Sentences with phrase «as against school»

So now I'm not as against school concerts or plays as I once was.

Not exact matches

These reputable schools serve as a protection against the darker side of body brokers.

The stockpiling began in the 1990s, as Congress implemented the military - transfer program to equip police with automatic weapons and armored trucks to better protect themselves against drug gangs and neutralize armed assailants like the two men who carried out the Columbine High School massacre.

The Late Show host also spoke to Cook about his decision last year to publicly announce that he is gay, as well as the Apple CEO's efforts to increase the company's charitable works: «It became so clear to me that kids were getting bullied in school, kids were getting discriminated against, kids were even being [disowned] by their own parents,» Cook said.

The good: B - schools rely on rankings as a benchmark against their peers, a third - party guide for students, and a marketing tool.

On the one hand, B - schools rely on rankings as a benchmark against their peers, a third - party guide for students, and a marketing tool.

Schools across the country have been considering whether or not to arm some educators as a way to protect against mass shootings.

The list of companies terminating their partnerships with the National Rifle Association is growing as public outcry against the gun group escalates following the deadliest mass shooting at a public high school in U.S. history.

The daughter of the famed poet Lord Byron, Lovelace's mother had her thoroughly schooled in math and sciences as a bulwark against the young woman exhibiting too many of her dad's literary tendencies.

Scott Galloway, NYU Stern School of Business marketing professor, discusses Amazon pitting cities against one another as the company chooses its second headquarters home.

Andrew Pollack, father of Parkland shooting victim Meadow Pollack, filed a lawsuit Monday against Scot Peterson, a Broward Sheriff's Office deputy who served as a school resource officer at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High.

Here's a discussion of a paper, «Regulating Against Bubbles: How Mortgage Regulation Can Keep Main Street and Wall Street Safe - From Themselves,» by Ryan Bubb and Prasad Krishnamurthy (disclosure: my law school classmates), that sort of takes the idea of a housing bubble seriously as a bubble.

«Together we can send the unambiguous message that the women of UBC have supporters everywhere who will stand against sexual violence — that the rape chants that students at the Sauder School were participating in are deplorable and must be properly dealt with as a violation of women's human rights; that repeated sexual attacks on young women on campus are a crisis with which we should all be concerned.

As a reaction against the 19th and early 20th centuries» rising trend of public regulation and money creation, this school describes money's value as based on its bullion content or convertibility, or on bank deposits and other financial assetAs a reaction against the 19th and early 20th centuries» rising trend of public regulation and money creation, this school describes money's value as based on its bullion content or convertibility, or on bank deposits and other financial assetas based on its bullion content or convertibility, or on bank deposits and other financial assets.

New Democrats feel their best shot at re-election cuts a straight path through Kenney's social values, policies and past comments against same - sex marriage and abortion, as well as his more recent comments that parents ought to be informed that their kids are in school gay - straight alliances.

The CCCU's terms about theology, as I understand them, were designed to set a boundary against theologically liberal colleges and seminaries and against church - and denomination - based schools.

Some would protest against Muslims using schools as a place of worship, but there are those of us who would stand up against those who give our Christian name a bad one.

(i) a woman's right to choose; (ii) teaching evolution in school; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (v) gay marriage; (vi) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» by theists (vii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (viii) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (xi) population control; (x) buying alcohol on a Sunday; (xi) use of condoms and other contraceptives (xii) stem cell research.

Well before that, we will see increasing legislation, taxation, and state licensing directed, in the name of gay rights, against church halls and schools and charities: all the Catholic institutions that can be identified as offering some kind of public access and accommodation.

Unless the US wants even more funds going to religious schools and communities so as they can grow and cause more brick walls against the discoveries in science.

In addition to civil rights for people of color, women and LGBT, there has been an expansion of religious liberty for minority sects, enforcement of viewpoint neutrality with respect to access to various public and non-public forums (e.g. religious student groups must be granted equal access to school facilities as their secular counterparts, etc) greater protections against age and disability discrimination, and recognition of habeas corpus rights even for enemy combatants.

It has severely limited affirmative action as a remedy for past discrimination against minorities, even though the post-Civil War Congress that passed the Fourteenth Amendment also enacted race - targeted benefits for black soldiers, schools and relief agencies.

As a result, a five-fold increase in the number of mass shootings has occurred, when comparing the 30 years of impact of school prayer (i.e. 1949 - 1981) against the impact of no school prayer (i.e. 1982 — 2012).

Raymond Abbott's name appeared as lead plaintiff in a court case brought by Camden and several other poor school districts against the State of New Jersey, demanding that the state provide equal funding for all schools.

I would lean against the side of the tub into Brian's arms for the contractions (he thanked his high school football coach often for teaching him a good three - point stance as he maintained it for almost 2 hours!).

Why would you fight against teaching the Egyptian mythology or the Greek or roman mythologies in schools as if they were actually just as valid as the xian mythology?

Self - schooled in the history of European nationalism — especially as championed by Giuseppe Mazzini in Italy — Savarkar sought to give expression to a broad cultural ideology that could challenge the British Raj, counter Western influence more generally, and provide intellectual defenses against Muslim beliefs and the allegedly culture - destroying work of Christian missionaries.

Besides, are you suggesting that we suppress anyone's right to free speech because if you are than you need to move to one of these bass ackward countries where a less than middle school quality production of a total farce can insight people to act as a pack of rabid dogs blaming America for why they live in dirt... We are LUCKY and BLESSED to live in a land where we can smile and walk away from an opinion that we disagree with... that South Park can but Jesus in a boxing ring against Satan and depict Moses as a glowing spinning dreidl... and these nutcases want to burn and pillage because one lunatic makes a childish and stupid play on videotape?

In elementary school, I was painfully shy, and even as an adult I've had to fight against a deeply - ingrained desire for everyone to like me.

The orders are also, in the Lutheran view, a school in which all citizens are educated to care for each other, to do their duties even against their egoistic drives, and to use their «liberty and ability to achieve civil righteousness,» as Article XVIII of the Apology of the Augsburg Confession puts it.

Andrew Soper, who worked as headmaster and senior priest at the fee - paying St Benedicts School in Ealing, denies 19 offences of indecent assault and buggery against boys during the 1970s and 1980s.

In response, France has closed its embassies and shut down schools throughout the country, as a precautionary message against protests.

School records are NEVER open to the public, as it is against the law for them to do so.

As Humanists UK campaign against the involvement of religious organisations in the running of state schools, they say this money from the Catholic church «represents inappropriate influence.»

It is the proper business of the democratic school to serve as an influence against general social class stratification.

The bishop of Edessa at that time, Rabbula was in favour of the Diophysite movement at first, but by AD 352 he changed his position and turned against his friends in the school of Edessa as well as the Antiochean theologians as a whole.

In the prevailingly liberal churches for years now few books have been written, few sermons have been preached, few church - school classes have been taught in which sin as sin against God has been the central theme.

Inquisition, witch trials, laws against public office, teaching fiction as fact in public schools, etc... we can certainly handle what we're dealing with now, but we won't let it get out of hand ever again!

He assembles these objections as a prelude to attacking his political opponents.Eichenwald rails against school prayer and conservative prayer rallies, stating that they are a violation of Jesus's warning to followers not to parade their piety publicly but to pray in secret (Matt 6:5 — 15).

As this magazine has chronicled, they largely surrendered in the fight against compulsory sex education (of a profoundly corrupting kind), most especially concerning non-Catholic schools.

The idea that sex, as a unique human activity, might require a unique morality, different from the general moral rules against physical harm to others and harm to the self, is not one that public schools are prepared to entertain.

(i) a woman's right to an abortion; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls (and boys) against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (vi) gay marriage; (vii) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» Catholics; (viii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (ix) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (x) population control; (xi) buying alcohol on a Sunday in many places; (xii) use of condoms and other contraceptives; (xiii) embryonic stem cell research; (xiv) little 10 year - old boys joining organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, regardless of the religious views of their parents; and (xv) gays being allowed to serve openly in the military.

It also requires a willingness on the part of the superintendent to take action against principals or teachers whose performance does not create confidence on the part of parents, as reflected in their school choices.

Instead, as we all are aware, the institutions of the nation - state (prominently the family, the schools, the churches, the mass media) commonly teach ethnocentrism and prejudice against people who are racially or Ideologically either traditionally or conveniently used as scape goats.

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.

Yet Brunner describes the new nature as «consisting in the struggle against the old nature,» and what is accomplished in the struggle is not clear.28 I have spoken in broad terms of these three representatives of this school.

But, he said, «the latter history of this culture is not so much a debate between these two schools of thought as a rebellion of romanticism, materialism and psychoanalytic psychology against the errors of rationalism, whether idealistic or naturalistic, in its interpretation of human nature.

One advantage you get out of separation of church and state is that you are allowed to discriminate against non-Christians and Christians you don't approve of in religious workplaces such as Christian schools when secular businesses aren't allowed to discriminate based on religion.

Many evangelicals — especially those involved in television ministries, conducting family life seminars, and promoting or operating Christian schools — emotively inveigh against secular humanism, denounce the godless Supreme Court, attempt to censor textbooks, and trot out the shopworn Humanist Manifestos I and II as proof of an overarching conspiracy to expunge Christianity from the land.

As much as we might fight against prayers in public schools, churches on city property and political leaders who have the nerve to declare that this is a Christian country, we must accept the fact that we are a minoritAs much as we might fight against prayers in public schools, churches on city property and political leaders who have the nerve to declare that this is a Christian country, we must accept the fact that we are a minoritas we might fight against prayers in public schools, churches on city property and political leaders who have the nerve to declare that this is a Christian country, we must accept the fact that we are a minority.