Sentences with phrase «allegiance at»

Simon & Schuster calls for allegiance at Authors Solution to further establish Archway Publishing.

So, he's down at campaign headquarters and Rahm asks him to help canvass and one thing leads to another and Rahm is asking the student to lead the pledge of allegiance at his inauguration.

At the beginning, the distinctive deity of the Hebrews was a tribal divinity to whom the clans of Joseph first gave their allegiance at the time of the Exodus from Egypt.

If this is correct, then the distinctive essence of Christianity can best be seen in terms of the structure of Christian existence, and it can best be compared with other claimants for our allegiance at this level.

The human counterparts aren't much better, flip - flopping allegiances at the drop of a dime or simply having no character traits at all, often carrying out totally random actions.

Mosse photographs both the rich topography, inscribed with the traces of conflicting interests, as well as rebel groups of constantly shifting allegiances at war with the Congolese national army (itself a patchwork of recently integrated warlords and their militias).

Not exact matches

According to the Minerva research team at Georgia State University, the 2014 expansion of IS» so - called Caliphate was foretold by «Wiki Baghdady» - a Jihadi insider, but more than likely an al - Qaida agent - who predicted IS would amass multiple group allegiances and then announce them simultaneously in order to project power and influence.

Although not every school that's in the Big Ten is in the Midwest, the majority of the schools are, and chances are if you went to one of them, your allegiance to at least one of the school's sports teams is pretty strong.

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.

There is some confusion over where Gharba's allegiances currently lie, but there is broad agreement that at the time the video was made in 2014, he was a member of the Free Syrian Army - an anti-Assad group that has enjoyed the support of US intelligence agencies.

When I was young the government inserted «under God» in the pledge of allegiance, which I was forced to recite at school.

The religious among us keep trying to chip away at the separation of church and state by making people recite the pledge of allegiance with the God clause, installing religious symbols and displays on public property, holding prayer breakfasts for politicians, berating the removal of prayer in public schools, trying to pass laws limiting women's access to birth control, and trying to get an amendment passed outlawing abortion (since in their view God creates a soul the moment a sperm enters an egg).

We know from their actions of today how Christians think they're being «persecuted» if they can't festoon their religious holiday decorations all over everybody's property and make everybody else recite Christian prayers at all public occasions or stamp their theology on our money and insert it into our pledge of allegiance.

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».

scot I think you should drop your allegiance to the Christian god and take up with the Wizard of Oz, at least the Wiz maybe able to grant you a functioning brain!!!

It is common for those invested in preserving the status quo to try and silence those working for reform by suggesting that allegiance to a country or family or faith demands total acquiescence, that you can't love something and be critical of it at the same time.

If we are struck by Francesca's courteous speech, we note that she is also in the habit of blaming others for her own difficulties; if we admire Farinata's magnanimity, we also note that his soul contains no room for God; if we are wrung by Pier delle Vigne's piteous narrative, we also consider that he has totally abandoned his allegiance to God for his belief in the power of his emperor; if we are moved by Brunetto Latini's devotion to his pupil, we become aware that his view of Dante's earthly mission has little of religion in it; if we are swept up in enthusiasm for the noble vigor of Ulysses, we eventually understand that he is maniacally egotistical; if we weep for Ugolino's piteous paternal feelings, we finally understand that he, too, was centrally (and damnably) concerned with himself, even at the expense of his children.

At least it eventually obtained their outward allegiance.

A gunman - who'd pledged allegiance to Islamic State - hijacked a car and took hostages at a supermarket, before being shot dead in a police raid.

Those for whom power and success are the only things that matter will count it vital to be among the Definers at whatever cost to earlier allegiances.

If the church's theology were informed more by biblical expectations of a redeemed creation and less by general religious longings for ecstatic experience and timeless truth, Christians would find themselves at the very least congenial toward those who, with a passionate «loyalty to things» and a «cosmic act of allegiance,» struggle to unpack the secrets of life on this planet and to work with it toward a new day.

It is taken for granted that, whatever their own religious and other allegiances may be, they will aim at objectivity in their expositions and give adequate representation to viewpoints other than their own both in the articles and» no less important» in the bibliographies.

Its position around the corner from the Glasgow Orange Order - a Protestant fraternity who still march once a year to celebrate the victory of King William III over the Catholic King James II in 1690 at the Battle of the Boyne - may be a mere coincidence, the allegiance of its regulars to Rangers is not.

The assembled bishops - six metropolitans and thirty conventional bishops from all over Persia - threw themselves at the feet of the reluctant Dadyeshu and vowed him allegiance in terms that unequivocally set apart the church in Asia as free in Christ under its own head the Catholicos, not opposed to the west but equal in rank and authority to any western Patriarchate.

It was a Christianity of mercy and philanthropy, which won the allegiance of the underprivileged and suppressed, that is to say, the mass of the population, more so than the Pauline theology that ultimately flowed into Neoplatonic philosophical theology of the educated minority (with literacy standing at about 15 percent).

It has its centre in the Temple at Jerusalem with a small amount of contiguous territory, but the writ of its ecclesiastical government runs through hundreds of Jewish colonies, spread over the whole civilized world, and owing political allegiance to various secular states.

My kids say the pledge of allegiance everyday at school.

Although valued, like the Jews, for their contribution to the economy, the reconquista spirit still remained at the heart of Spanish society and the Moors were particularly feared for their natural allegiance to the Ottoman Turks, the great scourge of Christendom.

Quite understandably, many, if not most, Americans think that Muslim allegiance to America is at least a fair question.

A little more than a year later, I remembered those people and their silent tears as I wandered round a Moscow at last liberated from the Communist tyranny that had demanded the allegiance of everyone since 1917, a Moscow from which the tanks, defeated mainly by popular scorn for a rotten, drunken, washed - up junta of secret policemen and hacks, had withdrawn.

Many church leaders have flatly refused to acknowledge any decline at all in Christian allegiance.

The story of his meeting Andrew and Simon at the Jordan in the Gospel of John (1:35 - 42) suggests that Jesus may have met the men before, won their allegiance, and told them to be ready to follow him whenever he called them.

Led by a California atheist who has tried to remove the phrase «under God» from the pledge of allegiance, a group of atheists filed suit in federal court Tuesday (Dec. 30) to block prayers and mentions of God at President - elect Barack Obama's inauguration on Jan 20.

«Part of what we've been seeing during the course of this campaign is some scurrilous e-mails that have been sent out, denying my faith, talking about me being a Muslim, suggesting that I got sworn in at the U.S. Senate with a Qur «an in my hand or that I don't pledge allegiance to the flag,» said Obama.

People born in recent decades have no first - hand experience of what active Christian allegiance was like at the beginning of the twentieth century, when practically everybody in the western world other than Jews claimed to be Christian.

Prove that every word in the Bible comprises the complete and literal word of God, and that at no time were there any errors, omissions, distortions or misrepresentations imposed upon it through all the hands that contributed material to (or deleted material from) the scriptures, and then we can discuss the matter of allegiance to it.

However unintentionally, this weakens the constitutional allegiance of Catholic and other citizens outraged at judicial insolence and abandons our great «founding documents» to unchallenged control by the liberal elites.

But there are limits beyond which a higher allegiance claims him: he must be loyal at all cost to his faith, and prepared to endure persecution with inflexible determination and fortitude.

Unlike adherents to some of the other religions which have commanded the allegiance of men, Christian believers are gathered together as a fellowship, meeting at specific times and in specific places to engage in the action of divine worship.

Newman's old allegiance had been to a state church; from 1845 it was, at least in the minds of his critics, to a church state.

Even though at its founding in 1845, the leading lights of the Southern Baptist Convention were almost uniformly Calvinist in their theology, the way the «young, restless, and reformed» element has now captured the imagination and allegiance of many young (and not - so - young) leaders has alarmed many committed to some form of Arminianism.

Some people, like the officer's wife who cried tears of rage at my refusal to pledge allegiance to a flag that wasn't mine, just can't be pleased.

At such a seminary, Lutherans, for example, see their church allegiance illuminated and enriched by their dialogue with Baptists and Roman Catholics.

«Therefore the United States Code at 18 U.S.C. § 2381 states «whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death,»

Calling oneself an atheist is simple a proclamation of a lack of allegiance towards any ideology at all concerning this particular matter.

Calling oneself an atheist is simply a proclamation of a lack of allegiance towards any ideology at all concerning this particular matter.

When Christians claim that a particular doctrine must be defended at all costs or else Christianity is doomed, those who can not accept the particular doctrine can hardly be blamed if they assume this must be so, and, as a consequence, surrender with reluctance all allegiance to the Christian faith.

Although Ireland had never been conquered by the Romans, the majority of the population retained its Roman Catholic allegiance, but partly, at least, because the English, who eventually separated from Rome, ruled the island and the Roman Catholic form of the faith became associated with Irish nationalism and resistance to English rule.

And when men today seek to give him part of their allegiance, they do it at the risk of tearing their inmost selves apart.

Without allegiance to the Maker of time itself, we are at the mercy of every request.