Sentences with phrase «lives against their society»

What drove the prophets to pit their lives against their society and culture?

Not exact matches

We are living in a world where the financial sector is waging class war against al the rest of society.

But many American practices go against the grain of the more comfortable and communitarian cultural systems of their own societies - the Japanese with life - long employment for their workers, the Germans with their unions having a say in management under co-determination, and the French with their government supporting the right of unions to pressure business from retrenching, by requiring large compensation to be paid to laid - off workers.»

If 90 % of the country believed in the tooth fairy and thought we should all live by laws originating in the tooth fairy and run our country according to the tooth fairy's wisdom, you'd probably be on blogs dealing with the tooth fairy and arguing against the use of her existence as a basis for running society.

In the act of rape, he may simply be venting his conscious or unconscious rage against society or against other women in his life.

Over against the desire to uproot, the creational mandate revels in this - worldly occupation, preferring to flatten out apocalpytic into the idea of a Christian society as the natural outgrowth of human life.

On the economic plane, we have a society in which there are some who have immense wealth as against many who live in abject poverty.

Also, President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs that were to improve living standards for the poor were undermined by the escalating costs of the war against the poor in Southeast Asia.

Those of us who believe same - sex marriage to be a moral impossibility now face a very daunting challenge — how to live in a society that is moving so rapidly against our moral worldview, even as the society shared that worldview for over 2,000 years.

Society must thus be secured against the intrusions of the Good, or of God, so that its citizens may determine their own lives by the choices they make from a universe of morally indifferent but variably desirable ends, unencumbered by any prior grammar of obligation or value (in America, we call this the «wall of separation»).

S.e.x.u.a.l.i.s.m is a socal oreintation the same way religion is a socially oreintated construct, Without society we could not oreintate our life upon or against a model of constructivism therefore social oreintations are the mainframes of individualities!

«This objection has force... against any simple - minded attempt to identify as the living soul the regnant, personally ordered society which we uncritically have been calling the analogue of the soul.

What should be a community of accepting and loyal love extending its life to all, is in part a community divided against itself, sometimes adding to, if not blessing, the existing divisions in society and unable, therefore, to give a convincing witness to the faith by which it lives.

(Elements and aspects of this new consciousness, its forms and contents, can be found in the following sources: William Braden, The Age of Aquarius (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1970); Charles Reich, The Greening of America (New York: Random House, 1970); Lewis Mumford, The Pentagon of Power (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970); Erich Fromm, The Revolution of Hope (New York: Bantam Books, 1968); Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization (Boston: Beacon Press, 1966); Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1959); Ferkiss, The Technological Society; Lynn White, Jr., Machina ex Deo (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1968), and Roszak, The Making of a Counter-Culture.

Bearing false witness against a Church of Christ, especially in a society that almost requires you to hate religion and live life in a sinful fashion, wouldn't be too difficult for most.

So, you wouldn't say a word against any parent raising their kids to be racist, anti-Semitic, woman - beaters, or something else you'd consider problematic for their fitting in with society later in life?

They revolt too against the amorality of sensuality without controlled, spiritual love which soaks the society in which they live.

This perverted psychiatric identity, elevated to the status of a mutant «life form» in order to safeguard polite society against its disgusting depravities, swallowed up the entire character of the afflicted: «Nothing that went into [the homosexual's] total composition was unaffected by his sexuality.

Society has pitted the life of a child against the well - being and future of its mother, and asked us to choose one or the other.

So he becomes a stalwart defender of the trustworthiness of natural impulse against the life - denying interdictions of a society that in the interests of its own survival continues to give lip service to an Augustinian anti-Pelagianism.

In a pillarized society, the distinct subcultures became adept at erecting and maintaining barriers against the other subcultures, yet the consociational arrangements they come up with have tended to be short - lived.

It is rather that the Word and the church will be interpreted to them as God's will for the freedom of man to live a human life, to fight against the demonic forces of his own nature that seek dominion over social as well as personal life, to order his life by structures of love and justice relevant to the conditions of society.

In fact, the religious view considers the secularist «mechanical materialist view of reality as too reductionist and as leaving out the «organic» and «spiritual» dimensions of human being and history and therefore as unable to renew the values of humanism and its reverence for life and the dignity of the human person in society in the name of which secularism started to protest against religious authoritarianism.

We live in a very self - centered narcissitic society where people do what they want, and the only bad consequence is getting caught if it's against the law.

Many factors in our society militate against depth relationships — the frenzied pace of our lives; the frantic pressures to get ahead which encourage using rather than relating to people; the constant mobility of many families which contributes to a rootlessness and noninvolvement in community life; the anonymity of megalopolis where people do not know the names of even those in adjoining apartments.

In society it becomes organized in a large scale and we need to fight them on the structural level, but we need to counter them on a personal level — the question of life - style, attitude, irrational prejudices against others and other areas.

It was a statement against the prison of growing up poor, and the idea that the goal of life is to live to work and sometimes treat yourself to an empty object that society had advertised as a signifier of success.

We live in a society of busy - ness, with so mich expected of parents and so much to get on and do and so much pressure, that a EC is an inconvenience of having to go against the perceived norm, having to pay much more intimate attention to our babies, having to deal with bodily functions, having to wake ourselves up a bit to what our culture has conditioned us to and having to go against the grain — all of which take effort and all of which take time and / or energy away from other mummy efforts that bring more obvious and societally rewarded benefits.

The ASA recently ruled in favour of the British Humanist Society over complaints against its campaign slogan: «There's probably no God, now stop worrying and enjoy your life.»

The free market is presented as the best way of organizing economic life — but it can only function well against a background of equal personal and property rights that protect all members of society, from the very rich to the very poor.

The government desperately needs to work with credible allies in the fight against Islamic extremism, lest Muslims in Britain and abroad resign themselves to living in a less inclusive society.

Buster Brown, thanks for a great comment, I too think that when a homicidal terrorist type is put to death and is no longer a threat, their burial is a good time to show the society they committed their reprehensible acts in is and against, is indeed is civilized and capable of respecting the dead; all the dead no matter how odious their acts in life might have been.

People who have paid their debt to society and served their time should not be discriminated against when it comes to make a living.

Tory backbencher Dominic Raab said the proposed reform went against the right of a «democratic society to say life should mean life», however.

«Even in our own lifetimes we can recall how Britain and her leaders stood against a Nazi tyranny that wished to eradicate God from society and denied our common humanity to many, especially the Jews, who were thought unfit to live,» he said.

Olujimi who described Fayose as behaving more like a thug who is not properly brought up to associate with a civilised group or society, said he has warned her to relax her governorship ambition, just as she quoted him as saying, «anyone who goes against my order would pay dearly with his or her life.»

Ramadan should unite us and instil in us fellow - feeling, so that we can create a society where Allah is truly our anchor against the storms of life.

The American Physical Society even has a Tesla comic book (where, as in real life, he faces off against the dastardly Thomas Edison).

Howard Rosenbaum, director of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Ocean Giants Program, told Live Science that, for many marine mammal species, a thick layer of fat called blubber is «first and foremost» in their list of defenses against the cold.

Studies in several countries have demonstrated that the tuberculosis vaccine BCG, when given early in life, confers some protection against acute leukaemia (Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, vol 96, p 389).

Samuel Cykert, MD, has received a $ 1.8 million five - year grant from the American Cancer Society (ACS) to study «Lung Cancer Surgery: Decisions Against Life Saving Care.»

This was not only a time of teen angst it was an aggressive rebellion against the fashion establishment, embracing the grit and the grime of the times.With the RAW emotion from society's underbelly, living art.

From this point on, there will be no peace in either man's life as a harrowing game of kill - or - be-killed is played out against the backdrop of the awe - inspiring and deceptively treacherous wilderness where the unforgiving law of the land takes deadly precedence over the civility of modern society.

Working with a script by James Vanderbilt (The Amazing Spider - Man), Emmerich's other proclivities are evident, including a life or death scenario that threatens the fabric of society, a quest to prove worth against the odds, the reuniting of a fractured family, and the triumph of American values when the stakes are heightened.

BEST FOREIGN FILM I've Loved You So Long BEST FEMALE IMAGES IN A MOVIE: The Secret Life Of Bees BEST UNRELEASED MOVIE: How The Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES: Nothing But The Truth BEST MUSIC: Cadillac Records BEST ANIMATED FEMALE: Eve: WALL - E BEST FAMILY FILM WALL - E LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Meryl Streep ACTING AND ACTIVISM: Natalie Portman ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD: For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women: Changeling JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD: For best expressing the woman of color experience in America: Ballast KAREN MORLEY AWARD: For best exemplifying a woman's place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity: Battle In Seattle COURAGE IN ACTING: Deidra Edwards in DisFigured: For redefining conventional standards of female physical beauty and pride on screen, and promoting positive images of big bodied women.

Here are a few of the most interesting, entertaining and vibrant films about aging folks who continue to live, love, chase their dreams, fight for their independence, defy society's expectations and, when necessary, rage against the dying of the light.

Other times the societies he fought against destroyed him: the vengeful Detective Jim McLeod getting shot by a perp whose life he ruined in William Wyler's Detective Story (1951); Colonel Dax being sent back to the front by the World War One military brass he dared to defy in Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory (1957); Spartacus getting crucified for leading a slave rebellion in Kubrick's Spartacus (1960).

Much like the novel, the film takes a matter - of - fact yet thought - provoking perspective on the central underlying fact that governs the character's lives — never didactic nor preachy, but encouraging you to construct the rest of society (which exists as a sort of negative space against which our characters appear in sharp relief) and the ethical concerns that the film brings up but doesn't answer.

The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing alliance that brings together trade unions, INGOs, the women's and youth movements, community and faith groups and others to call for action from world leaders in the global North and South to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality.GCAP's main aim is to achieve policy and practice changes that will improve the lives of people living in poverty.GCAP adds to existing campaigning on poverty by forming diverse, inclusive national platforms that are able to open up civil society space and advocate more effectively than individual organisations would be able to do on their own.

A society that dictates what «is and isn't acceptable for us, what we are good at, what's beautiful, who to trust / love, how to dress, eat, behave etc.... often works against our well - being,» writes Alusine Barrie, who admits that his pursuit of well - being is shaped by standing back from his experiences «to see the lessons hidden inside books, articles, blogs, and videos as well as advices / opinions of people» he encounters in life.