Sentences with phrase «with political desires»

(Mark 12: I3 - I7) That is, the seeking after God is not to be confused with political desires.

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With the current global political situation, there is desire and an opening for Canada to become a partner for change within the region.

He starts with the EIA estimates of costs of different generation sources, realizes that with those numbers the GEA mix is cheaper than what it replaces according, declares that «it is likely to be the case that the new estimate has been shaped by political pressures within the Obama administration» and therefore dismisses them, and then shops around for a prediction more in keeping with his desired conclusion.

With the current global political situation, there is desire and an opening for Canada to become a partner for change within the...

Within the classical liberal tradition, there is desire for a political system to respect the right to live free from physical force, for a government of limited function in the protection of rights, and for powers to be exercised in accordance with laws objective and universal.

Perhaps the lyrics apply to the last one, if we equate land - hunger with the desire for «gold,» but political history accounts of why «such - and - such a President or Congress eventually entered us into such - and - such a war» reveal time and again that a motivation of economic interest was not the reason, and seldom even the second or third reason, offered or discussed (even in the secret discussions hence uncovered by historians).

In his more recent writings, he even attempts to combine an ironic sense of the radical contingency of our language, desires, and beliefs, with a strong commitment to liberal political values, such as the need to fight against pain and suffering and the importance of achieving solidarity as members of a community.

The more we modern people experiment with it, retooling it to suit our material desires, our political agendas, our busy lives, the more we would appear to risk losing what it is that makes many people religiously inclined in the first place.

Oddly enough, the thrill that such notoriety gave was not met with any desire for good civic engagement — as the political scientists would put it.

Religion has become little more than political special interest groups, complete with lobbyists, legislation tilted to their desires, voter blocs, and the rest of it.

19:28 or Luke 22:29), on the whole even in the early Christian community political desires and fancies have seldom found a place in connection with the hope for the Kingdom of God.

Two university professors told us that Gulf & Western operates with a budget larger than the government's, that it rivals the government in political influence, and that it obtains the labor laws it desires.

There is, however, another power in Eastern Europe that apparently does desire world domination and with great skill manipulates the longings of these people for racial equality, economic subsistence, and political freedom.

Hart's scenario begins with the decline of religion («denatured ecclesial establishments») making possible «late modern secularity» informed by a «purely negative understanding of social and political liberty,» which is to say, freedom from interference with one's desires and goals.

The first Protestant «project» for Brazil (by American Methodists in the 1830s and 1840s) was a national reformation, in which the political desire for a breach with Rome would be supplemented by a reform of doctrine and practice stimulated by ample distribution of the Scriptures.

During an extended interview with Sam Roberts, the disgraced ex-governor, who has made no secret of his desire to re-enter the political stage, suggested Cuomo is too much a creature of Albany and too close to special interests to make the politically unpopular choices necessary to reform state government.

The adoption of mass protest over armed conflict is to be welcomed after decades of vicious civil wars, often perpetrated by small groups of armed men with no broad - based political agenda and little desire to shape one.

From that union, together with the SDP's misguided Alliance with the Liberals around their practically Bennite constitutional agenda, derives the Political Class's desire to abolish the House of Lords.

She said the «rough and tumble» politics of Chicago was «nothing» compared with what she saw in the capital, pointing to Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell's upfront desire to see President Obama fail and the entrenched special interests with a «political and financial interest» in maintaining the status quo.

According to a statement by the Bureau of Communication and Strategy, Office of the Governor, signed by its Director Semiu Okanlawon, both Ilori and Adekilekun were quoted as stating that the timely move was in tandem with the regional integration agenda of the South West governors who desire cooperation for the enhanced growth of the geo - political zone.

However, as the wants of the party members fall more and more out of step with what the 99 percent of people who do not belong to a political party desire, it will become more and more difficult for the leaders of said parties to satisfy both sides of the equation.

The decision to back the Saudi government in their claim that immunity must apply to officials as well as the state itself was a «political decision» motivated by a desire to maintain close relations with Riyadh, Mr Walker added.

Well, it is absolutely none of my business to desire to enquire as to when and why Mr. Banda fell out of friendship with Nana Akufo - Addo; what is definitely my business, as a critically thinking journalist, is to demand, as a matter of fairness and social justice, that Alhaji Banda provide specific and intimate examples of what he claims to be his old friend's abject lack of wisdom, or talent, in bringing people together or uniting the rank - and - file membership of the country's largest liberal - democratic and progressive political organization.

Within that Capitol fog, this week affirmed Cuomo's dominance over the political sphere and his continued desire to work with Republicans rather than against them.

«Put more bluntly, the United Kingdom, which has long prided itself on its ability to deploy military force and maintain diplomatic influence internationally, now faces the dilemma of matching this desired role with the required resources and political capital.»

The need for a robust pan-Nigerian political consensus with the potency and credibility of a doctrine of necessity should not be underrated in moderating the process for the desired objectives to be attained against the background of potential geo - ethnic tensions and tribulations tragically triggered in the past by deviations from agreed power - sharing schedules and denials of entitlements to presidential tenures.

New York: With many Americans genuinely unhappy with the direction of the country, a ballot measure in New York state could indicate how much desire there is to blow up the political system and start all oWith many Americans genuinely unhappy with the direction of the country, a ballot measure in New York state could indicate how much desire there is to blow up the political system and start all owith the direction of the country, a ballot measure in New York state could indicate how much desire there is to blow up the political system and start all over.

The Council for Political Parties Affairs of the Republic of Sudan, an equivalent of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has expressed a desire to visit the Commission with a view to understudying its processes, especially with respect to the legalization of politicalPolitical Parties Affairs of the Republic of Sudan, an equivalent of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has expressed a desire to visit the Commission with a view to understudying its processes, especially with respect to the legalization of politicalpolitical parties.

Two caricatured extreme positions of political strategy, held by no - one, are these: a) that voter preferences are entirely fixed, and that the art of political campaigning is to choose where within the spectrum of fixed voter opinions to place oneself to provide the best chance of victory whilst achieving the maximum of one's desired programme; b) that voters can be persuaded of anything if one has truth on one's side and argues for it with sufficient conviction.

And the political — mixed with every kind of human, desiring, everyday contradiction — is nowhere more evident than in the featured interview with actor - director Lou Castel.

The film dives into Kennedy wrestling with his desire to tell the truth and his need to uphold his family's storied legacy and political ambitions.

What can we do as educational and cultural workers, at this crucial moment in history, when corporate revenue expands as the job market shrinks, when there is such a callous disregard for human suffering and human life, when the indomitable human spirit gasps for air in an atmosphere of intellectual paralysis, social amnesia, and political quiescence, when the translucent hues of hope seem ever more ethereal, when thinking about the future seems anachronistic, when the concept of utopia has become irretrievably Disneyfied, when our social roles as citizens have become increasingly corporatized and instrumentalized in a world which hides necessity in the name of consumer desire, when media analyses of military invasions is just another infomercial for the US military industrial complex with its huge global arms industry, and when teachers and students alike wallow in absurdity, waiting for the junkyard of consumer life to vomit up yet another panacea for despair?

They forgot that the desire for a voice, the desire for political action, can become particularly intense when people are faced with the prospect of nowhere to exit to.

Openly, their subjection to the RPF» political maneuvers, in its complicity with the superpowers, through UNHCR, has rendered Rwandan refugees the scum of the earth — unwanted, vilest people — who do not deserve respect and concern, rather desire to be arrested on the basis of unjustified criminal allegations and thus returned to Rwanda.

I sympathize with the desire to make larger structural reforms, but for those of us who have a strong interest in thinking carefully and rationally about the structure of benefits, this seemed like more of a political down - payment to some members who have an ideological attachment to DC plans more than it was a carefully designed solution to a real problem.

They forgot that the desire for voice — the desire for political action — can become particularly intense when people are faced with the prospect of «nowhere to exit to.»

One lies with state laws and the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, which allow for the unions to forcibly collect dues and so - called agency fees from teachers regardless of their desire for membership — and then deploy them for explicit and implicit political activities.

After carefully defining the desired outcomes with key district leaders, we assess the political landscape, individual's needs and the qualities unique to the organization's situation.

(B)(i) that such unit shall be located at an organizational level and shall have an organizational status within such State agency comparable to that of other major organizational units of such agency, or (ii) in the case of an agency described in clause (1)(B)(ii), either that such unit shall be so located and have such status, or that the director of such unit shall be the executive officer of such State agency; except that, in the case of a State which has designated only one State agency pursuant to clause (1) of this subsection, such State may, if it so desires, assign responsibility for the part of the plan under which vocational REHABILITATION services are provided for the blind to one organizational unit of such agency, and assign responsibility for the rest of the plan to another organizational unit of such agency, with the provisions of this clause applying separately to each of such units; provide for financial participation by the State, or if the State so elects, by the State and local agencies to meet the amount of the non - Federal share; provide that the plan shall be in effect in all political subdivisions, except that in the case of any activity which, in the judgment of the Secretary, is likely to assist in promoting the vocational REHABILITATION of substantially larger numbers of handicapped individuals or groups of handicapped individuals the Secretary may waive compliance with the requirement herein that the plan be in effect in all political subdivisions of the State to the extent and for such period as may be provided in accordance with regulations prescribed by him, but only if the non - Federal share of the * cost of such vocational REHABILITATION services is met from funds made available by a local agency (including, to the extent permitted by such regulations, funds contributed to such agency by a private agency, organization, or individual);

Russell Kirk's conservatism most closely aligns with his political views, and his desire is to redeem the innocence of the «permanent things» in literature.

The intention of coercion is to attain the course of events desired for the radicals: revolution, political and social unrest, unleashing a war with a foreign country, gaining liberty by some territory, a fall in the prestige of the authority, politic concessions on the part of the system, etc..

Free Expression Booths are for groups or individuals desiring to leaflet, distribute written materials or engage in any political, religious, charitable or other forms of solicitation activities at the Fiesta Hermosa must apply with the Hermosa Beach Chamber of Commerce.

Presented in tandem with his monumental outdoor sculpture Playboy Marfa, which will be installed outside Dallas Contemporary, Phillips's first U.S. solo museum exhibition will feature both past and new works that emphasize his career - long exploration of political and social identity, consumerism, eroticized desire and social constructs.

Reflecting on her service with prisoners indefinitely held in solitary confinement — most notably Herman Wallace, a political prisoner with whom she collaborated for twelve years — jackie sumell asks us to confront our unconscious desire for revenge and our addiction to the narrative of victory.

Political works are always part of the artscape but rarely have a desired effect, with a few notable exceptions.

Starting with wall drawings (of a bicycle, for instance, which children in a South African township would wish for in vain), Robin Rhode developed an artistic practice that cleverly and humorously makes it possible to experience everyday observations, political statements, desires and (in his latest work) references to art history — via gestures that sometimes resemble slapstick.

Franklin Street Works will be working with five New York City - based guest curators in 2017 and 2018, originating six new group exhibitions around themes such as: shared strategies of the labor and LGBTQ movements; economic and political refugees; ways artists animate desire in abstract painting; art that explores political and personal paranoia; and more.

Michael Ned Holte, who co-curated the Hammer biennial with Connie Butler, called Greene «a very significant artist for a brief period of time,» adding that he and like - minded artists «were vilified by some members of the gay and lesbian community for making work about desire when they were expected to be making work that was political.»

The artist began this series during the economic and political struggles at the end of the Bush era, and the photographs deal with disillusionment, guilt and ultimately the conflict between desire and need.

At the august Whitney Independent Study Program, painting took a back seat to theory, and Ligon had to balance his desires as a painter with his political convictions.