Sentences with phrase «also acted against»

However, she has also acted against sexual acts in venues, illustrating her objectivity: «I'm an advocate,» she states simply.

They also act against awareness and celebration of diversity.

Not exact matches

It acts as a buffer against stress, while also creating a space to build camaraderie.

The United States, which in July said would take «strong and swift economic actions» if President Nicolas Maduro goes ahead with the Constituent Assembly, could also further sanction senior Venezuelan officials after acting against 13 prominent figures last week.

Rovinescu said duopolies can get too cozy and act as a negative force against innovation, but the move can also help companies to scale up to ensure programs get to market.

Owning content also acts as a hedge against rising programming costs.

He also voted against raising the minimum wage, against tax cuts for the middle class, and most importantly to entrepreneurs, against the Small Business Jobs and Tax Relief Act in 2012.

This lack of transparency could actually also be grounds for yet more legal action against Trump, in fact, since it looks very likely that it's a violation of the Federal Advisory Committee Act to not hold these advisory meetings from business leaders open to the public, though the administration denies any of its actions have contravened this order.

Mr. Trump also spoke at length about the standoff with armed protesters who last Saturday seized the headquarters at a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon, suggesting that he would have called the leader of the group to try to make a deal to end it — and would have acted against them if negotiations failed because «you can not let people take over federal property.»

The extent to which Mr. Cohen was acting on his own in striking the agreement with Ms. Clifford and paying her is crucial not only to Ms. Clifford's case but also to the complaint against the Trump campaign and the Trump Organization filed with the Federal Election Commission.

They can also act as a cushion against the unpredictable ups and downs of the stock market, as they often behave differently than stocks.

Congress also acted to protect state «fair trade» laws that further safeguarded against predatory pricing.

Unbelief is also an act of utter injustice, a transgression against all of creation and the rights of God's Names.

If the horror of CIA is its abstract impersonality, that is also its impenetrable advantage: for we can not act against what is vastly beyond our power to see and believe.

On the other hand, I believe he also tought that performing an act which we believe to be sin will be counted as sin against us wether or not it is scriptural.

These texts also cover the origin of law, whether religious laws governing prayer, religious tax, and fasting, or prohibitions against such acts as manslaughter or attacks on the chastity of a woman, and laws governing the use of property.

This article will summarise Fr Edward Holloway's arguments against contraception while also arguing that Natural Family Planning is a good but not «perfect» use of the marriage act.

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.»

I believe that we have established that there are definitely times when it is needed for us humans to take a stand against one another and our destructive suvivalists and hedonistic impulses; and it is also needed that we give each other grace and stand back to allow each other to believe and act as we wish.

And while I'm coexisting and letting everyone act like idiots I'm also going to argue against the insanity I have to tolerate according to American law.

I legitimize him over against me as the one with whom I have to do in real dialogue, and I may then trust him also to act towards me as a partner.

Also, when I discuss «if war is wrong...» by «is wrong» I mean is an act that is evil / sinful / against God's ways (right now I'm using those three all as synonymous for these purposes; though we could discuss the theological distinctions between them, they are generally the same enough when trying to explain what I mean by «is wrong»).

First, whereas the social gospel writers had called on the church to act nonviolently and to support nonviolent ways of getting justice, Niebuhr saw the limits of what could be attained in that way and also that the appeal to nonviolence actually stacked the cards against the workers.

There's also Sri Lanka where the Sinhala Buddhists acted in violence against the Tamil Tigers and Christians...

It also ignores the fact that white supremacist groups such as the KKK used the Bible and Christianity and other Christian symbols to further their causes and in their acts of terror against blacks.

For far from being a deviation from biblical truth, this setting of man over against the sum total of things, his subject - status and the object - status and mutual externality of things themselves, are posited in the very idea of creation and of man's position vis - a-vis nature determined by it: it is the condition of man meant in the Bible, imposed by his createdness, to be accepted, acted through... In short, there are degrees of objectification... the question is not how to devise an adequate language for theology, but how to keep its necessary inadequacy transparent for what is to be indicated by it...» Hans Jonas, Phenomenon of Life, pp. 258 - 59; cf. also Schubert Ogden's helpful discussion on «Theology and Objectivity,» Journal of Religion 45 (1965): 175 - 95; Ian G. Barbour, Issues in Science and Religion (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice - Hall, 1966), pp. 175 - 206; and Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962).

His act is an outrage against «mama - allpa (Mother Earth)[who] bestows water freely, the same for everyone» (Agua, p. 27) Representing nature in general, water is benign but stern: the same stream that irrigates may also flood; bathing may end in drowning.

Although a cottage industry has sprung up to define jihad exclusively as an internal struggle to gain self - mastery in order to act morally, the classic Muslim tradition also uses the term to denote war against unbelievers to extend the territory governed by Islam (an idea not without its historical analogues in Christianity and Judaism).

We may act that way sometimes, with the left side pulling against the right and the feet refusing to take a step until the hands have apologized, but there are also times when we clearly participate in some form of communication — or better yet, communion — that puts us in touch with a head much more capable than our own.

But along with the probing of terrorists» psyches, responsible government officials must also use and be prepared to use force against those whose willingness to commit inhumane acts is announced and well known.

But few of us would endorse those elements of tradition that baptize patriarchal oppression, endorse violence against women, oppress lesbians and gays, exalt perpetual virginity as the superior state, or declare that heterosexual rape is a lesser sin than masturbation (on the view that the latter act contradicts nature while the former act, while also sinful, is in accordance with nature) The postbiblical tradition, like Scripture itself, does not provide one coherent, consistent sexual ethic.

But while, for example, Hittite (not Babylonian) law also places this kind of debased sex act under sentence of death (vs. 19), in the context of Israelite apodictic law the prohibition must be understood as being rooted in the same essential theological perspective as the immediately preceding and following prohibitions against sorcery and idolatrous sacrifice.

Leibniz had also argued against most seventeenth - century thinkers, that whatever is purely inert, and without any capacity to act, is nothing, so that the source of the action of all things is intrinsic to them.

Human beings, including Americans, are endowed with a natural moral wisdom, and are also prone to acting against it.

Whatever one thinks about its legality, abortion has nothing to do with advancing human «health,» and a large number of Americans regard it as a gravely wrong act of violence, not only against unborn children but also against women.

Mesut Ozil also got in on the act in our last Premier League game against Man United, but the Gunners have always relied on goals from all over the pitch so it would be nice if that started to happen again.

Our penultimate game is also against City away So wenger must act fast and take the advantage given to him by other team.

Definitely on or inside the nine mark, against utd also he performed as a world class act..

Against Spurs, Elneny not only looked well - suited to playing the role of acting midfielder instigator but also allowed Ramsey, who scored the opening goal with an audacious flick, to focus on his strengths in the final third rather than working to cover his weaknesses in a deeper role.

I also add 10 drops of grapefruit seed extract, which acts as a preservative and also helps to prevent against yeast.

DO N'T forget, under the Equality Act 2010, discriminating against someone because they are with a breastfeeding mother is also prohibited, so companions of breastfeeding mothers who are also treated unfairly may have a claim, too.»

Also requires employers to make a reasonable accommodation to provide appropriate private space that is not a bathroom stall, and prohibits discrimination against an employee who exercises or attempts to exercise the rights provided under this act.

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At NCCL, Harriet also campaigned for prisoners» rights, for a Human Rights Act and against Government secrecy.

There are also risks of being plagiarised which it is very difficult to act against.

Also from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., New Yorkers Against Hidden Predators, an organization of advocates and sex abuse survivors from across New York, will be at the state Capitol, urging Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Senate Republicans to include the Child Victims Act in the state's budget.

The ex-PRO, Dr. Osei Acheampong, whose innuendos and aspersions heavily pointed at Nana Akufo - Addo, revealed how he was also drafted in the unholy alliance between the Presby Church led by Prof. Martey and the NPP led by Nana Akufo - Addo, for the church to act as the NPP's propaganda wing against the Mahama administration, but he refused to be part of it.

Cuomo also spoke out against recent acts of anti-Semitism at the Jewish Community Center in Albany.

New York's top elected Democrats rallied against the Republican Congress» proposals to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, saying they will take legal action, if necessary, to stop it.

The Child Victims Act would also extend the statute of limitations for civil litigation against child abuse perpetrators.