Sentences with phrase «up against history»

Swanson was also up against history.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's rosy economic outlook for the city is up against history.

It was the book, taken as a whole, held up against history, held up against decency and hope, held up to the person I desired to be... I had to choose to cling to belief despite all of that and continue to fail to be a person of compassion and love or to begin to let go of that belief and make room in my heart for compassion and love.

Not exact matches

But the first of many boycotts against Nike was followed by corporate efforts at reform, and the company now has a history of holding suppliers to account and cutting off those that don't measure up.

Mayweather has been rocking sports headlines with his much - anticipated bout against Manny «Pacman» Pacquiao coming up on May 2nd, expected to be the richest fight in history.

Even with boatloads of pre-launch buzz, Jet is still going up against Amazon, one of the most cutthroat competitors in the history of American capitalism.

But this time, they're up against forces they can't beat — history and a better mousetrap.

If I had a thorough history against which to compare current fintech or other start - up valuations this might look quite different.

Also in the post is a pretty concise narrative of each mind - boggling event that led up to this sell - off as well as a graph showing where it ranks percentage-wise against other Dow Jones nosedives throughout history.

Against this backdrop, fiscal 2014 is shaping up as one of the best years in the company's history.

He serves up a Procrustean history of suicide and the laws against it, but only to suggest the absence of persuasive argument.

In this place I could read and still think that I was part of what held up a wall against any philistinism that would attempt to violate the quiet grandeur of what the history of Galveston in its archives and rare books contained.

But back to Stephen, the account writer talking about Stephen, builds this incredible story around Stephen being captured and then during his trial, he's telling the high priests about history leading up to Jesus, and this is contrasted against Jesus who told them nothing and then was crucified and died on a cross.

Of course if anyone looks up, «No man knows my history» by Fawn M. Brodie, or «Under The Banner of Heaven, or Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond,» as well as google different questions about mormon secret names, White Horse Prophesy, Mormons becoming Gods, God was once a man on another planet, mormon bigotry against Blacks, Joseph Smith and his 14 year old wife (WHILE he was still married to his living wife Emma) Helen Mar Kimball... I could go on.

It is as if we contemporary American Catholics take the patrimony for granted, forgetting that it must be constantly shored up against the erosion of history.

For Christians, then, to recover and understand the meaning of the command to have «no other god,» it is necessary first to recognize that the victory of the Church in history was not only incomplete, but indeed set free a force that the old sacral order had at least been able to contain; and it is against this more formless and invincible enemy that we take up the standard of the commandment today.

He sums it up thus: «There is no effective military or political defense against the «terror of history», simply because of the crushing inequality between the invaders and the invaded peoples....

The struggle against this tendency to make the keeping of rules independent of the surrender to the divine will runs through the whole history of Israelite - Jewish faith — from the prophet's protest against sacrifice without intention and the Pharisees» protest against the «tinged - ones» whose inwardness is a pretence up till its peculiarly modern form in Hasidism, in which every action gains validity only by a specific devotion of the whole man turning immediately to God.

Kierkegaard defends himself against the apparently Pelagian implications of this thought by stressing that even though each individual sins through his own disobedience (sin is not a category of necessity), nevertheless, in this act of disobedience he reveals his solidarity with Adam and Eve and all other persons in history, who together make up the collective human race which, in Adam, stands guilty before God.

GET THIS PRINT We've seen in the past where the church failed to take a stand against wrong and ended up on the wrong side of history.

Shoring up the fragments of the past against the future's ruin (and savoring all the riches that in fact remain), the autobiographer comforts us with the record of a continuous self and a coherent history.

Over against it he sets up a philosophical system of cosmic determinisrn, a sort of universal wheel of time on which life and nature and history are forever wearily repeating themselves as often as the cycle of time brings round once more the things that have receded into the past.

You seem to indicate that no Christians were sent over to Vietnam against their wishes, your head is either in the sand or up your... Governments have always used religions to control the populace, that is why they are allowed to exist, read some history, please.

Look at what religion has often done in history — its bloody wars, its cruel persecutions, its brutal rituals of human sacrifice, its ugly superstitions, the barricades set up by religion against every advance of science.

It is one of the puzzles of history that a group of people who believed in Au and had made great sacrifices for his sake, who knew him to be right and his enemy wrong, and who had even risked their lives by going into battle for him should desert him and even take up their swords against him.

CNN: Temple shooting dredges up memories of long history of bias crimes against Sikhs Immediately after the September 11, 2001, terrorist acts, Sikhs came under attack.

But, as always, Scripture holds us up against God's continual and continuing involvement in history, and this is the source of our hope.

[Jews] have to be the ones, because of our history, have to stand up against what's happening to the Muslim community.»

We've seen in the past where the church failed to take a stand against wrong and ended up on the wrong side of history.

Here we meet for the first time history on a world scope; the tenth chapter of Genesis, particularly against the background of the preceding narrative, though made up of lists of names, is yet an astonishing document, revealing the writer's knowledge of the world of his time, and even more remarkable, his recognition of the essential unity of the entire human process.

whatever the democratic party tells you is a lie do the opposite they would want you to go against republicans becuase our country is not a democracy its a republic people wake up the republican party isnt about the rich its about all of us lower taxes for all the republican party is about smaller government not intruding in your life the democrats know this and started a class war to make blacks and hispanics flood their cause im a 24 latino and switched republican last year i was fooled my whole life read history and you will see im telling the truth

In her media release last week she said «South Australians have a long history of standing up against the cruel live animal trade and I'm proud to stand with them again as we continue to fight for an end to this cruel practice».

In this sense, history dictates that Real will have more than a tough time taking the three points against their stubborn opponents and no doubt Simeone will have a plan up his sleeve.

Chasing Bobby Charlton's record, Wayne Rooney will inevitably start up front for his country as he looks to make history with a goal against Switzerland.

Team Albanese doesn't necessarily care who they are matched up against and it is seemingly the one team who will not get wrapped up in Team Bartlett's history..

They picked up their first W in Franchise history on Sunday and against a group in Team Widen that has made the Semis in each of the past two seasons.

Look the Bayern the barca and co are top top teams with huge history We need to concentrate to build up wins we need to win cups then league than we go and win the champion league the result today show that we are Lincoln in front of Bayern and a bit better as we scored against Bayern and Lincoln did nt score against us >> > I had a busy Tuesday as I was coming home I guessed we were 1 2 down I turned on the match to be 1 2 to see it go down hill I wished I never turned it on

He would be a beast on those games that we meet Chelsea the only «Formerly top four» side that took unnecessary points from us, obviously for reason of history, he would be fired up against Man United, they hired someone who didn't give him a chance, against Man City he would probably be in competition with Aguero for the golden boot... Everton made 360 chances to Arsenal's 464.

Well if Arsenal do end up being on the wrong end of one of the biggest upsets ever in the long history of football's oldest cup competition then Arsene Wenger will have a lot of questions to answer over his team selection for this evening's away tie against Sutton United.

Even against one of the best teams in NBA history, James put up all - world numbers on his way down.

The truth is and the history is there to back it up, No matter who Wenger picks in his starting lineup, if we come up against a team who's manager has done his homework, we will always tend to struggle against them, clearly because Wenger plays the same way every time.

So as long as the weight of history does not hang around the players shoulders later, Arsenal have a great chance of adding the scalp of Chelsea to those of Man United, Liverpool and Man City picked up with our new tactics which make the Gunners fearless against any team.

so on this (s) potted history, 86 to 96 was «ok» given the 6 trophies we won which makes the period 2006 to 2016 less than ok given we have achieved much less on the pitch, and its not so much the period speaking for itself but stacking up against the «also ran» period of 76 - 86....

In Week 4, at home against Carolina, Smith rang up 139 receiving yards and scored twice, becoming the oldest player in NFL history to accumulate 400 receiving yards in the first four games of a season.

Manziel did, however, put up 576 yards worth of offense against the Bulldogs, breaking his own record for the highest output in SEC history.

As a result, they need to pick up maximum points against CSKA in the upcoming back - to - back fixtures if they want to progress to the knock - out stages for only the second time in their history.

They're up against the greatest coach - quarterback combination in the history of football, a buzzsaw that's won five titles this century, including two of the last three.

They look to pick up the first W in their Franchise's history on Wednesday Night in Softball against Team Delts SO.

In turn, they'll want to avoid another slip up this weekend and given Sunderland have won just one of their last 25 Premier League games against Arsenal, with nine draws and 15 losses, history would suggest that the visitors should be confident.

This looked like a battle between Jabari Parker and Joel Embiid, with the former's NBA readiness going up against the latter's injury history.