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The critic of The Nation who had consistently praised Copeau's efforts wrote: " The Vieux-Colombier has not only afforded New York a continually varied feast of inspiration and refreshment but it has set for us a new and practicable standard by which American dramatic art may be tested " Against all odds, a French-language theatre had presented a repertoire of plays of considerable taste during a two-season stint in a city enthralled with Broadway.
Against considerable opposition from The March of Dimes Foundation, which supported the relatively effective killed vaccine, Sabin prevailed on the Public Health Service to license his three strains of vaccine.
Sun City became the subject of considerable controversy in 1985 when E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt made it the focus of his music-industry activist group, Artists United Against Apartheid.
Like Epicurus, a considerable number of spurious works seem to have been assigned to him ; one of these was Against the Orators, whose authenticity was attacked both by Zeno of Sidon and his pupil Philodemus.

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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.
Against overwhelming odds, Greece survived, and classical Greek culture, so influential in ' western civilization ' was able to develop unabated.
Against all odds, they win 5 – 3.
Against all odds, the product apparently worked fine, as if nothing had happened.
Against the odds, the soap had a successful run in this timeslot, but the advent of one-day cricket, and Channel 9's decision to move the show around the schedules eventually sealed its fate and it was eventually cancelled in 1982-the final episode aired in March 1983.
* " Against all odds "-All odd numbers are up and evens down.
Against all the odds, massive underdogs Huddersfield pulled out what is regarded as possibly their best performance of modern times, Stuart Donlan and Chris Nero with 2 tries apiece and Michael De Vere with a try and five goals steering them to a 30 – 12 victory.
Against all odds, Hawkins wins the joust because his armor was incidentally magnetized by a lightning bolt, but he refuses to deliver the coup de grâce, sparing Griswold's life.
Against all the odds the Robins won, 40-36, their best result in the competition since their 1980 Challenge Cup win against local rivals Hull F. C.
Against all odds, Zenon manages to use the computer virus program that Andrew created to save the space station, and Wyndham and Lutz get arrested.
Lisa Schwarzbaum from Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B -, saying: " Against many odds, Ever After comes up with a good one.
" A common campaign slogan was, " Me for Ma, and I Ain't Got a Durned Thing Against Pa ." Against the odds, Ma Ferguson was elected governor, becoming the first female chief executive of Texas.
Against all odds, the surprising sequence of events has put them on a precise course heading toward Mars.
Against very long odds the 101st held successfully with dwindling supplies, once famously telling the German commander " Nuts " in response to a surrender request.
* Against the odds the blowins bed down 2010
Against these odds Remorse rose to the challenge and established itself as what is now the longest operating organization of ASCII artists in history.
Against the odds Ipswich beat their illustrious counterparts by a goal to nil at home and held Real to a goalless draw at the Bernabéu in front of 80, 000 fanatical supporters.
Against overwhelming odds, the Viet Cong achieved their first major victory.
Against overwhelming odds, several times Williams led his PBRs against concentrations of enemy junks and sampans.
Against all odds, with repeated lapses into alcoholism and deep depressions, he began a new career as an author and translator.
Against all odds, Plymouth outmuscled and outclassed the hosts on the way to a historic 65-74 victory, just three years after making the jump from the EBL.
* " Against all odds ", Yukiyasu Togo & William Wartman, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993, ISBN 0-312-09733-6, p56 / 73

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Against such a termination of human life on earth by human action, he then proposes as an alternative that we `` negotiate at once with the Russians and get the best terms which are available '', that we deliberately `` negotiate from comparative weakness ''.
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.
The Italian Giuseppe Ciancabilla ( 1872 – 1904 ) wrote in " Against organization " that " we don't want tactical programs, and consequently we don't want organization.
* Thomas Pynchon's 2006 novel Against the Day, in a parody of serial fiction, features a young men's organization, the " Chums of Chance ", whose Charter includes a paraphrase of Star Trek's Prime Directive, " never to interfere with legal customs of any locality at which we may have happened to touch.
Indeed, Against Apion, the writing of Josephus in 95 CE, treated the text of the Hebrew Bible as a closed canon to which "... no one has ventured either to add, or to remove, or to alter a syllable ..." However, we know that for a long time following this date that the divine inspiration of Esther, the Song of Songs, and Ecclesiastes was often under scrutiny.
Apart from Papias ' comment, we do not hear about the author of the Gospel until Irenaeus around 185 who remarks that Matthew issued a written Gospel of the Hebrews ( Against Heresies 3. 1. 1 ) Pantaenus, Origen and other Church Fathers also believed Matthew wrote the Gospel of the Hebrews ( Church History 5. 10. 3, 6. 25. 4 ) None of these Church Fathers asserted that Matthew wrote his Gospel in Greek.
Against this foe we can never surrender.
The Italian Giuseppe Ciancabilla ( 1872 – 1904 ) wrote in " Against organization " that " we don't want tactical programs, and consequently we don't want organization.
In order to survive we steal, cheat, lie, forge, fuck, hide, and deal ... Everything you say we are, we are ... Up Against the Wall, Motherfucker!
* Against Religion: Why we should live without it ( 1991 )
* League Against Cruel Sports: How we got hunting banned
Beamer's Chief of Staff, Michael Meagher, later told the Independent Commission Against Corruption ( ICAC ),"… what we had was something I ’ d never seen before.
Self Against City posted on their latest blog on their MySpace page July 6, 2008 " Self Against City will be taking a break from touring and performing together but all of us are still playing together and we all have new material recorded and ready for release there is a bidding war that has gotten semi-brutal over the past couple weeks so we are trying to play it cool and be smart about our futures as individuals and as a group.

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The earlier date, 293, is sometimes assigned and apparently supported by the authority of a " Coptic Fragment " ( published by Dr. O. von Lemm among the Mémoires de l ' académie impériale des sciences de S. Péterbourg, 1888 ) and corroborated by the maturity revealed in his two earliest treatises Contra Gentes ( Against the Heathens ) and De Incarnatione ( On the Incarnation ), which were admittedly written about the year 318 before Arianism had begun to make itself felt, as those writings do not show an awareness of Arianism.
Each group has a title — Carmina Nisibena, On Faith, On Paradise, On Virginity, Against Heresies — but some of these titles do not do justice to the entirety of the collection ( for instance, only the first half of the Carmina Nisibena is about Nisibis ).
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.
Leaflets arguing against the film's representation of the New Testament ( for example, suggesting that the Wise Men would not have approached the wrong stable as they do in the opening of the film ) were documented in Robert Hewison's book Monty Python: The Case Against.
Karl Menger found mathematicians to be too parsimonious with regard to variables so he formulated his Law Against Miserliness which took one of two forms: " Entities must not be reduced to the point of inadequacy " and " It is vain to do with fewer what requires more.
It seeks to do this by building favorable interactions between the public, private and civil society and working with different networks both in local ( EITI NGO Coalition, National Budget Group, Public Coalition Against Poverty and etc.
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.
Against the movie studio's worries over profits, Clift correctly predicted the film would do well, if only because moviegoers would flock to see the difference in his facial appearance before and after the accident.
It was Buñuel's intention to shock and insult the intellectual bourgeoisie of his youth, later saying: " Historically the film represents a violent reaction against what in those days was called ‘ avant-garde ,’ which was aimed exclusively at artistic sensibility and the audience ’ s reason .” Against his hopes and expectations, the film was a huge success amongst the French bourgeoisie, leading Buñuel to exclaim in exasperation, " What can I do about the people who adore all that is new, even when it goes against their deepest convictions, or about the insincere, corrupt press, and the inane herd that saw beauty or poetry in something which was basically no more than a desperate impassioned call for murder?
Against larger numbers he could do little but harass and cut off supplies.
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.
In the 1850 novel David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, school master Dr. Strong quotes from Watts ' " Against Idleness and Mischief ": " Satan finds some mischief still, for idle hands to do.
: Against all peril, do not forsake us
: Against all peril, do not forsake us
Against this he holds up the ideal of a transcendent community and reminds us of the “ true needs ” of a humanity to which the operations of a Commodity-driven society perpetually do violence.
Against multiple attackers, silambam exponents do not hold out their sticks as they do in single combat.
Against the sculptors, Leonardo argued that the intellectual effort necessary to create an illusion of three-dimensionality made the painters ' art superior to that of the sculptor, who could do so merely by recording appearances.
Xuxa e os Duendes 2 ( Xuxa and the Elves – In the Way of the Fairies ) in 2002, Xuxa Abracadabra in 2004, Xuxa e o Mistério da Cidade Perdida in 2004, and Xuxinha e Guto: Contra os Monstros do Espaço ( Xuxinha and Guto Against the Monsters of the Galaxy ) in 2005.
He was the Human Rights Secretary of the Brazilian Association of Gays, Lesbians and Transvestites ( Associação Brasileira de Gays, Lésbicas e Travestis / ABGLT ) and member of the National Commission on AIDS of the Ministry of Health ( Comissão Nacional de Aids do Ministério da Saúde ) and of the National Council Against Discrimination of the Ministry of Justice ( Conselho Nacional de Combate à Discriminação do Ministério da Justiça ).
His treatise is lost, but quotes survive in the attack written somewhat later by Origen, Contra Celsum (" Against Celsus "): " While some of the Christians proclaim they have the same god as do the Jews, others insist that there is another god higher than the creator-god and opposed to him.

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