Sentences with phrase «work against living»

Please, Please don't give up on God because of the plan the enemy worked against your life.

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The cable series follows a young computer programmer who works for a cybersecurity company but leads a secret life as a hacker who works with an insurrectionist group that launches cyber attacks against large corporations.

His case was brought to the clinic's attention by a group called Families against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM), which works to reform the kind of extreme sentencing laws that landed Tyler behind bars for life.

It also goes against the consistently promoted work life balance espoused to new employees at their induction.

The terms of his exit barred Cohl from competing against Live Nation in concert promotion, but he bought an exemption letting him work with a few artists — including the Rolling Stones, the deal's «crown jewel.»

The latest pits his 61 - year - old daughter, Shari Redstone, whose relationship with her father had run hot and cold over the years but who's recently worked her way back into his life, against two of her father's longtime friends and lieutenants, Viacom board member George Abrams and C.E.O. Philippe Dauman.

How this could affect you: If you've been itemizing your tax return and you live in a state with high income taxes or you own a house in an area with high property taxes, this could work against you (if you've been deducting more than $ 10,000 and still plan to itemize).

When employees are underpaid, they have less incentive to continue to work when other demands — becoming a parent, for example — cause them to weigh their costs of living against the monetary benefit that the paycheck would provide.

What's more, critics contend that rate ceilings and promises not to share information or discriminate against rivals didn't work when Sirius and XM combined in 2008 or when Ticketmaster and Live Nation joined forces in 2010.

While Labour Day evolved into a celebration of work, employers and life, May Day was a protest against the status quo, government, corporations and other institutions that refused to give working people their deserved share of the economic pie.

Adam Mack, UK CEO at W, discusses the agency's commitment to its work with the Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) and what he hopes the campaigns achieve.

With the odds stacked against them, how can entrepreneurs achieve the dream of work - life balance?

Their stories will provide surprising insights, startling observations and wisdom from facing off against the system, every day of their working lives, and still succeeding.

You also ignore the fact that Christians have done just as bad things as those living in the Middle East and those you would call doing the work of the devil: killing those who do not share their faith, using their religious position to gain wealth and discriminate against those who have different beliefs or lifestyles.

The Feb. 20 attacks against the two religious properties forced the apostolic vicar of Benghazi, the rest of his Franciscan community, and the religious men and women who lived and worked in the diocese to be evacuated to the Libyan capital, Tripoli.

Against All Odds, then, doesn't replace previous works on survivors, such as Dorothy Rabinowitz's 1979 book New Lives, which included, for example, a gripping account of a confrontation between the survivor Stella and the woman who had once guarded her at Maidanek.

If you don't believe me, then you have never tried to live or work in a Mormon - dominated area — they have no compunction whatsoever against lying or by - passing laws to get ahead at the expense of what they refer to as «gentiles» and shamelessly promote their own members (they literally keep a book of apostates and people like me who are unhireable, etc. once listed there).

By not advocating sinning and preaching against sinning, the goal is to produce sorrow for sinning thereby knocking us off our high horse and enableing the gospel (forgiveness for sinners) to go to work in the life of the sinner.

The idea was to work» nonviolently and within the constraints of Lutheran two - kingdoms warnings against illusions of earthly new Jerusalems» toward a politics that might provide a better approximation of the kingdom of God proleptically revealed in the life and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth.

A review of Kierkegaard's treatment of the temporal «moment of vision» or «instant» (Augenblick) in this work is probably the best insulation against supposing too quickly that what Heidegger means to bring out about Dasein by insisting that in each case we «are» it is the simple subjective immediacy of psychic life.

Sometimes it's as simple and devastating as the moments no one else will ever see — the moments of daring to be honest with our own self, of laying down our excuses or justifications or disguises, of asking ourselves what we really want, of forgiveness, of honesty, of choosing the hard daily work of restoration, of staying resolutely alive when every one else is just numbing themselves against life.

In spite of all the destructive forces man lets loose against life on this planet, the Spirit of Life is at work in ever new and unforeseeable ways, countering and circumventing the obstacles man puts in its plife on this planet, the Spirit of Life is at work in ever new and unforeseeable ways, countering and circumventing the obstacles man puts in its pLife is at work in ever new and unforeseeable ways, countering and circumventing the obstacles man puts in its path.

For many nominal Catholics may not live a Christian life at all and may be quite uninterested in the Church, but might nevertheless claim their right to vote for electoral bodies precisely in order to work against the interests of the Church.

It may indeed seem that what I have done so far is to offer a tentative argument against the claims of an exemplarist interpretation of Christ's work, namely, that if he is offered us as an exemplar his experience is in crucial respects too relative and limited to offer a wholly significant guide - post to men and women in all the circumstances of their lives.

Latin American theology today lives by «hope against hope,» in the apparently absurd confidence that small and humble practices of faith such as singing together or remembering the stories about Jesus can work toward rekindling a viable praxis of structural change.

Adnama Satan uses external circumstances to direct our steps he knows that if we walk according to the flesh we come under his authority for the flesh is weak and he manipulates by keeping christians in bondage to sin through lust or whatever sin the christian is weak in.He can also fire into our minds evil thoughts to make us feel condemned or guilty these are fiery darts they are not ours and we need to stand on the word to rebuke them by faith.If we have given our lives to Christ then we belong to Christ so if we walk in accordance to the spirit the enemy has not power to effect us either internally or externally that is not to say that he can not manipulate situations and circumstances to his advantage that is why we need to be alert and pray against the work that he does we are in a spiritual battle but we have overcome in Christ so fear not brentnz

He was able to picture early Christianity this way with the more assurance because he did most of his scholarly work before attention shifted back to Palestine in the time of Jesus (thanks in part to the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls), and before the themes of light against darkness, life against death, came in the 1960s to be understood as first century Jewish themes.

Kind of strange that the federal government have not taking action against him and his network as he destroy the lifes of so many people that listen to his preaching on his network, does the staff that works for his network ever tell him honestly that he is delusional and beg him to seek professional help?

Belief in christianity definitely worked against humanity, nad led to many, many more deaths, incalculable lives lost, due to silly superst!tions fed by belief in myths.

Another example was alluded to before: the fact that our world seems to have taken shape over a period of many billions of years, rather than having been created in essentially its present form a few thousand years ago, provides evidence against the view that the creation of our world required omnipotent coercive power; this fact is much more consistent with the view that the divine creative power is solely the power of persuasion, the kind of power we can experience working in our own lives.

He believed in everyone sharing their lives with each other; to work for the common good; He was against material wealth; He told men to give up all they had if they wanted to attain the Kingdom of God.

Notwithstanding, in the mean while they fight in spirit against the flesh, lest they should fulfill the lusts thereof; and although they feel the flesh to rage and rebel, and themselves also do fan sometimes into sin through infirmity, yet are they not discouraged, nor think therefore that their state and kind of life, and the works which are done according to their calling, displease God; but they raise up themselves by faith.»

Each can be stated over against one of the exaggerations which have crept into the Church's life, often in connection with a distorted emphasis upon one aspect of the work of the Holy Spirit.

The sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, whatever it is, is not exactly about God not forgiving it, but about us refusing to accept God's forgiveness and work in our life.

But there is a work of God in the midst of this dark reality which brings forth matured, self - reliant, free persons whose freedom has been nurtured by their participation in that friction of will against will which makes up so much of life.

MacIntyre's work after Against the Self - Images of the Age forms the ongoing attempt to help us understand how it is that we now live lives we do not understand.

Against the entrenched opposition of those who had long profited from the cronyism of economic life in the Papal States, Consalvi worked hard to reform and rationalize Vatican finance, and instituted a program of free trade in the Papal States.

Salvation works in the struggle for economic justice against the exploitation of people by people; in the struggle for human dignity against the political oppression of human beings; in the struggle for solidarity against the alienation of person from person; and in the struggle of hope against despair in personal life.

They are just going to say that they are being persecuted and oppressed, which would work against the original intent, which is to get people to open their eyes and stop living in fear.

Erik disliked specialization; throughout his long life he worked against it by assembling and deploying vast, coordinated learning.

We are not working against our lesser nature when we seek to live with God; on the contrary, we are living as we were created.

It's important to understand patriarchy if we are to understand the incredible nature of Esther's rise to power and all the odds that were working against her as she advocated for the lives of her people.

Against the rationalistic arguments of his brethren, Emerson bid the young students turn within and find the divine at work in their own lives.

In summary, the virtues of organized religions include but are by no means limited to the following: they give their adherents something solid against which to rebel; they allow one to see farther by standing on the shoulders of giants; they insist on the primacy of lived experience; they work against illusion and historical insularity; they point to the power of the collective and the merits of deep diversity; and they are capable of the kind of mobilization that can transform the world.

for especially in our present - day context, in order to stand up against injustice, oppression and so on, one has to be prepared to be a living martyr, working for and with the people for the upliftment and betterment against all evil forces.

Forces working against one another produced the world we live.

This intellectual formation works against the metaphysical foundations of natural law reasoning, and therefore most people find the arguments remote and unconvincing — «academic» in the bad sense of being about something other than the real world we live in.

Some of them are ambitious business people or professionals, but many more patch together a living out of two or three part - time jobs, or work overtime as an employer's hedge against new hiring.

The Catholic women must live as hypocrites, in fear of men who desires for them to lie against the truth of how contraception really works in their lives.

The increased professionalization of academic life in religious studies also works against serious faculty investment of time and energy in interdisciplinary teaching and research.