Sentences with phrase «by factions who»

The four schools of law have clear rulings that on no account should an individual or group of Muslims attempt to change the government of an Islamic state through the use of arms and violence, because to allow such a possibility invites civil strife, private wars, and the abuse of Islam by factions who use theology to justify their self - interested rebellions and usurpations.

Merchant prices, emplacements or available goods will be greatly influenced by the faction who controls the area.

Not exact matches

Within the coalition are two factions: those pushing to play hardball on Capitol Hill by threatening to force uncooperative lawmakers from office in November, and those who'd rather see the debate settled at the congressional negotiating table sooner rather than later, even if it means making policy concessions to companies such as Verizon and Comcast.

The potential withdrawal of Greece from the euro at the very least emboldens left wing / nationalist factions in Spain, Italy, and France, who see the results of the Greek referendum as legitimizing rebellion against the diet of austerity imposed by Brussels.

ISIS (or ISIL or the Islamic State) actually began as a faction of Sunni militants in Iraq who'd been disenfranchised by the Shia government.

The disunity within the factions is unbecoming of people who are called by Christ's name.

is and who is not a «true Christian» is defined by agreement with that faction.

Once Jesus was dead and buried, his followers, who were also Christian Pastors, went to work offending more and more people who continued to practice the Church of Israel, Judaism and Mosaic Covenant to a certain point that emboldened factions that would find them guilty of sedition and condemn the followers of Jesus Christ, who were more than willing to put them to death as well, usually by MOB RULE.

The extremist faction of the GOP / Tea Party has been rooting out the rational moderates by disparaging them with RINO labels and condemning those who don't toe the party line through conservative litmus tests.

From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction.

Hajia Fati said she was told by her sponsored paymasters to attack the person of Mr. Afoko and others because to them they represented a big threat to their quest for controlling party funds in the run - up to the November 7th polls.Secondly, she said they were told of some agenda 2020 and were asked to undermine President Kuffour and anyone who was seen to be his loyalist in order to kill the Kufuor faction in NPP, leaving only the Akuffo Addo blog to project Dr. Mahamoudu Bawumiah after the flagbearer's tenure.

These are lies from the pit of hell being spread by expelled members like Uchenna Madu and his faction who have continued to sabotage Biafra.

Felder said he doesn't feel pressure to make a decision one way or another from Cuomo, who clearly is feeling pressure himself — likely from the primary challenge launched by Cynthia Nixon, who has made control of the Senate a focus of her campaign thus far — enough pressure, that is, to want to accelerate the peace deal between the warring Democratic factions that was struck late last year.

The WSJ notes that this year's budget deal was harder to come by than usual because legislative factions on the right and left dug in their heels, revealing a «growing polarization» in Albany that «poses a hurdle for a governor who has long positioned himself as a moderate mediator who prizes governmental order such as on - time budgets.»

Klein, who was accused on Wednesday of forcibly kissing a former staffer in 2015, is the leader of a key bloc of votes in the Senate and agreed to a unity deal that would unite the factions of Democrats in the chamber by the spring, potentially handing control of the Senate to the party.

Filling those seats, held by Sens. George Latimer and Ruben Diaz who are leaving office at the end of the year after winning local elections, is key to the plan for reconciling the two factions of Democrats in the state Senate.

(«Unanimous» in this case means all of the people who were present, since those allied with the so - called «rogue faction» led by the «notorious Haggerty brothers» — the party's words, not mine, and it makes them sound like outlaws in a bad Western movie — et al attended the other meeting).

Contested Chairman Phil Ragusa won re-election with 417 votes to 174 against former Rep. Bob Turner, who was backed by Bart Haggerty and the Southern faction, and will maintain his leadership post within the Queens Republican Party, according to unofficial reports.

ALBANY — Senate Republicans pushed back Thursday at Democrats and pundits who claimed the GOP's decades of control are ending with a new deal struck by two factions of Democrats.

A statement by Adeniran, who is a former Minister of Education, said on Tuesday that this was the time for all the warring factions within the party to bury the hatchet.

Ken Mehlman, the Republican strategist who engineered George W. Bush's re-election in part by campaigning on a constitutional ban on gay marriage — and then came out as a gay man himself — helped marshal support among recalcitrant factions in Albany.

For years, Oguebego, who has Chief Chris Uba as the leader of his group and Prince Kenneth Emeakayi, who led another faction of the party and supported by the national leadership of PDP, had been in and out of court, fighting for the control of the party machinery in Anambra.

Indeed, Chief Chris Uba, younger brother of Andy Uba who is himself the main man backing the Oguebego faction was quick to ask his brother and all the other legislators backed by the Emekayi faction to quit.

The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Wednesday reserved judgment in the appeal filed by the substituted governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Eyitayo Jegede, in the forthcoming November 26 election in Ondo State to challenge his replacement with Jimoh Ibrahim, who belongs to a rival faction of the PDP.

Throughout this period, although seen as a «Brownite», Ed Miliband was the only minister (other than Douglas Alexander, perhaps) who was trusted by the warring factions around Blair and Brown.

Loeb's Facebook post was in response to a story in The New York Times earlier this week on the ongoing tension among Cuomo, mainline Democrats and a Democratic Senate faction led by Sen. Jeff Klein, of the Bronx, who broke ranks with the party to empower Republicans, who now control the Senate.

There are suspicions that Nana Addo is becoming convinced chances of winning the 2016 elections are becoming slimmer by the day because of the numerous unresolved internal crisis, subtle withdrawal of support by some influential financiers who belong to the Kufuor faction and the likely reduction in votes in the Ashanti Region because of the Akyem - Ashanti rivalry which is heavily influencing NPP politics.

http://ghanapoliticsonline.com Speaking to The Informer on strict condition of anonymity, a key - member of the former President John Agyekum Kufuor - led Ashanti faction of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), who labeled as sickening, the activities of the group (LMVC), has asked Ghanaians to treat the threats on the EC by it convener, David Asante, with all the contempt it deserved.

A SoP reader who has been keeping track of votes in the Hasidic community of Kiryas Joel in Orange County said it looks like the support for the congressman by one of the village's two political factions netted him about 5,000 votes (in other words, more than Maloney's margin of victory — this number has been fixed).

The sect member who appeared in a video clip released last Saturday evening by the Abubakar Shekau faction of the sect, also dismissed as false the reconciliation moves between them and the Nigerian authorities.

MP Clive Betts, who put the plan to a vote, said it would heal wounds by forcing factions of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) to work together.

According to him, the youth who are mostly used by the feuding factions have promised to live peacefully.

ALBANY — Since the announcement of a deal to end their alliance with a renegade faction of Democrats, Senate Republicans are preparing to run against «ultra-liberal New York City radicals» who are working to empower «illegal immigrants» and stifle business, according to a set of talking points obtained by Capital that was distributed to Republican senators.

The appellants led by Biyi Poroye are the state executives of the Sheriff faction of the party in the various states in the South - West zone, are backing Jimoh Ibrahim, who was only removed and replaced with Jegede as the party's governorship candidate in Ondo State by the judgment delivered by the Court of Appeal, Abuja on Wednesday.

Makarfi, who was flanked by other members of his committee, spoke at a press conference, which was held at the faction's temporary national secretariat in Abuja.

«We use this medium to call on the Oyo state governor, Senator Isiaka Abiola Ajimobi and all security agencies in Oyo state, to save our members from the Gani Adams faction of the OPC in Oyo state, led by Rotimi Olumo, Akin Osa and others who are daily attacking our members and also disrupting the peace in Ibadan».

Iduoriyekemwen, who represented Edo in the Niger Delta Development Commission won the ticket of the party at the primary organised by the Ali - Modu Sheriff faction of the party at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin.

Instead, Republicans who controlled that chamber showered money on the Independent Democratic Conference, a five - member faction led by Bronx Sen. Jeff Klein.

The fight for these scarce resources has divided Earth's population into three main factions: the Cowbots, who live by mining asteroids and cultivating moisture from the land; the Scrappers, who prey on the Cowbots and pillage their communities for supplies; and the Royalists, who live unaffected by steam shortages and impose their superiority over the Cowbots.

2: The Daddy Issues Mixtape picks up months after the first movie ends and follows three ultimately intertwining threads: The arrival of Peter Quill's mysterious, long - lost father, Ego (played by Kurt Russell), a rift within the Ravagers faction and the rise of a rival leader, Taserface, and a new villain in the form of the gilded Sovereign high priestess, Ayesha (who, mercifully, has no schemes to destroy entire planets.

Of the many thrills that come from interviewing creative people — variously, unknown, ascendant and at the top of their game — there's also the under - discussed flipside: talking with, 1) vapid young «actors» (line - reciters is more like it) who have neither a sense of film history nor an appreciation for their occupational good fortune and, 2) perfectly genial writers and directors who are nonetheless so relentlessly on script — occasionally reciting entire career - checking passages verbatim from press notes no doubt spit - polished into significance by some friendly faction in the dark wings — that you realize they actually have less summary insight or thoughts about several months or years of their own work than you do after 90 to 120 minutes with it.

Very much an «Avengers» movie in scope and ambition if not title (the conspicuous absence of Thor and Hulk notwithstanding), this chronicle of an epic clash between two equally noble factions, led by Captain America and Iron Man, proves as remarkable for its dramatic coherence and thematic unity as for its dizzyingly inventive action sequences; viewers who have grown weary of seeing cities blow up ad nauseam will scarcely believe their luck at the relative restraint and ingenuity on display.

Premise: After the events of Avengers: Age of Ultron, another international incident involving Captain America (Chris Evans) and the Avengers results in collateral damage, prompting politicians to form a system of accountability and a governing body to determine when to call in the Avengers, which results in the fracturing of the team into two opposing factions — one led by Captain America who wishes to operate without regulation, and one led by Iron Man (Robert Downey, Jr.) who supports government oversight — while they attempt to protect the world from a new enemy.

Uncontrolled by the simulation, Tris (a Divergent — one who fits into multiple factions), was forced to kill her close friend Will in self - defense and ultimately escaped from Dauntless and Erudite soldiers with her boyfriend Four (Theo James, «Underworld: Awakening»), her brother Caleb (Ansel Elgort, «Men, Women & Children»), and fellow Dauntless - initiate Peter (Miles Teller, «Whiplash»), to seek shelter before attacking again.

Switching the meds was treasonous professor Dennis Boyd (Mark Moses), who's being blackmailed by a pro-Taliban faction within Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency.

In fact, for all the talk about the «democratic values» implicit in local control, the decibel level of the past few years has been caused less by a legitimate debate about the merits of the work than an internecine fight over which faction would control the local teachers union, a mayor's race pitting «old» vs. «new» Newark (read: Sharpe revanchists vs. Cory defenders), and the aspirations of what Curvin calls the «resource distributors» — those who view the power and wealth allocation opportunities of the school system as an end in itself.

This is the exciting and highly literate story of the real Lawrence of Arabia, as written by Lawrence himself, who helped unify Arab factions against the occupying Turkish army, circa World War I.

The chipping away at the open web is also being advanced by some factions in the ebook industry, who are pushing for a W3C standard to lock up formatted text, possibly leading to paywall sites, as Cory Doctorow suggests in this Guardian article.

Robinsons responds to questions about the controversy that sometimes swirls around TNR and how best to treat feral and homeless cats — including from the perspective of wildlife advocates, factions of veterinarians and others who oppose TNR — the study by the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the Fish and Wildlife Service, and more.

The rest of the story is told almost entirely by text and quickly becomes a nightmare to follow as various factions are introduced, all of whom can be joined and have stories of their own, are introduced along with the different characters, but keeping track of who is actually who, what they stand for and why the hell they're involved is frustrating as their so devoid of personality that you simply don't care.