Sentences with phrase «person against a system»

One person against a system they perceive as «broken» makes for a nice literary conceit, but in reality it never works.

Not exact matches

«I think that networks are in a tough position right now, where they have shows that a lot of people watch — much more than cable shows that are considered «hits» — but they're not allowed to call them hits because they're up against an old system.»

The common argument against nationalized paid maternity leave is that it hurts businesses or that people will take advantage of the system.

Again, you don't solve that by a periodic blitz on all the content; you solve that by having a system, and a system means that whenever a Customer Support person bumps into a document, either reported by a customer or not, they will have to file a bug against it.

While it might seem tempting to cram your resume with words you find in the job posting, Tom advises against it: «A lot of people will just go and dump the keywords in, but the systems are smarter than that, and they're advancing all the time,» she says.

Yes Apple should probably do more to secure their OS's and devices with so many flaws as youve pointed out here, but with so many and no news of cybercrime or cyber warfare being conducted against these systems are we trying to scare people without all the facts behind the numbers?

ILRC actively advocates on transportation issues and is a lead plaintiff in a case against BART for failing to ensure that people with disabilities can access the regional mass transit system.

One of the things that happens is a lot of startups get pulled into the system and that's unfortunate, because it turns out that when you've got this thing that's 18 % of GDP and you start following the money flows, you enter a market in one place with a very altruistic notion that I'm going to change things, and ask things morph, it turns out you're actually just helping the system get bigger and helping people collect, if you will, as a leach against the system.

the abundance of purely uneducated Muslim believers, their oppressive existence in their self created repressive regimes, lifestyles, and governments, their radical inturpitations of their fairy tale book, the fact that their culture and people have contributed less to man kind than any other culture and people of all the earth, their self ritious belief system that empowers them to commit atrocious crimes against humanity, the muslim men prance around in flip flops and linen moo moo's while they lock their woman in their household prisons to be abused slave - wife's, are entirely too ignorant to even build sewer systems and even after thousands of years that other cultures have developed running water toilets, toilet paper, and effective sewerage systems, they still whipe their pood - cracks with one hand (no paper) and eat with the other, and yiddle to the sky just before detonation of their suicide bombs that murder innocent men, woman, children, and babies.

You will notice that you won't see these same level of oppositions against any other belief system, where people who hold the worldly opinion would be so motivated and compelled as to try and convince believers that their faith is wrong.

It's that belief system that causes people to vote and protest against others that don't believe as they do.

I first heard of homeschooling as a child growing up in a college town in New England, when the only people who homeschooled their children were hippies living on communes in the country or academics and political activists protesting against the regimented and regimenting education «the system» provided for its own repressive purposes.

I saw soldiers using the same weapon systems I used in Iraq being deployed against another Arab people.

The stuff I've written on topics like getting to know neighbors and being the church in the community doesn't seem to connect with church people, who usually think church is about sermons, a belief system, music, political causes to be for or against and so on.

Fine dave, would you feel better if I said «Fvck you and your lazy ass selfish friends who are too lazy to get off your ass and vote, too lazy to bother to understand how the system is stacked against change, too dumb to understand it when it's explained to you, and too self - centered to realize or care that real people are affected by these things.»

François Houtart: «I would like to remind you that the diversity of people participating in this press conference is very great, and that the unity of the group rests on the struggle against the world capitalist system and against the new strategies being discussed by the men present today at Davos.

Thanks to this system, Islamic society has been guarded against the threat of financial tyranny which may result when the entire inheritance goes to a single person.

After all, you are part of a system that allows you to walk into stores where you are not followed, where you get to go for a bank loan and your skin does not count against you, where you don't need to engage in «the talk» that black people and people of color must tell their children.

By filing a lawsuit to set aside the Mexico City policy on the basis of «international law» created outside the American political system, the CRLP has demonstrated that it firmly believes that «international law» (which has little if anything to do with the will of the American people or the representatives they elect to govern them) is nevertheless enforceable against the American people and, ultimately, the people of the world.

Then and there I vowed to use whatever power that I had for good and against evil, to promote what is best in people, to work to free people from their self - imposed prisons, and to work against systems that pervert the promise of human happiness and justice (p. 179).

And a Jew was running for president, and some disaffected Jewish people hacked past Jewish computer systems against Jewish teachings and entered names in order to increase hatred for Jews and make a «public stink.»

As the sent church of God we must love the people in the world with the love of Christ expressed in words and deeds, while hating the broken and sinful systems of the world that war against the Kingdom of God.

THe people who rail against the government welfare system would be the last people who'd voluntarily give money to similar charities.

The problem with the «Christ against culture» position is two-fold: first, strong reaction tends to increase the attractiveness of that which is banished; and second, the rejection of many cultural experiences tends to leave persons psychologically involuted, intellectually isolated, and spiritually subject to the pride and authoritarianism generated by any dogmatic and closed system.

Right, people still in the system, who still buy into some of this stuff are the best to argue against those Southern Baptists — sad as that is.

The gospel stories describe the offensive love of Jesus towards hitherto unloved people and his prophetic rebellion against the systems and their leaders that protected and perpetuated these kinds of systems.

it seems that shame is something you try to use as a weapon against those who have different belief systems than you do, which is one reason why a lot of people have left organized religion.

Yet racism is enshrined in their legal system, however many decent people try to circumvent it; just as racism is against our law, however many Americans practice it.

This is an every day story for millions of ordinary people, who suffer mostly in silence, being helpless, knowing they are against a cruel system which has such deep roots in this country, having become so powerful, that it's to no avail for ordinary person to fight it!

I think he understood — and I wish there was more in the New Testament about this — that his attack was not just against a few immoral people but against a system that exploited others in the name of God.

«I frankly don't know how I am going to come up with the rest of the money,» Thomson told Sun News Network's Brian Lilley on Byline.Canada's justice system has a knack for punishing people for defending themselves and their property, often called «castle law.MORE: Court drops final charge against Ontario man who fired shots to protect his home under attack by firebombers Joseph and Marilyn Singleton of Taber, Alberta spent $ 30,000 in court.

He valued persons over systems (Sabbath is for man, not man for Sabbath), he affirmed the value of persons over things (His concern for children, women); he rejected any custom or system that marginalised people (entered into solidarity with the poor and the weak); he was harshly critical against the self - seeking leaders (Pharisees) and excessive dependence on mammon — the commodity mentality — was abhorrent to him.

Unless the Indian Independence laws are passed against the caste system and the Indian constitution provides for equal opportunities to all people in India, that the depressed class movements can be further solidified and strengthened.

Even though resistance takes many different forms (against the MAI, towards a jubilee year in 2000, for the Tobin tax, seeking alternatives, etc.), and even if the struggles are specific in their aims (farmers, workers, indigenous or coloured people, citizens, ecologists or women, the urban poor, etc.) and though the various co-ordination groups are numerous (Peoples Power for the XXI Century in Asia, São Paulo Forum in Latin America, etc.), all of these have a common thread: they all work to highlight the unacceptable nature of the current economic system.

Employment and housing are but two examples (and I only scratched at the surface), but they are indicative of a huge problem — the everyday systems (often invisible) that determine enormously important parts of our lives are stacked against people of color.

People are always talking about a big guy little guy spearheading your attack, well, we have the perfect opportunity to try this system especially against inferior opposition.

Admin, an AKB just called someone idiot, is your moderation system not working against these types of people?

Despite the stats that always say we're sold out, the fact people chose to not go at the game even if tickets were sold is a solid form of protest against a stagnated system.

The recent setback that befell the VAR system came after Chelsea manager Antonio Conte, a person who had been a staunch supporter of the VAR system became unmotivated with the way it ruled against a match unjustly.

I think if you have a more proportional system you can have other parties that can be a more positive repository for people's anger against the main parties, like the SNP or Plaid.

Questions - Getting value for money from companies marketing services to help people make claims against missold Payment Protection Insurance Legislation, revising the system for electing British Members of the European Parliament, dealing with any consequences for social cohesion and criminality of the withdrawal of civil legal aid for social welfare law cases, annual value of employers» national insurance contributions Legislation - Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

However, if the leadership perceives that an oppositional figure outside the Communist Party might be emerging, or there is a social movement that seems to threaten the one - party system, or evidence of ethnic unrest, then the security apparatus will move against that person or group.

Degradation of the Representative System into a Bi-party System (the blue against the red, or the right vs the left, etc), and this happens cause the rational ignorance of the people, many people have a political conviction that is suppressed by the parties alliances.

The MTA discriminates against people with disabilities because of its widespread lack of elevators and electric lifts in the subway system, rendering it significantly more inaccessible than other cities with large public transportation systems, according to two lawsuits filed yesterday.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn issued a lengthy statement suggesting that Trump's win echoed his own as a reaction against «a political establishment and an economic system that simply isn't working for most people.»

The scheme, which came into effect in July 1912, was intended to create a national system of insurance for working people against illness and unemployment.

Citing stances the Senators have taken detrimental to the cause of working people, the flyers highlight: Protecting a failed tax system that favors the privileged at the expense of working people; increasing the tax on health insurance; siding with big corporations and against teachers and students to pass a Charter School Bill - with no real reform; creating a new Tier V pension; and attacking education by supporting an irresponsible property tax cap.

From Molinaro's view, groups of people were leveraged against each other, whether it was county leaders seeking certainty for their finances, the New York City school system and how it's leadership structure is formed or the communities affected by flooding that are in need of aid.

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, on Friday, challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to direct the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to charge the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh to court if the commission was sure of evidences of fraud against him, saying «the EFCC appears to be operating a system in which an accused person is first arrested, detained endlessly while the anti-corruption agency goes about looking for evidence.»

Let's take just one example to illustrate how our outdated electoral system can not cope with the reality of multi party politics: Simon Wright was elected as the MP for Norwich South with just 29 % of the vote despite the fact that twice as many people voted against him than in favour.