However, once it enters battle, it overwhelms its enemy with
unyielding power and rock techniques.
Not exact matches
«And a Church,» he writes, «that taught one part of mankind to walk upright and unafraid through one Dark Age may yet summon up the
power that will enable us to avert another Dark Age, or to face it, if it begins to descend upon us, with
unyielding courage.»
Donald T. Critchlow's impressively researched Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism, a narrative of Schlafly's political career, explains that it was this
unyielding quality of hers — her resolute refusal to cultivate the intellectual and cultural elites of either coast, even the conservative intellectual and cultural elites who were her natural ideological allies — that provided the astonishing
power that she managed to wield in American politics for more than three decades.
These words epitomize the
unyielding difficulty confronting classical theism, for it can not seem to reconcile God's goodness with his
power in the face of the stubborn reality of unexplained evil.
However this may be, the fact is plain that for contemporary men and women, not only of a sophisticated sort but also of quite ordinary attainments, the notion of God as absolute
power, as
unyielding moral dictator, and as metaphysical first cause never Himself affected, has gone dead.
Mario was an F.D.R. liberal (and child of immigrants) with an
unyielding faith in the government's
power to improve people's lives; Andrew is a product of the Nixon era, when that faith was tested and the government again had to prove its competence.