Sentences with phrase «come to their defense in»

Some of Schumer's colleagues have come to his defense in the face of criticism from Team Obama and liberal groups.

That's been the log line about millennials for quite some time, though many media sites have come to their defense in recent years.

You can add a great deal of value to your renters policy by making sure to include adequate liability protection to come to your defense in times of need.

Not exact matches

If these projections come true, it will mean the government will have less wiggle room to fund all the other programs in the budget, including defense, infrastructure, education, environmental protections and other discretionary programs.

49ers cornerback Richard Sherman came to the defense of Reid during his introductory press conference with the team in March, arguing that Reid deserves a contract for playing like one of the top 10 safeties in the NFL.

The Trump - Xi phone call came as Japan set up a missile - defense system in western areas of the country, following a threat by North Korea to fire missiles over Japan toward the U.S. territory of Guam.

That comes close on the heels of a similar meeting in Shanghai last December, showing that a Sino - Japanese «strategic relationship of mutual benefit» may be heating up while Tokyo feels secure under the U.S. defense umbrella and enjoys full access to American markets.

On Sunday, Film director Spike Lee came to the defense of Kaepernick, posting an Instagram in which he said the lack of interest in Kaepernick is «fishy.»

President Donald Trump is coming to Arizona this week to bring his circus of hate after doubling down on his defense of the Neo-Nazis and white supremacists that wreaked havoc in Charlottesville, Va. last weekend.

When it was discovered that Facebook board member Peter Thiel had donated to Trump's campaign, Zuckerberg came to Thiel's defense in an internal memo to Facebook employees.

But in the following hours and days, the body's self - defense mechanisms backfire: White blood cells come in to clean up dead tissue, which causes massive inflammation, which in turn triggers healthy cells in the surrounding tissue to self - destruct in a process called apoptosis.

When the law's deadline to impose the sanctions came in January, the administration declined to do so, saying that just the law's existence was deterring Russian defense sales.

In fact, they would be the one that would come to your defense and likely bring their friend to your side.

He's graced the cover of Vogue Italy, and she's active on Snapchat and has come to the company — and her husband's — defense in interviews.

GD came in sixth on the Defense News Top 100, and is now positioned as the prime competitor to Leidos in the government IT services area.

The defense has argued in court papers that Weinstein could have been involved in planting the drugs and cited news reports saying he hired private investigators to stop McGowan and others from coming forward.

Using the Plausible Deniability defense, they claimed that they weren't even in the loop when it came to paying AIG enough to turn around and pay Goldman Sachs and other arbitrageurs 100 cents on the dollar for securities worth about a fifth as much.

The concerted attack on Lotte came after the conglomerate agreed to relinquish a golf course in southern Korea for the deployment of a Terminal High - Altitude Area Defense battery from the U.S.

The past few weeks have seen a new federal budget agreed to in the USA, with the figure for «defense» spending coming in at the highest level ever: $ 700 billion US Dollars.

Netflix's «poison pill» defense, which would make it much more difficult for Icahn — or anyone else — to mount a hostile takeover, comes as the streaming pioneer struggles to regain traction amid intense competition in the online - video space.

What they didn't know, and I have never written about before, is that our last defense bidder had gone quiet just a month after our big competitor came roaring in to make us an offer.

Israeli defense companies will lose a market that is set to make massive procurements in the coming years, including state - of - the - art radars, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), electronic warfare systems, and missile interceptors such as Israel's Iron Dome and Magic Wand.

«With that in mind, it is refreshing that when it comes to cyber defense capability, Micro Focus is seeing a much higher degree of operational sophistication than ever before.

I'm sticking with my analysis — which is basically Obama combined conservatism in the precise sense when it came to defense of entitlements with progressive libertarianism on the so - called social issues.

I do find it puzzling, however, to watch theologians, both conservative and liberal, come to the defense of the human, the rational, objectivity, the «text,» «moral values,» science, and all the other conceits the modern university cherishes in the name of «humanism.»

Cajetan had challenged Luther's insistence that those who come to the sacrament of penance are to believe confidently that they receive God's grace and forgiveness thereby; Luther's main defense appeals to Christ's words in Matthew 16:19:

One can, in defense of the sacredness of life, be suddenly in the position of executing the program of the liberal Weimar doctors, which of course comes to pass under Nazi rule, under «national socialism.»

So when I come to Tony's defense, please understand that I do not do so in an effort to boost my career.

I felt so devastated in that moment, that everything in my life came crashing down on me, though I knew she was just in defense mode, from her own battles that had nothing to do with me..

It was said that «the best of defense is to attack»... --- Those allowed such to be signed knew all the time that this is what was going to happen because it happened repeatedly through out history from time of the crusaders but still they continued with signing it because it meant for them money pouring in for all involved with the trading on this issue which has spoiled the life of the Palestinians and all Arabs ever started war over those lands started with swords and horses that has developed into the present arms that we became to know and only God knows how future arms would look like in few de-ca-des or cen - tur - ies that are yet to come...?!

christ was beaten and cruxified on a cross bc he preached of being the SON OF MAN, the only what to get to heaven but gays who are living in sin and refuse to repent are accepted at work and everywhere they go and society cheers them on when they get married or when a state recongizes them, and anytime they are killed society comes to their defense, but i say to you, is will not be man that will judge them iw till

To the extent that U.S. culture is now tilting toward conservatism, those who hold such values may come to feel and act like a minority group — which seeks mutual support, recognizable in - group styles, viable defense patternTo the extent that U.S. culture is now tilting toward conservatism, those who hold such values may come to feel and act like a minority group — which seeks mutual support, recognizable in - group styles, viable defense patternto feel and act like a minority group — which seeks mutual support, recognizable in - group styles, viable defense patterns.

I'm not trying to take the side of religion here but in defense of most religious billboards I've seen, they are mostly benign «come to our church» kind of signs.

And today, rather than playing defense, American seminaries like Mundelein in Chicago are exploring how the Church might go on offense — not in an offensive way, but by developing new models of a 21st - century apologetics that invites disenchanted post-moderns to experience the divine mercy and come to know the truths to which that experience leads.

For example, we might notice that they spend a lot of time together, they are constantly helping each other in various ways, and they come to each other's defense when the other is threatened in some way.

Such a defense seems to come down to this: the local church is preserved from suffocating provincialism when it intentionally engages in dialogue with other churches and when it remains steadfast in appropriating and witnessing to the «apostolic tradition.»

Insofar as the need for defense provides just cause for public use of the sword, it comes from the responsibility of government to protect order, justice, and peace, not simply from the right to respond to an attacker in kind.

The airline initially came out in the defense of the man's removal and then yesterday pivoted to say that the incident was unacceptable and that it would be rectified.

The conference was spearheaded by Michael Davidson, a man of God who came out of the homosexual life many years ago and heads up a group called Core Issues Trust («a non-profit Christian ministry supporting men and women with homosexual issues who voluntarily seek change in sexual preference and expression») and by Andrea Williams, dynamic barrister and CEO of Christian Concern (an organization that seeks to be «a strong Christian voice in the public sphere») and the Christian Legal Centre (a legal defense team for British Christians persecuted for their faith).

The Witnesses» faith taught that such salutes and utterances were forbidden idolatry, directly condemned in the Decalogue, and that they did not owe the United States either their allegiance and loyalty or their efforts to come to its defense.

The impetus for innovating the wire - telegraph came from national defense establishments concerned to use control of knowledge to preserve and extend their power, and its subsequent history conforms to the pattern of other communications media in this regard.

What is going on, I suggest, is an untoward national hubris married to the defense of an outdated model of the Church's role in world affairs: A model that worked reasonably well at the 1814 - 15 Congress of Vienna but that came close to causing disaster in the 1970s.

In the prophets, in Jesus Christ, in the continuing life of the Church, and in all of life, God the Redeemer makes available to us resources which are our defense against the despair which comes when evil lays waste to lifIn the prophets, in Jesus Christ, in the continuing life of the Church, and in all of life, God the Redeemer makes available to us resources which are our defense against the despair which comes when evil lays waste to lifin Jesus Christ, in the continuing life of the Church, and in all of life, God the Redeemer makes available to us resources which are our defense against the despair which comes when evil lays waste to lifin the continuing life of the Church, and in all of life, God the Redeemer makes available to us resources which are our defense against the despair which comes when evil lays waste to lifin all of life, God the Redeemer makes available to us resources which are our defense against the despair which comes when evil lays waste to life.

In his recent book, Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity, he offers «four benefits» of mortality: interest and engagement, suggesting that adding, say, twenty years to the human life span would not proportionately increase the pleasures of life; seriousness and aspiration, proposing that the knowledge that our life is limited is what leads us to take life seriously and passionately; beauty and love, presenting the idea that it is precisely their perishability that makes, for instance, flowers beautiful to us, just as the coming and going of spring makes that season all the more meaningful; and, finally, virtue and moral excellence, by which he means the virtuous and noble deeds that mortality makes possible, including the sacrifice of our own life for a worthy cause.

In your attempt to to come to the defense of one group of people, you use a very derogatory term to identify another.

Movies like Prince Caspian glorify the notion that, if we believe that God is on our side, we are justified in killing... especially when it comes to self - defense.

And deliberate theological defense of revelation occurs only in an age that has come to doubt the reality of any divine transcendence at all.

The result is that religion becomes a defense against God or, at least, a defense against a deeply intimate experince of God that challenges us to become what we are — image bears of God, called to become sacraments of Divine Love in this world, not just waiting for God to «come down» and do the transforming work FOR us instead of THROUGH us.

What matters is that Jesus comes to her defense and turns the tables on her accusers — they are equally guilty of adultry, either in their lust for her naked vulnerability or in their perversion of the law, using the law, in their attempt to trap Jesus, for injustice.

What matters is that Jesus comes to her defense and turns the tables on her accusers — they are equally guilty of adultery, either in their lust for her naked vulnerability or in their perversion of the law — in their attempt to trap Jesus, they use the law for injustice.