Sentences with phrase «does giving up the power»

Do you give up your power and just go along with what the other person wants in order to avoid a conflict?

When did we give up the power?»

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I think one of the things that we do is to give away our power by not talking about things, by not bringing them up.

They don't earn any power due to their title, rather it's their ability to hand out good advice or come up with solutions based on their deep organizational knowledge that gives them considerable sway.

FIRE gives you more power to take charge of your life, and what you do with it is entirely up to you.

As someone that works in online marketing and sees the power of successful strategies first - hand every day, take this advice: don't give up on the Internet.

«For a company that promotes employee advocacy, it does a terrible job keeping up employee morale and giving the power to the employee.

We entrust these institutions with the job of gaining expertise and information that we can not acquire, and we give them the power to sanction organizations and individuals who do not live up to this trust.

What we're trying to do is break the doors down — and people don't give up power easily.

Morgan Stanley could still not afford to swallow all of Smith Barney in one bite, and Citigroup didn't want to immediately give up all the much - needed earnings power the unit possessed.

Depressed valuations don't equate to lower wealth; they just mean that sellers are probably giving up too much future purchasing power in order to obtain current purchasing power.

Just as in the Lord's day, the «religious» were against Him because they feared the power He had over their «charges» and they didn't want to give up that power — plain and simple.

It puts food on their tables — but they still have to be responsible... in fact, I suspect that if you don't have the power to give someone some opportunity to grow and learn, then you either have gutted the educational system and load up your bank accounts, or you have abdicated your power to someone who does.

But only if one does not give up after failure can he open himself to this insight, within which is found a creative power working through life, bringing it out of nothingness toward Being.

Giving up on doing such things because it is deemed to be too difficult, ineffective, cumbersome, shaming, paralyzing, pointless, or whatever could be better interpreted as a loss of faith in the Savior Jesus Christ and his power to change us, and an absence of the Holy Spirit which seals us unto holiness and eternal salvation.

If the Church is cautious in questions of doctrine and discipline, perhaps even more so than in the past, if she waits for more information, carrying on a dialogue, perhaps even leaves much to the conscience of the individual, all this does not mean that the authorities have grown cowardly, they have not, for this reason, given up their responsibility and their power.

She should certainly not become one sided, expecting everything from a gimmick, but she must not want to do everything with the same energy either; she must have the courage to concentrate her finite powers on a few points, even though this will mean giving up other important things.

We would like to think that we can because we don't want to give up the power and prestige and prerogatives of being wealthy.

Republicans drove the economy into the ground for 8 years — almost brought it to collapse, literally — and because President Obama hasn't cleaned up their mess fast enough for them, they want to be given the power to do it all over again.

Do I need to give up some power, stand up for others, change my own behaviour, repent?

It seems very counter-productive to give up my power to something that does not exist.

To give up your power is not to give it to something that does not exist because the power you are giving up to is YOUR power, the power that makes much better choices.

If God is not ready to give up his power, if he does not want us to determine our fate, we can not trust him.

So before we let loose our thoughts about the intentions of God which are good, lets us ask ourselves what we have done to demonstrate the awesome power of God and his love for us and especially those young «somali muslims» mathew 25:35 it is God himself behind these faces, that means we'll have to give up our usual sitting position for a more unfamiliar one if we are men and women of faith... stay blessed.

It is sometimes thought that a man can become free also in those spheres that differ from this sublime «I», and which are governed by such powers as nature, the state and so forth, and that he can do this by giving up opposition and regarding them as indifferent; that he becomes free by detaching himself from them be - cause he realizes that they are mere shadows and quite unimportant.

I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness, death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours after I had gone to my bed.

I don't consider the United States to be a theocracy uniquely instituted by God to dispense special revelation, nor mete out His justice, nor is she raising up prophets that consistently and repeatedly give overt, compelling signs that a supernatural power is behind their decrees.

spiritually dead destitute of a life that recognises and is devoted to God, because given up to trespasses and sins inactive as respects doing right destitute of force or power, inactive, inoperative

At that instant of time when I gave all up to him to do with me as he pleased, and was willing that God should rule over me at his pleasure, redeeming love broke into my soul with repeated scriptures, with such power that my whole soul seemed to be melted down with love; the burden of guilt and condemnation was gone, darkness was expelled, my heart humbled and filled with gratitude, and my whole soul, that was a few minutes ago groaning under mountains of death, and crying to an unknown God for help, was now filled with immortal love, soaring on the wings of faith, freed from the chains of death and darkness, and crying out, My Lord and my God; thou art my rock and my fortress, my shield and my high tower, my life, my joy, my present and my everlasting portion.

«We trust that long ago you began to weigh and ponder all this, and that you are fully determined, by the grace of God, to give yourselves wholly to his service and devote to him your best powers of mind and spirit, so that as you daily follow the rule and teaching of our Lord, with the heavenly assistance of his Holy Spirit, you may grow up into his likeness, and sanctify the lives of all with whom you have to do.»

--- Yep, you don't want to give up your power to «god», but giving «God» your power, well it has NEVER failed working out for me.

Ray I agree with you 100 % and more Pat roberson is a confuse old man who will not give up power to his son, poor billy can not remenber, and his son is in charge, if Billy son and all the born again christians vote for a cult may God help then, do you want a mornan President in the White hous with 4 Wives, and worship a man name Joseph Smith, rather than Jesus Christ, Pat Roberson need to tell his listeners the truth about cults.

i guess we are lucky are parents were not gay or we would not all be here reading this the book allso says free will and ten comanments to live by its not up to us humans to judge when we all die we will know what we did right and what was wrong until then do what you do best to help keep the devil from taking over remember the devil and god have the same powers but only god can give you peace and love bottom line what or who you sleep with is your choice but don't keep rubbing my nose in it do your job and keep the rest to yourself

It's adapted from Babycakes NYC — the recipe was developed by the genius Erin McKenna who used the strange magical powers of the soy milk powder to create a vegan frosting using agave instead of powdered sugar, which I prefer as agave doesn't give me the heart - palpitating sugar high of straight up sugar.

But he said the ACCC already had powers to deal with misuse of market power and did not think the regulator should be given rights to break up company assets.

We had all of the power in this trade, and we just gave it up like we do second round picks... without a peep.

wenegr is in the twilight years of his arsenal career now he might or might not see out the full term of his contract, i would image he wont give up but if he do nt get a big prize this season or next his desire might dwindle even more the board have seen what a shambles man united have gone through and the expense of failure, if they do nt get the next appointment right the board is trying to give themselves as much time to identify a replacement and in the correct time unless wenger leaves at short notice, i think if he had won the c / l all thought years ago we would be looking at a different story i think he would have left at the end if that contract as he would be at the peak of his powers and could of gone anywhere he like across europe, but he didn't win and here we are now, i respect the man for what he has done for us and english football a modern day herbert chapmen he is but even old chappy had his end of and era and wenger will have his end its just how will it play out hopefully a winner

Oh, they don't want to give up any of their power over the process.

All I can tell you is that, for me, giving myself up to a higher power had nothing to do with the past, nor did it absolve me of anything.

However, West Ham did not give up and the atmosphere did not let up, with Michail Antonio powering a header — his sixth of the season — past David De Gea on 76 minutes.

Alex never acts like some kind of higher power of football, whoever he is talking to, but he does transmit his considerable winning spirit and refusal to give up to his team.

So don't give up, but also never turn the meals into power struggles.

Some parents struggle with this, thinking that if they do this they are giving up their power or showing weakness.

They prep you for an environment that is going to do everything in it's power to «force» you to give up breastfeeding, and seemed laughably caricatured when we saw the reality.

He now argues that, in establishing sovereign power, we do not have to give up our freedom, and he makes this point by way of arguing that everyone has misunderstood the true character of personal liberty.

So parliamentary scrutiny yes, but I don't think that the Brexit deniers or those who will never reconcile themselves to Brexit should be given some power to either hold up or try and frustrate the Brexit process,» he says, sternly.

Since that announcement, we have passed secondary legislation to enable the police to prosecute an extra 150,000 cases through to completion by giving them the power to continue to prosecute where a defendant does not turn up in court or pleads exceptional hardship.

I would say that it is true that the smaller states did not want to give up all of their power that they had in the AoC but they also realized it was not going to last and that the larger states would be likely to break away unless the compromise was struck.

IDC Leader Jeff Klein, whose breakaway Democratic conference has a relationship — though no longer a power - sharing deal — with the Senate Republicans, issued a statement calling the corruption charges outlined today by the US attorney against Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos «serious and distburing,» but did not join fellow Democrats in calling for the senator to give up his leadership post.

The legal battle started when a Belfast judge ruled that Northern Ireland health minister Edwin Poots did not have the power to maintain a lifetime ban on gay men giving blood and that it was up to the secretary of state to make the call.