Sentences with phrase «like standing up for»

While it may seem like your standing up for someone who's been picked on, your really just calling other people out and making them feel just as shitty as the original «victim».

And most of all enjoy - Nothing quite like standing up for the first time.

When we take actions like standing up for ourselves, drawing on our courage, or asking for what we truly want or need, the Universe responds in kind.

«Those elected as Democrats should respect voters» clearly expressed intent and sit with the Democratic Conference to implement important progressive goals like standing up for women's health, passing real campaign finance reform, raising the minimum wage and enacting common sense gun laws,» said Senate Democratic spokesman Mike Murphy.

well, my daughter is gay and i am grateful for people like you standing up for her and for me for supporting her < 3 (she has recently returned to church for the first time in 7 years and fortunately it is gay positive)(i haven't returned to church in 2, but that's another story:P)

Not exact matches

Called «Seeso,» the service will launch widely in January, at which point members can pay $ 3.99 per month for ad - free access to a full library NBC comedy programming — from new episodes of Saturday Night Live and Jimmy Fallon's The Tonight Show to all past episodes of classic shows like The Office and 30 Rock — along with a slate of new original series and stand - up comedy specials.

Companies that want to avoid scrutiny like Amazon's should encourage staff to stand up for their values, not tear each other down.

«I never have done anything like this in my life before, and I just feel like it's a time when everybody has to stand up for what they believe in,» Ms. Lebenthal, who was a Hillary Clinton supporter, said.

If it feels like a good moment to teach a quick lesson about gender roles, then stand up for it.

And while it's clear the Liberals hope to use their tax changes as a sort of parable for the standing - up - for - ordinary - workers part of their broader discourse — a centre - left populism that Trudeau believes other like - minded leaders, such as Hillary Clinton, forgot to defend, to their peril — the specific tax changes in question didn't appear on the Liberals» radar because the current arrangements are unfair.

Ehrlichman, 34, is convinced Porch can stand up to existing directory and review services like Angie's List, which claims more than two million members, not only because Porch will be free for users (Angie's List, for example, charges membership fees), but also because of the pricing information and photos users will have access to on «real projects.»

While it doesn't pack a lot of computing power it's more than enough for sharing things like designs and invoices with clients, and it's a beast when it comes to standing up to the torture your work environment may potentially dish out.

I stand up for the things that I believe in and the things that I'm passionate about, but I like to keep my personal life as private as possible when it comes to dating and sexuality and all that stuff just because it has nothing to do with my music.»

(Prediction: UCP campaign slogan for 2019: «Stand up for Alberta» — just like Harper's first winning campaign in 2006.)

«It's more important than ever that consumers and taxpayers have strong advocates like Dennis and Better Markets to stand up for ordinary Americans.»

You don't like Christians who stand up for their faith?

Maybe they can move the old Arch Bishop who covered it up out, make him a cardinal, then make his replacement a cardinal for gladhanding the victims and sweeping things under the rug... then plead poverty and go about a few punitive church closings to teach the lay parishoners not to stand up to them no matter what their crimes... like they did here in Massachusetts.

It's like the Christians who respond to gays standing up for their rights by claiming gays are bashing them.

This makes it difficult for us to keep growing, but in the moment it feels like keeping the group pure and safe or standing up for principle / tradition, and that's how we rationalize it.

Erica Christensen is unbelievably good as Leslie, just capturing the nuance of someone who has got a strong center to her, who isn't going to be pushed over, stands up for herself, but loves her husband dearly and feels like through her Christian faith she is now going on this incredible adventure.

It takes guts to stand up for your faith on national TV, especially with someone like Dawkins sat opposite you, but where was the LOVE?

That said — I pray for a healthy windfall to come your way NP — just cause I like you and respect you standing up for what you believed in.

Oh yeah, you Christians were Isolationists who did not want to go stand up for what's right in this world, who didn't want to go put a stop to people like Hitler.

Looking like Jesus means that we will not stand out in a crowd for how we are dressed or what we are saying, but will get noticed because of what we stand up for — or more precisely, who we stand up for.

There have been * some * famous guys that have stood up for purity like the Jonas brothers, Nick Lachey, and Tim Tebow (but honestly there are not many famous women or men who care).

He explained: «It is important for people like myself - like I suppose in the Bible David did - to stand up and say «is there not a cause»?

If you want to deny people their freedom of religion, you will have to go through an awful lot of people who look just like you (only more attractive) to get there, because there are a lot of patriotic Americans who are willing to stand up for our values.

Yeah, it seems like a good idea to have someone stand up and shout their sobriety at the public level, but there is no spokesperson for AA.

--- So Jeremy where is all the sympathy and standing up for guys like me?

One of them stood up and stated she would not make and take food for a funeral for people she didn't like and she is featured at the church.

When things like this happen in our churches, we must expose them and stand up for the truth rather than sweep them under the carpet to protect those in power.

I commend any Christian who has the courage to speak out against sin, and stand up for righteousness, but don't speak out against the sin that you feel like opposing that day.

Its a bit like the schoolyard bully who says he is being picked on when the other kids get big enough to stand up for themselves.

We got to stand for somehting, Not like these idiots in office that keep screwing with us to see what they can dream up next.

Doesn't sound like hate to me, but rather standing up for what is a Christian value.

Marriage is between a man and woman; just like you stated what you believe, we have a right and duty to stand up for Christian beliefs.

Thank God for men like Billy Graham who stand up for God's word.

When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; they love to say their prayers standing up in synagogues or at the street corners, for everyone to see them....

Like atheists, many don't push their beliefs into people's faces and lives, but because lots of them do isn't it somewhat necessary for someone to stand up to them and say «No, we don't agree»?

There were a few leaders, like Dr. Theophilus, who stood up for the masses of Christians, but they lost out, and now the poor Christians were paying for that mistake.

I would like to apologize to you, that people like me did not stand up for you when you needed it most.

It's like picking teams for any sport where no one wants to be picked by the Captain who's pants fell around his ankles tripping the whole team up and losing the game last time... the Christians are standing off to the side trying to hide behind the bleachers to avoid getting picked by him and being made to look foolish.

, and follows a Hollywood fixer in the 1950s who pulls the strings of major studios to get what they want (if it sounds like the Coens want to brutally bite the hand that feeds, remember that Inside Llewyn Davis got stood up for any Oscar nominees last year, so Hollywood sort of asked for it).

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

Today on The New Activist, we talk to Sekou about standing up for the rights of all people, and what it's like to risk it all for a cause you believe in.

We need men, like you, who will stand up for us.

Jefferson in his many words is todays paul by basically testifying to a lost society by preaching «The heart «that is what God wants not the shell which will rott away.I can stand with this truth until the day I die because I also have had disagreements in my church about this same topic.I dispise religion and encourage salvation which come from having a relationship with Jesus.Many may ask how do i have a relationship with him?by simply asking God through prayer, not what we know as pray but simply given up and telling God he win.That is what being righteous means saying «lord your're right and i will believe and obey that.Last i will like to thank jefferson for this clip, becuase for so long I have been feeling like todays churches in not like the first churches.They are stuck into their four cornered walls preaching to those who already obtain the word and people who already think they are perfect, but what about the weak and the sinners who we are suppose to love, go after, preach to, help and deliver the same way as Christ camed for the sinners so do we also be like him.Jefferson basically telling all us young people and old no matter who have suffered in the world, the church, or no matter what party or the past that there is hope and «God wants that person» not the sin but the person.Jefferson wants us to know that God can become personal with us and we do exist or can exist in the christian world not because we are perfect but because «he is perfect and he saw our broken spirits and rescued us!

It looked like she had put everything she wanted for her journey onto a table, crawled underneath it, and then stood up.

The reason this is such a big deal is because this soldier was made to look like some kind of hero for «standing up» for what he believes in.

I urge all Evangelicals to stand up for the truth, and not to be intimidated by the religious war of the hypocrites who likes to use the Word of God as a cloak of maliciousness against you during their lip service!