Sentences with phrase «from waging a war»

The tradition is clear in maintaining that if the costs of warfare exceed those of enduring the injustice, one may be obliged to refrain from waging war.

While in power, Labour ministers liked nothing more than to lecture Europeans on anything from waging wars to managing markets.

His friends - and yes, it appears he does have some - claim he has spent all his time in Government battling to stop the Treasury from waging a war on the poor.

The story of the game follows the Furies: Four powerful women who are the only ones who can stop monsters called Titans from waging war around the planet.

Not exact matches

As long as there is something to be gained from war, there will be those nations willing to wage it.

The continent is far from Eurasia, which — as we've written about previously — is where many of the worst wars have been waged.

Workers have been getting their health insurance through their employers for decades, since the U.S. government exempted employer - paid health benefits from wage controls and income tax during World War II.

Fuel prices have been in a downtrend since June, losing nearly 50 percent of their value, on the back of a price war waged by OPEC (the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) against the U.S. shale producers and as demand from China decreased amid slowing growth.

Turns out those human aliens don't love Earth very much, as the off - world Settlement Defense Front decides to wage war against the third rock from the sun.

Oracle, which recently acquired a patent portfolio from Sun Microsystems, has also waged a patent war against Google.

Friday's currency turmoil and stock market plunge was a case of the chickens coming home to roost from the class - war policies being waged by European and Asian industry and banking squeezing their domestic consumer markets — that is, labor's living standards — in favor of export production to the United States.

From the outside, it is difficult to tell whether an actual «civil war» is being waged.

«The recompense of those who wage war against Allâh and His Messenger and do mischief in the land is only that they shall be killed or crucified or their hands and their feet be cut off on the opposite sides, or be exiled from the land.

As Augustine reminds us in his City of God, dialogue is sometimes a fool's errand and war is necessary simply because man is fallen: «As if he would not all the rather lament the necessity of just wars, if he remembers that he is a man; for if they were not just he would not wage them, and would therefore be delivered from all wars.»

Muslims are taking advantage of civilization's relatively short memory and spinning a fantasy that The Crusades were a genocidal war waged against them, when it was only to save Jerusalem from the invading warlords of Mohammad who stole it in the first place.

An instance of Richelieu's nice distinction between the secular and ecclesiastical is that, at the same time he was gathering armies to wage war against the pope, he wrote the pope humbly asking for a dispensation from reading his daily office because of the pressing duties of military command.

And you would have a much more solid base to wage war from.

The editors may well be right in their political analysis of what is happening in Miami, and the paper is legally entitled to applaud the antireligious ravings of unrepentant Stalinists, but it would become the editors to refrain from lecturing others about the incivility of speaking about the culture war which their paper is so aggressively waging.

This guy wants to wage a holy war against anything he thinks is different from what the Archbishop of Pittsburgh teaches him.

(32) The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter.

• Finally, as previously discussed, «military pressure» from the contras was the principal means by which the United States waged economic war against the people of Nicaragua.

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.

IVerse 5:33 = Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land.

Tim: so, other than widespread aggressive war waged on peoples from southwestern Europe to India to northwestern Africa... What exactly where these marvelous «cultural achievements»?

I've heard from gay Christians offering words of thanks and encouragement, from mega-church pastors and youth leaders saying «message received,» from college students and grandfathers and stay - at - home moms who are ready to «stop waging war and start washing feet.»

Governments do properly wage war, however, so Reagan had no qualms about diverting funds from treatment to interdiction.

In their biblical heritage they are urged «to abstain from the passions of the flesh that wage war against your soul» (I Pet.

I was going to be killed by my own hands against my will but my defiant will to overcome this evil force prevailed, I waged a mind war over it and my desperation led me to ask help from God.

In the context of the trilogy, inner political Islam prevents Muslims from acquiring new knowledge to create a better future for themselves; external political Islam commands them to wage a religious war (called jihad) with unbelievers until the whole humanity is converted to Islam.

In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Perry said Obama and the political left were waging a «war on religious traditions,» including preventing students from praying in schools and having Christmas parties.

Modern war is total in three respects: in involving everyone and everything in waging it and in suffering from it; in absorbing the energies and concern of the nations perpetually; and in the destructiveness of modern weapons.

From 1618 to 1648 what was known as the Thirty Years» War was waged.

It is Lasch's contention that when one takes all this civic activity into account, and adds the wage work of lower - class women, one has to move the appearance of full - time homemaking on a broad scale from the late nineteenth century to the post-World War II period.

Living among the monsters of this age with whom I am now for the third year waging war, I am compelled occasionally to look up to you, Leo, most blessed father... Indeed, since you are occasionally regarded as the sole cause of my battles I can not help thinking of you... Your godless flatterers have compelled me to appeal from your See to a future council, despite the decrees of your predecessors Pius and Julius, who with a foolish tyranny forbade such an appeal.

Do I need to tell you about the Atlanta campaign that was specifically designed to wage war on CIVILIANS??? And please, spare us all by trying to refute that, I've read the letters and the military orders myself... Not to mention the personal accounts and countless photos and personal letters from those who lived through it.

The recommendations were immediately attacked by critics ranging from the American Civil Liberties Union, which accused the panel of waging «war against innocent American citizens,» to, perhaps more surprisingly, The Wall Street Journal, which called the commission's proposal «an example of enforcement mentality run amok.»

Xi Jinping's still waging a war against the sport as Mao had done decades prior, shuttering 110 courses across China just last year for reasons ranging from corruption to being too close to a water reservoir.

Of course, school lunch is one part of the larger war that must be waged — against the public's apathy, lack of awareness, or disenfranchisement from the system.

Your job over the next 10 years or so will be to help your child understand the difference between a real danger (accepting a ride from a stranger, or smoking cigarettes) and something that, disturbing though it may be, doesn't present an immediate or personal threat (a war being waged 5,000 miles away).

When you get home from a long day at work, the last thing you want to do is wage war over broccoli at the dinner table.

Nigerian troops have won back territory from Boko Haram, but in response the jihadists have increasingly resorted to suicide bombers — many of them young children — to wage war for an independent Islamic state.

Leaving aside heath care angle, you are working from a flawed premise that waging war doesn't save lives.

A former Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Inusah Fuseini, has lamented that he did not get the necessary support from stakeholders when he tried waging war on illegal mining in the country with the use of drones.

«This is a psychological war waged against Kurds,» said Dengir Mir Mehmet Firat, a member of the Turkish parliament from the pro-Kurdish opposition HDP.

He assured the President that the coalition would continue to wage war on the illegal miners until the last drop of water from the country's major rivers were wholesome and the farmlands restored.

These powers were intentionally separated with the intent of preventing any one branch of government from being able to wage war.

The attempt by the NPP and its surrogates like Mrs Samira Bawumia to wage a personal war against President Mahama would be met with equal jabbing from GOYCA; this is not a threat.

Also at noon, faith leaders from New York City and upstate will hold a press conference and vigil to call on the state Legislature to pass an increase in the minimum wage to $ 15 to be implemented as soon as possible, War Room, 2nd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.

They may not have roofs, beds or running water — but that didn't stop a group of angry homeless people from waging a high - tech hashtag war against de Blasio.

«We assure Nigerians that the PDP conspiracy theories will not distract the President Buhari administration, law enforcement and anti-graft agencies from the successful on - going war against corruption being waged on looters of our common wealth.