Sentences with phrase «neighbor against neighbor»

Source: «As More Are Unable to Pay Homeowners» Fees, Associations Pit Neighbor Against Neighbor,» Associated Press (July 7, 2011)

* In an October 22, 1999 commentary that appeared in The Business Journal Serving Greater Milwaukee, a Town of Addison Plan Commissioner stated:... Yet, Addison is now a battleground that pits neighbor against neighbor, farmer against homeowner, old timer against newcomer... What happened?

The conflict, which began over the summer, has turned neighbor against neighbor at the complex on Oxford Road.

But as the Great Depression threatens, the delicate balance of their reliance on one another tips, pitting neighbor against neighbor, exposing the dark secrets they hide from one another, and triggering a series of disquieting events that threaten to unravel not only their friendship but their families as well.

The new 10 - episode mystery series Gracepoint (airing Thursdays) at least has a solid pedigree, remaking last summer's acclaimed eight - part Broadchurch from BBC America, even starring David Tennant in the same role (albeit with an off - putting attempt at an American accent) as a detective newly arrived in a coastal California town, where the murder of a young boy rocks the local residents to the core — including his resentful partner (Breaking Bad's Anna Gunn)-- turning neighbor against neighbor until a shattering denouement.

«We reject the politics of anger, hatred, and division that have turned neighbor against neighbor over the past eight years,» said the candidate Kelda Roys.

The allure and feeling of inevitability of the crown created an atmosphere in Orangetown and Rockland County ripe with dramatic contrasts,» she adds, «with brother against brother and neighbor against neighbor.

It's the latest twist in a project that has pitted neighbor against neighbor and revived a split between the Town Board and Amherst's Zoning Board of Appeals.

Assemblyman McLaughlin has repeatedly stood up for gun rights on the Assembly floor and in the press, calling the Governor's illegal gun tipline an initiative that «seeks to turn neighbor against neighbor.»

The governor said he is «highly disappointed» with the new law, expressing concern it «may pit neighbor against neighbor, and threatens the fundamental principles on which this country was founded.»

The clash in recent weeks has pitted village against village and neighbor against neighbor.

They've initiated significant confusion among the residents and, worst of all, turned neighbors against neighbors.

We were studying the very things I was afraid of: being singled out, teased, and bullied; stereotyping; neighbors against neighbors in Nazi Germany.

Tradewind is just another developer promising payments in trade for the total mess and divisiveness that pits neighbors against neighbors.

Not exact matches

A five - year - old lawsuit against the Ivy League school, filed by its neighbors, is challenging its tax - exempt status, Bloomberg reports.

Canada's trade agenda — and its difference to that of its North American neighbor the U.S. — has made news at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau touting a «push back against the anti-trade tendency in globalization that will leave us all worse off.»

The Iranian regime has shown it will use destructive weapons against its neighbors and others.

This is a act against Canada, which is what the Oligarchs want to create friction between neighbors.

In Lighthouse Point, police obtained an order against a man who accused his neighbor of being a shape - shifter who took on the appearance of Osama bin Laden.

People for guns will talk about them just like those against guns, so you'll know where your neighbor stand on the issue.

Castro also sponsored revolutionary aggression against neighboring nations.

Go bow down to your man made god and beg him for forgiveness for trangressing against your neighbors.

Isa 19:2 «I will set Egyptians against Egyptians; Everyone will fight against his brother, And everyone against his neighbor, City against city, kingdom against kingdom.

Because when we sin against our neighbor, we also sin against God, we need to receive this forgiveness from him.

For that reason I do not disclose my agnostic beliefs at work or around my neighbors (I do not want my 9 year old daughter to be discriminated against).

Just the opposite is true today: Israel's prospects for survival against neighbors committed to her destruction depends in part on the Christian sympathy for the Jewish people, whether they live in Israel or in the Diaspora.

32.35) And, «Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself.»

The ORU - grad is a perfect neighbor, volunteer worker, organ donor and businessman who'd do anything for his community, and is quick to forgive the many transgressions against him by the Simpson family.

The stuff I've written on topics like getting to know neighbors and being the church in the community doesn't seem to connect with church people, who usually think church is about sermons, a belief system, music, political causes to be for or against and so on.

If it is true (a) that all people are sinners and (b) that sin is not just an annoying inconvenience to one's neighbors but also a damnable outrage against our just God and (c) that God «desires all men to be saved» (I Tim.

Already he has been misunderstood by his disciples, rejected by his hometown, drained of his power by his neighbors» scoffing unbelief and plotted against by the authorities.

In the poem «Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front,» Wendell Berry's mad farmer warns against the love of «the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay,» a life which makes one «afraid to know your neighbors and to die.»

If you are a Christian, you just broke the, «thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor» commandment — just so you know.

Furthermore, Wesley argued (against Reformed doctrine) that Christians could enjoy entire sanctification in this life: loving God and their neighbors, meekness and lowliness of heart, abstaining from all appearance of evil, and doing all for the glory of God.

I hear my neighbor smashing his guitar against the wall.

The ninth commandment, which warns against bearing false testimony of any kind about one's neighbor, must remain in the forefront.

For years he waged war against his neighbors, calling police, fire inspectors, the health department, and trying every bureaucratic means to shut the ministry down or push it out.

In fact, today I had planned to write a post speaking out against tentative plans in the Tennessee legislature to adopt immigration policies similar to those that caused such controversy in Arizona, basing my argument on the inherent worth of our Hispanic neighbors.

So we buy fancy cars and travel first class and build mansions for ourselves and furnish them with luxuries to satisfy our whims while our neighbors on this planet live in shacks and struggle against oppression and watch their children die young from lack of food and medical care.

Being egalitarian doesn't mean being against traditional gender roles; it means being for the many roles through which women can bring glory to God and love to their neighbors.

From this fact arose all sorts of legal provisions — prohibitions against removing one's neighbor's landmark (there were no surveyors with compasses in those days or recorded deeds of landholdings), injunctions to bring the first fruits of the land as a gift to God, provisions for observing the harvest festivals, ordinances as to slaves and «the stranger within the gates.»

Even as a Tennessee resident, I was completely taken aback that over 600 citizens would pack out a county commission to protest against their neighbors worshipping freely.

He might prefer to respond to any US concessions with some rhetorical graciousness toward Trump and more provocations against his neighbors.

6) You shall not commit murder (Hate is murder at heart - 1John 3:15) 7) You shall not commit adultery (Lust is adultery at heart - Matthew 5:28) 8) You shall not steal 9) You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor 10) You shall not covel... anything belonging to your neighbor

Thou shall not bear false witness against your neighbor... Don't blame something you did on someone else..

A people who lack courage in the face of death, whether on neighborhood streets or in the hospital bed, will be hard pressed to resist the temptation to abandon the neighbor or to discard the just war discipline, say, by engaging in preventative strikes against an uncertain threat.

However, if these enemies prove themselves to not want to live in peace with their Jewish neighbors, and they engage in criminal acts against Jews (or others), then justice requires that they be fought and no further relations be sought with them.

The preferred Eastern Orthodox understanding of hell, one with profound patristic pedigrees, defines hell as something self - imposed, a condition of the soul that freely refuses to open itself in love to God and neighbor, and that thereby seals itself against the deifying love of God, thereby experiencing divine glory as an external chastisement.

At the heart of the Christian faith is this great assurance: Although we have sinned terribly against him and our neighbors through our lovelessness, he still loves us and seeks to win us to salvation by that love.

They have turned their back against God's most important commandment - love thy neighbor as thy self.