Sentences with phrase «whose allegiance»

Rothenberg is a painter whose allegiance to the medium has never shaken, while Muñoz's objects and installations evoke classical sculpture in their loving use of bronze, wood, iron, terracotta.

Moving from a poor fisherman's family whose sons find the courage to take up arms against their oppressors, to a beautiful bride who becomes a prize of war, to an ambitious warrior whose allegiance is torn - Temple of a Thousand Faces is an unforgettable saga of love, betrayal, and survival at any cost.

For - profit charter school operators whose allegiance is to shareholders?

Despite this, if the U.S. is going to invest in aerospace firms, they should be domestic ones and not be with organizations whose allegiance is to those who has been at odds with America for a majority of the time since the end of World War II.

Any jibes from those whose allegiances lie with the red half of Manchester are thoroughly undeserved and misguided, because if it wasn't for him, there is a good chance that their beloved team would not have reclaimed the Premier League crown from rivals City in 2013.

There's also a little bit of sex, a few moments of levity provided by Miles Teller as a quipster whose allegiances are forever shifting (some levity is also provided by Elgort, though sort of accidentally), and game appearances by Octavia Spencer and Naomi Watts, who seems poised to take on a bigger role in the third and, ugh, fourth movies.

Colin Farrell plays Ray Velcoro, a compromised detective whose allegiances are torn between his bosses in a corrupt police department and the mobster who owns him.

In the Land of Blood and Honey Rated R for war violence and atrocities including rape, sexuality, nudity and language Available on DVD and Blu - ray Written and directed by Angelina Jolie, Land of Blood and Honey tells the story of a man and woman during the Bosnian War whose allegiances to their countries and religions keep them from furthering their relationship.

The player can place their trust in one of three worthy capo candidates: Cassandra, the ringleader of the Haitian mob in New Bordeaux (the inclusion of a female gangland boss for a game set in 1968 received some praise at the time of announcement); Burke, an Irish scrapyard dealer who you'd be wise not to cross; and Vito, whose allegiances with the Italian mob have soured and is likewise looking to settle a score.

A painter and «mutator,» whose allegiances have been to tireless experimentation rather than to the tenets of any one movement, Ed Moses has been honing a distinct visual vocabulary for over 60 years, obsessively mining the possibilities of abstraction.

Not exact matches

«If you're trying to win over someone whose natural allegiance are not with you, getting into an argument is a sure way to fail,» they write.

Many China politics experts and some party insiders attribute the downfall of Sun Zhengcai to his reputation as a possible leader whose rise and allegiances lay in his ties to senior party figures other than Mr. Xi.

What happens to young dreamers whose anger gets deliberately stoked by, I mean organized by... oh, but let's not name any more nameable allegiances and platforms from the days of yore!

Pfau is much more appreciative of much of Gregory's work («a book whose courage and ambition I applaud, if for no other reason than that it exemplifies what an engaged form of historiography [and humanistic inquiry more generally] can and should do»); what makes his piece especially worthwhile is its trenchant engagement with critics of Gregory's work and their often uncritical allegiance to the modernity of the modern academy.

These verses are obviously a hyperbole to describe how a true disciple of Christ is one who is completely surrendered to God and whose first allegiance is to Jesus Christ.

People whose books declare their allegiance to Christ reveal, by their televised salesmanship, the true identity of their God.

It is a dynamic and living community, whose members are united in a common allegiance and common response to Jesus as the community both remembers him and proclaims his significance.

Sandel's alternative to Rawls is, of course, the ideal of «constitutive attachments» and «thickly constituted selves» whose ends are often allegiances.

The mark of the beast is spiritual, and identical to the pledged of allegiance to the flag, because worshipping doesn't come from a chip, or any technology device, although we are surrounded by human devices... The name of the beast is going to be written in the heart, or in the mind on those who worship the beast, because worshipping is of the heart, or of the mind... When the Germans used their right hand to pledge allegiance to the flag, or to Hitler, there was no physical mark in the right hand, or forehead of the German pledger, because the pledge of allegiance to the flag, or to Hitler, was written in the heart, or in the mind of the German pledger... When the US uses their right hand to pledge allegiance to the flag, there is no physical mark in the right hand, or on the forehead of the pledger, because the pledge of allegiance to the flag, is written in the heart, or in the mind of the pledger... The devil uses Romans 13 to deceive those who are pledging allegiance to the flag, because they do not believe what God said in Ex.20: 1 - 5, and De.4: 15 - 19... When a person pledges allegiance to a man, or to a flag, or to a nation, they are heading for destruction, because God said; «cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and make flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD Jer.17: 5 KJV... Whatever happened to the Germans who trusted in Hitler, or on their military power?

I may get into some trouble for this, but I would venture to say that as followers of Jesus whose first allegiance belongs to the Kingdom of God, moderation is a healthy way to approach American politics.

For Altizer the preoccupation with memory and recollection is a sign of allegiance to the transcendent God of the past, the God whose death must be willed ever anew.

If we start preaching the gospel again, we will have to get used to ethnic, theological, and political diversity because we will share our lives with people whose ultimate allegiance lies with something greater than a political party, greater than a ballot measure, greater even than the highest office in the world.

That is a number that was arrived at by the Boundary Commission, a strictly non-party political body whose incredibly complicated job is to create a constituency map of Britain that will respect, as far as practicable, historic geographic allegiances while at the same time ensuring - once again, as far as practicable - that the number of electors in each seat is broadly similar across the country.

The elected Beyeeman Gyinantwi IV's successor whose name had been kept secret by the kingmakers was due to swear the traditional oath of allegiance to chiefs and people of the Drobo State to mark the official commencement of his rule as the paramount chief of the traditional area.

Many China politics experts and some party insiders attribute the downfall of Sun Zhengcai to his reputation as a possible leader whose rise and allegiances lay in his ties to senior party figures other than Mr. Xi.

Enter a uniformed man whose chilling allegiances blur the lines between good and evil — drug prevention and creation — so thoroughly that, were this fiction, the scribe would be stripped of his tools for overplaying the Nietzschean parallels.

There's also Martin Freeman's random reappearance as CIA agent Everett K Ross, who spends the majority of his time on screen looking like a middle - aged - man on a gap year, and Daniel Kaluuya's W'Kabi, who is posited as a close friend of T'Challa but whose sudden shift in allegiance goes unaddressed.

The Whiplash star is a standout as the opportunistic Peter, whose flips in allegiance have been enjoyable throughout the series.

It ends with an equally cinematic encounter with a uniformed man whose chilling allegiances blur the lines between «good and evil» (drug prevention and creation) so thoroughly that, were this a fiction, the screenwriter would be fired for overplaying the Nietzschean parallels.

He is given valuable aid, however, by a pair of superhuman twins, Pietro Maximoff / Quicksilver (Aaron Taylor - Johnson, «Godzilla») and Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen, «Martha Marcy May Marlene»), whose ultimate allegiance is questionable.

Mostly this comes in the form of Miles Teller as the slithery, opportunistic Peter, whose own allegiances flip - flop to suit his purposes.

Laura Dern plays Resistance officer Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo, while Benecio Del Toro plays DJ, «a shady character of unclear allegiances,» whose real name hasn't been revealed yet (insane conspiracy theory time: what if he's somehow playing The Collector and the MCU is also the Star Wars universe?

In this time of crisis, that means that we offer all students — those who are citizens and those who are not; those who believe in one God and those who do not; those whose beliefs allow them to pledge allegiance to the flag and those whose beliefs allow them to pledge allegiance only to God — equal opportunity to express their love for, and loyalty to, their country.

After a brief stint at university in America, Mansoor returns to Delhi, where his life becomes entangled with the mysterious and charismatic Ayub, a fearless young activist whose own allegiances and beliefs are more malleable than Mansoor could imagine.

Carrie Moyer has also used works from the Everson's acclaimed ceramics collection in her installation — showcasing select large - scale sculptural works whose brilliant color and organic forms share an allegiance with her new large - scale acrylic paintings and monoprints.

So if you're trying to win over someone whose natural allegiance are not with you, getting into an argument is a sure way to fail.