Sentences with word «espousal»

After a few distressing scenes with HR, Walk the Line has grasped that open espousal of such views is likely to create strife.

There is a danger that Conservatives will be so busy straining at Ed Miliband's gnat — his open espousal of socialism — that they will, without really noticing, swallow the camel of what he is really up to.

Perhaps prophetic in its early espousal of «green» politics, the party is sadly now defunct after the defection of leader Stuart Hughes to the Conservatives in 1997 and senior member Danny Bamford back to the OMRLP.

The observation could be explained by acknowledging espousal reciprocity rather than parental authority.

They have also been scorned from the left for their seemingly uncritical espousal of economic self - improvement that may or may not be connected to the capitalist system but certainly has done little to challenge it in the political sphere.

Perhaps the most impressive way in which scientific thought could display its own alleged espousal of the spirit of adventure today would be for it to review its motives for still clinging uncritically to a shallow notion of perception.

Vita Consecrata affirms that consecrated virgins «constitute an eschatological image of the Heavenly Espousal and of the future life, in which they find the final plenitude of life in Christ their Spouse.»

Important devotees of modern science, however, have found it hard to accept the believer's apparently unwarranted espousal of such a teleological perspective on the universe.

And the moment espousal of reform became strongly linked with criticism of doctrine, and particularly of practice linked with doctrine, and very particularly if it had financial implications, it was time to beware.

They reveal the progression of her spiritual life through the states of the mystical espousals and mystical marriage, and most importantly God's plan for devotion to the Sacred Head.

The Lib Dem espousal of AV is in no way surprising.

So is his political plight, which can also be traced to the more toxic components of the lady's mixed record, and her foolish espousal of increasingly anti-European policies, mostly after she left office in 1990.

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That, certainly, is the mainstream Jewish view to this day; however, Oz's implication that his mother's foreboding and dread — even before the 1948 war gets under way, and in stark contrast to his father's bullish espousal of nationalist sentiment — is a prefiguring of Israel's future of violence, splintering and moral uncertainty: Faina herself uses the word «abyss».

In a painting such as Summer Days (1936) O'Keefe seemed to issue a romanticist rallying call, in the face of Alfred H Barr's apparently Eurocentric espousal of hard - edged modernism at MOMA.

What if we stop here, Buvoli asks, before impact, before the Manifesto, before the reactionary aggression of the Futurist ethos and its eventual espousal by the Fascists?

The disavowal of alienation and active verbal espousal of relationship may be quite convincing and mislead lawyers and judges from the actual truth of the alienation.

After years of what they call backhanded treatment by the Bush administration, whose focus has been on the testing of older children, many advocates are atremble with anticipation over Mr. Obama's espousal of early childhood education.

Yet, what he wants to be known for is simply his espousal of the Very Important Liberal Ideas.

For naysayers who think that the end of cryptocurrency is near, NASDAQ just announced that they are going to start with Bitcoin - future, by early 2018, which proves the espousal of digital cash even by giants like NASDAQ.

His greatest gift, so it was said, was his espousal of the idea of a «living Constitution,» whereby (in his words) Justices would adapt the Constitution «to cope with current problems and current needs.»

Before the Council he was considered unsound because of his espousal of evolution, and he was shunned after the Council because of his undoubted orthodoxy - he himself said, with a smile: «I could never win!»

As the espousal of Christianity by Constantine and his successors had speeded up the conversion of the Roman Empire, so the adoption of Christianity was hastened or made possible by the favor of many another monarch.

She persuasively argues that the late Pope's approach to modern society relied on both «Marxism's critical theory of capitalism as a socio - economic system based on injustices, and Personalism's espousal of the uniqueness and dignity of every human being».

It was unable to make much headway in the Persian realms where the espousal of Zoroastrianism by the state restrained it.

The unhappy result, however, was his espousal of views we would today call racist, and his justification of a program of eugenics.

Santorum's espousal of biblical law over our present laws is illegal.

Primarily because of his espousal of nonviolent resistance, the Mahatma became a model of religious heroism for the Century and many of its readers.

If religion is to mean anything definite for us, it seems to me that we ought to take it as meaning this added dimension of emotion, this enthusiastic temper of espousal, in regions where morality strictly so called can at best but bow its head and acquiesce.

The espousal of an empirical approach to perceiving does not commit one to empiricism in general, though the results of my analysis confirm the reliability and cognitive richness of conscious perception.

2) you object to the espousal of Christianity based on concerns you believe are more primary to existence.

Horwitt cites the many individuals and groups who found themselves offended religiously, morally or aesthetically by Alinsky's espousal of self - interest and power, his «rubbing raw the sores of discontent,» his irreverence and vulgarity.

The hallmark of a truly religious person is the espousal of recognizable, religiously inspired values that are distinctly different from the values typically espoused by the less religious and the nonreligious.

The same buying of a bride is seen in the case of Rebekah's espousal (Genesis 24:53.)

In his extended review of Stratford Caldecott's The Radiance of Being (May / June issue), Fr Hugh Mackenzie contrasts that book's espousal of «the «Renaissance - Platonic» view of the human person as body - soul - spirit» with the Faith movement's prioritising of mind as the metaphysical first principle.

I have considerable admiration for the work the Faith movement does to promote the Catholic faith, but I have always been hesitant about its espousal of evolution (although I realise this is a central tenet).

Those who are compulsive in their espousal of abstinence tend to drive the real moderationists — whose existence they do not recognize — into identifying themselves with those who use alcohol to excess.

Merton's witness to the possibility of personal wholeness through contemplation and to inter-religious encounter in depth is inseparable from his espousal of the peace witness.

The views of Roy Hodgson are noted in Cleverley's defence, and the England manager is of course noted for his interest in and espousal of progressive football.