Sentences with phrase «tried using it against»

They tried using it against [now State Sen. Todd] Kaminsky and it didn't work, and we'll pass the bill if we have to so they can't try it again.»

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Therefore the salesperson must be a passive yet firm presence against the force used by the difficult customer, reminding himself that the customer feels out of control and is trying to gain control.

Not only did Washington survive all of these conditions, he knew how to inoculate his army against smallpox, claiming the British tried using as an early form of biological warfare.

Multiple news outlets have reported that Trump is trying to figure out what he could do to Amazon, such as changing its tax status or using antitrust laws against the company.

At the workshop, scientists and lawyers had discussed copying a strategy against the fossil fuel industry that had been used to great effect against Big Tobacco — namely trying to prove that it had covered up knowledge that its products were harmful.

Having trademark rights allows you to protect your domain name against others who might allege that it infringes on their trademark and try to have it legally taken from you, and also allows you to enforce your trademark rights against others who use domain names similar to yours to try to divert your customers.

It's that principle that led to the government's antitrust case against Microsoft; the company was accused of trying to use its dominance in PC operating systems to thwart competition in the nascent market for web browsers.

She thinks that Lara should have called her HR department the minute her co-worker started making rude remarks in public, and especially when he tried to use his seniority against her.

Leo Burnett has the largest creative department under one roof in the country and feeding all of those creatives with behavior analytics and insights will allow us to produce more personalized content, allowing us to compete and win against consultancies and other competitors who are trying to use data to their competitive advantage.

So we have gotten to the point that public outcry against the use of rape as a weapon in war can be viewed as helping spread the very thing it is trying to fight.

In these instances, I try to use the US dollar's performance against gold to prove the argument that the US dollar will not have to crash in the future to prove my point because it has already crashed!

To offset the trend factor I try to build towards root head and body terms that I verify against historical trends (using Google Trends) to make sure that while I may see a short - term boost in seasonal traffic, I can build more sustainable traffic for more sustainable keywords.

The Winklevoss twins are trying, as is Martin Lewis — a British journalist who filed a lawsuit against Facebook for allowing his name to be used in crypto scams on the platform.

Rape culture is when a woman who campaigned for women to be included on banknotes got threatened with rape for her troubles, and when she tried to do something about it, got accused of using the (violent, graphic, horrific) threats against her as a way to get famous.

And it's when these same folks try to use their beliefs to discriminate against others, slow scientific progress, and dictate how others run their lives that I have every right to refuse to allow it.

TruthPrevails, it does seem that far to many Christians don't realize that one day they may not be in the majority, and that by trying to encode their beliefs into law they are setting a precedent that may be used against them in the future.

You try to take a scripture out of context and then use it against me.

When the winds of doctrine try to blow our beliefs to the ground, we turn our open hand into them, using their ideas to force our beliefs more firmly against the hand.

I love it when you guys take something I've said, twist it to suit your own needs, and then try to use it against me.

``... very strong politically correct and left - wing revisionist history attitude or tone that's also Anti-American (especially a vague charge against «U.S. foreign policy»), and strong anti-capitalist elements... blasphemy, implied urinating, vomiting, scatological humor, and comments on breast feeding and sexual parts of people's bodies; light brief violence includes beating on car window and trying to damage car, man comically shoves people off a stage, man burns books; sexual content includes homosexual references, implied adultery with a pregnancy out of wedlock, talk about a priest raping boy in the past, a giant condom balloon placed on church steeple, references to real condoms, implied fornication; upper male nudity, man wears a dress; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking and marijuana use depicted, including eating marijuana brownies; and, strong miscellaneous immorality includes lying, stealing, revenge, rebellion, dysfunctional family portrayed, father is a pothead and a drinker and lives in a trailer»

Becuase my god doesn't want those who diminish, discriminate against or try to use religion as an excuse to put others down in favor of feeling better about themselves to marry.

Some people have raised the question as to whether teaching an alcoholic that his drinking is an illness will not give him a heavy weapon to use against those who are trying to persuade him to stop that drinking; saying that he might then be able to shrug the whole thing off with some statement like «How can I help it — it's a disease, isn't it?»

I was trying to say that most uses of the term seem to be misapplied as an accusation against those who want more than anecdotes and feelings as justification for a belief.

And you claim the atheists are using spiteful tactics when we try to stand up against the christian tyranny?

Yet atheists try to use science as a weapon against believers.

Mark Miller's church tries to guard against being used to pursue false asylum claims.

When Satan tries to attack the Word of God, you just have to know the Word and use it to defend yourself against his wiles.

These are pseudo-virtues, which you try to shame us into accepting, by directing a polemic against the Church, whose moral force is due simply to its use of certain radical chic cliches that we were all taught to grovel before back in the 1960s.

Then B.O. Obama campaign used McCain's plan to tax healthcare plans against McCain, and then tried to use it himself.

You profess something yet you can't back it up, you TRY to use one passage (which we have already covered was out of context) against 5 others.

i was just sort of poking around, really, when i read this entry [and the comments][and i'm seriously trying to ignore that jab against «pagan», use of the word incorrectly in a context that's a bit demeaning... but i was going to comment before i read that, so i'm just going to leave it lie so that i can make the comment i came to make]

Also, when I discuss «if war is wrong...» by «is wrong» I mean is an act that is evil / sinful / against God's ways (right now I'm using those three all as synonymous for these purposes; though we could discuss the theological distinctions between them, they are generally the same enough when trying to explain what I mean by «is wrong»).

Logic, science, and reason, the thing they use to try to defend themselves, have turned against them.

On if he would use the pulpit to preach against social issues, he simply said, «No, because we try to be like Jesus.»

Atheist don't wan't the catholic church scorning / insulting them and they will try to use the law to prevent them however they want to attack the catholic church which is against the bill or fights in freedom of religion to do so publicily.

He wasn't criticising the Quran itself but tackling this verse that many of the hard - liners had actually preached against him using this verse and he was trying to talk about it.

My point is that the liberal take on the Bible is used to try to keep Christians from EVER preaching against sin.

The Republicans used the fear, hatred and bigotry of the Tea Partiers against Obama to win the House, and this year, they will use them to try to win back the White house and the Senate.

I live near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where some government officials tried to use this same strategy to ban the building of a mosque in the area, and I spoke out against such a blatant infringement on religious liberty.

They are still trying to get over the fact that in countries like this, the bible isn't supposed to be used to discriminate against people.

In public statements Hindu nationalists tried to make their campaign against Muslims seem part of the US - led war on terror, and, as Nussbaum writes, «the current world atmosphere, and especially the indiscriminate use of the terrorism card by the United · States, have made it easier for them to use this ploy.»

Her crime: speaking out against injustice and trying to use a bathroom at a bus station.

it seems that shame is something you try to use as a weapon against those who have different belief systems than you do, which is one reason why a lot of people have left organized religion.

Haman had tried to use this law to his own advantage by bringing accusations against the Jews.

In a statement yesterday, they have alleged that police officers are using facial recognition to scan protesters» faces against a database of outstanding warrants to try to make arrests.

There are a lot of words that ought to be used against people who try to cram their religions down the throats of others.

So to reprimand anyone for commending Buddhist humanism is definitly not loving thy neighbor, but you are sinning by using harsh words against those who are trying to love their brothers.

Laughing — yet again you fail, you sit here and you tell me in one breath that i'm wrong in dealing with absolutes, Yet My whole point in the previous post was to point out that I can't blame science for killing Billions of people because they created the bombs and guns to do so... Just like you can't blame Christianity for people using violence against others, it's the people not the ideology that caused the violence, and i believe that... for whatever reason you apparently missed that and tried to make me sound like i honestly blame science for killing billions... so... maybe you need some reading and comprehension classes... i du n no, just would appreciate if you're going to argue with me, that you actually read my responses.

Way is it now that Arla are trying to use their status as a so called farmer owned cooperative to try to turn farmer against farmer?

i have celiac, so i can not use millet — before i waste my time trying subs that are ineffective, did you experiment with any gf «flours» before choosing millet and / or are there any gf flours you would specifically advise against or suggest?