Sentences with phrase «than the forces against»

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U.S. military fighter - attack jets, bombers and drones have dropped more than 67,000 bombs since the 2014 start of Operation Inherent Resolve, the Defense Department's mission against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, according to information provided by Air Forces Central Command.

WASHINGTON / BEIRUT, April 14 - U.S., British and French forces struck Syria with more than 100 missiles on Saturday in the first coordinated Western strikes against the Damascus government, targetting what they called chemical weapons sites in retaliation for a poison gas attack.

The Argentinian peso tumbled more than 15 % against the dollar in early trading as the South American nation's central bank stepped back from its efforts to protect the currency, forcing the bank to reverse course to stem the slide.

The White House said the troops would number «fewer than 50» and insisted that they would only train and advise the local forces, not play a direct combat role against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL.

6 - The Zionist provocative policy against the hard work of more than 30,000 UN and Lebanese forces to secure the northern borders of Israel, which is much safer than many locations inside Israel.

The Wahhabi movement in Arabia was a reaction against the worship of saints, but it made use of force rather than arguments, and failed to establish a general reform.

Irenaeus championed this understanding explicitly: «The Father of all» [47] is no less than «He who is impassible» (Against Heresies, 2.12.1).30 For Clement of Alexandria, this is true both for the nature of God (Stromata, 2.16) and for the highest achievable good of those who would truly embody the divine image: «Endurance also itself forces its way to the divine likeness, reaping as its fruit impassibility» (2.20).

everything in the universe evolves, not only life forms but also memes, Religion is a meme so it also change in conformity to its era or time of its conception as faith.Because in pre scientific times thousands of years ago, the scientific method of approach or philosophy has not existed yet, myth or merely story telling is considered facts, The first religion called animism more than 10,000 years ago believed that spirits or god exists in trees, rivers, mountains, boulders or in any places people at that time considered holy.hundreds of them, then when the Greeks and Romans came, it was reduced to 12, they called it polytheism, when the Jews arrived, it was further reduced to 1, monotheism.its derivatives, Christianity And Islam and later hundreds of denominations that includes Mormonism and Protestants flourished up to today.So in short this religions evolved in accordance to the scientific knowledge of the age or era they existed.If you graph the growth of knowledge, it shows a sharp increase in the last 500 years, forcing the dominant religions at that time to reinterprete their dogmas, today this traditional religions are becoming obsolete and has to evolve to survive.But first they have to unify against atheism.in the dialectical process of change, Theism in one hand and the opposing force atheism in the other, will resolve into a result or synthesis.The process shall be highlighted in the internet in the near future.

I'm against allowing any sort of moral law decided by some, even if it is a majority in a democracy, to be forced on the rest with no other support than «thats what God wants».

@BoldGeorge, Ra - pe is a terrible crime that in my opinion is worse than murder because the victim is forced to live with the aftermath (especially if, say, the victim becomes pregnant and is forced to deliver the child against her will).

... [Americans] have become a nation that may defy every foe but that most dangerous of foes, herself, destined to a majestic future if she will shun the excess and perversion of the principles that made her great, prate less about the enemies of the past and strive more against the enemies of the future, resist the mob and the demagogue as she resisted Parliament and King, rally her powers from the race for gold and the delirium of prosperity to make firm the foundations on which that prosperity rests, and turn some fair proportion of her vast mental forces to other objects than material progress and the game of party politics.

Pew found that Russia and France were «the only two European countries with more than 200 cases of government force against religious groups» in both 2014 and 2015.

But he never asks what social, economic, political and ideological forces were at work in the creation of the modern scientific world view, any more than he looks at the role of those forces in the eighteenth century celebration of it, the romantic reaction against it, or the nineteenth and twentieth century codification of positive science.

Melanie Philips, in The Daily Mail, pointed to the way in which «as so often, [the BBC] has given undue airtime to extremists, thus lending credence to the false impression of the Pope's remarks», and she criticised the way the BBC had claimed that the Pope had «apologised», rather than simply expressing regret for the misinterpretation of his comments, «thus helping Islamic extremists believe that the forces of intimidation had cowed the Pontiff and scored a notable victory in the war against Western civilisation».

The argument is devastating, for it applies with greater force against Hezekiah than anyone else.

The government should be more concerned about military equipment than bed nets because providing for defense I emphasize defense) of the people of the US against those who would threaten our lives, liberty or property with force is one of it's primary roles; being a charity is not.

the power to give, the power to love, the paradoxical power of «weakness»... God's power is thus much greater than the compelling force of a tyrant who makes others submit against their will... his power is sufficient to transform a willful person from self - centeredness to love, without destroying or even violating the tender plant of freedom.61

A third characteristic of this method is that the attack is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who are caught in those forces.

No, those of us against the religious dogma being forced on society don't want Muslim any more than Christianity.

If a preacher does not possess the spiritual consciousness to speak out against these paralyzing societal forces, they are nothing more than a self help speaker with fans who shell out big dollars for books and CDs.

It should rather be welcomed as a creative alliance between media producers and consumers against those commercial forces that are more intent on generating profits than on informing people properly.

Lawsuits against physicians have forced them to present the «worse case» side effects of procedures, and they often tend to volunteer more information than the patient and family may be able to manage.

Rather than seek to overpower alien forces, might one use their strengths against them?

Entering Sunday, no team scored more points than the Patriots while no team allowed fewer points than the Jets, so it was the classic matchup of an unstoppable force against an immovable object.

However, if Sterling decides against penning his future to the club, then the Reds may be forced to sell him during the next window, rather than let him go for nothing in a year's time.

HR drowning in paperwork from all the grievances raised against Wenger, scouts jumping off bridges after 4 years of rejection as non of the proposals were considered but wenger to be better than Giroud, salmonella outbreak because Wenger thinks sell by dates are a conspiracy so dinnerladies being forced to cook off meat and Dick law being sent all over the world to negotiate only for Wenger to think «meh that's too expensive by 0.0001 %

If it is not a referee like Mike Dean denying Arsenal two good penalty shouts and forcing us into an FA cup replay that we could really do without, it is a Champions League draw throwing us up against one of the big favourites Bayern Munich in the group stage and then the only team worse than the Germans in the knockout stage.

Instead we often see Arsenal under too much pressure to get a result against a top 6 team with a better evisceration record than ours forcing us to open up, make mistakes and concede unnecessary goals.

Are we going to see Sanchez's best if we force him to stay against his will for a salary less than half he could get somewhere else?

We don't yet know who it is the Cubs will be facing in the NLCS, because the Dodgers had better luck than their California rivals and forced a Game 5 against the Nationals.

May 19 — The Premier League may have finished slightly later than planned with the forced shift of Manchester United's final home game against Bournemouth to Tuesday night because of security concerns, but fans set a record attendance across the country for the Sunday 3 pm kick offs.

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.

There are more than a few upsides to a polygamous arrangement that women enter into freely and willingly because it suits their needs (versus what we usually read and hear about the traditionally male - driven practice, which is often about secrecy and child brides forced to marry against their will and sexual abuse and other scandals).

Isn't it more pleasant than a tantrum about getting in the car seat that forced you to brace your knee against your child's torso while you buckled him in?

Boys who have been physically maltreated and neglected as children, as well as those who have been victims of physical or sexual assault, have been forced to have sexual contact against their will or have been victims of incest are vastly more likely to become fathers as teenagers than other teenage males (for review, see Kiselika, 2008, pp42 - 44)

Working with their natural instincts rather than against them — by forcing them to relieve themselves into «wearable toilets» and sit in it for an average of three years — greatly strengthens the bonds of security and trust between you and your baby.

While the wings of a high back booster seat help protect against sideways forces of a crash, they won't necessarily provide more protection from forward forces than a backless model.

My biggest encouragement is for parents to offer activities that require belly - down or sidelying positioning to be enjoyable - trying to capitalize on your baby's curiosity to keep him in Tummy Time rather than forcing him to stay there against his will.

It is often considered more legitimate for a country to take military action against another country that is authorized a UN Security Council resolution than it is to do so without that authority, and it is considered more legitimate for a country to take action against a country whose actions have been condemned by the UN Security Council (without an actual authorization to take military force) than it is to do so without such a determination.

The Russian fight against terrorism is therefore constructed in more existential terms — Russia was forced to kill these terrorists, otherwise it would be destroyed — and, thus, is more justified than a cold - blooded hunting down of Bin Laden by US commandos.

While stating that the underneath cause of his invite is personal hatred because he is richer than maverick politician Kennedy Agyepong, he dared government to jail him threatening that party will rise up in full force against such a decision.

«Now, more than ever, working people need bold leaders in New York City who will stand up against the forces of inequality and division,» the group said in a statement.

Any hypothetical military engagement where a nuclear armed country were to be in danger of being completely overrun would change the calculation on whether they would be willing to use nuclear weapons, but Russia probably would not, for example, use their nuclear weapons as a deterrent against attacks against their conventional troops in Ukraine, even if they were in danger of being forced out of Ukraine completely because the retaliation would cost much more to them than what they would be losing.

Through the poignant juxtaposition of citizenship and slavery, young people's protest against attacks on their economic activity and more broadly against the employment crisis, reflects their efforts to force their way to political recognition, rather than existing a political space that seems to exclude their voices and needs.

Unions have been urged to embrace rather than «push back against the forces of globalisation» by attempting to regulate multi-national companies.

If Nixon wins more than 40 percent of the vote in the primary or forces Cuomo into a tough fight against his GOP opponent in the general, it will be a clear sign that New York politics has changed — and those who can't adapt their worldview should start looking for a new profession.

Fury against Schlossberg was manifesting online in classically snarky ways, too: his law office was inundated with one - star reviews on Yelp, forcing the site to suspend reviews for the business; a Google listing for his business briefly turned up a sly one - line description reading «Spanish restaurant»; and a GoFundMe page was set up to send a mariachi band to Schlossberg's office («We are requesting the band to sing the famous, endearing and warm Spanish children's song La Cucaracha,» declared the organizer of the fundraiser, called Mariachis for Aaron; it raised $ 1,000 of its $ 500 goal in less than a day).

Incidentally, the Chinese also censored the incident, as it was committed against the nationalist forces rather than the communists.

«The Nigeria Police Force hereby implores members of the general public to disregard and discountenance the claim of plot by the IGP against the Senate President as a ruse, unfortunate and an attempt to divert Police investigation into the killings of more than Eleven (11) innocent people from kwara State and other States of the Federation in the recent past by the killer squad who operate under the guise of a cult group.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara ominously told state politicians to «stay tuned» after he brought charges against Assemblyman Sheldon Silver, forcing the Democrat to relinquish the speaker post he held for more than two decades.