Sentences with phrase «positioned in opposition»

It encompasses aspects of West African religions, and is typically positioned in opposition to the justice system and its agents given this context of discrimination.

Disorientation and instability are further magnified by the use of a four - screen format — two are set together perpendicularly across two positioned in opposition.

The report at times positions itself in opposition to the recent Chakrabarti inquiry, however it is unclear if the committee understood the aims of the Labour study.

Among the certainties in the world of film criticism — there will be a series of pieces bemoaning critics» inability to stop a terrible summer film from becoming a blockbuster; Armond White will often stake out a position in opposition to many of his fellow critics; movies about middle - aged men having their mid-life crises sorted out by women well out of their league will always receive mostly kind notices; etc. — there's one that stands above all others.

By positioning themselves in opposition to a particular image, a particular artist, a particular movement, or to abstract art in general, a person can be defined according to that opposition.

But unlike Prince's neutrality of position in terms of his own identity when using appropriated images and text; Kruger positions herself in opposition as antithetical to the machinations of mass media manipulation.

Not exact matches

As U.K. foreign minister Tariq Ahmad put it: «The Kremlin has positioned Russia in direct opposition to the West, yet it doesn't have to be that way.

BEIRUT / DAMASCUS, March 15 - Thousands of Syrians fled a rebel pocket in eastern Ghouta on Thursday and crossed by foot to army positions, the largest such outflow in almost a month of fighting, as troops seized more ground in the opposition stronghold.

Fianna Fail, whose backing Varadkar requires from the opposition benches to keep his government functioning, has said it will move a motion of no confidence in Fitzgerald at 2000 GMT on Tuesday unless she quits, a position that hardened on Monday.

At first, opposition rivals attacked him for failing to put his substantial holdings in the firm, which manages pensions, into a blind trust after he was named to a cabinet position responsible for regulating the industry.

The department also changed its position in a critical voting rights case in Texas, abandoning its yearslong opposition to a critical aspect of the state's voter ID law.

The opposition parties in Perth and Canberra are kicking the can down the road on debt, despite the parlous state of their respective budgetary positions.

If our factum is in opposition to the position [the federal government] is taking, then we have until Feb. 11.

The position of the LNA, and especially its Dignity Operation to remove opposition, Daesh and Al Qaeda in the eastern regions, is now under threat.

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif posted a five - minute video on YouTube on Thursday to restate his country's opposition to Trump's position, saying Tehran would not «renegotiate or add on to a deal which we have already implemented in good faith.»

«I'm not entitled to have an opinion unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who are in opposition.

Here is an excerpt: «The NDP in 1991 was not in a good position given the depth of the recession underway, the implacable anti-inflationary obsession of the central bank then still under the leadership of the zealous zero inflation policies of John Crow and the implacable opposition of the financial press.

You may say that Albertan's were fully aware of Ms Notleys position before the Alberta election but voted her in anyway so there must be a lot of opposition to pipelines in Alberta.

The second generation leader of Alberta's social democratic party is smart, witty and well - positioned to boost her party's standings in the opposition benches.

While the Wildrose Party «s new role as Official Opposition will mean additional staff and research funding, a party position was made vacant following the election of Shayne Saskiw in Lac La Biche - St.

Taiwan Milestones Taiwan's president Ma Ying - jeou and his Kuomintang party lost control of important political positions in late November, when Taiwanese voters chose opposition party and independent candidates in local elections across the island.

Significant numbers of women clergy now see opposition to their intellectual positions as ineradicably linked to right - wing Christianity or as inextricably tied to a backlash on the part of white male members in the church.

Thus, on the first national celebration of Martin Luther King Day in 1986, Jesse Jackson decried the widespread focus on King's great, unifying «I Have a Dream» speech, and stressed instead King's opposition to the Vietnam War — an opposition, be it noted, that King came to only after long agonizing with his conscience, and that he always carefully distinguished from the position of the extremists within the anti-war movement.

Further, they often tend to revel in taking positions that cut against the grain of contemporary society and are even doomed to failure (as Rod has said his opposition of SSM is).»

How one handles opposition depends on its nature and one's power position in the organization.

--- That does make things a little sticky and awkward for those of the choir that belittle my positions that are in direct opposition to your positions.

At the same time, since Whitehead supposes his position to traverse directly an Aristotelian thesis, the article will also attempt to establish in what manner and to what extent Whitehead is in fact in opposition to the Greek philosopher.

But Pete is right that there's no Catholic position on gays in the military, and the least that can be said is that Rick's opposition to the new policy has been artless.

If their position is not to be perceived as sentimental, if they hope to persuade any significant number of their overwhelming opposition, they must start by making clear that their case is not in principle argued on behalf of those who have been rightly convicted of capital crimes.

The two positions stand in opposition to one another.

Regarding condoms in Africa — your church's position flys in opposition to what actual science shows.

So do you choose to just ignore the propagation of positions that lead to the spread of AIDS in Africa, not to mention teen pregnancy, other STD's, and even the opposition to abortion even when a woman is raped or in life threatening danger from the pregnancy?

My concern was that Wilson could not establish the moral ground of his position; that he ran the risk then of fostering confusion among his own allies about the ground of their opposition to abortion; and that the allies who made themselves suggestible to his arguments were risking a serious erosion in the conviction that they summoned to this issue.

Many of these issues were presented as if they were in opposition to the ecumenical positions.

Beardslee sharply opposes this position and suggests that it is in Gnosticism and not in Biblical eschatology that we find such a total opposition.

This constituency includes persons now repelled by organized religion because they can not accept certain positions (such as opposition to evolutionary theory or to birth - control practice) which they have been exposed to in some churches and which they assume characterize all churches.

And, isn't it true that, if you receive opposition, it probably means that you're doing what God wants you to do (or, are in the right position)?

While polls should never have an undue effect on someone's political or moral positions — as Robert Wuthnow convincingly argues in the most recent issue of First Things — this new poll does seem to reveal that an artificial consensus created by the elite of this country, and the relatively quiet response among the opposition, has not taken dramatic hold of the hearts and minds of ordinary people in this nation.

This was in direct opposition to the new theological temper critical of liberalism; so religious education continued to rely on a theological position that no longer held the field.

My position from the beginning is that HGTV has the right to fire anyone who projects an image of ignorance, hypocrisy, and discrimination against some of their targeted audience in opposition to their desired image.

(When a person insists on his position as being right in the face of reasoned opposition, and no one can argue that those who lost family in these terrorist bombings don't have a reason to oppose this mosque, then there is something else behind that position, another goal, another agenda.

Is there anything in this that you feel able to raise your voice in opposition too, or am I misrepresenting Jeremy's position?

Simply put, the Egyptian international was everywhere, displaying an ability to orchestrate attacks from a deep - lying position in midfield, and also acting swiftly to cut out opposition attacks.

+ wenger out is more than just lack of spending; its not studying the opposition, not rotating players, not addressing why we have so much more injuries than others, not subbing early enough to give incoming players a chance to influence the game, not playing players in their best positions. . . .

-- Jesse Lingard View from the opposition: «We go to Manchester United in a good position — we don't want to give that up.

All of this is going to make for a wide - open Florida Derby at Gulfstream this Saturday, and it's going to be pretty interesting to see whether the Flamingo winner, Needles, can put the opposition to shame again and somehow seriously justify his position as the leading 3 - year - old in the country.

• Coq will protect defence, stay in position and stop opposition.

My point is that having players out of position in key areas gives the opposition easy targets to focus their attacks.

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Yo forget that players like Sanchez and Ox they are very good with the ball but too much dribbles unlike Walcot who can position himself in danger areas with his pass he is always in the neck of the opposition defenders.