Sentences with phrase «in history on the side»

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But while history may also be on the Democrats» side — the party in power often loses Congressional seats after a President's first two years in office, even when that President is not as controversial as the current occupant — they actually face a very difficult Senate map.

One school of thought says she should just plow ahead with her environmental agenda; history will be on her side in the end, since no one today (outside of maybe a few U.S. Republicans) doubts that the question of phasing out fossil fuels is not a matter of if but when.

Eisfeld has had it particularly rough since World War II ended, when the Soviets drew the Iron Curtain along its southern boundary, leaving the town trapped on the wrong side of history and the factory in the hands of East Germany.

Toubayly's banking history includes stints at Ernst & Young, Deutsche Bank, and J.P. Morgan, in addition to a dozen or so of businesses he has built and sold on the side.

Today, its rich history can be gleaned from its ancient streets, which feel like open - air museums with their striking medley of medieval, baroque and postmodern architecture, and in its (distinctively British) customs (think: afternoon tea and driving on the left side of the road).

On the positive side, overall trade between the three NAFTA partners — the U.S., Canada and Mexico — has increased sharply over the pact's history, from roughly $ 290 billion in 1993 to more than $ 1.1 trillion in 2016.

On the one side is an American technology company with a history of questionable business practices, and on the other is an outdated bureaucracy that does much to keep transportation costs high in the citOn the one side is an American technology company with a history of questionable business practices, and on the other is an outdated bureaucracy that does much to keep transportation costs high in the citon the other is an outdated bureaucracy that does much to keep transportation costs high in the city.

At a meeting of the Financial Literacy and Education Commission, held at the Treasury building in Washington, Perez noted that while «lawsuits have been filed» against the conflict of interest rule, «we will continue to fight those vigorously,» adding that he believes DOL is «on the right side of the law and history.»

On the fiscal side, in 2009 the Congress and Administration enacted the largest fiscal stimulus program in history and some of these fiscal actions were renewed (e.g., extended unemployment compensation benefits) and new initiatives undertaken (e.g., the payroll tax holiday) once it became clear that the recovery was faltering.

In addition to the possible reasons we have suggested in this report, we know that history is on the side of gold versus paper currencIn addition to the possible reasons we have suggested in this report, we know that history is on the side of gold versus paper currencin this report, we know that history is on the side of gold versus paper currency.

In prior market cycles across history, taking a hard - defensive outlook in response to overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions rarely kept you on the wrong side of the market for long; either the market declined, or the syndrome was cleareIn prior market cycles across history, taking a hard - defensive outlook in response to overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions rarely kept you on the wrong side of the market for long; either the market declined, or the syndrome was clearein response to overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions rarely kept you on the wrong side of the market for long; either the market declined, or the syndrome was cleared.

BTW, Joseph Smith translated the golden plates (which were written in what he insisted was «reformed Egyptian» hieroglyphics - something no other linguist in history has ever heard of) behind a curtain while dictating the translation to a secretary on the other side of the curtain.

There is in fact a side of Harry that can inspire and be inspired, that runs on a sense of history and human significance on the civilizational and cosmic scales.

I think it's clear that of all the other candidates on both sides of the aisle, Romney's faith plays a greater role in his day to day life and his life's history than any of them.

Terrorists reactively point to our corruption, our debauchery, our history of exploitive meddling in Middle Eastern affairs and their vision of a civilization under their distorted understanding of divine law, to say, «Of course, God is on our side.»

I find, on the contrary, that it is much more difficult today for the knowing person to approach God from history, from the spiritual side of the world, and from morals; for there we encounter the suffering and evil in the world, which it is difficult to bring into harmony with an all «merciful and almighty God.

Later in the event, a speaker declared he would «rather be on the wrong side of history than on the wrong side of a holy God.»

Thus one can not say that on the one side there is in the absolute sense a history of mankind and then independently a history of God or work of God.

In particular they will, by the accidents of personal history, if by nothing else, have been located on one side or the other of social and economic conflicts that have an extended history and are broadly systemic to their society.

Christians like you in American history has always been on the wrong side of civil rights and morality.

I will not engage in the lazy arrogance of claiming history is on our side; but I will go so far as to say that in the long term all past evidence suggests that it is certainly not on the side of those who brook no dissent, ignore all counter-evidence, and demonize all opposition.

The fanatics who kill in the name of their god have been about equal on both sides throughout history.

«I've said many times in black churches that the black church is on the wrong side of history on this.

His story, and that of other Chinese Indonesian Christians, has much to teach us as we consider whether or not to embrace Rod Dreher's Benedict Option (retreat in order to rebuild), or instead seek positive solutions to social problems in an America that judges us on the wrong side of history.

It's so sad because they were on the right side of history in their own struggle.»

They're on the wrong side of history when it comes to gay rights and a womens right to choose and they'll pay for it big time in 2012!

But many of the chapters in this volume suggest the opposite: many fundamentalists are enormously optimistic that God and history are on their side.

Solzhenitsyn even blesses his prison cell for having purged him of the confusion of his age, for once on the other side of history — free from the petty progressive notions of one's time — one enters history in a new way, as a witness to the inner force that intuitively resists oppression born of the human will to power.

and the history of your corrupt and evil church shows that those who believe in god are no more moral than anyone else for having» god» on their side.

GET THIS PRINT We've seen in the past where the church failed to take a stand against wrong and ended up on the wrong side of history.

One could be on the side of history and of God in working for justice for oppressed classes.

In all these issues, the teenagers ended up being on the right side of history.

In perusing family history as far back as I could, I could find no one, on either my father's or mother's side - including those who had left Frankenmuth - who had married anyone other than a German Lutheran.

If you don't want to side with a group that's headed by male child molesters in blinged - out wedding gowns, whose history is based on the blood of young people like you, avoid it like the plague it is.

Back in 2008 - 09, when so many on both sides were saying that Obama's (and the Democrats») big victory signaled a new birth of PROGRESSIVE REFORM, I said that he's going to be little more than a blip in our political history.

So it is that «growing numbers of people are abandoning religion in practice; on every side they influence literature, the arts, the interpretation of the humanities and of history and civil laws themselves.

[1] For more reading on this subject try: The Other Side of Calvinism by Laurence Vance, Beyond Calvinism and Arminianism by C. Gordon Olson, The Dark Side of Calvinism by George Bryson, Calvinistic Paths Retraced by Samuel Fisk, Election and Predestination by Samuel Fisk, and God's Strategy in Human History by Paul Marston and Roger Forster.

For example, Thomas referred to the Faith and Order discussions on «Giving Account of our hope that is within us» where it is clearly affirmed that «the future of perfected humanity lies in the fullness of the Godhead» beyond this side of history where sin and death prevail.

Acknowledging that no absolute limits can be set to this central moment, that it can not be precisely bounded on any side, must we not, even so, recognize that when we use the term Jesus Christ we are usually thinking primarily not of an extended movement in history, but of something that happened in Palestine within a specific and rather limited period nearly twenty centuries ago?

The sin of racism has proved especially pernicious in American evangelicalism on both sides of the border, but there have also been evangelicals throughout history who have found themselves on the front lines of the fight against racism.

But it is dressed up in the confident objective tone of one who knows he is on the winning side of history.

You've done those on the Wrong Side of History a terrific service in your candor.

In the 1930s an observer of the world scene at that moment could well have concluded that fascism was the wave of the future and that it was futile, and possibly even wrongheaded, to resist (it is salutary to read about the sizable number of Western intellectuals, including Christian ones, who urged their contemporaries to recognize fascism as the revolution of the century and, if I may use a somewhat more recent phrase anachronistically, who urged them «to get on the right side of history»).

I said, in effect, let us rather first look on the side of those events that make history or that are part of the impending future.

The second aspect of the biblical teaching that God is on the side of the poor and oppressed is that he works in history to cast down the rich and exalt the poor.

Black acceptance in our country took too long, don't be on the bigoted side of this issue given the discriminatory history of blacks in America.

See, No - Such... folks on the Atheist side have been pointing out acts in history and have been declaring that Christianity and other Faiths should be judged on the acts of the Faithful in the past.

On one side there are Christians who are confident that God can and does intervene directly in the world for the sake of particular individuals as well as to direct the larger currents of history.

But this very point gives us reason to ask whether by chance the simplicity and superficiality are not on the side of our critical historians and their rationalistic or agnostic interpretation of a history which is much more complex and difficult and profound, and in which after all God may have something to say.

In it he makes this comment, «we live on this side of a rupture which divides the whole history of mankind into two sections; the one extending from the cavemen to the men of the Renaissance, and the other covering this post-Cartesian world of ours.