Sentences with phrase «vehemence as»

Seemingly, despite progress made against discrimination / prejudice against external differences (colour / race / gender), it is still perfectly acceptable in some places to discriminate against internal differences (beliefs / ideology / worldview / sexual orientation etc.) and to do so with such vehemence as to rival some of those historical examples you cited.

Not exact matches

The company regularly posts quarterly losses with few historical parallels, even as regulators and critics argue with growing vehemence that the company is exploiting and underpaying its drivers.

This insight explains the vehemence of his attack upon the German quest for the historical Jesus, just as it illuminates his behavior» during his first years at Lambaréné, when he ransacked the intellectual storehouses of the world's religions in order to find some way to conceive of an affirmation of the world that was not merely mindless hedonism, a way that could motivate a powerful urge toward human betterment, toward perfection within the structures of natural existence.

Jeff, while on the surface your comments make sense; however, IF you dig down, and look at the real issues at hand, it is much more often and with much more vehemence, that Christians condemn atheists as «idiots» «heathens» «unclean» and any number of other rather unpleasant names.

Like the rest of society, the church is feeling the shaking of its foundations as women challenge their traditional roles with increasing vehemence.

Alvin Plantinga, explaining the vehemence with which atheists like Dawkins use evolution as a weapon against theism, says that, «For the nontheist, evolution is the only game in town; it is an essential part of any reasonably complex nontheistic way of thinking...» (Plantinga 18 - 19).

He who as soon as born keen - thoughted, foremost, Surpassed the gods, himself, a god, in power; Before whose vehemence the worlds trembled Through his great valour; he, O men, is Indra.

Historians have long investigated the misjudgements of this campaign and the question of hubris emerges as an underlying factor for Napoleon's vehemence to pursue a disastrous campaign.

President Akufo - Addo said «I continue to be puzzled as to the vehemence with which so - called social democrats oppose or attempt to undermine measures designed to address poverty.

The Chingford Skinhead, as he was sometimes known at the time, was hated by large parts of the left with the same foaming vehemence that they hated Margaret Thatcher.

As Thomas and Luc become closer, their new relationship begins to alienate their significant others, and Thomas» father (Fred Ulysse) can not understand why his son doesn't fight against his illness with great vehemence.

There's little doubt that Creation opens with a fair amount of promise, as screenwriter John Collee initially focuses on Darwin's ongoing anguish over his scientific endeavors - with the vehemence of his colleagues (ie one tells him that he has effectively «killed god») causing a considerable amount of friction within his home life.

Considering that genre fiction is thought to sell so much more readily than literary, I'm always surprised at the vehemence with which some people will describe literary fiction as boring and «pretentious» — as if vampires prancing around in ill - researched period costumes aren't pretentious in their own fashion; as if utterly implausible science fiction isn't a form of pretension at warp speed.

The paint seems to have been laid on with an almost Germanic vehemence, as if she had begun paying close attention to painters like Georg Baselitz or Markus Lüpertz or Martin Kippenberger.

«His painting shows a vehemence and ironic assertion that recalls the work of such artists as Albert Oehlen or Martin Kippenberger.

She cited as motivation for quitting her objection to «the kind of vehemence and aggressive attack strategy that Exxon has executed over the last year» toward state attorneys general with open investigations of ExxonMobil and over a dozen non-for-profit groups (such as the Union of Concerned Scientists) and individuals who have been in communication with them over the corporation's decades - long role as champion of climate denial.

However I'll change my language to «considerable consternation» given the vehemence of several key players such as AGL, Tru Energy and Origin.