Sentences with phrase «vehement in»

The prosecution was vehement in laying out their case for why this Lieutenant Colonel should be excluded.

Yet, as Festinger would have predicted, instead of falling silent, perhaps even admitting error, the denialists have become more vehement in their attacks on climate scientists, environmentalists and anyone who accepts the evidence for global warming.

Ron Johns, who owns three independents including The Falmouth Bookseller, was vehement in his opposition.

I have always thought that the far left and far right need each other, desperately, for if either one were to vanish the other would lose its reason to exist, a conviction that has freshened in me from year to year, as each grows ever more vehement in its search for somebody to hate.

One of the ironies here is that had Watson not been so vehement in his attacks, it wouldn't have made the press.

Lord McNally, the Lib Dem justice minister, who deals with human rights legislation, is growing more vehement in his insistence that the Tories have to realise they did not win an outright majority last year.

The Victoria residents have been vehement in their opposition to the school, and even went as far as to submit Freedom of Information Law requests to the School Construction Authority and contacted Mendez and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer.

In evidence to the Education Select Committee, the Chief Inspector of Schools Sir Michael Wilshaw, was vehement in his defence of the outgoing Chair and described how he asked Gove to reconsider his decision; and sources close to David Laws, Gove's own Schools Minister, have suggested that he is «absolutely furious» at the attempt to «politicise» Ofsted.

He wouldn't back Marchione because she wasn't sufficiently vehement in opposing Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, whom Paladino very much wants to see ousted from his leadership post.

A baby on a nursing strike can be quite vehement in their refusal of the breast, arching away from it, and crying even though they seem hungry as the anxious mother tries to get them to latch.

With the Reds pretty much out of the Premier League title race and unlikely to win the Champions League this season, Coutinho could be more vehement in his desire to swap Anfield for Camp Nou in January, if indeed Barcelona make an offer.

The problem was that Casillas instructed all of the players not to be too vehement in their criticism of referee Mallenco.

He was vehement in his stance: The Handsome one would take home his belt (assuming there's a belt up for grabs).

Women and monks were particularly vehement in their advocacy of the icons.

Luther and Melanchton worked together in close partnership for a long time, with Melanchton being the language specialist and less vehement in his expressions.

In any case, McCabe was absolutely vehement in insisting that nescience is not the result of some defect in God's knowledge or power; it is a voluntary self - limitation (FG 205).

Not exact matches

Trump's Fox and Friends interview, which took place on First Lady Melania's birthday («I got her a beautiful card and some beautiful flowers,» Trump said), included vehement denials of any collusion with Russia and a glowing self - assessment of his time in office so far.

Meanwhile, complaints of mismanagement, nearly as old as the agency itself, have grown more vehement; in particular, they still swirl around the difficulties processing Hurricane Katrina recovery loans.

But Pyott would make an ironic choice to run Valeant, given he was one of the most vehement critics of the company and Ackman in 2014, when Valeant teamed up with the hedge fund manager in an unsuccessful hostile takeover attempt of Allergan.

Once Murane was able to quantify why he and others were so loyal to Starbucks, he wondered how he could pass along his findings to clients so that they could instill in their customers the same vehement loyalty he felt for Starbucks.

China Minmetal Corp.'s proposed takeover of Noranda has excited a vehement negative response in the Canadian media since it was first reported last week.

But you could see the criticism beginning to mount and grow more vehement, in 2006, 2007, 2008, where you even had groups with industry members on them saying, «Look, the scale of growth is out of control.»

She summarized her dissent in the Hobby Lobby case from the bench, a rare move signaling vehement disagreement, one that happens perhaps four times a term.

But it was very clear from the very beginning on the part of the actual Congressmen that they weren't going to support it because they had already come out on the floor with such vehement opposition to the bill and pointing out exactly what was wrong with the bill, that it didn't have to be done in a hurry.

Meunier's organisation was founded by some of the most vehement opposition figures, including Egypt's richest man and well - known Coptic Christian billionaire Naguib Sawiris, Tarek Heggy, an oil industry executive, Salah Diab, Halliburton's partner in Egypt, and Usama Ghazali Harb, a politician with roots in the Mubarak regime and a frequent US embassy contact.

Some brokerage executives hope that in the face of such vehement opposition, the Department of Labor will back off.

In a series of moves that White House press secretary Sean Spicer described as an «energy revolution,» Mr. Trump invited TransCanada to submit a new application for the $ 8 - billion (U.S.) Keystone XL project that was rejected by the Obama administration in 2015, as well as giving his blessing to the Dakota Access pipeline that has attracted vehement opposition in North DakotIn a series of moves that White House press secretary Sean Spicer described as an «energy revolution,» Mr. Trump invited TransCanada to submit a new application for the $ 8 - billion (U.S.) Keystone XL project that was rejected by the Obama administration in 2015, as well as giving his blessing to the Dakota Access pipeline that has attracted vehement opposition in North Dakotin 2015, as well as giving his blessing to the Dakota Access pipeline that has attracted vehement opposition in North Dakotin North Dakota.

Similar borrowing in the private sector of the economy is both accepted and wholly approved even by the most eloquent, frequently vehement, opponents of the public deficit.»

Thus it is no surprise that pluralists readily desert their pluralism in their vehement opposition to certain kinds of classical and conservative theology.

What I didn't realize at the time was that I was opposing him in an equally vehement tone, while myself only hearing one perspective in this story.

This doctrine was not recorded in the Gospels — probably because it was so well known — but with that background knowledge, we can understand Jesus» vehement rebuttal.

(Isaiah 5:16) Then, in contrast with this view, having described the loose and cynical ways in which popular thought referred to «the Holy One of Israel,» (Isaiah 5:18 - 19) he went on to announce with vehement earnestness the real meanings of holiness in terms of personal morals and social righteousness.

But this was mostly hyperbole, and to bring in the Romans to settle a dispute about the Law, however vehement that dispute might be, is really beyond the bounds of reasonable possibility.

In truth, so vehement is this pope's love of Eastern Christianity that it has often blinded him to the most inexorable barriers between the churches.

From there we can freely explore all our questions, even in vehement disagreement, if necessary.

Closely following the teachings of B.R. Ambedkar, the 20th Century symbol of Dalit power and protest, the Dalit asserted their separateness from other Hindus and demonstrated vehement opposition to classical Brahmanic Hinduism.12 However, it may be stated that Dalit movement in India is not yet homogenous and does represent diverse policies and means of liberation.

Hitchens, along with fellow militant atheists such as Richard Dawkins, speaks for many in our cynical, post-Christian society, and his vehement diatribes eloquently express modern secular attitudes towards religion, Christianity in particular.

Such conservatives, estimated by pollster Daniel Yankelovich as one American in five, are actually somewhat marginal to the mainstream of national life, have few polished spokespersons, and are given to unsophisticated and vehement expression of their resentment about assaults on their convictions and values.

Here he sat down, and remained fixed in thought a number of hours, at the end of which he sprang from the ground with a vehement, exulting emotion.

In estimating the religious character of individuals, nations, or races, the first question is, not how they feel, but what they think and believe — not whether their religion is one which manifests itself in emotions, more or less vehement and enthusiastic, but what are the conceptions of God and divine things by which these emotions are called fortIn estimating the religious character of individuals, nations, or races, the first question is, not how they feel, but what they think and believe — not whether their religion is one which manifests itself in emotions, more or less vehement and enthusiastic, but what are the conceptions of God and divine things by which these emotions are called fortin emotions, more or less vehement and enthusiastic, but what are the conceptions of God and divine things by which these emotions are called forth.

That he loved Israel and graciously entered into covenant with his chosen people, far from implying love and grace in other relationships, involved vehement hatred of Israel's enemies.

In a 1622 sermon at St. Paul's, for instance, John Donne described «the Holy Ghost [as] an eloquent Author, a vehement and abundant Author, but yet not luxuriant; he is far from a penurious, but as far from a superfluous style too.»

Wishing to remove from the minds of your Eminences and of every true Christian this vehement suspicion justly cast upon me, with sincere heart and unfeigned faith I do abjure, damn, and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally each and every other error, heresy, and sect contrary to the Holy Church; and I do swear for the future that I shall never again speak or assert, orally or in writing, such things as might bring me under similar suspicion.

He stood in vehement opposition to the modern customs, which presumably included the luxurious court, the collapse of old simplicities, the conscription of farmers and shepherds into military service, mounting taxation, the decay of old nomadic ideals of brotherhood.

Some of it's a bit much, as when he says «There is practically a universal characteristic in the way people defend Potter, and that is vehement anger.»

Though lacking an advanced degree, Brock received an Olin Fellowship at the Heritage Foundation in 1991, where his writing «became so vehement it bordered on the vicious.»

And finally, my very own co-author and close friend, Dr. Paul Boland, a highly decorated Regent's Professor at New Mexico State University, insisted, over my vehement protests, that we publish a photo of an immature — but precocious — «Peter Pepper» in our new tome, The Complete Chile Pepper Book.

Despite years of vehement public opposition to the field and feed test of Golden Rice in the past decade — a genetically engineered rice promoted for commercialization in Asia, the Department of Agriculture — Bureau of Plant Industry (DA - BPI), PhilRice has filed renewed application this year toopen field test the genetically modified crop in the municipality of San Mateo in Isabela and Muñoz in Nueva Ecija.

Their social media activity is quite vehement and amplified, which could be argued is the area where they force change whilst participating in the physical world without controversy.

The protests may not have been too vehement but they have been around for years and more so than ever this season, while the main reason for most fans not being too full on about it is because of the respect that the prof has earned for his 20 years in charge.