Sentences with phrase «forces fighting against them»

However, this bill has been proposed up in Washington for several years now, in various forms, and it's failed to survive all those bank lobbyists and other forces fighting against fairness for Florida home owners, so while fingers are crossed it's not as exciting as everything that Soto is doing (or trying to do) for Florida.

Both games have the same basic premise, about human military forces fighting against invading aliens and monsters, but while 4.1 has the sleek, modern feel of big - budget Hollywood, 2 hearkens back to the old B - movie days, when movies like Gamera, War of the Colossal Beast, and Them!

In fact, along with Sting, he was consistently one of the only forces fighting against them with any success.

We rise to the occasion or succumb to the force we fight against.

As the forces fight against each other, the pressure will open up paths where hot, ductile, and partially molten rock underneath can find its way into the upper crust.

Until now, we've never had a game focusing on the Federation Force fighting against the space pirates.

You play as Reynaldo, a sharply dressed fox who is part of a resistance force fighting against an oppressive Emperor.

Not exact matches

«The magnificent work of the security forces and bodies in the fight against drug trafficking makes it possible for numerous seizures to take place,» Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido said.

But he said CUP owes most of its identity to Catalonia's own history of workers and leftist movements, including 1930s radicals from pre-dictatorship Catalonia — when anarchists, communists and militant workers unions were among those who fought a losing 1936 - 39 war against Francisco Franco's fascist forces.

These have included several air strikes against pro-government forces that have sought to advance towards a U.S. military base in southeastern Syria near the border with Iraq, where the U.S. military has been training rebels to fight IS.

But these forces were not used at that time and were instead sent to northern Mexico to conduct operations against drug trafficking when the Mexican government started to work more closely with the United States to fight the so - called war on drugs.

The president's comments were met with pushback from national security advisors, who urged that the fight against ISIS was almost finished, but that a complete withdrawal of American forces at this time would risk losing gains.

The SDF has conquered swathes of territory from ISIS in northeastern Syria with support from US airstrikes and special forces, and according to the Pentagon, is leading the fight against the remnants of the Islamist group in the country.

France, like the United States, has given arms and training to a YPG - led militia in the fight against Islamic State in Syria, and also has dozens of special forces personnel based in the region.

THE URGENCY OF NOW: VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN AND THE FIGHT AGAINST CANCER — A KEYNOTE CONVERSATION Under Vice President Biden's leadership, the White House Cancer Moonshot Task Force catalyzed novel, innovative and impactful collaborations among twenty government agencies, departments and White House offices and over seventy private sector entities designed to achieve a decade's worth of progress in five years in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

The online Oxford dictionary defines guerilla as: «A member of a small, independent group taking part in irregular fighting, typically against larger, regular forces.»

In the complex fight against Islamic State, also known as ISIL, Canadian special operations troops are helping advise and train Kurdish forces.

Day two of the Generation Energy situated «Canada's Energy Team» in the international context, focusing in on Canada's role in the global energy market and its position as a force to drive forward the international fight against climate change.

His «we shall fight them on the beaches» and «this is our finest hour» speeches rallied the entire British nation and Allied forces in the epic fight against Nazi domination in World War II.

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.

Now you put these ordinary muslim against well trained fighting forces and the muslim people no matter how many would still fail.

When the Nazis force the population of Warsaw into a ghetto the Jews rebelled and fought back against overwhelming opposition but they didn't give up.

If the spiritual forces that are at war with God were driven back in the creation event, then God Himself is driven back by these chaotic forces when they conscript mankind to fight for their evil cause against God.

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.

He fought against the greatest military force of his day by non-violent methods.

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.

To them it seems obvious that when the forces of imperialism and colonialism contend violently against the peoples who are now assimilated to the poor of the gospel, those forces can be countered only by violence; it is only through fighting that man will win freedom.

According to this story, the great discoveries since the time of Copernicus and Galileo have disclosed a world that looks ever less like the picture religion painted of it, and have forced religious believers to fight a centuries «long rearguard action against the truth.

The development or improvement of Special Operations Forces (SOF) was a critical component in low - intensity - conflict strategy to fight effectively «World War III» or, more accurately, to wage war against the poor throughout the third world.

The Zaidis claimed that the fourth Imam forfeited the Imamate when he failed to fight against the Umayyads, and the succession continues through his son Zaid who was killed in battle against the Umayyad forces.

We are fighting against forces and authorities and against rulers of darkness and powers in the spiritual world.

When they occurred, battles for intellectual freedom were generally fought against intellectually conservative forces, frequently embodied in, if not confined to, the senior authorities of the universities themselves.

Child soldiers are forced to fight for their lives — and sometimes against their families.

France and Italy have sent officers to assist Libyan rebels in their fight against the forces of President Gadhafi.

Young men have been kidnapped and forced to fight against loved ones.

These people would not allow any religion but Christianity to be seen in a good light if taught in classes in the USA, when history proves that, Christianity is the reason so many people in the USA have been motivated to lynch black people, make gays second class citizens, fought against woman being allowed to vote, hunted down and killed others from different denominations, force all other's to pay for their «work» whether in the USA or around the world through tax exempt status, gifts or «Faith - based initiatives».

Missionaries organized a heroic fight against the system of cultivation whereby the poor farmers were forced to cultivate Indigo plants against their wishes by European planters.

It is rather that the Word and the church will be interpreted to them as God's will for the freedom of man to live a human life, to fight against the demonic forces of his own nature that seek dominion over social as well as personal life, to order his life by structures of love and justice relevant to the conditions of society.

By 1941, he was half - apologizing to American audiences for his use of German: «It is in this language that we have, throughout our lives, fought against the self - glorification of nationalism and... the force of nationalist criminality that is laying waste to our world.»

The document provides the Justice Department's legal rationale for the controversial policy of using lethal force against U.S. citizens fighting on behalf of terrorist groups.

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.

I don't minimize pain and suffering and disappointment when prayer is unanswered, but I think we are making uneducated accusations against God without fighting our way into matters of spiritual laws, forces and significance.

Jefferson and James Madison joined with the dissenting forces to lead the fight against establishment.

This task force was called enthusiasm from the international community in the fight against tobacco, and, encouragingly, from members of the target group in India.

Finding clothes and furniture would be impossible, people would stare and whisper, you'd be forced to fight crime against your will, and you'd perpetually find yourself labeled as... «that giant.»

The Reds have an away record that is quite similar to clubs fighting against relegation and the supporters have been forced to watch some pitiful football over the last few months, especially away from Anfield while they have also suffered some embarrassing losses like the defeats to Blackpool and Wolves at home.

The UFC isn't some evil company that exploits its fighters; they're not forced to fight, or do anything, against their will.

In a column entitled «Knicks Will Be Missed in Final Playoff,» The Milwaukee Journal's Terry Bledsoe wrote: «It is as though Muhammad Ali had stumbled somewhere earlier in his comeback attempt and Joe Frazier had been forced to conduct his fight of the century against Oscar Bonavena.»

6 months later Ronda lost against Holly, that is when they brought Cyborg in for catchweight fights, but at that point there was no reason for her to keep cutting weight, because Ronda no longer had a title, or was seen as in invincible force.

The inspired, pugnacious Bruins fought their way back from two games down to force a winner - take - all finale against the erratic Canucks in a rowdy and rude championship series.