Sentences with phrase «abuse its power over»

It was conceived of by programmers advocating the use of a decentralized and distributed network as a tool for ensuring that no company or state organization could abuse its power over others.

Mr Goyder's comments represent a step - up in Wesfarmers» rhetoric against grocery suppliers, which complain that Coles and Woolworths are abusing their power over suppliers.

This is a big concern to water activists, who recognize the ability of a corporation to abuse its power over such a vital resource.

Not exact matches

The takedown of Trump's account on Nov. 2 sparked concerns among Twitter users over how much power employees have over sensitive accounts and whether abuse of their power could lead to international incidents.

Time's Up is a brand new alliance of over 300 women who work in the entertainment industry, who have joined forces to address sexual abuse and correct the widespread imbalance of power for women in entertainment and beyond.

The more power they have over your emotions, the less likely you'll trust your own reality and the truth about the abuse you're enduring.

In the American workplace today, over half of workers admit to quitting jobs in order to flee a power - abusing boss.

Over continued objections from the FBI, the White House declassified a version of Republican Rep. Devin Nunes's four - page memo on Friday, which alleges serious abuses of power by the FBI during its investigation into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia.

For years and years the Church abused the power they had.They screwed over my Ancestors who were not Christians, forced people to convert, burned people at the stake, tortured people, stole lands, and who knows what else.

Since they have absolute control over the supply of tickets and since they deal only with their own selected list of agencies, it would seem to be within their power to correct the abuses now prevalent.

Rather, abusers commit abuse in order to exert power and control over another human being.

Abuse is a crime of power, and religions certainly hold power over their flocks.

We were given charge over this world and we abuse the power bestowed upon us every day.

The Tablet could scarcely contain its glee over this apparent «abuse» publishing a piece by Gerald Renner, co-author of Vows of Silence, under the cover headline «Scandal of Father Maciel», and concluding its editorial «For too long the Vatican has been taken in by appearances, over — impressed by power and influence.

They often pretend those they have abused have power over them because they dared respond — casting themselves as victims.

-- to a sound anthropology: Postmodernity reacts against modern paradigms such as power and against the primacy long given to reason over the conscience and the heart, which has led to rationalism, a Western abuse.

The United Nations defines modern slavery, or human trafficking, thus: «the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.

Some humanitarian organizations, such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, have undoubtedly done good over the years, drawing needed attention to startling abuses of power in renegade regimes from Asia to the Americas.

CBH insisted over and again to the competition regulator, to its owners and customers and to the media that Brookfield would likely abuse the market power delivered it by the alliance of the rail tracks it already owned in WA and the giant freight train company that would arrive with a successful run at Asciano.

Publicly hitting back at Usmanov over his comments just shows how much he power he has and how he abuses it.

Last December, South Korea's parliament decided to impeach President Park over a controversy that centres on her relationship with her friend Choi and accusations of abuse of political power.

Over 400 MEPs signed a European Parliament declaration on curbing the abuse of power by supermarkets in the European Union.

The leadership has chosen to protect secrecy and abuses of power over openness, accountability and freedom.

It is not only a gross discourtesy to the Speaker, but a flagrant abuse of the power of the executive, a blatant attempt to pack the committee, and delay its work until the controversy is over.

The complainants (who at the moment will remain anonymous) even alleged that they was willing to go to News 12 and the Journal News to expose the actions of Mr. Lafayette concerning the process to challenge the signatures, fraudulently having people on Democratic voter rolls and abusing his absolute power over the voting process as Westchester democratic chairman, Mount Vernon City Committee Chairman and Westchester County Democratic Commissioner of Elections which they felt was illegal in nature and the DA's office was against the complainants going public with their complaints.

«Control orders are gone, 28 days detention without charge is gone, indiscriminate stop and search is gone and the abuse of anti-terror powers by councils to pursue petty offences is over.

For all of us way too familiar with the dysfunction and abuse of power over the years and watched community participation dwindle (even our own), it is refreshening to see people like McCarthy and Lower East Side Dwellers stand up for themselves, and two MBP administrations stand up to CB3.

State Supreme Court judges are locked in a conflict over whether the state agency that investigates abuse allegations for facilities for people with developmental disabilities — like Sunmount in Tupper Lake — has the power to prosecute.

Speaking in an interview with Rainbow Radio, he expressed his disappointment, especially in the Peace Council and other organisation, for remaining quite over the blatant abuse of power and office by the government.

The African continent has come under focus over the years because of issues of poverty, lack of education and seeming powerful leaders some of whom abuse their power.

«I have been an elected official in various capacities for over 30 - years, it disgusts me to continue to see people in power abuse their influence for personal and political gain.

«There has been a dark cloud hovering over government for several years now as a result of federal investigations into abuse of power and corruption,» said the county executive, in an indirect reference to the corruption convictions of former Suffolk police Chief James Burke and former Suffolk Conservative Party chairman Edward Walsh.

Meanwhile, heeding Minto's advice to «do as much good as we can» while governing Java, Raffles reformed the colonial administration of the island, limiting the powers of the great landowners over their tenants and ameliorating the worst abuses of slavery while banning the importation of slaves under fourteen years of age.

Loveisrespect.org defines dating abuse as a «pattern of destructive behaviors used to exert power and control over a dating partner.»

Dating abuse is a pattern of destructive behaviors used to exert power and control over a dating partner.

Dating abuse (also known as dating violence, intimate partner violence, or relationship abuse) is a pattern of abusive behaviors — usually a series of abusive behaviors over a course of time — used to exert power and control over a dating partner.

Tight and prickly, he abuses what little power he has — over those unlucky enough to be parked at expired meters and those unlucky enough to fall for him.

Oscar winner Broderick Crawford is Hoover, the once - dedicated agent who cleans up the bureau out of moral indignation over abuses and then builds it into his own private duchy of power and control, using information and blackmail to maintain his position and authority through every successive administration.

You get across - the - board performances that attest to the power of underplaying, so that the delivery of a line like «It takes a village to raise a child, and it takes a village to abuse one» hits home without hitting you over the head.

It's a pyramid, and at the top is rape and sexual violence and at the bottom are the other abuses of power that, when they continue to happen over and over, build and build and build and create a culture that allows the most heinous examples of sexual violence and misogyny and discrimination to happen.

Cast: Gad Elmaleh, Gabriel Byrne, Natacha Regnier Program: Special Presentations Headline: It Fails Us Now Scott's Take: Once upon a time, Costa - Gavras was rightly considered one of the great political filmmakers, turning his rage over real - life abuses of power into docudramas like Z, State Of Siege, and Missing.

Both films take the form of curdled dark comedies about raging misanthropes who abuse their positions of authority — or at least their power over small children, since drunken mall Santas and Chicago's public - school teachers both lack real power — to engage in criminal schemes.

3 Human Rights Watch — The Power These Men Have Over Us: Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by African Union Forces in Somalia, released on September 2014

Human Rights Watch (2014, September) The Power These Men Have Over Us: Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by African Union Forces in Somalia, Published by Human Rights Watch, Washington DC, Vol ISBN: 978 -1-62313-1876, pg 98

One held that problem policies like zero tolerance, general abuse of administrative power, class size, and concerns over having qualified teachers, etc., all need to be addressed — that, basically, the system needs to be reformed.

I did 20 years of research for this book and women — as a general rule — have psychological power over men they very often abuse... and also cause violence.

To pressure publishers over the past 11 years, Amazon has abused that immense market power.

In the domestic violence setting, animal abuse is not a problem with anger management, but rather a method to exert power and maintain control over victims.

And what exactly keeps a company from abusing that kind of power over your virtual life?

Igniculus also plays a role in combat, as you can hover his glowing form over a victim to slow them down, a power limited by a bar in order to ensure it can't be utterly abused.