Sentences with phrase «war against nature»

Mao's War Against Nature is a scary book — and a cautionary tale.

This winter, he's been chasing inspiration in cold, dark places where humanity wages perpetual war against nature and time.

Not exact matches

He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people, who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.14

But war is an extraordinary circumstance that makes people do things that are against their nature.

The widespread nature of this judgment is likely one of the reasons this «presumption against war» concept, original to the United States Catholic bishops, has since 1983 become more broadly accepted as descriptive of the just war idea.

It is simple confusion to think otherwise, and Johnson's recent effort (see FT January) to construe presumption - against in terms of worries about the inherent morality of war, or about the nature of prima facie duties, amounts to nothing more than the blowing of thick clouds of smoke.

For example, the depth and cynical nature of the U.S. war against the poor has been effectively hidden from the U.S. people as a whole.

When he developed the objectivist epistemology that encompassed the first part of Leviathan, when he argued, contrary to all the ancients, that nature «dissociates,» he did so, against the background of civil war, primarily to secure a rational foundation for politics so that such wars could be avoided in the future.

The rule of fundamental law and its absolute necessity was another central belief or value of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.12 Law was not simply a necessity because of the fallen nature of mankind and the consequent war of all against all.

In the pre-civilized state, «nature» displays a barbaric «war of all against all.»

Given the slow - changing nature of international reputations the image of France as a friend of Arab states and of the Palestinians endured, while Britain drew hostile attention as the leading ally of the United States in the «war against terror».

Recent events in eastern Ukraine, Palestine, and Syria should remind us that there is such a thing as the International Law of Armed Conflict or the International Humanitarian Law, which aims to limit the effects of conflict and protect civilians against the abhorrent nature and terrors of war.

«The life of man [by nature is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short -LSB-...] The condition of Man is a condition of war against every one»

a silent war against mother nature xo, Nina afterthe40barfinish

Playing out somewhere in between Schindler's List and The Diary of Anne Frank, Director Agnieszka Holland's In Darkness tells the tale of one man's struggle to justify what he knows is right against the pressures of the time, his personal ambitions, and the unpredictable nature of war of weather.

For The Revenant production designer Jack Fisk, mother nature's war against the production could have been worse.

Throughout, Tiffany (an agricultural journalist living in Melbourne) explores the themes of man against nature, and the nature of man against man, but she also captures a big slice of social history, illustrating the incredible hardships of the time - the great depression, extensive years of drought, the memories of one war still present and the impending onset of another - stories that are at one level uniquely Australian but at another level, totally universal.

Hobbes wrote that civil war and the brute situation of a state of nature («the war of all against all») could only be avoided by strong undivided government... (more on www.wsiehouse-classics.com)

Hobbes wrote that civil war and the brute situation of a state of nature («the war of all against all») could only be avoided by strong undivided gov...

In Nature Wars, to be released next week, award - winning journalist Jim Sterba argues that it's time for Americans to reconnect with nature — and what better incentive than a massive lethal control campaign against any number of plants and animals, including feralNature Wars, to be released next week, award - winning journalist Jim Sterba argues that it's time for Americans to reconnect with nature — and what better incentive than a massive lethal control campaign against any number of plants and animals, including feralnature — and what better incentive than a massive lethal control campaign against any number of plants and animals, including feral cats?

We found Guatemala to be a wonderful place to visit inasmuch as we were able to see such beautiful scenery and nature juxtaposed against the terrible current and after effects on a society that has endured such tragedies as civil wars, foreign incursions (from America, etc.) and yet, despite it all, we experienced nothing but graciousness and warmth from the Guatemalan people we met.

It is human nature to want to take sides when you perceive there to be a conflict, and in the EA versus Activision video game publishing war, the recurring battle pitting their FPS franchises against one another is one of the favourite conflicts of the gaming landscape.

Nature is slowly reclaiming a lot of Sera after the end of the Locust Wars, and you'll soon learn how and why the planet has been rebelling against everything that has been happening throughout each entry in the franchise.

Revolutionary in nature, it responded to a time in need of equality and reconciliation for women, action against racism, and an end to war.

In the USA the political right are so against action to combat climate change because it appears to somehow appear to be communist in nature, anti freedom and individual restrictive and hence against the seemingly free market economy that the USA has embraced since the end of the 2nd world war culminating in such neurotic / paranoid behaviour as being labelled a left wing conspiracy.

(a) Nature of the authority to create military commissions for the trial of enemy combatants for offenses against the law of war, and principles governing the exercise of jurisdiction by such commissions, considered.

In Ex parte Quirin, 317 U. S. 1, we had occasion to consider at length the sources and nature of the authority to create military commissions for the trial of enemy combatants for offenses against the law of war.

Good luck in your personal war against biology and human nature.

Obviously this little history lesson makes our little war pale by comparison, but the over-all human nature aspect of the events leading up to WW 2 mirrors exactly what happens when apathetic folks in numbers get caught with their pants down, and their leaders think that they can negotiate with an entity that treats the negotiators» trust as a weapon against same.