Sentences with phrase «of allegiance made»

From this point of view, it is realistic to agree with Maduka Onwukeme, a Lagos - based Legal Practitioner, who rendered a fitting description of Jammeh's limits and bluffs: «Jammeh's «confidence seems to have been bolstered by the pledge of allegiance made by the country's military chief, but then hearing Jammeh's rhetoric, one would mistake the Gambia for the African version of North Korea in military might.»

Not exact matches

There is some confusion over where Gharba's allegiances currently lie, but there is broad agreement that at the time the video was made in 2014, he was a member of the Free Syrian Army - an anti-Assad group that has enjoyed the support of US intelligence agencies.

The religious among us keep trying to chip away at the separation of church and state by making people recite the pledge of allegiance with the God clause, installing religious symbols and displays on public property, holding prayer breakfasts for politicians, berating the removal of prayer in public schools, trying to pass laws limiting women's access to birth control, and trying to get an amendment passed outlawing abortion (since in their view God creates a soul the moment a sperm enters an egg).

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.

We know from their actions of today how Christians think they're being «persecuted» if they can't festoon their religious holiday decorations all over everybody's property and make everybody else recite Christian prayers at all public occasions or stamp their theology on our money and insert it into our pledge of allegiance.

I have no allegiance to John Calvin, one positive contribution he did make was expounding upon what is known as the doctrines of grace, i.e. the 5 points of Calvinism.

Nor should we neglect the way that the cult clearly achieved prominence by the negative way that it disrupted and displaced competing focuses of religious allegiance (a significant point made by Susan Alcock).

@KatMat: your analogy would begin approaching realism if: — during the pledge of allegiance kids were forced to say «one nation under The Orioles» — our nation's currency said «In Dallas Cowboys We Trust» — if millions were slaughtered, tortured and burned to death because they weren't fans of The Pittsburgh Penguins — if NASCAR fans endlessly attempted to have Intelligent Car Driving taught beside Evolution in science class as a possible explanation for how mankind developed — if «the 5 D's» of Dodgeball (Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, Dodge) were constantly attempted to be made into law so everyone would live by the same ridiculous notions, even if those notions knowingly discriminate — if nutters constantly claimed America was founded on the principles of Darts, even though our country SPECIFICALLY calls for a separation between Darts and State because the founders knew the inherent dangers of Darts becoming government instead of staying in the realm of sport where it belongs

Because seminarians have been trained by theologians who are more shaped by their graduate school training than by their ecclesial identification — they see themselves as process thinkers or Barthians rather than as Baptists or Episcopalians — we have seminarians who attempt to make congregations fit the images of their theological allegiances rather than trying to respond to the theological resources of the congregation.

Yes, this will make them God's people, but it will also mean a death of the self, and a radical transfer of allegiance from all systems and claims.

But his allegiance to the cause of Christ makes the bleakness of his life glow with glory.

In later life he will not be as free as we often think him to be to make a favorable response to the claims of Christian allegiance.

Is your response to this subject truly with a desire to free scripture and theology from the shackles of religion including the shackles of unscriptural Calvinism, or is your true allegiance to a theology of man's making, i.e. Calvinism?

«Any institution under denominational control inevitably tends to make allegiance to its own form of belief a leading qualification.

I find that I can make a more compelling argument against the pledge of allegiance if I base that argument on political beliefs as opposed to my religious beliefs.

The devil has blinded the leaders of the churches of today when they serve carved images of the flag of any nation... In Exodus and Deuteronomy God said, not to serve or bow down to any carved image in the likeness of heaven above or in the likeness of the earth below... When you pledge your allegiance to the flag, you are pledging your allegiance to the carved images of the flag... The founding fathers made carved images in the likeness of heaven above and in the likeness of the earth below and set the carved images on a flag and the flag is high and lifted up on a flag pole... Some nations are serving the stars, the moon, and the sun, and others are serving the eagle, the bear, and the tree... The U.S. is serving the stars of heaven and the eagle of the earth... Canada is serving the leaf of a tree... Mexico is serving the eagle and the serpent... When you put your right hand to your heart or to your forehead, and pledge your allegiance to the flag, you are committing fornication with the carved images of the flag, God calls this IDOLATRY... The mark of the beast in the right hand or forehead is spiritual and identical to when you put your right hand over your heart or over your forehead... There is no way to go around God and the carved images of the flag, unless the devil has blinded the minds of the believer, like when he deceived eve and Adam in the garden of Eden.

During the period of the Kings, the magnification of God into the Cosmic King made a symbolical allegiance to God seem satisfactory in the place of the allegiance in every sphere of life which is demanded by the Lord of history.

Islamic expansion has been progressive, steadily spreading out from its original center (which retains a cosmic significance), claiming the allegiance of the whole world and, with few exceptions, maintaining the gains it has made.

In our family, we are learning to make choices with our money that affirm our allegiance to God's way of doing things.

The mark of the beast is spiritual, and identical to the pledged of allegiance to the flag, because worshipping doesn't come from a chip, or any technology device, although we are surrounded by human devices... The name of the beast is going to be written in the heart, or in the mind on those who worship the beast, because worshipping is of the heart, or of the mind... When the Germans used their right hand to pledge allegiance to the flag, or to Hitler, there was no physical mark in the right hand, or forehead of the German pledger, because the pledge of allegiance to the flag, or to Hitler, was written in the heart, or in the mind of the German pledger... When the US uses their right hand to pledge allegiance to the flag, there is no physical mark in the right hand, or on the forehead of the pledger, because the pledge of allegiance to the flag, is written in the heart, or in the mind of the pledger... The devil uses Romans 13 to deceive those who are pledging allegiance to the flag, because they do not believe what God said in Ex.20: 1 - 5, and De.4: 15 - 19... When a person pledges allegiance to a man, or to a flag, or to a nation, they are heading for destruction, because God said; «cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and make flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD Jer.17: 5 KJV... Whatever happened to the Germans who trusted in Hitler, or on their military power?

He simply declared Aton, originally only the sun's disc, but under his grandfather made one of the sun gods, to be not only the god of the sun but the universal divinity of the world, to whom men everywhere ought to give their allegiance.

Some Christian leaders have even rejoiced in the dissolution of a Christendom that allowed, or perhaps encouraged, an excessive degree of nominal Christian allegiance: the impact of modem secular society has challenged people to make a conscious choice about whether they are either for or against Christianity.

That is because the answer is beyond their knowledge, and what makes this book of remembrance, the book that is most scrutinized, and wondered about to most scholars, and is in over 2500 languages, all over the world, and is why the zionist jews used it to reach their dominion, from 1897 of the Herzel Movement, Rothschild funded, next in 1904 gain allegiance with the monarch, to establish the Federal Reserve in 1913, next instigated both World Wars I, (1914) and then gained Israel in 1942, next instigated World Wars II, (1939 - 1945) then to the Bretton wood Agreement, 1945, to the fortune 500, ruling this world, now they were the smart ones, as YHWH made them to be, punishment for leaving Him, prophesied that their descendants would in Genesis 27, prophesy fulfilled.

In the nonHellenistic portions of Syria, Christianity was slow in making headway and was late in being accorded even nominal allegiance.

It is both a pledge of allegiance to Jesus and a declaration of independence from all other powers making claims on our bodies, minds and souls.»

(From this point of view the addition of the phrase «under God» to the pledge of allegiance in the 195o's was an indication of the erosion of the tradition not because it was an innovation but because it arose from the need to make explicit what, had for generations been taken for granted.)

We must, of course, make commitments and honor allegiances.

He can't resist playing the Hitler card: «The unconditional obedience demanded of bishops who swear their allegiance to the pope when they make their holy oath is almost as extreme as that of the German generals who were forced to swear an oath of allegiance to Hitler.»

Thus the church is that gathering of the reign of God assembled to be a sign of the reign of God, to proclaim the word of God in word and deed, to make decision, and to give allegiance to their Ruler.

When trying to show why terrorism is the greater evil, Ignatieff lists his limiting conditions in mirror - image form: terror makes violence a first resort, «target [s] unarmed civilians and punish [es] them for their allegiance or ethnicity,» and seeks the death of politics itself.

These political claims for Christ and for the church as the people of God demand that people make a choice of allegiance.

We now see that the leap of faith is not just one leap; it is a leap repeatedly made, and a leap that becomes more difficult to take the more it is taken, reaching its pinnacle in blind allegiance and active denial and rejection of any other possibilities.

These conditions of worth are not bad in themselves, but they can become the barrier to further self - growth if allowed to become rigid, and the allegiance to old values can make us impervious to the emergence of new values.

Seeking liberation from the Persians, the Georgians made an allegiance with Russia and by the mid-eighteenth century were drawn into the Russian sphere of influence.

The kilted Scots, both already locked in with their allegiances regardless of a London franchise, plan to make all the 2015 games.

His recent call up to the German youth set up will no doubt make the job of convincing him to switch allegiance to Nigeria difficult as most players who have represented Germany at U21 level end up in the senior team within a short period of time.

However he subsequently agreed to a switch of allegiance, but since agreeing to play for Nigeria he is yet to make his competitive debut as Shehu Abdullahi has cemented the right back slot.

Standard Sport understands that Iwobi, who played for England at youth level, had made clear to the FA that he wanted to represent the country of his birth as a full international despite a late bid to convince him to change allegiance.

Samir Ujkani was one of the first players to pledge his allegiance to Kosovo, making the switch from Albania in order to represent the country of his birth.

If we look at the people who make revolutions — at their practices, their ideas, their organizations, their years of preparation and collective work — we find that everything they write, everything they do, is imbued with passion, spirit, ideology, principles, but above all an awareness of the virtues, and an unwavering allegiance to practice them, in order to achieve their aims.

But she refused to say if she will swear allegiance to the Queen when she is made a member of the Privy Council.

-LSB-...] & highly active member of the Conservative party who in her debut PCC speech makes clear her allegiances to Cameron's tribe, so press regulation under a tory government, hmm do you suppose it might favour the ruling -LSB-...]

Counting Skelos himself, that makes just 16 of the GOP conference's 32 members — an even half — willing to publicly proclaim their allegiance to the embattled majority leader.

This afternoon, a tanned Miliband made his way into the Commons chamber as MPs queued up for the ritual of swearing their allegiance to the Queen.

Communities secretary Sajid Javid's proposal to make public servants swear an oath of allegiance to British values risks being a «disaster» if the wording is not right, according to Tory MP Nicholas Soames.

Recalling Douglas Alexander's allegiance to Brown — despite his own efforts to «wean him» off membership of Brown's inner circle — he writes: «But the Gordon curse was to make these people co-conspirators, not free - range thinkers.

They must continue in their pursuit of their oath of office and allegiance and in their onerous goal of making laws for the good governance of our nation.»

In the run - up to the general election, Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg made it clear that electoral reform would be the price of his party's allegiance.

The post-up-her-ass reader might be frustrated with her current dating situation, but is conflicted about interracial dating because she's so deeply entrenched in what it MEANS to BE a black woman, with it's crippling demands of her allegiance that every move she makes to cross the color line is met with her tripping and falling on her face because she insists in getting in her own way.

You could call Ryan Murphy the prolific creator of primetime series, a four - time Emmy winner, or even the $ 300 Million Man for the megadeal he made to move his allegiance from Fox to Netflix.