Sentences with phrase «setting themselves against»

And that could be just about anything other than the LinkedIn default cover image of geometric shapes set against a blue background.

Of course, if the United States is that dead set against Canadian legalization, it would seem to me we could use the spectre of legalization as a bargaining chip to obtain trade concessions from the U.S. (Keystone XL?).

«These costs need to be set against concerns that prolonged monetary policy stimulus may result in an excessive buildup of private sector vulnerabilities,» Lane said.

Another notable casualty on the first day of competition was former world No. 1 Ana Ivanovic, who surged ahead in the first set against world No. 12 Carla Suarez Navarro but lost 2 - 6 6 - 1 6 - 2 after two error - strewn sets.

Puerto Vallarta is one of Mexico's most picturesque beach destinations, with historic white - washed buildings, and cerulean seas set against a rugged mountain skyline.

Among other things, qualifying investors can get tax relief equal to 30 % of the cost of those shares, to be set against their income taxes owing for the year during which the shares were purchased.

The movie is just hard to watch, with so much ugliness and heartbreak set against the backdrop of Spielberg's saccharine, Disney-esque environment.

This week's panic in China's markets is set against of a backdrop of relatively positive news for the greater economy.

There are a lot of people dead - set against reform, and they are going to do just that.

The other, which he seems dead set against, is to follow the lead of our major trading partners and only tax corporate profits that are earned in this country.»

Set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, fallout from the 60s, and the continued fight for Civil Rights, these interviews are invaluable capsules from the past.

Florida is known for its oranges, so it make sense that the citrus fruits — set against an outline of the state — adorn the Sunshine State's license plate.

Set against this policy, the Daylight acquisition is no slam dunk.

Iran hawks have been dead - set against this deal since before negotiations began, and they have wanted to undo it for the last three years.

But these costs need to be set against concerns that prolonged monetary policy stimulus may result in an excessive buildup of private sector vulnerabilities.

But, I think this advantage needs to be set against the practical difficulty of figuring out what rules would need to be in place now to deal with all the potential financial stability excesses that could occur in the future.

The signing ceremony in the Kazakhstani capital Astana was set against a backdrop of heightened regional tension stoked by the ongoing political crisis in Ukraine.

Relying upon further macroprudential policy tools to contain housing risks in a timely manner is set against the mixed success of such measures to date.

The first committee, set up in April 2017 when Das was secretary of economic affairs, was dead set against allowing cryptocurrencies in India.

Private services are in demand with rising incomes and an increase in lifestyle diseases set against New Delhi's failure to provide decent healthcare.

However, this is set against a backdrop of limited growth in overall investment activity.

The upcoming flights are designed to reach altitudes of more than 65 miles above Earth, high enough to see the curvature of the planet set against the blackness of space.

Naturally that has to be set against the hassle factor and the chimp factor — that is, the fair chance you'll self - sabotage at some point because we're all barely down from the trees in investing terms.

The reusable rocket and capsule is designed to carry passengers to an altitude of more than 100 miles (62 km) above the planet so they can experience a few minutes of weightlessness and see the curvature of Earth set against the blackness of space.

«It's a pattern of exploiting wherever they can the divisions in U.S. society and making Americans question facts, question their own government and set them against each other,» Stent said.

When Church and kingdom are set against each other, then the language of the kingdom can be used, and is used, to sacralize whatever is the contemporary program for justice and peace.

= > miracles will not convince a heart set against God as only God through the Holy Spirit can do that.

Can you learn anything worthwhile with your heart set against a just and non biased observation of a particular subject of supposed interest?

The NEA failed to reach its goal, however, not just because it was dumb enough to finance the infamous Piss Christ, the anti-Catholic propaganda of homosexual activism, along with Robert Mapplethorpe's sadomasochistic sex photographs, but because it became somehow seized by the wrong - headed notion that art is good only when it sets itself against the political and social status quo.

But this role they play will be misunderstood, absolutized, unless they are «set against a panoply of other voices» from that same cultural milieu which exhibit the same or competing interests.

Beyzaie's Death of Yazdgerd (1982) is set against the backdrop of the Arab invasion of Persia in the seventh century.

In saying this, he set himself against biblical legislation that clearly argued otherwise.

I think we can be in this world and for this world, instead of always set against it so defensively and so judgmentally.

The demands on a woman to obtain the roundest education, the most fulfilled career, the highest promotion, the perfect relationship, and to «squeeze in two children» — all these are set against a backdrop of her diminishing fertility.

We needed to be involved in the ongoing struggle for justice, urgent, of course, but set against a background of long - term historical developments from which one could derive encouragement.

From the outset, Kekes sets himself against most Enlightenment and religious accounts of evil.

We must set against this rather daunting prospect Teresa of Avila's seemingly casual description of prayer as «simply a friendly and frequently solitary conversation with him who, as we know, loves us.»

Mr. Doer flinger, summarizing Smith, writes that «modern secular bio ethics often sets itself against religion, and [Smith] even quotes ethicist Daniel Callahan as saying that the «first thing» bioethics had to do to establish itself was «to push religion aside.

He notes that Balthasar set himself against the mainstream of modern thought from Descartes to Kant to Hegel with its «epistemological obsession» and «turn to the subject»» a belief that truth can only be found, and indeed is founded, in the subject.

The believer who says no to our historical present, who refuses the existence about and within him, who sets himself against our time and destiny, and yet seeks release in an «eternity» having no relation, or only a negative relation, to our present moment, is succumbing to the Gnostic danger.

Hence, at this stage Altizer responds negatively to Heidegger: «Perhaps nowhere else does Heidegger so clearly reveal how his attachment to a traditional mystical form of the holy so deeply sets him against the historical destiny of our time, and so likewise does it set him against Nietzsche.»

Or does God cease to be praiseworthy when gratitude has fled because the Lord seems to withhold blessing, when the divine face appears to be set against us, and when agony drives out peace?

Within this racialized schema, whiteness has been fashioned, as well as set against and above, all other racial categories.

Anyone who opposes this teaching sets themselves against Christ: «Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery» (Lk 16:18).

What is set against them?

Those who set themselves against God might well remember: «He who sits in the heavens laughs.

Once seen, he was unforgettable: Charlie the Tramp with his clipped moustache and soulful eyes set against a pallid face, his shabby but once - elegant clothes, his jaunty penguin gait, his dusty dignity.

While in one sense it is correct to identify this consciousness and experience as a human phenomenon, in another sense it is not; for a total vision, or a quest for it, must negate and oppose every isolated and particular expression of experience, and therefore it must set itself against everything which is given or immediately present to us as consciousness or experience.

A faith that clings to the diminishing fragments of a Word that is receding into the past must resist the actual presence of the Word and set itself against the forward movement of the Incarnation.

One group is set against another — all in the name of God.