Sentences with phrase «by cloaking»

I argued that by cloaking its value - laden argument in vague concepts of «international justice» and promoting a «just world,» the Daily was attempting to insulate its policy judgment — that the United States should join the International Criminal Court — in an «unassailable moral imperative,» not in logic or reason.

While cows don't really prefer the straw / hay combo, they will learn to eat it by adding silage, wheat, maize, soya or sugar beet, «just as children are encouraged to take their medicine by cloaking it in a syrup» because they can't pick around it.

The three artists underscore the limited ability of rational systems such as those promoted by Internationalist artists and architects to undo entrenched social and racial biases, pointing to how such methods may instead reinforce discrimination by cloaking it in objectivity.

Armel Gibson's freeware arena shooter MOSHIMOSHI for Mac and Windows requires players to temporarily memorize where enemies are, as they are constantly engulfed by cloaking waves of color.

In other words, until the No Kill movement came into its own and proved that shelter killing can be eliminated, PETA attempted to defray criticism for its killing by cloaking it in the euphemisms and rationalizations used to justify shelter killing, even though, in reality, they do not act in a sheltering capacity.

By cloaking html - coded context within the Google Chrome Web - Browser, The Live In Letters Google Chrome Applet is sure to have first - timer users taking a second look!

The truth is that these pathetic, low - life criminals who stole the CRU emails really can't contend with the peer - reviewed science, as honest scientists do; rather, the dishonest culprits try to discredit the scientists by mischaracterizing the cherrypicked quotes they mine in the emails and by cloaking themselves and the encrypted emails an air of mystery.

You keep trying to excuse the RCC's criminal activities by cloaking them in silly philosophical arguments.

Most people just pretend to believe in God because that is what is expected of them by their peers, but once surrounded by the cloak of Anonymity suddenly feel safe to write how they really feel.

The men who came with Judas seized him by the cloak; he left it in their hands and fled naked.

And then, for a few seconds, light falls upon them and they are reveled to their partner, whose response is concealed by the cloak of darkness.

In Pitof's CGI Paris, the city is being terrorized by a cloaked monster able to steal souls with his mirrored mask, a theme that lacks resonance here despite its deep roots in Japanese folklore (or Nietzsche, if you prefer); Pitof sees it only as a springboard for an interesting visual.

The emotional centre of this semi-fictional account of the founding of the CIA (grounded by a stoic, monotone Matt Damon) hinges on another ill - conceived marriage (to another socialite, played this time by Angelina Jolie) infringed upon by the cloak - and - dagger of the newly - minted Cold War.

They are willing to extend their authority so that you are covered by its cloak.»

And if you're a nerd who gets excited by the cloak - and - dagger nature of camouflaged test cars, that's a very sad thing.

Not exact matches

Penelope from the Odyssey is a procrastinator; she didn't want to deal with her suitors so she put them off by weaving her cloak.

At the show to announce a performance by her dear friend Mary K. Blige, Henson appeared to make a pointed — albeit cloaked — dig at Seacrest.

Now imagine the same information cloaked in the trappings of a great story, «a story about a family in South America that is being affected by changes in the global economy — a story about the father going to work in a foreign country to earn enough for the family, and the mother having to drive 100 kilometers for health care.»

Acting covertly as insiders, they've created a deceptive rhetoric by weaving a cloak of invisibility around their actions.

You are just as guilty by as - sociation, and are hiding under the cloak of the church (not the one jJesus founded)!

Praxiology theology is nothing more than atheistic and materialistic Marxism wearing the cloak of a saint and in South America it is known as «Liberation theology» (to this day, I know of no one liberated from any sort of oppression by it).

Religion encourages the need to cloak one's self in a security blanket which only belittles any argument presented by the religion — and they do it with a 2000 year old book.

By laying down their cloaks, they were giving Jesus a kingly welcome.

Dressing up bigotry and prejudice by wrapping them in a pretty cloak of religious belief, is the old lipstick on a pig situation.

By so doing, it cloaks hard truths about our society.

As a rule, this happened under the cloak of fighting the partisans [in Soviet territories], yet those who were directly or indirectly involved could scarcely fail to see that the SS brigades and Einsatzgruppen were carrying out a comprehensive «ethnic cleansing,» to which the Wehrmacht, if only by condemning large numbers of Russians to starvation, were giving active support.»

They recruited and trained a group of secret assassins called sicarii — which means «dagger - men» because of the deadly, curved dagger they carried hidden in their cloaks — and killed Roman politicians and soldiers by slitting their throat, or stabbing through the back to pierce the heart.

We find other ways of achieving our sometimes selfish and harmful agendas by veiling them with a thin cloak of good intentions.

Democratic freedoms are, or soon could be, trampled on by the misuse of elections, disinformation campaigns, the concentration of economic power, and the abuse of presidential powers cloaked in the secrecy of covert operations.

It is farcical to hear anthems of victimhood being spouted by corporate swindlers who despoil shareholders of their pensions, or by indicted politicians who cloak themselves in the imagery of martyrs for the Christian faith.

That is not to say there shouldn't be Christian or other religious values present but it is to say that people shouldn't be conned and public opinion shouldn't be manipulated by claims of righteous values — as we have seen, it is just too easy to fake and sway people to support what may not be in their best interests based on having a cloak of religion.

I urge all Evangelicals to stand up for the truth, and not to be intimidated by the religious war of the hypocrites who likes to use the Word of God as a cloak of maliciousness against you during their lip service!

This magisterial text faced what amounts to the direct contrast of Pelagianism which exalted human endeavour and Lutheranism which considered humanity purely passive and grace «like some brilliant cloak of gold thrown over the human corpse by God» (Karl Adam: The Spirit of Catholicism ch.11).

The world is finally starting to shake off the cloak of myth that it has been wearing for thousands of years - in large part because we are, one - by - one, empirically explaining that which humankind formerly relied on gods to explain.

Luther described to Spalatin how a baby rabbit came racing up to him and he tried to save it: «I had rolled it up into the sleeve of my cloak... the dogs found the poor rabbit and biting through the cloak broke its hind leg and killed it by choking it.»

Thus in the long struggle through Israel's life in the land, Yahweh attained victory over Baal by various processes; in part, it was by the use of force and authority — a summary statement which cloaks the political strife that continued until the Yahwists were able to overwhelm their opponents.

Most Conservative American * Christians * cling to the Law, not the Cross, Pentecostal / Charismatics use traditional church - speak to cloak a spiritual gnosticism in much the same way as Liberal * Christians * hid their secular humanism behind traditional theological terminology that has been redefined by context.

we prefer to cloak our attitude in birthing these communities by just explaining that younger people want a different style of teaching or music.

«I love gay people, but the Bible forces me to condemn them» is a poor excuse that attempts to avoid accountability by wrapping a very particular and narrow interpretation of a few biblical passages in a cloak of divinely inspired respectability.

He is cloaking Gods church so close that you can only tell if you stay close to Jesus and Paul's message given him by Jesus personally.

Slunked under his tattered cloak on a bed of trampled dirt and granite, Elijah was exhausted by his forty - day trek to Horeb and his bout with depression.

As Newcastle attempt to bolster season ticket sales by acting all cloak - and - dagger about their rumored move for David Beckham after Barcodes chairman Freddy Shepard was photographed leaving a London hotel at the same time as Victoria, or «Posh» as we call her at birthday parties.

The discussion led to a series of cloak - and - dagger negotiations that ended with Wade shocking the college football world by taking the top spot in Durham one year later.

This is done intentionally by some, and it is merely done unintentionally by others who are so cloaked in their ideology that they can not discern the difference between expressing data and extrapolating public policy prescriptions, for instance, as a result.

Kids LOVE visiting dungeons filled with science experiments run by old men in black cloaks (it's a cliché for a reason).

The cloak hangs almost limp, its edges tugged by the weak zephyr that floats through the evening air...

The large number of flares lit by home fans at Stade Geoffroy - Guichard created a thick curtain of smoke that cloaked the field.

We found instead a hub of scholarship, activism, and community outreach cloaked in laid - back, Bay Area informality, and a powerful example of a person living by her values.

The tender hug and warmth of cloaking your kid may reflect that feeling of being held by you.

By the end of a long day of critique, her «protective cloak» was at best in tatters, and perhaps that's the ultimate fate of most attempts for a media figure to live aggressively as a character rather than an honest person.