Sentences with phrase «always anathema»

On camera, she was funny and game, a posture that wouldn't have been entirely predictable given her inclination toward earnestness, a characteristic often essential to the practice of policy but almost always anathema to the practice of political presentation.

Such a claim is always anathema to syncretists, because it is a cardinal article of their faith that God would never condescend to reveal Himself in a particular way, at a particular time and place, and to a particular people.

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The formula «Thus saith the Lord» always implies the correlate «Anathema be the one who denies this.»

His appointment, however temporary, at Chelsea was always mindless to a degree, not on the grounds of competence but because he was known to be an anathema to the Chelsea fans after those torrid challenges against Liverpool when he managed them.

But, unlike many parts of the western world where the slightest expression of prejudice is anathema, Nigerians have always derived entertainment from poking fun at each other's differences.

The reason for these constant brushes with the highly compromised police is because the senator from Kogi has always spoken out his mind on issues considered as anathema politically by the fanatical supporters of the All Progressive Congress led Federal government.

At 51, Carson still has broad shoulders and sinewy arms and gives the impression that the brutality of football always felt like anathema to him.

The moderating effects of organizational characteristics are to be expected, since district size and school size almost always «make a difference,» no matter what the focus of the research is.180 Elementary schools are typically more sensitive than secondary schools to leadership influence, although previous leader - efficacy research has reported mostly non-significant effects.181 And the rapid turnover of principals has been widely decried as anathema to school improvement efforts.182 Now we have some evidence that the positive effects of leader efficacy are also moderated by school and district size (the larger the organization, the less sense of efficacy among principals).

What is most always an obvious need for pets, the water dish, is usually an anathema in a desert tank — it tends to keep the cage too humid and just seems to muss up everything.