Sentences with phrase «struggling against forces»

... In addition to this Darwinian / Freudian dimension, «The Laws of Attraction» touches on a more existential note: each one of us is a warrior, each is a hero, struggling against the forces that confront us.

In the process, Glover suggests, we may also discover something about the structure of moral experience that emboldens us to struggle against forces of injustice.

But Patterson's position highlights the need for African - Americans to struggle against forces of disintegration personal as well as social, internal as well as external to the African - American community.

Hence the basic question which confronts the world's oppressed is: How is the struggle against the forces of injustice to be waged?

The God of the Bible is a liberator God and faith in the liberator God calls for struggle against all forces of oppression.

«We congratulate Nigerians for this important milestone in the long and bitter struggle against the forces of evil that have wreaked so much suffering and hardship on our people in the last few years.

The heart of the film is Toller's own struggle against the forces of global change that Michael identifies in their long talk.

The Brotherhood is engaged in a never - ending struggle against the forces of Whiteness embodied by forever - in - darkness The Man and his head lackey Mr. Feather (Chris Kattan), who's waging his own war against his inner soulster — always one Mary J. Blige song from jiving loose.

His sculptural work is based on the arrangement and overlapping of common construction materials such as boulders, glass, steel, concrete and marble, kept in perfect balance addressing the never - ending struggle against the force of gravity.

In this sense, this cycle of paintings is my very personal interpretation of the early Romantic concept of «Sturm und Drang»: life as a turbulent, heroic struggle against the forces that confront us.

More strength to your arm in the struggle against the Forces of Darkness and Evil.

The global conservation movement is little more than a century old and, throughout its life, has displayed a consistent and defining characteristic: a brave and worthy but often futile struggle against the forces of growing human consumption, typified by persistent and widespread declines in species» populations, habitats, and natural resources, and the rising specter of climate change.

Not exact matches

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.

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).

But the forces of change are gathering steadily, and they seek the help of friends in the U.S. in their struggle against governmental and corporate policies that prop up the present structures of oppression.

The essence of Christian faith is even consistent with unqualified commitment to revolutionary struggle in the name of man against the forces of alienation.

The essence of Christian faith is even consistent with unqualified commitment to revolutionary struggle in the name of human beings against the forces of alienation.

Louis XIV's revocation of the edict in 1685 was followed by a massive flight of some 200,000 Protestants from France, and renewed persecution at home met with a sustained guerilla uprising in the rural area of the Cévennes in the early years of the eighteenth century, which diverted French military forces at a critical moment from their struggle against foreign enemies.

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.

He's not necessarily trying to give us different categories of spiritual forces; he's just giving us numerous titles for the same enemy force which we struggle against.

My own lecture was titled «The Right to Belong Where I Come From,» and dealt with the importance of home in the human imagination, the struggle against placelessness in modern culture, and the cultural forces that come to bear on the human consciousness to weaken attachments between person and home place.

In any liberation struggle, especially when we are up against the entrenched force, certain eruptions of violence are inevitable.

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).

The Apostle challenges us to struggle against the demonic forces of our times.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

Christ is in the struggle, against all the forces which support and justify the domination of the poor by the rich, the weak by the powerful.

There is still a struggle, but it is not against each other, but against the forces which seek to drag us back into rivalry, accusation, and scapegoating violence.

In fact the local struggles of the organized movements of dalits, tribals, fisherfolk and women, for living and for survival (some of which have been partly or temporarily successful), against specific expressions of market - directed pattern of development, have been a potent force to educate the middle class regarding the inhuman reality of the present development paradigm; such education is necessary to achieve even our short - term objective.

Dr. Smith looks at process thought and black liberation from a pastoral psychology perspective and black people's experience of oppression: The struggle against oppression in black people's experience is a constant struggle against external forces as manifested in economic, social, and political exploitation.

It is a constant struggle against external forces as manifested in economic, social, and political exploitation.

This struggle was not just against private industrialists but all those forces who joined hard to keep the down - trodden.

Not being forced into the team or to play on an injury will do the kid good and he is still remarkably good in tight situations and being able to pivot defence into attack which is something we sometimes struggle to do against high press teams.

Arsenal will be forced to field a makeshift defence against Hull City, and if the new look back line struggles to click instantly then the Gunners» Premier League title hopes could be over before they even begin.

The incoming manager — be it Sherwood, be it some other poor sap — won't just be struggling with the mess he's inherited; he'll also find that the forces of blind chance have arrayed themselves against him.

Most clubs struggle against the economic forces of the game, trying to find players that they can afford that will fit the team and make them better.

Barely beating Utah State, Air Force and Cincinnati and its only major win against a struggling Texas team, is not deserving of # 1 status.

The hitting struggles continued in the fourth set, as Cal - Irvine forced a fifth set by hitting.216 against a shoddy.024 with 10 errors by Marquette.

However they struggled linking play centrally, usually against ten deep defenders, forcing central attacking midfielder Andres Iniesta and forward Leo Messi to drop deep into non threatening positions in an attempt find space with the ball.

The Sun understand that following Man United's struggle to score goals against Middlesbrough in the Capital One Cup, the Dutch boss is eager to add more striker - force to his squad.

They were using their shift in formation — caused partly by an apparent late injury to Nabil Dirar that forced Benjamin Mendy into the lineup — to create more high pressure on Juventus than Monaco enjoyed in the first leg, but they struggled to get anything out of that pressure thanks to Juventus» back line responding magnificently, despite some early struggles from Gianluigi Buffon against crosses.

Whatever It Takes is a tour de force of reporting, an inspired portrait not only of Geoffrey Canada but of the parents and children in Harlem who are struggling to better their lives, often against great odds.

Whatever It Takes is a tour de force of reporting, an inspired portrait not only of Geoffrey Canada but also of the parents and children in Harlem who are struggling to better their lives, often against great odds.

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.

The heroism of African history is to be found not in the deeds of kings but in the struggles of ordinary people against the forces of nature and the cruelty of men» (Iliffe).

The current situation in Libya can be best characterized as a struggle pitting the «centre» that controls national institutions, the flow of oil, and billions in unfrozen assets against a marginalized «periphery» that can challenge the centre's legitimacy via its use of force and appeal to local loyalties.

At independence, we created a military service — Army, Navy Air force - and the police which was already there and issued weapons to these armed forces to defend and protect the country against foreign aggression or any serious internal struggle.

Cuomo's struggles against the unknown Fordham professor for the WFP nomination turned out to characterize the difficulties he'd have right through the primary — difficulties which seemed to take him and his campaign by surprise, and which forced them to expend political capital they wanted to save for the general election against Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino.

Gravity is the most recognizable force; we struggle against it every time we climb a flight of stairs.

A somber picture of the struggle against super-weeds emerged today as scientists described the relentless spread of herbicide - resistant menaces like pigweed and horseweed that shrug off powerful herbicides and have forced farmers in some areas to return to the hand - held hoes that were a mainstay of weed control a century ago.

This is the six - minute, forced swim test, a standard measure of an animal's willingness to struggle against a crummy environment.