Sentences with phrase «been a rebel as»

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Islamist terrorist groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda are also involved in the war, but even as terrorist groups» grip on certain areas of the country fades, the war between the rebels and Assad doesn't seem likely to stop anytime soon.

The army also said it would respond by continuing to «crush terrorism» — an indication that it will continue to attack areas held by rebels, who have long been characterized by the Assad regime as terrorists.

The civil war in Syria has been raging for more than six years as rebels fight to oust Assad, a brutal authoritarian who has terrorized Syrians for years.

UNITA, in southern Angola, produced US$ 150 million worth of diamonds, Sierre Leone's output could be as high as US$ 120 million per annum and production from the rebel - held Kisangani area of the Democratic Republic of Congo was estimated at US$ 35 million.

Oil's price also has been firming as Houthi rebels in Yemen have increased a campaign of firing missiles into Saudi Arabia, both at oil facilities and civilian areas, but those efforts have so far failed.

But as Assad reasserts control after the army and its allies routed rebels in Aleppo, these Syrians living in exile fear that a new crackdown that will include arrests and executions, and be worse than anything witnessed pre-war.

It was an instrumental part of the military alliance of several rebel brigades known as Jaysh al Fateh that helped the mainstream Free Syrian Army regain control over a significant portion of Aleppo early last month.

Assad's government has often criticized Western states for their support for Syrian rebel groups, all of which are regarded by Damascus as terrorists, and has warned that such backing will lead to militant attacks around the world.

In early March, as rebels fought for control of the country's east coast ports, where much of the country's oil is refined or shipped abroad, the price of the American crude contract (West Texas Intermediate, or WTI) broke US$ 100 for the first time since 2008.

As the rebels approached, he apparently shouted «this is for the boys!»

If you're a Rebel, you'll probably respond terribly to hectoring (from yourself or others) about what you ought to do, but if you conceive of a new initiative as a way to express your identity rather than an obligation, you're likely go all in.

Putin claimed that while the Syrian regime was «fully abiding» by the cease - fire, rebel groups (some of which the US backs) were using it merely as an opportunity to regroup, and he accused Washington of being more concerned with retaining its military capacity in the area than with trying to weed out the extremist rebel groups from the more «moderate» ones.

Burma banned «The Simpsons Movie» in 2007 because of its use of the colors yellow and red, as they can be seen to support rebel groups.

«Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels,» says Kutcher as Jobs.

It follows a group of Rebels — likely to be led by star Felicity Jones — as they attempt to steal the plans for the Empire's newest weapon, the Death Star.

We usually think of rule breakers and rebels as those standing up to the powerful, but according to psychology the opposite is true.

Publicly embracing art — as well as crafts and fashion — was a way for her to rebel against what a tech executive was supposed to like, especially a female tech executive.

We don't yet know what kind of craft he'll be maneuvering, but Riz Ahmed (Nightcrawler) will costar as the Rebel squad's lead pilot, Bodhi Rook.

Six civilians were also killed and dozens more wounded as Douma rebels shelled the capital Damascus on Saturday, Syrian state media said.

OTTAWA — «Parliament gets ready to weaponize M - 103, Trudeau's «anti-Islamophobia» motion,» screamed Ezra Levant's headline in Rebel Media last Monday as MPs in Ottawa sat down at the House Committee on Canadian Heritage to study the growth...

Rebel and Islamic militant groups are prevalent in the north, as distinct from the relatively safer south and west including the capital.

And you saw the price rise today on the president «s tweet, on those missiles that were fired, as you mentioned by Iran - backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, just lining up the players here.

Disenchanted ketchup investors rebelled, and he was booted as CEO.

Also volunteering for that campaign were conservative activists Amanda Achtman and Caitlyn Madlener, who are now contributors to Ezra Levant «s Rebel Media website (Ms. Madlener stood behind Jason Kenney as he launched his campaign for the Progressive Conservative leadership).

There wasn't a new - to - market IPA brand that stormed the market with the same ferocity as Boston Beer's Sam Adams Rebel IPA did in 2014, however — sales eclipsed $ 21 million in U.S. supermarkets.

The problem is that God has finally gotten around to punishing the American colonies for rebelling against the King and country that he choose as the scribes for the only valid translation of his word.

And there's something magnanimous — as Lincoln saw — in knowing that the Southerners were in a way traitors — rebels — but not acting on that thought.

He wants the prince to show the martial prowess of the rebel warrior Hotspur, but he doesn't realize Hotspur's machismo is just as absurd, if not more so, than Hal's dissipation.

Since Hell's purpose is to hold those who have rebelled against God - to separate them from God's Holy presence, it would follow that it would have been created only as a consequence of those rebellions.

They declare jihadi groups such as the Kharijites to be terrorists, rebels, and heretics.

To me it reads as if you think that being liberal is somehow inferior to being conservative, and because «rebelling against» anything is often associated with juveniles.

They take Satan as a fictional charachter who embodies certain ideals, he is the non-conformist, he is the rebel who fights for individual freedom apart from the idealized power structure put forth in the bible.

Niek de Goeij is speaking as separatist and Islamist terrorists continue to cause violence in the north African country, despite a peace agreement in June between the Mali government and rebel groups who wanted to form a separate state.

Often the new grandees portray themselves as rebels against the old notion that law is not a business.

The first in a series of Star Wars «anthology» films — which are in addition to the new Star Wars trilogy — Rogue One takes place before the events of the original film, as a group of rebels try to steal the Death Star.

I am looking for authenticity, relevancy, no ovewhelming bands that take away from the experience of worship, clergy who are willing to answer my hard questions, who understand doubt is a stepping stone to deepening my belief, who accept everyone as Jesus did (and we know Jesus was a rebel who accepted and led all sorts of people), who don't feel the need to try to be hip, who speak about things without inserting politics, who are wiling to trash the temple to bring us back to the truth, who will step out of the box of comfort and be real.

In 1841, defending African men on trial for rebelling against slavetraders who had abducted them, John Quincy Adams said: «In the Declaration of Independence, the Laws of Nature are announced and appealed to as identical with the laws of Nature's God» and as the foundation of all obligatory human laws.»

And since his ejection from heaven (Rev 12:7 - 9), he (along with other rebel angels) have been causing great «woes» on the earth, manipulating mankind to do as they wish.

It is now the center of our generation's greatest humanitarian crisis as hundreds of thousands of Syrians have fled the area and 200 - 300,000 remain trapped in the region seized by rebels.

It is the religiosity from church growth books, membership duties, vain promises that our Savior rebelled against in His day as Son of God, Son of Man, Let scripture super exceed any of mans futile attempts to be purpose driven, or a «church Member»

Instead I am outside with the misfits, with the rebels, the dreamers, the people of the second chance, the radical grace givers, the ones with arms wide open, the ones that you've rejected as not worthy of being listened to and I will be happy here.

Those who set themselves up as the true repositories of the «spirit of the Council» are not rebelling against theological incoherencies, and they won't be re-integrated if a more satisfactory system is proposed, since its presuppositions - if it is orthodox - are ultimately the same.

I want to be outside with the misfits, with the rebels, the dreamers, the second - chance givers, the radical grace lavishers, the ones with arms wide open, the courageously vulnerable, and among even — or maybe especially — the ones rejected by the Table as not worthy enough or right enough.

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo — This is another one that could have gone on the picture book list because the paintings in here are sublime but the biographies of 100 notable women are written as bedtime fairy tales.

The Muslims have but as it seems they are now doing as Jew did going round it and changing and became no better than those who rebel??

When the rebel blasphemes against the «old god» who sanctions the established order ruled over by death, it is to make God share «in the same humiliating adventure as mankind's» (Rb 24).

«To answer this query, it is helpful to develop the notion of God as rebel - artist.

Style, as it is defined in The Rebel, is the «correction which the artist imposes by his language and by a redistribution of elements of reality» and gives the «re-created universe its unity and boundaries» (Rb 269).

God, as conceived by Whitehead, would encourage the rebel's quest for human solidarity, but there is a significant difference between Camus» artist and Whitehead's God.

Such matters can not only be disrupting in themselves, but when rebelled against in self - pity as they often are, can upset one's entire psychophysical balance including the life of prayer.