Sentences with phrase «with contra»

Its eastern border with Contra Costa County generally follows the ridge of the Berkeley Hills.

You can play Final Fantasy III on the SNES all you want, but I was going to chill at home with Contra, Mario, Ninja Turtles, Double Dragon and Metroid.

I'm an old timer that started in 1988 with Tempest at the Disney arcade; in 1989 I was given an NES with Contra and Super Contra, thus sealing my fate forever.

Axiom Verge is an old school action - adventure side - scroller that looks like Metroid on steroids mixed with Contra.

Super September: Humming along with Super Mario World's signature melody (9/9) Super September: Boosting up to Mode 7 with F - Zero (9/10) Super September: Learning what it means to be a knight with Super Ghouls «n Ghosts (9/11) Super September: Fighting off fear in Super Castlevania IV (9/12) Super September: Pumpin» quarters with Contra III (9/13) Super September: Reclaiming (A Link to) the Past (9/14) Super September: Exploration, atmosphere and guidance in Super Metroid (9/15) Super September: Street Fighter II: Turbo's fighting spirit burns bright to this day (9/16) Super September: The technology behind Star Fox (9/17) Super September: Unraveling the Secrets of Mana (9/18) Super September: Hunting Mavericks with Mega Man X (9/19) Super September: It's time to «let's - a-go» with Super Mario Kart (9/20) Super September: Super Punch - Out!!

Cooperative gameplay was taken to new levels of action with Contra.

Enter WayForward, the guys who revived Contra on the DS with Contra 4 (yes, I yelled at them for how hard that game was).

Kitty Corner is a program operated by CCHS in partnership with Contra Costa County Animal Services.

The big four - engine aircraft, with their contra - rotating props and swept - back wings, rumble at high altitude toward the northern California coast...

Similarly, Arokoski et al. (1999) found that the quadruped hip extension with contra - lateral arm lift produced the greatest gluteus maximus EMG amplitude, followed by the prone hip extension with flexed knee, followed by the horizontal back extension.

Make sure you avoid steam rooms, hot tubs, saunas, body wraps, reflexology or anything with contra - indicated aromatherapy oils, which aren't suitable for bumps.

Attractive look in festive function with wear this red color silk fabric plain saree with contras... view more...

Not exact matches

And you can follow that that back a couple of administrations to the Bush Sr. and Reagan Administrations, with Bush Sr.'s dirty hands in the CIA, Iran - Contra, etc..

Her career began with United Press International, where she covered the Contra war in Nicaragua.

Let's take a closer look at how these FHA loan limits might affect borrowers in Alameda and Contra Costa, with respect to local house values.

MGT reported revenues from bitcoin mining of $ 3.1 million in 2017 contra $ 313,000 in 2016, with a sum domain of $ 1.6 million compared to $ 104,000, respectively.

Participate in the tri-national day of action — Jornada Continental por la democracia y contra el Neoliberalism — to coincide with the upcoming round of negotiations in Mexico.

America's Voice Frank Sharry y Juan Escalante reaccionan a la demanda de Ken Paxton sobre DACA, el más reciente ataque contra los Dreamers ICYMI: New York Daily News Op - Ed: Canceling protected status for Nepalese immigrants will devastate my family ICYMI: Politico PRO and Newsy Highlight the Urgency of Hondurans with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) Facing... Continue reading»

Jesus» followers are to judge contra severity, but also contra laxity — with restraint, but not too much restraint.

Dr. Talbert, calls this judgment contra severity — a judgment that is prefaced with and tempered by careful self - analysis.

Perle narrowly escaped conviction for trading intelligence secrets with Israel in the late 1970s, and Abrams was convicted (and pardoned by Reagan) in the Iran - Israel - contra weapons and financial scandal.

One need only consider the perspectives on violence in Tertullian's Apologia and De Corona Militis, Origen's Contra Celsum, the Acts of the Scillitan Martyrs, the Martyrdom of St. Marinus, St. Paulinus of Nola's Letter 25, and Book XIX of the City of God, to see that significant Christians of the first millennium either rejected violence outright or were profoundly uneasy with it.

One day you will wake up like Rome with a Colombian Contra keeping the White House hostage.

I went to be educated and to show solidarity with those struggling against the contras.

Not to mention, this entire post is one long and contra - biblical argument that you / we shouldn't argue about theology, without ever setting forth clear and logical propositions that NOT arguing (again, fill in whatever verb you're more comfortable with, the result is the same) theology honors God more than standing in the gap and defending the truth he has set forth once and for all.

[T] he exposure of persistent human rights violations by the contras has led the Administration not to pressure contra leaders to enforce international codes of conduct,» the Americas Watch Report cited earlier states, «but to drown U.S. public opinion with praise for the «freedom fighters,» and to attempt to discredit all reports of their violations as inspired by communist or Sandinista propaganda.

On another occasion the United States surrounded the tiny country of Nicaragua with (a) twenty - five warships off both coasts, carrying nearly 25,000 soldiers and 150 fighter bombers, and (b) an additional 20,000 U.S., Honduran, and contra troops that were moved to Nicaragua's northern border.

He took the outmoded structure of a medieval scholastic article (for example, what we find in St. Thomas» Summa Theologiae, with the question, the objections, the sed contra, the response, and the replies to objections), changed the questions, and rebuilt the article in the prose of an encyclical teaching.

«You can make a strong case for saying the American way is synonymous with Christianity,» claimed William Murray, a U.S. evangelical active in the fundamentalists» contra - aid operations.

Although Robertson tried at first to pretend that CBN contributions were not meant for the counterrevolutionaries, his organization did not deny that the supplies were being shipped through intermediary groups with close ties to the Reagan administration or that they were being sent to the war - torn Nicaraguan - Honduran border, where the contras were headquartered.

In Nicaragua the U.S. combined powerful military embargoes with military funding for a private guerrilla force, the contras, thus decimating that country.

He would like to see liberation theology take its cues from base communities» populist «grass - roots communitarian democracy» and then extend this «populism» into a liberalism that, contra Marx, offers «democracy and equality to all human beings, regardless of sex, race or social class (Rousseau)» Sigmund's agenda would purge liberation theology of much of its «early revolutionary fervor,» but in its dialogue with liberalism it would still perform «a radical «prophetic» role in reminding complacent elites of the religious obligation of social solidarity, and in combating oppression.»

Although Congress refused, it is likely that the request will be made again and again until Congress gives in, or perhaps, as with the Iran - contra case, a way will be found to circumvent the law

There are other Latin patristic bridal mystics as well, and, contra Messrs. Clark and Schrader, they use the image of spiritual marriage to describe the individual believer's union with God.

We would, of course, also say that contra Roman Catholicism that we do not have this «spark of goodness» with which we can and should get going on the road of salvation, so God can add what's missing to what we have managed to accomplish.

Hartshorne also rejects personal immortality because «Immortality is a divine trait...» and»... immortality puts us in rivalry with deity in one respect... «27 God is not the means to our ultimate fulfillment (contra Kant and John Hick), but rather our fulfillment is a means to God's ultimate fulfilment.

Senator Daniel Inouye at the Iran - contra hearings described the network that had subverted the U.S. Constitution and carried out illegal foreign policy as «a shadowy government with its own air force, its own navy, its own fundraising mechanism and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.

The Christic Institute lawsuit charged a group of defendants, many of whom were key players in the Iran - contra scandal, with participation in a criminal conspiracy.»

The reluctance to overstep acceptable boundaries helps to explain why Democrats in the U.S. Congress or journalists who disagreed with U.S. support for the contras rarely if ever spoke about positive aspects of the Nicaraguan revolution or about Nicaragua's right to self - determination.

The history of covert operations prior to the Iran - contra scandal includes attempts to assassinate foreign leaders, successful ousters of democratic governments, cooperation with mafia - type figures and efforts to deceive the U.S. people and Congress.

During the Iran - contra hearings Oliver North had the following exchange with Senate Chief Counsel Arthur Liman:

The previous definitions and characterizations resonate with me in various ways, particularly David Koyzis's confessional core contra pragmatism and especially the «essence» offered by the inimitable John Stott (as shared by Justin Taylor).

Owen was a courier who shuttled back and forth between Washington and Central America with messages and money on behalf of the contras.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

George began cowriting «Contra Mundum» with Colson in 2011.

Contra Wolfers, less - educated people would powerfully benefit from a society - wide reinvigoration of the norm that upholds lifelong marriage and that connects children with marriage» after all, they have been the most vulnerable to the loss of these traditional norms.

U.S. violations of international law, failure to curb covert activities, refusal on «national security grounds» to release key evidence in the Iran - Contra and related trials, cooperation with drug runners in pursuit of illegal foreign policy objectives, and an obedient press all point dangerously towards a national security state.

St Augustine insists that this virtue is a gift of God; an idea that he stresses elsewhere with special reference to marriage: «The very fact that conjugal chastity has such power shows that it is a great gift of God» (Contra Julianum, 3:43).

As with other pa - ssages in Josephus relating to Christian themes concern remains over whether the pa - ssage was part of Josephus's original text or instead a later addition — it can be dated back no further than the early 3rd century when it is quoted by Origen in Contra Celsum.

His Summa Contra Gentiles was designed to equip missionaries in their arguments with Moslems, the major body of non-Christians with whom the Catholics of the period were in contact.