Sentences with phrase «quarrelling for»

Any kind of truncation is just empty hubris or, giving Mendes the benefit of the doubt, pandering to those impatient masses who weren't gonna show up anyway (for starters, if the draw is the reunion of Kate & Leo, then I can't think of anything more repellent to a Titanic fan than the thought of their idealized couple quarrelling for two hours), so why not give the faithful what they came for?

While Cuomo and New York City's mayor Bill de Blasio have been openly quarreling for months, Labate insisted the state was not picking on the city.

But the Clown Prince is bothered because, despite the fact that they have been quarreling for decades, Batman still won't recognize The Joker as his arch enemy.

Not exact matches

Zhiqiang was charged for allegedly inciting ethnic hatred, picking quarrels, and provoking trouble for several posts he wrote on an online microblog, similar to Twitter.

Part of the company's trouble had to do with its minor quarrel in the U.K., which accounts for 5 % of Unilever's sales.

The partisan quarrel comes as the Commons international trade committee is poised to meet Friday to consider a joint Conservative - NDP request for an emergency summer meeting to grill key ministers on Canada's approach to the NAFTA negotiations.

The quarrel is bewildering, especially for newcomers.

Our friends do not quarrel with our assessment of how bad, in fact, things are, but they seem to condemn us for a want of prudence in saying so.

The latter half of the contention, but not the former, is in tune with modern belief; the former, but not the latter, was in tune with ancient belief: that both are valid and inseparable is the hypothesis of a philosophy that tries for a stand beyond the quarrel of the ancients and the moderns.»

The situation is bizarre: a hostile pagan king asks an impossible favor for his generalissimo, thereby setting the stage for disappointment and what might well be the next political disaster: «Just look,» says the king of Israel, «and see how he is trying to pick a quarrel with me.»

There is a wonderful story of two Desert Fathers that goes like this: Two hermits lived together for many years without a quarrel.

I find that I have no quarrel with any aspect of the whole corpus of Catholic doctrine: Granted the ignition spark of faith, all the tenets of the Church would hold for me.

Few philosophers» lives can boast comic (or, for that matter, tragic) material comparable to Kierkegaard's aborted engagement to Regine Olsen, the bizarrely exaggerated symbolic significance he attached to it, his firm expectation of death before the age of thirty - four on account of some unnamed sin of his father's, his intentional provocation of a feud with the satirical review The Corsair, or his splenetic quarrels with the Danish Lutheran church (and so on).

The laziness of those who insist on sitting and «leaving the more strenuous exercises for the others» (Bishop) has led to a quarrel, and in the course of this quarrel the lazy children try to blame the others for spoiling the play - time: «We piped to you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn.»

This appears in such vividly told stories as the separation of Abraham and Lot because their herdsmen quarreled, Jacob's journey eastward to Haran to get a wife from among his mother's people and his long service in tending the flocks of his uncle Laban, the famine that sent Jacob's other sons to Egypt for food when Joseph had become Pharaoh's overlord.

It offers many dividends: The opportunity to meet And chat with old and new - found friends; The amiable atmosphere; The comfortable cushioned seat; The promise of two hours clear Of irritating chores, restraints, Dilemmas, quarrels, and complaints; The vespertine impressive hall That grants equality to all And cover for a nap to some; The stirring burst of warm applause When the conductor comes in view And talkers instantly grow dumb; The pleasantly suspenseful pause As the ensemble waits its cue.

This remains a strong implication of the story of the quarrel between Lot (the father of the nations Moab and Ammon) and Abraham, and Lot's free choice of the land to the east and south of Canaan proper (13) The same motive partially underlies the repeated promise of the land to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the pointed denial of the claims of others, for example Ishmael (the Ishmaelites) and Esau (the Edomites) as well as Moab and Ammon.

His real quarrel was with his fellow Methodists who compromised the older beliefs and practices or, worse, expressed contempt for them.

We may not quarrel with the fact; but the whole development, beginning with a concentration upon the idea of Jesus» own person as of central importance for religious faith, certainly represents a shift in emphasis from Jesus» own teaching.

For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly?

I do not find Russell E. Saltzman's essay «Two Boats, a Helicopter, and Stem Cells» (October 1999) entirely satisfying, although I have absolutely no quarrel with the argument developed for his own decision to oppose the use of aborted fetuses for stem cell research.

It is no accident that the most heated quarrel in editing the new United Methodist Hymnal revolved around the use or rejection of «Onward, Christian Soldiers,» a hymn deemed too militaristic for some.

With that their is no reason to have a quarrel with God but ask Him for enlightenment, wisdom, understanding and most of all the ability to love and even forgive.

Frank, one assumes, would quarrel with this way of putting his argument, but he offers no alternative explanation for how millions of middle Americans are so blind to their real interests and so self - destructive in their political behavior.

But for us the «quarrel» begins when Plato banishes the poets from his ideal commonwealth» and the quarrel, as Martha Nussbaum often laments, continues even today.

For the historian, as for the philosopher, the quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns is being superseded by a quarrel between the Moderns and the PostmoderFor the historian, as for the philosopher, the quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns is being superseded by a quarrel between the Moderns and the Postmoderfor the philosopher, the quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns is being superseded by a quarrel between the Moderns and the Postmoderns.

Yet it undoubtedly fills a void with its thousands of entries on personalities, movements, and controversies that have shaped the Catholic Church in the U.S.. On Catholic publications, for instance, Commonweal gets a deservedly appreciative notice, while the editors of the Wanderer and the National Catholic Reporter, at polar ends of Catholic quarrels, get to do the entries on their own publications.

In this way no tempting occasion for the mistaken quarrel of pettiness about preference need arise.

He sees his quarrel with Sharon and the Israelis who overwhelmingly elected him as a fight for the «soul, fate and well - being of Israel and all its citizens, Jews and Arabs.»

Kill not the old man who can not fight, nor young children nor women; and steal not the spoils of war, but put your spoils together; and quarrel not amongst yourselves, but be good to one another, for God loveth the doer of good.35

Combative on the platform in defense of any cause I cared for, I shrink from quarrel or disapproval in the house, and am a coward at heart in private while a good fighter in public.

Sister Mary Corita chose to answer these questions with the words of William Sloane Coffin: «Because we love the world, we pray now, O [God], for grace to quarrel with it, O Thou whose lover's quarrel with the world is the history of the world... Lord, grant us grace to quarrel with the worship of success and power... to quarrel with all that profanes and trivializes [people] and separates them... number us, we beseech Thee, in the ranks of those who went forth from this place longing only for those things for which Thou dost make us long, [those] for whom the complexity of the issues only served to renew their zeal to deal with them, [those] who alleviated pain by sharing it; and [those] who were always willing to risk something big for something good... O God, take our minds and think through them, take our lips and speak through them.

That would in itself be a definition hard to quarrel with, were it not for the fact that in recent years it has come to be widely held that the final purpose of «doing» social ethics is to draw up a blueprint for a just society and perhaps also a practical guide for getting there.

To fall to quarreling over the statement about unchastity is ourselves to fall into the trap the Pharisees built for Jesus!

Thus, although it should be easier to teach Western students about Islam than about Hinduism or Buddhism, for there is much in common, the burden of our neighborhood quarrels — not always impartially recorded — and the subtle differences of interpretation make Islam the most difficult religion to present fairly.

Except for his impulse toward assertive self - defense, he had no quarrel with the Jewish past.

Liberals have a right and an obligation to quarrel with many of the terms and techniques of witness employed by some evangelicals, but evangelicals are correct when they remind us that there is a faith «delivered to the saints,» who in turn are responsible for delivering it to others.

is a mere logicker, fastening on a word as the sole expression and exact equivalent of truth, to go on spinning deductions out of the form of the word (which yet having nothing to do with the idea), then he becomes a one - word professor, quarreling, as for truth itself, with all who chance to go out of his word; and, since words are given not to imprison souls but to express them, the variations continually indulged in by others are sure to render him as miserable in his anxieties, as he is meager in his contents, and busy in his quarrels.

Paul writes to the church in Corinth, «For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there are quarrels among you, my brothers and sisters.

One quarrel prompted Rimbaud to say he was leaving Verlaine for good; Verlaine shot him in the wrist.

A man must be as far as possible removed from God for that «No» to be heard, while yet in a way he wants to pick a quarrel with God.

First came the Obama administration's staged quarrel with Israel over a routine zoning decision for homes in northeast Jerusalem, which is a neighborhood where Arabs had never lived and an area which every proposal for the division of Jerusalem has assigned to the Israeli side.

In this regard, they were encouraged by the words of Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI: «Our quarreling ancestors were in reality much closer to each other when in all their disputes they still knew that they could only be servants of one truth which must be acknowledged as being as great and as pure as it has been intended for us by God.»

Before he became pope, Benedict wrote that «our quarrelling ancestors were in reality much closer to each other when in all their disputes they still knew that they could only be servants of one truth which must be acknowledged as being as great and as pure as it has been intended for us by God.»

Wherein is the cause for quarreling?»

Were it not for the howls of quarrelling coyotes and the cactus - punctuated horizon, it could be Greece.

For restaurants, hotels and resorts, where convivial conversation is important, the possibility that political discussions can evolve into bitter quarreling is problematic.

In order for Brady to persuade the Supreme Court to hear a case about deflated footballs, he'll have to convince the highest court in the land that his quarrel with the NFL has far - reaching implications for labor law across the country.

Kelly and Kohnke knew that Thompson had threatened Tangie for exposing Devyn to White — he had recently sought the lawyers» advice on a strategy to win sole custody of Devyn — and they knew that Bennie and Tangie had quarreled not long before the murders.

This coming season is not the one he will be sitting down confused not knowing what to do when his players lazying about on the pitch uncordinating waiting for his urgent input that can turn things arround he will rather chose to be quarreling with officials, his jacket, pitch or bottle water.