Sentences with phrase «fight to the death against»

They felt themselves called to a fight to the death against the forces of the Seleucid Emperor, Antiochus Epiphanes, who was bent on carrying through a program of hellenizing his empire and blotting out every vestige of Judaism.

When the 75th Quarter Quell Hunger Games are announced, pitting the champions of previous years against one another, Katniss and Peeta are thrust back into a desperate competition for survival where they must fight to the death against the most skilled warriors in all of Panem.

And when he finally discovers the shocking truth behind his ancestry, Cayden realizes there is only one way to save the woman he loves... a grisly fight to the death against forces more savage than he could have ever imagined.

Once again Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mallark are thrown into the Arena, ordered to fight to the death against 22 other opponents on live television as part of the way the Capital keeps the outlying, ever - rebellious Districts in line.

Retelling the ancient Battle of Thermopylae, 300 depicts the titanic clash in which King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and 300 Spartans fought to the death against Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) and his massive Persian army.

Priced up at # 11.99, Monster Slayers will see you tasked with creating a hero, joining the Monster Slayers Guild and then heading off on a journey through the Northern Valley, with it culminating in a fight to the death against the legendary Harbinger and taking home the crown of Monster Slayer.

Starting off slowly, as you learn your trade in a fight to the death against a pile of old tin cans, the whole premise and idea of Western Press is a simple one, as you make your way as fast as you can through 10 face button presses, with each incorrect press delaying your progress by mere milliseconds.

Not exact matches

Muchembled explains both the development of dueling among the nobility and rural revolts against the centralization of authority as reactions against state repression of traditional codes of violence: «In each case, the participants claimed an eminent right to a straight fight, even if it resulted in the death of the adversary.»

Churches and Christians divided by race and culture have the opportunity to work together on the front lines of the fight against spiritual darkness and nurture the hope and faith that might prevent more deaths like the one Freddie Gray suffered.

One thing is certain to a pastor: the only parishioners fighting the old battles are old themselves, their felt banners frayed and their guitar strings broken, while a young battalion is rising, with no animus against the atrophied adolescence of their parents, and only eager to engage a real spiritual combat in a culture of death.

CT's coverage of terrorism against Christians includes the viral video of a 10 - year - old Iraqi girl forgiving ISIS, how modern - day «Monuments Men» are trying to save Biblical - era artifacts from ISIS, and the death of the first American volunteer to die fighting terrorism in Iraq and Syria.

A week after Broomfield's death, President Barack Obama announced the deployment of up to 450 more troops to train Iraqi forces to more effectively fight against ISIS, NPR reports.

Christians are called in various and sometimes curious ways to fight against sickness, death, and evil.

True Christians were not permitted to serve in the military or otherwise participate in war or even commit violent acts until the concept of the «just war» — fighting only when doing so was required to protect the innocent against an aggressor — was developed hundreds of years after the death of Christ.

I just wonder why they are not fighting just as hard against other forms of «killing humans» like the death penalty (no one can say no innocent people have died on death row) the poor and sick and many elderly being allowed to starve and freeze because the religious right doesn't want to shoulder that burden through their taxes.

That number one evolutionary rule of survival is «When Death is at your doorstep and has chained you to the walls without seeing the light of Creation or that which can be created then the human must fight against Death and invent new ways of defeating Death and his minions.»

It makes the important assertion that God fights for us against sin and death, yet it is hard to see how our personal decisions of faith and our acceptance of forgiveness are involved.

Jeremy good message and quite relevant for today God is still looking at our hearts and motives for serving him or are we serving our own agenda as Jonah was.He did nt feel compassionate towards his enemies and who could blame him they had cruelly killed many Jews it was a question of life or death to his own people.The Jewish nation was no more deserving of Gods grace than the other nations that is revealed by sending Jonah to preach a message of hope and life.Ultimately God calls all by faith in him and is willing to be merciful to all nations and peoples that do not not deserve it just like us it is by grace that we all are forgiven.I am pleased that God is sovereign and knows whats best he is merciful to us.Our human nature is that it is better to kill our enemies before they can kill us and that is essentially Jonahs message that is why he struggled to be obedient to Gods will.Gods message is to forgive those that trespass against us and show mercy.Its complicated and it is natural to protect ourselves and our families from those who would seek to destroy them but ultimately its about trusting God with everything easier said than done.If it comes to a choice we will have to trust God and ask for his strength because we cant do it in ours.As Christ laid down his life for us are we ready to lay our lives and the lives of our families as a sacrifice for him.To me that is where the story of Jonah is leading to we have the choice to fight our enemies or to love them as God loves them.brentnz

It would explain that Jesus also fought against and was put to death by the religious...

Anyone who fights against Allah or renounces Islam in favor of another religion shall be «put to death or crucified or have their hands and feet cut off alternative sides» (Sura 5:34).

It is natural for them to struggle against death until there is nothing left to fight with, and anyone watching the struggle is going to be upset.

imposed the death penalty for praying to any diety, that either the country, or the country it was fighting against, would win the war, or lose the war that they were engaged in.This was to protect the country from the influence of the church.

And listen to Gerald McClellan, who in February battled to the brink of death in his WBC super middleweight title fight against Nigel Benn in London.

Place yourself on «death ground», where your back is against the wall and you have to fight like hell to get out alive.

I have nothing against the blatant sexuality of the Teleflora ad because I totally loved the David Beckham H&M underwear ad and I will fight to the death to be able to see Beckham in as few clothes as possible.

Al - Zarqawi was the «most vicious prosecutor» of the fight against democracy in Iraq and his death is a blow to terrorists everywhere, Tony Blair has said.

«We are going to the courts,» said Savimbi, son of the UNITA founder Jonas Savimbi, whose death in 2002 during the civil war against Dos Santos's forces paved the way for a ceasefire after 27 years of fighting.

For us, World AIDS Day is such an initiative, where uniting in the fight against HIV must begin with accepting scientific evidence for the basis and treatment of HIV / AIDS, and acknowledging human responsibility and endeavour as the way to reduce harm, to prevent unnecessary suffering and deaths, and to combat prejudice and discrimination.

The second MP, Claire Perry, received death threats relating to her fight against pornography on the internet.

Murray wound up helping the group for nine months, helping them move into a permanent office and paving the groundwork for some of their most consequential fights, including their campaign against the «death tax» and their legal challenge to the corporate accounting regulations in the Sarbanes - Oxley Act of 2002.

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai has commuted the death sentences passed on 66 soldiers who were tried by several Military Court Martials for mutiny and other offences in the fight against Boko Haram terrorists» in the North East to terms of 10 years imprisonment.

«IDSA is committed to infectious diseases - led antimicrobial stewardship programs as an essential component in the fight against antimicrobial resistance that leads to more than 23,000 deaths per year and over $ 20 billion in unnecessary health costs,» says Paul Auwaerter, M.D., president of IDSA.

Cancer survivors are very vulnerable because they fought against death and paved their way to survival.

Suffice it to say that the state (nicely embodied here by Donald Sutherland), as a means of controlling the masses, annually sets a gaggle of young people against one another in a fight to the death while broadcasting the whole nightmarish ordeal live.

J. K. Rowling later revealed that a centaur pressed it into the ground by stomping on it as the herd charged to help the defenders of Hogwarts in the fight against Voldemort and his Death Eaters.

Jeon Woo - chi, an undisciplined, womanizing wizard unjustly accused of the death of his master, is trapped inside an ancient scroll until he is set free in 2009 by the wizards that imprisoned him to help fight against evil goblins that have taken over present - day Korea.

It has thunderous robots against terrifying monsters fighting to the death as skyscrapers shatter like glass all while set to an amazing musical score.

Save for one brief scene, there was no evidence of even the murmurings of rebellion against the Capitol, where the wealthy take in the stories of the participants and their eventual fight to the death as a demented form of reality TV.

The rest of the film is essentially these different factions fighting against Thanos and his forces for the Infinity Stones, which he seeks to have control over life and death.

Ellen plays Lucy, a court rat and nomadic «activist» who travels across the country to protest various executions, visit prisons, or fight against the death penalty.

With only one character — a nameless man played by Robert Redford — and almost no words spoken on screen, All Is Lost is a bare - to - the - bone procedural thriller about a single man's fight against almost - certain death.

Based on the book by Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games follows Jennifer Lawrence's Katniss Everdeen as she's drafted into a brutal fight - to - the - death against two dozen fellow citizens - with the film detailing the character's ongoing efforts at staying alive.

«A Fantastic Woman» («Una Mujer Fantástica»), playing a woman forced to fight against society and the family of her older lover following his sudden death.

The Hunger Games are an annual series of tourneys that pit children from each «district» against one another in a fight to the death.

Let's find out as we pitch the three gadgets against each other in a fight to the spec death.

And pitting cat against cat to fight - to - the - death for territory is ABSOLUTELY NO DIFFERENT than those who run criminal dog - fight rings to see who wins.

It is named after I Gusti Ngurah Rai, an Indonesian national hero who died in a puputan (fight to the death) against the Dutch at Marga during the Indonesian Revolution in 1946.

It is named after I Gusti Ngurah Rai, an Indonesian National Hero who died in a puputan (fight to the death) against the Dutch at Marga during the Indonesian Revolution in 1946.

Anyways, while marketed to us as a zombie game, Valley of Death is really more of a «defend your wall against monsters» game, as most of the creatures you are fighting have absolutely no human resemblance.

Sadly this lack of any intelligence shows up in the boss battles too; epic fights against Wolverine or Gambit should be a deadly dance of death, but in reality both characters have just a few simple moves at their disposal and have a rather peculiar tendency to attack absolutely nothing, leaving the locked in an attack animation where you can happily batter them black and blue.