Sentences with phrase «struggle against it with»

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Over the years Alfa has come out on top in bitter power struggles even with people closely linked to Vladimir Putin: it defended its telecoms empire against Leonid Reiman, Putin's communications minister, who ultimately left the government after a string of disclosures about his links to an offshore company.

But during an interview with NPR on Friday morning, Ryan struggled to explain the difference between the allegations of sexual misconduct made against Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, which Ryan said are credible, and those made against President Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election.

When he joined the company in 2004 it was still struggling against competitor XM, but with his help it dominated the rush for subscribers and wound up absorbing XM in 2008.

For example, I was recently working with an executive recruiter who did 90 % of his business in a single industry, where despite some success he was struggling to get a foothold against larger competitors.

Algeria said on Sunday it expected heavy hostage casualties after its troops ended a desert siege, but Western governments warned against criticizing tactics used by their vital ally in the struggle with Islamists across the Sahara.

Other parts of the plan include «Help Those Struggling with Addiction» and «Cut off the Supply of Illicit Drugs,» which is the section that includes seeking the death penalty against certain drug traffickers.

Those plants are aging, and if we replace them with new nuclear plants they would struggle to compete against the shrinking costs of wind and solar.

Interesting topic... I struggle with this idea because like most people that I imagine read your blog, I earned the money... creating a legacy of family who does not have to provide for themselves goes against my core beliefs.

They all struggle with how do you lean against the American healthcare system?

The part I struggle with is that ultimately the mortgage constitutes leverage whose value works for me if the market appreciates (woohoo the money I didn't pay the mortgage off with appreciates in the market), and against me if the market declines (aww shucks — the money I didn't pay the mortage off with is worth less now cause the market is down).

I struggle with this concept only because it is costly to be against your long term portfolio.

As shown below, the US$ gold price is butting up against lateral resistance that also now coincides with the 200 - day moving average (MA), and the HUI is struggling with resistance defined by a trend - line that dates back to the August - 2014 short - term top.

Debt consolidation.If you're struggling with credit card debt, borrowing against your equity can be extremely attractive because of the low interest rates — much lower than any you'll find on a credit card — using a HELOC to pay off other debts will give you an easy single payment at low interest rates.

First, the cost of China's fragmented decision - making process, with ministries competing against one another and generating gridlock and large political factions engaged in constant struggle, has been mounting.

While Facebook is still struggling with the debacle, the development in a major lawsuit filed against it in 2015 has only increased the problems for the Mark Zuckerberg.

And before you rebuttal about how Jews had better technology because of their alliance with the U.S. remember how we struggled just to fight against Iraq in the middle east.

Kierkegaard shares with Kant the assumption that being moral inevitably involves a struggle to thwart the impulses of human nature, which by definition must tug the agent in the direction of aesthetic indulgence — and where does ethics derive the authority to make me go against my feelings?

Here is where people like myself generally part ways with most people in circles you may associate in: People like me struggle with sin, succeeding against it, at least in some measure for spaces in time, then failing again and ultimately casting ourselves upon God's grace, which is really good — reassuring, restorative, revitalizing.

Lapomarda's own work, along with that of the Israeli diplomat Pinchas Lapide, Three Popes and the Jews, and the eminent Jewish historian Jeno Levai, Hungarian Jewry and the Papacy, is a good place to start for a fair and sympathetic account of the Catholic side of the unrelenting and often bitter struggle waged during the war years against both Nazi and Stalinist forms of atheistic secularism.

It was the spiritual guide, the moral and legal code, the political system, the sustenance of life, whether that meant endurance of hardship, the endless struggle against nature, battle with enemies, or the inevitable processes of life and death.

I ask this because I've struggled with similar feelings throughout my life — processing various failures, weaknesses, and disappointments as practical signs that God is not for me, but against me — either toying with me, cursing me, punishing me, rejecting me, or choosing not to bless me for not living up to his standards.

This inevitably must come to an end, we have to grow up, exercise our free will, and live with the consequences of our decisions and live with or struggle against the decisions of others that affect our lives.

A bright young student raised in a tradition of conservative Evangelical pietism, Mouw recalls that his pastors «often viewed the intellectual life against the background of a cosmic spiritual battle in which the human intellect, especially as it aligns itself with the cause of the academy, is inevitably on the wrong side of the struggle.»

The Bible witnesses to the struggle of the Hebrews in the wilderness where they were so preoccupied with the lack of creature comforts that they constantly complained against God and Moses.

I struggle with the fact that people sinned in Noah's time and that sin was counted against them in the form of the flood.

It was a man from the council who referred me to Christians Against Poverty (CAP), a charity which provides practical and emotional support to people struggling with debt.

After MAT (a campaign that will continue with the shift to the WTO where there is a project to coöpt, in the framework of the American lobbying system, a part of the opponents) concentration could be focussed on the tax on capital (Tobin tax etc.), the struggle against the plans of the IMF, the struggle against Third World debt.

Whether standing over the piano mercilessly coaxing a budding prodigy or arguing at the kitchen table over how many green beans are enough, these mothers gave their kids something to live for, strive for, react against; struggle with and grow away from.

Big deal is a kind of this, Sanson Waters had got to give their motors department to Deo and Deo have to give their electronic department to Sanson but in this process, workers are completely excluded and struggling fiercely against this trend with the help of KCTU.

If God is indeed omnipotent, the one whose will is being realized in our history, God is not one whom we should serve but rather one whom we should loathe and despise and against whom we should struggle with all our strength.

I really struggle with concerns that participating in a church community that restricts the roles of women in leadership, or that actively campaigns against the civil rights of gays and lesbians, makes me complicit in those activities.

It plays its role of violence with, before and against God (the struggle of Abraham and Jacob) only when it refrains from any other violence.

Lila is very much the story of her baptism, perhaps even her conversion, and her struggle both with and against the possibility that she is among the elect.

I went to be educated and to show solidarity with those struggling against the contras.

He struggled against that kind of thinking and developed a process - relational vision that has much in common with Buddhist thought.

I have been struggling with this question for several years now, and while I am not ready to claim I have a «solution» (nothing but pride would make such a claim), I do have a theological hypothesis which will be tested against Scripture.

So we buy fancy cars and travel first class and build mansions for ourselves and furnish them with luxuries to satisfy our whims while our neighbors on this planet live in shacks and struggle against oppression and watch their children die young from lack of food and medical care.

To struggle against the conditions that make for or exacerbate suffering, and to do so with compassion — «suffering with» one another — is how we find redemption in suffering.

The Protestant Religious Right, they argue, has become a coalition partner with Catholicism in the struggle against abortion.

Surely Mr. Larson is right that the man in question should be able to find in his local church those who can help him with his struggle against temptations.

With his treachery against Laban just behind him, and the awful reminder of his shame against father and brother just ahead in the inevitable meeting with Esau, God falls upon him as a nocturnal spirit who, after a struggle that endures throughout the night, again gives — this time simply in a name — both promise and blessWith his treachery against Laban just behind him, and the awful reminder of his shame against father and brother just ahead in the inevitable meeting with Esau, God falls upon him as a nocturnal spirit who, after a struggle that endures throughout the night, again gives — this time simply in a name — both promise and blesswith Esau, God falls upon him as a nocturnal spirit who, after a struggle that endures throughout the night, again gives — this time simply in a name — both promise and blessing:

But if, on the other hand, the metaphysical assertion that God is the subject of all change is conjoined with an assertion of the reality of oppression, then we can deduce that God favors the struggle against oppression, and that there are theological reasons for holding that some things are lawful and some not lawful.

In challenging process theology to state explicitly that God sides with the oppressed, and to do so in a way that does not rule out the possibility of righteous counterviolence, I understand Jones to be challenging process theology to explicate the social - ethical consequences of accepting certain metaphysical truths in order that black theology might measure its ethical content against the needs of the struggle for liberation.

Yet in spite of the fact that the Jewish people have struggled endlessly against their election, with the most disastrous consequences for themselves and for the rest of humankind, the divine election remains unaffected because it is an unconditional one, based solely on God's love.

Hartshorne's theological ethics is consistent with such expressions of black theology which, drawing upon the philosophy of black power, maintain that, under certain circumstances, the oppressed may be compelled to engage in violent struggle against an oppressor.

What we struggle against, what we struggle for, what we struggle with all test and hone us.

Why do we struggle so much because its our old nature that fights against our new nature in Christ which ever one we give into is the one that rules us.But as a born again believer sin shall not have dominion over us.The battle has been won by Christ so by believing in him we also walk as he does as a victor not a victim.Its his holy spirit that empowers us to do what is impossible in the flesh.But to do that our old nature or heart must be crucified with Christ.brentnz

Because Milk was the first outspokenly gay elected official in California, he is a martyr to the cause of gay rights, and the film (with Sean Penn) emphasizes Milk's struggle against homophobia.

However, the secularist «hatred» against those who struggle with and those who fail in adapting to the changing rules is no more tolerant, or forgiving than they want the Christians become.

He came out against middle - class tax increases, said he now supported the mid-1990s welfare reform, and he made an effort to seem like an abortion moderate who struggled with the moral complexity of the issue.