Sentences with phrase «up against the death»

In an interview with Game Informer, Koji Oda went on to say that, «we definitely have that state of mind that you're always up against death, but this time you have more tools at your disposal, so you can face death and still have fun».

The cash value of the life insurance policy represents money that is built up against the death benefit to reduce the «net amount at risk» for the insurance company.

Life insurance may provide just basic death benefit protection (i.e. term life insurance) or it may provide a death benefit with an equity value, called a cash value, which is a cash reserve that builds up against the death benefit of the policy to cover the costs associated with paying out the future death benefit claim..

Not exact matches

Below is how the lifetime odds of dying from gun violence (highlighted in red, gun suicides and accidents excluded) stack up against many causes of death for Americans:

During the hearing, Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy brought up the company's role in the ongoing ethnic violence in Myanmar, citing one incident where death threats against a Muslim journalist did not violate the platform's rules.

10:21 - 23; «Now brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.

26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was due.28 And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, covenant - breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful: 32 who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they that practise such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with them that practise them.

A week after Broomfield's death, President Barack Obama announced the deployment of up to 450 more troops to train Iraqi forces to more effectively fight against ISIS, NPR reports.

For me, this passage sums up the Christian argument against the death penalty.

In the Easter experience the disciples were assured «that God himself had intervened with almighty hand in the wicked and rebellious activity of the world, and had snatched this Jesus of Nazareth from the power of sin and death which had risen up against him, and installed him as Lord of the world.»

Theologians who have quite properly protested against the notion that God was such that he needed to be made friendly and available to his creatures by reason of some event (in this case the death of Christ) which opened up for him this possibility, have failed to see that in this inadequate and often misleading way of speaking, there was an insight of which they should have taken due account.

His call to take up the cross comes to those who are busy trying to secure their lives against the threat of death and meaninglessness.

Death is swallowed up in the victory of Christ who stands against such an insensible, dying world and, through our ambassadorship, raises it from the dead.

Or what about the drowning of the Egyptian army in the Red Sea, the earthquake the swallowed up all those who followed Korah in rebellion against Moses, or the things that God allows Satan to do to Job, or even some passages in the New Testament such as the death of Ananias and Sapphira, or the bloodbath that takes place in the book of Revelation?

She supports a woman's right to an abortion, is against the death penalty and corporal punishment, is not in favor of adopted children digging up their biological parents against their wishes, and believes that Dr. Jack Kevorkian and the incurably ill people who turn to him for painless deaths should be left alone.

a set of cosmological and anthropological views that owed not a little to the vast mélange of Hellenism and Orientalism flooding the world where he grew up, and providing him with the unique setting for still other ideas, of sin, Satan, death, of the sinful and therefore mortal nature of man — as «flesh» — of the «spiritual» forces arrayed against God and his Messiah and all the faithful, of the victory to be won by the Messiah when he should at last appear — all these ideas were shaped to the mold of certain half - Jewish, half - pagan ideas which Paul seems to have derived from the world about him.

«Brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.»

Foreseeing the approach of death in days rather than weeks, here is how they spent their last sleepless leisure, sitting up against the wall: Timofeyev - Ressovsky gathered them into a «seminar,» and they hastened to share with one another what one of them knew and the others did not — they delivered their last lectures to each other.

Kolbe was the last: Borgowiec saw him propped up against the wall, eyes open, face serene, head inclined to the left, the death certificate, as always made out with precision indicates the hour of death 12.30.»

As thy substance is give alms of it, according to thine abundance; if thou have much, according to the abundance thereof, give alms; if thou have little bestow it, and be not afraid to give alms according to that little; for thou layest up a good treasure for thyself against the day of necessity; because alms delivereth from death, and suffereth not to come into darkness.

We come up sharply against the limits of our existence whenever we experience fate, death, guilt or the threat of meaninglessness.

Automobile - related deaths were up some eight percent in 2015 over against 2014, according to reports.

In God's chancery the death sentence against us is made up.

Shanahan's take, not in his words but paraphrased: Here's a guy who was shot by his father when he was 16 months old, who didn't have a home in high school, who just found places to stay at night, who had death threats against him after his college process, and now, he's got his life together enough to be great at football, he's a great teammate, he lights up the room when he walks in...

When he realises what he's up against he immediately backs down, and is clearly shaken up by his brush with death.

While it may seem premature to start sizing up potential playoff opponents («I like our chances against the Cardinals,» one Braves player said last weekend, «but the Cubs scare me to death»), it would take a historic collapse at this point for Atlanta to miss the postseason.

The bookies 66/1 odds against Wenger leaving before his contact's up, reflects the odds of Kroenke selling up to an owner who cares about the club.It will be a battle to the death to remove Kroenke from our club BUT if we want to resue our club from terminal medicrity, it MUST be accomplished.

Non-League side Sutton score at the death through Maxime Biamou and Dean Fitchett to set up a dream clash against Leeds United.

A member of the party, Abubakar Saddiq, was stabbed to death on Friday in the Asawase constituency in the Ashanti Region for allegedly threatening to beat up the constituency Chairman because he allegedly made some comments against the party's flagbearer, Nana Akufo - Addo.

Their deaths are a crime against civilisation and rid of us of any notion that the EU might be a force for good, or that the UK could live up to the grossly inflated rhetoric it issues about its role in the world.

There were more deaths in custody last year than ever before, staffing levels have seen deep cuts, there's a shortage of places and violence against prison staff is up sharply.

Authorities in Saudi Arabia and the Nigerian National Hajj Commission are up against explaining the mystery surrounding the death of a Nigerian who hid himself in an aircraft from Nigeria and landed in Jeddah.

A member of the party, Abubakar Saddiq, was stabbed to death on Friday in the Asawase constituency in the Ashanti Region for allegedly threatening to beat up the constituency Chairman because he allegedly made some comments against the party's flagbearer, Nana Akufo Addo.

Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore announced today that an indictment has been handed up against three individuals in the September 18th, 2010 daytime stabbing on North Avenue in New Rochelle, resulting in the death of Kevin Williams.

Chief Magistrate Olusegun Ayilara, the chairman of the Coroner's Inquest set up by the State Governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, to uncover the circumstances surrounding the death of Senator Isiaka Adeleke, has threatened to issue a bench warrant against the Divisional Police Officer DPO, of Dugbe Police station, Osogbo and the Officer in charge of Homicide, for shunning the sitting and refusal to testify before it.

Persons who stand up against the corrupt and corrupt practices in society are very often either bought off, blackmailed into silence through death threats or forced to face financial ruin and at worst physically eliminated.

A special election opened up in the aftermath of the incumbent's death and Ms. James, who had run against Mr. Davis before, would indeed mount another bid.

Murray wound up helping the group for nine months, helping them move into a permanent office and paving the groundwork for some of their most consequential fights, including their campaign against the «death tax» and their legal challenge to the corporate accounting regulations in the Sarbanes - Oxley Act of 2002.

The royals» dismal, off - key response to the tragic death of Princess Di in 1997 whipped up more public vituperation against the Monarchy than anything we have seen since the ghastly Edward VIII ran off with Wallis Simpson back in the days of black and white newsreel.

He told his interrogators what he thought of Prohibition (against, though he didn't drink), the death penalty (against, at least some of the time), and abortion (for, up to a certain point in the pregnancy).

To get a feel for what scientists are up against, start with the photos, a gallery of rogues that poison their enemies — such as the dinoflagellate Alexandrium tamarense — or stab them to death — including a Chaetoceros species that plunges its serrated spines into the gills of fish.

In years past dolphins had apparently built up some level of antibody defense against the virus so that contracting it did not always lead to death.

Just from the high number of deaths and severe cases, scientists and public health experts battling Germany's massive E. coli outbreak knew they were up against something unusual.

But if you're, you know just for argument -LSB-'s] sake, if you are 20 feet from the ship, but you're in the same, going exactly the same velocity as the ship, ordinarily well, you would be up the creek, so to speak; because with nothing to accelerate against you would just parallel the path of the ship until you run out of oxygen or starve to death, whatever.

However, studies of children in developing countries, where most cases occur, found that measles vaccination reduces the overall death rate from infections for up to 5 years, suggesting that preventing the disease somehow provides protection against other illnesses.

That's getting easier to do, thanks to new laws that many states have passed against lighting up; meanwhile, the Clean Air Act prevented 160,000 early deaths in 2010 alone, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates.

It's also an anti-inflammatory agent that protects against cardiovascular disease, arrhythmias and sudden death after heart attack.1 And if that weren't impressive enough, berberine's up - and - coming claim to fame revolves around its truly remarkable effects on blood sugar and diabetes control.

Death By Push Ups Test: In this test, you will see how you stand against others in your push ability.

, Interestingly Ms. Minger references, more than once, the work of Chris Masterjohn in backing up some of her claims against the findings in «The China Study», the same Chris Masterjohn who at the time of writing did not have any qualifications or credentials in the areas of health, nutrition and biochemistry, much like Ms. Minger, but who does have the credentials to write a foreword in MS. WInger's first book «Death by Food Pyramid».

Although research on meditation and cardiovascular health is fairly limited, some studies suggest that taking up a meditation practice may boost your defense against heart disease (the leading cause of death in the United States).