Sentences with phrase «not as hostile»

He adds: «There's real detail there and it's not as hostile as people might think, but does require engagement and understanding.»

The theological term for this is: you can see reality as gracious — not as hostile, not as indifferent, but as gracious.

After the debate we see this argument isn't as hostile as it might have seemed as Carl and Pastor Dan are invited for a drink in Dr. Blaylock's office.

Not exact matches

«The United States, though inherently hostile to North Korea, will get to know once our talk begins that I am not the kind of person who will use nuclear weapons against the South or the United States across the Pacific,» Moon's press secretary Yoon Young - chan quoted Kim as saying.

Indeed, Mattel's move comes at a time when the U.S. administration has taken steps that are seen as hostile to Muslim people, not least banning visitors from Muslim - majority countries.

A number of senior officials in the Trump government, however, argue that WikiLeaks is not a press organization at all, but a «non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia,» as CIA director Joe Pompeo referred to it in a recent speech.

Government officials, while not as actively hostile to business as their fellow Greek - speakers in Athens, is not accelerating the country towards a cutting - edge future (in fact, the current administration managed to accidently blow up the country's main power plant in a massive and deadly accident last year).

Legal precedent, meanwhile, tends to define sexual harassment as occurring either when a supervisor requests sex in exchange for a subordinate being promoted or not being fired, or when an employee is subject to behavior of a sexual nature that's so pervasive it creates a hostile work environment.

After all, she said, Amazon won't benefit if its workers can't find places to live, or if they are viewed by existing residents as a hostile force.

The response from Tesla enthusiasts has not been as vocal and hostile as it was for Kalanick, which may be why Musk asserts that he would continue to be in the advisory role to the new President.

We can not rule out the possibility of market advances counter to the hostile market return / risk profile we presently identify, as even the most hostile profile we identify has included instances of advancing prices.

Gannett is ramping up its efforts to acquire Tribune Publishing by going directly to shareholders, but not going so far as to initiate a hostile takeover bid for the Chicago - based publisher of the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times.

With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work in times of dislocation.

@Chuckles I was not being hostile, but am just trying to point out that you are basically willing to conflate any similar cognitive errors such as we have as humans as being significant in any way in religious terms, should it happen that we encounter some alien species that also has idiots who think imaginary stuff is real.

The concern is not that 1 or 2 people will join a certain group that they are overtly hostile to, as that would yield little or no influence.

As the book professing to be the Word of God says: «The carnal mind is enmity [hostile] against God: it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be» (Romans 8:7).

Finally, perhaps it's not you (maybe it some of your subscribers)-- you seem a bit hostile toward church leadership of any kind, and I have to tell you as your Christian brother that it is hurtful and discouraging.

Given that these trends threaten Jews and Christians alike, we have reason to join forces as countercultures that seek not so much to remake the other in our image as simply to sustain our witness in a hostile environment.

: Schools, published in December by Bishop Patrick O'Donoghue of Lancaster, the actual text of which many of you will already have acquired, the reaction to which, however, — both hostile and the reverse — needs also to be registered as part of its necessary import: for, there is not much point in being a Sign of Contradiction if nobody notices, and the secular reaction to a subversive religion like Catholicism is part of its authentic meaning.

«The assumptions often made are that Scripture should have no tensions and that any such tensions are not real but introduced from the outside, namely, by scholarship hostile to Christianity... It is a great irony that both the critical and evangelical options (as distinct from the Jewish model) take part in the same assumption: God's word and diversity at the level of factual content and theological messages are incompatible.»

This is a problem which has driven scholastic theology to the wall, and it is not insignificant that Catholic theologians have been hostile toward the idea of evolution, just as it is not accidental that when a Catholic vision of evolution did appear in the work of Teilhard de Chardin, it contained no idea or vision of analogia entis.

Nevertheless, most physicists remain hostile both to anthropic explanations and to the multiverse idea as untestable and therefore not belonging in science.

If you think of radical Islam not as a religion, but as a hostile ideology (e.g., communism), its nature becomes clearer.

The students did not perceive schools as especially hostile to students who are openly religious.

I would just like to point out that at least as many comments coming from the supposed religious side of the argument are just as if not more «hostile and demeaning» towards those of different or no faith.

When he commented - in response to the usual question about why he was so unreasonably opposed to condoms as a means of fighting Aids - that in fact condomdistribution isn't helping, and may be worsening, the spread of HIV / AIDS in Africa, he provoked an avalanche of hostile comment, much of it almost hysterical in tone.

Was this a case of the tribe working together as Christians to survive in a hostile, non Christian culture, or a case of excluding those who don't fit in, those who don't know and follow the rules?

Although there are great Christian thinkers on politics and powers such as Augustine and Reinhold Niebuhr, they have developed their political thinking in the context of the «pro-Christian» political situation where the political power was not hostile to the Christian church as such.

They were not only indifferent to him and his message but hostile as well; he was constantly in danger when he tried to minister to them.

If the temptation is to look upon the church as a haven of togetherness in a hostile or indifferent society, the church need not succumb.

One of the poets well expressed this, remarking of the hostile gentile nations: «For their rock is not as our rock, even our enemies themselves being judges» (Deut.

Interestingly, among the hostile powers defeated by Christ the Victor is the law, not the law as Torah, gracious instruction for the establishment and maintenance of shalom, but the law as command merits and ordinances, as a damning bill of particulars posted against us.

And I suppose that you are using the word «comrade» as some sort of reference to Communism, which you associate with every person or idea that does not fit in with your ignorant view of the world, however during the Cold War the minority of the Middle Eastern Muslim cultures that hated the US tended to be even more hostile to the Soviets (who where officially Atheist).

She didn't act as if hostile powers would somehow defeat the Holy Spirit, and she never allowed an ungodly culture to shake her: «Truth does not depend on the people around us, or the place we are in.»

My dialogue partner was not overtly hostile to religion as such.

The Romans did not distinguish, and indeed they could not; for them, all these movements were suspected as hostile to the Roman authority.

8 Cf. the striking remark of intellectual historian C. C. Gillispie: «Lamarck's theory of evolution was the last attempt to make a science out of the instinct, as old as Heraclitos and deeply hostile to Aristotelian formalization, that the world is flux and process, and that science is to study, not the configurations of matter, nor the categories of form, but the manifestations of that activity which is ontologically fundamental as bodies in motion and species of being are not.

«The good life can not be lived without self - control, but it is better to control a restrictive and hostile emotion such as jealousy, rather than a generous and expansive emotion such as love» (p. 239) Russell, unlike the authors of Human Sexuality, does not assume that empirical data could ever show that a particular form of sexual activity is good or bad or the development of personhood.

But the following decade saw this European «bible belt» disappear as an unprecedented wave of prosperity would combine with the spiritual exhaustion that had set in after two world wars to produce a nihilistic consumerism largely indifferent, if not altogether hostile, to the traditional faiths.

But in spite of the leadership of Martin Luther King and the martyrdom of divinity students in the civil rights movement, and in spite of the leadership of the Berrigans and William Sloane Coffin in the peace movement, those movements as a whole remained indifferent if not hostile to religion.

Ever since the motu proprio was published -(interesting, incidentally, how everyone now speaks of THE motu proprio, as if there had only ever been one of them)- and it was clear that the bishops hostile to it were not going to be allowed to get in its way, the battle moved to the next set of trenches: those dug by the increasingly desperate proponents of «the spirit of Vatican II», who had so far seemed generally quiescent in defeat, but who had in fact been looking for a casus belli all along.

You can not judge your value as a person before God or as a shepherd by your performance in the pulpit, particularly one performance reviewd by a biased audience on the ride home from the service or a member who was hostile to you when they arrived at the service.

As they grow still more distant, they become not only ignorant but hostile to the true God.

At this time of the year, though much of a winter wonderland, the Canadian weather portrays a pretty hostile picture at times — not as peachy as we would like it to be.

It's not about playing beautiful football anymore, those days are long gone as I believe the BPL has become a hostile arena, extremely fast paced and physical.

Mourinho knows another fight with Wenger will not be tolerated by the management as much the press will force the issue into hostile mode.

Wrong mate... the last time we beat them was 2010 I think Ramsey 1 - 0 at the emirates, I think this game is massive, whoever wins will finish 3rd imo (not that we want to finish 3rd and I know it's early but it's all that's left for us domestically this season imo) we are the arsenal we need to step up and put a performance in, last thing everyone going to the game on Saturday please try to make the atmosphere as passionate and hostile for utd as possible we need to get behind the lads... COYG

The big difference was that he seemed to embrace the hostile environment around him and didn't let the dumbfounding moments and ensuring criticism affect him as it so visibly did last year.

This wasn't just a blowout, this was a hostile takeover that left Robert Sarver out and Donovan Mitchell as the new owner of the Phoenix Suns.

«For... women, it is not always the sensational or dramatic events that trigger childbirth trauma but other factors such as loss of control, helplessness, loss of dignity, the hostile or difficult attitudes of the people around them, feelings of being invisible, not being heard or the absence of informed consent to medical procedures.»