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Against this invincible determination to communize the whole world stands a group of nations unable to agree on fundamentals and each refusing to make any sacrifice of sovereignty for the common good of all.
Gerald Jonas of The New York Times noted that " Against all odds, the universe of Dune keeps getting richer in texture, more challenging in its moral dilemmas.
* UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women ( CEDAW ).
Against this, Robinson points out that all the synoptics are agreed that, when Jesus arrives in Jerusalem in the week before his death, he already has a number of followers and disciples in the city, notably Joseph of Arimathea, and the unnamed landlord of the upper room, who knows Jesus as ' the Master '.
Eusebius implies that other works were in circulation ; from St Irenaeus he knows of the apology " Against Marcion ," and from Justin's " Apology " of a " Refutation of all Heresies ".
The Against Marcion is lost, as is the Refutation of all Heresies to which Justin himself refers in Apology, i. 26 ; Hegesippus, besides perhaps Irenaeus and Tertullian, seems to have used it.
Against this, it has been argued that all known species of pinnipeds are usually visible on land during daylight hours to sunbathe, something that Nessie is not known to do.
In 189, assertion of the primacy of the Church of Rome may be indicated in Irenaeus of Lyons's Against Heresies ( 3: 3: 2 ): " With Church of Rome, because of its superior origin, all the churches must agree ... and it is in her that the faithful everywhere have maintained the apostolic tradition.
Adversus Omnes Haereses ( Against all Heresies )-poss.
Against all expectation, Grace produced in 1895 a season that has been called his " Indian Summer ".
Against all odds, they win 5 – 3.
Shortly thereafter, in the additional Regulations Against Jews ' Possession of Weapons of November 11, 1938, Jews were forbidden from possession of any weapons at all.
Against his wishes Nicias was appointed General along with Alcibiades and Lamachus, all three of whom were given full powers to do whatever was in the best interests of Athens while in Sicily.
* 14. 67 %— Against all candidates
Against all abuses, both civil and ecclesiastical ( excepting, of course, his own excesses ), Valentinian steadily set his face, even against the increasing wealth and worldliness of the clergy.
Some of the founders of the WSF, were part of the First International Encuentro for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism in 1996, and decided to expand the idea and make it a global forum for activists of all stripes opposing hegemonic globalization and neoliberalism.
Didymus wrote many works: Commentaries on all the Psalms, the Gospel of Matthew, the Gospel of John as Against the Arians, and On the Holy Spirit, which Jerome translated into Latin.
Against this, Alasdair MacIntyre has argued that a narrative understanding of oneself, of one's capacity as an independent reasoner, one's dependence on others and on the social practices and traditions in which one participates, all tend towards an ultimate good of liberation.
The ecumenical patriarch insisted that all of Barlaam's writings be destroyed and thus no complete copies of Barlaam's treatise " Against Messalianism " have survived.
Against all odds, the product apparently worked fine, as if nothing had happened.
In addition, the Nuremberg War Trial judgment on " The Law Relating to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity " held, under the guidelines Nuremberg Principles, that treaties like the Hague Convention of 1907, having been widely accepted by " all civilised nations " for about half a century, were by then part of the customary laws of war and binding on all parties whether the party was a signatory to the specific treaty or not.
Former Nye County Commissioner Candice Trummell, director of the Nevada Coalition Against Sex Trafficking, said " It is way past time for Nevada to be the last state in the United States of America to finally stand against all forms of slavery.
Against the overall loss from all causes of 108 P-40s and 25 P-35s, FEAF pilots were credited by USAF Historical Study No. 85, USAF Credits for the Destruction of Enemy Aircraft, World War II, with 35 aerial victories between 8 December 1941 and 12 April 1942.

Against and expectation
Against expectation, Bridport's leading ship was Queen Charlotte, which had attained an unusually fast speed for a first rate through the carefully planned sailing of Captain Sir Andrew Snape Douglas.
" Against the audience's expectation, Vala and Tomin are shown as a seemingly functioning normal couple, and Vala makes several efforts to save him despite his deep indoctrination.

Against and was
Against Seebohm formidable foes have taken the field, notably F. W. Maitland, whose Domesday Book And Beyond was written expressly for this purpose, and Sir Paul Vinogradoff whose The Growth Of The Manor had a similar aim.
The drive was called the Carnival Against Capital, or J18 for short.
The slogan was " Against the war, against racism and against neo-liberalism ".
It os well known fact that Rage Against the Machine was inspired by the Urban Dance Squad.
This was the start of a " golden decade " of peace and prosperity, during which time Athanasius assembled several documents relating to his exiles and returns from exile in the Apology Against the Arians.
Other Chicano / Mexican American singers include Selena, who sang a variety of Mexican, Tejano, and American popular music, but was killed in 1995 at the age of 23 ; Zack de la Rocha, lead vocalist of Rage Against the Machine and social activist ; and Los Lonely Boys, a Texas style country rock band who have not ignored their Mexican American roots in their music.
Barrymore was named Ambassador Against Hunger for the UN World Food Programme ( WFP ).
In May 2007, Barrymore was named Ambassador Against Hunger for the United Nations World Food Programme and later donated $ 1 million to the cause.
The last book Thompson finished was Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law ( 1993 ).
Against his wishes, Bulwer-Lytton was honoured with a burial in Westminster Abbey.
Following the World Food Summit, the Alliance was initially created in 2002 as the ‘ International Alliance Against Hunger ( IAAH )’ to strengthen and coordinate national efforts in the fight against hunger and malnutrition.
* An English translation of Michel Houellebecq's H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life ( ISBN 1-932416-18-8 ) was published by Believer Books in 2005.
Irenaeus, ( c. 130 – 202 ) in his Against Heresies ( 1: 25 ; 6 ) says scornfully of the Gnostic Carpocratians, " They also possess images, some of them painted, and others formed from different kinds of material ; while they maintain that a likeness of Christ was made by Pilate at that time when Jesus lived among them.
Irenaeus ' best-known book, Adversus Haereses or Against Heresies ( c. 180 ) is a detailed attack on Gnosticism, which was then a serious threat to the Church, and especially on the system of the Gnostic Valentinus.
Against the Gnostics, who said that they possessed a secret oral tradition from Jesus himself, Irenaeus maintained that the bishops in different cities are known as far back as the Apostles — and none of them was a Gnostic — and that the bishops provided the only safe guide to the interpretation of Scripture.
The purpose of " Against Heresies " was to refute the teachings of various Gnostic groups ; apparently, several Greek merchants had begun an oratorial campaign in Irenaeus ' bishopric, teaching that the material world was the accidental creation of an evil god, from which we are to escape by the pursuit of gnosis.
Until the discovery of the Library of Nag Hammadi in 1945, Against Heresies was the best-surviving description of Gnosticism.
Against Porphyry, Jerome identified Rome as the fourth kingdom of chapters two and seven, but his view of chapters eight and 11 was more complex.
An opponent of a somewhat similar nature was Jovinianus, with whom he came into conflict in 392 ( Adversus Jovinianum, Against Jovinianus ) and the defense of this work addressed to his friend Pammachius, numbered 48 in the letters ).
Against the protests of the two women who had called 911, who recognized him from the neighborhood and insisted that he was a child and couldn't speak English, the officers turned him over to Dahmer.
Josephus's Against Apion is a two-volume defence of Judaism as classical religion and philosophy, stressing its antiquity, as opposed to what Josephus claimed was the relatively more recent tradition of the Greeks.

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