Sentences with phrase «assault on»

«An assignment: Compare and contrast the responsefrom the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian group, to the attempted assault on their offices with the response of a Sikh temple to the killings that took place in their house of worship.

It really is an assault on their cognitive structure which appears abusive and insane to them.

And shame on the Church for dishonestly stating health insurance covering contraception is an assault on religious freedom.

Authorities say Mr Kelley had been confronted on at least two occasions in the last five years about domestic violence, including an assault on his ex-wife and a child that ended his Air Force career.

It's just that you don't deserve that right when it is clearly a felony - type assault on the mental health of other people.

We think we are fighting off Suleiman's Muslim assault on Vienna, preserving Western Christianity, when all we are really doing is playing with toy soldiers.

Likewise, the Lebanese Shiite scholar Sayyed Ali Fadlallah (son of the late Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah) urged Christians and Muslims to work together for the archbishops» release, calling the kidnapping «a direct assault on the freedom of two figures that have long worked toward unifying ranks and rejecting strife.»

If the feminists» assault on the tradition awakens us to this essential character of the deepest and most intimate spirituality, the overall gain shall exceed whatever may have to be given up along the way.

The Bolshevik regime thus tried to build a caricature of modernity through forced industrialization and a frontal assault on the traditional foundations of the Russian way of life: the peasantry, an independent intelligentsia, and the Orthodox Church.

But as an American I can not accept the government assault on faith without getting mad as fire.

The ISIS assault on his people, he told me, was but the latest of eight different assaults on Chaldean Catholics over the last century, which have reduced what was once a population of three million to about 180,000.

Fr Wesolowski, from Poland, was expelled from the priest hood in late June amid allegations of a sex assault on a child in the Dominican Republic.

Those who do not accept the regime of the unlimited abortion license, sexual liberation, divorce, and the wholesale assault on what are called traditional values should simply get lost.

Three days after that, Secretary of State John Kerry met a congressionally mandated deadline by actually using the «G - word» — «genocide» — to describe ISIS's assault on Christians, Yazidis, and Shiites in the areas of Iraq and Syria under its control.

The totalitarianism of the Communist sought to realize this philosophical promise through an unprecedented assault on the traditional contents of life.

If you Google the name of the guy mentioned towards the end who looks fondly on as his 7 year old daughter talks about dead bodies and death, («Benjamin Ramrajie»), you'll see that he was arrested for aggravated assault on a pregnant woman... just over 7 years ago.

Still, I am sorry that he is not with us now to try his hand at this latest assault on religious and political liberty.

As Martin Malia argued in a series of profound books, culminating in his 1999 Russia Under Western Eyes, there was nothing distinctively Russian about this nihilistic assault on the very pediments of civilized order.

The statement that one can be religious without attending church is seen by some as a new, gratuitous assault on organized religion.

We are pointedly reminded that the young man is the product of his lord father's assault on a peasant woman, with the unsavory suggestion that Ramsay's evil is somehow inborn since he is the product of rape.

Some have estimated that Gen. Odom's grand assault on Serbia would require a force of not 20,000, but 200,000, which, pouring into Serbia in a distinctly «non «permissive» manner from both north and south, should bring Milosevic to heel.

The assault on orthodox belief has not died out.

Lukacs» assault on Arendt fits into NOR's running editorial polemic against anti-Communists, cold warriors, neoconservatives, and a shady group known as «the New York intellectuals.»

Bishop Antoine Audo, the Chaldean Bishop of Aleppo told Premier people in his pastoral visits have told him life is better for them since President Bashar al - Assad launched the final assault on the opposition - held east Aleppo.

Science by all means can comment and deny it because there's no proof but religion (and by extension, religious people) take this as an assault on them and their beliefs and so fight back.

The strategies differed as well, with Graham and company focusing on the conversionism that had been central to evangelical awakenings as the means to transform society and the liberal Protestants rallying behind an all - out assault on social ills.

In seeing the Protestant Reformation as an assault on Christendom from within, the Catholics were partly right: the Protestant Reformation was destined to sound the death - knell to Christendom.

A revised and updated version of his award winning Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America will be released by Encounter Books next year.

Joseph Fletcher mounted a frontal intellectual assault on the ideal of universal human equality.

If you had your preacher here to tell you the meaning of the words I wrote, you would understand my words to have meant that anytime anything mentions atheism it sends the christians into a tizzy, like its an assault on their personal beliefs, Atheists have know for ever that there are christians around.

The suffering which Jesus was to undergo, which was a result of many individual sins (the betrayal of Judas, the envy of the Sanhedrin, the cowardice of Pilate, the injustice of the crowd) was seen by the Son of God against the background of Sin itself as an assault on the will of an all loving Creator uttering it forth through his Word.

Although the Muslim perpetrator was not a government actor, the court's approval of his assault on the atheist arguably could be considered state action.

Martha's comments indicated that she did recognize why these measures were taken, and yet she seemed to regard them as an assault on her dignity, one that made «life not worth living.»

Other writers want the story line to be true to the character, and still others seek «an omnidirectional assault on anything that is sacred — hypocrisy will be mocked at all times,» he said.

It is anything but a liberation from old shackles: instead, it is a suppression of femininity, a direct assault on the oft - touted blessing of diversity.

'» The world's assault on the Church is not a thing of the past, but a permanent feature of the Church's pilgrim life in this «foreign land.»

Through his assault on his fears of weakness, a psychic numbing takes place which is then intended to be turned into aggressiveness toward a dehumanized «enemy.»

Alternative media like art, or TV shows, or comedy, have long been vehicles to examine society and religion and all sorts of things in a more effective way that head - on debate can provide — look at Stephen Colbert for one example — any, any restraint on those media is a direct assault on freedom itself.

At stake could be the possibility of assembling a common assault on social incivility and fragmentation.

No the Catholic Church did not start this assault on human life.

Not every modern assault on the sanctity of human life is traceable to Hitler.

Every one of these acts is a direct result of China's systematic assault on the Tibetan people's way of life, their movements, their speech, their religion, and their identity.

In his article ««Instinctive Repugnance,»» David Novak seizes upon and distorts a single phrase, taken out of context, from Professor Jon D. Levenson's extensive and thoughtful critique of the interfaith document «Dabru Emet (Speak the Truth): A Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity,» in order to launch an ad hominem assault on Prof. Levenson's integrity, his attitude to Christianity, and his suitability to be a professor at Harvard's Divinity School.

Some might say it is a presumptuous book, so frontal is its assault on some conventional ways of thinking.

But Ana is in love with a certain marquis, and Juan, knowing this, disguises himself as her beloved and attempts a nocturnal assault on her virtue, of the sort that had worked so well with Isabela.

San Angelo, Texas (CNN)- A Texas jury found polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs guilty Thursday of two counts of sexual assault on a child.

To complement this assault on the user's senses, hard materials, previously reserved for external surfaces, were introduced into internal walls.

SS» M» is an assault on the created order and if we were to say nothing to our fellow human beings about it we would be derelict in our duty of love to them.

A friend creates a haven of hospitality where you can regather your energies for a more open assault on less accepting portions an inhospitable world.

And the friend creates a haven of hospitality where you can regather your energies for a more open assault on less accepting portions of that world.