe extraordinary allegiance to God.

It is a bit bewildering to hear these same people proclaim allegiance to Scripture alone as their final authority.

It is a dynamic and living community, whose members are united in a common allegiance and common response to Jesus as the community both remembers him and proclaims his significance.

He will require everyone small, and great, rich, and poor, to recieve a mark (Greek translation — etchin, implant, scrath, stamp) in their right hand, or forehead as a sign of allegiance, or be killed.

It is doubtful whether these remarks of Eliade should be taken as his political allegiance to Marxism.

It's just that nobody ever tries to convince me or my children to pledge allegiance to any of those others, or pray to them, or to persecute people in their name, or to let the government be used as an aid in indoctrinating more people into their myths.

Because I could not hide this fact from myself and others, because I could not very well begin my lectures in Bonn with the salutation to Hitler, and because I could not very well swear an unconditioned oath of allegiance to the Führer, as I should have to do as the holder of a state office, I lost my position in the service of this state and was forced to quit Germany.

As followers of Jesus, we can enjoy America and the Constitution and all that comes with being a citizen (that's another conversation), but our primary allegiance is not to a nation; our goal is not to persuade the world of the American way of life.

But regardless, I do know that the Roman Emperors required citizens to swear allegiance to himself and to the Roman Empire in much the same way we do today, and many early Christians refused, instead swearing allegiance to Jesus as Lord.

Advertisements for Bibles in various translations and with differing annotations, along with commentaries, software programs, reference works, devotionals, and paraphernalia, testify to Protestantism's continuing allegiance to Scripture as the only source of divine guidance.

It's not about what motivates our response here as much as it's about obedience in pledging allegiance to Jesus Christ alone.

I find that I can make a more compelling argument against the pledge of allegiance if I base that argument on political beliefs as opposed to my religious beliefs.

Yet, his allegiance to Methodism never seemed so much doctrinal as a matter of family tradition and soothing familiarity.

I say to you candidly, as I have said before, I have never found a man, be he Methodist or be he non-Methodist, willing to contribute to our work here who has not endorsed a liberal Christian policy in the administration of affairs... I have never denied our Methodist allegiance, I have never denied our Methodist history, but I have maintained that, greater than Methodism was the cause of Christ and that the call for service in His name was greater than the call to the service of the Church.