Sentence examples for opposition to good from inspiring English sources

("Righteousness" and "justification" translate the same Greek word, dikaiosynē.) In later Christianity it was sometimes supposed that "works of the law" are "good deeds" and that Paul thus set faith in opposition to good works.

Given today's political climate, one should not be surprised by senseless opposition to good ideas, but I must say I was a bit stunned by the Republican response to President Obama's proposal to trade a corporate tax cut for a small jobs package.

Perhaps Walker's inner-circle will reconsider their homicidal opposition to good benefits for public workers.

In opposition to the good concordance regarding the effect of aTNF on RA disease activity between data from clinical trials and our data from daily clinical practice, radiological progression was significantly worse in patients treated with these drugs.

If opposition to the good exists, then opposition to God must surely exist.

According to Annan, only international pressure would persuade the Syrian government and the opposition to negotiate in good faith.

The sheer volume of the family's collection strikes some people as something that is in opposition to the public good.

This was in direct opposition to the character Gooding Jr. portrayed.

Both players were viewed as evil in opposition to their Spanish counterparts' good.

"By simply echoing successive Likud governments that call for toughness and that engage in anti-Palestinian rhetoric," AIPAC has ended up "in opposition to Obama and a good part of the Democratic Party, lining up with Republican policies, regardless of partisan intent".

In addition, Sherman's opposition to TARP makes for good politics, but those rescue efforts helped arrest the economy's perilous slide and helped lay the foundation for today's recovery.