Sentences with phrase «early opponent»

Nothing shows more clearly than the contrast between the death of Socrates and that of Jesus (a contrast which was often cited, though for other purposes, by early opponents of Christianity) that the biblical view of death from the first is focused in salvation - history and so departs completely from the Greek conception.

But at Wimbledon, Miss Smith and Miss Bueno went galloping through early opponents without any signs of ailments or rustiness, winning sets by scores of 6 - 0 and 6 - 2 and only occasionally 6 - 4.

With an unproven baseball washout at QB (Weeden, who turns 28 in October, spent five years in the minors as a pitcher) and no clear No. 1 receiver last summer, Oklahoma State was tabbed for a fifth - place finish in the Big 12 South, allowing them to catch early opponents off guard.

Earlier opponents like Ernie Terrell and Floyd Patterson were all on the receiving end too.

He handily beat his two earlier opponents with a large infusion of cash from the national Republican Party.

For a corrective to this view, one should read «Fascism and Catholicism,» a brilliant wartime essay (1941) by Dietrich von Hildebrand, the great German Catholic philosopher and early opponent of Hitler, who, tellingly, is missing from Ericksen's narrative, as is von Hildebrand's praise of Pope Pius XII.

An early opponent of Nazism, Canaris, with trusted assistants, remained in regular contact with the Vatican, through Joseph Müller, and reported the progress achieved in forming an anti-Nazi coalition willing to challenge Hitler's rule.

McCloskey had been an early opponent of the Vietnam war, and therefore something of a hero on liberal campuses in the «60s, but few in his Berkeley audience seemed aware of that history.

He had been an early opponent of the Nazis, denouncing their racial bigotry, their obsession with attempting to revive pagan myths to replace Christian worship and their nationalising of various properties belonging to the Church.

Read the early opponents of Christianity and how they referred to the Christians as cannibals... hmmm... I wonder why?

Goerdeler was an early opponent of Nazism; he was outspoken in his defiance of the Nazis from 1933 on, and he finally resigned when the Nazis destroyed a statue of Mendelssohn that stood in the main square of Leipzig.

Among the earliest opponents of slavery were the Quakers.

[5] E.g. J.L.Farthing, Thomas Aquinas and Gabriel Biel, 1988, D.Bagchi, Luther's Earliest Opponents, 1991, P.J.Fitzpatrick, In Breaking of Bread: The Eucharist and Ritual, Cambridge, 1993.

The Drinkwater sending off aside, in 5 years of football the earliest an opponent got a second yellow was the 84th minute, with all others being 87 or later.

9 CCD Councilman Bill Perkins, who won this seat in a Special Election earlier has a rematch with some of his earlier opponents & some others — District Leader Cordell Cleare, union official Marvin Holland, lawyer Pierre Gooding, teacher Tyson - Lord Gray, Marvin Spruill, Dianne Mack & Julius Tajiddin.

State party leader Ed Cox, an early opponent of the Trump campaign, has proven to be a «good leader, a good soldier» in getting behind the upstart campaign.

It is pretty simple, and after going through just a few rounds most people will catch on quickly and whip right through the early opponents.

China was an early opponent of the EU's cap - and - trade scheme, which has also drawn protests from the United States and India, and the escalating row threatens to hamper efforts to work out an international solution to Europe's sovereign debt crisis.