Sentences with phrase «when powerful people»

«When powerful people pursue profits at the expense of human rights and our environment, they have failed as leaders,» Bonds said.

When powerful people of any political leaning go against the evidence, New Scientist can not turn a blind eye

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But when there's a pattern of behavior profiled across many women and researched by a trusted journalist who has examined evidence, we must speak up and make sure this kind of behavior won't be tolerated no matter how powerful somebody is and no matter how many people they threaten and try to silence.

When people whose opinion you respect use a product or service not because they are paid to do so but because they made an informed choice — a choice that actually impacts their art, or their profession, or their passion — that sends a powerful message.

Actions speak louder than words and acts of kindness are incredibly powerful, especially when done by exceptionally busy people.

Empowerment — giving people space to make decisions — is a powerful weapon against burnout, particularly when it comes to people younger than 35.

When you ask that way, several powerful things immediately happen, especially for the other person:

«He's an extraordinary judge who is scrupulous about getting the law right, and has the courage to do that even when it angers powerful people,» says Minor Myers, a Brooklyn Law School professor who has studied appraisal suits.

The fact of the matter is when you talk about central banks, you're talking about powerful institutions rooted in their own management styles and tradition (even if the latter has just now seen a very unusual break) and it's not likely that one person can radically change things, even if he or she wanted to.

When you're after perhaps the most powerful gangster in history, and the most famous person in the world at the time, you need to consider every possibility for bringing him down.

Typically when people talk about the cloud computing wars, the focus is on cheaper, more powerful computer resources, cheaper storage, and higher - end services.

«I thought about how powerful it is when you multiply that by millions of people every day.

When data tracking systems are designed with consumers in mind, they create a powerful feedback loop that can actually make a meaningful difference in people's lives.

Takers are good fakers when they're dealing with powerful people, but it's a lot of work to pretend to care about everyone so, selectively, they'll let their guard down.

He still thinks Twitter is a powerful platform, especially when it involves bringing people together for television and breaking news events, but it could give investors a rough ride in the near - term.

When you are in an under - represented population, coming together with other people in your demographic is a powerful way to provide a platform for accelerating success while building life - long relationships.

«My faith in people was really restored and people are pretty powerful especially when you attach the Internet to them,» says Parks.

(Surveys, lab experiments, and brain readings all show that, for better or worse, schadenfreude is a powerful psychological force: at any fixed level of income, people are happier when the income of others is reduced.)

He was brave and unrelenting in his role, particularly when it came to forcefully advocating for children in care — the least powerful people in our society.»

To me, it is unbelievable that people have attempted to predict the action of the most powerful bank in the world by deciphering the meaning of one word when the fundamentals are so very clear?

Earlier this year, Tomicah Tillemann, Trust Accelerator co-founder and New America director of the Bretton Woods II program, commented about Georgia's decision to use the public Bitcoin Blockchain: «If you think about this happening at a time when a lot of people are struggling to separate what's real from what's fake, this is a powerful tool to prove what's real.

Commitment and consistency are a very powerful forces that kick in with particularly strong force when people do things like making a public statement about something like a stock price or a political issue.

When there's a spate of major hurricanes, people tend to wonder if we're entering an era of bigger and more powerful storms, says Dan Kottlowski, a meteorologist at AccuWeather, a Pennsylvania - based company that provides forecasts.

Those put into question your belief in the characteristics of the god, perhaps even the existence of the god itself, but it is still more comforting to assume something more powerful than yourself has your best interests in mind vs. the idea that we are left to our own devices — especially when you are surrounded by people that agree with and reinforce that idea and shun you when you do not agree with it.

When people other than ourselves try to take control of our spirituality, or change our history, or make us into something we are not — that has powerful meaning to Jewish people.

When will people understand that God is omnipotent, all powerful, and created us all and everything else.

Ohhhh, it's all powerful when we need it to be, yet acts like any evil person would when it's trying to get a point across.

When a News person suggests someone take a dump in one of America's most powerful women — it's not news.

Prayer has a powerful placebo effect on the faithful person doing the praying, makes him - her feel swell, but when they start hearing voices it indicates they forgot to take their medication.

In his powerful book The Non-Violent Cross James Douglass makes a great deal of the resurrection, but for him the resurrection is only a symbol of oppressed people's awakening to the power of nonviolence: «Man becomes God when Love and Truth enter into man, not by man's power but by raising him to Power, so that revolution in love is revealed finally as the Power of resurrection» (pp. 23 - 24).

The powerful hold that such rites have on people is evidenced by their continuance even when their sacred purpose is explicitly denied or subverted.

It says in 1john 3:8 whoever sins belongs to the devil and Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil which was sin.Think about this, right or wrong things is not sin, sin is a nature that you were born with, but when you confessed your sins he forgave you, and you became a new creature, old things have passed away and now you are a new person; and a new person is not the same, if you can still sin after being born again then what did he take away, don't you know that his blood is so powerful that you don't have to worry about sinning because it has been destroyed, he took it away.

So, when we eat Christ's flesh physically and spiritually, the food is so powerful that it transforms us into itself and out of fleshly, sinful mortal [s] makes spiritual, holy, living [persons].»

First, when a group is defended by world opinion, by a powerful organization, by the world's strongest nations (the U.S.S.R, China), can it then be said even if they still suffer terribly — that these people are truly abandoned and forgotten?

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

What is so pathetic is that you believe this all - powerful being actually needs the love of people who are just a speck of sand when compared to the rest of the universe.

Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

When Job continually protests his innocence they accuse him of insulting the character of God who, because He is powerful and good, would only let bad things happen to bad people.

I also feel it when I see people like the imperial swimming instructor at the YMCA — powerful people who delight in towering over some little twerp who is struggling and scared, and casting the terrible shadow of their just and perfect selves.

It would seem strange that a person could pen such powerful words of love and faithfulness to God in the wake of such a tragedy, but when a person accepts Christ's gift of salvation they are given a joy and peace that can not be described!

The President and others who recognize the shortcomings of the colonization of peoples by more powerful foreign nations would do well to heed the words of Pope Francis — for whom the President often expresses admiration — about the new form of colonization, holding foreign aid as a hostage when their nation's views reflect a different understanding of the human person, one held by many Americans as well.

You can tell when a person becomes to popular and powerful for their own good.

I mentioned one of these when I cited several characteristics of Mexico that would seem to have facilitated a civil religion: the strong nationalism, the powerful role of religion in its history, the recognition of a «Mexican» people that has emerged out of a diverse ethnic situation, and the deliberate campaign to erect a civil religion.

This capacity to incite change in the people and situations around is powerful tool for reform when realized.

«I get — I don't know — a hundred tweets a day of people telling me that they cry at the trailer or the thought of the trailer because it is a very emotional experience when you've been absent to suddenly be present in a powerful and strong way,» DuVernay says.

Pearls are for tears, too, some people find them a sad reference but my tears when I finally had her safely in my arms tell me something so different and deep about our tears and the way we are baptized in them, too, even in the grief and the pain blending with the most powerful love and strength.

When God works in such powerful ways in people's lives, the fear of God is one of the results.

And when rich and the powerful people oppress and enslave, remember that God is on the side of the poor.

We may end our article where we began it, by quoting from the Novena of Cardinal Newman: Philip, my holy Patron, who wast so careful for the souls of thy brethren, and especially of thy own people, when on earth, slack not thy care of them now, when thou art in heaven... Be to us a good father; make our priests blameless and beyond reproach or scandal; make our children obedient, our youth prudent and chaste, our heads of families wise and gentle, our old people cheerful and fervent, and build us up, by thy powerful intercession, in faith, hope, charity and all virtues».

The split between to much God and not enough is a real problem, especially when you have these powerful christian groups helping elect people into government to push their beliefs on everyone.