Sentences with phrase «fight has turned»

Not exact matches

Amid a perfect storm of investor - owned units, powerful condo boards and tenants who have limited powers to fight back, a democratic living ideal is rapidly turning into a dictatorial nightmare for condo - dwellers.

The intuitive notion of harnessing the body's own immune system to fight the enemy within is more than a century old — and seemingly, each time researchers have seemed close to turning that theory into reality, a new stumbling block appears.

Paramount has been fighting to turn around under new management but its future is still unclear.

But now that the economy is growing, the government has to turn its attention to fighting the deficit and that means the private sector will have to pick up that baton and provide the growth to the economy.

Security analysts pin the spiraling violence on fights over heroin production, which cartels have turned to as several U.S. states loosen their marijuana laws.

Republicans and trade groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have fought back against the measure at every turn, saying it will be too expensive, could mislead investors and is not material to a company's financial statements.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters)- McDonald's Corp's (MCD.N) relations with its U.S. franchisees have hit a fresh low as the fast - food giant's new chief executive fights to turn around its domestic business amid fierce competition, according to a survey released Wednesday.

'' The government sector has been a drag, there is still one more budget fight coming in the next few weeks and that's going to be a challenge, but if we get through that we are into the part of the election cycle where government drag turns into a small boost, we are already seeing some rehiring at the state and local level and that is significant as well.»

Instead of the world on a collision course of fighting over the last drop of oil, now it seems that we have turned the world upside down and now we are seeing predictions that oil demand will peak.

You have no army to fight Rome with but you find a way to turn the Roman Empire into the «Holy Roman Empire» by staging your death and ressurection.

If you are aware that Jesus specifically spoke just to the israelites and many of his various parables were meant for israelites, then you would know the «having an open mind» and «turning the other cheek» and «loving one another» was also just for jews and he was totally fine with killing non-jews, fighting back against non jews and being completely closed minded when it came to other religions.

And kill them wherever ye catch them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out; for persecution and oppression are worse than slaughter; but fight them not at the Sacred Mosque, unless they (first) fight you there; but if they fight you, kill them.

Having fought through addictions and even a suicide attempt before turning to Christ, he earned the right to declare, «Being...

If you could rewrite your life, which would you choose: First, you could go with what you have now, and the relationship with God you have now through years of sticking by Him, and struggling with questions and fears, and fighting off temptation, and making wise decisions (that sometimes turn out to be unwise), and persevering through temptation, and learning what you know about God, Scripture, and theology, but ending up as a relative «nobody» in the Churchianity.

And our work has changed over the years as the war has turned into a relative time of peace which then turned into the massive rise of ISIS and the displacement of millions of people, and then an extremely difficult fight against ISIS.

Plus, without fighting the government at every turn hopefully they would disappear

(I've been turning down as many as half a dozen television interviews per day, because they take so much time in traveling to studios, and mainly because most of them provide an opportunity for no more than a few sound bites and a food fight.)

Jesus» commands are pretty clear — turn the other cheek, love enemies and forgive them, don't take revenge, etc, so it would seem that refusing to fight or support in any way might be the thing christians should do, unless the war is clearly justified.

The religious right, most recently through the extremely dangerous «Tea Party,» have hi - jacked what SHOULD be logical public discourse or social programs, and turned them in to a Bible fight by claiming, incorrectly, that this is a Christian nation, and that we should be legislating the Bible.

But some Bunyan, writing Pilgrim's Progress in a prison where it was so damp that, as he cried, «The moss did verily grow upon mine eyebrows»; some Kernahan, born without arms and legs, but by sheer grit fighting his way up until he sat in the House of Commons; some Henry M. Stanley, born in a workhouse and buried in Westminster Abbey; some Dante, his Beatrice dead, he himself an exile from the city of his love, distilling all his agony into a song that became the «voice of ten silent centuries», or some more obscure and humble life close at hand where handicaps have been mastered, griefs have been built into character, disappointments have been turned into trellises, not left a bare, unsightly thing — such incarnations of fortitude and faith have infectious power.

It has frequently been noted that Stalin turned to the churches when he wanted help in getting the Russian people to rise up and fight Hitler, but it has less often been noted that the Soviet government also turns to church leadership — both Orthodox and Protestant — when it wants to take initiatives toward peace and arms reductions.

And although Christianity may often take a wrong turning or be led astray by the spirit of the age, it may always be sure that the Spirit of God is leading it into all truth, even though that assurance may often be shattered and may have to be fought for all over again.

People refusing medical treatment because they think they can pray disease away, The demoralizing way religion makes you feel about yourself (I am a wretch, a sinner, a bad person by nature), the religious wars that have been fought for millenia, the self righteous passing laws based on THEIR beliefs (change to the pledge of allegience which now excludes anyone who does not believe in a fairy godfather, the change to the national motto that turned it into the lie «in god we trust», the bigotry that «my religion is the right one and you are wrong so I'll pray for you» kind of crap... don't you realize that it is insulting to me when someone says they will pray for me... its the same as saying I'm going to do something for you but there won't be any effect, so it is just a waste of time.

In the process I learned that she was having an affair as well everytime I tried to talk to her about it it always turned into a fight.

Can we lose that salvation i believe so if we totally turn away from him by rejecting the conviction of the holy spirit in our lives.I say that because as a new christian i accepted Christ into my life and the holy spirit was convicting me to surrender my heart to him as Lord and i was resisting him i would not surrender to him fully and so he gave me a choice to either accept him or reject him.I believe he gives everyone the chance to make that commitment as Lord of there life.When we make that deeper commitment and follow him he will continue to perfect us through his holy spirit so that we conform to his image.By the way i knew that if i rejected him at that point that was it he would never bother me again i would have been eternally lost the thought was terrifying at the time.There was definitely a spiritual battle being fought over me i was very aware i needed to decide which side i was on.Thankfully i chose the winning one.brentnz

These are people who have been through the turnings and churnings of modern ecumenism; they pioneered breakthroughs, fought on the barricades, and now, in the afterglow of promises failed, are eminently qualified to assess what went wrong and what might be done about it.

As for the turning around — I had always assumed it was a combination of individual soldiers trying to get out against the flow of more army from the bank, Pharoah still driving them forwards (not appreciating quite what was happening) and, even if he had approved, the real intention being to regroup to fight another day.

What I learned later was that they were also trailblazers, women who were clearly gifted and called by God into ministry, but who had to fight (gently and patiently, as it turned out) for the chance to serve the church — as women — as Ministers of Word and Sacrament.

In an opening section of which a theological scholar would be proud, Gladwell turns the tables on the classic interpretation of the shepherd boy's battle with the Philistine giant, gradually proving his theory that David actually went into the fight as the favourite.

«In defending themselves,» she writes, «Jews have been turned into the fighting front line of the democratic world.»

Oh, I hope you didn't misunderstand me, I totally admit that those who don't want to be a part of society, those who are trying to undermine humanities success, those who are fighting science and progress at every turn have NO PLACE ON OUR PLANET.

Males and females who have, sometimes impatiently, turned this into a fight, into a culture war, instead of the grace of conversation over time as we each listen to God's Word as the way forward.

Having symbols of our faith and heritage removed from government property pales in comparison to such persecution, yet the Church fights them with as much piss and vinegar as Jesus turning over the moneychanger's tables in the temple!

but to get to that day where you can turn the page and begin to write a new chapter in your life, you have to get back up and fight.

You have turned it into a fight for no other reason than to attack other peoples beliefs.

My essay describes Michael Lind's view in these words: «Lind... argues that it [fighting the war] was the right thing to have done, and that it might have turned out pretty well had Robert McNamara, William Westmoreland, and a few choice others not screwed things up.»

It means getting up at 5 am to exercise when you know it's the only time you can do it; it means fighting the thoughts in your head that are telling you to turn around mid run; it means learning to have a taste of that amazing dessert you love and then put the fork down; it means understanding the meaning of BALANCE.

Dany had done this many times, so after about a seven - minute fight the pilot gaffed the fish, which turned out to be a 12 - pound grouper.

He turned down a career pay day to fight someone, who while definately feared 2 years ago, hasn't pulled up any trees of late, failed a drugs test, somehow got reinstated and when you look at it, has a resume similar to Wilders

There has long been a tough man image in MMA of never turning down a fight and subsequently shaming / attacking other fighters who do turn down fights but does this really serve the fighters all that well and instead does it only benefit the promoter?

The cruiserweight - turned - heavyweight fighter known as «The Hayemaker» claimed the fight had been agreed earlier this week, but promoters made the official announcement at a press conference this morning.

Sure, the final outcome of the fight did not turn out exactly as he had hoped.

He said McGregor wouldn't turn his fight against Mayweather into a street fight, but would instead out - box him.

I never believed we ha much of a chance, but I thought Arsenal at least would have turned up motivated and looking to make a fight out of it.

The featherweight has been inconsistent with five losses in his last nine bouts, but each of his last two fights have been wins and he appears to have turned a corner with his new coach Eric Del Fierro.

He has turned the club from being considered «an easy Blue» to being a blue that is hard fought and hard earned, having turned Varsity results from an embarrassing 9 - 0 loss in 2009 to having won 6 - 3 for the last 3 years.

When you are playing football and you got a high ball to control the slightest touch will push you off it for sure eguaro pushed mustafi but mustafi should have stock his leg out to bring him down or elbowed him in the face well i would have done that Arsenal were not hungry enough for the cup if they were we would have seen some blood running down of some Manchester players Arsenal need to defend in packs of wolves The first half was not to bad we should have scored though but yes no back bone no hunger and no fight What is going to happen on Thursday how are we going to line up against them??? I need to see Arsenal fight like man stand up like man and use their skill and agility to turn Manchester to a loosing side Well if we do nt we need to separate the real man from the phony ones period

FFS what is wrong with our club... Turned down by a 29 year old one season wonder who is happy in Halifax now going for a 29 year old has been who couldn't make an impression on the Venezuelan defence... We need two quality attackers to challenge... If the frog gives a sh @@ about this club he would be splashing at least 80 m to give us a fighting chance upfront next season... But no we are going to be hearing about ze uneraldid qwolatis of Olivier and my reezpect for ze litl how u say wipit...

He fights for rebounds and loose balls, but he also turns the ball over a lot and has trouble scoring over the bigger guys....

and more often than not it works, because Wenger's team don't have the fight in them to dig deep and turn adversity to their advantage, they fold quicker than a deck chair....