He thus assumed to himself the prerogative of calling Mary's subjects together, in direct opposition to one of the acts of the late Parliament.
In direct opposition to them stand the =Sadducees=, out of sympathy with the aspirations of the people, and abandoning wholly the sacred traditions, and joining themselves in league with the Herodians and Romans.
In direct opposition to them, another Egyptian monkish order in the Nitrian desert adhered to Origen with enthusiastic reverence and occupied themselves in a pious contemplative mysticism that tended to a somewhat extreme spiritualism.
Lord Howard of Effingham moved two resolutions indirect opposition to, and levelled at, those which had recently been passed by the commons.
Hence the desire for great buildings, imposing rituals, sacerdotal orders, choral services, all of which are in direct opposition to the mind of Christ and to the plainest teachings of the New Testament.
The tattered garments and mouldy bread of those wily people beguiled the princes of the congregation, and caused them to act in direct opposition to the plain commandment of God.
I am against the proposition of the gentleman from Connecticut, because to act now upon it will be in direct opposition to the uniform order of the House.
If we lose sight of this, we shall be sure to get into a spirit of bondage as respects ourselves, and a spirit of judgment as respects others, both of which are in direct opposition to the spirit of Christ.
Josiah went against Necho without any command from God--yea, he went in direct opposition to words spoken "from the mouth of God.
For years past the fact that our people live in direct opposition to their semi-tropical environment has been constantly before me.
It is admirably remarked by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself, than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current.
I do not indeed conceive that the authority of any parent can oblige us to marry in direct opposition to our inclinations.
Abolitionism cannot be of God, because its views, plans, and machinations, are in direct opposition to the revealed will of God.
But I have long considered the attacks of abolitionists on slaveholders, as devoid of truth and justice, and that their views on slavery, were in direct opposition to the revealed will of God.
It is impossible: for they are in direct opposition to the plainest declarations of the inspired writers--to the whole spirit and tenor of the Sacred Volume.
But in direct opposition to this movement for municipal home rule, the commission form takes the last step in the destruction of the city's legislative body and fosters continued state interference.
But though the spring may descend, on first issuing, it must afterwards rise to reach the surface of the earth; and that is in direct opposition to gravity.
He acted in direct opposition to the commands of the Divine Founder of his Church, as well as to the precepts of the representative of that Divine Founder upon earth.
As to moderation of justice, replied the Attorney-General, how could a man expect or ask for it who had acted in direct opposition to all mercy and all justice?
The idea of God which is found in the religions of the Indian Archipelago, and probably also of Africa, cannot have been distilled from the motley jumble of gods and of nature, for it exists in direct opposition to the latter.
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