Sentences with phrase «in rebelling against»

No where near enough Realtors are interested in rebelling against CREA or in joining another umbrella organization.

He was especially concerned with the fact that most people, including many socialists in his time, in rebelling against the evils of capitalism, tended to picture the future in terms that were not that far removed from many of the worst, most environmentally and humanly destructive, aspects of capitalism itself.

In other words, Divergent, contrary to its themes, is more about assimilation than in rebelling against the oppressive nature of the status quo.

The entrance of the Egyptian army into the path through the Red Sea demonstrates that if a group of people persists in rebelling against God, there comes a time when not even God can hold back the consequences of such rebellion.

This might result in some rebelling against required office visits.

One suspects that Scorsese's insistence on leaving it in suggests that either the artist in him rebelled against being told what he could or could not do, or some satanic impulse hinted that without that slight movement under the bedcovers, none of the publicity generated by fundamentalist protest would have come about.

I know I might sound unromantic, but something in me rebels against commercialized holidays (like Valentine's Day).

The computer scientist in me rebels against the idea that digital media is immortal.

Not exact matches

These have included several air strikes against pro-government forces that have sought to advance towards a U.S. military base in southeastern Syria near the border with Iraq, where the U.S. military has been training rebels to fight IS.

Lyne: I was actively rebelling against them for a period, but it was also that I just didn't want the life that I saw a lot of people back in my neighborhood leading.

Assad has said he saw promise in Trump's statements emphasising the battle against Islamic State in Syria, where U.S. policy under President Barack Obama had backed some of the rebels fighting Assad and shunned him as an illegitimate leader.

But at the same time, the seemingly endless economic doldrums (the flicker of optimism from this week's jobs numbers notwithstanding), the rise of the Occupy movement, and the general sense that young people are being particular battered by coming of age in a monster recession, suggests that while the»90s and naughts didn't offer much to rebel against, the current decade certainly does.

But it's unclear how rebels or terrorists, who live among Syrian civilians in east Ghouta, could retain sufficient territory to stage mortar or artillery attacks against medical evacuations or aid convoys under such heavy bombardment.

Since early in the six - year - old Syria war, Hezbollah's energies have been focused on propping up President Bashar al - Assad in alliance with Iran and Russia, throwing thousands of its fighters into battle against Syrian rebels.

In truth, the brand faces a double - whammy backlash because American shoppers, it seems, are also rebelling against frozen food.

What it's about: The final entry in the original «Star Wars» trilogy, «Return of the Jedi» follows the rebels taking their last stand against the Empire while Luke tries to persuade Darth Vader into becoming a good guy.

The ECB must be aware of this and accepting of the risk that the stand - off could lead to the publics in the peripheral nations rebelling against the notion of a European union.

Meanwhile, Ukraine's hryvnia has dropped nearly 80 percent against the greenback this year, to trade at 15,7085 per $ 1 on Monday, off last month's all - time low of 15,8817, weighed by tensions between government forces and rebels in the country's eastern regions.

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I see if we can get over our natural behavior to rebel against authority we will also fill the void in our souls that nothing else can fill.

The notes supplied by the editors skillfully illuminate the intellectual and spiritual world against which SK rebelled and, in his rebelling, changed.

Over 6000 years ago, the mightiest angel in heaven rebelled against God — his name was Lucifer, meaning, light bearer.

Sam: «also, in order to rebel against «god», someone would have to believe «god» exists, no?

Rebels are bound to that against which they rebel, and were we to rebel against the modern we would find in our anachronisms no positive past, but only a negated present.

He created a world that bears witness to His glory (Psalm 19:1 - 6), and when humanity sinfully rebelled against His purpose, He chose Israel to be instructed by word and deed in the ways of covenant fidelity in order to become a light to all the nations (Genesis 12:1 - 3; Deuteronomy 4:1 - 8).

And it has its most accurate analogue in the historical realization that we are not premoderns: we can not cease to be moderns by rebelling against modernity.

Analytic Thomism will need to grapple with Trapani's representation of Maritain, as will admirers of Hans Urs von Balthasar, the theologian who, rebelling against one kind of Thomism, developed an aesthetics that rivals Maritain's in scope and importance.

However there are parts that are clear, but if we are honest we want to ignore, re-configure, or just outright rebel against them because in our culture self is king.

In 1841, defending African men on trial for rebelling against slavetraders who had abducted them, John Quincy Adams said: «In the Declaration of Independence, the Laws of Nature are announced and appealed to as identical with the laws of Nature's God» and as the foundation of all obligatory human laws.»

The same kind that Jesus rebelled against in the Pharisees calling them self righteous rule followers.

And so in this also, they are rebelling against God.

It is the religiosity from church growth books, membership duties, vain promises that our Savior rebelled against in His day as Son of God, Son of Man, Let scripture super exceed any of mans futile attempts to be purpose driven, or a «church Member»

When the rebel blasphemes against the «old god» who sanctions the established order ruled over by death, it is to make God share «in the same humiliating adventure as mankind's» (Rb 24).

The other kind, sins, are those willful actions in which one is knowingly rebelling against God's vision of reality; putting one's own efforts behind the break down of reality.

You are «a good soldier» for the rebels, now: beating against a a section of seemingly dead institution which nevertheless apparently holds great influence of a manipulative and brainwashing kind — still caught up in the battle like Libyans after Gaddafi: shooting side arms and even heavy artillery up in the air out of car windows and trucks in victory and defiance.

We live in a world temporarily under sin due to it being subject to Satan, the fallen angel Lucifer who rebelled against the Father and caused Adam and Eve to sin; whereby, we all have been born into a fallen world and fall short of the glory of God because of it.

The rebel's denial of what the world is or was in order to create a vision of what the world might be is similar to his blasphemy against the «old god» in the hope of finding a «new» one.

Cain had a chance to do good by God but rather, sin took over him, and behold, he pridefully rebelled against God and killed Abel in anger.

Such matters can not only be disrupting in themselves, but when rebelled against in self - pity as they often are, can upset one's entire psychophysical balance including the life of prayer.

And this is true not only of physical violence — the violence of the soldier who kills, the policeman who bludgeons, the rebel who commits arson, the revolutionary who assassinates; it is true also of economic violence — the violence of the privileged proprietor against his workers, of the «haves» against the «have - nots»; the violence done in international economic relations between our own societies and those of the Third World; the violence done through powerful corporations which exploit the resources of a country that is unable to defend itself.

But because man has risen to the spiritual level where he has become aware of his creatureliness and knows he must die (and so far as we know he is unique in this respect), he has also rebelled against this prospect and sought to escape from it.

Just the opposite in fact, we had rebelled against Him.

From the beginning, he rebelled against God, or against the God then present in Christendom, ironically disguising his attack by presenting him under the guise of a number of simple though powerful symbols, the most successful of which is surely the «Tyger.»

Instead, he is a rebel against the divine order, and intends to remain a rebel even if that order should — in some way transcending his finite understanding — prove to be perfectly just.

International Christian speaker Danielle Strickland rebelled against her parents and God during her teenage years, becoming embroiled in a life of drugs and crime.

Lord Asriel is a rebel against the power of the Magisterium but is ruthless in his opposition.

«Man rebels against death and knows that as one who is fallen under it he is not in his authenticity».

Hanukkah, for those who need a refresher course, marks the miracle of the successful defense of the Jewish temple by the Maccabees, an army of Jewish rebels, against the Goliath - like Syrian - Greek army in 165 BC.

Perplexed and disturbed about a horrifying evil in his own life or the life of some one close to him, the believer may find it hard to trust God, may come to question God's goodness or his concern, may even come to rebel against God.

Francis was a big promoter of last year's peace deal with the rebel group but in visiting Colombia he will have to be sensitive to the viewpoints of the large number of conservative Roman Catholics who voted against the accord in a nationwide referendum.