Sentences with phrase «under the assault of»

The old certitudes seem less certain; the old privileges are under powerful challenge; the old dominations are increasingly ineffective and fragile; the established governmental, educational, judicial and medical institutions seem less and less able to deliver what we need and have come to expect; the old social fabrics are fraying under the assault of selfishness, fear, anger and greed.

But what has happened in the 20th century, when the religious imagination — in its individual and corporate dimensions — has become fragmented under the assault of modern materialism?

We have examined how, one by one, elements of the Augustinian superstructure have crumbled away under the assault of competing ideas.

I don't want to burden this post with all of the psychology behind that statement, but you should find a way to get used to that because claims of faith are always under assault of reality.

The pages are beginning to crumble under the assault of snow and time and everything that comes out of the sky.

Not exact matches

Facebook also came under renewed scrutiny for maintaining Thiel on its board, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was quoted as saying support of Trump was not equivalent to «accepting sexual assault.»

Critics argue that the ruling is a broad assault on protections Internet companies have long enjoyed under the Communications Decency Act and could threaten the free exchange of ideas online.

«The year - old program has been constantly under assault since the election of President Donald Trump,» is the summation of one article on the issue Feld sites.

Sexual assault and harassment in the US military is largely under - reported and came under renewed scrutiny last year after a scandal involving some Marines sharing nude photos of women online came to light.

Parker was acquitted in the rape case more than a decade ago and Celestin had his sexual assault conviction overturned on appeal (a higher court deemed his trial attorney ineffective), but the two men have come under fire once again as the media reports troubling details from the case, which included accusations that Parker and Celestin, then both 19, had sex with a Penn State freshman while she was unconscious after a night of heavy drinking.

The ride - hailing app is under the microscope due to a handful of driver assaults on passengers in some cities.

The JPMorgan CEO said that his bank was «under assault,» and questioned whether the increased scrutiny by regulators of banks since the financial crisis has gone too far.

The company has come under fire a number of times following assault incidents that have revealed it has failed to catch the criminal records of some drivers.

She did not address what will happen to victims of campus assault in the interim, as they will presumably lose protections under the DCL, but a new policy has yet to be implemented.

Under federal law, the shooter shouldn't have been able to buy a gun because he'd been convicted in military court of assaulting his spouse and their child while in the Air Force.

In the aftermath of the Parkland, Florida, shooting, Dick's Sporting Goods banned the sale of assault - style rifles and the sale of all guns to anyone under 21.

if you pay attention to discussions of higher education funding, one of the memes that inevitably pops up revolves around the notion that higher education has been under some brutal, neo-liberal assault since... well, I'm not sure, but probably since 1995 at least, and everything is being defunded, laid on the backs of students, it's the end of civilization, dark ages ahead, etc., etc..

The Fed's credibility is under assault from a lot of pretty smart people.

Under federal law, Kelley shouldn't have been able to buy a gun because he'd been convicted in military court of assaulting his spouse and their child while in the Air Force.

Professionals in B2B Sales must feel like they under assault from the constant dire predictions of outright dissolution in organizations as well as the constant pressure to squeeze more revenue out of the pipeline.

It is under constant assault and it takes most of the energies of civilized man to keep going at all.

And it says something very important about marriage, which is under assault throughout the world by the forces of moral confusion, misconstrued «tolerance,» and societal deconstruction.

Two of her classmates have also said the same individual sexually assaulted them, but despite the pleas to school officials and police, he has not been expelled, and according to New York Magazine, «all of their claims were swept under the rug.»

Cardinal George Pell is a big man in every sense of the word and his stamina under assault is entirely admirable.

Strachan pointed to this scene as an example of how «the basic foundations of the Protestant worldview are under assault.»

The establishment understandings of God are indeed under assault, and open - minded believers are forced to grapple with «new evidence» of unprecedented magnitude, as the recent photograph from the Hubble telescope made amazingly clear.

Across the Atlantic, mounting a frontal assault on the church of the ancien régime, the French Revolution had to present itself as an alternative religion, a regeneration of humanity under secular auspices» an impulse powerfully continued in many of the intellectual projects of the following century, reaching its apogee in the fraternité of international socialism.

This is nevertheless a meaningless affirmation if it is not cognizant of the fact that family life is under assault, that as a result many people feel alienated from their families and have never found viable substitutes, that their experience within our technological society has left them feeling a profound sense of dissatisfaction with themselves from which they urgently seek escape through drugs, sex, or recreation.

Peter Wierner of the Chautauqua Lake Bigfoot Expo (The Chautauqua Lake Bigfoot Expo) recently wrote to the Department of Environmental Conservation looking to ban hunting Bigfoot, which is just another reminder that our freedoms are always under assault and they necessitate constant vigilance.

The visible role of the NAACP and black elected officials in the antiapartheid movement will probably come under a heavier ideological assault.

He went on to praise those who've suffered for standing up to adversity: «I greatly admire the courage and faith of your flock who are an example to us all of faith quite literally under such grotesque and barbarous assault.»

«Monsignor William Lynn, who served as the secretary for clergy for the under then - Philadelphia Archbishop Anthony Bevilacqua, was charged with two counts of endangering the welfare of a child in connection with the alleged assaults»

Imagine a community of Middle East Christians under assault from a ferocious, well - armed band of terrorists.

Monsignor William Lynn, who served as the Secretary for Clergy for the under former Philadelphia Archbishop Anthony Bevilacqua, was charged with two counts of endangering the welfare of a child in connection with the alleged assaults, Williams said.

Monsignor William Lynn, who served as the secretary for clergy for the under then - Philadelphia Archbishop Anthony Bevilacqua, was charged with two counts of endangering the welfare of a child in connection with the alleged assaults, Williams said.

I am not an atheist, thus I am not bringing any example of me personally coming under assault for my atheist belief to the table.

This is the second time this week the Vatican has come under the spotlight after Pope Francis granted Cardinal George Pell a leave of absence to return to his native Australia to face trial on sexual assault charges.

Monsignor William Lynn, who served as the Secretary for Clergy under former Philadelphia Archbishop Anthony Bevilacqua was charged with endangering the welfare of a child in connection with the alleged assaults.

Thence has flowed that considerable and melancholy river of counsel whereby one may learn how to organize an assault upon the cognitive and critical faculties of the mind, how to anesthetize into easy seduction the nonverbalized but dependable anxieties that roam about in the solitary and collective unconscious, and how to conduct a brain - washing under the presumed banner of the Holy Ghost.

Legislators in Connecticut have passed what some are saying are the nation's toughest new gun laws — banning high - capacity magazines, creating a weapon offender registry, requiring universal background checks for firearm purchases and adding more types of guns under an existing assault weapons ban.

This angers and frightens conservatives because the good of government and the good of other traditional institutions are crumbling before their very eyes under an assault by a corrupt and rootless governmental system.

As Martin Malia argued in a series of profound books, culminating in his 1999 Russia Under Western Eyes, there was nothing distinctively Russian about this nihilistic assault on the very pediments of civilized order.

Three days after that, Secretary of State John Kerry met a congressionally mandated deadline by actually using the «G - word» — «genocide» — to describe ISIS's assault on Christians, Yazidis, and Shiites in the areas of Iraq and Syria under its control.

It is no surprise that he has also fallen under scrutiny for tolerating campaign violence including the alleged assault of a female journalist by his campaign manager.

So the verbal abuse, getting into the man's face, shoving, slapping, finger poking, verbal threatening (all of which falls under the legal definition of assault and battery) was OK?

With America's meager pro-life protections under daily assault by the Obama administration, why give such a dismantling the imprimatur of an international «human rights body,» staffed by ideologues and committed to policies more radical than those of the most liberal Democrats?

Former clergyman John Bailey, 76, arrives at Lincoln Crown Court to be sentenced for 25 charges of indecent assault on girls under the age of 14

As long as men of such curiosity are attracted to it, the ship in the blue hole will be under assault, its secrets threatened.

Republic of Ireland and Aston Villa assistant manager Roy Keane is under police investigation after allegedly assaulting a man outside the national team hotel.

The crime of assault always requires actual physical injury under New York criminal law.