Sentences with phrase «up against the fact»

It is one thing to state a conviction, and quite another to show that it will stand when brought up against the facts of human experience.

FIFA have immortalised the actual events of the draw in a short piece on their website, though the unnamed author quickly runs up against the fact that in an age before celebrity — before rehearsal draws and dancing interludes — the sight of a man taking small things out of a larger thing tends toward the dry side of prosaic.

Not exact matches

The ongoing #MeToo and Time's Up movements may make it seem like celebrating IWD is a no - brainer for brands, but in fact, the campaigns against sexual harassment and sexism have raised the bar, says Erin Keeley, CMO at Mono, an ad agency.

In fact, he said that FCA is now planning to look at developing a mid-size pickup truck to go up against the new Ford Ranger and the Chevy Colorado.

In view of this, it is puzzling that these countries complained about «currency wars,» alleging that the «monetary tsunami» unleashed by the U.S. and the euro area was threatening their competitive positions by pulling up their currencies, when, in fact, the real and the rupeewere falling against the dollar and the euro.

They did that despite the fact that, against all campaign orthodoxy, Obama was advocating for some taxes to go up.

All the facts will come out, but I wanted to clear up the mis - information and protect against this audacious attack on my reputation.»

Less often discussed is holding up the values of scientific inquiry and progress against the anti-rational, fact - free messages that Trump has so willingly disseminated since he took the Republican nomination.

There's also the fact Disney's upcoming movie and TV streaming service is likely to compete against Hulu for customers, but the ownership stake may open both services up to future bundled plans.

Legal costs from the lawsuit by Phills against Saloner and Stanford, and from the intervention of Saloner and Stanford in the divorce case between Phills and Gruenfeld, have surely exceeded $ 2 million by now, and neither case shows any signs of wrapping up soon (in fact, Stanford and Saloner have launched a lawsuit - within - a-lawsuit against Phills over Phills» accessing of his wife's communications with Saloner.).

In fact, when you line up Ryan against his direct opponent, Vice President Joe Biden, you can see two versions of the same person — at least in that they both came to Washington in their 20s, were elected to office far younger than their peers, and never left.

But that doesn't change the fact that in any bid that forces it to go up against Amazon or Facebook, the odds are stacked against it.

State Department spokesman Mark Toner called the allegation against Kennedy inaccurate, saying it «does not align with the facts» and noting that the email in question ended up being marked as classified when released, with redactions, to the public last year.

For example, Uber has been hit by an unsubscription campaign because of its CEO's link to the Trump administration and the fact that its drivers didn't comply to a call to halt pick - ups at John F Kennedy International Airport in protestation against the ban.

EX-IM's due diligence will come up against the same set of micro - and macro-economic facts that Kenyan officials appear impatient about — oil projects are expensive, complex and can take a long time.

«With borrowing costs remaining low, and in fact declining, strong home ownership demand will continue to butt up against a constrained supply of listings,» said Jason Mercer, the board's senior manager of market analysis.

The brutal fact is that twinges of conscience can be easily stifled when they come up against self - interest.

The world is black and white and anything else is seen as soft... I can tell you for a fact that he is viewed positively by a large majority of scheme people who find his views odd but like the fact he sticks up for himself against the posh establishment.»

In fact, they would have» beaten their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears» and as a result, «they will not lift up sword, nation against nation, neither will they learn war anymore.»

It would cost to take a stand against these very prominent leaders, despite the fact that the situation we were dealing with is widely recognized as one of the worst, if not the worst, instances of evangelical cover - up of sexual abuse.

It holds a variety of Christian themes about Jesus, salvation, global day of prayer, blah blah blah; you know the usual tacky Christian attempt to witness to unsuspecting motorists who are forced to see this massive sign against their will and resent the fact that they have to look up and see not Coca - Cola, but «Jesus loves you enough to die for you».

I think the biggest issue here is the fact that for his entire life, up until this past may, Obama was against gay marriage.

«In fact,» Pacepa reported, «no incriminating material against the pontiff ever turned up.»

His cry of helplessness, his shattered ruin, grew from the fact that on the cross the annihilating wrath of God and the desperate, finite fury of humankind, which up to now had been directed each against the other, were at last united against this solitary victim.

For, when the Good took up its place at the goal where the reward beckons or where the Good itself beckons to a man, the Good against its will would then be forced to see and to put up with the fact that there were two paths, and two men bent on them; the one be-cause he willed the Good in truth, and humbly but gladly followed its beckoning; the other because fear drove him thence.

everything in the universe evolves, not only life forms but also memes, Religion is a meme so it also change in conformity to its era or time of its conception as faith.Because in pre scientific times thousands of years ago, the scientific method of approach or philosophy has not existed yet, myth or merely story telling is considered facts, The first religion called animism more than 10,000 years ago believed that spirits or god exists in trees, rivers, mountains, boulders or in any places people at that time considered holy.hundreds of them, then when the Greeks and Romans came, it was reduced to 12, they called it polytheism, when the Jews arrived, it was further reduced to 1, monotheism.its derivatives, Christianity And Islam and later hundreds of denominations that includes Mormonism and Protestants flourished up to today.So in short this religions evolved in accordance to the scientific knowledge of the age or era they existed.If you graph the growth of knowledge, it shows a sharp increase in the last 500 years, forcing the dominant religions at that time to reinterprete their dogmas, today this traditional religions are becoming obsolete and has to evolve to survive.But first they have to unify against atheism.in the dialectical process of change, Theism in one hand and the opposing force atheism in the other, will resolve into a result or synthesis.The process shall be highlighted in the internet in the near future.

• Fact # 9: I taught at the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary early this year and spent some time with the President, Byron Klaus — who is a Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary graduate and keeps up with (and says good things about) his friend Paige Patterson, whose seminary has taken a position against some practices associated with Pentecostal Christianity.

For example, against both dualism and reductionistic determinism and in favor of the pancreationist, panexperientialist view that the actual world is made up exhaustively of partially self - determining, experiencing events, there is considerable evidence, such as the fact that a lack of complete determinism seems to hold even at the most elementary level of nature; that bacteria seem to make decisions based upon memory; that there appears to be no place to draw an absolute line between living and nonliving things, and between experiencing and nonexperiencing ones; and that physics shows nature to be most fundamentally a complex of events (not of enduring substances).

The fact that members of this religion stood up and spoke out against this policy would indicate something to someone with any real intelligence.

«But such puny barricades can not stand up against the terrible facts.»

2) every religion would have to placed against known facts of the universe, it would be a class strictly pointing out the failings of religion and end up raising more problems than answers.

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.

its 1 thing 2 b gay and hide it its another 2 speak evil about being gay and its another 2 conceal the fact u r gay own up u crook eddie long is a closet gay man that goes against his beliefs its a money grab from people who believe in god and religion

That he chooses to bypass the «guns don't kill people, people kill people» fact only shows that he has no effective argument against it, preferring instead to continue along the path of «don't confuse me with the facts, my mind is made up».

In the denomination to which I once belonged, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), more traditional pastors are beginning to wake up to the fact that, even if the civil government does exercise some restraint in compelling pastors to act against conscience, it is hardly the case that their denomination itself will.

And protests against the effort can be constructive only if they participate in the effort, gather up into their own vision the deepening disclosure of the symbolic and transhistorical vitalities of historical fact.

In our haste to assign value to the world of nature so as to maximally exploit it (chemists have reckoned that the material value of a person amounts to approximately $ 12), we have foolishly ignored the fact that what we are up against is mystery, God's grace at work.

I am amazed at how faithful the Hebrew Scriptures are to this fact; judgment after judgment is piled up against the various political actions of the Jewish nation.

My point is that perhaps in making these assumptions, or taking these points as fact when taught to us, we are really seeking comfort by sealing up the cracks in our dam against any uncertainty.

You sound just like the people in the dark ages did when they were against civil rights for African Americans and women, you're the one on the wrong side of the moral debate with no facts to back yourselves up.

Searle's account of the problem of consciousness thus shows that science was destined to run up against a blank wall when it could no longer deny the awkward fact that «inward» events (like qualitative feelings) can neither be ignored nor explained away in terms of «outward» appearances.

However, know that sniffing out only the stories of greed and abuse in the church while ignoring all the stories of actual progress for society that it brings pretty much negates all of your arguments to that of an obsessed critic with nothing better to do than make up facts against the church.

In fact, two gems from Pascal's Pénsées would make for perfect epigrams with which to begin and end Kugel's book: «The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me» (which sums up his argument about the absolute «smallness» and «silence» that circumscribe our existence and lead us to transcendence), and, «The heart has its reasons, which reason can not understand,» (which sums up his argument against rational reductionism).

If this enterprise, this movement of theirs, is of human origin it will break up of its own accord, but if it does in fact come from God you will not only be unable to destroy them, but you might find yourselves fighting against God.»

If not I can come up with more people the U.S. has been bigoted against... quite easily in fact.

People both for and against abortion have abused and manipulated language to gain support for their views; but certainly, pro-abortionists have been especially guilty of brutalizing language to cover up the fact that abortion is the killing of innocent unborn babies.

Giroud's presence, aerial ability and link up play, plus the fact he is looking sharp and has already won us our only EPL points off the bench against Leicester, could be vital against a Bournemouth likely to defend deep and restrict space.

Haven't you guys picked up on the fact that Vegas is on to the «smart» money trying to bet against the public?

We all know how Hull City will set up their game plan which will be to sit deep like Chelsea, Swansea usually do against us but Wenger will go into the game with his usual lame tactics when in fact he should devising a better plan to get the 3 points with ease

Our last four home games have seen some fantastic football against our nearest and dearest opponents and if it wasnt for the fact that we came up against the top two keepers in the country, we might have been five points better off.