Sentences with phrase «more of an allegiance»

«Marco is — has more of an allegiance to Chuck Schumer and to the liberals than he does to conservative policy,» Paul said.

Not exact matches

According to the Minerva research team at Georgia State University, the 2014 expansion of IS» so - called Caliphate was foretold by «Wiki Baghdady» - a Jihadi insider, but more than likely an al - Qaida agent - who predicted IS would amass multiple group allegiances and then announce them simultaneously in order to project power and influence.

What happens to young dreamers whose anger gets deliberately stoked by, I mean organized by... oh, but let's not name any more nameable allegiances and platforms from the days of yore!

Pfau is much more appreciative of much of Gregory's work («a book whose courage and ambition I applaud, if for no other reason than that it exemplifies what an engaged form of historiography [and humanistic inquiry more generally] can and should do»); what makes his piece especially worthwhile is its trenchant engagement with critics of Gregory's work and their often uncritical allegiance to the modernity of the modern academy.

Because seminarians have been trained by theologians who are more shaped by their graduate school training than by their ecclesial identification — they see themselves as process thinkers or Barthians rather than as Baptists or Episcopalians — we have seminarians who attempt to make congregations fit the images of their theological allegiances rather than trying to respond to the theological resources of the congregation.

Similarly, a black theology of liberation or a feminist theology of liberation may, like the university theology its proponents criticize, be little more than ideological expressions of autonomous political movements that owe no fundamental allegiance to the Christian vision.

It wasn't the summer that brought an end to my doubt, but it was the summer I encountered a different Jesus, a Jesus who requires more from me than intellectual assent and emotional allegiance; a Jesus who associated with sinners and infuriated the religious; a Jesus who broke the rules and refused to cast the first stone; a Jesus who gravitated toward sick people and crazy people, homeless people and hopeless people; a Jesus who preferred story to exposition and metaphor to syllogism; a Jesus who answered questions with more questions, and demands for proof with demands for faith... a Jesus who healed each person differently and saved each person differently; a Jesus who had no list of beliefs to check off, no doctrinal statements to sign, no surefire way to tell who was «in» and who was «out»; a Jesus who loved after being betrayed, healed after being hurt, and forgave while being nailed to a tree; a Jesus who asked his disciples to do the same...

It had an ecclesiastical structure more comprehensive geographically than that of any single state and acknowledged allegiance to a single directing head, the Bishop of Rome.

Brother, why do you give more allegiance to a theology of men, never stated in words of scripture, (i.e..

If the church's theology were informed more by biblical expectations of a redeemed creation and less by general religious longings for ecstatic experience and timeless truth, Christians would find themselves at the very least congenial toward those who, with a passionate «loyalty to things» and a «cosmic act of allegiance,» struggle to unpack the secrets of life on this planet and to work with it toward a new day.

I think those who claim to be followers of Jesus Christ and His teaching need to pledge our allegiance first to Christ and His kingdom and not to a political party — maybe more clarity will come if we all prayerfully seek the will of the Lord and allow that to influence our political leanings — rather than the other way around.

It's just that nobody ever tries to convince me or my children to pledge allegiance to any of those others, or pray to them, or to persecute people in their name, or to let the government be used as an aid in indoctrinating more people into their myths.

I find that I can make a more compelling argument against the pledge of allegiance if I base that argument on political beliefs as opposed to my religious beliefs.

Now I would pledge allegiance to Yahweh, and under him the nation and people, which the nation and people is more about ideals and not a thing, but meaning that I would uphold the laws of the land, not be a traitor, etc..

It was a Christianity of mercy and philanthropy, which won the allegiance of the underprivileged and suppressed, that is to say, the mass of the population, more so than the Pauline theology that ultimately flowed into Neoplatonic philosophical theology of the educated minority (with literacy standing at about 15 percent).

Wherever there are signs of widespread social discontent and / or the fear of war, we have the conditions in which people are ready to give their blind allegiance to a charismatic, authoritarian leader in the belief that he or she will be able to restore a more ordered and secure environment and save them from a much worse fate.

There is another school of thought that dismisses such personal likes and dislikes as irrelevant to allegiance to a church, the lone legitimate Christian fellowship, all the more virtuous if you find some of your fellows insufferable.

A little more than a year later, I remembered those people and their silent tears as I wandered round a Moscow at last liberated from the Communist tyranny that had demanded the allegiance of everyone since 1917, a Moscow from which the tanks, defeated mainly by popular scorn for a rotten, drunken, washed - up junta of secret policemen and hacks, had withdrawn.

The Breakdown: Admittedly, this one has more of a «pledge of allegiance to your cult leader» vibe than a mutual romantic context, but love songs have never been big on advocating for emotionally healthy partnerships.

Pundits (IMO one of the most worthless forms of life on earth regardless of their political allegiances) like Megyn do more to defile God everyday with their divisive propaganda than the most militant atheist.

Again, the parable is not showing that the neighbor was the victim and that we should therefore copy the Samaritan's actions in order to show «love to our neighbor», but rather, it is highlighting the way to tell who the neighbor is — and who we should «love» like one of the family — by noting his actions towards us (the victim in the parable); and not judge on the basis of apparent allegiance, or who we feel more comfortable with, or who does our commandments (acts like us).

I think that kind of perspective, willfully separating that «force» from the flawed characteristics and limitations of man, is more «faithful» than blind allegiance to ideologies KNOWN to have been manipulated by man.

The official gathering achieved little more than a reaffirmation of international allegiance to economism modified by the notion that the economic growth it seeks should be sustainable.

Surely every truth in the theology and ethics of Judaism and Islam which commands your respect and allegiance you will find in Christianity and, I must add, much more beside.

Some visible instrumentalities are necessary if a common allegiance to certain elemental principles of universal justice is to be more than a pious sentiment.

How did Christian allegiance become a matter of Roman law and, even more importantly, an offense for which one would joyfully die?

Posting a billboard like that is more offensive then posting the original pledge of allegiance.

Indeed, even as late as the twentieth century rivalries continued in Central Europe between the two wings of what had been the Catholic Church — the one owning allegiance to Rome and the other, Orthodox, affiliated, although more loosely, with Constantinople.

We now see that the leap of faith is not just one leap; it is a leap repeatedly made, and a leap that becomes more difficult to take the more it is taken, reaching its pinnacle in blind allegiance and active denial and rejection of any other possibilities.

Also, the allegiance of human beings is much more to their immediate communities, family, ethnic group, sub-culture, region, even professional associations, rather than nation - states.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

Costa endured plenty of criticism for switching allegiance from Brazil to Spain months before the World Cup began, though thoroughly merited his inclusion in the... [Read more...]

It's only fair to admit that I despised, utterly despised, the notoriously defensive Chelsea team of 2012 and, tribal allegiances aside, the even more defensive treble - winning Inter of 2010.

But it was even more a nationalism of memory and allegiance...» Soil and land has definitely been a resonant part of Englishness.

It seems to me that too few have grasped how the fundamentals of British politics are changing — how public loyalty to the main parties is in decline, how issues are now more important than old tribal allegiances and how the rise of new concerns such as nationalism and immigration cut across old party divides.

An official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in Washington, said more than a year after the group's pledge of allegiance, it has no link with IS.

With European officials stretched by a string of assaults by seemingly unconnected attackers who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, Mr. Sarfo suggested that there may be more of a link than the authorities yet know.

After eight years being manhandled by Ken Livingstone's superior wit and devastating grasp of detail, they seemed ecstatic to be headed by a man with similar talents but more sympathetic allegiances.

«What that means is that, if someone has an allegiance or even a leaning toward one of the two parties, their voting has become much more rigid along those lines,» Reeher said.

But white - collar central New Jersey is now questioning its allegiance to the GOP in the era of Trump much more than it did then,» wrote David Wasserman, Cook's House editor.

These allegiances — to friends, to state authority — are tested by the Pentagon Papers, if rather more tested, perhaps, for the purposes of this fiction.

However, the closer Moss gets into the circle of trust of this eco-terror family, the more confused she becomes as to where her allegiance lies, especially as she can't resist the dreamy eyes of their spiritual leader, Benji (Skarsgard, Battleship).

Wherever your allegiances lie — or if you're one of those strange people who like more than one series — the remainder of 2017 is a cracker.

Anyway, you fight alongside a nation of your choosing and your allegiance with them strengthens the more you serve them well.

The relationship between Okoye and W'Kabi is one of Black Panther's more understated narrative elements, but it plays a somewhat key role in the movie's penultimate battle between the Dora Milaje and the Border Tribe who've pledged their allegiance to Erik Killmonger.

His Alejandro is a man of no allegiances, who, with his pointed goatee and predatory body movements, appears to be more wolf than man.

Had its trippy - dippy, anachronistic cross-cutting and madly - inappropriate scoring appeared in 1968 (the year of Rosemary's Baby, Night of the Living Dead, If..., 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the film to which it perhaps owes its greatest allegiance, Once Upon a Time in the West), Performance would've found traction and good company as a foundational film for the American New Wave instead of as a picture that, for all its foment and formal revolution, seemed hysterical against a maturing, more sedate (d) mainstream avant - garde parade of stuff like El Topo, Zabriskie Point, MASH, and Five Easy Pieces.

More classically constructed than either I Am Not Madame Bovary or Shin Godzilla, Kim's spy movie boasts the single best set - piece of the year, a frenetic cat and mouse game set aboard a moving train, allegiances shifting more quickly than the blurred terrain outsMore classically constructed than either I Am Not Madame Bovary or Shin Godzilla, Kim's spy movie boasts the single best set - piece of the year, a frenetic cat and mouse game set aboard a moving train, allegiances shifting more quickly than the blurred terrain outsmore quickly than the blurred terrain outside.

It offers an opportunity to learn more about the divisions in English society in the AD 1600s, about public reaction to the execution of the king and how royalist allegiance was maintained during the Commonwealth and Protectorate.

Sen. Gloria Romero, who sponsored the parent - trigger law and ran for state schools chief four years ago, said that while she disapproves of Torlakson's allegiance to the California Teachers Association, she has more faith in him at this point than the untested Tuck.