Sentences with phrase «up against the world»

Cuba's 18.08 m man Pichardo leads the triple jump standings by two points, but he goes up against world and Olympic champion Taylor, who leapt 18.21 m to take the title in Beijing, and whoever comes out on top in Brussels will take the overall victory.

This week, BBC Sport's football expert Mark Lawrenson is up against world champion boxer Carl Frampton (no, not in a ring) and Nobby Butcher, aka comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.

The Scot will come up against the world's top two ranked players in Liverpool, as he firstly takes on current Premier League leader Van Gerwen before returning to the stage to play two - time World Champion Anderson.

After qualifying in the middle of the field he rose up the order partly thanks to keeping Kimi Raikkonen behind him at the start — no mean feat given he was up against a world champion armed with a KERS power boost button.

Cody is cocky, but is about to get wiped out when put up against the world champion, Tank «the Shredder» Evans (Bader, Miss Congeniality 2), until he gets help from an unexpected place from an old surfer named Geek (Bridges, Stick It).

The real challenges are in the Tournament Mode, here you'll go up against the world's best anglers in timed «matches» where you'll try to capture the most weight of fish.

We are up against the world's largest corporations, who are attempting to extract, transport and burn fossil fuels at an unprecedented rate, all as the climate crisis spins out of control.

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON, April 25 - A day after flaunting his friendship with Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron forcefully challenged many of the U.S. president's policies on Wednesday, urging the United States to engage more with the world, step up the fight against climate change and stay in the Iran nuclear pact for now.

In today's world, even a really well - funded startup company will have trouble competing when it's up against a «super-have» company backed by a mega-fund.

In an interview with Business Insider, Akshay Kumar — one of the most famous actors in Bollywood — said sexual misconduct is «everywhere» and that the allegations against entertainment stars in the US may encourage other women around the world to speak up.

«These are women working in a man's world, all the time up against crazy challenges.

But with the introduction of the Vox, Kobo is suddenly up against every mega-tech company in the world that's after a piece of the hot tablet market.

Those aren't easy names to go up against; they have substantial footholds in hospitals around the world, and they may be able to leverage those long - standing relationships to elbow their devices into the OR.

I think there's a real possibility that students all around the world will rise up against their professors and start demanding more realistic economic theories.

LONDON, April 20 - Aluminium prices fell on Friday for a second day as a rally sparked by U.S. sanctions against Russia's Rusal, the world's second - biggest producer, appeared to stall, but the metal was still on track to end the week up 7.5 percent.

You'd be forgiven for thinking that a renegade lawyer going up against one of the biggest bands in the world in court only has a tiny chance of prevailing.

«Requiring the banks to pay treble damages to every plaintiff who ended up on the wrong side of an independent Libor ‐ denominated derivative swap would, if appellants» allegations were proved at trial, not only bankrupt 16 of the world's most important financial institutions, but also vastly extend the potential scope of antitrust liability in myriad markets where derivative instruments have proliferated,» the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York said in the ruling.A U.S. appeals court on Monday revived private antitrust litigation accusing major banks of conspiring to manipulate the Libor benchmark interest rate, in a big setback for their defense against investors» claims of market - rigging.

Since the first alien attack, the alien technology has been used to supposedly build up the world's defenses against another attack.

While people who are breastfed are less likely to grow up to be obese, as the World Health Organization has noted, studies so far have found no evidence the act of breastfeeding offers protection against obesity.

On Monday, a judge pushed an anti-trust case against the banks forward, warning that if the case ends up being successful it could be devastating, potentially bankrupting 16 of the 17 largest banks in the world.

«Facebook must put up with the accusation that it is the world's biggest platform for hate and that it is doing nothing against this,» said Green parliamentarian Dieter Brosz.

Well the first thing is if the United States raises interest rates that's going to push the dollar way up against the Euro, and most of all against third world and Asian countries.

Canada's move to take the U.S. to the World Trade Organization over its abuses of globally agreed rules, made public Wednesday, is a clear signal that the NAFTA exercise is up against the wall and that the U.S. is preparing to trigger the six - month withdrawal notice.

Plenty of studies warn against this, including one that shows that missing out on just 10 of the best days in the stock market over 160,000 daily returns in 15 markets around the world can cause you to end up with about half of what you would have earned if you had stuck with an index fund over time.

For then the world might understand why even at its recent price above $ 1,300 per ounce gold has not come close to keeping up with the inflation, the currency debasement, of the last few decades, why gold has not fulfilled its function of hedging against inflation.

They are using that good nature against us and every other civilized country in the world & its time the we wake up and begin to deal with them in a forceful manner before its too late.

Gary wrong again, Gary wrong again: I was a guest before this on this blog: Even check out Martin Zender; The World's most outspoken bible scholar facebook; You will find me there; he knows me, and his crew knows of me; Father has others too that have been with me for years that are not in my city through their ministries also that have come up along side of me, but I do not want you to come against them as they have their own trials to overcome, therefore; no names given there, they also know me and my testimony: I am God's workmanship therefore, I was brought up in Christ along side witnesses as His testimony: Gary; this is going to be shocking, but because God does not inform you of a thing, means to me, that He has kept very much from you: Now why would that be?

America doesn't need anymore reason for blokes to plot against us and you're just pouring alcohol on an already burning fire.Anyways, as much as I am angry and hurt by this, I agree with this scholar - we can print more and more and as Muslim we need to set the standard of rising up and REMAINING calm and not be the stereotype the world thinks we are of angry backward water buffalos.

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 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.»

If I've learned anything over the past few years it's been that when the rains come down and the floods come up, when doubt and frustration whip like wind against my faith, all the apologetics in the world can't ground me like the simple, yet profoundly challenging teachings of Jesus Christ.

but, when I see all these extremist bombing all over the world & EXPRESS HATE to American the land WE live in, do we not have a responsibility show up and fight against them — fight for our country USA has nothing to do with Islam — wrong is wrong no matter what religion...

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).

Title: «APPEAL TO ALL JEWRY: «WAKE UP»» The very reason that the nations of the world have historically risen against the Jewish people is for this G - d given gift of intelligence — of being a light unto the nations — «אור לגוים».

It aims to drive a wedge between Christians and the world which is so close to them that they fail to see it and keep their guard up against it, And so Kierkegaard's program is exactly the opposite of Bultmann's: it is not to change the gospel to conform it to the spirit of the age, but to help individuals who desire a relationship with God to arm themselves against the spirit of the age.

(p. 111) So long as such an anti-war stance, with its own sort of heroic aspirations, does not, through the sorts of errors mentioned above, condemn or spit upon the more tangible heroic feelings stirred up by the real wars that inevitably will come (and thus demand, as C.S. Lewis put it, «long - faced» warriors even for just wars), and so long as it does not plug its ears against the geo - strategic and national considerations that must remain part of all politics, she would broadly endorse it, and would encourage all of us, whether theists or not, to yearningly quest for a world without war that we nonetheless know can never fully arrive.

I prefer to speak a clear spoken language that does not tie up a persons faith to eternal wars that GOD warns us against the new world order but those same fundie evangelicals are the ones who go against the BIBLE and builds the events of the end times in GODS name ven thogh GOD says he is against it anyway!

Therefore they can not endure what even to them seems a contradiction, and which as reflected from the world around them appears much more glaring, that to be concerned for one's own soul and to want to be spirit is a waste of time, yes, an inexcusable waste of time, which ought if possible to be punishable by law, at all events is punished by contempt and ridicule as a sort of treason against men, as a froward madness which crazily fills up time with nothing.

Rejecting the pseudo-Lutheran view which attempted to justify existence in this world as only being on a pilgrimage, Bonhoeffer now declares that a man «takes up his position against the world in the world; the calling is the place at which the call of Christ is answered, the place at which a man lives responsibly.

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.

By adopting a purely reactionary stance against the idealism of Hegel (and the philosophical tradition in general) Nietzsche ends up providing us with a vision of nature and the world which is overly narrow in scope.

Yet, after his all - stops - pulled polemic against America's misbegotten «crusade,» Bacevich ends up writing, «God forbid that the United States should fail, allowing the likes of Osama bin Laden and his henchmen to decide the future of the Islamic world.»

It is one of the many curiosities of the age in which Henry lived that the crusade against visual amenity and luxury in the world man builds was taken up by dogmatists of a fervently materialistic bent.

Luther spoke in 1537 of justification as the «first and chief article,» which can not be «given up or compromised,» for on it «rests all that we teach and practice against the pope, the devil, and the world.»

You've probably heard this at some point: The world is evil, and the Church has to stand up against that evil.

While it is true that Nietzsche's work does much to restore the place of nature in the general scheme of things, it must also be said that by placing mind in a subordinate relation to a purely irrational natural world he ends up devaluing the rational character of mind in a way that is equally questionable as the idealism he was reacting against.

In dealing with everyone mashed up against their stands, all keen and grabby for their conference swag — lanyards and laminated ID cards, clear plastic backpacks full of conference paraphernalia brought to you by the Knights of Columbus, World Meeting of Families — branded water bottles and T - shirts, green for mom and dad, blue for the kids — the parish ladies were understandably harried.

When you think about what Americans accomplished, building these amazing cities, and all the good its done in the world, it's kind of disheartening to hear so much hatred of America, not just from abroad, but internally... For some reason, nobody seems to be talking about who we're up against, and the sixth century barbarism that they actually represent.

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.

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.