Sentences with phrase «as a betrayal by»

The company's buyout by Coke in 2011 was seen as a betrayal by some purists, and Goldman said he has had to carve out and protect an independent identity for Honest Tea.

But maybe this mid-generation switcheroo will be perceived as a betrayal by gamers who have seen their expensive hardware become outdated two years ahead of time.

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A number of evangelical leaders with very large constituencies sharply criticized the declaration as a betrayal of the central Reformation belief in «justification by faith alone.»

Judas's betrayal is still carried out by me and other sinners on a daily basis when we think God should act more like us as opposed to us acting more like God.

What started as a feeling of betrayal by certain authorities within the church, spiralled into deeper and more enduring questions about faith itself.

Every reader knows who Judas was; but the evangelists add to his name «one of the twelve,» as though to stress the horror of such a betrayal by one of the privileged circle.

I never really understood the significance of Advent as a season of waiting until this year, as Dan and I have mourned alongside a dear friend recently devastated by the betrayal of someone close.

Some connection between the anointing and the betrayal is suggested by Mark's statement: «Then Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went to the chief priests in order to betray him to them,» as though Judas, angered by what had happened, went directly to the priests from the house of Simon.

Often the ministry seemed to be divided between those who sought to make the gospel relevant by allegorizing it so as to meet the needs of modern men and those who regarded its earlier translations as so literal that any new translation was betrayal.

This statement was seen as a betrayal of many Chinese Catholics, and in particular by the outspoken bishop of Hong Kong, Joseph Zen Ze - kiun, according to whom religious liberty should come before any sort of diplomatic accommodation.

The same St. Paul who admonishes us to grow into the stature of Christ insists again and again that we are «saved by faith» and not «by works»; which is to say that our final peace is not the moral peace of having become what Christ defines as our true nature but is the religious peace of knowing that a divine mercy accepts our loyalty to Christ despite our continued betrayal of him.

In short, the classical contexts of Christian theologies and theoria historically witnessed the recurrent betrayals of the Cross by the sword, Christianity by Christendom, as colonizations brought new peoples and lands into the orbit of the dehumanizing power games of Europe's so - called Christian cultures and nations.

Second we can understand the consequences to our faith if the faithful Christ had been saved from the consequences of human distrust and betrayal by the sort of miraculous interference he himself knew to be possible: the twelve legions of angels of whom he spoke, who might have been Roman soldiers arriving in a nick of time to save Pilate from fear of insurrection, or who might have come in the form of a natural catastrophe which would have upset all the plans of princes and priests, or who for that matter might have arrived as superterrestrial beings — men from Mars.

As the Roman Catholic and Orthodox traditions have known for centuries, and many other churches have discovered too, the only way that this extraordinary narrative will yield its meaning is quite simply if we play the events at their original speed — God's speed, not ours — living in and through the events day by day: the grieving farewells, the betrayal and denial, the shuddering fear in the garden, the stretched - out day of torture and forsakenness, and the daybreak of wonder, color and tomb - bursting newborn life.

The suffering which Jesus was to undergo, which was a result of many individual sins (the betrayal of Judas, the envy of the Sanhedrin, the cowardice of Pilate, the injustice of the crowd) was seen by the Son of God against the background of Sin itself as an assault on the will of an all loving Creator uttering it forth through his Word.

In addition, while it has not yet had serious consequences, we can only regard his acceptance of paint - by - the - numbers race - pandering by his allies and appointees as a betrayal of what Ellison taught.

Actually, Jesus was arrested as a result of the betrayal of Judas Iscariot who was paid by the Chief Priests of the Jews to do so.

As I came to see during my twenty years teaching at Creighton, this feeling of betrayal by the Church defines the «68er» generation of Jesuits and their allies.

«Conspiratorial theories of history are easy to create once you are prepared to ignore the realities on the ground, or regard those who do take them into account as part of the conspiracy too,» writes Ronald Radosh in a review of a new book called American Betrayal, by a conservative....

«Conspiratorial theories of history are easy to create once you are prepared to ignore the realities on the ground, or regard those who do take them into account as part of the conspiracy too,» writes Ronald Radosh in a review of a new book called American Betrayal, by a conservative writer named Diana West.

It is sad that Harrington did not live to see the transformations now taking place in Eastern Europe and Latin America as the people there struggle for (or stumble toward) democracy, for he would have been vindicated in his critique of the betrayals of the best dreams of socialism by the Leninist - Stalinist deviations that, he thinks, subverted the more promising aspects of Marx.

But his decision to move across North London on a free transfer in 2001 was regarded as the worst possible betrayal by the fans he left behind and, some 15 years after, the animosity towards him has still failed to subside.

By the time that definition happens, it's too late — a betrayal has already occurred and many people consider some innocuous behaviors (like watching porn, assuming it's not an addiction) as a betrayal I do believe a discussion of what is betrayal, can we be monogamous and what does commitment mean to us is essential for every couple.

While stranger rape can be understood by the victim as a random, one - off event, the betrayal of trust in date rape can have a much more devastating effect on a person.

Not only is he seen as untrustworthy on Europe, for example by reneging on his promise to hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, his whole modernisation strategy since taking over the party leadership in 2005 has been seen by some as an essential betrayal of the party's core, conservative values.

According to Mr. Rawlings, such practices were contrary to the values upheld by the NDC, describing them as a «betrayal of the values of June 4,» which are probity, transparency and accountability.

I have seen betrayal, I have seen how ungrateful one can be, I have made some big guys rich and have as well raised giants in the media (Nana Yaw Kesse, Kaba, Dominic, Akua Sonto) and other few ones by the grace of God, I have stood and fought with my everything to save colleagues from going waste (Songo of for fire, B.B of etv) and few guys.

As the hidden ratchet in the thinly disguised Lisbon Constitution winds up over the next few years and the extent of the lies and betrayal perpetrated by Tony Blair and David Milliband become apparent, I anticipate not the acquiescence you are counting on but a sort of blitz spirit determined to keep our country.

At the same time... they will start as they always do on the right of the Tory party developing this betrayal myth — it will always be somebody else's fault that Brexit hasn't happened by next Tuesday.

The harsh assessment and decision by Perez Williams set off a firestorm among grassroots Democratic groups and party activists in Central New York who support Balter and view the challenge by Perez Williams as a betrayal.

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the $ 2billion arms fraud being investigated by anti-corruption agencies in the country has shown that Nigerians were betrayed describing the action as a betrayal of trust at all levels.

According to Mr. Rawlings, such practices are contrary to the values upheld by the NDC, describing them as a «betrayal of the values of June 4,» which are probity, transparency and accountability.

The government - sponsored syndication of this concocted story by two newspapers aligned to President Nana Akufo - Addo as a person, coming just days after his meeting with all living former Presidents of Ghana is yet another demonstration of a betrayal of trust by the President.

In a statement copied to citifmonline.com, the caucus described the agreement as a betrayal of the Ghanaian people by the Akufo - Addo government.

The «Boehner Betrayal,» as Senator Chuck Schumer called House Speaker John Boehner's broken promise to bring a $ 60 billion hurricane relief package to the floor, will likely have real and devastating consequences in Downtown Manhattan and other areas that were hit even harder by Sandy.

'' It is unfortunate that the APC that comprises of those seen to be as «saints» could be classified by Atiku Abubakar as a symbole of poverty, betrayal, disrespectful and a dungeon of hell».

Unilateral nuclear disarmament did not cause the secession of the SDP, since it did not become Labour Party policy until two years and a General Election after that direct intervention in the British electoral process by a President of the European Commission as such, a true betrayal of Gaitskell, Bevan, Bevin, Attlee, the lot.

That is the narrow path which Theresa May must navigate — a Brexit that doesn't mess up Britain's trading relationship with Europe so much it sinks the economy, yet is not perceived by Leave voters as a betrayal.

Betrayal is so integral to Diplomacy that, as noted on a «This American Life» episode, stabbing an ally in the back is referred to by the shorthand «stabbing.»

As they put it, «Major shifts in life direction at subsequent ages are often occasioned by a... sense of betrayal or compromise of the Dream.

But Montana state Sen. and Colstrip resident Duane Ankney (R) wasn't impressed by Washington's deference, viewing the Pacific Northwest's steps away from coal - fired energy as a betrayal.

As he matured into adolescence, he discovered — as did Rowling's readers — that the world of wizardry and witchcraft was riven by plots, conspiracies, and betrayalAs he matured into adolescence, he discovered — as did Rowling's readers — that the world of wizardry and witchcraft was riven by plots, conspiracies, and betrayalas did Rowling's readers — that the world of wizardry and witchcraft was riven by plots, conspiracies, and betrayals.

Some critics have found fault in Grace and Frankie for its supposedly regressive stance on sensitive topics, and those criticisms are not wholly unfounded, but perspective is important here: Robert and Sol are by no means bad people, and the show does not portray them as such, but to leave your wife for a man after 40 years of marriage would be shocking to say the least, and that bitterness, that sense of betrayal, is conveyed beautifully and poignantly by Fonda and Tomlin.

But the film's biggest asset is the powerful performance by Jon Hamm as Skiles, a tortured man who struggles to find his way through a labyrinth of violence and betrayal.

As an adult haunted by the childhood betrayal, Amir seeks redemption by returning to his war - torn native land to make peace with himself and reconcile his cowardice.

Summary: Long before the evil Queen Ravenna (Charlize Theron) was thought vanquished by Snow White's blade, she watched silently as her sister, Freya (Emily Blunt), suffered a heartbreaking betrayal and fled their kingdom.

The film works on multiple levels — as a supernatural thriller (though explicit paranormal elements are limited to a hallucinatory dream sequence and the final shot of the baby's eyes), as a psychological thriller about a paranoid pregnant woman who imagines herself at the centre of a conspiracy, and as the last word in marital betrayal, since the most despicable villain here is surely Guy, who allows his wife to be raped by the devil in exchange for an acting role.

He manages to get his own sensibility into the tale of black ops mercenaries in a culture of betrayal and retribution, with James Caan as the contract killer who returns from a crippling injury by sheer force of will and the desire for vengeance, and he stage some terrific set pieces to go with Caan's brutal odyssey.

While not a surprise given Hackford's affection for bloated melodrama, it feels like more of a betrayal to the work turned in by Quaid and Lange — work that's easy to dismiss, given the candy cellophane of its packaging here, but that stands as among the best that either has ever done.

As an act of revenge for his betrayal, she decides to put a curse on his newborn daughter, Aurora, who on her sixteenth birthday will fall into a deep sleep after being pricked by a spinning wheel.