Sentences with phrase «on bulwarking»

While European Union leaders meet in Brussels today on bulwarking «a firewall» to the eurozone crisis, Skate's Global More...

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Facebook (fb) chief executive Mark Zuckerberg laid out a vision on Thursday of his company serving as a bulwark against rising isolationism, writing in a letter to users that the company's platform could be the «social infrastructure» for the globe.

With the entire House on next year's ballot — and about one - third of the U.S. Senate up for a vote, too — the stakes are high for those in the Bay Area who seek to erode the GOP's control of Congress and erect a new bulwark against Trump's agenda in areas like immigration and climate change.

The officials said Kelly portrays himself to Trump administration aides as the lone bulwark against catastrophe, curbing the erratic urges of a president who has a questionable grasp on policy issues and the functions of government.

Just some thoughts on this: The Bible says «the church is the pillar and bulwark of the truth.»

I think he and people around him have a sense that the church's pendulum swung too far toward the firm reassertion of Catholic rules and vision of the Church as a bulwark against the turbulence of modernity and so on.

However, these issues start with the disadvantage (for their proponents) of trying to overcome the bulwark of human rights laws which, since the end of the Second World War, have increasingly placed duties on nations to protect life and to outlaw any deliberate deprivation of life.

Even as early as his 1845 Essay on the Development of Doctrine, written while he was still an Anglican but already more than halfway out the door (he became a Catholic while the book was still in the printery), he was defending the idea of infallibility, and precisely as a bulwark against infidelity in all its forms:

Some French Catholics saw Hitler as a bulwark against atheist Bolshevism: The last line of defense as the Red Army advanced on the bunker beneath the Chancellery in Berlin was manned by Frenchmen from the Charlemagne Division of the Waffen SS, who rose from their trenches to meet the Russian tanks with the cry of «Long live Christ the King!»

His masterworks — On Christian Teaching, The Confessions, The Trinity, and The City of God — became bulwarks of Christian education in the West, and eventually served as the intellectual foundation for the first universities at Paris, Oxford, and Cambridge in the later Middle Ages.

If, on the other hand, conscience is rediscovered as the place in which to listen to truth and good, the place of responsibility before God and before fellow human beings - in other words, the bulwark against all forms of tyranny - then there is hope for the future.

I want to spend the next few minutes thinking about these two questions, and to guide our thoughts in doing so I want to focus on those great words written by Paul, or someone under his influence... I Timothy 3:15... «the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the truth.»

Soon after the war ended, his purpose bulwarked with the knowledge of all those former failures, Wankel set up a workshop of his own in a boathouse on the banks of Bavaria's placid Bodensee in Lindau.

True, John Terry the irreplaceable bulwark of the Blue's defence, whatever his on the field excesses, was absent.

The labor - backed Working Families Party in a statement on Wednesday afternoon pledged to be a check on Donald Trump's presidency and be a «bulwark» against his policies in New York.

The WFP has pledged to be a «bulwark» in New York against Trump's policies, placing pressure on Democratic state elected officials to provide an alternative policy choice to a Republican - led federal government.

He pleaded with the court to stop the siege laid on his house and to remove all impediments, human and non-human barricade and bulwarks said to have hindered the permission granted him since November 3 to travel abroad for treatment of his ailing medical condition.

Actor and activist Mark Ruffalo signed off on an email fundraising appeal for NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, calling the liberal Democrat a bulwark against Trump's «radical right - wing agenda.»

Glenwood has relied on the Senate Republican conference as a bulwark for several key issues it has before the Legislature, including a lucrative tax break given in exchange for the building of affordable housing.

(Creating more housing for low - income New Yorkers, a move that was announced in yesterday's plan and differs from Bloomberg - era policies that focused heavily on middle - income affordable housing, should provide another bulwark against homelessness going forward.)

There's a genuine difference of opinion between the Cuomo and de Blasio administration on charters, but the move also stands to benefit Cuomo politically: Along with his opposition to the pre-K tax hike, it cements the governor's position as a moderate bulwark against the more liberal de Blasio on education, appealing to voters outside the city and preemptively shutting down a potential area of attack by his Republican challenger as he runs for re-election.

Working in remote conditions, researchers in the winter of 2012 ran a drill through 450 meters of ice and 500 meters of ocean to collect seafloor sediments on either side of this lost bulwark.

by Bryant Frazer Death Wish director Michael Winner tried his hand at a boilerplate horror flick with The Sentinel, another in the long - running cycle of American horror films that doubled as scary religious propaganda, with the faith of Catholic priests the last bulwark against harrowing incursions by Satan himself on our mortal realm.

The key bulwarks against this kind of mission creep are, first, a definitive, public statement from the President - elect on the administration's position on Uncle Sam's role in schools; and, second, absent that, education officials» deep familiarity with today's policy issues and ability to apply conservative principles to them.

The first official canine Marine was King Bulwark, known as Jiggs, who enlisted on October 14, 1922.

Through these ephemeral interventions with light calligraphy, Dokins captures the invisible, acting on air and featuring iconic places: historic sites, public plazas, monuments, bulwarks — abandoned spaces become re-signification spaces.

And there was certainly a time, not so long ago, when I was also a fully paid - up McKeever Believer: his seriousness, his commitment to the act of painting, and the complete absence from his work of what the American painter Gary Stephan has dubbed «visual sarcasm» — that is, the use of paint only in order to flaunt its supposed inadequacy and redundancy — made him seem like a bulwark against the insufferable smart - alec nihilism of Richard Prince, Wade Guyton, or Christopher Wool; and against the prevailing attitudes within the Higher Education establishment at which I both teach, and study on the MA programme, where the buzz - phrase on the Fine Art Critical Studies syllabus is «post-Making»; in other words, goodbye and good riddance to all that messy business with brushes and squeegees and welding torches, once and for all.

Their painting is sturdy, durable — it rests on thick beams of wood or of steel, a bulwark against the taste of the committee.

Deforestation, which had been on decline for years, surged nearly 300 % in September; and it happened as evidence mounts that healthy forests — arguably nature's single most effective bulwark against climate change — can lose more carbon than they absorb if subjected to extreme drought.

However, this Immunity Act is not a complete bulwark to all injuries sustained on government sponsored bike paths.

On a macro level, though, this decision has far more reaching implications — it ensures uniformity across the judicial landscape and stands a bulwark against interpretist judges attempting to rewrite non-ambiguous collective bargaining agreements, substituting their own judgment for those of the contracting parties, because they may think it is «fair» to employees to do so.

In Edwards» ninth - grade class on contemporary global issues and geography, think empathy and how acquiring a greater appreciation of diversity can be a bulwark against bullying.

Bulwarked by new demand, conduit lenders are suddenly competing with life insurance companies and commercial banks on interest rates and loan terms.