Sentences with phrase «forces against which»

Which means then, in our final point today, that we know something about the rights of the wicked forces against which we wrestle.

Like free weights, resistance bands provide a force against which your muscles must work — but unlike free weights, as you stretch the band, the tension increases while the movement remains equally safe and effective.

Not exact matches

At those speeds, water creates a considerable force against the fin, which could keep the fin strong and upright.

Subdued inflation forced the BOJ to revamp its policy framework in 2016 to one better suited for a long - term battle against deflation, which targets interest rates instead of the pace of money printing.

• The legal saga could come to an end: Benchmark agreed to immediately suspend (and later drop) its lawsuit against ex-CEO Travis Kalanick, which it filed in August in an effort to limit his power and force him off the board.

In addition to damages, Unilever is seeking an injunction against Hampton Creek, which would keep the company from calling its product mayonnaise, marketing it as superior to Unilever's brands, and ultimately forcing it to withdraw anything with Just Mayo branding from the market.

Cartel attacks against Mexican security forces, which had previously been a rare occurrence, have increased, perhaps as a result of the CJNG's influence.

The United States stations 28,500 troops in South Korea as a legacy of the Cold War conflict, which pitted the South, the United States and United Nations forces against the communist North, backed by China and Russia.

It increases the chance of higher fiscal spending but it will also reinforce the backlash against globalisation and associated forces of which migration policy and trade are obviously likely to be heavily scrutinised.

The boss of Steadfast Group says Australia's largest insurance companies are getting antsy about the success of its inhouse broker trading platform, which forces them to bid for policies against competitors.

Steadfast says insurers don't like its inhouse broker trading platform, which forces them to bid for policies against competitors.

The rule, which will go into effect for new accounts in about eight months, will not prohibit individual forced arbitration — meaning individual consumers (as opposed to groups of consumers) could still be be blocked from going to court against financial firms.

Carlson is not alone: Susan Fowler, the former Uber engineer who came out publicly against her employer alleging sexual harassment, is also working with members of the California State Assembly to pass legislation to eliminate forced arbitration, which prevented Fowler from coming forward about sexual harassment at Uber until after she quit.

The report showed that Cruz had written a racial epithet against African - Americans and a Nazi symbol on his book bag, which his mother had forced him to erase.

This kind of money has been made by speculating on Brazilian, Indian and Chinese securities and those of other countries whose exchange rates have been forced up by credit - flight out of the dollar, which has fallen by 7 % against a basket of currencies since early September when the Federal Reserve floated the prospect of quantitative easing.

Google hopes that the move will force website developers and advertisers to send cookies via HTTPS, which «provides significant confidentiality protections against [pervasive monitoring] attacks.»

If the Chinese surplus should rise against the U.S. after a decrease in the trade deficit with Mexico, the U.S. must then do the equivalent of a currency depreciation via a tariff against Chinese goods to force a rebalancing of trade which to me seems like a reasonable plan.

When the issues are debated, Muslims will be forced to introspect and realize that these convoluted concepts, which are fundamentally against their faith, must be publicly rejected.

If Hogan wins his case against Gawker and the jury awards him even a part of the $ 100 million judgment, Gawker could face near financial ruin — or be forced to sell itself, which founder Nick Denton and the site's independent - minded editors have long said they would fight to avoid.

6 - The Zionist provocative policy against the hard work of more than 30,000 UN and Lebanese forces to secure the northern borders of Israel, which is much safer than many locations inside Israel.

That obsession led the United States to fight a war against an indigenously supported native guerrilla movement for which the U.S. military was unprepared (the second thesis); so American forces resorted to barbaric tactics and then lied to the American people about them.

It forces recognition of the fact that Jesus» teaching did not center around such ideas as the infinite worth of personality, the cultivation of the inner life, the development of man toward an ideal; that Jesus spoke rather of the coming Kingdom of God, which was to be God's gift, not man's achievement, of man's decision for or against the Kingdom, and of the divine demand for obedience.

God «has so ordered everything that each spirit or soul... should not be compelled by force against its free choice to any action except that to which the motions of its own mind lead it.»

This may well account for the terrible upheavals we have undergone; not an irresistible increase in the tide of war, but simply a clash of currents: the old disruptive surface forces driving against a merging in the depths which is already taking place.

Because God flooded Earth and except Noah and his family in what is clearly not a sea - bearing boat, killed everyone, including «innocent» babies (which of course begs to question the whole idea about the Bible being against abortion and all even though it doesn't explicitly say anything against abortion though the method for aborting fetuses, e.g., forced miscarriage, already existed in those days.

And this regime was, naturally, a fixed hierarchy of social power, atop which stood the gods, a little lower kings and nobles, and at the bottom slaves; the order of society, both divine and natural in provenance, was a fixed and yet somehow fragile «hierarchy within totality» that had to be preserved against the forces that surrounded it, while yet drawing on those forces for its spiritual sustenance.

It's their way or the highway and to compromise is to show a lack of faith which means you have one side willing to make exceptions for all peoples religions as long as they don't force it on others, and the religious side that says making exceptions or compromising is against their religion so if they are not a majority in the democracy they instead decide to play obstructionist.

He created a series of events in which Jesus would be forced to defend himself against the Romans, and a battle between the Jews and the Romans would result.

Everyone I know was for the «Government Option» which would have IMHO forced the Insurance Company to start competing against the government.

Recovery of that which has been wrongly taken and punishment of evildoing are not explicitly named as justifications for the use of armed force by states in international law, but arguably they have been subsumed into the concept of self - defense: the former being recast as defense against an armed attack still in progress, as in the recovery of Kuwait from Iraq in 1991, the latter being recast as the right of retaliation.

«This objection has force... against any simple - minded attempt to identify as the living soul the regnant, personally ordered society which we uncritically have been calling the analogue of the soul.

These are pseudo-virtues, which you try to shame us into accepting, by directing a polemic against the Church, whose moral force is due simply to its use of certain radical chic cliches that we were all taught to grovel before back in the 1960s.

Formed toward the end of the 1950s, two of these groups remain active today: the FARC (Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces), which draws its primary strength from campesinos in the south, and the ELN (Army of National Liberation), whose strength is greater in the north among oil workers, indigenous groups defending their habitat against encroachment by the oil industry, and the Afro - Colombian population.

... [Americans] have become a nation that may defy every foe but that most dangerous of foes, herself, destined to a majestic future if she will shun the excess and perversion of the principles that made her great, prate less about the enemies of the past and strive more against the enemies of the future, resist the mob and the demagogue as she resisted Parliament and King, rally her powers from the race for gold and the delirium of prosperity to make firm the foundations on which that prosperity rests, and turn some fair proportion of her vast mental forces to other objects than material progress and the game of party politics.

It is understandable that the idealistic emphasis on the efficacy of spiritual motives and forces, ideas, and energies in the philosophy and history of the early nineteenth century led to a reaction which urged students of social life and development to concentrate on the opposite viewpoint according to which spiritual developments have to be regarded as products of material conditions (Feuerbach, Marx, Engels, against Hegel).

I am not, and should not be, forced to live under its laws, except those which agree with common sense morality such as crimes against others, theft, etc..

The «must» in verse 31 is a divine necessity, and it comes not only from Jesus» acute estimate of the forces already set against him but also from his meditation on the great suffering servant passage of Isaiah 53 which he was beginning to see as a clue to his own ministry and life.

For example, the World Bank advises against providing aid to developing countries, arguing that the pressures of poverty will force them to build «the market solutions» which it claims are the only effective answer.

There is a power of brute force which is going to be wielded by someone, and it had better be retained by the conscientious and intelligent as a last resort against the unscrupulous who would, if not thus restrained, gladly accept it as their monopoly.

Louis XIV's revocation of the edict in 1685 was followed by a massive flight of some 200,000 Protestants from France, and renewed persecution at home met with a sustained guerilla uprising in the rural area of the Cévennes in the early years of the eighteenth century, which diverted French military forces at a critical moment from their struggle against foreign enemies.

«We are in a terminal era, close to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, in which angelic forces are warring against demonic forces for the control of this planet that wandered away from the Lord,» writes the Rev. Carlos L. Ramirez in a sermonette in the Amarillo Globe - Times (April 9, 1984).

There are, however, social controls which are always necessary to defend the freedom of all, even if they have to be upheld by force against individuals or groups which protest against them.

They may need to discover and to re-tell a unifying story of the country Of course, this runs against the academic grain, which nurtures what it believes to be a healthy contempt for the nation (let alone its historic spiritual culture) and a self - protecting indifference to the local community In America, where unbalanced individuality and unbalanced diversity seem sacred, the wildness of history is blowing at cyclone force, and the ability to cope with it seems to be a dying art.

He's not necessarily trying to give us different categories of spiritual forces; he's just giving us numerous titles for the same enemy force which we struggle against.

Melanie Philips, in The Daily Mail, pointed to the way in which «as so often, [the BBC] has given undue airtime to extremists, thus lending credence to the false impression of the Pope's remarks», and she criticised the way the BBC had claimed that the Pope had «apologised», rather than simply expressing regret for the misinterpretation of his comments, «thus helping Islamic extremists believe that the forces of intimidation had cowed the Pontiff and scored a notable victory in the war against Western civilisation».

Perhaps the crusade against the liquor traffic was indebted for some of its force to the uneasy conscience of a church which was able to treat this particular phase of the «world» as the symbol and representative of all worldliness.

Italy attacked Turkish forces in Libya, and the Balkan countries declared war against Turkey shortly before the first World War — all of which hastened the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.

Hence admiration and wonder at the inexhaustible life forces of nature is as wholly lacking as the typically modern horror of blind nature against which spiritual, personal life rebels in vain.

Gandhi's conception of the strategy of non-violence was coupled with the doctrine of Satyagraha, soul force as a spiritual power, which is exercised in love against all material power.

If I were to ask your views you would doubtless reply that, menaced by this unleashing of blind forces, there is nothing we can do but evade them to the best of our ability, or else submit, since we are the victims of a sort of natural catastrophe against which we are powerless and in which there is no meaning to be discerned.