Sentences with phrase «assails in»

Trying to turn all this reporting into a coherent two - hour - long feature film is like using the ground meat from dozens of cows to produce a single burger (one of the many dangerous industry practices Schlosser assails in the book).

[117] My position is remarkably similar to the concept of stewardship that Linzey assails in Christianity and the Rights of Animals, (NY: Crossroad Publishing Co, 1987), 86ff.

Actually is it not true that though we do know ourselves helpless to do God's perfect will, helpless to resist successfully the temptations to pride and selfishness which assail us in every area of our life and at every level of moral endeavor, we nevertheless know that we are guilty before God and that we should be guilty even if we should make the maximum effort of which human flesh is capable?

It is in fact the very position assailed in the song which is now «a little old - fashioned.»

But Democrats outnumber Republicans by 63,000 in the district, an enrollment advantage that could be difficult to assail in a presidential election year that will boost turnout dramatically.

Yesterday, five correction workers were convicted in the beating of an inmate, a verdict Seabrook assailed in a statement just hours before he was arrested himself.

Assemblyman Richard L. Brodsky of Westchester County, above, and State Senator Eric T. Schneiderman have assailed her in recent weeks, saying that Ms. Rice had opposed the overhaul last year and had changed her views only recently, after she decided to run for higher office.

Risks assail us in every walk of life, and love is no different.

Privacy rights are being assailed in all quarters including school; parents beware, and if it is your desire, opt - out of NCLB disclosures to the military.

Although more intimate and image driven in the former and more monumental and assailing in the latter.

I have been assailed in recent months by a range of superficially plausible arguments by Global Warming Deniers, whose views on other issues I largely respect.

Not exact matches

Nevertheless, he was assailed by prominent liberal blogs and cut off by Nancy Pelosi; his seat, a sure Democratic bet, went GOP in a special election.

Republican senators who had previously assailed the nation's debt burden — including Senators Jeff Flake of Arizona and James Lankford of Oklahoma — eventually fell in line to support the bill after efforts to include a backstop against growing deficits failed.

Musk is betting on Mars — where no human has ever travelled — as a safe haven in the case that a catastrophic event assails the Earth.

If, when attempting to browse the Internet over the past few years, you've been assailed by ads featuring a whitening product to restore yellowing teeth, or an acai berry product to deflate bloated bellies, chances are they could be traced back to the young man in Sherwood Park.

By its heyday in the 1940s and»50s, the company employed tens of thousands of salesmen, and Fuller's status as a legendary pioneer of direct sales could not be assailed.

He assailed it for taking jobs from U.S. workers, but during a Republican debate last March said he was «softening» his position «because we have to have talented people in this country.»

Earlier this month, two former senior officials in the finance department assailed the Conservative government for eroding the «integrity and credibility» of federal budgets through what they argued is a system of secrecy that keeps parliamentarians and Canadians in the dark about how federal dollars are spent.

The elder Mr. Kushner, his company and his family are assailed by criminal and regulatory inquiries largely rooted in their newfound access to presidential power.

(Update: Mike Bloomberg delivered a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia where he praised Hillary Clinton's leadership and assailed Donald Trump's business acumen, calling him a «dangerous demagogue.»

Those allies have assailed the Trump administration's move — and have even threatened to respond in kind, meaning the US may soon be in a trade war with its closest friends in the world.

Meanwhile you assail the church and insist on tainting our children with the lie of homosexuality, being taught in our schools upon your insistence.

The helplessness that assails the grief - stricken often leads them to envisage the role of the religious leader in a symbolic aspect as the representative of God.

The New York Times: China Assails U.S. «Arrogance» in Report on Religious Freedom The United States has issued its annual report on religious freedom around the world, taking particular aim at repression and crackdowns in China, North Korea and Myanmar.

It also said revile angelic majesties which would mean that in this occasion they were so blinded by their lust that they repulsed or assailed the angels no where did it state that there was intercourse or that it was even a option.

Doubt continues to assail him from all sides, but belief in God mediated through the person of Jesus Christ is oddly persistent, and even the absence of God comes to echo his presence.

Truth is objective and unchanging: At the very beginning of his encyclical, Francis invokes «my predecessor, Benedict XVI,» who famously assailed the «dictatorship of relativism» — a critique Francis endorsed shortly after he became pope and now expands upon in Laudato Si.

In Luke the house is a palace, which the owner guards in full armor; he can be stripped of his armor and robbed only «when one stronger than he assails him.&raquIn Luke the house is a palace, which the owner guards in full armor; he can be stripped of his armor and robbed only «when one stronger than he assails him.&raquin full armor; he can be stripped of his armor and robbed only «when one stronger than he assails him.»

An irate writer published an essay in Daughters of Sarah in 1989 assailing the «holy hucksters peddling diet books preaching that thinness is next to godliness and faith can remove mountains of you - know - what.

'» This was the first of several articles published over the next few years that assailed the anti-Israel propaganda that had taken root in the mainline, but the genie could not be put back into the bottle.

In the post-September 11 American debate, critics have assailed the term «war on terrorism» as wrongly emphasizing military force and deemphasizing reliance on law - enforcement methods.

It comes to us in this world of sin, where lust and passion are on every hand, where fierce temptations assail us and try to turn us aside from the God - given standard of marriage.

All the powers which assail man's being and hope are met in the Cross — sin, death, the demonic powers, the judgment of the law, and despair at fulfilling it, the weight of guilt, the mystery of dying, the tragedy of history.

He assails the notion that (as he wrote in an essay in The Relevant Church) «if only we can (re) discover x (fill - in - the - blank: prayer, fasting, worship, community, drama, service) and implement it, then the Church will have y (fill - in - the - blank: impact, relevance, meaning, validity, profile, etc.).»

If Christ is our redeemer through sharing fully in the human lot, surely he needed to have experienced the deeply limited nature of human knowledge: the ambiguity, confusion, misunderstandings, and perplexing situations which constantly arise and assail our lives.

In the past several years we have been assailed with reports of the benefits derivable from the transcendent dimension.

In a November issue of the Washington Post, Anne Applebaum warned of a rising «neo-Bolshevism» assailing the West: «Donald Trump, Viktor Orban, Nigel Farage, Marine Le Pen and Jaroslaw Kacyniski.»

But of course this faith in providence is assailed by quite another question, with which the idea of law could adequately deal in its own way — the question of suffering, of the justice of God, of His righteousness in the ordering of the world.

In Uppsala a Lutheran seminary put out a booklet assailing Graham's ministry as «spiritual rape.»

In the future, as in the past, the human project will be threatened, assailed, and brutally battered, but the human project can not faiIn the future, as in the past, the human project will be threatened, assailed, and brutally battered, but the human project can not faiin the past, the human project will be threatened, assailed, and brutally battered, but the human project can not fail.

One of the most striking features of Benedict's time in office is how frequently he has been assailed and disparaged by certain members of the «Catholic left» (for want of a better term)» often harshly and bitterly.

Though there are many moments of scepticism as matters arise, and the dark nights of the soul that seem to assail almost everyone visit me too, I have never had anything remotely resembling a lapse, nor a sense of forsakenness, even when I was unjustly indicted, convicted, and imprisoned, in a country I formerly much admired.

In an article for Foreign Policy magazine, Harvard University's Stephen Walt assails «the myth of American exeptionalism,» pointing out that America's sins at home and abroad undercut this «self - congratulatory portrait» of a country superior to others and consistently beneficial.

Profoundly established in the centre of its own nothingness, it can be assailed by naught that comes from below; and since it no longer desires anything, what comes from above can not depress it; for its desires alone are the causes of its woes.»

First, beginning in the period after the 1964 Goldwater campaign, they assailed as liberal every media institution that was not conservative.

Bernard of Clairvaux, a mystic and not a theologian, the opposite of Abélard in temperament, assailed the latter for views which he held weakened the faith of good Christians.

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.

In the late nineteenth century the faith of the Church was assailed by intellectual threats from within and without.

It is to participate in the life of Israel and the early Church, in their hearing and interpretation of the Word spoken through all the sounds that assailed their ears, in their obedience and disobedience to the Will beyond all wills, in their mindfulness and understanding of the mighty acts of ultimate judgment and deliverance in all the arbitraments and liberations of history.

Alternating bursts of malty and chocolate flavours assailed our tastebuds in the nicest way — try one get one free.