Sentences with phrase «forces for»

And then there were bishops like Karol Wojtyła of Kraków, who grasped that the dignity of the human person was the battleground on which «the Church in the modern world» was contesting with various dangerous forces for the human future; who thought that coercion of consciences violated that human dignity; and who believed that the act of faith must be free if it is to be true, because the God of the Bible wants to be adored by people who freely choose to do so.

The events included attacks on the Coptic Cathedral by thugs, vigilantes, and Muslim Brotherhood police forces for the first time in history.

Some of these were forces for great good, but in others lay the potential for great evil.

For example: Rates of rejection in the Armed Forces for chronic alcoholism in «World War 1 (60,000 cases): Irish — 3.0 %; Negro — 2.2 %; Italian — i.2 %; Jewish — 0.2 %; Chinese — O. 0 %.

You can not lead for long, you can not even command the armed forces for long, unless you are able to persuade the people to follow.

When SSI checks fail to arrive on time, many are unable to muster their forces for a trip to the welfare office.

«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).

Continual pressure to join various (and at times unsavory) political alliances with outside forces for self - defense purposes.

The Century interpreted the results of the off - year elections of 1934 as giving Roosevelt a clear - cut mandate that said, «Go left, Mr. President, go left»; it asserted that «many features of the 1934 election suggest that a union of forces for a vigorous offensive in support of an avowedly radical program is not impossible» (November 14, 1934).

In other words, the ruling classes may wish to employ religious belief and feeling as forces for the retention of their power; but religion being a mass phenomenon that transcends classes, may serve as the justification for and inspiration of vast popular movements that are revolutionary.

That is, passion and reason, though numerically individuated in each soul, were forces for whose characterization the individuality of the particular soul was unimportant.

One of the most important tasks is to achieve true participatory democracy in order to force nation - states to accept more accountability vis - à - vis global forces for the interests of their people.

International economic enti / ties like the World Bank and IMF originally conceived to be non-partisan forces for good have been co-opted into profit engines for the corporate regime — a empire that is nearly nameless, conscionseless, leaderless yet ubiquitous.

Also on Wednesday ISIS executed 190 former Iraqi security forces for refusing to join them, in the Al Ghazlani base near Mosul,» said Ravina Shamdasani from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

In the mythological culture he recognized his helplessness and looked to the mysterious unseen forces for the things he could not achieve for himself.

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.

Also, the church can function as one of the finest stabilizing forces for senior citizens, providing a sense of purpose and significance to their lives and incorporating them meaningfully and creatively into the religious group life of the church and community.

The three joined forces for several years.

I would say guiding forces for me are not concretely one thing or another, but more of a culmination of many effects and experiences over time.

Circuit riders and lay preachers marshaled Christian forces for the grand onslaught.

The Arab spring is not a random event in history, a means to an end; the ultimate aim being joining forces for the destruction of Israel.

The willingness to challenge accepted approaches and propose non-obvious alternatives is one of the fundamental driving forces for innovation.

Her husband served in the Armed Forces for 22 years and retired as a Major in the Army National Guard.

Kelimbetov blamed international market forces for Kazakhstan's currency woes: US tapering, he said, had led to capital flight from emerging markets, causing downward pressure on the tenge.

Faster growth, higher earnings will be good for stocks, but there are some countervailing forces for bonds.

LevelEleven CEO Bob Marsh says Compete is among a new wave of software systems that add nuance to the top motivational forces for salespeople (after money, of course): competition and recognition.

The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Patterns and Predictions, and Cloudera joined forces for the project.

To their credit, Richards and Karp have more planned at SXSW, joining forces for a rally on Sunday, March 12 at 6:00 pm themed «Never Going Back.»

Between 1945 and the mid-to-late 1950s, von Braun acted as an adviser to the US armed forces for the sake of developing military rockets only.

And which of these could, in turn, demand significant numbers of American ground forces for their resolution?»

ISIS is currently locked in battle against an array of forces for control of Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq and the largest city under the militant group's control.

And EPS in New Richmond, Wis., won a $ 2.9 million contract with the Air Force for prototypes of their lightweight diesel engines.

Money is a driving force for success and helps for the improvement of the overall work quality of the team, yet, it is not the only purpose of the «game of life» we all play.

We will continue working with the government to understand the full extent of Russian interference, and we will do our part not only to ensure the integrity of free and fair elections around the world, but also to give everyone a voice and to be a force for good in democracy everywhere.

McCormack said the officer is believed to be in his 30s and has been with the force for more than seven years.

By 2002, he had been a member of the Milwaukee police force for 24 years.

«Using business as a force for good is not only a passion of mine but, really, it's the only way that we're going to change the world.»

«It's our job to be harnessing this technology as a force for good,» he says.

You'll better position your sales force for success, even if you've never once closed a deal in your career.

We can nurture its growth throughout our lives — and we can use it as a radical force for social transformation,» he writes.

Suzanne's mission was to make the energy industry a force for good, by, among other things, developing clean hydrocarbons.

Consequently, the driving force for transformation of the American health care system is shifting more and more to the private sector.

Google is still very much a force for good and has many positive attributes, according to the EU's competition commissioner who slapped the tech giant with a $ 2.7 billion fine earlier this year.

For all their drawbacks, globalization and liberalized trade have been a force for peace in the modern world; as national economies become more interdependent, they have more to lose by alienating their trading partners, which aren't necessarily colonies or even allies.

If Twitter is serious about being a force for good in the world and a haven from harassment for its users, it will have to start by making it harder to tweet without any sort of accountability.

In other words, a promising young talent with the markers of a potential leader can use their talents to become a force for good, or an office Darth Vader.

The Houston Chronicle reported Tuesday that a police Sgt. Steve Perez, a 60 - year - old man who had been on the force for 34 years, died in his patrol car after he took a wrong turn and got caught in the high water.

A number of factors have played a part in the company's success, but FCi Federal's CEO, Sharon Virts Mozer, credits her work force for a large part of it.

One of Perry's biggest programs, Los Angeles WorkSource Center, is all about getting people — especially those who have been out of the work force for an extended period — into jobs.

This infighting «will undermine the country's traditional role as a force for regional security,» Eurasia Group wrote.