Sentences with phrase «occasion of against»

Originally published in 2010 on the occasion of Against the Wall, Dumas's first solo presentation at David Zwirner in New York, this much sought - after exhibition catalogue — which sold out shortly after publication — has been reprinted to coincide with the artist's 2014 — 2015 European retrospective exhibition The Image as Burden, organized by Tate Modern, London in collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and the Fondation Beyeler, Basel.

Not exact matches

A renowned campaigner against the rising level of poverty in the U.S., his rivals were left speechless after the media reported that he had paid more than $ 400 on two separate occasions for a trim at a popular Rodeo Drive salon.

However, May's sincerity was questioned by Labour's Lisa Nandy, who reminded her of three previous occasions when, as Home Secretary, she had been failed to act on information suggesting that incriminating evidence against individual MPs was routinely used by whips to enforce party discipline.

Elliott does not seem to share those qualms: On at least three occasions, according to both court testimony and the accounts of seven people who spoke with Fortune, children of people facing the hedge fund's attack have been pulled into the fray in some way, in an apparent bid to gain either information on or leverage against their parents.

On this particular occasion, the D - Wave Two would have to pass five somewhat more mundane tests, pitting it against a variety of conventional processors.

But it is consistent with Whitehead's statement elsewhere in Process and Reality that «agency belongs exclusively to actual occasions» (PR 31/46) and it does circumvent the charge of reductionism (atomism) which Ivor Leclerc and others have leveled against Whitehead in the past (NPE 289 - 91; PN 118 - 22).4

And she seldom gets angry at all about merely trivial offenses against her own person; the anger she does feel is much more often occasioned by real cases of significant injustice.

There will surely be occasions on which the state must intervene in the life of families in order to protect children, but it is more likely to be effective in acting against manifest evils than in positively restructuring families.

A concern for compassion and justice for the victims, however, does not excuse a lack of faithfulness to the truth, and frequently the occasion of sexual abuse by Catholics has itself been abused in the service of dishonest propaganda against the Catholic Church, and our Priests in particular.

Madison, chief architect of the Const.itution and eleven of the Amendments, on more than one occasion, wrote that it was a mistake and against the principles of religious freedom achieved through the separation of church and state for the taxpayer to fund chaplains for the nation's congress.

On several occasions, and notably in a general audience of July 28, 1999, John Paul II has cautioned against excessive certitude in speaking about hell and damnation, while emphasizing that «eternal damnation remains a real possibility.»

This is clear when Cobb argues against Sherburne that even the visual field would have to be organized by the dominant occasion: «Probably we must be held to see different parts of the visual field successively, perhaps one color at a time» (PS 3:28).

Earlier we had occasion to note the relationship between Jewish faith as portrayed for us in the Old Testament and the Christian event which is the subject matter of the New Testament; and how it was indeed inevitable and right that the primitive Christian community should see their Lord and apprehend his significance for men, against the background of the whole history of the people into whom humanly speaking he was born.

You have made this claim against me on more than one occasion but the truth of the matter is that we are talking about two totally different concepts.

Most of the time we successfully erect self - justifying rationales that protect our sin against the lash of Jesus, but we all, on occasion, let our guards down, and the anger of Jesus exposes us in all our godlessness.

If the present occasions are to have their full share of freedom over against the future, the future must be the domain of real possibility in the sense of containing all that could or might be, as yet undetermined as to what will be.

On any occasion of discrimination against or cruelty towards Jews — whether individual or collective — he was, instinctively, firmly on the Jewish side.

«20 «Some would like to ignore,» he said on another occasion, «the incontrovertible evidence of the communist religious persecution — of Catholics, Jews and Fundamentalists; of their campaign of virtual genocide against the Miskito Indians.

Kraus supports her view by producing an argument against what she apparently takes to be the only alternative position open to Whiteheadians, the «interpretation of God as a personal order of divine occasions» of Charles Hartshorne (p. 163).

Her argument against this position, as best I can discern and summarize it, is that each new divine occasion would in turn be irresistibly objectified or «superjected» (she uses this as a verb) back into the world, which would «bind the present irrevocably to the past, to sacrifice spontaneity and autonomy at the altar of necessity» (p. 164).

• So, having heaped upon the National Council of Churches» screed against the celebration of the 500th anniversary of Columbus» arrival in the Americas a small measure of the derision that it deserves («Repenting of America 1492 - 1992,» October 1990), we are asked how Christians should think about the occasion.

On this occasion, Douglass was asking «the people of Britain» to join the struggle against American slavery.

Sherburne's argument against me is based on using the term «extensive continuum» to refer to the nexus of occasions that constitutes the past.

The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in religious conservatism and conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist» values and against those who hold such values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.

Sherburne tends, in his argument against regional inclusion, to quote passages in which Whitehead is making the point that when the region of an actual occasion is divided the subregions correspond to its physical feelings but that these physical feelings are not actual occasions capable of independent existence.

Thus in the birth of the mental occasion the consequent of ideal novelty enters into reality and possesses an analytic force over against the synthetic ground.

The «rubbing» (tribe in) in dialectic of the occasion against its associated form continues to yield partial relations describing the occasion more fully in its relational essence.

It would seem reasonable to hold that as one grows up, as one's brain develops and becomes more complex (a process which does not end with physical maturity but continues through life) and as one accumulates a wealth of memory against which one can compare and contrast present experience, the mental poles of the occasions of one's regnant nexus would become generally stronger.

Equality in the country is sometimes taken by Christians as prejudice against Christians on occasion, but only because the church has lost much of its influence (understandably, considering) on laws and government.

Therefore, our Christian attitude toward whatever is evil is a firm rejection of it and an earnest effort against it, to the end that it shall be overcome, negated, removed from the world or transformed into an occasion for good to emerge.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

«It is only appropriate that the rest of us take the occasion of [the Pope's] visit to reflect on the disastrous consequences of the Church's stand against artificial birth control methods and abortion.

Using Scripture and the words of Jesus as an occasion to further sin against a victim of our own sin is morally and spiritually frightening!

Christians have a special responsibility to guard against the demonic sort of communitarianism, not only because the Church was so slow to condemn it the last time it reared its head, but also because on that occasion it drew strength from a specifically Christian heresy: the heresy of Jewish blood - guilt.

But the fact of such rejections or choices is highly significant; and above all, to put it in a form of words, it is highly important that the important which is offered to each occasion as a possibility shall be decided for or against in an important way.

In fact, the variety of subjects treated and the fact that Mark and Luke use some of these sayings in other contexts argue rather persuasively against a single audience and a single occasion.

In other words, Whitehead's reference to creativity as the universal «factor of activity which is the reason for the origin of the new occasion of experience» (Adventures 179) is not against the ontological principle.

If I were to conceive of both myself and the object as world - lines in space - time that intersect on the occasions when the object reacts against me, I would view myself as an object in the world of existents and there would be nothing external to me in the epistemological sense of an external world.

Each actual occasion comes into being against the background of the whole past of the world.

Ultimately, resentment is directed against the cause of pain; and it arises when we become conscious of our painful condition, and attempt to numb our suffering by negating or evading all occasions for pain.

As early as 1917 he was protesting against a then - current model of students as portmanteaux, to be packed with «inert ideas,» which were then unpacked on occasions of external examinations3 (The contents, on that theory, were the mental images which have passed since Locke as «ideas» in the British empiricist tradition.)

Deuteronomy 22:13 - 21 — «If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid: Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's vîrginity unto the elders of the city in the gate....

11 On another occasion the Sage likened a man who did not know the first two books of the Odes to one who had his face pressed against a wall.12

On the contrary, we shall strive constantly to remember to hold fast the common likeness subsisting beneath the differences discussed, as over against the contemporary disciple (not until we come to the next paragraph will we have occasion to note more precisely that the question of the disciple at second hand is at bottom illegitimate); and we shall take care to see that the differences do not swell to such proportions as to confuse everything.

I very rarely drink alcohol anymore, not because I have much against having a drink on a special occasion, but because it throws me completely off track for the next couple of days — it's a feeling of zero balance and uselessness in anything I try to do.

«We decided to conduct these activities on the occasion of the world food day celebration because we want to generate a strong public opposition against golden rice which we believe is a poison disguised as food,» said Diego Dela Cruz, chairman of the advocacy committee of MASIPAG.

Danielle Walker's Against All Grain Celebrations: A Year of Gluten - Free, Dairy - Free, and Paleo Recipes for Every Occasion

But I have on occasion slumped off in post-dinner-disaster defeat to leave Dustin alone up against the cluttered counters and massive piles of dirty dishes.

Most of the season, as well as a number of occasions in previous years, a growing number of fans have moved to protest against Arsene Wenger remaining in charge of the club, and with the manager's contract up this summer, the movement has snowballed.

The Greek side look like a nice draw, but on the three occasions we have travelled to their Georgios Karaiskáki stadium, we have lost, although we did win each of our three home matches against the side also.