Sentences with phrase «made against the rebels»

The main aim of the mission has been accomplished, the rebels no longer pose a direct military threat to the survival of the Assad regime and the gains made against the rebels are solid enough to be maintained by the Syrian army itself.

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We must not make a decision based on our hope that we can still go to heaven even when we purposefully and blatantly rebel against God.

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).

Jesus made it clear that he was no fan and rebelled against the religious institutions man had created.

@brown: ok let me get this straight, god made angels knowing lucifer would rebel against him... just so he could create a «bad guy» to test his next failure, humans.

He tries to make the counselor into an authority figure, upon whom he can be dependent and against whom he can then rebel.

The Lakhmids rebelled openly against the Persians, while religious divisions made the Ghassanids ever more discontented with Roman rule.

Camus planned and completed a second cycle of works: the novel The Plague, in which the heroic Doctor Rieux strives, despite ultimate futility, against human suffering and death; the play The Misunderstanding, a kind of Greek tragedy in which a young man returns home in disguise, having made his fortune, only to be murdered and robbed by his mother and sister; and the highly influential cultural analysis The Rebel.

He rebelled against his inherited religion so vehemently that once when his family took him to church he made a disturbance and was publicly rebuked.

Either they internalize the shame and become depressed and withdrawn, or they rebel against the shame, coming out and in many cases making their sexuality the core of their identity for a while.

You said: «Even if we were on the same plane with angels, you are perfect evidence, for those who believe, of an intelligent man rebelling against God making it very reasonable to believe in an «intelligent» angel rebelling against God.»

Rebelling against the Christianity that was far too normative for our adventurous tastes, our goal was to make it to an ashram in California.

Or maybe their two star players realised that they made a big mistake by not forcing a move during last summers window and rebelled against Ranieri for letting him sweet talking them into staying lol Anyways, it's done and dusted now, and their fans won't be moaning all the while they Keep beating teams like Liverpool.

His best game of his first collegiate season came against the UNLV Rebels, where he made five solo tackles.

They may rebel against bedtime rules and you'll need to let them make their own food choices.

This sends a very wrong and negative message to your teenager making him / her rebel against any form of authority, especially from you as a parent.

It also makes no sense for Assad to use chemical weapons when he's winning the war and it would turn the US against him, but it makes a lot of sense for the rebels to frame him.

Likewise, though there have been denials of direct support from the air for rebel operations on the ground, the media reported that rebel advances on towns like Ajdabiya (and others) was only made possible because of coalition attacks against Libya military forces defending those towns.

The Dangerous Dogs Act Study Group (DDASG) and Lord Redesdale criticised the Government for what they saw as its part in the ongoing problem of «status dogs» by making them appeal to those wishing to intimidate others and rebel against the existing law.

Mohsin al - Ahmar's First Armoured Brigade played a leading role in the campaign against Houthi rebels in the north from 2004, but Saleh took the opportunity to trim the General's authority by arming the Houthi faction so as to make the task more difficult.

The power of Mukerjee's telling of this man - made famine that killed — following Amartya Sen's analysis of famine mortality — around 3 million people, lies in the formidable marshalling of a wide range of data, from cabinet meeting records and papers of powerful politicians and officials to interviews in Bengal villages with survivors of the famine and militant rebels against the Raj.

And the prime minister lost another little bit of his authority, as Tory MPs rebelled against the coalition's plans to make it easier for middle - class people to build bigger extensions.

In recent days, regime forces have been waging fierce battles against rebels in the northern part of the province, making some advances in Jabal Akrad and Jabal Turkman.

More than 50 shadow ministers have resigned as part of the coup against Mr Corbyn, the most recent being Lyn Brown and Kevin Brennan, as the rebels try to make it impossible for the leader to operate an effective opposition.

Assad has also made deals with Isis to work against the rebels.

Libyan rebels have reportedly made significant progress against forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi in recent days, making advances in the towns of Gharyan and Zawiya, where a strategically important oil refinery has been captured.

Meanwhile, Russell, who has previously threatened to vote against the Budget in its entirety, has dismissed an Independent on Sunday report that the rebels have secretly agreed to co-operate with Labour MPs as «poppycock» and «Labour mischief - making».

More than 50 shadow ministers have resigned as part of the coup against Mr Corbyn - the most recent being Emma Lewell - Buck, Nick Smith and Ms Glass - as the rebels try to make it impossible for the leader to operate an effective opposition.

It makes me immediately want to rebel against it.

So after rebelling against my mom aka my financial advisor's wishes of me working on saving money (did I mention I made some stops at Target, Nordstrom & Old Navy?)

By bending the rules and making her lovesick friend Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) share her triumph, Katniss has earned the wrath of President Snow (Donald Sutherland, evil and loving it), who uses the games to quash the 12 districts that rebelled against the Capitol of Panem.

Her publicised victories against the Capitol make her an ideal figurehead for unifying revolutionary forces hence the rebel rescue.

Tom Holland actually made his big screen debut as Spider - Man, once again a hapless high school kid just like in the original comics, in Captain American: Civil War, recruited by Tony Stark to be his secret weapon against Captain America's rebel heroes.

Arthur eventually makes his way there (through a series of coincidences that are too convoluted to detail), pulls out the sword, and is rescued from public execution by a group of rebels against the current ruler (There are times this story feels like Robin Hood, not Arthur).

As they begin to reach physical maturity, the boys understandably begin to rebel against their pseudo-prison, slowly making their way into the world.

Whip It (PG - 13 for sexuality, crude humor, profanity and drug use) Drew Barrymore makes her directorial debut and also appears in this adaptation of Shauna Cross» best seller about a reluctant beauty pageant contestant (Ellen Page) who rebels against her mother (Marcia Gay Harden) by joining a rough - and - tumble roller derby team.

Following on from the first Mockingjay, the second part of the story finds Katniss and the rebels making the final push against Donald Sutherland's scheming President Snow and the Capitol, with lives on the line and sacrifices to be made.

Another interesting twist is how screenwriter Linda Woolverton has made Alice into a feminist figure, an empowered young woman (a well - cast Mia Wasikowska) who rebels against the idea of others deciding who she should marry, what she should do with her life and what she should believe in.

Compliance training is compulsory — making it seem forced — and in the process instilling a need to rebel against it or avoid taking it up willingly.

The ship's doctor (Kemp's hated cousin) rebelled against this barbaric act, there was a mutiny, and some of the surviving crew made it to Florida with the remaining Africans, where they lived in a shared society in what sounds like an egalitarian tropical paradise.

At first my mind rebelled against this, but in time the change does make sense as they're now mostly a tool for juggling enemies in the air, keeping them suspended until you've had time to slurp your tea, clean up the mess you made and then get back into it.

Likewise the Corvette and Frigate that make up the Rebel forces look outstanding, especially against a gaming mat with a space theme.

One has to wonder, do these critics really want gaming to grow to adulthood, or just move from childhood to those pesky teen years, attempting to rebel against the system that made them.

Taking on board the fairly standard plot of rebels fighting against an empire, the game made sure its world and characters were intriguing enough to carry it through.

One thing however is clear: for a woman to opt for a career at all, much less for a career in art, has required a certain amount of unconventionality, both in the past and at present; whether or not the woman artist rebels against or finds strength in the attitude of her family, she must in any case have a good strong streak of rebellion in her to make her way in the world of art at all, rather than submitting to the socially approved role of wife and mother, the only role to which every social institution consigns her automatically.

Art making & demonstrating are positive ways to react to «the madness of reality», but there is so much to rebel against and speak up about that its difficult to know where to begin.

In the 1950s, Rauschenberg redefined the very materials that art could be made of, rebelling against the predominant Abstract Expressionism of the time with the impeccable logic that, «I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out of the real world.»

Morton made art in a wide variety of mediums, including drawing and painting, but her sculptures that lay flat on the ground are the most memorable, a kind of an antiphallic statement that seemed to rebel against art - historical tradition, and sculpture's monumentality in particular.

I was making paintings just like they did, and I was at grad school trying to figure out how to make paintings like that matter to the world, it was a stance I took against the last 50 years of art history, but I was fine with that, I was a «rebel».

But Wang makes a convincing case that one can not escape the power of the past, even one that this artist has spent most of his life rebelling against.