Sentences with phrase «powerful interests which»

Powerful interests which profit from environmental destruction stand in the way of progress.

There are far more powerful interests which will determine the country's long term future.

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All of which is both interesting and useful, but it begs the question: Why is simply paying attention to the good things in your life so powerful?

Equities really have had the best of all worlds these past few years, with earnings growth in the double digits and financial conditions remaining very accommodative, despite the recent rise in both short - and long - term interest rates.1 The combination of rising earnings growth and benign financial conditions is a powerful set of tailwinds which usually drives stock valuations higher.

Nothing is more important to advancing freedom in the global economy and the liberties of the world's peoples than is breaking up the powerful cartel of businesses and governments in the U.S. and E.U. which have created and administer those rules for the world they have established to serve their own interests.

It has a powerful influence on other interest rates and forms the base on which the structure of interest rates in the economy is built.

«But... it is in the national interest that there be a dramatic reduction in the number of automatic and semi-automatic weapons in the Australian community [because] there is a clear link between the volume of powerful weapons in the community and the extent to which they are used in an indiscriminate manner.»

Commentaries on Virgil and Virgilian legends» in which Virgil appears as a powerful magician» make up the last half of the book, which will be of great interest to scholars and devotees of the poet.

I have already indicated my own belief that ideas and ideals which offer hope of rescue or fulfillment to persons or groups where their vital interests are at stake can be powerful sources of constructive, even revolutionary, change.

If the economic reform measures in India have therefore been sponsored by a tiny, though exceptionally powerful and influential, minority which is pursuing them to safeguard and promote its own narrow interests, they are unlikely to be of benefit to the bulk of the people, in spite of claims that they are not only necessary and inevitable, but also in the national interest.

An interesting perspective... because we can still wonder whether the entire universe is controlled by an alien being who might at any moment do something for which there has been no precedent in all of human memory... we could still see beyond that practically all - powerful being a being that we could rightfully know to be God even to that other being to whom we are at their mercy.

While agreeing with the Latin American bishops that the new churches were supported by «powerful ideological forces as well as economic and political interests [in the United States],» the document admitted that the evangelicals were fulfilling «needs and aspirations which are seemingly not being met in the mainline churches.

Those whom Noonan called «the protected,» which is to say the rich and powerful in the West, share with the rising middle class in the developing world a remarkable harmony of interests.

But this pretty speech may simply have been a ploy to protect powerful interests, which Juan and Pedro's investigations threaten.

Here the interest is in discovering what kind of mentality is encouraged by the daily ritual of being exposed to mass media, with the emphasis on television, the most powerful and pervasive of the mass media in the industrialized world (and second only to radio, which it is overtaking, in the developing world).

It is interesting that you use the term ostracize, which refers to the ancient greek practice of voting to banish a citizen because they were unpopular or too powerful.

As it turns out, they are talking more and more about religious revival, about the rise of new religions, about the worldwide resurgence of fundamentalism, about the enormous impact religion is having on world affairs and, in this country, about the increased prominence of the Religious Right, a movement which may already be the most powerful special interest group in America and which has given ample notice that it doesn't consider its job anywhere near done.

The American founders also «recognized that self - interest is a powerful force in politics,» which «a realistic Christian approach to politics must accommodate.»

Furthermore, the present system has created in the broadcasters which benefit from it a very powerful set of vested interests opposed to change.

Today's issues are less clear - cut than civil rights or the war in Vietnam; there are no great leaders to rally us, no powerful self - interested groups like the draft resisters of the war period with which to ally ourselves.

Realistically, it must be noted that there are powerful and vested interests which militate against such changes.

This lineup is being supplemented with new, developing programs that include Good Food Is Good Medicine, which aims to take the collective knowledge of FamilyFarmed, medical experts, nutritionists, chefs, farmers and others about the powerful connections between food and health, and make that information more readily available to members of the general public; and the Organic Grain Promotion Initiative, which seeks to advance the fast - growing interest in better, more sustainably produced, heirloom grains among retailers, consumers, bakers, distilleries, breweries and others while providing farmers with high - value - crop alternatives to the commodity farming system.

As this article has inferred, mutualism has been somewhat underplayed in relation to private sector institutions, not least because it challenges powerful interests and appears to contravene the establish norms of neo-liberalism, which despite the crisis remain deeply embedded in the global economic order.

«Knowing Coffey's background, as an aggressive litigator who took on powerful corporate interests, strike leaders asked Coffey to write to Dr. Pepper Snapple executives on their behalf, which Coffey promptly agreed to do.»

I think Keynes was over-egging the pudding when he wrote, in the famous peroration to his General Theory, that the world is ruled by «little else» other than ideas, but I fervently agree with him that ideas «are more powerful than is commonly understood»; and that «soon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or ill».

and you feel that David Milliband whose interest in the job stems directly from his lack of prospects here occupying the most powerful unelected position outside Communist China, is the right person to decide which is which do you.

The powerful lobbying organisation, which receives funding from pharmaceutical, weapons and oil interests among others, is heavily funded by the Koch Charitable Foundation whose founder, Charles G Koch, is one of the most generous donors to the Tea Party movement in the US.

The party stated Sunday that its local members as well as a list of public - and private - sector unions, some of them among the most powerful special interests in Albany, unanimously support Cuomo's platform, which he calls the New New York Agenda.

so i gather all my faiths and put in all interest to contact him through his Email address at dr, so after i have mailed him of helping get my disease cured, i respond to me fast as possible that i should not be afraid, that he is a truthful and powerful doctor which i firstly claimed him to be.

It has been many years since New York State had a governor with the vision, judgment and authority that it needs now to turn Albany's budget from obesity, to resist powerful interests, to plot a course out of an ethical netherworld in which state the government has become a national embarrassment.

The health care proposals drew a sharp and immediate response from two politically powerful interest groups, the Greater New York Hospital Association and 1199 S.E.I.U., the health care workers» union, which, in a joint statement, said the governor's health proposals were «riddled with inaccuracies.»

This is one of those interesting cases in which both experiments and real life have now provided evidence to resolve this debate convincingly: the case for mass free distribution of bed nets has proved to be stunningly powerful.

A growing interest in thermoelectric materials — which convert waste heat to electricity — and pressure to improve heat transfer from increasingly powerful microelectronic devices have led to improved theoretical and experimental understanding of how heat is transported through nanometer - scale materials.

«We've now shown that our method is a powerful way to identify antibiotics from natural products and understand how they work before they are ever purified,» she added, «potentially shaving years off of screening efforts by identifying which organisms and growth conditions produce interesting bioactive molecules.»

Powerful advances are also being made in using computer networks to model neuron biology and to build complex neuronal networks, which should produce interesting emergent properties.

Blueberries also contain an interesting chemical called pterostilbene, which is currently being investigated and shows tentative but powerful properties against acne.

An interesting study1 was conducted in 2011 at Cambridge University in England, which has discovered a connection between green leafy vegetables and a powerful body - wide immune enhancing response.

A powerful and thoughtful film, it is also not what it at first seems, which is part of the point Polley appears to be interested in making.

Chalamet's meteoric rise, following a year in which Hollywood was tipped on its head, makes him one of the most interesting young men of 2018; remaining a powerful ally to the LGBT community, being vocal when men three times his age are silent; becoming the youngest Best Actor nominee at the Oscars since 1944 and knowing all the lyrics to Bodak Yellow.

But the interesting thing is that although that comment may provoke laughter, what Billy Graham was responding to - however clumsily - is that there is something about the way in which that film plays that is powerful above and beyond the narrative.

Students can be taught how to recognize connections themselves which is probably most powerful for maintaining student interest.

The CFE, which had begun as a modest public - interest group in 1993 by Robert Jackson, then president of one of the city's 32 community school boards, and Michael Rebell, the attorney for the same school board, had grown into an impressively powerful education lobbying organization.

«The module raised some interesting questions about the ways in which a class like this can be powerful for students... and wider audiences,» Teitel says.

A backroom deal that was manufactured by the state's most powerful special interest groups, which swapped a promising bill out for a reinforcement of the status quo.

The goal is to revamp a process in which the vast majority of teachers are traditionally stamped with «satisfactory» or «meets expectations» ratings — if they are evaluated at all — either because of administrative incompetence or an interest in keeping the peace with politically powerful unions, reform advocates say.

According to an encouraging post by Mike Antonucci, the California Teachers Association (CFT's big union brother, and the most powerful union affiliate in the country) came out with some interesting new business items which are currently under review by its board of directors.

Given an even choice between it and a more powerful V - 6, it will be interesting to see which way Buick shoppers vote.

If you're shopping for a powerful midsize luxury SUV then you may be particularly interested in the new 2018 Audi SQ5, which the automaker introduced at the 2017 North American International Auto Show in Detroit.

It keeps the hatchback, though, which is where the reveal of Kia's latest car — which is also its most powerful ever, depending on spec — gets interesting.

I wish they'd toned down the Baen - ishness of the cover, which will no doubt put some folks off, because this fantasy / government conspiracy thriller has a lot of interesting stuff about powerful occult families woven through American history.