Sentences with phrase «assault upon»

By being the closest to Baramos» lair, it was the site of the fiend's first assault upon the world.

Of course, such judges almost invariably accompany dicta touching upon the possibility of judicial disobedience to constitutionally suspect legislation with lavishly extravagant examples such as a full - frontal assault upon the basic tenets of democracy or the evisceration of the courts» powers of judicial review.

Nor is there in this view any assault upon the court or the judges.

I am uncertain of the propriety of reference to non-reviewed articles here, but perhaps an exception could be made for Randal Simpson's rare, knee bone connected to the thigh bone assault upon the mechanical causality of sudden stratospheric warmings, and associated teleconnections.

Dr. James Hansen, «the father of the AGW theory» is now a professional witness for hire in defense of eco-terrorism helping said eco-terrorists to escape responsibility for their assault upon their societies.

This is important to recall because the primacy of the artist's touch - de Kooning's distinctly tactile assault upon the clay - is key to the evocative strength of his sculpture.

The armed forces of Niflheim launch a devastating assault upon the Kingdom of Lucis, casting Crown Prince Noctis and his comrades out of their... Read More»

A jury has found a 12 year old Clovis student committed Aggravated Assault upon a School Employee and Unlawful Carrying of a Deadly Weapon on School Premises.

He combines those types in «Everest,» a frighteningly good picture about an ill - fated assault upon the world's highest mountain in 1996.

Voldemort's pyrotechnic assault upon Hogwarts may come a little late for July 4, but it is more than worthy of Bastille Day.

• PROCESSED FOODS: These present a quadruple nutritional assault upon a brain suffering the ravages of the modern diet: they are usually high in refined carbohydrate; high in rancid, easily oxidized vegetable oils; low in antioxidants; and low in vitamins and minerals.

Observant readers will have noticed a renewed assault upon the meteorological station data that underpin some conclusions about recent warming trends.

This open, accessible configuration surrounding the switches that control cytokine genes may be instrumental in enabling ILCs to rapidly launch an assault upon infection.

He's willing to do anything to get this through... I believe that this proposal is an assault upon Mattituck.»

A second assault upon Brown's premiership was launched in September 2008 when Siobhain McDonagh — an MP who had never voted against the government [118]-- spoke of the need for discussion over Brown's position.

The decision is not only wrong; it is an inexcusable assault upon justice, fairness and morality.

They do not know that this submission may expose them to routine interference and physical injury without any clinical indication that can justify such assault upon their bodies.

So it is that a recovery of the original way of Jesus can occur only by way of an absolute assault upon all established or manifest Christianity, as most purely occurs in Blake and Nietzsche.

[Ed: We discussed appropriate developments in this area in our March 2006 editorial, «Confusion over the Meanings of Marriage», and attempted them in our March 2009 editorial «The Assault upon the Sexes»]

The government's has abdicated its responsibility for the care and well - being of people; it is an assault upon the poor and the uninformed by governments that are being irresponsibly financed.

We First World Christians can maintain a comfortable distance in contemplating the worldwide technological assault upon creation.

Always, however, resentment is a flight from life, an evasion of the human condition, an assault upon all life and movement as the way to the dissolution of pain.

Furthermore, Hartshorne launches a surprisingly strong assault upon the reigning scientific materialism of today and simultaneously presents a stout defense of his own position.

And that anger is intensified by my realization that despite all reasoning to the contrary, I can not but perceive these questions as an assault upon my person.

We made some suggestions towards a synthesis of this vision with some of John Paul II's insights in our March 2009 editorial, «The Assault upon the Sexes: Fostering the Papal Defence», and would also refer to Luke Gormally's pieces in our March 2006 issue, «Marriage and the Prophylactic use of condoms» and in our March 2004 issue, «Marriage, the true environment for sexual love».

Of course, others may say that we have always been a more barbarous people and are therefore indifferent to the latest assault upon decorum and decency.

The «power and the truth» of the Christian gospel is in the level and the dimensions of its assault upon the hurt God - man relationship.

Thence has flowed that considerable and melancholy river of counsel whereby one may learn how to organize an assault upon the cognitive and critical faculties of the mind, how to anesthetize into easy seduction the nonverbalized but dependable anxieties that roam about in the solitary and collective unconscious, and how to conduct a brain - washing under the presumed banner of the Holy Ghost.

Like so many traditions, ordination has felt the effects of a general assault upon uses of the past and the romanticizing of the ministry.

When Muslims today think of violence, they remember the atrocities of Bosnia, the bombing of Baghdad and the recent assault upon the civilian population and infrastructure of Lebanon.

More important by far than an assault upon the theory of communism is the vigorous working out of Christianity's criticism of capitalism and the development among Christian people of a Christian judgment and conscience in economics.

While they welcome the assault upon an authoritarian church and the rejection of sacraments efficacious in and of themselves, they have resisted the Reformation logic as applied to doctrine and to the Bible.

The surge of patriotism has sometimes spilled over into jingoism, which is not surprising in view of the brutality of the assault upon the security of what now, quite suddenly, people are calling our «homeland.»

It can be said, however, that the radical Christian invariably attempts by one means or another to return to the original message and person of Jesus with the conviction that such a return demands both an assault upon the established Church and a quest for a total or apocalyptic redemption.

And yet, Hamann's critique of Kant, for all that it is written as a kind of burlesque, is far more original and startling — and a far more penetrating assault upon modernity — than is Kierkegaard's critique of Hegel (despite the latter's satiric excellence).

As such, it was not simply a prohibition of foreign cults, but a call to arms, an assault upon the antique order of the heavens — a declaration of war upon the gods.

Few contemporary theologians would disagree with this statement, but we might well expect that many of Weisinger's brothers in arms, the literary critics, would raise a cry of protest against this seeming assault upon the reality of the individual mythical vision.

The reasons Melville should have hated New York have led many readers to imagine that he did in fact undertake an assault upon urban life in his land - based novels, Pierre (1852) and Israel Potter (1855), and such stories as «Bartleby, the Scrivener» (1853).

In 1945 Henry L. Stimson, secretary of war, recommended to President Truman the use of nuclear weapons against Japan to hasten the end of the war and save the Allied forces an estimated 1 million casualties in an assault upon mainland Japan.

As Fiorenza has observed, «Paul's advice to remain free from the marriage bond was a frontal assault upon the institutions of existing law and the general cultural ethos, especially since it was given to a people who lived in the urban centres of the Roman Empire.»

Recent years have witnessed a general assault upon, and consequent weakening of, societal taboos.

An all - out, organized assault upon nature would be followed by success.

The proof that we are tolerant is that we don't go postal for all the religious criminal behavior and start a religious war despite the most vicious provocations and assaults upon our lives and our rights and our country.

Quite aside from hard - to - measure traumas such as the drawn - out anticipation of an impending catastrophe, the incarceration itself, the dehumanization, the sustained fear of death, I could point to some very tangible assaults upon my health in the concentration camp.

They are assaults upon consciousness which are intended to jar the hearers and readers into seeing the world in new ways.

In the spirit of Isaiah Berlin and Michael Oakeshott (incidentally, a mentor of Sullivan's who sometimes appears to be incidental to him), conservatives have quite enough to do in coping with the assaults upon decency, justice, and common sense perpetrated by those who call themselves liberals.

Despite cataclysmic assaults upon democratic ideals from both the right and the left, the ideal of democracy persists, indeed flourishes, not only in Western Europe and North America but — even if only as an ideal — throughout much of the less - developed world.

From the dying days of the Callaghan government, the Institute proved to be a useful springboard for assaults upon union power, the housing system, the «quango - cracy» and state ownership of industry.

For all his verbal assaults upon former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, his budgets and his appointments, he nonetheless was able to form a relationship with Mr. Bloomberg's Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner, Shaun Donovan, which helped him build the most city - subsidized affordable housing units of anyone on the Council.

But after two or so assaults upon the problem you should be able to keep cat fleas off your cat and out of your cat's environment.