Sentences with phrase «old tension between»

Just two nights after the June 17 shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church that left nine people dead and underscored the centuries - old tension between blacks and whites in the state, Marcus visited Charleston.

This is simply the old tension between spirit and structure reasserted in a characteristically Lutheran way.

In a time of crisis in the Middle East, it is key that Muslims and Christians overcome the centuries - old tensions between them.

One of them takes a friend, a quiet girl called Elly, along for the ride, and when she goes missing, old tensions between the friends begin to show.

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We are already barely making ends meet,» says Daren Niemeyer, a 49 - year - old farmer in Nebraska who voted for Trump in 2016, when asked about his thoughts of the trade war tensions between China and the U.S..

The path of responsible consumption takes its main directions from the theological tension between the Old and the New Ages.

Here the tension between the new life and the old is strained as far as it can go without breaking.

Israel's history too is a story of sustained tension between her own perversity and the purpose of God: hers, too is a history which she herself understands to be supported only by the grace of God, and his purpose for her declared of old that in her all the families of the earth should be blessed.

We could illustrate from stories like Walker Percy's Love in the Ruins that are apocalyptic in the narrow sense; these would raise the question, as old as Hebrew prophecy, of the paradoxical tension between threat of inevitable destruction and summons to new, creative action.

Do we not live in a tension between hope and the disconcerting acknowledgment that we of the new covenant, like Israel of the old, do not have the immediate sense of the law of God written in our hearts?

A transitional figure, Machiavelli reflected the tension between the old and the new ways of thinking about justice.

(39) The basis for that model is rooted in the social history of ancient Israel and is evidenced textually in the Old Testament tension between the transformative vision of Moses, which belonged to the earliest voice of liberated Israel, and the stabilizing tendency of royal theology which sought to build institutions and establish a reliable social structure.

The tension between dominant older paradigms and the increasingly impatient voices of those who had been marginalised for generations were experienced, and listened to, at the eleventh ecumenical conference on world mission and evangelism, which took place in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil in late 1996.

For if the theological task can be defined in terms of facing the tension between the old and the new, then it is only to be expected that both the speed and the extent of the change, in which we are at present all caught up, will inevitably bring changes in theological expression greater than at any earlier period in Christian history.

Moreover, these changes have not only set up tensions between the traditional and the new ways of thinking and doing, but they also seem to have robbed certain of our acts of their meaning or else have left us puzzled about how to relate the new to the old.

«A reading of the Old Testament materials of the various periods of the history of Israel, in the light of the contrasts between these perspectives, shows that this tension existed throughout the centuries covered by the canonic literature as the two «trajectories» in the reading of history where the existence and vocation of the people of God is made explicit».29

This tension between testimony and countertestimony belongs to the very core of Old Testament faith.

As a result, it remains to be seen whether or not Ronaldo secures a return to Old Trafford next year, but Lowe believes that it is certainly a possibility if the tension between the Portuguese star and his current coach continues to escalate.

It is an American Odyssey that links sons and daughters to fathers and grandfathers, and it reflects a host of age - old American tensions; between workers and owners, scandal and reform, the individual and the collective.

Arsene Wenger was in rare old form in his pre-Chelsea press conference today... The level of tension between Jose Mourinho and Arsene Wenger has been quite obvious for many a year.

We've got a 6 year old and 9 year old and between the stay at home moms and the working moms there is that under kind of tension.

The oxymoronic nature of their discourse, the fact that they command billion - dollar budgets, and the tension they feel and express between «old - paradigm» competitive models of business, and «new - paradigm» partnership models, makes this fieldwork project expecially fascinating.

«You learn about the difference between discipline and punishment,» said Julio Erazo, 23, who gets to see his 4 - year - old daughter a couple of times a month because of tension between him and his girlfriend's family.

I noticed When my daughter was 8 months old, that there was a lot of tension between us, when I was feeding her to sleep, I sensed that it wasn't helping her relax at all.

And then there's religion, especially in the west of Scotland, where the old sectarian tensions between Protestants and Catholics prevail.

But the murder of the two police officers, Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, by 28 - year - old Ismaaiyl Brinsley, has ignited long - smoldering tensions between the mayor and the city's two largest police unions.

These accounts are also a representation of what we might understand as the tension between old Labour members and new Labour members.

It's important to remember that the tension between the decades - old «friends» escalated since de Blasio assumed office in 2014.

Plans to move the nearly 70 - year - old terminal were fraught with tension between the agency's New Jersey and New York representatives.

At the latest round of talks in Bonn, Germany, this week, tensions between old rivals were still apparent.

Then there's the tension between New Bedford's old and emerging industries.

As the Golden Age of Hollywood faded, glorious old - school films like Ben - Hur began to give way to the grittier, wised - up work of those like Billy Wilder, creating a tension between impish youth and pompous elders.

The tension between Brady's old life and his new one guides the whole movie; there's understandable anxiety anytime he's near a horse, even though the audience knows it's the only time he's happy.

This comes back to an inner tension between the order of old disciplinary traditions and the chaos of a new period in society.

The film looks deliciously melodramatic, relying on tensions not only between lovers old and new, but from eldest daughter Lucie (Pauline Burlet).

As the new Mr. Mom struggles to keep up with their children and the household chores, Caroline becomes her ad agency's star employee, fully assuming her husband's old role in the family and bringing some tension between the two of them.

Portman's film picks up the story in 1945: Oz is an eight - year - old boy, and his parents Arieh and Fania are nervously observing the increasing tensions between Jews and Arabs in Mandate Palestine.

And naturally, some tension arises between Thornton and his good - natured son, whose college experiences boil down to a quirky, anti-establishment roommate (20 - year - old Robert Downey Jr. in his immediate precursor to a short «Saturday Night Live» stint), a diving team nemesis (William Zabka, slightly toning down his Karate Kid act), and a sweet love interest (Terry Farrell).

However, the hotel is old fashioned and stifling, and underlying tensions between the young couple surface and cast unexpected shadows over their long anticipated wedding night.

The tension between T'Challa and Erik is one of the film's greatest assets, as they are diametrically opposed characters who, on the one hand, fit neatly into the hero and villain molds, yet their opposition is predicated on a decades - old grievous injury that essentially set Erik on a collision course with Wakanda and all it stands for.

Their eight - year old, Brendan, seems remarkably oblivious to the tension between his parents.

The tension between them intensifies with the arrival in L.A. of Pike's old musical acquaintance, Jesse Dupree (Stanton).

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a young woman asks in «The Love of a Good Man,» one of the unforgettable stories in Chitra Divakaruni's beautifully crafted exploration of the tensions between new lives and old.

As tension between Mars and Earth mounts, and terrorism plagues the Martian city of Londres Nova, sixteen - year - old David Draper is fighting his own lonely war.

A novel about a 13 - year - old boy's perilous trek through schoolyard trials, his budding interest in girls and the simmering tension between his parents.

He investigates dialogues and the unpredictable collisions, tensions and equilibriums between the real and artificial, the figurative and abstract, the old and new.

Lahuis appropriated this technique, which physically embodies the integration of the old into the new, to reproduce burnt contemporary images and texts that deal with the tension between integration and disintegration.

These symbol - laden photographs, faded to yellow like old postcards, evoke a sentimental tension between contemporary and traditional China.

Simulated realities in the astonishing precision of Old Masters: with his computer the Aachen artist Tim Berresheim generates idiosyncratic scenarios in a visual language which emerges from the tension between computer technology and a questioning exploration of reality.