St John ’ s church was built in upper Jamestown in 1857, one motivation being to counter the levels of vice and prostitution at that end of the town.

In order to counter the Saracen menace definitively, Leo ordered a new line of walls encompassing the suburb on the right bank of the Tiber to be built, including St. Peter's Basilica, which had been undefended until this time.

The pulpit of St Mary's, the University church, was no longer closed to him, but the success of Balliol in the schools gave rise to jealousy in other colleges, and old prejudices did not suddenly give way ; while a new movement in favour of " the endowment of research " ran counter to his immediate purposes.

Clifford counter spun the story the next day, when he flew with a journalist from The Sun to Starr's home in Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire with another hamster the newspaper had called Sandwich, which was photographed with claimed vegetarian Starr.

The first section of the book is essentially a collection of short stream-of-consciousness essays, which Kerouac called " sketches ", many simply describing elements of Duluoz's ( Kerouac's ) post-World War II New York City environment, from the texture and smells of a lunch counter to St. Patrick's Cathedral, or minor events like the decision to masturbate in a public restroom — all interlaced with Kerouac's internal dialogue.

Prince William Henry ( the future William IV ), on visiting St. John's in 1786, noted that " there are ten Roman Catholics to one Protestant ", and the Prince worked to counter early relaxations of ordinances against Catholics.

St Mawes Castle is a well-preserved coastal fortress from the time of Henry VIII, built to counter the invasion threat from the Continent.

Walsh Island objected to father Willie Kinlough who lived just over the bridge and St. Ciaran's counter objected to a similar situation on the Walsh island team.

An important feature of St. Mark ’ s was its large atrium where members of the parish would set up a donut counter each Sunday.

There can be little doubt, whatever counter claims may be set up, that the Third Order was one of St. Francis ' creations, and that his Third Order was the exemplar after which the others were fashioned ; but at an early date the other Mendicant Orders formed Third Orders on the same lines, and so there came into being Dominican Tertiaries, and Carmelite, and Augustinian, and Servite, and also Premonstratensian and many others.

only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.

His authority extended to the far edge of the counter, no further.

The morning's tabloids were on the counter, and a stack of dog-eared men's magazines.

On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

In the mornings, I was informed, fluorescent tubes, similar to the one above the counter, illuminated the entire hall.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

No sooner would I turn my head away from the counter before he would address me, at times quite sharply, in order to bring back my attention.

I stopped by the counter.

I rapped my knuckles on the counter.

But he came toward me sedately enough, showed me around the counter, offered me a seat inside his office, then walked to a file cabinet and got out my application.

I felt certain that the director, like the afternoon clerk, seldom moved beyond the counter, that the hall, to them, was a jungle, a dark and unwelcome place.

When several minutes had passed and Curt hadn't emerged from the livery stable, Brenner reentered the hotel and faced Summers across the counter.

Demagogues of this sort found communist bogeys lurking behind any new idea that would run counter to stereotyped notions.

Their policy ran counter to the traditional idea that a good fighter was usually a libertine, and that in sex affairs `` God-given passion '' was a proof of manliness.

Running counter to the destroying forces in the world are all the virtues that are innate in man, the capacity for love and brotherhood, the ability to appreciate beauty.

The moment simultaneously revealed that in the crisis our policy ran counter to that of all our NATO allies, to the entire Western community.

Standing in the shelter of the tent -- a rejected hospital tent on which the rain now dripped, no longer drumming -- Adam watched his own hands touch the objects on the improvised counter of boards laid across two beer barrels.

Then he spread out the last list on the counter.

One might use such findings to indicate the strength of informal primary associations in the factory, an interpretation which would run counter to Fromm's theory of alienation.

they are difficult to counter, cost little to maintain until required, and can be put into place quickly.

The card the man I was shadowing had filled out was still on the counter.

Rat-face at the counter was on his feet.

Keeping her frightened gaze on the men at the counter, she began to feel her way to the door.

He got one of the menus and brushed the spilled sugar onto it and carried it to a box on the floor behind the counter.

Grosse tucked the gun under the counter.

* By the end of the third century, many male followers of Early Christianity considered castration as an acceptable way to counter sinful desires of the flesh.

In the 1940s and 50s, missionaries in Israel, including the Southern Baptists, adopted the term meshichyim ( משיחיים " Messianics ") to counter negative connotations of the word notsrim ( נוצרים " Christians ", from " Nazarenes "); the term was used to designate all Jews who had converted to Protestant evangelical Christianity.

The organization attempts to counter the efforts of " Jews for Jesus " and other Messianic missionary organizations which believe Jesus to be God and one part of a Trinity, and attempt to proselytize Jews, claiming to be a legitimate form of Judaism, but considered by most Christians and Jews to be a form of Christianity.

* Messiah Truth is another counter missionary organization which includes articles countering both Christianity and Islam under the heading of " Knowing Your Own Orchard.

It attempted to counter Communism ideology with a mix of traditional Confucianism, Western Christianity, nationalism and authoritarianism that have some similarities to fascism.

On 22 October 2010 Frattini declared to Osservatore Romano that Judaism, Christianity and Islam should form an alliance to counter atheism, which he defined in the same interview a " perverse phenomenon " as much as extremism.

Cafeteria-style means to pick-and-choose, as in choosing what food to purchase from a cafeteria line, as if " sliding our food tray along a cafeteria's counter " some Christian's may pick their own plate of Christianity, " picking and choosing the stuff you want and discarding the rest ".