Sentences with phrase «early opponents of»

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Some opponents also pointed to provisions in earlier versions of the bill that could make it easier for drug companies to obscure their financial contributions to hospitals and doctors under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, which is part of Obamacare.

The earlier GOP memo implied that the FISA applications concealed that researcher Christopher Steele was working for a political opponent of Trump when he assembled the infamous «Steele dossier,» one of the sources cited in the DOJ's FISA request.

I heard from a handful of entrepreneurs after my column on how some of President Obama's opponents have twisted his words in a speech earlier this month.

«Porter's resignation removed a fierce opponent of the tariffs from the West Wing and revived the chaotic policy review process that defined the early weeks of Trump's presidency,» Politico reports.

In the early days of digital currency, many of its opponents conflated it with the dark web, and used criminal networks like Infraud to de-legitimize bitcoin.

People for the American Way, a liberal advocacy group and dedicated Bachmann opponent, resurfaced the petition earlier this month after news that the congresswoman would remain on the high - profile panel despite spearheading a controversial campaign against Muslim members of President Barack Obama's administration last year.

I will not deny that I give more weight than he does to the fact of the apparent inability of the opponents of the early Christian preaching to silence the message of the Resurrection once for all by producing Christ's remains.

In the «80s or early «90s, shooting an opponent resulted in the collapse of that figure on the screen.

Identification of opposition to the measure with Catholicism might have been avoided if other religious groups had been perceived in the public's mind as early and strong opponents.

Readers and listeners are «insiders» to Mark's plot; they are informed very early of the divine identity of Jesus (and even told at times what Jesus and his opponents are thinking).

During the Early modern period, the term «atheist» was used as an insult and applied to a broad range of people, including those who held opposing theological beliefs, as well as suicides, immoral or self - indulgent people, and even opponents of the belief in witchcraft.

Another early American Christian opponent of slavery was the follower of Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Hopkins.

A focus on the dangers of private judgment was part of a long tradition stretching all the way back to the early days of the sixteenth century, when opponents decried Protestant «anarchy» and its effects.

I'm going to repeat what I said earlier... this team actively pursued a policy to undermine the relationship between the fans and the best player on this team... for all intent and purposes this is a traitorous act... so instead of spending money, which all pundits and fans agreed was necessary in order to compete at the highest levels, this club was wasting time and money trying to turn fans against Sanchez long before the end of the season (the real concerted effort started around the time that Wenger benched him for the start of the Liverpool game)... for a team that pertains to be different, like a FAMILY, and constantly questions the tactics of it's opponents, to engage in such a treasonous act is deplorable

The Black Cats travel to White Hart Lane on Saturday for the weekend's early kick off, and Allardyce has been quick to undermine his side's opponents ahead of the first match of Gameweek 22.

We usually start slow in games but we should avoid this by all means tonight, an early away goal from our opponents tonight can really destabilize our team and change the whole complexion of the game, besides will be missing our battler in midfield who runs at the same pace the whole game to dig us out the hole in the dying minutes of the game.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, I find that (1) it is better to lose later in the season than earlier, (2) AP voters do not pay attention to the strength of a defeated opponent, and (3) the benefit of winning by a large margin is negligible.

It was a good start for our team with the majority of players taking an early lead over our opponents, resulting in a 5 - 1 lead.

Since getting only 15 carries in an early - season rout of Appalachian State, he's brought his lunch pail to Clemson's biggest showdowns and gained triple - digit yardage in every matchup against bowl - eligible opponents since.

On the back of our recent trip to South Africa, it will provide us with another very tough and high quality opponent in what still is the very early stages of our pre-season program.

We can, perhaps, assume that the half - time break brought an early deployment of the Alex Ferguson hairdryer, for United steamed into their opponents after the break.

ince getting only 15 carries in an early - season rout of Appalachian State, he's brought his lunch pail to Clemson's biggest showdowns and gained triple - digit yardage in every matchup against bowl - eligible opponents since.

Antoine Walker took his game into the paint and gave Boston an early edge over the 76ers The experts were sure the Celtics were going to make a quick exit in the playoffs, and the reasons were obvious: Power forward Antoine Walker would hoist too many three - pointers; he and three of his fellow starters had no postseason experience; and their first - round opponents were the Eastern Conference champion 76ers, who had gone 10 - 2 against Boston over the past three seasons.

If you're Pat's roommate during the early years in Knoxville, before Pat has a husband at age 28 and a child at 38, before there are videos of opponents to watch until she's cross-eyed, you love it when another big game's approaching.

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.

Not content to be just a nickel pass rusher, which was supposedly the original plan, Harrison has instead been a catalyst of sorts, transforming that Steelers defense from pretty much a joke early on this season to one that has again started to inspire just a liiiittle bit of fear in their opponents.

But also because it is an early test of title credentials for us an our opponents.

i was excited when there were 3 forwards which I called runners up front, who could press Chelsea's defence in the earlier part of the game and counter quickly, Oxil hardly press opponents and slows down counters.

While this won't be an ideal situation for a while, I agree that a pressing system would likely reduce the number of times we see the Timbers taking an early lead and then relaxing to the point where opponents are allowed back into the game.

Ive watched his fights for years and followed his career keenly and almost every fight of his follows the same pattern i.e. Tony gets hit and his opponent has early success but he keeps coming forward and keeps pressuring.

Arsene Wenger spoke earlier about tomorrow's Premier League game against QPR and was of course asked about our opponents, and you can see the full interview on Arsenal.com.

We all no when it comes to the time of changing basically the entire first team, at home in mickey mouse cup ie the early chelsea cup or even away depending on opponents.

WASHINGTON (AP) The plan was simple: Score early against a weary opponent and ride the momentum the rest of the way.

The build - up to this match has been surrounded by the expected return of Nicklas Bendtner, who signed for our opponents on a free transfer earlier in the month.

For others, like Gabbert (32.9 percent), Tim Tebow (35.8 percent), and, thus far, Mitchell Trubisky (34.0 percent), it has meant early exposure of all their flaws to opponents.

Both teams struggled to pick up momentum early in the season as they faced off against a slew of tough opponents.

Teams may not like where they are ranked and want to catch the eyes of voters by blowing out opponents in the early tournaments.

Their opponent will likely start with a nice surge of momentum following their Opening Round W, if they can just withstand that early, they should be in good shape.

He is now 26, has lost that early years surge of speed past opponents and we must be realistic about his future.

They also play Hull City in the third round of the FA Cup in early January; it was, of course, Ramsey who scored the winning goal in last May's final against the same opponents, securing Arsenal's first trophy since the fall of Rome.

Against Liverpool at the Emirates, however, the North Londoners need to start the game on the front foot and grab the early initiative against their opponents who are handicapped with a whole lot of injuries and not coming into this game in the best of shape.

On his second serve, Chip was startled to see his opponent take a couple of steps forward and catch the ball early.

With the ball - playing defender role set to stopper, the idea is that the defender pushes up ahead of his other two central defenders, wins the ball early and can then execute accurate through balls when the opponent least expects it.