Sentences with phrase «only usurping»

we had it with Campbell Toure.we are doing well with BFG and Koscielny at the moment.Gabriel can only usurp any if he only proves himself.we shouldn't forget that Mertesacker was a long time starter for one of the best national sides in the world.i don't see that as a weakness or a mere fluke.

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They are trying to usurp authority that only God has.

The only question is whether a particular society has enough of the faithful to care for its poor so as not to have the charitable vocation usurped by the state, at which point it is no longer a Christian society.

In redefining marriage and the family, the state not only embarks on an unprecedented expansion of its powers into realms heretofore considered prior to or outside its reach, and not only does it usurp functions and prerogatives once performed by intermediary associations within civil society, it also exercises these powers by tacitly redefining what the human being is and committing the nation to a decidedly post-Christian (and ultimately post-human) anthropology and philosophy of nature.

I only have a problem when I see Christian hypocrisy and Christians trying to usurp my freewill that they claim is God given.

God will not overcome our limitations or usurp our freedom because God relates to us as we actually are — and that is something only we can decide.

It led Luther to side with the princes against the peasants in the Peasants» Revolt, and modern Lutheranism in Germany to defer revolt against Nazi tyranny until it became clear that Hitler was usurping the place that belonged only to Christ.

The petition states: «Ricardians (those who believe Richard was wrongly accused of usurping the crown by murdering his way to it, but that he was actually one of our most just and enlightened kings) are clearly aware that Shakespeare's play was fiction and probably written as a satire on the corruption of power, but members of the general public often believe that Shakespeare was accurate, so each time the play is produced it only adds to the unfair reputation that Richard has been given.

Not only, then, had the Donatists» conception usurped Christ's unique mediation, but it also undermined the prayerful efficacy of Christ's ecclesial Body.

The question is whether this suspension or abolition of a referential function of the first degree is not the negative condition for the liberating of a more primitive, more originary referential function, which may be called a second order reference only because discourse whose function is descriptive has usurped the first rank in daily life and has been supported in this regard by modern science.

Rousseau, says Derrida, understands writing as a mediate form of speech which becomes a dangerous supplement that usurps the place of speech by forgetting its vicarious nature and by making itself «pass for the plenitude of a speech whose deficiency and infirmity it nevertheless only supplement» (OG 144).

Their function — and it is an honorable though a humble one — is to serve as stepping - stones on the way toward the only society in which man can find a true satisfaction for his social nature; that is, a society which, so far from usurping the place of God, has God himself for its principal member.

With the new Premier League season only a matter of weeks away, all eyes will be on reigning champions Chelsea and the race to usurp Antonio Conte's men from top spot in 2017 - 18.

he says, referencing the fact Wade recruited LeBron James, the only player who had the heft to usurp Wade's place as South Beach's most important star, to play essentially the same position as him, while taking a pay cut and accepting the internal struggle that accompanies deference.

And you know, if your local kingdom has trouble with any usurping regicides, it's only the elective c - section babies who are properly qualified to deal with the problem!

«A lot of our members in both houses on both sides of the aisle feel that he is usurping the independent role of not only the New York State Assembly but the New York State Senate,» Flanagan said in an interview on WCNY's The Capitol Pressroom.

Republicans represent those whose only goal is to retain power and wealth and prevent others from usurping it.

This newer strategy seems to have usurped that of the female mimics, pushing them to only 1 per cent of all males.

Brighton is now the home of two universities, the University of Brighton (formerly Brighton Polytechnic) and the University of Sussex at Brighton, which only added the «at Brighton» suffix relatively recently (some say to thwart the poly's efforts to «usurp» the city's name).

Though we never find out why it's taken so long for Gleeson Mark II to come out of the woodwork, there is much humour to be had as he takes over his sibling's life, usurping him in the boardroom and the bedroom only to realise what a poisoned chalice he's inherited.

Special track - only FXX variants followed, but it wasn't until the LaFerrari usurped it that the Enzo lost its Big Cheese title.

One thinks of the painstaking, cloud - dispelling labor of British scientists from Isaac Newton to Joseph Priestley to Charles Darwin to Ernest Rutherford to Alan Turing and Francis Crick, much of it built upon the shoulders of Galileo and Copernicus, only to see it casually slandered by a moral and intellectual weakling from the usurping House of Hanover.

The display on this device usurps the Surface Pro 4 as the most eye - catching one we've seen, and the Tab Pro S's svelte dimensions only make it more alluring.

Cutting edge graphics will only get usurped by some other shinier, newer title in a couple of years anyway, right?

Set in the 14th century, players assume the role of the purported next pope, only to see the job usurped by someone else.

With every iteration of the Gran Turismo series I think I have said the games look photo - realistic only to be proved wrong with the next game that manages to usurp the previous in the graphics department.

Not only is it going to beat the PS4 Pro, it'll also have to usurp Microsoft's incredible Xbox One X as the most powerful console ever created.

Not only are they unhealthy — from toxic and carcinogenic ingredients to wasteful plastic containers — but their efficacy has been usurped by greener, cleaner, and more natural methods.

Intangible rights can be converted only so far as those rights are sufficiently connected with a chattel and where rights of ownership in the chattel are usurped.

The belief in the principle of constant improvement along with open source innovation has propelled the technology to this point, but only when crypto is used in practical ways, like the areas mentioned above, will crypto truly usurp the inefficient centralized systems which are now in power.

As a result, we've been developing and are deploying our new «Find & Engage» approach, which we believe will usurp «Advertise & Apply», and become the only effective way to operate in recruitment.

New breakout brands are capturing the attention of candidates — companies that are innovating in their industries are disrupting not only incumbent business models but usurping traditional employers in their appeal to candidates.