Sentences with phrase «which has sympathies»

Supporters of the largest opposition party are agitated over this development wondering why a newspaper which has sympathies to the party ceaselessly publishes achievements of the government the NPP is working very hard to oust during the crucial December 7 elections.

(An enmity for which I have sympathy.)

Not exact matches

In November of 1919, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed November Eleventh as the first commemoration of Armistice Day with the following words: «To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations...»

Honestly, after watching it, I felt a little sympathy for Pepsi, which has gotten pushback from consumers for its CEO's post-election comments and from investors for its emphasis on healthy food.

«To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with lots of pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations.»

Mr Noonan said he had great sympathy for the Greek people, which was a view he had expressed several occasions in the House.

A lot of young people that I know in Beijing — high school and college students, young professionals, musicians, etc. — were horrified by the violence that occurred in Paris and very eager to express a real sympathy for Parisians, which they did in the ways that young people express themselves today, via smart phones, social media, and all the other things that wouldn't have occurred to me.

«Lear's counterpart in the contemporary Church,» writes Mankowski, «is a certain segment of clergymen which has made it a practice to vindicate its prejudices by affecting to consult with the faithful, to listen to their concerns, only to announce with astonishment that God's Little Ones are pleading for precisely those changes for which the Listeners themselves have a deep and discerning sympathy.»

Even leaving out the idea I was also taught, that removing oneself from the system was a laudable act of counter-cultural liberation, with which I still have some sympathy, to teach one's children oneself, being able to choose curricula and readings and customize the teaching to every child's needs and gifts, is the kind of thing I was taught, by teachers of impeccable liberalism, to praise.

Because, my God, though I lack the soul - zeal and the sublime integrity of your saints, I yet have received from you an overwhelming sympathy for all that stirs within the dark mass of matter; because I know myself to be irremediably less a child of heaven than a son of earth; therefore I will this morning climb up in spirit to the high places, bearing with me the hopes and the miseries of my mother; and there — empowered by that priesthood which you alone (as I firmly believe) have bestowed on me — upon all that in the world of human flesh is now about to be born or to die beneath the rising sun I will call down the Fire.

Becoming a full person in the electronic age is not playing with a camera; it is being born to the depths of humanity for which our previous education has not prepared us... we shall have to enter this new universe with the same enormous sympathy that Christ has for this earth.»

There can be little question that Whitehead himself accepted this; he believed that the tenderness, sympathy, and love which were shown in Jesus» life and death are in fact the disclosure of the nature of the Divine Reality who is the chief — although not the only — principle of explanation for all that has been, is, and will be.

A particular concern of Islamic fundamentalists is one with which all morally concerned liberals have much sympathy, and that is the traffic in drugs.

Westerners too, reared on the Bible with its denunciations of «idolatry», felt little sympathy with Hindu devotion and some would refuse the gift of prasad, a sweet which after being offered to the god is given to the devotee.

Since public opinion, or world opinion, or the opinion of governments in general has become a powerful factor in the situation, and since the West must depend very much on capturing the opinion and the sympathy of what might be called the uncommitted powers, our future is going to depend on the kind of internationalism which does not attempt to freeze the existing situation in a legalistic manner but takes the lead in predicting and preparing the necessary changes in the status quo.

But we need to note that the images and metaphors that were used in the modern revival of concern for pastoral care, with which I am in deep sympathy, have only recently become concerned about shepherding, and for a time were quite different in character.

The fact that many theologically conservative evangelicals are also aligned with political conservatism — a movement which has developed strong Zionist sympathies — has helped to reinforce the idea that the Jews have a natural right to dwell in Israel.

which too often has become your ticket to sympathy, and sometimes your very identity.

Though it seems by no means necessary to have identical concepts of the nature and function of religion, it is desirable not to be determined by antipathy or sympathy to the degree which would make an objective investigation impossible.

It may be that kerygmatic allusions to Jesus» humility, meekness, gentleness, love, forgiveness and obedience derive from historical memory of Jesus; but the «historical value» which such material may have is far from its kerygmatic meaning, which is more accurately stated by Bultmann, in language actually intended to state the significance of the pre-existence in the karygma: «That Jesus, the historical person, did this service for us, and that he did it not out of personal sympathy and loveableness, but rather by God acting in him, in that God established his love for us through Jesus dying for us sinners (Rom.

The mystical tradition, with which I have great sympathy and about which I have written in the companion volume What can we Learn from Hinduism, unites believers beyond the differences of doctrines and ritual and stresses the longing to experience the presence of God.

Only after the religious phenomenon has been described as a sigh which awakens concern and as a protest which calls forth sympathy, it is criticized as opium, a sedative and narcotic.

We have a special sympathy for poor women who are evilly and roughly treated by their husbands, because of the roughness and cruelty of the tyranny and captivity which is their lot.

The author has a decided sympathy for the Huguenots (but also a distaste for Calvinist theology and the crusading zeal it inspired), and although he does not seem to have the same degree of sympathy for the «Catholic party,» his treatment of the seventeenth - century French Catholic revival and of Jansenism's role as a bridge by which significant numbers of leading Huguenots crossed over to Catholicism is masterful.

Regardless of the openness with which one reads Balthasar's works or the sympathy one may have for him personally, it is undeniable that his theology of Christ's descent entails a de facto, and sometimes even conscious, rejection of Catholic tradition.

If we could grant him a few moments of serious attention, however, he would remind us of a world in which the moral meaning of the universe could be read in a single soul, because a sublime and integral sympathy united them, as macrocosm and microcosm, totality and epitome.

They have intellectual sympathy, and with respect to their sympathy, I suppose, they share with common sense intuitions an immediate, positive directedness toward that on which they focus.

Because I have great sympathies for this line of thought, I am often self - conscious of how mainline Protestant traditions - including the one in which I carry out my ministry - have failed to articulate the beauty of traditional church teachings on sexuality.

Anderson teaches Old Testament at Harvard Divinity School and brings to his subject an intelligent sympathy for the many ways in which Jews and Christians have construed the story of the Fall and the consequent fate of Adam and Eve.

The first 170 pages are an exposition of Islam by a Western writer with scarcely a phrase to which a Muslim could take exception, and the rest of the book is a guide to Christian missionary work with Muslims, with which they have little sympathy.

Side by side with the growth of science, which is also the basis of the material prosperity and unification of the world, has come a steady deepening of human sympathy, and the extension of it to all weak and suffering things....

These do not depend upon the highest ethical commitments of which men are capable, but upon that mixture of human sympathy, rationality and self - interest which constitutes the basic pattern of human motivation While Niebuhr is a realist about the possibilities of human justice he has a strong concern for the social reformism in politics which characterizes modern democracy and the Christian social Gospel.

One can have no sympathy with the variety of humility which turns itself into a doormat and invites others to walk on one, in a manner which becomes a strange sort of self - pity masking as humility.

He said: «I have no sympathy for bishops who privately say «Actually, I really support you and I want to see a Church in which we can celebrate gay and lesbian relationships, but I can't say that in public because I'll get attacked for it».»

The indignities inflicted on the Popes aroused the sympathy of millions and tended to bring to the occupants of the Papal throne and to the office itself a loyalty which had been either dormant or lacking in the years when the popular image of the See of Peter had been one of luxurious impotence.

Although I do not agree with the larger thesis toward which Sherburne is working in his article, I am in basic sympathy with his treatment of unmediated prehension.2 Doubtless we all have occasions when what we experience seems as though it were a direct and unmediated prehension of something that happened to us long ago.

Nature has no one distinguishable ultimate tendency with which it is possible to feel a sympathy.

He blessed their purely human nature; but in the pangs of his loneliness when thinking of the sacrifice, he felt their distance from him; he longed for their sympathy — which he could not have.

My pitaya smoothie bowl has toasted cashews which satisfy the crunch - factor for that recipe, but oodles of crunch-less pitaya bowls in Bali (I know, I'm not getting any sympathy) inspired me to create a 100 % grain - free granola.

Wenger stating in the post match conference that we fans need to stick by the team in these trying times, which I agree to a certain extent but when a manager is so clueless that his team is falling apart and his 21 year tenure as a manager lay in ruins due to pride then I have no sympathy or encouragement to extend.

He captioned the image, which was written in his native Portuguese: «I want to thank affectionately to all my family, friends and fans who have expressed their sympathy and condolences for my great loss.

I'm still strongly opposed to the animal crackers (which the district says it plans to phase out), but at least now I have a modicum of sympathy for HISD's dieticians and I can offer ideas for substitutions that will pass regulatory muster.

In recent years, the newspaper has published a column which compared refugees to cockroaches and splashed across the front page the since debunked claim that one in five Muslims have sympathy for jihadis.

According to deputy Communications Minister, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, there has been no clear definitive denial of the story by the NPP, which is rather blaming the NDC «just for sympathy votes».

But while the pogroms always «jump out» of Civil War history, to milk eternal sympathy, no one has mentioned the tragic trigger - taunts, without which it is doubtful the pogroms would have taken place.

I imagine that I may have some dispositional sympathy for a left Oakeshottianism myself, though the appeal sounds as though it might be similar to that of a liberal / constrained soft communitarianism which might avoid the traps you identify.

A corollary to this is that Jews are overplaying their persecution (for sympathy), which has its own implications.

«Through his repeated public statements and bad conduct, Sen. Espada has shown he is not «in sympathy» with our party's fundamental principles,» says the letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Post.

He said he had «great sympathy» for the Dewsbury school, saying: «It seems to me there isn't a teaching in Islam which says you have to wear the veil in front of children and, in terms of teaching, communication is vitally important.»

The Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA), which represents local councils in Wales, said it had «complete sympathy» with the unions» frustration over austerity, but local authorities could not afford to improve their pay offer.