Sentences with phrase «struggled against him for»

For Hensarling, it's a last chance before retirement to take aim at the banking rules he has struggled against for...

Rogers emphasizes unqualified acceptance of the client by the therapist whereas Buber emphasizes a confirmation which begins with acceptance but goes on to helping the other in the struggle against himself for the sake of what he is meant to become.

Not exact matches

He pointed out that Friedman advocated QE for Japan during its struggle against deflation and weak growth.

But A&P struggled against competition from suburban supermarkets and demand for national brands.

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.

While the sale was a struggle — Skype's founders launched a legal battle against eBay that put the deal in peril — the real work for the new owners is just beginning.

While the world has made incalculable gains in the struggle against mosquito - borne diseases, new challenges — like resistance to artemisinin treatments for malaria — are now threatening to turn back the clock.

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.

Friday marks World AIDS Day, an occasion for recognizing the myriad struggles, successes, and work left undone — societal, political, and medical alike — in the battle against HIV infection and the immune system - compromising disease it causes, AIDS.

2018 will be a defining year for Mexico, a country plagued by corruption, violence in its struggle against gangs and drug cartels, and slow economic growth.

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.

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.

Oclaro, which manufactures optical components for fiber optic cables and data centers, struggled to compete against larger competitors for much of the late 2000's / early 2010's.

Ms. Caro Diaz is part of the Organizing and Capacity Building Team at the Center for Popular Democracy and provides support to social movements in Puerto Rico struggling against the debt and austerity measures proposed by a Fiscal Control Board.

The chain has been struggling against falling comparable store sales in the U.S., which still accounts for 40 % of the company's operating income.

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).

Through the following op - ed in Thursdayâ $ ™ s Toronto Star, the United Steelworkersâ $ ™ Canadian Director makes the case for a carbon tariff. It is now widely accepted that the struggle against global warming will involve placing a price on carbon emissions.

By exchanging loans for equity that would be worth little if the companies already are struggling to pay off debts, banks would be required to sharply bump up the amount of capital they set aside against such equity holdings, which are considered more risky than loans.

Against the backdrop of safe - haven demand for the yen, Japanese stocks and exchange - traded funds are struggling this year, but the scenario could improve in the fourth quarter.

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.

That was a major competitive advantage against debt - ridden rivals that are struggling to make past initiatives work, and First Solar's reputation for doing large projects should serve it well.

From Deadline: «It becomes a race against time as the scientist [Carell] struggles for a cure, even as he feels himself growing dumber»...

Such accounts of the previous generation's struggle to defend and advance authentic religious faith against the scientism, atheism, materialism, hedonism, and despair of the surrounding culture can do much to prepare and strengthen us for our struggles against similar forces in our time.

I cartoon and comment on this issue often because it is a hot and current issue for me personally, having gays as friends and in our church who honestly struggle against overwhelming opposition, both latent and obvious, in society and the church.

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.

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.

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.

During the struggle for independence, repressive violence was used by the colonial government against the innocent people of India.

It is against this background of public moral struggle that the people of Israel prepare to vote on July 23 for their next government, in an election that pits the conservative Likud Party of Menachem Begin and current Prime Minister Yitzak Shamir against the Labor Party headed by two - time loser Shimon Peres.

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.

The Council became a center for the struggle against the liquor trade.

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

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

They have been described as «special interests» against whose insidious effects broader - visioned politicians must struggle for the good of all.

In Evangelium Vitae, Blessed John Paul II says Mary is the «living word of comfort for the Church in her struggle against death».

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.

Gandhi applied the practice of ahimsa to the struggle against the British for India's independence.

One issue was the church's visible participation in the dominant political issues of the day notably the struggle for civil rights for minorities and the protests against the Vietnam war.

In fact, U.S. liberation movements are already under way in women's groups, community organizing efforts among the poor, the search for freedom by gay and lesbian communities, and in Native American, African American and Hispanic struggles against U.S. racism, and in a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creation.

The story runs through Woodrow Wilson's expansive mission to «make the world safe for democracy,» Eisenhower's World War II «crusade in Europe,» and the long years of cold war struggle against «godless communism.»

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.

The necessity of struggle against oppression can also be described through the use of neoclassical resources.8 According to such resources, it is inevitable that the oppressed will 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.

Does the change in me represent anything more than this: that the practical relevance, the struggle and the confessional character of my theological teaching have become visible to many, and now for the first time to most, against the background of a time which has taken shape at the hands of National Socialism?.

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

He also called for involvement in the struggle against «examples of clear injustice» in the world.