Sentences with phrase «under widespread attack»

Marsden notes how ironic it is that Christians are rigorously judged against the standard of rational objectivity at a time when the very possibility of rational objectivity — as an inheritance of the Enlightenment — is under widespread attack.

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The project is under attack by a Jewish group that terms it «a throwback to Germany under Hitler,» recalling the «buy Christian» campaigns that started in Germany in the 1930s, and that resulted in a widespread refusal to trade with Jewish merchants in the years preceding the Third Reich's more brutal acts of anti-Semitism.

With student supporters criticising them for heavy handed tactics, many media outlets calling for tougher enforcement and widespread disbelief that the attack on Prince Charles and Camilla's car had been allowed to take place, the Met is under unprecedented scrutiny over its policing of the marches.

It also addresses his position as a painter working within an international discourse, at a time when contemporary practice in his chosen media was coming under attack from both conservative forces and from the champions of more experimental art forms, giving rise to widespread predictions of «the death of painting».

The widespread practice of counting race in deciding who gets into college is under legal and political attack.