Sentences with phrase «attack against reason»

Not exact matches

Obama gave The Atlantic several reasons for not enforcing the red line — uneasiness about a strike against Syria not being sanctioned by Congress, a lack of support from the international community and the American people, the possibility that the intelligence on the chemical - weapons attack wasn't 100 % solid — but did not mention the Iran deal among them.

For this reason, some Lutheran theologians prefer to speak of «orders of preservation,» taking into account what God is doing to sustain the world under the conditions of sin, even using means sin - laden themselves, such as war and capital punishment, to fight against still more serious attacks on the goodness of God's creation.

He refuted the attacks of Western scholars against Islam by showing that there is no contradiction between Islam and reason; rather, that for Islam reason is the key to faith in God.

Douthat believes that there is a full scale war being waged by secularists against the free expression of Judaism and Christianity (in particular) outside of house of worship walls, and gets into some reasons for the attack on the first liberty area mentioned in the First Amendment.

Since Marx directs his attacks on religion in the name of man, against the alienation of man from his own potentialities and purposes, it constitutes, for that reason, the greatest challenge to Christianity in our time.

In the name of earthly life, he wages a frontal attack on any metaphysics of being and against being's essential tool, reason.

Two of his surprise selections include Burnley and Crystal Palace defenders Kieran Tripper and Scott Dann, with Merson pointing to the attacking mentality and the physical battle against Diego Costa as reasons why they make his team:

Perhaps it was for reasons such as this supporters were chanting «Attack, Attack» at the weekend against Sunderland, with the loudest said to be coming when a United corner managed to be worked all the way back to David De Gea.

Definitely choose Bellerin over Chambers and a fit Gabriel over Mert for the very same reason you provided, we need to protect against the counter attack.

Nevertheless, Napoli will be delighted with their display on Tuesday night as they gave the San Paolo crowd a reason to be cheerful with a devastating attacking performance led by Mertens against a woeful Bologna side.

The reason why We struggle against teams that presses is because mertesacker cant do a Pique, koscieny sometimes do got caught out because of the risk in doing that, he is good at bringing the ball out from defense and lauching attacks from his position, having Gabriel beside him will neutralise the threat coming from teams that presses because Gabriel too is comfortable on the ball unlike the immobile Rhino per.

This season, we've had one of the most diverse attacking setups we've had in a long time, yet for some reason we seem to not deploy these setups effectively, for example against Chelsea away, we had seen in their game against Tottenham that they were poor at defending aerial threats, yet we didn't play Giroud.

1 big reason is: We tend to play better against teams that play attacking — like Leicester City.

I think we have got a very good chance against Munich, for the simple reason that, like Manchester United, they will come to attack us themselves to try and win the game, whereas less talented teams tend to sit back and crowd the defence.

Theo Walcott's simple finish was a culmination of a typically fluid Arsenal attack and if they can stay as solid at the back as they were against their London rivals, then there is no reason why they can't establish themselves as potential champions.

It's important to remember that the reason Milik fell out of place in Napoli's attack was because of his devastating anterior cruciate ligament rupture in his left knee, suffered while serving international duty against Denmark on October 8.

Perhaps the only reason they held out against Uruguay was that La Celeste «s attack showed about as much desire as a vegetarian at a barbecue.

Earlier this week Cable praised Sarah Teather's attack against the coalition's immigration and welfare policies, which the former minister cited as reasons for her decision to stand down from parliament at the next election, as «eloquent».

He said, «The truth is that Captain Iheanacho for obvious political reasons has continued to sustain his media attacks against the governor and the few opponents of the government in the state have leveraged on that to be giving the impression that Okorocha and Iheanacho are at war, when they are not.»

These examples illustrate classic uses of ad hominem attacks, in which an argument is rejected, or advanced, based on a personal characteristic of an individual rather than on reasons for or against the claim itself.

What's more, recent news headlines in the New York Times and other major publications have warned against calcium supplements for reasons ranging from pain from kidney stones to death by heart attacks and stroke caused by calcification of the arteries and heart valves.

Second, the reason NAC is antimicrobial is (a) it supports glutathione synthesis in immune cells which is an antioxidant helping immune cells kill microbes, and (b) it helps break disulfide bonds which help defend bacteria against immune attack.

There are occasional gameplay reasons to swap characters; one's grenade launcher allows you to bombard enemies over a low wall, one's fire attack is especially useful against some monsters, and when one skylander loses all its health you have no choice but to swap it out.

Part of the reason that elements of the climate change debate take on religious proportions — by the activists for and against policy — is that folks have so dug in around almost every aspect of the debate that it is hard to raise a question about some uncritically accepted element of the religious canon without folks first attacking you as an untrained heathen.

A further reason favoring pipelines, particularly subsea ones, is that they're more secure against piracy and attack.