Sentences with phrase «stand against a tradition»

someone who stands against tradition and law, not to mention common sense.

But expect drama and stupidity from your associates and family when you first take a stand against a tradition of man which violates biblical truth.

This Bill stands against that tradition and is strong evidence that the damage that will be done to Canada's reputation is but a ready price the Conservatives are willing to pay to capture that single - minded, anti-immigrant vote.

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More generally, it stands within the «realist» tradition in affirming the objective reality of the orders of truth and other kinds of excellence, as against nominalists and subjectivists who believe that knowledge is essentially a human construct and values are nothing but human preferences.

lol, yes clay i am an atheist... i created the sun whorshipping thing to have argument against religion from a religious stand point... however, the sun makes more sense then something you can't see or feel — the sun also gives free energy... your god once did that for the jews, my gives it to the human race as well as everything else on the planet, fuk even the planet is nothing without the sun... but back to your point — yes it is very hypocritical of me, AND thats the point, every religious person i have ever met has and on a constant basis broken the tenets of there faith without regard for there souls — it seems to only be the person's conscience that dictates what is right and wrong... the belief in a god figure is just because its tradition to and plus every else believes so its always to be part of the group instead of an outsider — that is sadly human nature to be part of the group.

This was the issue when Martin Luther stood unafraid against the full weight of tradition and dogma, and in the name of God's Word insisted that the Church was wrong.

And, as the prophets later saw, all this presented two focal points of peril to the best traditions that had come from the desert: it substituted for the old austerity the alluring licentiousness of baal worship, and it sanctioned the commercial inequalities and tyrannies, which the baals of sophisticated Canaan sponsored against the ancient ideas of social solidarity, equality, and justice for which Yahweh stood.

This affirmation stands against a strand of the classical tradition that argues we must affirm death in order to fully embrace life, «that we can not see life clearly except through the lens of death, but that once we have seen it with such clarity, we can savor it.»

But the dark side of tradition and pride will stand in our way until we start making wiser choices that go against our natural greedy instincts.

But with these reflections Whitehead takes a stand against a great philosophical tradition.

It can make these partly difficult associations capable of standing against the philosophical tradition's inconsistent suggestions for a solution and against the common sense of the present day (whereby it incidentally makes intelligible why philosophy has given up the effort to develop a cosmology).

The only thing preventing such a practice is long - standing tradition that weighs against participating in cases that were argued before a different set of justices.

Fidel Castro, in contrast, admired the General as a national liberator, in the Bolivarian tradition (and also for standing up to the Americans), while the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat celebrated him as the defender of his people against military occupation.

Trump's apparent commitment to stand by incumbent Republican senators against his former campaign CEO and White House strategist shows that even a tradition - bucking president may hew to the party line in the interest of moving his agenda forward and maintaining a governing majority.

Tradition Not Trademark supports the Standing Rock Sioux's battle against the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Space is too short to highlight every noteworthy feature, but here are a few that have stood time's test: E. D. Hirsch's placement of progressive education within the Romantic tradition (first issue), Joel Best's skeptical view of school violence (2002), Michael Podgursky's discovery of the well - paid teacher (2003), Bruno Manno's and Bryan Hassel's takes on the charter movement (2003), Brian Jacob and Steve Levitt's technique for catching teachers who cheat (2004), Barry Garelick's jeremiad against progressive math (2005), Frederick Hess and Martin West's exposé of school «strike phobia» (2006), Roland Fryer's identification of «acting white» (2006), Clay Christiansen and Michael Horn's vision for virtual learning (2008), and Milton Gaither's authoritative look at home schooling (2009).

The Artists Against Abuse fundraiser benefiting The Retreat is a long - standing Hamptons tradition, stretching back to the days when it was the Plate Auction.

First, as a result, the Italian (and almost isolated) legal tradition on the limitation period is being kept standing still and protected against any kind of influence by the defensive approach of the ICC.