Sentences with phrase «from standing against»

«From standing against Common Core to supporting responsible, bipartisan gun safety reforms while protecting our Second Amendment rights, I will continue to work hard on behalf of North Country families and small businesses.»

Corbyn says McMahon's success came from standing against Conservative austerity policies and indicates Labour's strength

They can't stop me from standing against all forms of oppression and injustice.

Not exact matches

The exodus was led by Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier who resigned Monday from a manufacturing council, saying, «As C.E.O. of Merck and as a matter of personal conscience, I feel a responsibility to take a stand against extremism.»

While it appears companies can still hire workers from the affected countries to work in the U.S., some members of Silicon Valley spoke out against allowing any part of the ban to stand.

Managed care could also stand to benefit from any change to drug pricing, making it a potentially attractive hedge against risks to biotech and pharmaceuticals.

The dollar's index against a basket of six major currencies stood at 91.561, steady on the day but down from Friday's high of 91.986, its...

We view hotels as the real estate sector that stands to gain the most from the tax cut and as an effective hedge against the downside risks related to the tax cut.

For Kaukaohu Wahilani, who flew from his home on Oahu to Kauai to support Mau - Espirito and others, it's about standing up to the wrongs committed against Hawaiians — all the way back to the overthrow of the Hawaiian kingdom 125 years ago.

To help leaders identify how well their benefits and perks stand up against those that employees expect or want to receive from their employer, Gallup has identified categories that reflect how important the benefits and perks previously described are to employees in general.

As it stood Friday, the first wave of first - quarter reports from banks saw respectable beats against the top and bottom lines.

Kenneth Frazier, chief executive of Merck & Co., publicly announced Monday that he was stepping down from the council because he felt «a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism.»

From the U.S. / Turtle Island, I stand in solidarity with the Native American, First Nations, and other indigenous nations, near, far, and wide against ALL fossil fuel pipeline projects!!

The Democrats, meanwhile, were not against selective acts of protection for industries from areas they represented but generally stood for low tariffs and free trade.

Alberta's premier threatened trade retaliation against British Columbia for standing in the way of the pipeline, Canadian premier Justin Trudeau hinted that he could complete the project with taxpayer money, and BC's premier dug in his heels, recommitting his government to defending the coast from the risk of an oil spill.

So many people can't stand to have anything from Exodus 20 in a court room because it goes against them.

2 The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers conspire together against the LORD and His Anointed One: 3 «Let us tear off their chains and free ourselves from their restraints.»

Stay strong though, voice your opinion, and identify and stand strong against the generalizations and labelling from those supporting the extreme left.

But until we come to the end of ourselves then we are going to do and say what we want, even as it was with me: It's one thing to be a heathen, even as I was, but a whole other ball game to set our hearts on God and His truth; yet, that can only come when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired of our own lives and we just give up, we know then who has given up by the one they advocate for, even has given place to: Paul said; with my heart I want to do what is right, but my flesh does what I hate: This is when God's grace is sufficient, because our hearts are right with God, but our flesh is not: There is a war going on within these temples, therefore; even as our flesh wins out to do what we hate, our hearts are set on God and His ways which has been established in the Word of Truth, which then causes us to stand and speak forth what we believe, even as this causes a rending to happen within us, for Christ to be formed in us this needs to be, as we come up in His glories even for a better resurrection for them who believe: The heart wars against our flesh, even as Christ wars against the man of sin within: For out of the abundance of our hearts our mouth doth speak, therefore; if we speak not the Wholesome Words of our Lord, Then our hearts are still wicked: But to advocate for wickedness instead of Christ, one has become a teacher of lawlessness, he then advocates for the man of sin: Many who have come out of religion has done this, as they went from one mountain top «from the extreme right» of self exaltation (Religion) to the other mountain top «to the extreme left» of the (Heathen) and missed the valley in - between that is takes to humble us: One extreme to the other, and missed Jesus: Jesus is taking ones through the valley's to strip us down of all who we are before exalting us to be just as He, even as the Christ in us overcomes that man of sin (Adam) through theses valleys of contrast that cause a rending to happen within; and when we are rent in two, we stand on His word of truth, so we too can become one with Him, even as Jesus is with our Father: This is how Christ is formed in us: Thank - you Father; in Jesus Name Alexandria

Well let me tell you that all corruption, destruction and decline of morals is not caused by religious ones but in the contrary it was and still is caused by disbelievers who have nothing to stand on except standing against all good morals brought by religions... well Mr. Go enjoy your infidelity with your kind and leave out religious ones from your hopelessness...

Beg from you to support and stand by the legally elected ruling party against those militants within the opposition who are breaking down our country and killing the youth... those if they come up to rule will incur bloodshed every where and will stretch their bloodshed to reach every corner of this Arabian Peninsular... take my word for it they are evil and worse than that who you dumped into the sea...

Our love of the past conflicts often with your plans for the future; our love of order does not show up on abstract statistics; our tendency to look to each other for affection and support stands against a minister's wish to obtain emotional support away from the small church.

African churches must sometimes choose between buckling under pressure from the Euro - American church and standing on their rights as partners and pushing against the hands that tie the strings.

Wallis says that we should «take a strong stand against the criminal behavior of looting, all the way from the top to the bottom» of society.

Her present affliction is youth, and she suffers from its innate inability to stand up bravely against the evils of conservatism.

Whether standing over the piano mercilessly coaxing a budding prodigy or arguing at the kitchen table over how many green beans are enough, these mothers gave their kids something to live for, strive for, react against; struggle with and grow away from.

I am of the opinion that voting to keep a segment of society from enjoying the same rights as everyone else goes against everything this country supposedly stands for.

The Islamic world encounters the face of Christian fundamentalism in the trigger - happy fundamentalist cowboy from Texas who, as president of the most powerful nation on earth, is ready to wage war against any nation that stands in the way of America's economic interests.

And if it is an experience of God, it is god with a small «g,» an idolatrous experience, self - aggrandizing, titillating, not far removed from the sensuousness of Baalism, over against which Elijah stands.

10:11); He rained down fire from heaven and burned up the enemy soldiers who came to get Elijah (2 King 1:9 - 15); He killed 185,000 Assyrian soldiers who were attacking Jerusalem (2 Kings 19:35); He blinded the false prophet Bar - Jesus, who stood against the teaching of Paul (Acts 13:9 - 11).

And so, in light of the frail parents, in light of a history of stealing from parents, I recommended that the adult male take a stand against the addicted brother, and insist that before the addicted brother can move back into the parent's home, that the addicted brother complete a rehab program.

Also, if you recall from your history course, since the crusades, christians have alway's stood firm against those that oppose their ways.

I am still waiting for the Christian leaders that The Lord has given influence to stand up against such voices of hate and speak the truth from God's Word, the Bible, and not some fanatical preacher's unbiblical comments.

They perhaps stand more in danger from a class of intellectual «wreckers» who might even find some comfort in Luther's tilting against the dragon of Reason.

If the wartime Vatican had taken a moral stand against Nazism, the outcome might or might not have been different; the Church might have emerged from the war with the moral authority to stand against the secular tide that has swamped it.

Martin not only is satan defeated but also that the Gates of hell shall not stand against Gods people that means that we can go into satans domain and take from him those he has taken captive that is a complete reversal of what he has done to us that is awesome brent

Death is swallowed up in the victory of Christ who stands against such an insensible, dying world and, through our ambassadorship, raises it from the dead.

A Christian should have nothing to fear from any source of information — after all «Falsehood runs from truth, but truth stands solid against falsehood.»

That von Däniken stands alone against gigantic opposition from the scientific establishment does not prove that he is wrong.

The arguments for God's existence have stood for hundreds of years with the waves of unbelieving criticism breaking against them, never totally discrediting them in the ears of the faithful, but on the whole slowly and surely washing out the mortar from between their joints.

But this word «witness» can not possibly mean that the Church stands over against the world, detached from it and regarding it from a position of superior righteousness or security.

There are many inaccurate stereotypes spread about atheists and what we stand for, and any work that battles against the anti-atheist propaganda, is gratefully received, regardless of where or whom it comes from.

This was subsequently what put him under fire when Athanasius stood against great persecution from the Arians throughout his life.

I was not satisfied with the reply I have obtained from them... Even such a man as Mr. Mohammed Ali has declared that under no circumstances is it permissible for any Mohammedan, whatever be his country, to stand against any Mohammedan.»

I would give my life for any homosexual man or women — I would gladly give my life in exchange for theirs if it come to the crunch but I still speak out against the sin of homosexuality... What you must understand is that it is a judgment of God when a nation turns away from God — The whole world is turning away from God and we need to stand against the teaching of the world... it is also a sign of the times as spoken of in timothy 1 and 2.

Standing at 10,000 feet, people huddled in blankets against the 50 - mile - an - hour winds from the East.

He has first of all the comfort that every counter-argument has received due consideration, that he has been able to give to Clytemnestra, to Iphigenia, to Achilles, to the chorus, to every living being, to every voice from the heart of humanity, to every cunning, every alarming, every accusing, every compassionate thought, opportunity to stand up against him.

lol, yes clay i am an atheist... i created the sun whorshipping thing to have argument against religion from a religious stand point... however, the sun makes more sense then something you can't see or feel — the sun also gives free energy... your god once did that for the jews, my gives it to the human race as well as everything else on the planet, fuk even the planet is nothing without the sun... but back to your point — yes it is very hypocritical of me, AND thats the point, every religious person i have ever met has and on a constant basis broken the tenets of there faith without regard for there souls — it seems to only be the person's conscience that dictates what is right and wrong... the belief in a god figure is just because its tradition to and plus every else believes so its always to be part of the group instead of an outsider — that is sadly human nature to be part of the group.

Crisis intimacy is the strength which stems from standing together against the buffeting of fate; standing together in the major and minor tragedies which are persistent threads in the cloth from which family life is woven.

This prevented medieval society from becoming totalitarian along the Chinese model, and (as A.D. Lindsay put it in The Modern Democratic State) «preserved liberty -LSB-...] by maintaining in society an organization which could stand up against the state.»