Sentences with phrase «at defenders of»

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The Air Force Court of Appeals in May 2017 also reversed a conviction in the sexual assault case U.S. v. Boyce after finding that public statements by Sens. Claire McCaskill and Kirsten Gillibrand regarding the «Marines United» scandal earlier this year created «the appearance of unlawful command influence» in the case, as retired Col. Don Christensen, a former Air Force chief prosecutor and current president of the advocacy group Protect Our Defenders, told Task & Purpose at the time.

When a rifle company spent a couple hours taking an enemy machine gun position, losing half of its hundred men in the process, the defenders would be killed in the end, perhaps finished off with bayonets, and everybody at the front understood this.

Nikolas Cruz (C) appears via video monitor with Melisa McNeill (R), his public defender, at a bond court hearing after being charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S., February 15, 2018.

Altman had defenders from the venture - capital and entrepreneurship worlds, but he also drew scores of critics in technology writers, activists, business professors, and even rank - and - file employees at big tech companies.

Garcia Zarate (right) is led into the courtroom by San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi (left) for his arraignment in the death of Kate Steinle at the Hall of Justice in 2015.

Among the many well - known Canadians scheduled as «participants» were Stephen Harper's Conservative cabinet ministers Stockwell Day (who at first denied attending) and the then - defence minister Gordon O'Connor, deputy ministers (Defence) Ward Elcock, Peter Harder (Foreign Affairs), Associate Deputy Minister William Elliott (Public Security), Liberal continentalist Anne McLellan, Canada's former deputy prime minister and a defender of the oil patch, the Alberta minister of energy, Greg Melchin, General Rick Hillier, Canada's chief of defence staff, former Conservative cabinet minister Perrin Beatty, now president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the infamous continentalist Thomas d'Aquino, head of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, Rear Admiral Roger Girouard, Maj. - Gen.

The John R. Justice Student Loan Repayment Program provides up to $ 10,000 per year of law school loan repayment for state and federal public defenders and state prosecutors who agree to remain employed as public defenders and prosecutors for at least three years.

Activist investor Bill Ackman, long a defender of the company, eventually surrendered his Valeant shares at a $ 4 billion loss.

Nikolas Cruz's public defender argued that the Florida school shooting suspect should be represented at the expense of taxpayers because he likely doesn't have the assets to pay a private lawyer for his death penalty case.

The Dream Defenders have several policy objectives aimed at helping marginalized people, but one of its larger efforts revolves around gun violence and ending Florida's «stand your ground» law.

Public Defender Howard Finkelstein said guilt is not an issue in the case of Cruz, who was taken into custody shortly after Wednesday's shooting spree at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

At a time when there are more women and children crying out for rescue than ever before, God has placed within the DNA of every man a father, a defender and a protector.

The great defender of traditional liturgy could also be its critic when he thought the fog of incense was merely hiding a vacancy at the altar.

Ben Rogers, East Asia Team Leader at advocacy charity Christian Solidarity Worldwide, told Premier: «The Islamic Defenders Front, they for years have been pushing this agenda, trying to shut down churches, attack the Ahmadiyya community - who're a sect of Islam that other Muslims disagree with - and also often raided nightclubs and bars and want Sharia law to be established.

The field is full of defenders, with at most four offensive players on the field at any one time (brawls excepted).

But all varieties of horror flick are easily identifiable at this point, whether they're spooky, low - budget films (numerous); viscera - stained slasher movies (more numerous); quick - cut zombie flicks (even more numerous); macabre sci - fi, floating - in - space efforts (somewhat less numerous than they should be); sexualized vampiric tales (I trip over one of these whenever I get the newspaper); films of the more critically favored retro - mashup variety (Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Death Proof plus Planet Terror feature Grindhouse); or foreign entries of the psychological horror variety (the works of Dario Argento, of course; Alexandre Aja's films, which have their defenders; and Juan Antonio Bayona's El Orfanato, which only someone who truly dislikes cinema can dismiss).

Nevertheless, at specific points such as the time and manner of creation and the expectancy of divine intervention in an established order, the defenders of traditional Christian belief have had to make more adjustments than have the exponents of the scientific spirit.

Amazingly, his fellow - Jew Alan Dershowitz, a law professor at Harvard and a prominent defender of Israel, has been emailing faculty and administrators at DePaul with accusations of «shoddy scholarship, lying, and anti-semitism».

Defenders of Galloway and Stephens have hoped for a future when no prayers would be allowed at such gatherings.

In this way Christian theology becomes both the defender of religion over against the onesidedness and superficiality of Marx's critique of religion, and at the same time the ally of this critique against the «alienation» of man.

He must really risk mutual discussion with the world, must take for granted that he will not only teach but learn thereby, that the whole truth is always richer and more mysterious than what he has already explicitly grasped, that between the real truth of yesterday, today and tomorrow there exists a deeper hidden agreement than is realized either by insensitive innovators or diehard defenders of the old at any price.

What is intolerable is the kind of brush - off that defenders of Heidegger, such as Walter Biemel in his biography (Martin Heidegger, Harcourt, Brace, 1976), give the question at hand.

Two years of work at a university in western Canada, where I studied with Wittgensteinian defenders of «ordinary language» as well as with Trotskyites and non-Marxist socialists, provided the necessary distance in terms of both ideologies and miles.

Whilst this approach was disturbing for many Christians at the time, it again meant that defenders of Christianity, instead of calling for a leap of faith, could start from historical events and argue from them to the divinity of Jesus Christ His divinity was seen as the perfection of his humanity and this fitted with the approach of Schleiermacher, who saw Jesus, whose consciousness was entirely taken up with awareness of God, as «the ideal representative of religion».

The defenders of evolutionary orthodoxy raise the alarm at any suggestion of intelligent design or purpose, thereby implicitly endorsing a narrowly dogmatic version of evolutionary theory.

Six Vietnamese religious freedom defenders accused of «carrying out activities aimed at overthrowing the government» will stand trial on 5th April.

Hence the Modernists are not good defenders of the church against Humanism; secularism is at their very door and they are not strong enough to battle with it.

Rustin became one of the movement's most eloquent defenders of its nonviolent philosophy, says Saladin Ambar, a political scientist at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania.

At the age of 5, in 1939, Tenzin Gyatso becomes officially recognized as the 14th reincarnation of the Dalai Lama, and is renamed «Holy Lord, Gentle Glory, Compassionate, Defender of the Faith, Ocean of Wisdom.»

Of course, I must agree that the Church, at least in India, is never known to be a defender or champion of human rightOf course, I must agree that the Church, at least in India, is never known to be a defender or champion of human rightof human rights.

Like many defenders of the invitation to Secretary Sebelius, the editorial at once denied that the invitation constituted an honor» since the event is not officially a «commencement» and an honorary degree is not being conferred» and that the invitation constituted an opportunity for the legitimate «exchange of ideas.»

At this level, relevance quickly becomes irrelevant, and the pastor becomes a defender or offender of the status quo — in either case no more than a pawn among parishioners.

For he was elected triumphantly a year ago at least partly, and maybe even mainly, because he was seen by a vast majority of the people as a defender of law and principle and established institutions and the moral order, and he is condemned now precisely because his Administration is now seen to have been unfaithful to the moral order he was elected to defend.

For some reason, the May issue's Public Square chose to pick two sentences out of my review of Jefferson Powell's book on the Supreme Court and twist those few words to portray both Powell and me as at least «confused» and perhaps as defenders of an imperial judiciary.

As for Mr. Trump, defender of traditional culture and religious freedom against «secular judges,» that forlorn hope is belied by the warm welcome afforded proponents of lifestyle libertinism — the principal driver of activist federal judging - as - legislating — at the Republican convention in Cleveland.

Ardent defenders of the Bible refused to accept these conclusions, and one of them, a zoologist named P. H. Gosse (1810 - 1888) admitted all the evidence of geology but claimed that at the creation God had deliberately placed the fossils in the rock so that men would later find them there.

Hence the tendency (which is also as old as the world) of the defenders of the Spirit to regard as diabolical, and to reject as being among the most formidable manifestations of pride, the irrepressible desire for growth and conquest, the unshakeable sense of power and progress, which at present fills the human breast.

In his intensely antiprelatical tracts written before 1645, Milton speaks of a world in which the truth embodied in a sacred text is known by one group, the Puritans, and rejected by another, the defenders of episcopal prelacy, who clearly are possessed by a false spirit» if not by the Devil, then at least by their own carnal imaginations.

Rather than saying that Whitehead was very deficiently Christian by orthodox standards, Morris B. Cohen and Bertrand Russell complained that he was excessively Christian, or at least too Christian to be a rational philosopher.7 Whitehead, from a purely rational point of view, was, as Pascal and James before him, a defender of emotion and feeling, or in Biblical terms, a defender of the heart, the raison.

Wenger is sitted on the bench noticing all that but come up with a solution to it, flamini keeps on making silly fouls but even when the referee is lenient wenger can't take him off... we lead a red carded side with an injured defender but wenger can't think of how to keep the lead instead he opts to replace AS17 who had a «leg» in both goals and bring in a non effective monreal who isn't good going forward neither is he good defending... i strongly believe had it been AS17 at the rebound of the shot from Carzola that would have been the winning goal.

Gibbs and Debuchy will have to learn to play from the CB area and rotation at the back with 3 defenders deployed per game will get us through the tough times, and get us lots of goals.

Seen through the eyes of Wenger he just spends a boat load of money on Xhaka and with playing 3 at the back we will be playing with 5 defenders if you include the wingbacks, add Xhaka (or Coq or Elneney) and you have 6 defensive minded players, leaving 4 attackers.

The 23 year - old's future at the Emirates looks doubtful following the emergence of Hector Bellerin, but with the former Barcelona youth product linked with a return to Spain, the English defender could return in the future.

The defender's future at the Parc des Princes is in doubt in light of PSG's reported intention to recruit Dani Alves this summer [via The Guardian].

The German defender has attracted the interest of many of European football's top table after proving his is worthy of playing at the absolute highest level.

Running at walls of defenders, while greedily keeping the ball from team mates to appear flashy and then falling over dispossessed is not how to play football.

I understand the concern about defenders playing off of him at the 3 - point line, but they do that to TJ as well, and Fultz's offense off the bounce is certainly more of a threat than TJ's strafe - runs under the basket.

If you ask him to consistently create at the rim it may be a different story... although I think this is the only aspect of his game that I think he can improve on... he'll never be a decent threat from deep and he'll always be a great defender... the rest, I have my doubts but I'll agree to hope for the best for the sake of the team.

The latest defender to be linked is the 23 year - old Kostas Manolas from Olympiakos.The Greek international has been a regular in the top flight of Greek football for five years with AEK Athens and Olympiakos, so he may not be too keen to be demoted to fourth choice at Arsenal if it will put his international place at risk.

I for one won't mind him retiring at Arsenal or being a coach, because despite his lack of pace and his limited ability his football brain is really up there with the best, knows how to read the game and is a true defender that likes to sit deep and soak in the pressure.