Sentences with phrase «bulwarks of»

«The lack of a formal judicial approval has been one of the bulwarks of the resistance by the more luddite of litigation lawyers in using this technology.

Critics (often including ourselves) typically assert that these organizations are the prime obstacles to needed reforms in K — 12 schooling, while defenders (typically, also, supporters of the education status quo) insist that they are bulwarks of professionalism and safeguards against caprice and risky innovation.

Laughter is a great way to break down the bulwarks of yesterday's masculinity and find a way to his heart.

His case is perhaps most significant because the SEC includes those symbolic bulwarks of the way that was, Alabama and Mississippi.

To such effect did he labor that he prepared the way for the long process of Christian nurture which enabled the Paravas in the twentieth century to remain bulwarks of the Roman Catholic Church.

The conservative extreme defends the bulwarks of orthodoxy as long as it can.

But Cornwell always did have the gift of being intensely irritating to many who love the Church, of mounting violent assaults, often at first effectively, against the most seemingly unassailable bulwarks of the Catholic tradition, in a way which has sometimes made him seem a real threat.

As social institutions they are more important as bulwarks of achieved social values than as instruments of change.

His masterworks — On Christian Teaching, The Confessions, The Trinity, and The City of God — became bulwarks of Christian education in the West, and eventually served as the intellectual foundation for the first universities at Paris, Oxford, and Cambridge in the later Middle Ages.

The great state universities, particularly those that were established as agricultural and technical institutions, as well as the independent colleges and universities, are essential bulwarks of the social order.

Here some elements of the Benedict Option become essential: educating our children, rebuilding our parishes, and patiently building little bulwarks of truly humanist culture within our decaying civilization.

MILESTONES By Michael Shari A fissure is opening in the bulwarks of Western sanctions that have isolated Iran from the global banking system since the early 1980s.

The challenge is to be the bulwark of your emotions by maintaining a composed state of awareness, and being mindful and conscience of your reactions.

Therefore, claims made against plan fiduciaries is the bulwark of our system design.

«The church of the living God is the pillar and bulwark of the truth» (1 Timothy 3:15).

Just some thoughts on this: The Bible says «the church is the pillar and bulwark of the truth.»

However, these issues start with the disadvantage (for their proponents) of trying to overcome the bulwark of human rights laws which, since the end of the Second World War, have increasingly placed duties on nations to protect life and to outlaw any deliberate deprivation of life.

The Roman Empire, which had seemed the great bulwark of Christianity, itself dwindled and in the West largely collapsed.

Is not a free intellectual marketplace the bulwark of Western liberal political institutions?

This bulwark of stability prevents the tinkering that might otherwise ensue.

13:1) would be taken nineteen centuries later as a bulwark of conservatism.

The family is the source and bulwark of democracy.

Ideally recreation is a bulwark of democracy, because in leisure - time pursuits it is possible for a person to choose his activity as a free individual.

’27 Popper himself says: «The Myth of the Framework is, in our time, the central bulwark of irrationalism....

Because Christ's Church is the pillar and bulwark of truth, in disputes over conflicting interpretations of the Word of God the Church must be capable of discerning true teaching and setting it forth with clarity.

«The church of the living God is the pillar and bulwark of truth» (1 Timothy 3:15).

Despite formal separation of church and state, the effect of this arrangement over time has been to covertly control religious leaders by making it appear that the institutions they lead are the bulwark of democracy.

In some sections of Latin America the Church became the strongest bulwark of the old social and economic regime, a guardian of a disappearing society.

«The Russian Orthodox church is part of a bulwark of Russian nationalism stirred up by Vladimir Putin,» David Aikman, history professor and foreign affairs expert, told CT. «Everything that undermines that action is a real threat, whether that's evangelical Protestant missionaries or anything else.»

Quoting a denominational paper's editorial, the Century said: «If anxious Protestants would actually read and digest the documents of the National Council... they would come to admire rather than to suspect this bulwark of Christian Protestantism in America» (July 12, 1961).

A recurring theme in Alvis's book is that of Poland as the bulwark of Christendom.

By the machinations of this anarchic and arbitrary spirit, for a time wholly in command of the executive power, the strongest bulwark of any government, and particularly of those constituted like ours, may effectually be broken down and destroyed — I mean the attachment of the people.

He is the true bulwark of Israel.

The absence of the appearance of significant new monastic movements and of «heresies» as potent as those of the Cathari and the Waldenses, and the waning of the Papacy, culminating for the time in the Avignon Papacy, were paralleled by developments in scholastic theology which seemed to herald the breakdown of that approach as a bulwark of the Christian faith.

It became a bulwark of the Church of England against Roman Catholics and the more extreme Protestants.

«The church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the truth.»

It will be increasingly incumbent upon the church in this increasingly pluralistic, multi-cultural, globalized world to recall and reclaim its confessional history if it is to be the «pillar and bulwark of the truth» in the future that it was in the past.

I want to spend the next few minutes thinking about these two questions, and to guide our thoughts in doing so I want to focus on those great words written by Paul, or someone under his influence... I Timothy 3:15... «the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the truth.»

In the twentieth century, led by lawyers like Leo Pfeffer, Jews and like - minded Americans fought through the courts to translate this ill - defined wall into a hardy bulwark of constitutional law.

True, John Terry the irreplaceable bulwark of the Blue's defence, whatever his on the field excesses, was absent.

Georgia's process of identity formation, as a bulwark of Christianity against the Islamic world, naturally led it to view itself as part of a greater whole, Christendom, defined against the East — the land of its enemy.

«I know Wall Street has been and must always be a bulwark of our local economy.»

But in recent years, black voters have provided him a bulwark of support.

Sovereignty is the bulwark of world freedom.

In an email to his staff last week, Larry Marshall, chief executive of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Canberra, «stated that up to 350 jobs could be eliminated over the next 2 years, including 110 positions in the Oceans and Atmosphere division, the bulwark of CSIRO's climate research,» Leigh Dayton reported in this week's issue of Science.

A number of competing bars have been built into the outer bulwark of the National Theatre in London, and when she emerges from rehearsals one night in September the Australian actor Elizabeth Debicki — animated, adamant, 6ft 3in — hesitates.

Or so we are told by Phi Delta Kappa, a bulwark of the education establishment whose recent poll has been widely reported in the media.

Tracing the evolution of New American Schools, from feisty upstart to bulwark of the education establishment

(A representative clause, borrowed from the Arkansas Constitution, reads, «Intelligence and virtue being the safeguards of liberty and the bulwark of a free and good government, the State shall ever maintain a general, suitable and efficient system of free public schools and shall adopt all suitable means to secure to the people the advantages and opportunities of education.»)

Black teachers had always been a bulwark of the middle class — by taking away the opportunity to teach in their community, you remove a proven route out of poverty.