Sentences with word «pacifist»

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of the most volatile and hostile countries on the planet, yet its dark interior is home to a group of pacifists who look like refugees from the Summer of Love.

Denomination debates how to handle legacy of famed pacifist who sexually harassed and abused women.

Bard tries to act as pacifist as tensions between dwarves and elves come to a boil.

Mormon's are not pacifists and on the contrary have a long record of supporting the military during conflicts.

I therefore decided that I would begin immediately searching for pacifist routes as soon as the game came out.»

The connections between patriarchy, violence and war which were first explored by feminist pacifists in the first decades of the 20th Century have been revived today.

Of course, people have been doing pacifist runs for quite a while, so it's not particularly novel.

And not with pacifists.

Its dominantly pacifist position forces on it the character of a protest movement, encouraging individual action in withdrawing from «destructive work»; but it has given some attention to constructive alternatives, such as research in agriculture and small industries or technical assistance openings in under - developed countries.

But many people regard torture as intrinsically evil — just like pacifists regard war as intrinsically evil, no matter if it's for self - defense or whatever.

They'll break cover in order to charge into open terrain where you can pick them off at your leisure, fail to react to your flanking position and even run right past your squad, who in turn completely won't open fire because they've suddenly become pacifists.

As we've seen in recent seasons, it's caused Morgan to go from pacifist to vengeful killer and Daryl to someone similarly bent on revenge.

Influential Christian pacifist groups such as Sojourners and Pax Christi have characterized abortion as a violent solution to the problem of an unwanted pregnancy.

How do you reconcile that story into a Christian pacifist view as opposed to a Christian as interventionist (a changer), and how sometimes that intervention involves physical contact in defense of another?

They occupy the same position in regard to consumption and wealth that pacifists do in regard to violence.

The textual body of the exhibition also leaves untroubled the narrative of the Black Power Movement's reaction to King's pacifist stance in the face of violence.

Without so much as touching a rifle due to his devoutly pacifist religious beliefs, Doss saved dozens of his injured comrades on the film's titular Japanese battlefield.

But many pacifists think that governments should not go to war, and that our soldiers are perpetuating the worst evil on planet earth.

Rancor erupts on the boat, with some of the survivors wanting to take out the Nazi bastard while the more pacifist of the group would rather keep him on board to hand him over as a prisoner of war.

Abe has made reviving the economy his top priority, a big shift from his first term when his main agenda was to loosen the limits of Japan's pacifist constitution on the military and restore national pride and patriotism.

It's a good read and I believe it takes a more pacifist approach to usual Hellboy...

It could be that despite his public stance, (1) Obama secretly believes that «war is not the answer» and privately relayed his true pacifist beliefs and commitment to unilateral military withdrawal from Afghanistan only to his «spiritual advisor,» Brian McLaren.

In 1929 he served on the executive committee of the League for Independent Political Action and was still active in the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the leading pacifist organization on the American scene.

Because Jesus did resist evil, not by the sword but by deeds of love and mercy, the Christian pacifist believes that the followers of Jesus are called to resistance by the same methods.

The story, written by Ron Burch, David Kidd and Don Rhymer, follows a gentle pacifist bull named Ferdinand who refuses to participate in bullfighting but is forced back into the arena where his beliefs are challenged by being faced off against the world's greatest bullfighter.

[4] Some of the most influential pacifist leaders were men, while women have been active in waging wars.

In a country like Germany, with low unemployment, high education standards, low patriotism and a generally pacifist mentality among the population, the military is just not an attractive employer.

and theres a bit of a disconnect when the only way to figure out a true pacifist on one playthrough is treating the entire thing as a puzzle - solving platform, but the game writing kind of half - guilts you into needing to be invested in characters that you know very little about, instead of just seeing them as obstacles to overcome.

Peter Kennard Britain's unofficial war artist has been making pacifist art for decades, turning Constable's Hay Wain into a CND protest image and more recently creating Tony Blair's Iraq War selfie.

Here the Pope speaks in line with a long Catholic tradition and will not be opposed except by a few absolute pacifists.

Defiant, they refuse self - censorship: but this is the most pacifist of all Mohameds.

Gilead is the memoir of John Ames, a Congregationalist pastor in a small Iowa town who reminisces about his father, a preacher with pacifist convictions, and his grandfather, an abolitionist minister Gilead received the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and the 2006 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion.

Critics Consensus: Hacksaw Ridge uses a real - life pacifist's legacy to lay the groundwork for a gripping wartime tribute to faith, valor, and the courage of remaining true to one's convictions.

(They're still pacifists, it's merely to cross t's and dot i's.)

Ever since World War I, when the the likes of the UK Labour Party, the Australian Labor Party and the German Social Democratic Party split over the slaughter in the trenches, left - of - centre parties have been divided between a principled pacifist wing and what has normally been a majority prepared to back military force when considered necessary.

Instead he's focused on training the king's legions with motivational speeches that could make a diehard pacifist want to punch his teddy bear.

I am surprised to find that Hauerwas and Sider are unsure what «specific costs» I believe just war thinking might exact on the Christian, since I made one such specific cost one of the few areas of agreement between pacifists of the messianic community and just warriors: namely, a willingness to suffer evil and even to die before engaging in evil practices.

It really is hard sometimes to be the peace loving pacifist when faced with such outright racist rhetoric.

He, after all, has more latitude as in this instance the elderly pacifist socialist Leader of the Opposition is more - or-less on the government's side, as was his election - losing predecessor?

Although he was not yet a socialist, the minister was an ardent pacifist, a position for which his church gave little support.

While escaped the impositions of hurtful governments is a estimable goal, the crypto village should commend that it is implicitly unsuitable to stay pacifist while justification grows that criminals and terrorists are exploiting the community's freedom.

I'm from a long line of Christian Pacifists known as Mennonites.

Iraq's liberation from Saddam Hussein and his criminal underlings by the coalition of the willing last year has breathed life into many Labor activists — including Federal Labor leader Mark Latham — who are afflicted by anti-Americanism and / or pacifist inclinations.