Sentences with phrase «fought against self»

For years I have fought against self - publishing on the basis that if I was good enough I would be picked up by a mainstream publisher.

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 same official added that there was an agreement between the three leaders (Trump, European Council President Donald Tusk and European Commission President Jean - Claude Juncker) to step up the fight against the self - proclaimed Islamic State.

The Turkish authorities have also been fighting against the self - proclaimed Islamic State (ISIS).

Not exact matches

The company is fighting a separate lawsuit against Google's self - driving arm Waymo, where Google has accused Uber of stealing its technology.

Uber is also fighting a lawsuit against self - driving carmaker Waymo, and faces a federal probe over its use of a software tool to evade law enforcement.

Other legal fights related to Uber include its battle with self - driving car company Waymo, which is suing Uber for allegedly stealing trade secrets, and a lawsuit filed by investor Benchmark against former chief executive officer Travis Kalanick claiming breach of contract.

History repeats it self... See examples such as the separation of India in to India and Pakistan but left them Kashmir to fight over and remain alert against each other all those years, then another example is the Koreas South and North, then the case of Cyprus for Turkey and Greece, planting of Israel among the Arabs to control, exhaust them, consume their wealth and drain their resources?

They are members of a nationwide group known as The Initiative Collective — a volunteer crime prevention outfit that encourages people to fight back against violence using self - defense, armor and theatrics — in addition to doing general good deeds like fundraising, feeding the homeless and offering free martial arts training to anyone who wants it.

We are particularly concerned by reports that this order went into effect with little to no consultation with the Departments of State, Defense, Justice, and Homeland Security... Ultimately, we fear this executive order will become a self - inflicted wound in the fight against terrorism.

Its seems to me that Republicans are always fighting for the rights of the rich, against their own self interest.

A country which in the name of «democracy» fights wars against the self - determination of other peoples can not remain a democracy.

Maybe, had a fight against terrorism been values - driven rather than «self - interest» - driven, it would have been successful.

Mature Islamic mystics teach that the Jihad is not to be fought against one's external enemies; but within against one's own narcissistic false self.

Arsenal are a successful club and will always be seriously last season was not that bad for the past 21 years we remind a the top four no club in England had achieved that 21 years on the trot I believe we needed a new look at ourselves and the reason why we have not won it we have not won the premier league in the past 12 years while clubs such Leicester have won it having said that we were the only team to have won them home and away we seem to be a little short at every term in one stage opponents literally broke our players and some were very viciously broken every one ganged against us and we crumbled to the pressure we need to assert our self by winning lower tear competitions and grow to be strong and fight it hard and give other teams what we were giving Firstly we need to unite and create a fortress at the emirate stadium become the twelfth team player once we get the fundamentals right I know and guarantee we will win it all we need to plant our feet in the ground we need unite become one strong unit

But as the always - incisive Melanie Warner writes, the real reason the packaged food industry is fighting tooth and nail against those new guidelines is because, lo and behold, they might actually work, as compared to the current, utterly toothless self - regulatory scheme:

«I'm taking this step not only because we need to fight back against self - interested politicians like Faso and Trump, but because I believe we need a new generation of leaders to step up and fight for the communities that raised them,» Rhodes wrote in an essay posted to Medium.

However, Article 1 of Protocol I includes a clarification that it does apply to intra-state «armed conflicts in which peoples are fighting against colonial domination and alien occupation and against racist regimes in the exercise of their right of self - determination».

It was difficult for both parties to fight against the «fear factor» whipped up by the press and the huge amount of direct mail which the Conservatives poured into target seats, but there were also significant self - inflicted wounds.

I think we need to squash this prevalent falsehood that destruction or defacement of property somehow equates to violence against the person, and self - defence against violent thugs tooled up for a fight, charging at one in armour & carrying offensive weapons, is somehow unacceptable.

HARTFORD — The day after a self - radicalized gunman killed 49 people in a crowded Florida nightclub, members of Connecticut's congressional delegation said stricter gun control laws are necessary to aid in the fight against the Islamic State.

Surviving widows and families of gallant soldiers who paid the ultimate price in the fight against insurgency in the North East have been enjoined to be self - reliant by making effective use of skills and support kits acquired during the empowerment training facilitated by the North East Regional Initiative (NERI) and its partners.

Rep. Claudia Tenney (R - Oneida County), said «From day one, I have fought against the elimination of the federal deduction for state and local taxes (SALT), and will work to ensure the deduction is included in the final bill... The real question is: When will Gov. Cuomo stop wasting hard - earned tax payer money on corporate welfare and political self - promotion schemes and finally give New Yorkers the relief they desperately need?»

We have to understand that our entire country is actually founded on the belief that one of the jobs of government is to fight against the threat of self - serving politicians.

Long story short, doing yoga will improve your mental fortitude and help you fight against your more primal self.

If you fight against your natural needs long enough, you will soon walk the streets with the self confidence of a junkie run out of juice.

In self defense, you can practice everything against danger, but in mma there are some protocols and you have to consider them while fighting.

People fight food, fight pleasure, fight their instincts and desires, fight body fat — and because it's a battle against our own selves — it's a fight we're destined to lose.

With their newly formed sisterhood, the women fight against sexism, bad relationships and low self - esteem, and go on some pretty wild adventures.

It wants to admire the passion of its characters» younger selves, who saw injustice in the world and wanted to fight, while constantly reminding us that passion can be misguiding and lead us to become similar beasts to the powers against which we rebel.

Half Magic: Three women use their newly formed sisterhood to fight against sexism, bad relationships and low self - esteem.

Still, it's Oldman, whose performance as Churchill feels definitive, revealing a fearsome, sometimes fearful man racked by self doubts and still able to find the conviction to rally his nation, and countless nations to come, to fight against living under the heel of tyranny.

But as a dramatic telling of one woman's fight against equine politics, misguided self - interests and federal bureaucracy, the...

From within means to be self - managed, self - financed, to move a lot, to hit much against the walls and against the government, and fight what does not leave you neither in, nor out.

And if your only reason for being against Amazon is its fight with a multi-industry conglomerate with holdings in anything from retail to defence contractors then you're either incredibly self - centred or a genuinely bad human being.

Your self - published book is fighting for sales against thousands of other books.

The big publishing houses are going to be relentless in the next few years as they fight back against the self - publishing craze.

Adonia wants to be a professional chef to exclusive clients and she's willing to do anything to get ahead in the tough industry, relationships be damned.When a crazy pop - rock star hires her company to cater the rest of her flagging tour, she joins a crew where each budding chef competes against each other for a spot on her cut - throat boss's exclusive first line.Adonia deals with everything from breakneck deadlines to a forced spa weekend while still cooking up to professional standards, keeping her temper in check, and fighting the building tension between her and her cute co-worker, Leah.Losing means being blacklisted from the industry, but winning could cost her something a lot more important - her self - respect.

Besides, it really is still fighting against that earlier stigma of being just about the only place where authors could self - publish an e-book.

Sources close to Microsoft who declined to speak on the record said to envision a scenario in which Microsoft would allow users of Office to self - publish manuscripts straight from Word to the Barnes & Noble digital publishing store, giving the two companies more of a fighting chance against Amazon and Apple.

Here's How to fight back against bogus Amazon / Kindle reviews, and what about some Self - Publishing Statistics — Who are the Top Earners?

The author wisely omits the more gruesome aspects of the pit to keep readers from closing the book, but without sparing them completely, because Stauss» self - imposed mission in writing this book is «to shock people into taking action against dog fighting and at the same time change negative perceptions about the breed.»

Perceiving a political motive in the self - starvation («an act of asymmetrical warfare against us,» one commander memorably called the hunger strike on his watch), Guantánamo fought back.

Mr. Jacobs's letter is part of a trade secrets case that Uber is fighting against Waymo, the self - driving - automobile business that operates under Google's parent company.

... self doubt is something else to fight against too.

Of course, countless bureaucrats and self - styled «experts» whose jobs depend on perpetuating climate alarmism are fighting back against the will of voters.

My climate enemies have done scientific and other academic frauds; they've destroyed, withheld and pretended to misplace scientific data in order to prevent the human race discovering things about nature; they've forged documents to frame people they don't like; mendaciously and publicly accused innocent people of deplorable crimes that carry prison sentences; betrayed the trust reposed in their professions by fraudulently abrogating to themselves the magical competence to diagnose entire swathes of the (perfectly healthy) population with thought disorders just to score points in an academic bitch fight; deliberately and self - servingly lied to * massive * audiences about the way science itself works — than which I can't for the life of me think of a greater crime against humanity in the recent history of the developed world, can you Joe?

I fervently hope that you and other erstwhile supporters of ABS will have the courage of epiphany and will eschew the worst idea to hit the profession in centuries, and will instead (1) strive to maintain the hard - won full and uncompromised independence of the legal profession, (2) fight against the greedy forces that would cartelize the delivery of legal services to the permanent detriment of the public and the profession, (3) be eternally vigilant in preserving our privilege / right of self - regulation, and (4) strive assiduously toward identifying and implementing effective ways (we pretty much already know them) to bring down the one horrific barrier to justice.

As the court cases played out, the National Indian Brotherhood (now the Assembly of First Nations) argued that women who challenged section 12 (1)(b) were selfish and «anti-Indian» because they fought against the very law (the Indian Act) they viewed as guaranteeing the right of Indigenous self - determination.

Barry Diller, always in the throes of self - confession, did that earlier today at a Variety - hosted event: he said that by this time next week, depending on how Delaware court rules in his fight against John Malone, he may have lost control of the company he has been building for more than a decade.