Sentences with phrase «battle of»

In fact, some of his greatest arguments with the soldiers / governments over the years have been over this very issue — the humans are afraid and so they want to kill the aliens while he wants to encourage life and cooperation (thinking in particular of the Ninth Doctor with Harriet Jones or even the battle of Canary Wharf when we lost Rose because of Torchwood opening the breach etc.).

The battle of the bumper stickers between conservatives and liberals in the late «60s and early «70s predictably was fought from such Sunday school formations; evangelicals, fundamentalists and charismatics fired volleys of «Christ is the Answer!

Their hostility to Ali was increased by the fact that there was scarcely an Arab family which had not lost some of its members to Ali's sword in fighting against Islam; for instance, three relatives of Mu`awiya were killed by Ali himself in the battle of Badr.

A similar feast would seem to take place later, after the battle of Armageddon (Rev. 19:17 - 18, Matt.

The battle of Carchemish (46:3 - 12) is a masterpiece.

It's nonsense and never gets anywhere... except this ongoing battle of words.

As for your myth that Muhammad killed poets: If by poets, you are referring to Uqba bin Abu Muayt and Al Nadr bin al - Harith, they were both executed for taking part in the Battle of Badr, not for being poets and not during peacetime.

In an earlier book, What Went Wrong, published shortly after September 11, 2001, Bernard Lewis outlined the gradual triumph of Western science, technology, ways of making war, learning, and culture over Islam since the naval battle of Lepanto in 1571, when the Christian league decisively defeated the Turks.

For more than a century after Alexander's death Egypt maintained dominant political control of Palestine although until the turn of the century (301 B.C. at the battle of Ipsus in Phrygia) that control was sharply contested by the Seleucid rule.

We are no longer fighting the ancient battle of Hebrew linear vs. Greek cyclical time.

Is it not the case that nations are in their very nature fated to throw themselves at one another in a grim game of power to which the principles of ethics are no more relevant than to the death battle of prehistoric mastodons?

Who occupied Syria and Phoenicia following his victory at the Battle of Issus in 333 B.C.E..

And someone please go to this «Battle of Ideas» in London, where it appears Mr. Miller will be speaking, and happily and distastefully as possible shoot down any garbage he tries to spread; it certainly seems he's ill - equipped to discuss such topics as religion, spirituality, etc..

Until the next world, violence alone ensured the survival of Christendom — and so, after their victory at the great Battle of Lepanto, Spanish and Italians butchered scores of defeated Turkish seamen thrashing in the bloody seas, determined that the sultan would lose all his skilled bowmen and rowers.

The Battle of the Severn (1655) was a battle of the English Civil war fought between Puritans and Catholics in Providence (later Annapolis, MD).

Assad is fighting both the west at least are really only focused on Damascus, that is where mainly western support limited it may be has gone for the battle of Damascus.

How about the Battle of The Horns of Hattin, where close to 20,000 lives were lost?

After the battle of Jericho, Joshua leads the people of Israel to attack the city of Ai.

This is the battle of Jericho.

Not surprising that he was speaking at something called «The Battle of Ideas» in England.

In 1915 the editors mounted their own battle of words against the «militarists» who preached preparedness for war.

So the Battle of Cairo will continue, in other venues.

I am very well aware that the pro-life cause is, at its heart, a spiritual battle of cosmic proportions.

When the kids choir sings about Joshua and the Battle of Jericho, I lean over to my husband and whisper something about genocide, drawing harsh stares from parents

The churches have the battle of the billboards won the thousand times over.

«59 In the battle of church versus state in Mexico, in other words, the state won.

Comment to James Longstreet, on seeing a Federal charge repulsed in the Battle of Fredericksburg (13 December 1862)

In fact, Paulist Pictures» Romero may be only the first of several films about the assassinated prelate; for example, director Gillo Poncecorvo (The Battle of...

, Cambridge Fish 5 (Winter 1975 - 76): 2, 6; Carl F. H. Henry, «The Battle of the Sexes,» Christianity Today 19 (July 4, 1975): 45 - 46; Nancy Hardesty, «Women and Evangelical Christianity» in The Cross & the Flag, ed.

Called the battle of Armageddon.

At the Battle of the Ditch, the noble Imam «Ali had knocked an enemy soldier to the ground and was raising his sword to kill him, when the unbeliever spat in the blessed face of the Valiant Lion, may Allah be pleased with him.

«The battle of Platæa,» he continues, «settled the question whether Greek influence or Persian should be supreme in Europe» — and then a robin sings through the open window and issues invitations in the name of springtime that drive him almost to despair.

Sketching the conflict as a battle of good against evil, he calls for a preemptive strike against the foe.

Sadly the battle of good and evil is big news.

[10] Following the Battle of Badr, Muhammad also made mutual - aid alliances with a number of Bedouin tribes to protect his community from attacks from the northern part of Hijaz

We have already seen anticipations of reversion in Whitehead's discussion of the imaginative penumbra surrounding the bare facts of the Battle of Waterloo (Q2: PR 185C), the incorporation of relevant alternatives to the datum in the objective lure, and the account of Hume's missing shade of blue (Q2: PR 87fC +).

What absorbs the Catholic intellectual media is politics, conducted mostly in secular terms — a dreary battle of right versus left for the soul of the American Church.

Its position around the corner from the Glasgow Orange Order - a Protestant fraternity who still march once a year to celebrate the victory of King William III over the Catholic King James II in 1690 at the Battle of the Boyne - may be a mere coincidence, the allegiance of its regulars to Rangers is not.

Thus, Muhammad led his force outside to the mountain of Uhud (where the Meccans had camped) and fought the Battle of Uhud on March 23.

> His suffering for sin, though He entered of His own will, The statement is true but there is an important angle that is missed as we see the GREAT battle of WILLS between the human Jesus and the Father!

But just then, when all seemed lost, the Lord of Hosts would return to slay the forces of Gog and Magog in the most fearsome struggle of all time, the Battle of Armageddon.

James McPherson's riveting account of the battle of Antietam, Crossroads of Freedom, is one of the first volumes in a new series called Pivotal Moments in American History.

In other words, 46 % are dumber than a post, 32 % have a shot at someday grasping reality, and 15 % are fighting a battle of ignorance that can never be won.

In fact, Paulist Pictures» Romero may be only the first of several films about the assassinated prelate; for example, director Gillo Poncecorvo (The Battle of Algiers) reportedly has a Romero project under way (tentative title: The Devil's Bishop) But however many such films are made, none is likely to be as much a labor of love as Romero was.

The battle of Pius X was, instead, turned inward to the Church itself; as a result, the Vatican came to seem a constant bully, obsessed with tracking down heretical or confused professors in the seminaries.

* The motto of Constantine (starting from the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in 312) is legendarily: «In hoc signo vinces» using the Christian cross as the insignia.

Sources suggest that he wanted to avenge his father's defeat at the Battle of Marthon near Athens (490 BC).

the German Peasants» War (1524 — 1525) the battle of Kappel in Switzerland (1531) the Schmalkaldic War (1546 — 1547) in the Holy Roman Empire the Eighty Years» War (1568 — 1648) in the Low Countries the French Wars of Religion (1562 — 1598) the Thirty Years War (1618 — 1648), affecting the Holy Roman Empire including Habsburg Austria and Bohemia, France, Denmark and Sweden Scottish Reformation and Civil Wars English Reformation and Civil War Irish Confederate Wars and the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland

This has to do with the subject; otherwise this turns into battle of ego inflation and power display, not an intelligent and reasoned debate.

The soldier was among 3,000 marched south in 1650 following the short but bloody Battle of Dunbar to the then abandoned Durham Cathedral.