Sentences with phrase «voices in the wilderness trying»

Or the fight in Chicago over the site of the Obama Library, where Birnbaum and TCLF are voices in the wilderness trying to save an Olmsted park.

Not exact matches

These serious, excellent, upright, deeply sensitive people who are still Christian from the very heart: they owe it to themselves to try for once the experiment of living for some length of time without Christianity; they owe it to their faith in this way for once to sojourn «in the wilderness» — if only to win for themselves the right to a voice on the question whether Christianity is necessary.»

Contemporary organised demand for constitutional reform traces back to the late 1970s, yet even before then, isolated intellectuals — «a voice crying in the wilderness» — had tried to make an issue out of a written constitution for Britain that would include a Bill of Rights.