Sentences with phrase «abusing his power by»

In the Middle Ages, when the papacy abused its power by waging the Crusades, selling indulgences, and issuing simony, church leaders had accommodated to a culture of greed and violence.

I don't like him and never will but Bud seems to have abused some power by getting him suspended this long.

Sen. Klein abused his power by violating my body, and ultimately my mind and soul.

Yes, but not without abusing its power by upending the principle that citizens, through their elected representatives in local government, should be able to decide for themselves issues that affect only their communities.

Federal prosecutors alleged that the ex-assembly speaker abused his power by helping women he had relationships with

It noted that Silver publicly accused the commission of abusing its power by engaging «in a fishing expedition to intimidate legislators.»

As Kaplan, who was once in a «Sex Scenes» master - class of Franco's, told Robach, «James abused his power by exploiting the non-celebrity women that he worked with under the guise of giving them opportunities.»

A student who was expelled from Glenbrook North High School for trying to hack into its grading system has sued the school board, saying the district abused its power by imposing an «unreasonable» and «oppressive» punishment.

The world can not trust scientists who abuse their power By Gordon Crovitz For anyone who doubts the power of the Internet to shine light on darkness, the news of the month is how digital technology helped uncover a secretive group of scientists who suppressed data, froze others out of the debate, and flouted freedom - of - information laws.

While examining proportionality stricto sensu he concluded that it would be for national courts to weigh the benefit of «examining the past» with the potential it would provide for authorities to abuse this power by using metadata to catalogue entire populations, noting that evidence of abuses had been put before the Court [AG, 259 - 260].

Not exact matches

Now we are still being abused by corporations, though they do it with money, power, and corrupt politicians.

Cho repeated the phrase when a reporter asked her thoughts on the growing pressure on her family to resign and an upcoming rally by Korean Air employees protesting the family's abuse of power.

«Just because Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley billionaire, his opinion does not trump our millions of readers who know us for routinely driving big news stories including Hillary Clinton's secret email account, Bill Cosby's history with women, the mayor of Toronto as a crack smoker, Tom Cruise's role within Scientology, the N.F.L. cover - up of domestic abuse by players and just this month the hidden power of Facebook to determine the news you see.»

In a statement, Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker Media, who was also personally named in the Hogan suit, said: «Just because Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley billionaire, his opinion does not trump our millions of readers who know us for routinely driving big news stories including Hillary Clinton's secret email account, Bill Cosby's history with women, the mayor of Toronto as a crack smoker, Tom Cruise's role within Scientology, the N.F.L. cover - up of domestic abuse by players and just this month the hidden power of Facebook to determine the news you see.»

(The O.C.C. actually used its federal powers to block efforts by states to curb subprime abuses.)

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.

There is already evidence that the #ReleaseTheMemo campaign to make public the now - infamous Nunes memo — which alleges abuses of power by the FBI during its investigation into the Trump campaign's ties with Russia — was amplified by Russian bots and trolls online.

The document alleges abuses of power by the FBI during its investigation into the Trump campaign's ties with Russia; it focuses almost entirely on FBI surveillance of the president's former adviser Carter Page and is thin on evidence of actual wrongdoing by the FBI.

(The Nunes memo alleges abuse of power by the FBI during its investigation into the Trump campaign's potential Russia ties.)

The House Intelligence Committee on Friday released a memo put together by Republican Rep. Devin Nunes (R - CA) that alleges abuses of power by the FBI during its investigation into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia.

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.

The memo begins by making a grandiose claim: The FBI's use of surveillance power under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) during the 2016 campaign was «a troubling breakdown of legal processes established to protect the American people from abuses related to the FISA process.»

There is no proof in the memo that the FBI is biased against Trump, no proof of abuse of surveillance powers by the FBI, and no proof that the investigation into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia is fundamentally flawed.

Since Mr. Xi came to power, China's leadership has recentralized power to focus on anti-corruption and abuse of power by officials, as well as developing big plans for market reform and opening the country to foreign investment.

The ensuing years were instead better defined by arrogance, entitlement and abuses of power.

«We can not take any more curse and power abuse by the Cho family,» they shouted in unison.

The institutional church is so often like Satan... longing to be worshipped and obeyed; teaching that obedience to one scripture is more important than balancing them all; luring us to abuse our power to make a difficult path chosen by God into a simple solution of no new spiritual growth (Matt 4).

Because these people (priests and pastors) are held to a higher standard by virtue of their position, yet they routinely abuse their power.

To put it bluntly, the notion of consent is arguably meaningless by itself as the arbiter of legitimate sexual and marital relationships because of the potential for manipulation, coercion, and abuse in a situation where there are deep - rooted and unequal social power relations (e.g., the President of the United States [not] having sexual relations with a besotted young intern or, as here, a parent and an adult child contracting a marriage).

Abuses of power and harm done are not ameliorated or excused or diminished by whatever cultural or technological advances may have occurred during the reign of the empire.

20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: KJV August 21, 2011 at 10:50 am Report abuse Reply

Perhaps it is hard to feel some personal animus toward typical bureau mumblings that defend the indefensible, like Clarence Kelley's apology for the FBI («Power abused perhaps can be explained and possibly even be excused, but only when the explanation is truthful, contrite, and is accompanied by a well - defined plan to prevent a recurrence»).

I do know there are dirty hands, and there was an abuse of power by Pastors in leadership.

It is abuse of power by narcissist in leadership.

At the same time, however, humor has a power that can be abused by drawing attention away from unanswered questions or by making wisdom seem unwise; so, I think that the power of humor must be handled with great care.

However, as evidence of the fact that Christianity has no monopoly on the abuse of power, our century has been checkered with instances of gross inhumanity perpetrated not just by post-Christian but by anti-Christian ideologues from the right and from the left.

To me and to every victim of spiritual abuse by Pastors in a position of power and influence.

As my Pastor at the time... spiritual abuse by your hand, and an clear abuse of power, absolutely!

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

«Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations; but, on a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions, which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other cause, produced despotism.

Islam holds that if a man trespasses on a woman's rights by divorcing her without cause he is abusing his power and is therefore liable to be held responsible for committing a breach of duty.

Every abuse of power by this man is etched in stone.

Gregory thought that this was an exemplary statement of the way to protest the abuse of coercive authority — not by overt, destructive, risk - laden rebellion, but by a symbolic demonstrative act revealing the vulnerable moral credibility of abused power.

We all know that life is not fair, especially when it comes to spiritual abuse by those with «power», even if that power is abusive.

Moreover, American distrust of government has long fed on the abuses of state power abroad, whether by despotic monarchs, fascist dictators or communist tyrants.

And how can the predatory abuse of human power in prisons against the most vulnerable in their midst be turned so as to allow willed spiritual vulnerability to be empowered by grace?

While helping to establish a moral foundation for society, it was just as often abused by the powers that be to keep the populace under control.

The misuse and abuse of religion to consolidate and maintain power is not new to history, but this new threat, in new guises and involving such huge numbers of people, is sufficiently ominous to merit major reexamination and modifications of what we mean by the terms «God» and «Christianity.»

Since abuse is motivated by power and control, and patriarchy is a system based on power and control, it is not surprising that abuse is prevalent in these circles.

People involved in this destructive activity are dominated and abused by teachers and preachers who care only for money and personal power.