Sentences with phrase «much allegiance»

Virginia's Governor Douglas Wilder immediately proposed that Thomas should be questioned as a Catholic: «The question is «How much allegiance is there to the pope?»

As I said above... Too much allegiance to the bible does not bring us together... it drives us apart.

Instead, over the course of the movie, as revelations come to light (particularly for the other characters in the movie) and the story dips and turns, it's not so much our allegiances that change, as our understanding of the decisions that have been made and choices taken.

Not exact matches

Much of the new news media — Buzzfeed, Vice, Vox, Breitbart — has abandoned allegiance to «old - fashioned» values of fairness and balance that were once espoused, even if imperfectly practiced, by the U.S. media.

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.

It is allegiances, politics, nationalism and much more.

To say it another way, if Jesus was committed solely to establishing a kingdom that had no intrinsic nationalistic or ethnic allegiances — not even with Israel — how much more should his followers be committed to expanding this unique, non-nationalistic kingdom?»

But regardless, I do know that the Roman Emperors required citizens to swear allegiance to himself and to the Roman Empire in much the same way we do today, and many early Christians refused, instead swearing allegiance to Jesus as Lord.

It's not about what motivates our response here as much as it's about obedience in pledging allegiance to Jesus Christ alone.

Yet, his allegiance to Methodism never seemed so much doctrinal as a matter of family tradition and soothing familiarity.

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.

Finally, I have written as a priest of the Anglican obedience and much but not all of what I say is naturally a reflection of that particular allegiance.

In a very short time he effectively privatised Islam, in much the same way as Christian allegiance has become slowly privatised in the West.

Church professionals have much to learn from laity in the corporate world who profess allegiance to both the church and the corporation.

As Paul Markhan wrote in an excellent essay about the phenomenon, young people who identify with this movement have grown weary of evangelicalism's allegiance to Republican politics, are interested in pursuing social reform and social justice, believe that the gospel has as much to do with this life as the next, and are eager to be a part of inclusive, diverse, and authentic Christian communities.

His purpose is to milk his followers of as much money and allegiance as possible.

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.

When the author recalls the long gallery of persons whom, in the course of this inquiry, he has come to know with the impetuous but temporary intimacy of the stranger — sharecroppers and plantation owners, workers and employers, merchants and bankers, intellectuals, preachers, organization leaders, political bosses, gangsters, black and white, men and women, young and old, Southerners and Northerners — the general observation retained is the following: Behind all outward dissimilarities, behind their contradictory valuations, rationalizations, vested interests, group allegiances and animosities, behind fears and defense constructions, behind the role they play in life and the mask they wear, people are all much alike on a fundamental level And they are all good people.

It had completed the winning of the professed allegiance of the large majority of the «barbarian» invaders in Western and Central Europe and had spread beyond the former confines of the Roman Empire there and in much of what we know as Western and Northern Russia.

It is too often assumed (even by many who no longer have any explicit allegiance to the Christian tradition) that the values and social institutions of our cultural past will continue into the future in much the same form.

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.

Hill wasn't much better, but he wasn't that, and BYU fans have made it pretty clear where their current allegiances lie.

So much more the hatred if a person jumps allegiance between rival clubs.

If it was not so much soil as memory and allegiance, then these remain.

But it can be much harder to be certain about the party allegiances of peers.

«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 the objectors are also fighting to protect two semi-official rackets that are as much a part of the Capitol's culture as the pledge of allegiance: outside compensation from firms who soak up their government stature and the ability to accept unlimited campaign money and spend it however they please.

The detailed YouGov results provide much information about second and subsequent preferences, although they predict a rather unrealistic low switch in allegiance in AV first preference votes from FPTP voting intentions — both Labour and Tories, for example, are predicted to retain 96 % of their FPTP voters as first preferences which must understate the switch to UKIP and the Greens, for example.

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.

How much Welles» inspiration or motivation for the film owes allegiance to the former newspaper magnate remains a question.

In the comics, he's much more terrifying and intimidating largely because his allegiances shift internally once he realizes he can better from a situation away from the team.

Putting this trio in this pressure cooker allows for allegiances to shift back and forth, and so much of what makes the film work is the attempt to suss out motivations and who might not be telling the truth.

But the pursuit, while still very much an important element, takes a back seat to what is essentially a tightly wound heist picture, as Don, Vardhaan, and a few new recruits (including Kunal Kapoor as a computer hacker and Lara Dutta as Don's latest right - hand moll) plot a potentially game - changing robbery in Berlin — the game of which is, naturally, constantly in flux with its players» self - serving interests and shifting allegiances.

The human counterparts aren't much better, flip - flopping allegiances at the drop of a dime or simply having no character traits at all, often carrying out totally random actions.

Much of the anecdotal information is what he received from John Burris, the prosecuting attorney working on Oscar Grant's case, as well as Oscar's family, so, of course, Coogler is not only hearing one side of the story, but also has allegiances to those who helped him research this story to tell Oscar's tale in a manner respectful to their interests.

It's amazing how many soon - to - be retirees confuse allegiance to their companies by acquiring too much of its stock.

Because as much as I love how MvC does what it does so well, my allegiance has always been to another franchise, that, in my opinion, has reinvigorated the entire fighting genre, given it a whole new style of play, and is easily the most original of it's kind.

Usually fanboys take up allegiance to a certain console and will not only buy pretty much anything that comes out for the system, but champion it across the battlefield of every major forum on the video game -LSB-...]

The factional rift, and ensuing conflict, was very much an indirect result of pledging allegiance to either Team Batman or Team Superman, although, for the sake of balance, there were also a selection of villains tossed into the mix.

With its laser focus down along the trials of the Sanada Clan and their ever - evolving allegiances, players might miss just how much additional content is thrown in.

He later adds that by the mid-1940s, Rothko's «allegiance to conventions of spatial order in painting had withered to the point where depth and contours could barely be detected, much less interpreted... Rothko used the fluidity of watercolor to erode distinctions and diminish resolution.

While comparable to the work of Mark Rothko and Barnet Newman, Joseph's is an anomalous strain of Minimalism: his allegiance lies as much with Renaissance masters as with his contemporaries, he says.

Considered Mitchell's first mature picture, it declares her allegiance to the verities of the the New York School or, to put a finer point on it, the Modernist precedents that did so much to inform it.

The profundity of the climate change scam and the allegiance to it are worrisome in terms of suggesting the possibility of other much quieter miscarriages of science within the environmental regulation game.

This route of consideration entails the inference of what we'll call each respective warmist's primary and secondary gain motivating his allegiance to this objectively insupportable (and factually unsupported) damnfool contention about the adverse effects of anthropogenic atmospheric carbon dioxide and — much more importantly — the political measures being pushed by each such statist sumbeech in order to allegedly ameliorate the tissue - of - lies «externalities» nonsensically asserted to be associated with the complete combustion of petrochemical fuels upon which all of industrial civilization depends for its function.

They are beginning to suggest how governance structures might be developed that are anchored within an Indigenous community's own law, so that decisions made by those entities stand a much better chance of retaining the allegiance of the people of that community.

«Too much time over the last few weeks has been spent on questions of loyalty and allegiances and character,» Redford said Wednesday evening at the Alberta legislature in Edmonton.

Looking towards a position of sales consultant in a well known company where there is much span for upgrading oneself and a stimulus to strive harder with a lot of allegiance to achieve the goals of the company and individual aims too.

Buyer's representatives in the new millennium will use the buyer client agreement to cement relationships in much the same way they used the seller listing agreement — as a marketing tool to showcase added - value services and create a two - way allegiance between themselves and the clients they represent.

But if you DO happen get the deal with through the listing agent directly, odds are that not only were you the highest offer, but you were probably MUCH higher That's because the listing agent's allegiance is to his seller.