Sentences with phrase «rather than war»

Although Wiley's sitters suggest the mix of might and grandeur seen in the historical paintings, rather than war heroes and members of the aristocracy, they are young men from inner - city areas such as South Central Los Angeles, Detroit, and Harlem.

Similarly, Otto Piene affirms light as the source of all life, using fire and later electricity to make work about expansion and freedom — transformation through joy rather than war (Zur Geschichte des lichts, 1959 and Ghost, 1975).

Playing as an average soldier rather than a war hero could have made for an interesting take on Metal Gear's gameplay.

BE: Stephen Elop, the Chief Executive of Nokia, said that his company is in a war of ecosystems and a war of platforms, rather than a war of products.

I'm a soft hart guy ill make love rather than war.

Or maybe we believe that the best things in life are won through peace rather than war.

Indeed, you could argue that Jesus» entire life — from being born in a barn in the midst of a genocide, to hanging out with prostitutes and drunks, to healing on the Sabbath and touching the untouchables, to riding into Jerusalem on donkey rather than a war horse, to healing the ear of a Roman soldier after it had been cut off by Jesus» allies — was a stinging indictment of religious and political power.

Not exact matches

The French president warned that trade wars, rather than trade deals, «destroy jobs» and raise prices for the middle class.

The move suggests that the content wars continue for so - called «over-the-top» streaming services, which are distributed over the Internet, rather than exclusively through conventional cable TV packages.

Before creating the first Stars Wars movie in the 1970's, George Lucas planned for at least six films and started at episode four, rather than episode one.

Russia is thought to use military contractors in Syria rather than its military — experts speculate it's to maintain deniability for acts of war and conceal the true cost of fighting from the Russian people.

North and South Korea have technically still been at war since then, as the cessation of fighting was only enabled by an armistice signed in 1953 rather than a peace agreement.

The resultant maelstrom of violence massively weakened the USSR rather than strengthening it, but the ultimate victory of Soviet forces in World War II appeared to justify the Terror.

It shifted the action from World War II Germany to Mars, where the enemies were evil demons rather than the evil Nazis.

«We want this resolved on the merits rather than through a wasteful war of attrition,» Kanojia wrote at the time.

The wars of the current and future are being fought in cyberspace, rather than on the front lines holding a fully automatic machine gun.

The sweep and urgency of the statements from both sides of the Atlantic called to mind a computer - age version of a Cold War air raid drill, but asking citizens to upgrade their passwords rather than duck and cover.

It stands to reason that Trump would seek an aggressive attorney, since all of his other moves in the last week indicate a decision to fight a war against Mueller, rather than seek a negotiated path.

They find it absurd that Mr. Trump is risking a trade war with Europe, the United States» biggest trading partner, rather than joining forces to rein in Chinese trade practices they both oppose.

Top of the risk charts was the US's new - found protectionism, with trade tariffs having the potential to batter investor confidence — especially if the US's trading partners, rather than adopting a mollifying stance, choose instead to meet fire with fire by launching an all - out trade war.

The decades - long conflict that is currently raging over short - termism and activist hedge funds strikes me as analogous to the Thirty Years» War of the 17th Century, albeit fought with statistics («empirical evidence»), op - eds and journal articles rather than cannon, pike and sword.

China's Foreign Minister has warned China would take «appropriate and necessary responses», noting that no one wins a trade war and adding that China and the US should strive to be partners rather than rivals.

Calabria's remarks appeared to reassure investors that the administration is working to reach an amicable trade deal rather than spark a trade war.

It is characteristic nowadays to talk with horror of killing rather than of murder, and hence, since in war you have committed yourself to killing — i.e. «accepted an evil» — not to mind whom you kill.

If you meant to use the long division symbol rather than square root, it looks to me like religion divided by unthinking, heartless people equals conflict and war...

I deplore war and killing and I would let myself die rather than kill because I follow the teaching of Jesus Christ.

If he were president, he would insult most heads of state in the first week and do something crazy like suggest that we invest in our own country rather than wage war.

Would rather spend money on fighting wars than on supporting our fellow man.

If just - war theory is in poor repute today it is because it has been pressed into service to justify war rather than to prevent or restrain it; rather than being used to advance the cause of peace or justice, the theory has often provided a quickly accessible patina of moral justifiability to disguise aggression and expansionist policy.

Rather than praise the college for warmly inviting President Bush to give its commencement address, Neuhaus chose to chide the institution because one hundred teachers (less than 30 percent of the faculty) published a respectful letter disagreeing with the very reasonable view that the Iraq War policy is not de-facto «God's will.»

lol, I laugh rather than cry, but «Roman Empire» is being revived & that's how majority will perish... nuclear war between them & radical Islamists.

But itt is true that in the Gospels the emphasis is on peace rather than on war.

For their part, AHA inserted «a brief description of the history of the Pledge of Allegiance, including the information that «under God» was only added as recently as 1954 in response to the Cold War and that some Americans feel that the Pledge should focus on unity rather than religion.»

«Pacifism is opposition to war and violence, even to the point of allowing self - harm rather than a resort to violent resistance.»

Its real intent was more than plain ridicule and insult of Mohammed and Islam but rather not less than creating war and chaos between all religions.

But the horror stories you hear — where aid just helps a dictator build new palaces — mostly come from a time when aid was designed to win allies for the Cold War rather than to improve people's lives.

So rather than wearing out my voice in calling for an end to evangelicalism's culture wars, I think it's time to focus on finding and creating church among its many refugees — women called to ministry, our LGBTQ brother and sisters, science - lovers, doubters, dreamers, misfits, abuse survivors, those who refuse to choose between their intellectual integrity and their faith or their compassion and their religion, those who have, for whatever reason, been «farewelled.»

What if, for instance, the massive funding for cancer research in the post-World War II period had been directed toward public health and preventive medicine, including nutrition research, rather than toward «cures»?

The networks now have little choice but to treat the war as a dramatic entertainment, rather than as an occasion for asking the larger and subtler questions that need to be asked.)

For while he keeps his authorial distance from the angry narrator of Lancelot, there is no mistaking Percy's basic sympathy with his Nietzschean madman who prefers war to «what this age calls love» and who had rather «die with T. J. Jackson at Chancellorsville [than] live with Johnny Carson in Burbank.»

How about a study, that religious Americans are more likely to support a war or blame all troubles on God, rather than themselves... You believe or don't all you want, but please stop misleading people, with worthless studies and instead put more energy and resources to help those in need...

Yet the scale of the air war has gone far beyond the UN authorization, as did the continuing escalation of the war aims so that by February 15 Pentagon projections were assuming the demand for unconditional surrender rather than withdrawal, and by February 25 flanking actions were undertaken to prevent withdrawal.

Rather than allege any government or news media conspiracy he instead laid out how market forces and the timeless allure of war make a deceitful stew.

Quite unlike the conciliatory language of President George W. Bush, however, who repeatedly stated during his presidency that Americans were at war with terrorism rather than Islam, this rhetoric has surely stoked rather than doused American / Islamic tensions.

This is even more true in the instances where Jesus tells His disciples that rather than go to war with their enemies, they should love their enemies, pray for them, and bless them (cf. Matt 5:43 - 48).

While the reality of culture wars can hardly be denied, I prefer to think of First Things in terms of conversation rather than warfare.

Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not with nuclear weapons (or, indeed, other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military technology, but instead with conventional weaponry, often of old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry on their persons.

We need to contemplate the Concordat Analogy, I think, rather than dismiss it as cheap culture - war rhetoric.

We have done everything wrong, and we have turned away from Him, and we have gone to war with Him, yet rather than make us claw our way back to Him and grovel before Him, begging for his forgiveness, He comes running after us, seeking to restore the friendship with us that He lost when we left.

The reason is that without a willingness to go to war, rather than treat this like a Chicago homicide is complete fantasy.