Sentences with phrase «struggle against the powers»

He was struggling against the powers, the idols, the false gods, not contending for political justice or some human good.

I said above that the struggle against the powers is a secret and sometimes an invisible struggle; well, love is its visible form.

The Second Vatican Council teaches: «A monumental struggle against the powers of darkness pervades the whole history of man.

But orginally and fundamentally, religious beliefs are systematic human acts of struggle against the power elites which dominate the people.

Or it may be the social project or the struggle against the powers that is the real work of Christ, and so the death draws its meaning as the last measure of devotion to that struggle.

Scott Gragg struggles against power rushers; he's not the ideal right tackle, but he can't play left tackle....

Ohio State has not recruited defensive tackles at an elite level recently, and it was assumed entering the season that the Buckeyes could struggle against power - run schemes.

«I think humour is the main weapon of struggle against power and capitalism.

Not exact matches

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.

For instance, the criminal case against former minister of economic development Aleksey Ulyukayev — initiated in 2016 by Igor Sechin, head of the state - owned oil company Rosneft — was evidently part of Sechin's struggle against Prime Minister Dmitriy Medvedev's government over power and resources.

Instead, it has been captured by a nasty power struggle that largely pits Kalanick against one of his earliest investors, Benchmark.

Czech author Milan Kundera has said that the struggle of human beings against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

First of all, the death that Jesus endured was the consequence of the struggle he waged against those who wielded religious and political power.

The struggle is against a system of Corporate Power profiting from hunger to pharmaceuticals for disease and other forms of human wants.

The Kingdom of God is a spiritual kingdom, and as such, our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers of the air (Eph 6:10 - 20).

Paul reminds us that «our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realm» (Ephesians 6:12).

The philosophy of black power insists that, given the reality of oppression, there will be struggle against oppression.

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.

They are seen in the struggle against the MAI for the cancellation of Third World debt, the struggle against embargoes imposed by an imperial power, the United States, on entire populations who are paying the price.

A sustained struggle is required against the globally organized power of the TNCs, the rich countries, the WB, IMF, WTO and the collaborative local elites.

The struggle for justice creates conflicts with the powers of establishment that are against change.

We no longer have to struggle against Dagon or Ishtar or Melkart, but against thrones, powers, and dominions.

Over the course of cultural evolution, due to an impotence at the heart of the will and to recurrent failures in ever - renewed struggles for ascendency, human will to power lost its good cheer and creatively turned against itself.

I believe there are «powers» against which we all struggle.

For our struggle is not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

Instead, this struggle is against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

The participation of the Minjung is being short - circuited in the vortex of these complex global power dynamics; their network is undercut in every direction, so that their struggle is difficult; and the violence of power against them grows more sophisticated day by day, intensifying their unrelieved sufferings.

How can we struggle against the principalities and powers without adopting their methods and goals?

«Our struggle is not against actual corrupt individuals, but against those in power in general, against their authority, against the global order and the ideological mystification which sustains it.»

Apart from the envisagement of the forms, creativity is «chaos, burning fire,» the divine - demonic power that the prophets of Israel struggled against in declaring Yahweh to be a God of justice.

While the Psalmist seems to believe that his enemies are people of flesh and blood, further revelation from the New Testament reveals that our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, powers, and rulers of the darkness of this age, and against spiritual forces of wickedness (Eph 6:12).

Theodore Walker, in «Hartshorne's Neoclassical Theism from the Perspective of Black Theology,» evaluates the role of black power in the on - going struggle for freedom against oppression.

The life story of the people is indeed that of religio - cultural struggle against the dominant religious and cultural powers.

The movement of Jesus for the Reign of God is a combined struggle against the culture of the Roman and Greek imperial powers and principalities, and against the encroaching cultural pollution in the life of God's people.

Even though resistance takes many different forms (against the MAI, towards a jubilee year in 2000, for the Tobin tax, seeking alternatives, etc.), and even if the struggles are specific in their aims (farmers, workers, indigenous or coloured people, citizens, ecologists or women, the urban poor, etc.) and though the various co-ordination groups are numerous (Peoples Power for the XXI Century in Asia, São Paulo Forum in Latin America, etc.), all of these have a common thread: they all work to highlight the unacceptable nature of the current economic system.

Despite leading the league during the regular season with the man - advantage, the Predators struggled significantly against the Red Wings to produce a power - play goal, scoring only twice in the series.

Camby and Nen √ ™ are important because Martin struggles against the bigger power forwards....

Defeat to bottom side Leicester City after another insipid display, this time at the King Power Stadium in a game that represented a local derby of sorts, helped to turn Villa fans even further against Lambert as his side have struggled for goals all season.

«Joined to the feeling of law, a feeling of impossibility of struggling against the law; a child's obedience, the basic condition for all further education, is thus solidly founded for the time to come... The most generally necessary condition for moral will power and character is the unconditional obedience of the child.»

The disappearance of the man who had ruled from Addis Ababa for the past two decades — having come to power through guerrilla war against the communist Derg regime — has unleashed speculation regarding likely successors and an internal power struggle inside the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF).

This includes reconnecting with an English socialism that grew out of the struggles for land and for the ownership of one's own labour against the forces of the market and of arbitrary power.

For the US, the fight against al - Qaeda in the Yemen is more important than the internal struggles for power in the country.

This leadership vacuum has been filled by a protracted low - intensity power struggle pitting the NTC against the militias.

It will also include incentives for upstate nuclear facilities, which provide a significant source of carbon - free power, but are struggling financially against natural gas plants.

The coming power struggle pits the neoliberal capitalist class — big business and the banks with their friends in the media and their governing allies in the Tory party — against a weakened Labour party pushed on the back foot by a big election defeat and a trade union movement still hamstrung by Thatcher's legal minefield.

The administration's treatment of nuclear facilities could serve as a national model for other states, where nuclear plants are also struggling to compete against cheaper power sources.

The head of a NYC Council watchdog committee has accused City Hall's top lawyer of carrying out a political vendetta against the city's investigations commissioner on behalf of de Blasio, marking a sharp escalation in a three - sided power struggle among different arms of city government.

It's bad enough that some of our senators are acting out of petty vengeance and self - interested power struggles, but today the Post reveals that Senator John Sampson, the Democratic caucus leader who is a foe of the schools bill supported by the mayor, is actually working as a trial lawyer in a lawsuit against Joel Klein.

Instead of titanic mid-ocean struggles between the West and the Soviet Union, Western military tacticians believe that future battles will be fought along coastlines against developing countries or small regional powers.

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