Sentences with phrase «waging a battle against»

On other fronts throughout the 1920s, the editors attacked racism and the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, preached peace, opposed U.S. intervention in Central America, urged the diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Union, supported Protestant ecumenism, and waged a battle against the fundamentalists.

How can we be touting healthy eating and living and waging a battle against obesity in America's children on one hand, while from the other hand, serving them meat that even McDonald's won't put in a value meal?

As New York's first confirmed Ebola patient waged battle against the disease in Bellevue Hospital downtown, his uptown neighbors struggled to come to grips with their proximity to the worldwide phenomenon.

When we last checked in with the shaggy wanderers in The Desolation of Smaug, Bilbo and the dwarfs were waging a battle against the dragon.

Critics also have been waging battle against any proposal that seems charter - like, such as innovation zones.

Some educators question how a ban would be enforced, and whether they're waging a battle against technology they can't win.

Wage battle against a twisted magician's plot to rule humanity in DRAGON QUEST ® VIII: Journey of the Cursed King, a genre - defining role - playing game for the Nintendo 3DS ™ system.

Bosses in particular can be treats to wage battle against, as the game makes use of its perspective switches and excellent combat systems to great effect when fighting them.

With your deck of cards you will wage battles against opponents, trying to outsmart them at every turn.

Wage a battle against these hungry sharks, by shooting as many as possible.

Not exact matches

The iOS game enables users to wage their own battle against Crow Foods by transporting animals from confinement to open pastures and replanting the fallow fields of Scarecrow Farms.

Of course, Ackman has waged a very public battle, teaming with Valeant Pharmaceuticals (VRX), to buy Allergan, resulting in Allergan filing a lawsuit against the hostile bidders and, now, the SEC is reportedly investigating the legality of the Ackman - Valeant bid.

I have waged my own battle against buzzwords, arguing that we sound funny when we say things like, «let's harness the organic process.»

Citron, Kickstart readers will remember, is the firm that waged a long battle against Herbalife (which it called a «ponzi scheme») and made a fortune betting against Valeant Pharmaceuticals, of whose management and accounting practices it was an early (and very loud) critic.

Wonder Woman's greatest battles weren't waged against villains like Dr. Psycho or Professor Manly.

Rather than resist Ackman, a brash, aggressively charming billionaire who likes to make huge bets on big companies and doesn't hesitate to wage proxy battles against those that rebuff him, Penney invited Ackman and Roth to join the board.

But I worry that the battle that billionaire Peter Thiel has clandestinely been waging against it will be damaging to Silicon Valley by furthering distrust of its motives.

That makes it a seemingly small adversary, given the battle Herbalife is waging against hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, who has gone so far as to say that Herbalife is a «criminal organization» in his $ 1 billion short bet against it.

In 2007, on the hundredth anniversary of Pius X's anti-Modernist encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis, Peter Steinfels used his column in the New York Times to suggest that the encyclical was a «revival of the battle against liberalism that the papacy and much of the church had been waging throughout the nineteenth century — and tragically the purge the encyclical started crippled those very elements in European Catholicism that might have resisted the Church's sympathy for authoritarian regimes after World War I, when liberal parliamentary governments were besieged by rising totalitarianism.»

Anyone that questions the probability of their staying power against all odds and God's intervention deserves to edify themselves by looking into some of the battles they've waged.

If the devil is real — and the general consensus of church history is that he is — then the battle being waged against him is an important one and the flashy demon possession tricks are a very minuscule part of it.

Most do not realize that the battle for the hearts and minds of church members is being waged against the power of a civil religion that forms the life commitments of most church members.

Against this entire cult of the dead the prophetic movement waged a tireless battle.

The early Quakers, for example, had hard battles to wage against the worldliness and insincerity of the ecclesiastical Christianity of their time.

Weather you believe or not (I open my eyes every day) so it's not hard to All will stand before the lord on the day of reckoning which man will no doubtedly usher in and those who don't believe or against god will try to wage war on the almighty to no avail, only to be left in ruins... the great Satan (adversary) will be all who oppose god in battle, that serpent of old is still here today, we live in the middle of a brood of vipers and this website is part of the venom aimed at distorting the faithfuls belief as well as a an agonist for those who wish to continue to disbelieve... CNN is anti god To my brothers and sisters who truly live in Christ Peace be with you and never forget your path despite the darkness that is trying to consume you, bring enough oil for your lamps to live in this darkness and bring extra in case of a delay, he will not abandon you... we will not be forgotten Amen To those who don't, I know the myth of Santa and the easterbunny really choked up your insides to find that they were not real, but childhood is over and it was a cruel human joke designed to make it that much harder for you to believe in that which visits you and you can't see, no matter you have life so is it too much to ask for a little belief?

The battle waged against polytheistic practices by the Mosaic and Christian religions must be seen as a total emotional response which penetrates our attitudes more deeply than any intellectual affirmations.

Terrorists like ISIS believe they are waging a divine battle against the West.

There's a battle being waged against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Everyone is due to return to the barn by 3 p.m., and the battle waged against injuries continues until 4:30, when the horses are fed again.

The DSCC has been fundraising very aggressively in preparation for the epic battle it will be waging this fall against the outgunned (in cash terms, anyway) SRCC for control of the chamber — a crucial fight, since whoever has power over the next round of redistricting will have he upper hand for at least the next decade.

The business lobby is serious about crushing «the little party that could» (a Newsday headline of a few years ago), spending millions of dollars on television and mail against WFP candidates, and even trying to hire well - known progressive public relations firms to wage a PR battle against them.

But this protest is different to the battles waged by environmentalists against new roads or runways.

ORANGEBURG — While Rockland County volunteer firefighters have made some progress, they are still waging a full - scale battle against a wildfire that has engulfed a large area of Clausland Mountain and has sent smoke pouring across the Hudson River and into northern Rockland communities.

A battle against Labour shifting its policy is being waged by the Blairites and their allies in the media.

Taub waged a protracted legal battle against Columbia following its 2015 decision to demote him with six months» notice of dismissal from his $ 300,000 - a-year gig.

In recent days, regime forces have been waging fierce battles against rebels in the northern part of the province, making some advances in Jabal Akrad and Jabal Turkman.

At the time, Loeser was helping charter school advocates wage an ultimately successful political battle against de Blasio.

Schulz, who has waged court battles against the SAFE Act gun control law, pork barrel spending and tax policies, believes Silver should reimburse taxpayers for the money he authorized in 2012 when the payment was made to two staffers who said Lopez harassed them.

NEW CITY — A battle is being waged in Rockland County against a proposed rate hike from the electric utility Orange and Rockland.

Whoever wins on Tuesday has four months to make their case against Senator Gillibrand, compared to the old system, where a September primary left about seven weeks for a new comer to wage a general election battle.

By Sean Ryan The battle contractors are waging against Milwaukee's preference for local bidders has sparked nationwide opposition to similar laws across the country.

For months, as Moreland held hearings, Skelos and now - indicted then - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver waged a court battle against Moreland and publicly decried it as a «witch hunt.»

A report by the city of Santa Monica details the uphill battle the beachside community must wage against illegal short - term rentals, and the novel...

Mr. de Blasio was locked in a bitter battle with Uber, pitting some progressives against a company that enlisted veterans of the Obama, Bloomberg and Cuomo administrations to wage an effective public relations war against City Hall.

It is a tremendous fighter in the battle we wage every day against painful, ugly acne.

The amicus brief cited examples from an array of groups increasingly using public records laws to gain access to emails beyond those of climate scientists, including animal rights groups that have long waged legal battles against researchers who use animals in their studies and opponents of genetically modified organisms seeking to expose the emails of scientists in efforts to demonstrate links to industry.

Peake and McGuire conclude, «By using our resources and uniting, a global battle will be waged and won against pertussis and the children of tomorrow can breathe easier for a lifetime.»

Once, on a visit to San Antonio, Texas, Ed Wilson asked me to take him to the Alamo, that iconic old mission now famous as the site of a desperate battle for independence waged by «Texians» and Tejanos against a powerful Mexican army.

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