Sentences with phrase «as against the principle»

«Since the emergence of the administration of President Buhari, Forex Trading has been illegally turned to an exclusive business of the friends and family of those in power as against the principle of banking which allows for professionalism in trading and ensuring circulation to the business community for import and export of goods and services that will have direct positive impact on the economy and the people, the statement said.

Citing Section 4 of the constitution, the senator described the court process and the decision by Osinbajo as against the principle of separation of powers.

Not exact matches

Despite criticisms against religion, every major faith tradition in the world has core principles and values that can serve as an anchoring ethos for entrepreneurs and leaders.

Plus, all the big - tech platforms have proved they know how to filter out content when it affects their ability to operate somewhere, even if it's against their founding principle that they should serve as an agnostic service.

We know this fly - by - the - seat - of - your - pants attitude — as well as the notion that $ 30K is enough to start a clothing store — goes against our principle of good business acumen, especially today.

For now, the best response is that a program such as the above — applied when necessary beyond Iraq, Syria, and ISIS to other challenges against the international order — would buy the Middle East time for the modernization and internal transformation needed to anchor the nation - state principle and provide homegrown disincentives to violence and upheaval.

As a first principle, all segments of the population must be involved in the fight against climate change.

Under generally - accepted accounting principles, the WITB should be included as part of program expenses (like the Canada Child Tax Benefit) rather than being netted against personal income tax revenues.

Kenneth G. Langone, the co-founder of Home Depot and former director of the New York Stock Exchange, helped fund Maurice R. Greenberg's lawsuit against the United States government over the bankruptcy of the American International Group, which was viewed as being as much as about money as about principle.

As the fourth leaflet put it, «Man is free, to be sure, but without the true God he is defenseless against the principle of evil.»

As a matter of principle, any argument against same - sex marriage that invokes the reproductive end of sex necessarily implicates contraception.

Maudoodi, however, stuck to his concept of a highly individualistic capitalist economy and opposed all tendencies toward the nationalization of property as being against Islamic principles.

On the basis of the First Amendment, as well as the general principles of the Constitution, he opposed public payment for chaplains in Congress and the military, spoke out against national proclamations of days of prayer (though as president he did «recommend» them) and while president vetoed congressional efforts to incorporate churches in the District of Columbia (fullest statement, V: 103 - 105) At the same time, Madison frequently opined that it was appropriate for private citizens to support chaplains and various kinds of semiorganized public religion through voluntary contributions (V: 104,105)

The problem with interpreting «biblical principles» as moral absolutes without taking the mitigating circumstances into consideration is that there is no room for compassion or mercy, which leads to the commission of sins against the law of love, which transcends and surpassingly fulfills all other laws.

also stating that this country is a Christian nation and trying to apply Christian «principles» to government or society as a whole, is worth fighting against.

Unfortunately, the very development of human compassion which serves to mark the Europeans as more civilized also works against the principle of survival of the fittest.

They condemn all heresies which have sprung up against this article, as the Manichaeans, who assumed two principles, one Good and the other Evil: also the Valentinians, Arians, Eunomians, Mohammedans, and all such.

Indeed we may say, perhaps a little exaggeratedly but not without reason, the liturgy such as it is actually performed today — though, we hope, against its own ultimate principles — this liturgy itself increases this greater danger, because it often has a harmful influence on the private prayer of individuals and groups.

Instead of joining in a hue and cry against a churchman for engaging in this system in which every one of us is implicated, from which even the bishop's salary is derived, or hiding our Christian faces in shame because his hypocritical enemies hold him up as a «horrible example,» the clear call of Christ is that his followers should make a frontal attack upon the pagan system itself, and demand that our economic order shall give way to an economic order embodying the principles of the kingdom of God (July 17, 1929).

... [Americans] have become a nation that may defy every foe but that most dangerous of foes, herself, destined to a majestic future if she will shun the excess and perversion of the principles that made her great, prate less about the enemies of the past and strive more against the enemies of the future, resist the mob and the demagogue as she resisted Parliament and King, rally her powers from the race for gold and the delirium of prosperity to make firm the foundations on which that prosperity rests, and turn some fair proportion of her vast mental forces to other objects than material progress and the game of party politics.

He Himself had wealth, He used capitalistic principles as the basis for most of His parables, and His teachings against greed were not to say that we couldn't have money, but rather, that money should not HAVE us.

In this sentence I have been recalling against Hartshorne one of the most well - known passages of Process and Reality: «In the first place, God is not to be treated as an exception to all metaphysical principles, invoked to save their collapse.

The study of the structures of religious groups should be carried on without prejudice in favor of one or the other principle of organization, e.g., the charismatic as against the hierarchical, or vice versa — and application of the general methodological requirement discussed above.

There are many positive principles you can glean from it, such as turning the other cheek, loving those who hate you, and casting no stones of dispersion against others.

In asking such a question, he offered us a perspective that cuts against both the statist liberalism that is now in power and the anti-statist libertarianism that asserts itself as statism's only principled alternative.

ROMNEY to me maybe a Mormon, but his values & proven record, do not go against Christian principles, as opposed to Obama who claims to be a Christian but his record prove otherwise... NO TO PRO ABORTION CANDIDATE, NO TO PRO MURDER OF INNOCENT HUMAN BEINGS... YESSSSS ROMNEY ROCKS!

They include the «chilling effects» of libel suits, the perennial conflicts between property and access, the three out of four publishers who intervene in news decisions affecting their local markets, the advertisers» freedom to move their money to where their interests are, industry self - regulation in broadcasting and advertising, the backlash against conveying under duress (as in a hostage crisis) points of view that are never aired as directly without duress, the flareups of book banning and censorship of textbooks, the rout of the civil rights movement, the retreat from principles of fairness and equality (even where never implemented), the attack on scientific and humane teaching, the threat of self - appointed media watchdogs to also spy on teachers in the classroom, and the general vigor of ancient orthodoxies masquarading as neo-this and neo-that.

Reinhold Niebuhr is less dualistic in that he stresses the relevance of love as an «impossible possibility» to every human situation, but he warns so continually against a sentimental substitution of love for the requirements of justice that the major impact of his thought is a dichotomy in which again justice, and not love, is the determining principle of social ethics.

Lutheran ethics, following certain tendencies in Luther's own thought but neglecting his main intention, conceived the social orders outside the Church as necessary bulwarks against sin, but obeying principles of a different order from the demands of the Gospel of love.

As Caliph, Uthman acted against the principles of the previous Caliphs.

In fact, most if not all of the relevant evidence, as the previous example illustrated, counts against the idea that physics can in principle provide a complete account of the physical world, especially given the existence of human and other animals in it.

We have men such as Daniel as examples, men of whom it has been written that, because the officials of his time could find no fault with him, laws were purposely passed that went against his principles, and as a result, he was thrown into the lion's den.

Hegel's position shows clearly how the idea of the state can act almost as a prophetic principle over against the extremes of totalitarianism or materialism, and how such a state might lie within the «divine strategy,» though only if, as we said earlier, we may be permitted to read his philosophy of history in a more flexible way than he may have intended it himself.

One of the main arguments used by advocates of gay «marriage» is that the current definition of marriage (as pertaining exclusively to man and woman) breaches the principle of equality and thus discriminates against same sex couples.

The answer is that they were confronted in the first place with vast cultural trends such as technological advance, professionalization, and secularism that they could not easily control; and their problem was made the worse by pressures of cultural pluralism and Christian ethical principles that made it awkward if not impossible for them to take any decisive stand against the secularizing trends.

The question is of importance because he uses that principle — the ineradicableness of the positive, or the primacy of the positive — as a weapon not only against those who espouse purely negative facts but against those who propose metaphysical principles which involve exclusive negativity.

The question is, once this sexual - orientation structure collapses, what will come to replace it: the queer theorists» nihilistic anything - goes ethic, or the classical Christian view from which all of this is a departure, the view that takes the marital - procreative as its end and organizing principle, evaluating passions against nature rather than vice versa?

In other words, Whitehead's reference to creativity as the universal «factor of activity which is the reason for the origin of the new occasion of experience» (Adventures 179) is not against the ontological principle.

George's arguments in principle against coerced religious practice succeed only if he can establish the distinctiveness of religion as an aspect of human fulfillment.

Here, the chief villain remains the odious Walter Duranty of the New York Times, a principle agent of the cover - up of the Holodomor, which continued well into the 1960s and is being revived in Putin's Russia today, as part of its propaganda war against a now - independent Ukraine.

Wounded as it has been by the absolutist claims of 20th - century totalitarianism, contemporary consensus demotes truth — on the one hand to something purely subjective (signifying fidelity solely to one's own sentiments and often offending against the principle of non-contradiction), on the other to the merely convenient (namely, to «what works»).

Those who conceive of the principle of collegiality as a strengthening of the local bishops over and against the interventions of the successor of St Peter should think again.

Paul Tillich enunciated the «open Christian» commitment to freedom in that «Protestant principle» which, as he wrote, «contains the divine and human protest against any absolute claim made for a relative reality, even if this claim is made by a Protestant church.

The pagan temptation,» as the philosopher Thomas Molnar described it, is hardly new — the Church has been fighting paganism since the time of Christ — but what is new is its aggressive resurgence, its seduction of so many Christians, and the warnings Pope Francis has issued against it.The Pope's scorching words against paganism have not been well - received by many, but Francis has gone right on assailing it, particularly in areas that pagans care about most: the environment and sex.Francis has been a bold and eloquent defender of the environment, and understands that protecting the environment is not a recent fad, but a long - standing Catholic principle, highlighted by many of Francis's predecessors.

But Christians have also tried to guard against the identification of the Christian life with the ethical life as that can be defined by rational ethical principles.

«I would just say that as someone whose family member was a victim of terrorism, having lost my father, if we're trying to combat terrorism by banishing people from coming to this country, (it's) really going against what the principles of what our country's about and creating fear.

He told them that his daughter got a golf scholarship to Wisconsin, and therefore he is not against the principles of Title IX as a way to get more women on athletic scholarships who deserve one (and not opposed to financial assistance for his family, either).

I can maybe understand a team sticking to their principles being only one goal down as a game draws to close, but when you're 2 - 0 down with the clock ticking, you clearly need a plan B. Plan A (get into the final third and make as many sideways passes as possible) hadn't worked at all against West Ham, and with say 10 minutes left, I couldn't believe we didn't just stick Mertesacker upfront with Giroud and hit long balls and early crosses!

An Indiana law explicitly laying it out that it is illegal, although I haven't tried that hard, but I know that as a general tort principle in some states knowingly infecting someone is against either statutory or common law.

For instance, the judge granted summary judgment against the NCAA on its argument that scholarship rules «improve [e] the quality of the collegiate experience for student - athletes, other students, and alumni by maintaining the unique heritage and traditions of college athletics and preserving amateurism as a foundational principle, thereby distinguishing amateur college athletics from professional sports, allowing the former to exist as a distinct form of athletic rivalry and as an essential component of a comprehensive college education.»