Sentences with phrase «often against the protests»

Many governments in Europe and elsewhere have eliminated the death penalty in the twentieth century, often against the protests of religious believers.

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How often in modem contexts has my heart echoed the protest of John Rogers, the Reformation martyr, against the alleged inertness of the biblical text: «No, no, the Bible is alive!»).

Theologians who have quite properly protested against the notion that God was such that he needed to be made friendly and available to his creatures by reason of some event (in this case the death of Christ) which opened up for him this possibility, have failed to see that in this inadequate and often misleading way of speaking, there was an insight of which they should have taken due account.

Their protests against our often shallow sacramentalizing of God's presence provide a needed antidote to our tendency toward an idolatrous closing ourselves off from the wider vision of revelation's promise arriving out of the inexhaustible future.

The «new breed» of clergyman is often seen in the streets and elsewhere protesting the war in Vietnam, demonstrating for civil rights for blacks, and leading the fight against poverty.

Having begun with protest against tendencies in the latter branch of Christianity to regard the Church as the representative of God it has often succumbed to the same tendency itself.

Throughout the 1970s and 80s Faith magazine often protested against these betrayals of Catholic truth and of God's people, all the while calling for and offering the outlines of a development of doctrine which is faithful to the teaching of Gaudium et Spes and the tradition.

That weekend further muddied the message of a movement that many claimed was a protest against the United States itself — and often, more specifically, its troops.

I started googling way back in may who could we be buying gonzalo higuian, julio cesar and wayne rooney but realize going by history wenger just as no interest in buying world class players, he wants 2 buy d grade players and turn them up to koscienly nd nasri that will take years while da arsenal faithful pay handsome figures for dismal performances, fans allowed wenger 2 get away when he gets away with these lucky matches of fenerbache been strong on paper but a waste of tym on the pitch, also it happen at bayern but they put a slighty weak team but wenger runt his mouth around of how good da team was after that 2 - 0 win, not forgetting it was bould that got the team defense looking solid while wenger moan about referee decisions and no blame on team, I just feel we (arsenal) have allowed wenger and co to misuse us, so now our main target aim is benzema yet giroud plays more often than him for france, can any1 see how wenger is lowing our standards and expectations at arsenal, I wil be over da moon if wenger does not sign an extension wit us, after the gilberto days and disaterous results and teams we play, his approach to the game defensely which is pathetic and his annoying behaviour.So what if manu and chelski haven't really bought they are already strong it was seen last week now we should be worried about our selves since that villa defeat, jst imagine what the man's and london money maniac's are goin 2 do to us, I can see it already coming from wenger, if we find the right player we will buy him, after sept2, we didn't find da right player but the squad can challenge for the title, its so sick having 2 hear that crap, just take him psg, I just wish the fans would say we had enough of this bullshit transfer policies its time we stood up against these pigs of directors by protesting!

In the second half of the century courageous mass protests against communism, apartheid and the Shah in Iran were often met with bullets, while students and anti-war protestors mobilized large crowds in the US and Europe.

While by - elections are often used as protest votes against governments and have lower than usual turnouts, this parliamentary contest has a whole number of potentially significant ramifications for British politics.

In her previous capacity as New Paltz's supervisor, she was often at the center of protests against the governor's perceived hesitancy to ban fracking.

These protests and many others around Europe are often accompanied by acts of violence against synagogues and Jewish establishments.

The European elections often serve as a surrogate mid-term ballot on, and protest against, sitting governments.

But a youth protest against him, stones pelting one of his delegation's vehicles and a botched grenade attack on French troops, hours before his arrival in Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou, showed the hostility that still lingers after decades of an often tense France - Africa relationship.

But we also have a right to protest against his often harsh, extreme views.

This is partly due to the general disillusionment with the main three parties following the expenses revelations and partly because voters often use local elections to protest against the main parties.

Additionally, by - elections usually have lower turnout rates and are often used as a way for voters to protest against the current Government, making a Conservative victory in the general election more likely.

Most often, the protests against recent changes aren't about what's outlined in the Bologna vision; rather, they are rather «contesting the fact that the changes have not been thought through, planned properly, and funded properly,» Crosier says.

But one could also forgive it for focusing on the disenfranchised who often receive a raw deal in the judicial system (see the most recent protests against Stand Your Ground laws in many states).

And while it'll be sad to see you pull all your books off their website in protest (which is what I assume you're going to do since you've felt the need to speak out against them so often, and to continue supporting them would be hypocritical), you have to live by your convictions.

There have been minimal and generally insignificant protests against the treatment of the animals involved, and most often those protesting have been brought in from out of town for that specific purpose so they're given very little credence by most of the population.

Furthermore, it can be an act of protest against the livestock industry which subjects animals to a life lived in confinements, often kept in cramped, squalid conditions until they reach the proper size to be slaughtered and turned into food for humans.

Deformed, as if cringing in protest against being discarded, and rendered in glazed ceramic, the objects form a lyrical visual commentary on the rapid obsolescence of household items that are often invested with meaningful memories.

di Suvero, whose own timbers so often reach for the sky, also played a part in the original tower, erected in Los Angeles as a protest against the Vietnam War.

The participants wore clothes designed by Kusama, but just as often the clothes came off, in protest against the establishment.

G20 Double Takes is a series by documentary photographer Billy Macrae that revisits scenes of public protest during the last G20 meeting in London by adopting the popular strategy of the «double take», often used for displaying romantic ideas of the past against cruder and less elegiac visions of the present.

Its my protest against the twisted, attention seeking debating crap we often see (Dan H is a typical example).

The church holds carbon fasts during Lent and often participates in climate protests, such as those against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.

SLAPPs are a tool sometimes used by developers or companies against individuals who protest projects, often in environmental and municipal planning disputes.

There have been minimal and generally insignificant protests against the treatment of the animals involved, and most often those protesting have been brought in from out of town for that specific purpose so they're given very little credence by most of the population.

A research assistant contacted the interested parents and conducted a screening interview by telephone, ensuring the families belonged to the target group (e.g. parents with children in conflict with peers, parents or other adults, protesting against demands, often restless, having friends with bad influence or having been involved in vandalism, shoplifting or truancy)(Bjornsdotter 2014).