Sentences with phrase «attempt by»

I'm sure in no way does this represent any attempt by CNN to portray all religious types in a negative light.

As this brief glance at the recent discussion shows, the concept of supervenience is at the heart of the current attempt by physicalist philosophers to provide an adequate account of the mind - body relation.

Just another attempt by a believer to be superior and exclusionary.

An attempt by a female leader justifying her opression saying she was being bld because «men have demeaned women, not listened ot them and caused them to have low self esteem».

Religion is an attempt by humanity to make things right with God.

The USCC's Thomas Lynch has successfully defended the new American guidelines against an attempt by the conservative front to drive an ideological wedge between the USCC's work and the work from Cardinal Baum's group.

Islam was also built on Jewish and Christian teachings, but it was more of an attempt by Arabs to regain their heritage from Europeans, who had pretty much taken control of all of religious history, even though everything in the Scriptures had happened in Arab lands.

One form of folly is the attempt by a few of the....

I believe this is an attempt by the devil to lead people astray.

This article is simply a coy attempt by CNN to tie together religion with tax hikes.

Self - centeredness is the attempt by man to hold fast to that which he knows and fears will pass away.

Are you speaking of: «The spectacular but unsuccessful attempt by King Philip II of Spain to invade Elizabethan England.»

this is a dishonest attempt by evolutionists to hijack very real and substantial evidence and occurrence just as they attempt to do with the natural order.

The prohibition against art was an attempt by ancient Israel to undercut pagan idolatry, but it was never totally successful.

They were introduced on a limited basis last month at Heathrow and Manchester airports in response to the alleged attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to blow up a jet over Detroit on Christmas Day using explosives concealed in his underpants.

She pays to stay there, unless the landlord can show in the RENT AGREEMENT that what she is doing is wrong, really its just a pathetic attempt by a pathetic individual to silence freedom of religon.

I'm not sure An Evangelical Manifesto is an attempt by the third group to redefine evangelicalism by progressive standards.

For instance, she uncovers an attempt by jewelers in the 1920s to sell male engagement rings and reports that the women who were supposed to buy the rings for their betrothed just didn't.

Delorable and desprate attempt by the Religious Right Wing to profess their pathetic beliefs.

«This was a deeply misguided attempt by the City Council to attack free speech simply because they disagreed with our point of view.

I keep hearing believers complaining that the billboard in question is somehow an attempt by atheists to «force» people to abandon their faith, or that it is «pushing atheism» on society.

I extend my hand to grab a paper but there were none, an attempt by Satan to embarrass me.

These persons believe that any attempt by government to promote a particular conception of the good life is, given the pluralistic nature of American society, imprudent at best.

What's wrong with this attempt by man to disprove Jesus» spiritual truth?

What is clearly an attempt by religious lawmakers to help young Christians retain their faith will backfire.

«His efforts were the most explicit attempt by any Orthodox hierarch to join with evangelicals and other conservatives in a common social agenda,» North Park University professor Brad Nassif said of Jonah's nearly four - year tenure as primate.

Maybe, as a second scenario, this hypothetical «I» rejects the teaching because he believes it to be a misinterpretation of scripture, or even an attempt by church leaders to unreasonably control their parishioners.

An attempt by the House of Representatives to pass an overwhelmingly popular ban on late - term abortion was temporarily scrapped when some House Republicans came to the horrible realization that they might actually have to follow through on their campaign promises.

Just another attempt by Zionists to drum up support for war against IRAN.

This is nothing more than a blatant attempt by enemies of our church to embarrass us!

The note sounded by both Chomsky and Roy is admittedly rather shrill, but we must consider that their dissent comes at a time when much of the world seems content with President Bush's view that this attack was simply an attempt by «evildoers» to snuff out «the beacon light of freedom» in the world.

This attempt by the former colonies for development or industrialization with independence is the context of the emergence of the new form of globalization.

The expressions and ideas In the Odes clearly show that they belong to a period prior to any systematic development of Christian doctrine and practice and they were the first attempt by a Christian community to express its new found faith.

Gossip is an insidious attempt by an insecure person to gain power.

At first I thought this was just an attempt by pagan scientists to prove evolution.

The 1990 Vatican document Ex corde ecclesia reflects a somewhat belated attempt by the Vatican to reassert juridical control over Catholic higher education and (some fear, others hope) to return it to its earlier unifying intellectual moorings.

Indeed, even those who would want to absolve Heidegger by seeing his official entry into the Nazi party or his Nazi Rektorat (rectorate) as a selfless attempt by him to prevent greater evils, are bound at least to accept the legitimacy of my inquiry.

That any attempt by the state to legislate morals must be illegitimate has become a platitude of contemporary political thought, and Robert George's new book, Making Men Moral, challenges it directly.

It serves as an indication of the breakdown of civil discourse, and the attempt by some culture warriors on the left to denigrate traditional religious believers as a darkened sect, unworthy of consideration.

«Any attempt by you, Obama, to deny Muslims liberty and safety under the Islamic caliphate will result in the bloodshed of your people,» the ISIS militant said in the video.

African traditional religion (ATR) was a top - down attempt by the religious elite to legitimize Christianity with the very paganism the missionaries had demonized.

Each is a mythic expression: that is, first, an attempt by a people to explain the unexplainable by using the legends handed down from generation to generation; and second, a rationalization of the status quo.

«It is another attempt by a Government to clamp down on free speech in the guise of combating extremism.

No permanent improvement to mankind can result from the attempt by government to remove the necessity of the struggle for existence.»

He treated the Enlightenment as a new attempt by the old enemy, Christianity, to destroy Islamic society by secularising it.

Since I'm in Indiana, I think I'll write this off as a poor attempt by CNN to make something controversial out of Prof King's research and go have some lunch.

The expression of obligation is merely an attempt by one to secure the conformity of another (and different) person to his own pattern of value - relationships.

This site in NYC is an attempt by those of us who are moderate to say we want to show you more than anything else in the world that we are part of the same fabric of life in this great country of ours.

If this maturing does not occur, four types of nonproductive life - orientations (and character structures) develop in the attempt by persons to defend themselves from feelings of existential insignificance and aloneness.

Damian Thompson summed up both the general situation and the particular question of the attempt by traditionalists to argue for the traditional days for celebrations of the «old» mass.