Sentences with phrase «of quarrel between»

Set during the Trojan War, the ten - year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles.Although the story covers only a few weeks in the final year of the war, the Iliad mentions or alludes to many of the Greek legends about the siege; the earlier events, such as the gathering of warriors for the siege, the cause of the war, and related concerns tend to appear near the beginning.

This remains a strong implication of the story of the quarrel between Lot (the father of the nations Moab and Ammon) and Abraham, and Lot's free choice of the land to the east and south of Canaan proper (13) The same motive partially underlies the repeated promise of the land to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the pointed denial of the claims of others, for example Ishmael (the Ishmaelites) and Esau (the Edomites) as well as Moab and Ammon.

It is useful because it is honest; because it leaves not even the most obscure and friendless citizen without means of obtaining justice from a neighbouring State; because it obviates occasions of quarrels between States on account of the claims of their respective citizens; because it recognizes and strongly rests on this great moral truth that justice is the same whether due from one man or a million, or from a million to one man; because it teaches and greatly appreciates the value of our free republican national government, which places all our citizens on an equal footing, and enables each and every of them to obtain justice without any danger of being overborne by the weight and number of their opponents; and because it brings into action and enforces this great and glorious principle — that the people are the sovereign of this country, and consequently that fellow citizens and joint sovereigns can not be degraded by appearing with each other in their own courts to have their controversies determined.

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Regarding Roger Scruton's quarrel with Paul Griffiths about the relation of marriage to the state, Lord Stowell's analysis in Dalrymple v Dalrymple seems very apposite: Marriage in its origin is a contract of natural law; it may exist between two individuals of different sexes although....

When I was a pastor, one of the most difficult parts of my job was to settle quarrels between good people.

The quarrel, if that's what it is, between the primacy of human need and the independent moral standing of nature seems to me ultimately irreducible, and we shall have to lean one way or the other.

Mark Edmundson is a professor of literature who has said some interesting things about the quarrel between philosophy and poetry, as well as the larger cultural implications of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies.

We hope that there remains no quarrel with the orthodoxy of our central affirmations that «The fathers maintained the sacredness of matter and its share in God's saving plans ``; that the flesh is central to the plan of salvation; that the Incarnation takes place in order to bring about eternal communion between the Godhead and humanity, and thereby the whole of the physical creation which is summed up in Christ.

Richard Marius follows this tradition by ending with the 1525 quarrel between Luther and Erasmus over the freedom of the will.

It's not to do with human nature per se; it's to do with sin: envy, jealousy, possessiveness, quarrelling, a lack of willingness to forgive and forget, infidelity, manipulation, the desire to control and dominate, lack of consideration in matters to do with running a home as well as in the bedroom (sex can be one of the highest expressions of love between a man and a woman; it can also be incredibly selfish); hearts that are consistently closed to new life.

If so, there need be no quarrel — only an insistence that there can be no sharp distinction between the reception of the initial aim and the other prehensions of God.

It would be inaccurate, however with regard to the old quarrel between the doctrinaires and the empiricists of the worker's movement, to include me among the latter.

Altogether, Inherit the Wind supplies the view most Americans have of the Scopes Trial, and it often surfaces in response to some development in the never - ending quarrels between evolutionists and creationists.

The introduction to the ancestral narratives observes a number of parallels between the stories of Abraham, Jacob, Joseph and their families: all leave their homeland, quarrel with their brothers, move south to or toward Egypt, receive God's blessing and are buried in the cave of Machpelah.

Prior to occupation of Palestine by jewish settlers there was no quarrel between the two.

The present crisis is not only a superficial quarrel between the partisans of solemnity and those preferring conviviality, nor yet an episode in the controversy between tradition and progress, which is always with us.

Infighting between siblings is normal part of everyday life, but that quarreling can be magnified when they are in a confined space for long periods of time.

The family quarrel which started after Christmas, with the stoppage at the MurtalaMuhammed Airport of Davido and sister from taking out Baby Imade to Dubai, on suspicion of child kidnapping, exploded into exchanges between Davido and Momodu.

PLATTSBURGH A leaked video has made public a bitter quarrel between the City and Town of Plattsburgh over revenues from a local power plant.

The quarrel between the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and the National Chairman, Chief John Odigie - Oyegun, assumed another dimension on Tuesday.

To make matters worse, the quarrelling between Syracuse's elected officials, simply for the sake of partisanship, does little to address this issue.

Remember that this was, after all, not a hurried note despatched to a friend, but a letter written at the behest of the Royal Society in order to publicly resolve an embarrassing public quarrel between two of its fellows.

And so the dinner is ruined with a massive quarrel, but not before finally pinpointing the root of Alma's anxiety; it is twofold, a distance between them and feeling inessential to him.

What would be your initiative to settle down the quarrel between the employees of your organization?

- New York Times Book Review «Who doesn't relish a love story with the right amount of heart - melting romance, disappointment, regret, and huge doses of disenchantment about growing up and growing old between quarreling meant - to - be lovers?»

Thousands of readers throughout the world cry over the destiny of young lovers who have sacrificed their lives because their love was not able to overcome the quarrels between their families.

Duel definition, a prearranged combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons according to an accepted code of procedure, especially to settle a private quarrel!

* Rediscover the Richness of Rayman's Cast — Get back to the good old quarrels between Rayman and his villainous enemies: Face the Admiral Razorbeard, the Henchman and all the other creatures that make Rayman's progression much harder.

The real shine of the story isn't in the quarrels between you and the demon Kurona, but in the individual Story Arcs for the side characters, Nanako and Chiru.

Certainly, not all of the relationships between teachers and students turned out to work so well and happened to be on an equal footing, demonstrated by Buckminster Fuller and Kenneth Snelson's quarrel about the autorship of «Early X Piece».

While the distinction between energy (e.g., the amount of chemical energy in a gallon of gasoline) and power (how fast the chemical energy in that gallon of gasoline is consumed) seems like a topic only engineers would quarrel over, this distinction is crucial for energy systems.

Round one in the unseemly quarrel between two financial regulators — the Securities and Exchange Board of India, or Sebi, and the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India, or IRDA — on who should supervise ULIPs (unit - linked insurance plans), has gone to IRDA.

Round one in the unseemly quarrel between two financial regulators — the Securities and Exchange Board of India, or Sebi, and the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India...

Meanwhile, the quarrel between India's main ruling party and the main opposition party has escalated with both accusing each other of trading the users» data collected via the mobile phone applications meant to facilitate public engagement and interaction.

Suggestions on prevention and intervention programs were discussed in order to prevent parentification among typically developing siblings and decrease episodes of quarrels and overt conflicts between brothers and sisters with and without ASD.