Sentences with phrase «called against nature»

On the producer: «Martin Durkin, for his part, achieved notoriety when his previous series on the environment for the channel, called Against Nature, was roundly condemned by the Independent Television Commission for misleading contributors on the purpose of the programmes, and for editing four interviewees in a way that «distorted or mispresented their known views».

In 1997 Channel 4 broadcast a series across three hours of prime time on Sunday evenings, called Against Nature.

Not exact matches

With Blue Ant, MacMillan appears to be tacking against the torrents of broadcast television dreck at the bottom of the dial by targeting two coveted demographics, the first of which is thinking, affluent baby boomers: its portfolio includes content about the cottage lifestyle, travel, and PBS - style documentary programming through the Canadian version of the Smithsonian Channel, as well as a nature channel called Oasis.

Both seem surprising events, even against what I would call «the laws of nature,» or at least the usual laws of capitalism.

The reason concerns the nature of how Facebook handled its users» data before rising privacy concerns prompted it to tighten its policies against what critics have called an egregious kind of abuse — allowing app developers to gain access to information not only on their customers but also on their customers» many Facebook friends.

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

Unlike the work of bulldozers, which Berry calls «a powerful generalizer» that works against the impulse «to take care of things, to pay attention to the details,» «good work is always modestly scaled, for it can not ignore either the nature of individual places or the differences between places, and it always involves a sort of religious humility, for not everything is known.

There are, in other words, moments of both «realism» and idealism» in experience, from which follows what we may call a «moderate» or «approximating» correspondence theory of truth, such as that proposed by Charles Hartshorne in reply to Richard Rorty's polemic against the «Mirror of Nature.»

Jeremy good message and quite relevant for today God is still looking at our hearts and motives for serving him or are we serving our own agenda as Jonah was.He did nt feel compassionate towards his enemies and who could blame him they had cruelly killed many Jews it was a question of life or death to his own people.The Jewish nation was no more deserving of Gods grace than the other nations that is revealed by sending Jonah to preach a message of hope and life.Ultimately God calls all by faith in him and is willing to be merciful to all nations and peoples that do not not deserve it just like us it is by grace that we all are forgiven.I am pleased that God is sovereign and knows whats best he is merciful to us.Our human nature is that it is better to kill our enemies before they can kill us and that is essentially Jonahs message that is why he struggled to be obedient to Gods will.Gods message is to forgive those that trespass against us and show mercy.Its complicated and it is natural to protect ourselves and our families from those who would seek to destroy them but ultimately its about trusting God with everything easier said than done.If it comes to a choice we will have to trust God and ask for his strength because we cant do it in ours.As Christ laid down his life for us are we ready to lay our lives and the lives of our families as a sacrifice for him.To me that is where the story of Jonah is leading to we have the choice to fight our enemies or to love them as God loves them.brentnz

Whitehead was the Knight in Shining Armour (some people seem to think him only the White Knight) who rode out to do battle against any and every form of what he called the Bifurcation of Nature — whether it was the Cartesian Dualism or the alienation which the sensitive soul feels when it learns that water may be represented as H2O.

Although Whitehead warned against «the merest hint of dogmatic certainty» (PR xiv), he also endeavored «to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas» (PR 3; emphasis added), and at least some of the elements of his system Whitehead himself called «categoreal conditions which flow from the final nature of things» (PR 222).

In the call of Abraham to leave the home of his ancestors, in Moses» leading his people away from acquiescence in Egyptian slavery, in the prophetic protests against any localizing or naturalizing domestication of Yahweh's presence, in the apocalyptic rebellions against the status quo, in Jesus» idealizing of homelessness, in the Evangelists» turning our attention toward the Risen Lord and in St. Paul's relentless call to freedom from the slavery of legalism, we have a constant chorus of discontent at the idea that we can find our fulfillment in what nature apart from history has given us.

@Nitram «But here's the rub, given the «subjective» nature of all these calls, some people could, and indeed actually do, claim that EVERY decision, no matter how 30/70 50/50 or 70/30 made against Arsenal is correct.

But here's the rub, given the «subjective» nature of all these calls, some people could, and indeed actually do, claim that EVERY decision, no matter how 30/70 50/50 or 70/30 made against Arsenal is correct.

We have a number two — Fabianski — who is also of the flappable nature and a number three — Mannone — who was called into action and heroically kept us in a game against Fulham but wasn't felt to be ready to play more than a few games.

Incredibly, nature is the greatest protector against these disorders by stimulating the production of 2 very poweful nanopeptide hormones called oxytocin and prolaction.

Speaking to her supporters yesterday, Johnson called the yet - undetailed charges against the congressman «of a grave and serious nature,» adding: «I am sure the panel will work to expose the truth, whatever it may be.»

In a teleconference held by Nature today, Kobinger said it was «quite remarkable» that they could rescue infected animals that had advanced disease, which he called «a very important step forward in the fight against Ebola virus.»

Featuring two breakthrough performances by newcomers Quvenzhané Wallis and Dwight Henry, «Beasts of the Southern Wild» has been called a New Orleans / Katrina allegory, and while that disaster is certainly an influence — the themes of perseverance against a cantankerous, retributive forces of nature are certainly there — to claim that «Beasts» is Zeitlin's riff on that calamity only sells this exhilarating picture far too short.

Walkabout is a deceptively simple tale about lost children trying to find their way home that slowly grows into a treatise against the continued expansion of industry, the domination of humanity over unbridled nature, and the correlation between the savageries still inherent in so - called civilized society.

Against all laws of nature, Big Momma's House 3 keeps happening, though it probably won't be called that.

One of the biggest complaints by competitive players against Call of Duty is the fact that, owing to the fast paced nature of the game and how quickly an enemy can be killed, success in encounters simply depends on who spots who first.

From literal urban jungles to the so - called untarnished wilderness, from the scientific realities of climate change to the poetic human longing for time outside, Human Nature is a nuanced exploration of the forces — both internal and external — that both pit us against and bring us closer to the natural world.

It is the nature of paint to cover, and Beckman as a painter uses this coverage to build and amplify the various visual phenomena that buzz and jostle against each other within what we call the «real.»

Why is it that this kind of barefaced conflict of interests is largely overlooked, while people like James Hansen call for oil company executives to face trials for «high crimes against nature and humanity `, allegedly for distorting the public perception of climate change for profit?

As Bernie Lewin reminds us in one chapter of a fascinating new book of essays called Climate Change: The Facts (hereafter The Facts), as late as 1995 when the second assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) came out with its last - minute additional claim of a «discernible human influence» on climate, Nature magazine warned scientists against overheating the debate.

Using a comprehensive assessment tool called «GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals,» the researchers measured triclosan and triclocarban against 18 criteria for human health and the environment, such as whether there is bioaccumulation in nature, endocrine disruption in humans, risk of reproductive toxicity, and eye or skin irritation.

One of the reasons against such chambers is that also so - called «specialized» cases may contain general issues, of transversal or horizontal nature, and decisions on that should not be left to specialized chambers.

In 2006, the United Nations General Assembly called on the Secretary - General of the organization to establish a database on the nature and consequences of violence against women, and on the impact and effectiveness of policies and programmes to combat it.

The reason concerns the nature of how Facebook handled its users» data before rising privacy concerns prompted it to tighten its policies against what critics have called an egregious kind of abuse — allowing app developers to gain access to information not only on their customers but also on their customers» many Facebook friends.

«Earth near tipping point, climatologist warns», a Toronto Star article, says James Hansen is back to warn that the Earth is nearing a tipping point, to call for a national carbon tax and to say that CEO's of energy companies may be guilty of crimes against humanity and nature.