Sentences with phrase «battling against the people»

The global market powers will do battle against the people's religious communities and spiritual powers, sapping their spiritual strength and promoting spiritual wilderness and wasteland where souls and spirits will be broken and people's spiritual sources of life will be lost.

Some of this is because griefers and trolls like to generate drama, so you're often battling against people dead - set against civilized conversations.

The title is near enough on - par with its console counterparts, including all of the characters and modes I'm used to seeing — such as Arcade, Trials and Versus — as well as including «Streetpass» functionality exclusive to the 3DS, which involves picking a selection of 5 character statues of varying strength, which are then battled against people you pass on the street, the winner receiving a new figure for their collection.

· Thanks to the StreetPass mode on your Nintendo 3DS system, you will be able to form an army and battle against people you pass on the street using the weapons in your possession.

As a computer who merely wants to carry out its orders, you're constantly battling against the people who are trying to shut down the missile launching process.

«The people whose job is to protect the user always are fighting an uphill battle against the people whose job is to make money for the company,» said Sandy Parakilas, who worked at Facebook enforcing privacy and other rules until 2012 and now advises a nonprofit organization called the Center for Humane Technology, which is looking at the effect of technology on people.

Not exact matches

«I'm fighting a battle against a horrible group of deep - seated people — drain the swamp — that are coming up with all sorts of phony charges against me and they're not bringing up real charges against the other side,» the president said.

Uber thinks shared rides are key to its future, but getting people to want to share is a «battle» against «societal norms,» Uber CEO Dara...

In this vein, decentralized currencies give people a fighting chance in their battle against never - ending inflation.

The Case for Banning Payday Lending: Snapshots from Four Key States (June 2013) This report outlines the battles against the payday lending industry in states with strong usury cap protections, such as New York and North Carolina, and in states like California and Illinois with weaker laws that allow payday lenders to charge triple - digit APR loans that trap people in a cycle of debt.

Mr. Hawking wins easy battles against uneducated (in science) religious persons, but taking his statement on perspective, He is based on assumptions with serious underlying problems, basically everything from mathematics, to the incompatibility of quantum mechanics and relativity, and the lack of proof and evidence for string theories, he is launching a very aggressive statement, probably his last effort on life to counter the anthropomorphic ideas of God, and this is very common in all scientists.

(Can't expect decent people to fight next to coloreds, can't trust colored men in a battle, don't use the army for liberal politics, the soldiers are against it, the civilians don't know what they're doing, there's a war on and this isn't the right time, etc.) It was wrong then and it is wrong now.

A new reading scheme has been launched for boys (Times, January 7th 2009) with books emphasising action, adventure, and a team of young people battling against danger.

Secondly, the search for a new social contract where Jean - Jacques Rousseau will be dug out of his grave to help them find new inspiration, and finally, the use of the voluntary NGO organisations, the Church and religious people, to battle against poverty.

Speaking in cultural terms, M.M. Thomas argues that a «post-modern humanism which recognizes the integration of mechanical, organic and spiritual dimensions, can develop creative reinterpretation of traditions battling against fundamentalist traditionalism and actualize the potential modernity to create a dynamic fraternity of responsible persons and people».12

But now the legal battles against the HHS employer contraceptive mandate are shifting to very different questions of personhood: Are for - profit corporations «persons» in such a legal sense that they have religious rights?

I would add... the battle against ones personal sin (s) is probably an evidence that the person who claims Christ as Lord is a Believer.

8 With respect to those who refuse to accept Castilian sovereignty and the Christian faith the document includes this clause: «If you do not do it... with the help of God I will use all my power against you and will battle you everywhere and in every possible way, and you will be subject to the yoke and obedience of the Church and their Highnesses, and I will take your people and your women and children, and make them slaves, and as much I will send them, and I will inflict on you all the harm and damage possible.»

So Fred Phelps, if your son or daughter had just died in battle, would you want people to show up at the funeral to picket against the sins in or advocated by the nation they died for?

Yet these same people will read of the battles Paul had to fight against the Judaizers in the New Testament who were insisting that believers had to be circumcised — and laugh at Paul's opponents for their denseness!

The global market powers will battle against religious communities and spiritual powers of the people, by sapping their spiritual strength.

When it comes to the second battle against Ai, it is easy to see that what caused the people of Israel to win was not God's blessing now that Achan and his children had been killed, but that the Israelites had better tactics this second time around.

The two peoples warred against each other, and finally about 400 A.D., the Nephites were destroyed in a battle in Upper New York near where the tablets were found.

It is one of the puzzles of history that a group of people who believed in Au and had made great sacrifices for his sake, who knew him to be right and his enemy wrong, and who had even risked their lives by going into battle for him should desert him and even take up their swords against him.

The glorification of violence as a means to solve conflict is everywhere in our culture and I was that lame person that couldn't stand mixed - martial - arts battles and railed against video games and movies that depicted war or crime as an adventure, even arguing we are «a generation of virtual sociopaths.»

It has its own distinctive message of salvation (political freedom), its own «set apart» people group (America and its allies), its own creed («we hold these truths to be self - evident»), its own distinctive enemies (all who resist freedom and who are against America), its own distinctive symbol (the flag), its own distinctive god (the national deity we are «under,» who favors our cause and helps us win our battles).

If we don't remember that the battle is not against the flesh (as in other human beings) but is against the spiritual forces of darkness, aren't we at risk of diminishing the image of God in the other person?

Whitehead was the Knight in Shining Armour (some people seem to think him only the White Knight) who rode out to do battle against any and every form of what he called the Bifurcation of Nature — whether it was the Cartesian Dualism or the alienation which the sensitive soul feels when it learns that water may be represented as H2O.

Eventually the priest is executed; the lieutenant has won the battle against him, and yet since the influence of priest and priesthood remain, the lieutenant has lost the battle for the people's loyalty.

His books against such people could not be renounced without renouncing the battle against the tyranny of anti-Christ.

He is instead «the Lord God of Hosts,» as Mother Abagail, his prophet in The Stand, might put it, intervening directly in the lives of his people and demanding that they conform those lives to his will — whether it's the chosen few who survive The Stand's superflu and end up shepherded west to Boulder, Colorado, to form a new Israel set against the Babylon of Las Vegas; or the motley heroes of Desperation, King's finest 1990s novel, who coalesce around a «God - bombed» eleven - year - old to battle a demon called Tak, accidentally let loose in the Nevada desert.

Then Sihon came out against us, be and all his people, unto battle at Jabaz.

Here's the scoop: 64 People will battle it out head - to - head (think march madness) in Daily NBA Fantasy, where you get to actually draft against your opponent (so not salary cap based).

«Kyle leaving has been a big blow to me because when I play I am going into battle and when I am playing against the top people, I look over to Kyle and I fully expect Kyle to get the better of anybody,» Rose added.

I love being a part of Camp Kesem for two reasons: 1) It is such an impactful organization that serves a community of people that are often forgotten in the battle against cancer.

These are very chilling words and a reminder that health professionals, governments and people around the world have a constant battle against organisms invisible to the naked eye and potentially far more invincible than we could ever be.

ALBANY — A lawmaker battling cancer stunned colleagues Friday by coming out against a medical - marijuana bill designed to help people cope with the very same disease.

«We won local battles, brought people together, challenged established assumptions about voters (and sometimes our own) and won elections against Tories that we didn't think were possible.

Anti-gay New York State Senator Ruben Diaz Sr., who was targeted today by Fight Back NY because of his ongoing battle against marriage equality, remained defiant, telling the Gotham Gazette: «The people of my district are very smart people they aren»... Read

Other examples he discusses include the toxic solvents and child labour used to make fashionable Nike sportswear in the 1990s, and the 60 - year battle of the impoverished Ogoni people in Nigeria against Royal Dutch Shell, whose shareholders made billions as the Ogoni forests were poisoned by oil.

It is mostly when we experience conflict between people that we need a figure who can lead in the battle against the enemy.

Knowing who and where people are talking about an advertising campaign on social networks, warning of a forest problem by geolocation data; developing a map of air quality through a collaborative application; improving European territorial cohesion through the comparison of data or developing a sound map playing a battle against noise are just some of the projects developed by this group at the UJI thanks to geolocation technology.

Until now, extensive data hasn't been made available to the people that need it - the researchers, healthcare professionals and drugs companies on the frontline in our battle against chronic diseases.

Millions of people are currently fighting a battle against a single - cell fungus they can not see.

For the person already battling weight issues due to Hashimoto's hypothyroidism, a low - calorie diet is more ammunition working against you.

People believe spending hours in gym is enough to win the battle against their belly bulge.

He battled against the status quo — with people trying to claim silly things like fasting would slow your metabolism.

My guess is that most people would begin celebrating at this point and count the battle against excess weight over and done with — I would be tempted as well.

People fight food, fight pleasure, fight their instincts and desires, fight body fat — and because it's a battle against our own selves — it's a fight we're destined to lose.

Maybe the main argument to contend that online STD dating applications and websites are a constructive improvement in the battle against the spread of STDs is that they permit people to settle on a choice on who they want to get with.