Sentences with phrase «as the opposition so»

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The message to Syrians living in opposition - controlled areas, Hof added, would be the same as it always has been: «So long as we kill you, maim you, terrorize you, and drive you from your homes with ordnance that is not chemical in nature, that which is left of a hollowed - out West will do nothing to protect you.

The assumption is that they couldn't possibly have been so reckless as to invite the hurricane of opposition that's grown to category five since Morneau put out his proposals, back in July, to restrict the tax advantages open to professionals and entrepreneurs who manage their finances through what's called a Canadian Controlled Private Corporation (CCPC).

Diaz believes Republicans must look as if they care about keeping guns out of the hands of so - called homegrown extremists, while balancing issues of due process and the Constitution's Second Amendment right to bear arms that form the backbone of the NRA's opposition to gun control.

Instead of running ads, they would define Scheer more slowly, over time, with a series of forced choices in Parliament, through government motions, much as opposition parties usually seek to define governments (you'll note that «define» in Ottawa politics is almost always pejorative by implication) through clever use of their occasional opportunity to define a day's parliamentary debate through so - called «supply motions.»

And in 2012, Obama has used the so - called Buffett Rule — and Republican opposition to it — as a hammer with which to bash Republicans and as a way to highlight Mitt Romney's support for lowering taxes on the rich.

Even if all of the spending and tax - reduction measures announced in the 2015 budget were cancelled — and no opposition party has yet gone so far as to promise that — that still would not be enough revenue to prevent a return to deficit.

Opposition, however, especially from several provincial governments and from oil and mining companies and small business groups, was so vociferous, as it had been to the report, that the Trudeau government retreated from any major reform.

In an environment in which global trade growth is craptastic, Canadian exporters have been losing market share in the US, and inventories made a hefty contribution to growth in the previous two quarters, the odds of a drawdown were just so high as to make opposition to the notion mind - boggling.

It argues that during the 2016 presidential election, the FBI used the so - called Steele dossier, a largely unconfirmed opposition research document alleging collusion between Trump and Russia, as the basis for a warrant to surveil former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page.

You will notice that you won't see these same level of oppositions against any other belief system, where people who hold the worldly opinion would be so motivated and compelled as to try and convince believers that their faith is wrong.

He acknowledged that there had been difficulties such as the recent so - called «Trojan Horse» affair at schools in Birmingham but stressed that Christians and Muslims needed to work together, not in opposition, in dealing with such issues.

Trying to birth the ministry was so hard and I had so much opposition, and for me as a woman in ministry, when I started 40 years ago, it was very unheard of and unpopular... you got a lot of judgement and criticism for it.

This means that if proponents can modify agreements so as to reduce the pain and destruction, opposition melts away.

And just as the primordial nature knows no negative prehensions, so too with the Deleuzean notion of the «virtual» as a kind of cosmic unconscious: «The phenomena of the unconscious can not be understood in the overly simple form of opposition and conflict... conflicts are the result of more subtle differential mechanisms....

Although divine power is revealed through powerlessness and passion, this is not the same as identifying God's power with [92] this impotence and passivity... God's power is so unique and so great and superior that it transcends and encompasses what for humanity are so often the oppositions of activity and passivity, power and powerlessness... divine power is active in powerlessness but is not to be merely equated with weakness and impotence.34

Through the events that faith knows as the Incarnation and the Crucifixion, God empties himself of his sovereignty and transcendence, and not only does this kenotic sacrifice effect the dissolution of the opposition between Father and Son in the new epiphany of God as universal Spirit, but so likewise vanishes the opposition between God and the world.

I will not engage in the lazy arrogance of claiming history is on our side; but I will go so far as to say that in the long term all past evidence suggests that it is certainly not on the side of those who brook no dissent, ignore all counter-evidence, and demonize all opposition.

But it will not do so as if it were another interest group, opposition caucus or government in exile.

Look at the people who proclaim their rejection of God in their tweets and on this blog, proudly strutting around like they are so clever and rebellious, as if opposition to God is something worthy to achieve.

«So far, then, as the liquor issue may figure in the campaign,» the CENTURY editorialized, «the drys can have nothing but opposition to the Democratic campaign» (July 13, 1932).

We then have the temerity to apply our own labels such as «mightily anointed» (i.e. «I'm right, so if you disagree then you're in opposition to God») to this Disney-esque Sunday morning escapism.

As the failure of the judge leads to the king and the failure of the king to the prophet, so the failure of the prophet in his opposition to the king leads to the conception of two new types of leader who will set the dialogue aright — the Messiah of YHVH and the «suffering servant of the Lord.»

There is a real difference between theology - in - the - books and theology - in - the - life, but I wouldn't want to describe that as a conflict — to do so is to set up an opposition between what the Spirit said about God (which is, after all, recorded in a book) and how God actually feels.

Such a state of opposition can only be effected by a dual movement of the opposites into their respective Others — Spirit empties itself of Spirit so as to become flesh, and flesh negates itself as flesh so as to become Spirit.

As his work at the seminary progressed, Bonhoeffer attempted to retain his teaching post at the University of Berlin and did so until August 5, 1936, when it was withdrawn because of his opposition to Hitler's innovations in the church.

«27 It grew rather from an opposition to the church as a definite socio - political form which in the name of so - called religion defended the old social order with all its injustices, its cultural backwardness, and its conservative immobility.

The realists will, no doubt, reduce U.S. involvement in the Iraqi civil war, so as to moderate popular opposition to American involvement there.

As to the claim that creeds impose the will of the elite, Pelikan points out cases — most notably the opposition to Arianism in the century or so after the Council of Nicaea — in which, in John Henry Newman's words, «The Catholic people, in the length and breadth of Christendom, were the obstinate champions of Catholic truth, and the bishops were not.»

My opposition to traditional metaphysics is not its predilection for transcendence, which in fact is its lasting value, so much as its identification of transcendence with the timeless.

It is sometimes thought that a man can become free also in those spheres that differ from this sublime «I», and which are governed by such powers as nature, the state and so forth, and that he can do this by giving up opposition and regarding them as indifferent; that he becomes free by detaching himself from them be - cause he realizes that they are mere shadows and quite unimportant.

But when people wield the Bible in such a way so as to justify violence, they do so in opposition to the meaning of Scripture.

With astonishing self - importance Prof. Novak writes: «As there is still Christian opposition to the Christian document of 1965, so there is now Jewish opposition to Dabru Emet.»

Though the New Deal was itself certainly of major importance to the political formation of what has come to be known as the organized Jewish community, for many if not most Jews Roosevelt's greatness lay not so much in the fact that he was a liberal in opposition to conservatives as it did in the fact that in the face of Nazi Germany he was an interventionist in firm and successful opposition to the isolationists.

Those are necessary for us; so I should wish to insist, in opposition to the contemporary writers who regard all religion, in any sense, as necessarily bad.

As long as religious life, and so the objective good that is religious consecration, is not authoritatively defined in opposition to lay life, and visibly lived out (and so identifiable) as such, we will remain in the vaguAs long as religious life, and so the objective good that is religious consecration, is not authoritatively defined in opposition to lay life, and visibly lived out (and so identifiable) as such, we will remain in the vaguas religious life, and so the objective good that is religious consecration, is not authoritatively defined in opposition to lay life, and visibly lived out (and so identifiable) as such, we will remain in the vaguas such, we will remain in the vague.

And as that optimism diminished, the Century also turned from its traditional assumption that American - style democracy was so superior to any other political option that it deserved automatic celebration wherever it encountered opposition.

Significant elements within the media continue to act as if they constituted a permanent and not - so - loyal opposition to the government of the day.

Two other definitions of God in the New Testament, «God is light» and «our God is a consuming fire,» indicate not so much who God is as the integrity of his character (light) and his complete opposition to evil (a consuming fire).

This rewriting of the record plainly comes from a late period, when opposition to the enslavement of fellow Hebrews had won its way to general recognition and when it seemed desirable to expunge from the historical record a precedent so dangerous as Solomon's example would provide.

I tend to think of spinning as placing a name on your opposition so as to cast them in a negative light.

Common to the four essays of Part Two is an opposition to the reductive determinism so often viewed as the appropriate consequence of science.

Just as the policy of various ministries ranged over time from vigorous repression of the socialists to tacit encouragement of them, especially in their efforts to unionize the workers, so the policy of the Socialist party modulated from one of intransigent opposition to the entire «bourgeois regime» to one of gradual acceptance of the framework of democratic institutions.

Or, phrased differently, being was experienced as the passage of all things from future possibility into the nothingness of the past through the narrow juncture of the always disappearing present; and so the thought of being had not yet been separated into a stark opposition between temporality and eternity.

In any such case, to say that all those so opposed to Atheism are just motivated in their opposition, because of fears and / or insecurity, that is humorous to me, considering that people are hardly what I would consider sufficiently qualified to ascertain much as absolute.

So far it has been debated only in the Lords: but what has so far been said gives no confidence that what has surely to be seen as a major step towards the radical de-Christianisation of English culture will come up against any opposition that has a chance of succesSo far it has been debated only in the Lords: but what has so far been said gives no confidence that what has surely to be seen as a major step towards the radical de-Christianisation of English culture will come up against any opposition that has a chance of successo far been said gives no confidence that what has surely to be seen as a major step towards the radical de-Christianisation of English culture will come up against any opposition that has a chance of success.

The alliance's strategy document, seen by the Herald, lists its key objective as to «build public opposition to the carbon tax so that it is either substantially modified or fails to pass the Parliament».

We do nt mix it up when it comes to the tactical side of the game, a good example is we hardly if ever take shots from outside the box, so the opposition know that we like to «pass it in the net» teams do nt find it as difficult to defend against us anymore.

It's the same old pace excuse, but yet somehow whatever opposition we face rarely gets in behind... It's funny, it's almost as if him and Kos playing together for so long have developed an understanding together and use the high - line to good effect??

The problem lies with the other two in the attacking three, they have to be close to offer support and must be seen as goal threats so that the opposition defenders only have him to give their attention.

So when we do, its taken on us as dangerous play while for opposition its normal play.