Sentences with phrase «stood against king»

He who stood against king and court in defense of religious liberty, and saw his mother spend thirteen weeks in prison for refusing to pay a church tax.

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Moral courage is not always popular, and King paid the ultimate price for taking a stand against injustice.

2 The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers conspire together against the LORD and His Anointed One: 3 «Let us tear off their chains and free ourselves from their restraints.»

Unlike Martin Luther King Jr., who I respect enormously for his stand against racism but otherwise view as just another lying charlatan shaman, I have not committed adultery.

Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying, Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal: Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.

He often echoes King's attitude that this generation not only must stand against the vitriolic words and violent actions of the bad people, but also must rebuke the appalling silence and indifference of the so - called good people who enable social stagnation.

In Dawson's words, «[king and priest] were not individuals standing over against other individuals, but parts of a common social organism and representatives of a common spiritual order.»

Against the angry censure of a scandalized populace, Cromwell defends the whims of his king, to whom he stands in a relationship similar to Bonhoeffer's child to his father, or Mantel to her mother: a relationship in which loyalty to a flawed caregiver takes precedence over loyalty to truth.

And this regime was, naturally, a fixed hierarchy of social power, atop which stood the gods, a little lower kings and nobles, and at the bottom slaves; the order of society, both divine and natural in provenance, was a fixed and yet somehow fragile «hierarchy within totality» that had to be preserved against the forces that surrounded it, while yet drawing on those forces for its spiritual sustenance.

A group of the Wahhabis who went to great lengths in enforcing these doctrines and in standing adamant against any innovation, even including useful contributions of modern civilization, were suppressed by King Abul Aziz Ibn Sa`ud who believed in a wise, moderate policy of modernization.

10:11); He rained down fire from heaven and burned up the enemy soldiers who came to get Elijah (2 King 1:9 - 15); He killed 185,000 Assyrian soldiers who were attacking Jerusalem (2 Kings 19:35); He blinded the false prophet Bar - Jesus, who stood against the teaching of Paul (Acts 13:9 - 11).

If you are standing with the King, if you are seated at His table, then who can come against you?

But even those who fault Vashti for her stand against her husband and king can't deny the fact that without Queen Vashti, there would never be a Queen Esther, and that ultimately, it would take the defiance of two queens to save the Jews — Esther by appearing before the king, and Vashti, by refusing to.

Yahweh stood for justice and brotherhood, against luxury for the few and want for the many, and especially against the iniquitous accretion of oppressive power by which a family heritage like Naboth's could be seized by the king even at the cost of murder.

So Haman went out that day joyful and with a glad heart; but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, and that he did not stand or tremble before him, he was filled with indignation against Mordecai.

Then the king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden; but Haman stood before Queen Esther, pleading for his life, for he saw that evil was determined against him by the king.

The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.»

KJV Act 4:26 The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.

He is instead «the Lord God of Hosts,» as Mother Abagail, his prophet in The Stand, might put it, intervening directly in the lives of his people and demanding that they conform those lives to his will — whether it's the chosen few who survive The Stand's superflu and end up shepherded west to Boulder, Colorado, to form a new Israel set against the Babylon of Las Vegas; or the motley heroes of Desperation, King's finest 1990s novel, who coalesce around a «God - bombed» eleven - year - old to battle a demon called Tak, accidentally let loose in the Nevada desert.

Austin Rivers is already $ 25,000 in the hole for this season, after being fined by the NBA for throwing a seat cushion into the stands during the Clippers» game against the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday Wednesday night.

I remember one FA cup final against Man U where king Henry was in the stands though we lost we were not well beaten.

In this way, King realized just how much was on the line when we decide to take a stand, go against the grain, and charge on.

Then when # 3 DD was on her way, we stood the king single mattress up against the wall, pushed the queen bed against it, got rid of the «big cot» rails and bought a fire - engine bunk bed with solid «walls».

«In the telephone conversation with King Salman, President Buhari reiterated the need to strengthen international support and coalition in the fight against terrorism and violent extremism, noting that when the world stands together, there is no way good would not prevail over evil,» the statement added.

The governor needs to stand forthrightly beside King and Regents Chair Meryl Tisch and against misconceptions and delays.

As it stands now, five of the nine Republicans who represent New York in the chamber will vote against it: Reps. Peter King, Lee Zeldin, Dan Donovan, John Faso and Elise Stefanik.

Like 300, Meet the Spartans chronicles the youth and training of Spartan king Leonidas (Sean Maguire), his defense of his nation against the invading Persian army of Xerxes (Borat's Ken Davitian), the efforts by Leonidas» wife (called Queen Margo here, and played by Carmen Electra) to help rally political will for her husband's cause, and the Spartans» bold last stand.

As the Nazi forces roll across Western Europe and the threat of invasion of the UK, Churchill must resist attempts by his own political party and an initially sceptical King George VI, to stand firm against the dangers facing his country and not buckle to the Nazis.

They're exploited by the king, who eventually regards them as mechanical babymakers to be cast off after repeated malfunctions; they're misused by the kind of society that allows girls and young women to be traded off in marriages of convenience that stand to benefit their callous, class - conscious elders; and they're betrayed by each other, as sister turns against sister in a bid to catch royal favour.

Steve King, president of the Pet Industry Distributors Association (PIDA) in Abingdon, Md., said all major pet associations have united with PIJAC to take a stand against legislative bans on pet sales in stores.

Together with Donald and Goofy, Sora adventures through different Disney worlds like Halloween Town (The Nightmare Before Christmas), The Land of Dragons (Mulan), Port Royal (Pirates of the Caribbean), Pride Lands (Lion King), Space Paranoids (Tron), and many more to stand up against the Heartless and the evil Organization XIII.

But with so many memorable encounters against the King Koopa, which ones stand out as the best?

The winning photo in last year's Day in the Life of the Law Library photo contest, it showed Stina McClintock, library technician at Seattle's King County Law Library, silhouetted against a window as she stood on one stilleto - heeled foot on a stepstool returning a law book to its rightful place.

Check out our Oculus Rift vs. HTC Vive spec comparison below for an in - depth look at how we think the two long - standing kings of VR stand up against one another.