Sentences with phrase «way of opposition»

There is more in the way of opposition to this bill, and it comes from the member's own party.

They are not related, except by way of opposition, to other historical forms of that faith, or to other religious faiths, or to universal features of man and his world.

Not exact matches

With Erdogan cracking down on thousands of people in the judiciary, education, military, and civil service after last weekend's failed coup, a lawmaker from the main opposition party warned that the state of emergency created «a way of ruling that paves the way for abuse».

With nary a whisper of opposition, the 109 - year - old retailer had decided to abandon not only its strategy of many decades but arguably its fundamental way of doing business.

Quite a few of our friends in the foreign policy expert community have ridden their opposition to Trump all the way into Clinton's camp, declaring they will vote for her bid for president.

But, with the benefit of hindsight, I think the likelihood of the court finding against the way the federal government was going about trying to create a national securities regime should have begun to seem likely very early this year, when British Columbia decided to adopt a nuanced opposition to the federal position.

I vaguely recall hearing a political quote when I was a kid that went along the lines of, «When the government is falling, it's the Opposition's job to get out of the way.»

Opposition has run in a number of ways.

We champion free speech and go out of our way to keep activist websites up and running even in the face of industry and political opposition.

In the political sphere, the comments made by the Government, the Opposition and others showed that we have gone a long way down the path of de-politicising monetary policy.

Instead, the U.S. government's opposition appears to center on a belief that legal settlements that pave the way for a merger — yet include lengthy rules policing the behavior of two companies — tend not to work.

Jim Sinegal of Costco has put it this way: «Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.

«Mr. Speaker, let me state right off the top, it has never been the position of this government to interpret the mandate of the Budget Officer the way he interprets his mandate,» Mr. Clement explained, «and indeed, we have echoes of that from opposition members.»

Moreover, since the rise of the Wildrose Party, PC throne speeches tended to propose policies driven by talking points — not the other way around as you might imagine — drafted mainly to cancel positions and strategies that had proved effective for the Wildrose Opposition.

Her decision is vastly more common among veteran Tory moderates: disillusioned and aware that Jason Kenney is crushing his way to control the Progressive Conservative party and marry it to the Wildrose opposition, Kennedy - Glans and her centrist ilk will camp out on the sidelines for now, and watch how Alberta politics reorganizes on either side of them.

As a result of the above problem the only way that they feel that they can try to silence the opposition is to belittle and attack their character.

Indeed, Inge Scholl's memoir seems to identify the beginning of Hans's opposition to the Nazi regime in just that way: «Day and night the talk was about Treue — loyalty.

The social order will be all the more stable, the more it takes this fact into account and does not place in opposition personal interest and the interests of society as a whole, but rather seeks ways to bring them into fruitful harmony.»

This goes a long way to explain the volume of misunderstanding and opposition which arose then and still pervades his views.

And yet, the seeming gulf of this opposition helps explain much about the ways in which the dualism of «individualism» and «collectivism» came to be understood for much of the twentieth century.

The title «Satan» is applied for one who stands in opposition; and it is applied, in the same way as «Elohim,» across the full spectrum of scriptural characters from a) God, to b) angels, to c) human men.

A good way to start this would be to make one's opposition to the introduction of assumed consent known to the British Government.

Also the oppositions to a dualistic separation of mind and body or «mane and nature are comparable in the two movements.10 Process theology and feminist theology today overlap in a healthy way, and there is every indication that feminists will play leading roles in the further development of process theology.

From the idea of Pakistan to its realization the way seemed difficult, but the justice of the claim was based on such strong grounds that when the British left India they were forced, despite the opposition from all Hindu parties and their own unwillingness, to accede to the demand for Pakistan, which became a reality on the fourteenth of August, 1367 (A.D. 1947).

All the world knows of the way in which representative members of the Confessional Church of Germany have given the Nazis their toughest opposition.

Islam requires of non-Muslims only abstention from hostility to Muslims and from sedition or opposition to the Islamic way of life.

And people need a practical and honest vision which can be offered as a realistic way ahead, devoid of angry rhetoric: «The proper condition of the male - female relationship can not be a kind of mistrustful and defensive opposition.

Its doctrine of creation and faith in the dependability of God contributed to the rise of modern science, as Whitehead has persuasively shown.9 Yet the scientific method had to make its way against a heavy weight of ecclesiastical opposition.

In all these ways they demonstrate a clear witness in opposition to the major trends of American society.

If you voice your opposition to the validity of my belief statements I will dishonestly lump you into a single catagory, use a false dicotomy and define words any way I see fit to make my point.

-- All of your easy outs in trying to get your way is call the opposition haters or bigotts... Twisting the truth.

Deconstruction's very style serves to undermine the binary opposition serious / frivolous, for its aim is in part to uncover the ways in which various forms of thought attempt to inscribe power and privilege.

The above summary suggests that a large part of the motivation that Paul reveals in his narrative up to this point centers in his repudiation of his former way of life.26 The opposition between his old life and the new is patterned after the opposition between human and divine authority seen in vv.

The anthropologist Claude Lévi Strauss argued that symbolic structures within human societies, including their kinship systems and their mythologies, could be analyzed in the same way, as systems of differences structured according to binary oppositions (e.g., life / death; male / female; hunting / farming; outside / inside).

They were already in opposition to the establishment's conduct of the Vietnam war, but most of them still had plenty at stake in the American way of life: it provided them comforts, potential careers, values, ways of understanding themselves, which they were far from ready to give up.

b) Whilst there was a lot of opposition to WW2, the only time it made its way into the major newspapers and newscasts of the time, was upon the arrest, or conviction of somebody opposed to the war effort;

For Romano Guardini it implies that Christ, through his perfect I - Thou relation with God, shows us the way to God, and for Barth it implies that Christ, as the son of God, has a perfect I - Thou relation with men, while men, being sinners against God, unfold their existence in opposition and closedness to the Thou.

But whether by way of myth and ritual, or through interior meditation or prophetic faith, religion seeks to annul all opposition between the sacred and the profane, thereby seeking a renewal of paradise in the present moment.

In every way it knows how the Church must stress the sacred importance not only of God but also of serving God in the right way — a way that stands in opposition to so much we are taught by our society which sometimes pretends to be Christian.

The opposition sin / faith is the Christian one, which in a Christian way transforms the definition of all ethical concepts, giving them one distillation the more.

It is important to point out that the belief was used in the early church as a way of affirming Jesus» full humanity; «born of a virgin» in the Apostles» Creed has the force of «really born of a woman,» in opposition to heretics who denied that Jesus was truly human.

If we measure left and right by support for or opposition to abortion and Bill Clinton, which is a reasonable measure in this case, twelve of the groups represented are very far left indeed — including Catholics for a Free Choice, Human Rights Campaign (a leading gay rights organization), People for the American Way, AIDS National Interfaith Network, and Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.

Either way: there is the same dynamic process of opposition and challenge.

Lanzetta points out that this crisis has made Traditio appear in opposition to «progressivism» whereas of course everything in the Church is Traditio, literally «handed on», all the way back to Christ himself.

But when people wield the Bible in such a way so as to justify violence, they do so in opposition to the meaning of Scripture.

But in this way does he accomplish nothing at all, since he is weighed down with men's opposition, and then gets the worst of the battle?

His way of conceiving God's righteous will was nothing short of revolutionary, and the opposition of vested interests, religious as well as political, should not be surprising.)

women's suffrage, and opposition to slavery (which the scriptures do not abolish, but regulate in such a way as to discourage most of its forms), are put in the same moral category as opposition to homosexualism, abortion, and euthanasia.

He joined an opposition organization (primarily made up of aristocratic and military conservatives) that planned to arrest Hitler and thereby transfer power to others in an orderly, Lutheran way.

The opposition is really to be sought between one way of acting which is contraceptive and opposed to a prudent and generous fruitfulness, and another way which is, in an ordered relationship to responsible fruitfulness and which has a concern for education and all the essential, human and Christian values.»