Sentences with phrase «fight against the idea»

She fought against the idea of sameness through social and government enforcement.

In ways great and small, we all fight against the idea of needing the people we love.

Mr. Iyengar always fought against the idea that asana was merely «physical yoga».

eBooks, often heralded as the end of publishing as we know it, continue to fight against that idea by introducing great works to even more readers everyday, readers who will search for even more books.

«I really fight against the idea that we're natural nurturers,» Flynn says.

Nicholas Middleton: When you are in the middle of the process it's hard to separate out those decisions that go into making a piece... when I started painting after I left college, I didn't... well, I suppose I fought against the idea of just making a painting from photographic sources which looked like a photograph, so I used lots of strategies to disguise it, or to confuse it in a sense, making paintings which were more like collages, or reducing imagery to... well, I borrowed things from pop art to, I suppose, to complicate things, for a few years it felt like I was fighting against what I seem to be naturally quite good at, and then it reached a point where I just felt I didn't want to tie myself in too many knots in terms of the thinking which was going on behind the pictures and then just let myself just paint fairly directly from photographic sources.

Not exact matches

Sohn is one of the most anticipated hedge fund events of the year, where managers volunteer their time and best investment ideas to raise money in the fight against childhood cancer.

Sohn is the most widely anticipated hedge - fund event of the year, where managers volunteer their time and best investment ideas to raise money in the fight against childhood cancer.

CUNY professor Jeff Jarvis, who will direct the project as part of the Tow - Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism, said in a blog post that the idea came from conversations he had with Newmark about the need to fight back against the rise of fake news and misinformation.

It's those kind of big, new ideas, onlookers had said, that the company needs to fight back against the growing number of competitors that have been stealing market share via better food and service, and trendier store designs.

The atheists are fighting a campaign against Fundamentalist Christians who are trying to run for President of the United States and change our laws to suit their ridiculous biblical ideas.

On this basis, he fought tooth and nail against the moderates in the Southern Baptist Convention or any other part of the evangelical world who rejected the idea that the Bible was the Word of God in favor of the idea that the Bible became the Word of God in encounter or contained the Word of God in some way.

This very subtlety which is the strength of his theology and philosophy fights against the diffusion of his ideas.

It very well could have been an exasperated response to the idea that a few men could somehow fight against the Roman Empire.

John Stewart is an atheist (from what I understand), and even he thinks this fight against the 9/11 cross is a stupid idea.

I often get responses from people who lean toward Option 1 as well, but in my experience, most of these people are having thoughts and ideas about Option 2, and it scares them, so they fight against it by leaving comments on blogs like mine.

In 2015, Obama stopped the proposed thousand - mile pipeline citing that it would not be a good idea for America's position of leadership in the global fight against climate change.

We'll see how they play against the Washington Wizards, then that will give us an idea on how they will play against teams fighting for playoff positioning or a spot like Utah Jazz (Mar. 21), Milwaukee Bucks (Mar. 25), LA Clippers (Apr. 3), LA Lakers (Apr. 4) and New Orleands Hornets (Apr. 11).

Arsene Wenger has made a couple of changes to the Arsenal team that managed to fight back twice against Man City on Sunday to earn a draw, but the idea that our club captain Per Mertesacker may be in for a first game of the season due to the Koscielny achilles injury is on hold, even though his height and aerial ability would have been a factor in stopping Andy Carroll.

Presumably the idea is that it will have his Puebla players fighting for the ball like dogs and, if they're successful against Ronaldinho's new side, perhaps it'll be adopted as a new age training method across the globe?

No longer moping in front of the media and offering up the idea he could resign, he appears to have rediscovered his fight and sense of mischief, flopping in front of Mike Dean on the touchline against Arsenal, and is a manager once more filled with bullish confidence and certainty over his ideas.

around midnight i began to question my decision to have a home birth, & maria was getting tired... she called in a second midwife for support & my doula arrived from another birth... i was afraid of the power - i hadn't felt it like this in kayenn's birth... i was afraid that i would come apart - even though i had to - i know now that coming apart is a part of the process... someplace in the middle of this birth i realized that i did not know how to do this - i was acting against the birth process - literally & emotionally... i had a mental idea of what it should look, sound, smell, be like... after some hours maria checked me again, i had been at 9 cm for 4 hours... she said to me, «some babies can come through at 9 cm, but yours will not, sokhna... sokhna, you are going to have to fight to bring this baby out... go into the bathroom, get in the shower & work it out... «so i did... i went in the cold bathroom alone & remembered every cold detail of kayenn's birth... i wondered if i could get to the hospital on time to have an emergency c - section & i began to cry... & as i cried i had to go to the bathroom - i sat on the toilet & the rushes came down like nothing i can explain - but they didn't hurt - it was just POWER!

And before I started to look at this issue, I'd actually been a breastfeeding mother for seven years, believe it or not and when I started to read about this and talk to other mothers and look at the literature, I was stunned by how ignorant I had been of all the influences on me as a breastfeeding mother and all the messages that are being sent to us about the purpose of our breasts and the idea of the primary purpose of our breasts being about Sex Attraction and you know I didn't realize I'd been fighting a struggle against all these messages as a breastfeeding mother.

Malami said: «The idea of fear does not come in at all as far as this President is concerned in the fight against graft.

Smith also suggested Corbyn had failed to fight hard enough against Brexit because he «never really liked the idea of the European Union».

Making the fight for justice for child sex abuse victims even murkier, a Staten Island lawmaker, Republican Sen. Andy Lanza, wants to make it easier to bring criminal cases against predators — even though he admits his idea is likely unconstitutional.

And, more fundamentally, he must avoid being dragged down by the surprisingly narrow gap between New Labour's NHS reform ambitions and the Tories» ideas it is now fighting its hardest against.

But he wants to go back to Albany to continue questioning and fighting against what he considers bad ideas.

ALBANY — Making the fight for justice for child sex abuse victims even murkier, a Staten Island lawmaker wants to make it easier to bring criminal cases against predators — even though he admits his idea is likely unconstitutional.

Mr. Stringer also rolled out a new «Red Tape Commission,» designed to fight back against the idea that «bureaucratic red tape will inevitably tie up businesses.»

One of the most promising ideas in cancer treatment is to apply a lesson learned in the fight against AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome): simultaneously attacking a pathological process at different points of weakness can, in some cases, deal a knock - out blow.

The true opponents of progress are conservatives who fight tooth and nail against new ideas, only to end up declaring «of course, it was my idea all along».

Then again, don't we all have to fight against this, against the idea that our lives belong to someone other than ourselves?

Not just kicking animals in the nuts but having martial arts fights with them now and eventually becoming some kind of evil force against all the animals, pretty bad idea methinks.

The key takeaway to this prequel to Epic Games» sci - fi shooter series is the idea that the humans of Sera thought they could win a fight against the Locust.

The idea of a pastor fighting back against Eden's Gate was a great one, but his story only extended to the small region he resides in.

The script has been tweaked along the way, and the idea of having two different actors play the assassin and the clone was scrapped, with Smith taking on both roles as developments in filmmaking will enable him to play both different ages and fight against himself.

Plus, Ant Man (Paul Rudd) is a hoot, regardless of the fact that he clearly has no idea why he's fighting against other good guys.

Bryan Cranston stars as Blacklisted and beleaguered screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, but this tale of two trailers suggest slightly different Trumbos: the first trailer portrays the titular writer as a rich man with radical ideas who is then broken down by accusations of being a Communist before he finds screenwriting success again; the new trailer starts off with the hard - luck story of Trumbo before playing up the fight against Congress and the war against censorship.

For those of us who do this work because of our deep concern for the way the deck is stacked against the «have nots,» we probably should start getting used to the idea that winning the hearts and minds of suburban soccer moms and dads is going to be the best way to win the political fight once and for all.

Mark Pudlow, spokesperson for the Florida Education Association, the teachers union that has fought pitched battles against many of Florida's recent initiatives, acknowledges the result of Florida Virtual School's approach: «[It] never developed the kind of mistrust that tends to be associated with other reform ideas.»

Our goal is to link reform at the local and state level so that states can put the powers they do have to their highest and best use, and local leaders with ideas and initiative will not constantly fight against state law and administrative actions.

In an interview in today's Star - Ledger, Newark Superintendent and former New Jersey Commissioner of Education Chris Cerf discusses the threat of a charter school moratorium, his views on «boutique» charter schools in leafy suburbs, why NJEA leaders and Save Our Schools - NJ fight so vociferously against public charters yet give discriminatory magnet schools (and their own access to school choice) a pass, the impending governorship of Phil Murphy, and how Newark charters are incubating new ideas and sharing them with traditional schools.

In an interview in today's Star - Ledger, Newark Superintendent and former New Jersey Commissioner of Education Chris Cerf discusses the threat of a charter school moratorium, his views on «boutique» charter schools in leafy suburbs, why NJEA leaders and Save Our Schools - NJ fight so vociferously against public charters yet give discriminatory magnet schools (and their own access to school choice) a pass, the impending governorship of Phil Murphy, and how Newark charters are incubating new ideas...

There is currently no idea right now if they plan on fighting the case, but recently YouTube spent over $ 100 million dollars fighting a case brought against them from Viacom.

Likewise, if your book tells the story of a teenage girl fighting against a patriarchal, religious government, it wouldn't be a good idea to buy ad space on Foxnews.com.

Bad idea, sure, but maybe not the monumental setback in the fight against climate change that is feared by so many.

don't nobody knock message boards: i participate in three which are absolute mustard: given the right kind of people and enough mutual association, they are the best way to swap ideas and even cooperate on projects (case in point: the TMF banking board successfully staged a fight against the Irish minister of finance to defend a bond widely held by its members — including legal action and political lobbying): there is something about the mechanism of general conversation in a small group of like - minded friends that can really take off

From a 10 - year - old boy's lemonade stand to Jane Goodall's fight against poaching, this inspirational collection of ideas offers up hope and offers ways for each of us to take small steps toward becoming big planet heroes.

It's actually the foundation for a good narrative, the idea that while you're fighting against a dictator the rebellion itself isn't exactly all roses.