Sentences with phrase «as a victory by»

The acceptance of women at West Point, Annapolis and the Air Force Academy has been hailed as a victory by many feminists, as well as by people who are concerned about the quality and quantity of career military personnel.

The law, signed by President Obama on Monday, will add 6 cents to school lunch reimbursements and will expand eligibility for free and reduced - price lunches for kids — not as much as lunch - reform supporters hoped for, but still hailed as a victory by many in the movement.

The Colombian armed forces» narrative pitches the end of the conflict as a victory by the state forces.

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Scott's candidacy is a bright spot for Republicans in a year where Democratic enthusiasm is expected to be overwhelming, as evidenced by the recent wave of recent Democratic victories in special elections in Alabama and Pennsylvania.

Council agreed but cut Ford's victory dance short by promptly voting to do away with plastic bags altogether as of Jan. 1, 2013.

The submission comes as Verizon and other top Internet service providers like AT&T (t), Comcast (cmcsa), and Charter Communications (chtr) have won several victories over regulations adopted by the FCC under the Obama administration.

Against the Falcons, Brady threw for a Super Bowl record 466 yards as he led the Patriots to victory after being down by 25 points well into the third quarter.

«Hardy, who trains with American Top Team, has a 3 - 0 record as an amateur, with all three victories coming by way of knockout in under two minutes,» said Doyle.

Backed by labor groups such as the Service Employees International Union, workers have landed some victories as individual cities and states have raised their minimum wage.

The watershed moment for Spencer and his National Policy Institute came just after the 2016 election that elevated Trump to the presidency — in a video from The Atlantic that was viewed by millions of people, Spencer was seen delivering a speech at an NPI conference in Washington, DC where he used Nazi salutes, imagery, and phrases to celebrate Trump's victory as a victory for his cause.

Residents of Oregon, Alaska, and the U.S. capital voted to legalize marijuana on Tuesday, in key victories that could fuel the legalization movement as cannabis usage is increasingly recognized by the American mainstream.

That victory was short - lived, as the stock was down to $ 31 per share by the following week and hit a low mark of $ 17.73 four months later.

He's betting that he can broaden his Tea Party following by winning over social conservatives, and use a victory in Iowa — where he's in a virtual dead heat with Donald Trump in a new Des Moines Register / Bloomberg poll released Wednesday — as a springboard to success in South Carolina.

Volume for the category climbed 2.2 % in 2014 from the prior year, according to data by the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, as American drinkers gave the spirits industry a market share victory over brewers for the fifth straight year.

According to recent polls, the party led by the outspoken Marine Le Pen is set to capture victories in as many as three regions out of 13 «super regions» created by French President Francois Hollande.

Trump's victory could temporarily derail stronger growth, higher rates narrative by raising expectations of a) protectionism, b) the Italian referendum following Brexit and US election as repudiation of elites and c) the Fed keeping rates on hold in December.

Opinion polls showed that voters had opposed privatization at the outset (as did the press and many Conservative back benchers), but the Conservatives pointed out that Tony Blair rode to victory in part by abandoning «Clause Four» of the Labour Party's 1904 constitution, advocating state control over the means of production, distribution and exchange.

Macron's enthusiastic persona and his image as a «winner» — having been elected with a 66 percent majority, followed by a landslide victory in parliamentary elections giving him full constitutional powers — has charmed and impressed Donald Trump.

Last night's victory by Premier Christy Clark and the BC Liberals will go down in British Columbia political history as one of the biggest upset victories ever.

Then, Thiel emerged as the secret financial backer of a controversial lawsuit by wrestler Hulk Hogan against Gawker Media over a sex tape and took a victory lap for his successful attack and crowed that it was philanthropic.

The National Bank of Greece study was published Tuesday as Greece heads to new general elections on June 17, amid Europe - wide concern of broader financial turmoil if Greece's place in the single currency is threatened by a victory for an anti-austerity party.

In the wake of his victory, the prime minister called on Japanese companies to raise wages by 3 % as part of his efforts to fuel higher consumption and inflation.

Despite the political turbulence and early legislative failures by the Trump administration, December's passage of the tax plan was seen as a key victory that will propel the economy solidly into 2018.

Trump spoke as his White House tried to pick up the pieces after Democrats» apparent victory in a special election in a western Pennsylvania congressional district that Trump won by 20 points in 2016.

WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers appeared to secure enough votes on Friday to pass the most sweeping tax overhaul in decades, putting them on the cusp of their first significant legislative victory as leaders geared up to pass a $ 1.5 trillion tax cut along party lines and send it to President Trump by Christmas.

By refusing to disclose which other lawsuits his money has touched, Thiel is able to publicly embrace P.R. victories (such as the Hogan case) while distancing himself from litigation that would expose him to criticism.

As Christ claimed the victory over death by death, so a Christian defeats death and the fear of death with all of its tragic consequences through a mindfulness of death during his life.

By all traditional measures, Donald J. Trump's victory came as a surprise.

A Christian disability charity has hailed a ruling by the Supreme Court, which will make taking public transport easier for disabled people, as a victory.

This role is fulfilled by her being fully assumed into heaven body and soul as the first fruit of Christ's redemption, the pledge and realisation of the victory of Christ's work for us.

And Christian theology has always seen this terrible, degrading death as a victory, indeed the victory by which God vanquished the power of evil once and for all.

A similar revulsion was recorded even earlier by the imperial Roman poet Virgil, who depicted an episode of the Roman civil wars as a victory of human law and ordinary human beings over «every kind of monstrous god and barking Anubis too.»

The eternal peace of humanity with God, received by faith on account of Christ's victory over sin, death, and the power of Satan, is dismissed as pie in the sky to be exchanged for the various approximations of peace and happiness that in good times this world also knows about and experiences.

The country has never felt itself validated as fully as it was through that military victory and has never been more tempted by events to identify the cause of God with the world role of the United States of America.

Every household in the UK is to have pornography blocked by their Internet provider unless they choose to receive it, in a government decision that has been commended as a victory for Premier Christian Media's Safetynet campaign.

Theresa, who works as an administrator at Victory Outreach Manchester - a church which operates recovery homes for those affected by alcoholism - told Premier: «Even within our own circles, whether it's in work or church, we need to be training people that these guidelines are actually quite stringent.»

While this is usually spun as a victory against intrusive moralists, in expanding the free speech right the Court nonetheless threw under the bus those people particularly susceptible to becoming consumed by obscenity.

And what appears to Lindsell as the imminent victory of apostasy may herald the emergence of new models of biblical authenticity and new realignments within American Protestantism that may actually serve to overcome the chasms opened up by the fundamentalist / modernist controversy of two generations ago.

There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.

With this view of the universe, this common sense of how it works, it is entirely reasonable to explain a thunderstorm as the anger of God, or a victory in battle as caused by favorable divine intervention.

Even such a brilliant and subtle study as The Theological Origins of Modernity, by Michael Gillespie, simply assumes that nominalism attained victory over the older tradition because of an intrinsic superiority.

Elijah denies us the course of courteous rapprochement by which, the sermon preached, the Word spoken (as we believe and hope), the «victory» won, we shake hands all around - and continue to live with the two altars.

Tommy God has already forgiven you for your sin the moment you asked Jesus into your life and confessed him as Lord.From that point he paid for your sin in full past present future.It is not sin that stops us from being with the Lord so you are saved.The problem you are experiencing is the battle for your life in the here and now satan is out to destroy you and he knows our weaknesses.If you are honest there were already issues in your life that you struggled with and never got the victory over.So where do you go from here as i found myself in the same situation i was a christian but walking according to the flesh.God does nt change his mind he always loves us but because of our choices we distance ourselves from God.The issue is that we like sin thats our wicked hearts and to be fair we cant change our nature only Christ can do that our old nature must be crucified with Christ.The stumbling block is our pride we have to admit that we cant do it For me that was terribly difficult i was so independent thinking i could do anything but the truth was a made a real mess of things.I sense you are at a crossroads and are feeling desperate and confused.So as a brother in the Lord you need to confess your sin to God and tell him that you are weak -LCB- we all are -RCB- and that you cant do it in your strength -LCB- None of us can -RCB- but ask him to send the holy spirit to help you deal with the temptations and the sin that you struggle with and he will help you to change your life he will empower you as he did me.Rather than look at who you are look to Christ and walk in him and he will make you a new man and sin will not have dominion over you.Jesus came to set us free from bondage.Having once been a slave to sin i know what it is like to have been set free by the power of God and that is what Christ is offering you today.All it takes is a desire to change or repent and admit we cant do it and trust him to give you the strength to walk in him regards brentnz

He develops five characteristics of such a spirituality: conversion, with its requirement for solidarity; gratuitousness, as creating the atmosphere for efficacy; joy, which seeks victory over suffering by going through the school of martyrdom to Easter victory; spiritual childhood, which emphasizes being «with the poor and against poverty»; and community, which must emerge out of the dark night of injustice and solitude.

From them we glean what has previously been indicated as basic notes in the understanding of the kingdom: the timeless kingship, or kingly rule, of God; an ongoing and present kingdom to be entered and lived in by accepting God's sovereign rule in obedient response; and a final victory of God which is in God's hands, though he calls us to labor in faith and love for its coming.

We are pleased to celebrate our victories by eating Turkey but none of us like the taste of Humble Pie as it would leave a sour taste in our mouth and give us chronic indigestion.

Then the one prayer will be: «THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN»... And if the victory is to be won, it will be by the power of Christ through man, for there is no other Name under Heaven by which we can receive health and salvation, but only the name of Jesus Christ» (pp. 238 - 239).

Yet decisive moral victory over sin by the grace of God is real, with fruits manifest in the way one treats his neighbor as well as in reorientation of the soul toward God.

However, if the Fourth Servant Song was really to be understood as a prophecy of the crucifixion of Jesus, and if this meant that by means of this scripture God was declaring that his death was not a miserable failure but a victory, in that it was becoming a source of blessing to men, then the rest of the Song had some suggestive things to say about this same Jesus.

«By teaching the equality of all values, by denying that there are things which are intrinsically high and others which are intrinsically low as well as by denying that there is an essential difference between men and brutes, it unwittingly contributes to the victory of the gutter.&raquBy teaching the equality of all values, by denying that there are things which are intrinsically high and others which are intrinsically low as well as by denying that there is an essential difference between men and brutes, it unwittingly contributes to the victory of the gutter.&raquby denying that there are things which are intrinsically high and others which are intrinsically low as well as by denying that there is an essential difference between men and brutes, it unwittingly contributes to the victory of the gutter.&raquby denying that there is an essential difference between men and brutes, it unwittingly contributes to the victory of the gutter.»