Sentences with phrase «coalescing against»

By the time of the General Conference of 1844, held in New York, opinion in the North had coalesced against the gag of silence placed on the slavery question.

For the first time in his two - year - old mayoralty, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is facing broad - based grassroots resistance, which has coalesced against major components of his plans for creating 200,000 affordable housing units in 10 years.

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Mobile phone proliferation, cloud services and social networking have coalesced into the perfect pressure situation, where people are now more aware than ever that they are generating a good deal of data that can be turned against them.

(CNN)- Showcasing alleged hate crimes, physical threats and profiling, a diverse group of ethnic organizations has coalesced to bring attention to what they call discrimination against Arabs, Muslims, Sikhs and others in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The well - known river metaphor, according to which there are many rivers that, ultimately, flow into the same ocean, is turned critically against the other pluralists by Panikkar: Jordan, Tiber and Ganges, metaphors for three types of religion, only meet as steam in the clouds: «Religions do not coalesce, certainly not as organized religions», Raimon Panikkar, «The Jordan, the Tiber and the Ganges.

Neither has any doctrine ever so carefully defended itself against the most shocking of all blasphemies, that after God had taken this step it then should be taken in vain, as though God and man coalesced in one and the same thing — never has any doctrine ever defended itself against this as Christianity has, which defends itself by the help of the offense.

So they coalesced around the Republican party and around Ronald Reagan, who in 1976 came out against abortion and in the 1980 election vocalized a strong pro-life stance.

He is instead «the Lord God of Hosts,» as Mother Abagail, his prophet in The Stand, might put it, intervening directly in the lives of his people and demanding that they conform those lives to his will — whether it's the chosen few who survive The Stand's superflu and end up shepherded west to Boulder, Colorado, to form a new Israel set against the Babylon of Las Vegas; or the motley heroes of Desperation, King's finest 1990s novel, who coalesce around a «God - bombed» eleven - year - old to battle a demon called Tak, accidentally let loose in the Nevada desert.

Senate Republicans on Monday announced they had coalesced around real - estate attorney Michael Conigliaro to run against Democratic incumbent Sen. Joe Addabbo in Queens.

But Riley is now stumping for a tax cut plan of his own, and Moore has struggled to coalesce support against the incumbent, trailing 56 percent to 28 percent in a Mobile Register survey released in February.

As several threads of knowledge coalesced into a unified idea, Stephan realized how, with a single device, he could bring the power of the immune system to bear against solid tumors like breast cancer.

After seven years of examining the lines against which society coalesces when the world falls down, here's a film about the tenuous handshake that tenants of the new world order have with the re-gelling of society.

While it's true that Duncan faced few hecklers on the road, a growing group of teachers — who may not represent the majority of American educators, but seem louder — coalesced online and rallied in modest numbers in Washington, D.C. to rail against Duncan's policies in a July «Save Our Schools» march.

YA / General Interest: Sharply etched, poignant episodes coalesce smoothly into a novel that evokes a young girl's rebellion against her mother and at times painful, at times joy - filled, passage through childhood and adolescence.

You could be looking down on Earth from a satellite or pressing your face against the television screen watching news of the latest demonstration against police violence, your eyes up close to the raster patterns that, from a distance, coalesce into media images.