It is my feeling that when we work against nature, we only end up hurting ourselves.
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We are all implicated in this difficult situation by our actions or non-actions against nature.
By taking it away with a digger every few years that's working against nature.
But it seems against nature for the name of the whole to be grabbed by the part.
Feel free to condemn this as a socialist plot or a crime against nature, but please note that capital flows matter in the real world.
In such extreme conditions, there is no other way - we share a feeling that we are battling in a war for survival against nature's extreme everyday.
We pray that day's end will find us where we need to be, ideally in clean beds under a ceiling fan with a bathroom nearby that's not an offense against nature.
Our Western heritage has been one of control, of man against nature, of man needing to tame nature, and create as his likes and as his needs dictate regardless of consequences.
Natural disasters such as the eruption of the volcano in Iceland or the oil spill on the Gulf coast last year make us seriously consider the fragility of human strength against nature.
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AD, Ulpian was expounding Roman law as a system based on the Stoic idea that we are all born free and equal, that slavery is against nature, and that all people, including slaves, possess a dignity that can be vindicated in legal proceedings.
In short, an explosion not of a flaming car, or a bombed building, but of a head. (Whose head, I will not reveal, except to say that to damage such a performer, whether with a slap or, as here, with a shotgun, strikes me as a crime against nature.) Refn seems to have a thing about heads, and about the hurt that they can suffer capital punishment, in the worst sense.
But in some ways it runs against our nature to accept and deal with the world we live in.
Ortega went a step further, blaming natural disasters and hurricanes like Hurricane Felix that recently devastated Nicaragua, as the result of "aggression against mother nature carried by the greediness of imperial capitalism".
'The risk is that it will force providers to preventively control the content, something that goes against the very nature of the Internet.
But the most obvious way to achieve growth is to open economic and political competition, and that would go against the very nature of Mr Putin's regime.
On Article I I have decided, with some regret, that the instances of perjury I believe were established beyond a reasonable doubt are offenses insufficient for removing the President from office--based on the gravity of the offenses as against the drastic nature of removal.
But I have made a corollary discovery: The gardener, too, knows that nature conspires against him.
If value, not brain power, is the engine that drives markets, then the market's inherent nature militates against elite control.
To suddenly have options, to have to approach one's bodily functions with a strategy in mind, seems to go against the grain of nature.
Although Mr Pantani had been technically part of a team in all his races, his career was a succession of solitary triumphs against the giants of nature.
Politics cannot win against the power of nature, can it?
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When challenged about his lifelong failure to produce such a bird, he said it only went to prove that it was against the laws of nature to challenge the colour bar.
She placed the images incongruously against utopian, postcard scenes from nature -- mountains, flowers and green fields -- or against backdrops modeled on the stylized landscapes of traditional Japanese screens.
"Human nature is working against us, " says Gary Palmer, a vice president at Pfizer, which makes Lipitor.
Myself, I far prefer to have us working with nature instead of against.
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