Sentences with phrase «rear guard actions»

Among other things, it makes that evangelical writer, that Catholic bishop, and that Gettysburg professor think that, as believers, they are fighting a rear guard action.

It's getting to the point now that, far from feeling like I am on the front lines battling dogma and superst.ition, I feel like I am mopping up the remaining pockets of resistance to logic and reason in a boring rear guard action.

If Arsenal qualify top 4 in the league it will be hailed as a brilliant rear guard action motivated by the greatest Arsenal manager ever.

The fungus is still doing a bit of rear guard action, but pretty soon it should be all gone.

Traditional book publishers were caught off guard by the explosion in ebooks and have been fighting a rear guard action for several years now.

A rear guard action where the end justifies the means, even if it meant destroying the careers of the students.They knew they would be caught.

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The S.E.C. is engaged in a rear - guard action to minimize the harm from provisions in the act that it opposed, like crowdsourcing.

Catholicism, for them, is not a reactionary, rear - guard action.

Historically this has been a rear - guard action which has surrendered further territory as new areas are explored.

Despite that, the more fervent Remainers continue to fight a deluded rear - guard action.

What was referred to as the «pro-Golden-Hill» faction fought a rear - guard action to keep the county in the Ulster nursing - home business, but fell short of a majority by three votes last week.

The leader of this rear - guard action is Diane Ravitch, a professor at New York University who was an assistant secretary of education in the administration of George H.W. Bush.

A challenge from Richie Stanaway in the # 99 entry forced Gavin to play a rear - guard action and the chase continued for laps on end, with James Calado joining the fray and creating an gripping three - way, sprint race - style dogfight that captivated the television cameras.

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These intransigent leaders at the Climate Change Conference evidently became so isolated from the family of humanity at the end of the last day of meetings that their unilateral, morally offensive «rear - guard action» in defense of selfish, irresponsible national aims crumbled, as is common with such unsavory efforts.

The old companies of that system are fighting a strong rear - guard action to prevent change from happening.

It's not that stratigraphers want to fight a rear - guard action against the realities of human influence on the planet, added Whitney Autin, a geologist at the State University of New York, Brockport, who has criticized the Anthropocene's stratigraphic credentials.

Perhaps you were not aware that a desperate rear - guard action was mounted to stop the plate tectonics theory, including official reports from the geological societies and desperate land - bridge theories to account for vicariance that were finally swept away with data showing geological formations across e.g. africa to S. america were continuous and the sea floor spreading data.

As the 1990s progressed and the rear - guard action against restrictions on smoking faded, The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition started receiving funds from Exxon (among other oil companies) and its «junk science» website began to carry material attacking climate change science.

It is unopposed by law society advertising — not even a rear - guard action to protect the general practitioner.