Although " prescriptions " against the possibly deleterious consequences of these kinds of encounters vary, from Kierkegaard's religious " stage " to Camus ' insistence on persevering in spite of absurdity, the concern with helping people avoid living their lives in ways that put them in the perpetual danger of having everything meaningful break down is common to most existentialist philosophers.

In spite of the early proof that Agricola had given of the tolerance of his own religious attitude, he was not suffered to end his days in peace.

Therefore, in spite of its condemnation by religious authorities, homosexuality persisted in a subterranean manner.

Sexological findings, in spite of being scientifically based, can still become controversial when they contradict " mainstream ", religious, or political beliefs in a given society.

In spite of the lack of explicitly religious content, Song of Songs has often been interpreted as a parable of the relationship of God and Israel, or for Christians, Christ and the Church or Christ and the human soul, as husband and wife.

In spite of this, dissent continued to be suppressed, and President Jiang Zemin launched a brutal crackdown against the Falun Gong religious sect in 1999.

In spite of his religious devotion, several of his relatives died as a result of their faith.

All the refounded houses were in properties that had remained in Crown possession ; but, in spite of much prompting, none of Mary's lay supporters would co-operate in returning their holdings of monastic lands to religious use ; while the lay lords in Parliament proved unremittingly hostile, as a revival of the " mitred " abbeys would have returned the House of Lords to having an ecclesiastical majority.

This explains why some Serer traditionalists who adhere to the tenets of Serer religion are reluctant to afford it the same religious status afforded to Sine as one of the sacred Serer holy sites, in spite of housing many of the Serer sites ( see Serer ancient history ).

In spite of the many shopping malls that exist in Puebla today, the Zocalo remains the cultural, political and religious center of the city.

Negotiations for the marriage began during the reign of King Charles I, were renewed immediately after the Restoration, and on 23 June 1661, in spite of Spanish opposition, the marriage contract was signed, England securing Tangier ( in North Africa ) and the Seven islands of Bombay ( in India ), with trading privileges in Brazil and the East Indies, religious and commercial freedom in Portugal and two million Portuguese crowns ( about £ 300, 000 ); while Portugal obtained military and naval support against Spain and liberty of worship for Catherine.

" As such, he was arguing in direct opposition to religious thinkers for whom " blind faith " ( i. e. belief in things in spite of the lack of evidence for them ) was a virtue.

Until 1931, the Chukchi language had no official orthography, in spite of attempts in the 1800s to write religious texts in it.

It is now widely believed that neither of the factions had any consistent religious bias or allegiance, in spite of the fact that they operated in an environment fraught with religious controversy.

In spite of the fears of some of the religious bodies the act worked well, and many new schools were established all over the colony.

In spite of the share he had taken in the suppression of the monasteries, and of the part he was to play under Edward VI, his religious convictions remained Roman Catholic.

In spite of many attacks which he suffered for his religious views, and notwithstanding many of his opinions regarding ecclesiastical politics were not approved of in Rome, he was highly esteemed in high circles of the Catholic Church, as is shown in letters sent to him by Benedict XIV and Cardinal Ganganelli, later on Clement XIV.

In spite of the Joyous Entries he was accorded in Bruges and Ghent and his ceremonious installation as Duke of Brabant and Count of Flanders, Anjou was not popular with the Dutch and Flemish, who continued to see the Catholic French as enemies ; the provinces of Zeeland and Holland refused to recognise him as their sovereign, and William, the central figure of the " Politiques " who worked to defuse religious hostilities, was widely criticized for his " French politics ".

The most serious diplomatic incident occurred in 1923, when Ernesto Eugenio Filippi, the Apostolic Nuncio to Mexico, conducted an open-air religious service in spite of the fact that it was illegal to hold a religious service outside of a church.

His initial determination to follow the invitation of the Kufan Shiʿites in spite of the numerous warnings he received and his visions of the Prophet reflect a religious conviction of a mission that left him no choice, whatever the outcome.

But in spite of its religious bias and dry and uninteresting character, the fragments of ancient writers and apocryphal books preserved in it make it especially valuable.

In spite of substantial attempts by Sikh and Muslim forces to polarize opposition through religious and anti-British sentiment, Dalhousie ’ s military commanders were able to maintain the loyalty of troops, with the exception of a small number of Gurkah deserters.

While hospitalized he learned that, in spite of his strength and lifelong daily regimen of swimming and exercise, he had a serious heart condition.

In spite of the strength of their flight, trogons do not fly often or for great distances, generally flying no more than a few hundred metres at a time.

Distribution of concrete ( in spite of reinforcement ) strength characteristics along the cross-section of vertical reinforced concrete elements is inhomogeneous.

However, in spite of his supernatural strength, the leviathan is afraid of a small worm called " kilbit ", which clings to the gills of large fish and kills them ( Shab.

In the following year he showed the strength of his judgment and character by supporting, in spite of consequent unpopularity in Ireland, a measure for increasing the powers of the executive to deal with Irish disorder.

In spite of all persecutions, remnants of the original Fraticelli still survived, but their strength was crippled and they thenceforth constituted no serious danger to the Roman Church.

In spite of this North was critical of the terms agreed by the Shelburne government which he felt undervalued the strength of the British negotiating position.

Because of the continued strength of British forces in North America, in spite of the disaster at Yorktown, many expected Britain to continue fighting the war.

In spite of this she can occasionally summon the strength to become the Goddess whose " radiance drives out the dark ".

In spite of the challenges of poor health and political unrest in Canada, the Major-General said of his commission to represent the Queen: " If God wants me to do this job, He will give me the strength to do it.

In spite of Japan's policy of national isolation in the Edo period, in 1862 Takasugi was ordered by the domain to go secretly to Shanghai in China to investigate the state of affairs and the strength of the Western powers.

An Achilles ’ heel is a deadly weakness in spite of overall strength, that can actually or potentially lead to downfall.

The 2009 IPL was played in South Africa owing to safety concerns, but McGrath was used only to increase the bench strength of the Delhi Daredevils for whole of the tournament ; in spite of being the most economic bowler for Delhi in the previous season, he did not play a single match.

In spite of intensive recruiting, the SS never succeeded in raising it beyond a strength of two platoons.

In spite of a less-than-credible, almost preternatural calm in the face of the bizarre, Candy makes a fine protagonist, displaying strength, vulnerability, and a lack of the forced spunkiness displayed by some adventurous heroines.

The strength of Blais ' writing ability is rewarding to the reader in spite of the darker aspects of her themes.

In Betray the Night by Benita Kane Jaro, Scribonia is portrayed as an elderly woman of great strength and personal distinction and courage, who all her life, in spite of the handicaps imposed on women, has been an important player in the factional and family politics of the Augustan period.

At the time, the only dictator that would have immediately come to an American mind was Benito Mussolini, whose popular image was one of audacity and strength, in spite of well-publicized fascist violence.

One study found that " untrainable " physical factors, including the Ape Index, were not necessarily predictors of climbing ability, ( although they did note the significance of grip strength and percentage of body fat ), in spite of a general tendency identified in previous studies for elite athletes in the sport to share these characteristics.

In spite of the harsh repression, PGT was able to consolidate its political strength.

In recent years, and in spite its strength as the only labour representative in many forums, the CGT has faced growing opposition from other trade unions, such as the CTA, or the left-leaning grassroots organisations of unemployed people known as Piqueteros ( Picketing Men ), groups first in evidence during the Menem years which have since become tenuously allied with the Kirchner administrations.

Wright argues that the sequence reassures a male in spite of its graphic content, suggesting that no female, including one with superhuman strength, can possess the power to deprive a man of life in cold blood.

" Some ideas are by frequency and strength of association so closely combined that they cannot be separated ; if one exists, the other exists along with it in spite of whatever effort we make to disjoin them.