Sentences with phrase «taking the side of»

I once saw a senior leader take the side of the client against his own people who had done what he had told them to do.

When nine women came forth with sexual misconduct allegations against his father, playwright Israel Horowitz, in The New York Times, Beastie Boys member Adam «Ad - Rock» Horovitz, 51, made headlines when he publicly took the side of the women who came forth.

Too many managers think the risk - taking side of leadership is more important than it is.

It took both sides of the brain: the analytical side and creative side.

The White House has taken the side of traditional retailers in a Supreme Court case concerning the ability of state and local governments to collect sales taxes from online retailers.

It's interesting how you take a side of doom and gloom despite a high net worth and getting to invest in the biggest growth market of all time.

Both the Conservative Party and the Socialist Party in Greece, just like the Republicans and Democrats here, are both taking the side of the banks.

Hannity, who's taken the side of team Trump in the Cohen saga, provided little new information on his show — but allowed time to chastise the media for its reaction to the revelation that he was Cohen's client.

I wonder, how must it feel to know that you have to tell intentional lies to get your way, to remain maliciously ignorant, to take the side of Satan, as it were?

Pascal spoke of the divide between the «god of the philosophers» and the «living God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,» and took the side of the latter.

In taking the position that the stark choice is between rigid secularism and religious fanaticism, they take the side of Stephen Kinzer and the paper for which he writes.

Some of the foreign fighters flocking to Iraq and Syria are taking the side of persecuted Christians.

I am not taking sides of any person, but I am hopefully taking the side of the enlightening of truth.

In other words, when we quote James 2:19, «even the demons believe» we are siding not with James, but taking the side of someone who disagrees with James.

We of course take that side of the debate which has concluded that Christianity has been the major cause of the relative peace and social development which the West enjoys.

Some took the side of the one leaving and even identified with him.

We can not talk of «making Christmas great again» while taking the side of powerful and violent over the vulnerable.

Job argues on behalf of reality while several of his friends take the side of this traditional belief.

Whether He was overturning the tables of moneychangers trying to bilk faithful worshippers out of the little money they had, or standing between an angry crowd and a woman caught in adultery (who the orthodox would say should be killed), Jesus always took the side of broken humanity.

The proletarian world was ready for a religion that would take the side of the underdog, preach the virtues of the meek and humble of heart, and offer the hope of a heaven in which all the slings and arrows of a prejudiced fortune would receive compensation in eternal happiness.

By taking the side of the Algerian generals, western leaders had shown that they defended democracy and human rights only when it suited their cause.

This has been the nature of Christianity from the beginning — taking any side of any argument and being able to argue it from their conflicted Bible — I book based on rehashed folklore.

I'm not trying to take the side of religion here but in defense of most religious billboards I've seen, they are mostly benign «come to our church» kind of signs.

Luke - 1) as to the existence of homosexual relationships: You are still taking both sides of the fence.

Built right into the religion of Christianity is the insane capability for an individual to take any side of any argument and support it with some from their precious Bible.

Why didn't the president stand up for the rights of over 70 % of Americans opposed to a Ground Zero mosque, but takes the side of Muslims who are attempting to build the Ground Zero mosque?

And now Bill Nye has chosen to take the side of attacking atheists who don't want to allow for freedom of religion.

Jesus often answered such questions by taking the side of the underdog with grace and kindness.

In this he takes the side of Oliver O'Donovan against the likes of Hauerwas and Yoder who are, for all their antiliberal rhetoric, good liberals.

He takes the side of the real dignity, as Christopher Lasch said so well, of the life of the working man who knows who he is and what he's supposed to do.

It is amply documented, by Hill and others, that Acton took the side of the Protestant establishment in England, that the same establishment was fulsome in its expression of gratitude to Acton and, among other gifts, bestowed upon him the Regius professorship.

Rousseau says, more or less, that the genuinely unfashionable or thoughtful professor today takes the side of the Republicans, the home - schoolers, orthodox communities of faith, and the honorable, violent, and deeply Christian and charitable Southerner who tears up when he hears Lee Greenwood sing.

Use some sense, if this were your child or relative you would hopefully stand behind them instead of taking the side of someone who should be behind bars instead of walking free.

By refusing to choose sides in arguments, but instead taking the side of love and caring and dignity, which is exactly what Jesus did.

Like the prophets, Jesus took the side of the marginal, the excluded, the powerless: lepers (Luke 5:12 - 15; 7:22; 17:11 - 19); tax collectors (5:27 - 32; 15:1; 18:9 - 14; 19:1 - 9); the disabled (6:6 - 11; 7:22; 13:10 - 17; 18:35 - 42); the poor (6:20; 7:22; 14:21; 16:19 - 22; 18:22); the hungry (6:21; 9:12 - 17); the grief - stricken (6:21; 7:13); the reviled and defamed (7:22); slaves (7:1 - 10); widows (7:11 - 17; 18:1 - 8; 21:1 - 2); prostitutes (7:36 - 50); women (8:1 - 3, 43 - 48; 10:38 - 42; 13:10 - 17); children (8:49 - 56; 9:46 - 48; 17:2; 18:15 - 17).

For example, when you have a LARGE GROUP of people (secular liberals in this example) who are staunchly for women's rights, gay rights, freedom of speech, etc; taking the side of Islamists over Christians; a lightbulb should be going off in your head saying, «hey, something ain't right here!»

Also, our Federal Government can be a mighty force in taking the side of the weak and the poor.

Again and again it takes the side of the lowly.

No one can take the side of science alone and then try to say that what science describes, is not logical — at least not honestly — and there is no evidence that all the other things beyond what science knows are not logical / intelligent as well.

You try to be a winner by always taking the side of the stronger and never standing up against it.

This suggests that Caccia was weighing in on the debate topic called the Paragone, in which painting and sculpture were compared, and here, surprisingly for a painter, she seems to take the side of sculpture.

Rick warren took both sides of the homosexual issue on videos.

Let's assume for the moment that we take the side of the chili with beans contingent.

The third feature of martyrdom in the 20th century is that it takes the side of the oppressed.

I sure hope you're not taking both sides of the issue to please your readers.

lol are you really defending the guys and taking the side of the guys who stabbed him in the back?

In fact, at least to Bengal fans, it seems like he takes your side of verything.

Given all the videos that have come out over the last few years, I agree with you that it is difficult to unequivocally take the side of the police in incidents like this, but by saying that there is «zero evidence that what he said happened didn't happen», aren't you unequivocally taking Michael Bennett's side in a situation with competing naratives?

Glad to see the re-focus after the beatdown we endured game 4 against the warriors I'll take this side of 48 point win any day The 4 spot is a now a complete log jam Each one Davis, Biggie, AA, Noah, and ZC bring something different.

And lastly, not to take the side of J&J in this, but the apology was clearly well thought - out and forthright.