Sentences with phrase «even in a hostile environment»

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Though Mariz recognizes a great diversity among Pentecostal denominations, and admits that some of the criticisms are valid, she thinks that even neo-Pentecostals and autonomous Pentecostal groups often provide the poor with experiences and values that help them confront their daily problems and survive in a hostile neo-capitalist environment.

Attempting to redress such problems all too often simply compounds the difficulties of certain groups, and even of entire populations, in their efforts to maintain or improve their standards of living in the face of a hostile political or economic environment.

Both Yehoshua were just expressing the prerogatives of kings and priests: Exodus 19:6 The first by securing a first step of sanctification by the slaughter of even innocent victims, and the second by bringing salvation to a great number in a less hostile environment.

Billups claims he doesn't experience nervous time, even in the most hostile environments.

Even bigger names at the Bernabeu have been shown the door in recent times, with the likes of Mesut Ozil and Angel Di Maria not surviving the chop in the incredibly hostile and expectant environment of the Spanish capital; with Bale becoming such a scapegoat this season for failing to do it in the big games, he is surely one of the first on the list to be sent on his way.

This hospital is creating a hostile, disrespectful environment before the mother even gets in the delivery room.

Even Democratic allies have complained of Mr. de Blasio's high - handedness — not everyone thought it was a moral obligation to make mayoral control permanent — and Ms. Wolfe will need to figure out how to keep securing wins in an environment that can be hostile for a big city liberal mayor.

She is to highlight the fact that Theresa May's target, and the hostile environment measures put in place that have so far failed to achieve it, are «leading to the scandalous situation where we are turning away doctors, even though there is a severe shortage of trained personnel in the NHS».

The swamp itself is a magnificent setting, both magical and haunting, a hostile, inhospitable environment that, in its own way, becomes a protective haven for our two outsiders carving their place out of a community that, in its way, is even more hostile.

An assumption behind this approach is that students trust educators enough to take risks and embrace academic challenge; but when a safe, trustworthy environment isn't in place, students won't take risks and may even be hostile to efforts to challenge them.

And because the powers - that - be at Goodreads (1) have to be dragged kicking and screaming into reining in even the most disruptive «reviewer,» and (2) are quicker to admonish and even ban authors who talk back to «reviewers,» that means that Goodreads is a hostile environment for authors.

That we have fallen into the imagistic approach to exhibitions (easily framed, photographed, and shared) makes an environment out of contemporary art that is perhaps even more hostile to ideas expressed through differences in aesthetics.

The courts in that case concluded that even just one utterance of the «N - word» could be enough to be sufficiently severe to meet the «severe or pervasive» standard created by federal law for a hostile work environment.

Furthermore, your place of employment may have created a hostile environment for minorities, women, or people of various ethnic or religious belief, and standing up for your employment rights may put you at odds with your fellow employees or even place you in potential physical harm from your employer and coworkers.