Sentences with phrase «dividing people against»

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Sometimes true evil geniuses will even divide and conquer, pitting two people or groups against each other.

anything else, even the daintiest theology, that divides people into sinners and saints goes against the spirit.

There is indeed a population problem, but it is not one of over-population but of an ageing population (more and more old people, fewer and fewer young) and a people divided against itself, the old fearing the young and the young despising the old.

Marco Polo says that Kublai Khan was not anti-Christian, and that he was convinced that the Christian faith was the best of all religions but the low level of learning he found among the Nestorians and his fear that adherence to any one religion would divide the people and set the other religions against the government, prevented him from being baptized.

Their ruthless policy of divide and rule, setting off one group of people against another, meant the beginning of trouble for the Muslims of China.

You see, if he can divide EVERYTHING into «with him» and «against him», he stands a better chance of corralling people into the «with him» category, enabling him / his parent compan (y)(ies) to charge more for advertising...

But deal with advertisers, public - relations experts and mass communicators and you will find that practical - minded people, not secularists, are screening them because the partisans of the «Judeo - Christian tradition» are divided against each other.

The Jesus of the Bible brought a sword to divide people, to set variance against people.

religion does absolutely nothing positive for the world, it's only purpose is to divide people, to pit them one against another.

The human person is divided against itself, as the body is increasingly relegated to a mere instrument for the fulfillment of human wishes and desires.

In his polemic against Jewish neoconservatives in general and Irving Kristol in particular, for instance, Hertzberg cites the Talmudic principle, «When in doubt, and the leaders confuse you by divided counsel, go into the street and see what the people are doing.»

The silence by President Buhari's administration has raised suspicion among the Ogonis that the federal government in collaboration with SHELL has opted for their usual strategy of divide and rule to set the Ogoni leaders and the people against themselves and also employing gradual frustration of the oil clean - up programme to force the collective loyalty of the Ogoni nation to join the ruling party in the country,» the statement said.

Humanists UK Chief Executive Andrew Copson commented, «People from across the political spectrum, representing a range of different religions and beliefs, are united on this one point: whatever your views on faith schools themselves, it can not be right for taxpayer - funded schools to divide and discriminate against children.

Gordon Brown has never understood or accepted that the people of England will never accept a constitutional settlement which divides England against itself.

The problem with the fall of Buhari is not just that of deception and abuse of trust against the promises made to the people but rather the widening of the divide between the ruled and the ruler.

They have held a lot of walks to protest against the move saying that they are one people and must not be «divided».

It means looking out to guard against people who profit from dividing us; it means guarding against self - centered politicians whose utterances highlight our differences rather than what we have in common as a people; it means protecting our young people from militant and terror groups who through fake religious teachings may indoctrinate and recruit our youth to commit crimes.

The divides within his 100 - plus person flock ran deep: former Assemblyman Richard Brodsky argued vociferously against the proposal, saying roads were public goods.

I think glibness, I think ideologically based rhetoric, I think trying to divide up society between the haves and have — nots and mobilise the middle ground against the rich is as unacceptable as we have from elsewhere in the political spectrum trying to mobilise the middle ground against what they call welfare scroungers but are actually poor people who have little and want more.

With the debate over welfare savings likely to form one of the central political battlegrounds of 2013, the deputy prime minister, speaking at a joint press conference with David Cameron at Downing Street, said: «I don't think it helps at all to try and portray that decision as one that divides one set of people against another, the deserving and the undeserving poor, people in work and out of work.»

Asked about the way people like George Osborne have been using the welfare uprating bill to depict Labour as the party of «shirking» benefit claimaints, Clegg said: «I don't think it helps at all to try and portray that decision [the decision to pass a bill capping benefit rises at 1 %] as one which divides one set of people off against another, the deserving or the undeserving poor, in work or out of work.»

Anyways, its a modern tale of terrorism and family and divided loyalties, the tension and divisions are all too apparent... who really is responsible for this large division of peoples??? We only really have to blame ourselves, and everyone must share this responsibilty of bias and prejudice against each other, or there will never be real peace, and there will always be extreme figures on both sides who will lead us astray on the path to destruction.

For starters, you can play with everyone against each other or divide people up into two teams.

Against this bustling, vibrant backdrop, writer - director Anthony Minghella conceives a muddled and somewhat ponderous affair between people from opposite sides of the social divide.

«People from across the political spectrum, representing a range of different religions and beliefs, are united on this one point: whatever your views on faith schools themselves, it can not be right for taxpayer - funded schools to divide and discriminate against children,» said Humanists UK chief executive Andrew Copson.

The basic gameplay is divided between very simple third - person combat against enemy flunkies and bosses, or lock - and - shoot flying sequences in the vein of Panzer Dragoon.