Sentences with phrase «anathema on»

Probably anathema on this board but I would also like to nominate a Lib Dem, Norman Baker who sees beyond the westminster bubble and makes himself a serious thorn in the side of both the government and the political establishment.More power to your elbow Norman!

In order to save Israel, Moses is prepared to become anathema on behalf of his people (Exod.

Not exact matches

In fact, the irony is that there is a broad consensus in favor of a carbon tax everywhere but on Capitol Hill, where the «T» word is anathema.»

Obama's policies on abortion and religious liberty had long been anathema to many evangelicals, including Metaxas.

In its search for a self - understanding, the monistic developments going on within the Midland were anathema to this religion.

Anathema to many Catholics on account of their sympathetic portrayal of Cromwell, the books have been runaway bestsellers, were awarded the Booker Prize (twice), and have been successfully adapted for both stage and screen.

In his pioneering visit to the Holy Land, he exchanged the kiss of peace with Athenagoras on the Mount of Olives and in the following year joined with him in consigning the anathemas of the year 1054 to oblivion.

Also anathema to Küng are the Vatican's alliances with fundamentalist Islamic nations at the conference on population in Cairo and the conference on food in Rome.

While Lindsell seems to find all criticism anathema, figures like George Eldon Ladd of Fuller would advocate a «devout criticism» (cf. his New Testament and Criticism, 1967) that affirms the method without capitulating to a reductionism based on rationalistic a prioris.

Work on the anathemas and condemnations continued in Germany.

However, its authoritative power as a solemn magisterial document does not lie in anathemas, but in its repeated insistence on the urgency of a new evangelical imperative which is laid on the Church in these intellectually, socially and spiritually turbulent times.

Yet the Apostle Paul, though reasoning calmly with the philosophers at Athens and with the ruling authorities on trial, issued thundering anathemas against the false teachers who came to the Galatian church as spokesmen for Christian orthodoxy.

Late on in his life Newman asked, «Are her ministers by their silence to bring upon themselves the Prophet's anathema, «Cursed is he that doth the work of the Lord deceitfully»?»

Of course culturally speaking, declaring someone's mere comments anathema and casting them from one's church is totally Christian, Pauline in fact, as if there aren't enough electrons for both of us on the internet, as well as the Christian practice of burning books, and Christian emperors declaring non-Trinitarians demented and insane and subject to the emperor's wrath right in the opening pages of Justinian's Laws, and executing people for keeping copies of Prophyry and Arius.

There would be no courage and no glory in voting for a law based more on slogans than on arguments, in conforming to the dominant political correctness out of fear of the threatened anathema, and by counter-attacking as a last resort by a question such as: «Dven if there is no reason to pass a law, why is it a problem if we want to pass one?»

Whereas after A.D. 1815 a Tsar of Russia had proposed to his fellow monarchs of Europe that they govern their states and their relations with one another on the basis of Christian principles, after A.D. 1914 a regime came into power which seeks to extirpate Christianity and to which some of the leading Christian virtues are anathema.

Mr Joyce raised expectations of action on Sunday, saying the price of milk was an «anathema» and he would get on the phone to processors and retailers to urge them to «fix» the situation.

Winnie is not permitted to wear fingernail polish, dyed hair is a Palmer anathema, and when he built his house three years ago it was too small because he insisted on paying for it with cash.

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.

In particular some of his proposals are anathema to a free and safe Democracy based on free speech, a rule of laws protecting us from unjust imprisonment, and freedom of Religion.

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.

The group focuses on donations Republicans have received from special - interest groups that have been anathema to liberals, such as the energy and financial sectors.

Merit pay would be anathema for the U.F.T., and fundamental disagreements about pay based on performance prevented the union from agreeing to a contract under the Bloomberg administration.

Alabama Sen. Doug Jones delivered his maiden speech on the Senate floor on Wednesday, tackling a topic that would seem anathema to most Southern Democrats — gun control.

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.

Aside from the hefty price tag, the program's focus on a racially defined group would normally be anathema to the Bush Administration and Republicans who oppose affirmative action and controversial even among many Democrats.

This poses a problem for the Paleo dieter who relies on unprocessed whole foods for nutrition and avoids the very foods most commercial protein powders are typically derived from such as soy, peas, whey and rice (not to mention that protein powders are highly processed — an anathema to the Paleo set.)

Therein lies the real challenge of Bay, since, in reflecting on the two opposing camps, one viewer will denounce Bay's images as anathema, whereas the other will have no idea what you're talking about, and regard such intellectual subjects with thinly veiled distrust.

Gameloft's Dungeon Hunter franchise has gone through some major changes during its life on the App Store, the biggest one being the switch from premium to freemium, a move that was seen as anathema by many players.

Been a while since I logged on, and there's no current Speak Nerd and Enter but I had to share the card that my job's HR department left on my desk this morning: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/06e4c1feb11e4c8c834f295c6346ce344d4ab515184ebcf5d69cbc0f20c48650.jpg It is anathema to my very soul...

What viewers will easily recognize as a proto - punk rock band is, of course, anathema to the bell - bottomed swingers at American Century, who are focused on sessions for the next England Dan and John Ford Coley release and a Christmas album from Robert Goulet.

But he focuses on the National Education Association (NEA) and especially on that organization's California affiliate - for which, conveniently for him, reform is often anathema.

The notion that teachers would collectively play a role in putting a school back on track seemed like an anathema to the press conference participants.

Vouchers are popular with the Republican majority on Capitol Hill but anathema to most Democrats.

«The idea of creating a car like Dawn that can be used in comfort by only two adults on a day to day basis is anathema.

Much of what Amazon has so far said about the store is anathema to «real» booksellers, and this is reflected in the reaction to The Bookseller's story today and some of the comments made on Twitter.

I know a little bit about production because I spent some time on a student - run print publication where errors were anathema, and so I have some idea of proper processes.

As a case in point, my most conservative client — a gentleman so risk averse that even the possibility of a 10 % peak - to - trough loss was anathema to him — informed me in January that he would be closing his accounts with me because I refused to aggressively buy tech stocks and Bitcoin on his behalf.

Applied here to a loose group of artists including Ken Price, Peter Saul, and Peter Voulkos, it's best defined in opposition to other things going on in the West Coast art world of that time (a trip to the DeWain Valentine show at David Zwirner, which embodies the Light and Space / California Minimalist movement that was anathema to many Funk artists, is useful here.)

Featuring the work of four artists, Laure Prouvost, Zina Saro - Wiwa, Tai Shani and Jordan Wolfson Anathema looks to explore the contemporary gothic, the morphic human and the virtual voice that rests on the «edge of the epicine» amongst other edges, «altering, adjusting, shifting, transforming, distorting and diluting...»

Anathema is a contemporary Fantasia on the notion of the network and its inherent instability, where the organic networks of human relations and the crystalline lattices of silicon - based technologies intertwine, and often tangle.

The left - leaning Guardian newspaper of Britain has put the Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg — anathema to many environmental scientists and campaigners for challenging projections of ecological doom — on a list of «50 People Who Could Save the Planet» with the Nobel Peace Prize winners Al Gore and Wangari Maathai, the movie star and environmental filmmaker Leonardo DiCaprio, and NASA climatologist Gavin Schmidt.

The exchange centers on Lynas's new book, «The God Species: Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans,» and particularly on his conclusion that some technologies that have been anathema to environmentalists are vital to a smooth human journey in this century — particularly nuclear power and crops developed using biotechnology.

Then, too, science thrives on a spirit of free inquiry, and it would be anathema to say that there are some things that just shouldn't be thought about (though there are certainly some things that, once thought about, shouldn't be built).

Both the Libertarian party and the libertarian movement have taken on heavy baggage anathema to political minimalism, be it the whole racial subtext or the drug thing, or mainly the immense logical inconsistency and pseudointellectualism of the whole bunch.

Without pronouncing on the merits of either outcome, it is the fear (and other emotions that come from the policy interface) that are the problem — quite anathema to the dispassionate observer status of a scientist.

Seriously, why should the Treaty provision ruling out CJEU jurisdiction on CFSP be taken to rule out ECtHR jurisdiction on the same issue, when the Treaty is silent on that point, refers frequently to the ECHR, human rights and the rule of law and provides expressly for ECHR accession, and when the exclusion of ECtHR jurisdiction is anathema to the basic principles of international human rights law?

Viewed from the perspective of an English court the notion that a prosecutor might seek to induce a plea of guilty on the basis that substantial benefits would be withdrawn if one was not forthcoming was anathema.

This is primarily because radical transparency is anathema to a financial system built on secrecy.