Sentences with phrase «revulsion against»

Journalists have been asking me whether the revulsion against the abuse of Facebook data could be a turning point for the campaign to recover privacy.

As much as we love carbon fee - and - dividend, with its powerful logic of linking rising carbon taxes to rising «green checks,» the revulsion against Trump and the G.O.P. could make it harder to sell progressives on programs with a seemingly middle - of - the - road cast.

I had a revulsion against the intellectual in my own nature and in art.

It's not a bitter satire like Dr. Strangelove, but this hilarious 1966 comedy took advantage of a similar shift in sentiment: the revulsion against the potential for a world destroyed by superpower conflict.

Once toads arrived, and people began to realize that many of their beloved native species were not really affected, the revulsion against toads began to decrease.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) legislators want President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo to fire the deputy agric minister «as a mark of his revulsion against this unprovoked and reckless ethnocentric bigotry against the entire people of the three Northern Regions».

Jimmy Morales, a former TV comic elected Guatemala's new president on a wave of public revulsion against widespread graft, was to take...

After riding to victory on a wave of public revulsion against state lawmakers, Mr. Cuomo courted them like kings.

«Should he fail to quit this office voluntarily and now, we call on the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, to fire him immediately as a mark of his revulsion against this unprovoked and reckless ethnocentric bigotry against the entire people of the three Northern Regions».

Why wouldn't fresh elections, occurring against this sequence of events, produce a revulsion against both Labour and the Tories and a further Lib Dem surge?

The political dimension enters because there was popular revulsion against weapons which most people did not understand; very few people have direct experience of being gassed, for example.

If the horrors of the modern age suggest that human evil is perhaps even more awful in its reach than he imagined, it is also the case that there is a broadly shared human revulsion against such evil.

Our revulsion against the moral horrors of our age can incline us to reject anything less than complete and immediate reversal of Roe v. Wade and other repellent aspects of the current social order.

There are people with academic papers that discuss that the societal inhibitions and revulsion against it and that they can be broken down on moral and esthetic grounds.

So it was quite impossible for the engineers to understand what the priests were talking about, for the brick makers to share the architects» vision, for the philosophers to agree on the function of the tower and for the conservationists and poets to overcome their revulsion against such a monstrous desecration of the pastoral environment close to the shores of the Mediterranean.

Much of the opposition to the idea of evolution in the nineteenth century derived from a revulsion against the idea that humans were descended from ape - like creatures long ago.

In our own times the increasing revulsion against war is also presented as a lure by God.

Detailing the general Indian revulsion against the violence in Gujarat and the search for justice by its victims, she highlights the «ability of well - informed citizens to turn against religious nationalism and to rally behind the values of pluralism and equality.»

Sifton never mentions any of this, but Niebuhr's strident opposition to Roosevelt's preparations for war helps us to grasp the revulsion against war that his generation felt after World War I. Even for Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society did not lead straight to the interventionism of 1940; he had had to struggle for eight years to get there.

Many of us have a powerful personal revulsion against homosexuality — a revulsion that goes far beyond reason to what almost seems to us an instinctual level.

In part it is a revulsion against the sentimentality which substituted for the ancient symbols, with the realities to which they pointed, the dubious realities of man's inner religious and moral life.

The story behind the conversion of St. Cyprian states that it was a revulsion against a decline in the standard of the society.

The revulsion against established rituals was a part of the era of student disillusionment with the role of institutions.

Much opposition to the concept of evolution in the nineteenth century derived from a revulsion against the idea that humans were descended from ape - like animals long ago.

British theologian and historian Alister McGrath explains why some are atheists: «What propels people toward atheism is above all a sense of revulsion against the excesses and failures of organized religion.»

Since the late 1950s, there has a been «a growing revulsion against aggression on smaller scales,» empowered by movements for «civil rights, women's rights, children's rights, gay rights, and animal rights.»

Not exact matches

Rather, Wilson's path, in tracing a strong revulsion on Shakespeare's part against Campion and his suicidal followers, is diametrically opposed to mine.

Revulsion at acts of rape and homicide is channeled against this small group of despised, dispossessed individuals, branded subhuman and antisocial, therefore unworthy to live.

The charge of blasphemy expresses not so much a rational judgment as a passionate, almost instinctive, revulsion of feeling against what seems to be a violation of sanctities.

But when married couples use contraception, divorces are common even among Christians, and premarital sex is not the grave taboo it once was, where is the rationale for keeping up a barrier against same - sex relations, other than misplaced fear and xenophobic revulsion?

What is perhaps most interesting about American culture today is the revulsion, sometimes inarticulate but emerging with increasing clarity, against the assumption of a dark future.

However it is re-assuring to see that you share the revulsion of practically all Gooners against the ghastly GAZIDIS.

A statement issued by the Judicial Secretary, Justice Alex B. Poku - Acheampong said the move is in furtherance of «the recent groundswell of public revulsion and media and civil society advocacy against the menace of illegal mining, commonly referred to as «galamsey».

Her immediate boss (Benedict Cumberbatch) engages in casual sexual harassment against her, and the other male employees stare with revulsion or throw thinly disguised threats at her.

Francis Bacon paints revulsion — against fine art, against the flesh, and against himself.

The French Farmers case supports this obliquely, but more recently, the Court has recognised that public revulsion at crimes against children may be a legitimate factor in deciding on expulsion of such criminals.

Because of the moral panics that have been weaponized against everything from Dungeons & Dragons to Grand Theft Auto in the past, everyone who works in or around the gaming industry has a certain, marrow - deep revulsion to arguments that smack of «what about the children!?»