Sentences with phrase «not come to the defense»

The TU notes the «official and political overlap» in the move to boot Espada from the Democratic Party's ranks, but doesn't come to his defense.

«And while this has been going on, where are [US Sen. Charles] Schumer, [Gov.] Cuomo, [Reps. Jerrold] Nadler and Steve Israel and others and why didn't they come to her defense?»

Everyone thought this had to be a Project Runway challenge winner... but since I've never missed an episode and never seen this monstrosity, sadly I can't come to her defense and say it was.

Not exact matches

When it comes to managing e-mail, small businesses have more at stake because they don't have the deep pockets that a large corporation has to hire a defense team and do records searches should they be sued.

Using the Plausible Deniability defense, they claimed that they weren't even in the loop when it came to paying AIG enough to turn around and pay Goldman Sachs and other arbitrageurs 100 cents on the dollar for securities worth about a fifth as much.

What they didn't know, and I have never written about before, is that our last defense bidder had gone quiet just a month after our big competitor came roaring in to make us an offer.

After the allegations surfaced, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R - UT), whom Porter worked for, came to Porter's defense, vouching for his character and saying he shouldn't resign — although they both backed off somewhat days later.

It isn't just Trump officials who have come to Kelly's defense, however.

«Such social doctrine provides directions but, with few exceptions (for instance, the defense of innocent human life), does not provide directives of immediate applicability to policy questions on which people of good faith, guided by reason and conscience, can come to different conclusions.»

I have confirmation from another poster that I'm not a troll — and it is not the first time someone has come to my defense.

So when I come to Tony's defense, please understand that I do not do so in an effort to boost my career.

christ was beaten and cruxified on a cross bc he preached of being the SON OF MAN, the only what to get to heaven but gays who are living in sin and refuse to repent are accepted at work and everywhere they go and society cheers them on when they get married or when a state recongizes them, and anytime they are killed society comes to their defense, but i say to you, is will not be man that will judge them iw till

The issue of self - defense came up, and Maxwell — a rape survivor — said that guns are not necessarily rape prevention and that, as a culture, we need to start examining cultural biases and teaching men not to rape.

I'm not trying to take the side of religion here but in defense of most religious billboards I've seen, they are mostly benign «come to our church» kind of signs.

Such teaching is crucial to warding off the twin errors of either neglecting our neighbors when we should come to their armed defense or giving support to armed action which falls outside the tradition and so is not rightly called just.

And today, rather than playing defense, American seminaries like Mundelein in Chicago are exploring how the Church might go on offense — not in an offensive way, but by developing new models of a 21st - century apologetics that invites disenchanted post-moderns to experience the divine mercy and come to know the truths to which that experience leads.

Insofar as the need for defense provides just cause for public use of the sword, it comes from the responsibility of government to protect order, justice, and peace, not simply from the right to respond to an attacker in kind.

I put Ron Paul to the side because, even if the Republicans do someday nominate a gold standard supporter who wants sharp defense cuts, but it won't be this year, won't be someone who thinks he wants to zero out nuclear weapons production, and military nuclear propulsion production, transportation, and testing, and it won't be a ex-publisher of racist newsletters who can't fully come clean.

I proposed that much of what we say and do these days comes from a place of feeling frightened and defensive for a Jesus who is not afraid and does not need our defense; that this is a time to stand with Jesus rather than to stand up for Him.

The Witnesses» faith taught that such salutes and utterances were forbidden idolatry, directly condemned in the Decalogue, and that they did not owe the United States either their allegiance and loyalty or their efforts to come to its defense.

In his recent book, Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity, he offers «four benefits» of mortality: interest and engagement, suggesting that adding, say, twenty years to the human life span would not proportionately increase the pleasures of life; seriousness and aspiration, proposing that the knowledge that our life is limited is what leads us to take life seriously and passionately; beauty and love, presenting the idea that it is precisely their perishability that makes, for instance, flowers beautiful to us, just as the coming and going of spring makes that season all the more meaningful; and, finally, virtue and moral excellence, by which he means the virtuous and noble deeds that mortality makes possible, including the sacrifice of our own life for a worthy cause.

When it comes to my relationship with God and with other Christians, I'm as quick as anyone else to try and protect myself from honest dialog by hiding behind flowery, unhelpful language (or, my favorite defense mechanism: to intellectualize everything so that it can't hurt me).

The result is that religion becomes a defense against God or, at least, a defense against a deeply intimate experince of God that challenges us to become what we are — image bears of God, called to become sacraments of Divine Love in this world, not just waiting for God to «come down» and do the transforming work FOR us instead of THROUGH us.

I can't figure out what is the worst thing to come out of this Washington Post article on the new book by former Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

One thing I've found, is that in those situations, people may not say a lot in your defense, but later they come to you and express their support and admiration.

Then, this wrath that came upon Israel and compelled them to go home could not have emanated from the Moabite god, for he was broken and overwhelmed: he had been doing his best, apparently, in defense of his people, yet the Hebrew warriors continued victorious.

Citing Volf's speech, Grant noted in his defense of Hawkins that «Wheaton does not endorse every speaker who comes to campus, but one could excuse a professor who borrows a phrase spoken from a theologian Wheaton brought to campus to speak on how Christians should interact with Muslims.»

I just had to come to its defense, because I couldn't believe how much someone could hate it.

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You do have a point and I can not honestly disagree with that but with figure like Cech I would like to think that we'd have more confidence going forward and pinning back teams, watch Sczezny, he almost deliberately invites attacks to show off his reflexes, Ospina came in and cut that crap especially by constantly organizing his defense but physically not built up enough for a world class goalkeeper, we lost three points to Swansea for that reason [Befitimbi Gomis» goal - line technology goal?]

Thomas was obviously a key to last year's defense, not only because of his production (15 TFLs, and no, they didn't all come in that masterful performance against UNC) but because of the attention opponents had to give him.

Came within a two - point conversion of going to overtime with Texas A&M in that 59 - 57 loss, and sadly can not have Johnny Manziel play defense for them, either.

as for me ozil is a talented and skilful player but having only that is not enough to win the ever getting stronger premier leage teams, he has to train hard for endurance and be a fighter, he has to come back and press on the opponent defense and even midfieldes to disposes the ball when arsenal loose the ball and go back fast attacking like iwobi and welbeck are doing.

Not only has Jourdan Lewis come to the defense of the No. 1 RB recruit, but Jim Harbaugh dropped a message for fans tweeting recruits over Twitter.

He can't lock them both down, and so the Grizzlies» team defense will have to come together with incredible cohesion to slow down the Warriors» offensive attack.

Gibson's only shortcoming was his lateral mobility and the Sharks capitalized multiple times on that, but those mostly came from the Ducks defense not being able to keep the Sharks from driving through the area right on top of the blue paint.

If you subscribe to the idea that there isn't a real, tangible difference between 6.7 WAR and 6.9 — which you should, considering how debatable the metrics are when it comes from defense, baserunning, park effects, and positional adjustment — you might consider this a slight.

I've come to the conclusion that it doesn't matter If you have a dodgy defense as long as you have top fire power with top strikers, awesome CAM and wingers.

We were up 10 in the early 4rth and remember the defense giving the offense the ball back... That was the time in the game when you put your foot on their throats... You play with all the energy and passion in the world and you put the game out of reach with a touchdown or even a field goal... You don't play not to loose, you come out aggressive as hell... Come out 5 wides with grant in the slot or something crazy that theyve never seen the whole game and you shredd their asses... You don't keep it close at that point because Brady will make plays and refs to as well to beat come out aggressive as hell... Come out 5 wides with grant in the slot or something crazy that theyve never seen the whole game and you shredd their asses... You don't keep it close at that point because Brady will make plays and refs to as well to beat Come out 5 wides with grant in the slot or something crazy that theyve never seen the whole game and you shredd their asses... You don't keep it close at that point because Brady will make plays and refs to as well to beat you.

Yeah he didn't have a shot on goal, but he was always involved in our offensive attacks and always came back to help out on defense.

The Bengals came to Burfict's defense and said it was a legal hit, and the reduced suspension supports the linebacker's claim that the play wasn't an egregious enough offense to warrant a five - game ban.

Gordon looks like he has come a long way in terms of his mental approach, but he used to stop playing defense if he wasn't having a good game at the other end.

I don't blame Sutton for all the problems on the defense, and i understand it was hard to get creative with the talent we had last year, but Sutton isn't good at coming up with something new.

Bellerin and Monreal is always almost on the corner line crossing ball's, we are always leaving defense bankrupt and vulnerable for a take over, by the time Monreal and Bellerin return to their station they have just sprinted the whole of the pitch to make a defensive tackle sometimes coming in from behind the player in our box without giving a penalty or just outside for a free kick which we can not defend set peaces, if we are to use them some midfield players have to drop back which is not happening at the moment

Change is coming to Baltimore's defense — but it might not necessarily be bad for the Ravens, despite losing franchise icons.

Look when he came on, the players that had played 89 minutes were still running past him trying to help out the defense, the 3rd goal, I watched him jogging in the middle while the Anderlecht players were flying past him on the flanks, he was just ball and man watching instead of running towards the ball and putting a bit of pressure, the guys had all the time and not challenge to pick out a perfect cross.

They came by land and by air, if not by sea, and they didn't squeak by the Vikings but roared over them in an awesome display of offense and defense to win their second straight Super Bowl

It could be quick passing, it could be an amazing dribble or a fierce shot and all that would have been stopped if the defense did nt loose shape, or if the midfield came to help, or if the right back threw himself at the ball, or if the goalie was better etc, etc...

Arsene does not know, how to build squads, he came upon one which was half built for him, the defense and Bergkamp were there already.And this is the first squad he has built since that might win something

Not only that, Phil Jackson urged Kobe to hire a third lawyer so he could come up with a triangle defense.