Sentences with phrase «by contra»

In addition, it is anticipated that training at all levels of the community, including judges, by Contra Costa Parent Parents will further promote awareness of the role of fathers in child welfare — whether in the home, incarcerated, or nonresident — at a much broader level.

Before paying for any drivers ed program, whether it be online or in a classroom, make sure the course you are registering for is approved by the Contra Costa County DMV.

Your traffic ticket is handled and regulated by the Contra Costa County Superior Court, which then delegates out the processing duties to the local district branches.

Billy examines the cultural use of natural resources by contra - intuitively working on objects or placing them next to each other.

«A One of a Kind Diablo Wilderness Experience: Save Mount Diablo will host an original show featuring 3D images of the Diablo wilderness by photographer Stephen Joseph set to an original score performed by the Contra Costa Wind Symphony.

The trapping and recovery guidelines in this document are provided by The Contra Costa County Animal Welfare Department with special thanks to Feral Cat Foundation and the Contra Costa Humane Society Coalition.

The dog owners, Ellen Barkley and Rocky Osborn, learned what happened when they returned home Sunday and were contacted by Contra Costa County Animal Control Services.

This collection of premium online resources is selected and provided by the Contra Costa County Library.

McCollom was named the East Bay Boys Tennis Coach of the Year by the Contra Costa Times in 2012, and could very well receive the honor again this year.

The rest of the women were held captive by the contra leader called «El Gavilan.»

Four health workers were taken from their homes by the contras, then killed and their bodies mutilated.

The United States also managed the repression and terror utilized by the contras in Nicaragua as part of a proinsurgency campaign against a popularly elected government.

[T] he exposure of persistent human rights violations by the contras has led the Administration not to pressure contra leaders to enforce international codes of conduct,» the Americas Watch Report cited earlier states, «but to drown U.S. public opinion with praise for the «freedom fighters,» and to attempt to discredit all reports of their violations as inspired by communist or Sandinista propaganda.

In addition to distorted images concerning the Sandinistas, low - intensity - conflict planners have repeatedly lied to cover up atrocities committed by the contras.

SIX COFFEE PICKERS KIDNAPPED BY CONTRAS FROM GOVERNMENT FARM IN JINOTEGA; CONTRAS BURN COFFEE TRUCK NEAR JINOTEGA; CONTRAS THREATEN FAMILIES, DEMANDING THEY SUPPORT UNO — COMMANDEER TRUCK TO DISTRIBUTE PROPAGANDA IN JINOTEGA CITY.

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But the warrant had been renewed three times — once by Trump's own Justice Department appointees — and law - enforcement sources claim that the judge had been, contra the memo, informed of the dossier author's political slant.

Authored by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog, Wall Street has now truly jumped the shark — the one jockeyed by Jeff Bezos.

MARTINEZ — In response to a public records request by Bay Area News Group, the Contra Costa District Attorney has released new protocols that detail...

The median property tax paid by homeowners in the Bay Area's Contra Costa County is $ 4,224 per year, sixth highest in California.

When we are confronted by these people, in addition to simply stating that «now» is always a good time to buy stocks, we will often introduce some contra - evidence in an attempt to make them a little less certain that they can time the market.

Do I need to point you to Iran - Contra and our sales of weapons to Iran by Reagan?

Contra Messrs. Bischoff and Marr, then, I would argue that the philosophizing that still needs doing has to begin by resisting their respective positions.

Contra the position pressed by Crisis, liberals are not unfaithful.

Dr. Talbert, calls this judgment contra severity — a judgment that is prefaced with and tempered by careful self - analysis.

Perle narrowly escaped conviction for trading intelligence secrets with Israel in the late 1970s, and Abrams was convicted (and pardoned by Reagan) in the Iran - Israel - contra weapons and financial scandal.

Indeed, the Common Doctor, St. Thomas Aquinas, sets forth in both the Summa Theologiae and the Summa Contra Gentiles arguments in support of the death penalty that are subtle and leave much room for the exercise of prudence by lawmakers.

In the words of the November 5, 1987 report released by the respected human rights organization Americas Watch, contra violations of the laws of war are «so prevalent that these may be said to be their principal means of waging war.

The United States sought to destroy Nicaragua's economy through U.S. and contra attacks against production sites and human services and by forcing the Nicaraguan government to shift scarce resources away from development and into defense.

Edgar Chamorro, recruited by the CIA to manage communications for the contras, testified before the World Court:

• Finally, as previously discussed, «military pressure» from the contras was the principal means by which the United States waged economic war against the people of Nicaragua.

That CBN's refugees were indeed contras was confirmed by Mario Calero, the brother of contra leader Adolfo Calero.

It is God's intention that contra - sexual social relations be entered by all, but that sexual relations per se be contained within the more specific bond of marriage.

Contra John Yoo, Romney will likely surpass McCain total popular vote when all the ballots are counted and do so by more than a million votes.

Look into history, and see just how churches reacted when legitimate science contra - dic - ted what was taught by the church.

Shils makes a persuasive case for calling liberalism by its right name, which, contra the collectivists, is not a position of the right.

The previous definitions and characterizations resonate with me in various ways, particularly David Koyzis's confessional core contra pragmatism and especially the «essence» offered by the inimitable John Stott (as shared by Justin Taylor).

However, his agency accepted $ 50,000 earmarked by Congress for humanitarian assistance to the contras.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

«25 According to documents released by the Iran - contra investigating committee, National Security Council members Oliver North and Walter Raymond directed efforts by the State Department's Office of Public Diplomacy to orchestrate negative news coverage of Nicaragua.

We do know that, contra Walter Goodman and others who defended the action of CBS, public tranquility will not be served by a cultivated disregard for the difference between truth and falsehood.

But it is anti-sexual (or contra - sexual) in nature, impeding that bodily intercourse by which the spouses express their being one.

I heard hundreds of personal stories of passion and crucifixion from people who had experienced in the flesh of their own families and communities the terror, torture, rape, and murder that accompanied attacks by U.S. - backed contras.

We as a species are religious by nature because it works in keeping us cooperative instead of a contra - productive bunch of free - riders.

A Costa Rican government study concluded that «requests for contra help were initiated by Colonel [Oliver] North to General Noriega.

«Our government did nothing regarding Noriega's drug business...,» a U.S. government investigation headed by Senator John Kerry reported, «because the first priority was the contra war.

As with other pa - ssages in Josephus relating to Christian themes concern remains over whether the pa - ssage was part of Josephus's original text or instead a later addition — it can be dated back no further than the early 3rd century when it is quoted by Origen in Contra Celsum.

His reputation was severely damaged by the Peasants» War itself, and by the defeat of the rebel armies, Erasmus's book against Luther had finally polarised almost all opinion either pro or contra Luther, and Luther's reply to it would confirm this.

Universities were pressed by Duke George and others to place their votes pro or contra Luther.

When this man handed you a pamphlet you took it no matter what the subject: the dangers of atomic power plants, the role played by the International Jewish Cartel in the overthrow of friendly governments, the CIA - Contra - cocaine connection, the farm workers» unions, the Jehovah's Witnesses (If You Can Answer These Ten Questions «Yes,» You Have Been SAVED!)

In this context, the tragedy of Oliver North is that the opinions, thoughts and feelings of the people and their elected representatives concerning aid to the contras did not matter; what seemed to matter, in an unabashed exercise of unilateral power, was the provision of such aid, by whatever means, in the name of the national interest, patriotism, and fighting communism, by people who in their actions were claiming they knew what was best for the United States.