Sentences with phrase «of violent opposition»

Because of violent opposition from his neighbors, he was forced to find a new home, and the group settled at Oneida, New York.

Before the end of his life, however, Jesus, facing rejection and death himself, must have warned his followers of the violent opposition they would meet if they remained loyal to him.

Not exact matches

Maduro's approval ratings have tumbled amid the crisis to 28 percent, near the lowest in 16 years of socialist rule, and while there's no sign the sometimes violent street protests that overwhelmed the country a year ago will return anytime soon, polls indicate that the opposition will coast to victory in legislative elections expected to take place by year end.

Opposition leaders have called for a protest on Thursday, the day the assembly is to be installed, raising the possibility of more clashes after four months of violent protests that have left as many as 120 people dead.

«Pacifism is opposition to war and violence, even to the point of allowing self - harm rather than a resort to violent resistance.»

As I look at the kind of people that the Muslim world admires I'm increasingly convinced that they are deserving of our deep and abiding pity... and our clear - eyed, sober, realistic opposition... unclouded by political - correctness and our mistaken classification of a violent totalizing political ideology as a «religion.»

Though he provides a vivid account of Pascal and Jansenism to illustrate the divisions within seventeenth century French Catholicism and emphasizes the violent opposition encountered by Catholic reformers like Charles Borromeo and John of the Cross, Eire's treatment of the divisions within Catholic reform in general is less vividly realized than his treatment of the corresponding tensions with Protestantism, though Catholic reform could be every bit as fiercely contested and divided.

(This is much different that the violent revolution that only seeks to alter the exalted political structure, as politics is, and can only be, the profession of mendacity in opposition to Truth).

There is no indication that these particular implications of the Copernican revolution were foreseen in the seventeenth century, or the opposition of ecclesiastical authority may have been even more violent.

The closing statement of the editorial is this: «We, and the thousands of other scientists who have signed the statement of protest, stand together in staunch opposition to the violent destruction of required tests on valuable advances such as Golden Rice that have the potential to save millions of impoverished fellow humans from needless suffering and death.»

Palmer birdied 13, 14, 15 and 16 in succession and finished the day with a typical Palmer display that so often overwhelms the opposition as he inflicts one of his violent attacks on a golf course.

There has long been opposition to hunting on animal welfare grounds, and during the 1970s and 1980s the activities of «hunt saboteurs» - who sought to disrupt hunts - increasingly came to prominence with occasional violent clashes with huntsmen.

Post-election violence in Gabon has killed between 50 and 100 people, the opposition presidential candidate said Tuesday, a toll much higher than the government's count of three in days of violent demonstrations against the president's re-election.

Supporters of the two main political parties, incumbent National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the major opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), were involved in another violent attack at Wulensi in the Northern Region on Thursday evening.

Lots of violent cases were recorded in the Ashanti and Brong Ahafo regions, a development that raised fears as to what might happen in the general elections which promises to be keenly contested between the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the largest opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).

Violent political clashes have erupted at Ga, a community in the Wa West district of the Upper West region among supporters of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).

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This is according the NPP in the Ayawaso East constituency, who laid blame for the widely criticized violent clashes in front of the opposition leader's residence...

A leading member of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Gabby Asare Otchere Darko was flogged with horse whips by the Police on Wednesday, when the Let My Vote Count demonstration turned violent.

-- House Republicans held a closed - door meeting on Tuesday to discuss how best to protect themselves and staffers from potentially - violent protesters storming town halls and offices in opposition of repeal.

The Police in the Eastern Region are on a manhunt for some thugs, believed to be supporters of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), who were involved in violent clashes on Sunday.

There have been several chaotic incidents and violent clashes in the country in recent times, involving supporters of the two major political parties — the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), raising...

The three - time Flagbearer of the largest opposition party, recently berated President John Mahama for failing to reprimand some ministers he described as violent.

I recently published an article on Elite Daily about why cutting out breakfast is one of the healthiest things you can do, and it's fair to say that it received some violent opposition.

«Lincoln» Synopsis: Based on Doris Kearns Goodwin «s biography of Lincoln, «Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,» the Steven Spielberg film stars Daniel Day - Lewis as the martyred president and follows the last several months of Lincoln's life as he faced violent opposition, on the battlefield and in the White House, as the Civil War gasped to a close, concluding with that fateful visit to Ford's Theatre.

On July 31st, the 89 year - old former freedom fighter and President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe went to the polls to compete in yet another contest on his mandate and similar to the violent 2008 electoral cycle, the incumbent was again facing opposition leader and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).

Their notoriety occurred as a result of their opposition, often violent, to changes being produced by the Industrial Revolution, which they felt threatened their livelihood and way of life.

The opposition boasted anti-gaming advocates such as an author of various books that claim violent video games creates killers, and members of the Parents Television Council, the latter which supported the California law to criminalize the sale of violent video games to children that was eventually ruled unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court in 2011.

This huge coal project has incited strong local opposition including a lawsuit and multiple protests by thousands of local residents resulting in violent clashes with project security and the military.

In January, the Government countered the Opposition demand for an inquiry into the large number of violent and unsolved deaths of Aboriginal women with an offer of a special committee of the House of Commons.

Instead of an objective survey, Silverstein unquestioningly quotes a defense lawyer for a Georgian implicated in a violent anti-government plot, Maia Topuria, and claims she and her co-defendants are «members of the political opposition.»