Sentences with phrase «victories and defeats which»

This includes past struggles, victories and defeats which have been experienced by the party, trade union movement and working classes.

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Reinhold Niebuhr, for example, wrote an exuberant review of Science and the Modern World in which he saw Whitehead's philosophy as «exactly the emphasis which modern religion needs to rescue it from defeat on the one hand and from a too costly philosophical victory on the other.

This victory of process thinkers begins to look like the victory of the quantum physicists, who accepted history and helped defeat classical physics, but then realized that this was the kind of accomplishment after which «you smile for months and then you weep for years.»

The story of Jesus, he writes, is «the story of God's kingdom being launched on earth as it is in heaven, generating a new state of affairs in which the power of evil has been decisively defeated, the new creation has been decisively launched, and Jesus» followers have been commissioned and equipped to put that victory and that inaugurated new world into practice.»

In the light of that experience, we have read history again, noting the rise and fall of nations and cultures in cycles which in the perspective seem as short and are apparently as final and futile as the life - span of a man, evil manifesting itself continually in the same hideous forms, good winning its victories but also suffering its defeats, as century follows century and our tiny planet is hurled on its precarious way among the stars.

Victories also followed against Manchester City but it was defeats against West Bromwich Albion, Southampton, and Swansea City which caused the damage.

However, the journey appears to have had many more twists and turns than anticipated following a damaging 2 - 1 «El Clasico» defeat at the hands of Real Madrid which closed the gap at the top, before Real Sociedad heaped more misery taking all three points in a narrow 1 - 0 victory in April.

From group D so far Sevilla on 3rd with only 1 victory which comes vs. Borussia M'gladbach and 3 defeats placing on 3rd place.

En route to a 2 - 0 defeat at Stamford Bridge to Chelsea in the 2009/2010 FA Cup, Stoke recorded some stunning wins, which included handsome victories over both Arsenal and Manchester City.

They've lost just one of their last 12 matches, which was in the reverse fixture just after Christmas, when Arsenal recorded a 3 - 2 victory at Selhurst Park, and were a last - minute penalty kick away from defeating league leaders Manchester City on New Year's Eve.

Furthermore, Rovers have secured victory in three of their previous four league visits to Bolton, a statistic which doesn't do the hosts any favours considering Blackburn are generally a dismal away outfit and have suffered four defeats in six on their travels this season.

In an instant, defeat turned into a victory and echoed a positive vibe around the town which will no doubt carry through to the Champions League game in midweek.

Within that run was the 1 - 4 Liverpool victory over City at the Etihad, but also included in that period was the 2 - 0 defeat to eventually relegated Newcastle and the 3 - 0 loss to Watford, both of which are widely accepted as the worst performances under Jurgen Klopp.

Having 6 victory besides of 1 drawn which comes vs. Liverpool and 2 defeats.

Defeat at home to Arsenal last time out, where they were comprehensively beaten by a Gunners side who strolled to a 3 - 0 victory at St Andrews, has meant Birmingham find only mediocre Wolves below them in the league, a harrowing sight in itself, though safety is just one win away and it is that factor alone which should provide motivation for the Birmingham camp.

Goals from Jordy Clasie - his first for the club - and Ryan Bertrand secured victory for a Southampton side which inflicted a first defeat on the Gunners since the opening day of the season.

He said that in 2010, too, and the three - way GOP battle to take on Gillibrand, which was eventually won by former Rep. Joe DioGuardi, didn't help the Republicans defeat Gillibrand, who sailed to her first statewide victory in the general election.

And even if he does win, it would be a pyrrhic victory which would cost him a lot personally, cost the party a disastrous general election defeat and cost the country a bigger Tory majority and the arrival of UKIP in our ParliameAnd even if he does win, it would be a pyrrhic victory which would cost him a lot personally, cost the party a disastrous general election defeat and cost the country a bigger Tory majority and the arrival of UKIP in our Parliameand cost the country a bigger Tory majority and the arrival of UKIP in our Parliameand the arrival of UKIP in our Parliament.

On congressional primary day in June, Espaillat claimed a narrow victory, leaving Wright calling for a recount, but soon community leaders brought pressure on Wright to move on and accept defeat, which he did.

Expected victory in London tonight and a Scottish rout - a humiliating defeat should the Tories emerge the official opposition in SNP land - are flanks of a battleground on which Labour didn't do as badly as predicted.

In the graphic posted, Maradona claimed he achieved 75 percent efficiency, with 18 victories and six defeats in 24 matches during his tenure as Argentina coach, including the World Cup in South Africa, a tournament in which his team was eliminated in the quarter - finals.

The challenges confronting the present generation of Africans may be unique in their own rights, however, it can not be in doubt that a concerted effort of the kind that delivered victories over slavery, oppression, subjugation and colonialism is needed today in equal measure to defeat contemporary forces such as neo-colonialism, racism, exploitation, unfair trade and poverty which are militating against our progress.

The margin of Labour's victory, 8,111 votes, was higher than many expected, and allowed the party to claim it had proved its appeal to its core voters by substantially defeating the Scottish National party, which last year embarrassed the prime minister by winning the Glasgow East byelection.

The universal body language of sports The Olympics are a good place to study the gestures of victory and defeat — raised arms, slumped shoulders — many of which are consistent across sports and cultures.

When the two civilizations clash, renowned warrior Achilles (Brad Pitt) emerges as the key to the Greeks» victory or defeat over the Trojan Army, which is led by Troy's noble champion, Prince Hector (Eric Bana), and protected by the city's seemingly invincible walls.

Strategic combat with consequences — victory or defeat and even the permanent loss of a character depends on which characters you choose to take into battle and what decisions you make afterwards.

Students, parent activists and teachers took the stage to celebrate the defeat of Ballot Question 2, which called for a lift to the statewide cap on charter school expansion — a victory that Massachusetts Teachers Association President Barbara Madeloni said quashed efforts to privatize public education.

It's your job to score victory points and thereby defeat the other players, with the exact method of scoring points changing based on which of the three missions you undertake, but we'll get back to that later on as all the gameplay mechanics remain the same regardless.

-- Strategic combat with consequences — victory or defeat and even the permanent loss of a character depends on which characters you choose to take into battle and what decisions you make afterwards.

Appropriately, opening night of this exhibition will entail free viewing of the much anticipated pay - per - view fight between Miguel Cotto and Canelo Alvarez which happens to fall on the opening night of The Thrill Of Victory The Agony Of Defeat.

Humour, sadness, elation, depression; pathos, ebullience, turbulence; love, hate, attraction, revulsion; pointing, pushing, pulling, cavorting; turning, tossing, tumbling, twisting; rock and roll, victory and defeat; all the elements, in fact, of intense human interaction and drama that were once the province of figurative art, particularly figurative painting — where they formed the pretext upon which was built a profound diversity of imaginative visual constructs — are seemingly no longer at the behest of figurative art, which languishes in states of mock - academia or faux - avant - gardism, by turns bathetic, mundane or grotesque... all that human content is now, surprisingly but necessarily, the prerogative of the abstract artist.

3) One other hard reality, hidden by squabbles over which side wielded a bigger portion of its giant war chest, alliances and person - hours toward climate victory or defeat, is that the issue has never had the salience that would be required to get anywhere near 60 votes in the Senate, let alone a simple majority.

The president chose the politics of a few over sound science and fundamental economics, ideology over the national interest, to cause a stunning defeat for the United States, American energy security and America's energy partnership with Canada — and a stunning victory for countries like Venezuela, which will benefit from the U.S. saying no to the oil Keystone XL would bring from Canada and the U.S. Bakken region.

More complex inferences and rebuttals are then developed which enable the «defeated» camp to claim victory, while their opponents go into defensive mode.

The dancer's victory here shows once again that, in many employment cases, the difference between success and defeat is in the details, which is why you need a knowledgeable New Jersey employment attorney on your side.

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