Sentences with phrase «after coming to power»

Mathieu Filion wrote in an email that one of the first things the government did after coming to power was to cut taxes to the middle class and raise them for families with an income of $ 250,000 or more.

The coalition Government stopped the regional level of control after coming to power in May last year, saying bodies such as Regional Development Agencies and Government Offices lacked legitimacy.

This continued to be the position of the Coalition government after it came to power in May 2010.

Not exact matches

«The unwritten rule no one told Ms. White when she embarked on a relationship with Mr. Kardashian is: the entire family takes it personally if you leave and will come after you, using their fame, wealth and power to take you down,» the complaint further states.

Over the years Alfa has come out on top in bitter power struggles even with people closely linked to Vladimir Putin: it defended its telecoms empire against Leonid Reiman, Putin's communications minister, who ultimately left the government after a string of disclosures about his links to an offshore company.

And while Xi is riding high after consolidating power at a twice - a-decade Communist Party Congress last month, Trump comes to China saddled with low public approval ratings and dogged by investigations into Russian links to his election campaign.

Dell's condemnation comes soon after Theresa May, the British home secretary, earlier this month unveiled a draft piece of legislation that proposes to grant UK spy agencies and law enforcement sweeping surveillance powers.

The blackout came less than a week after a tree fell on a crucial power line, knocking out power to 840,000 people.

This new blackout comes after an outage on November 9 that sank power generation across the island from 40 percent to 18 percent, a major blow to the island's recovery after Hurricane Maria struck nearly two months ago.

The announcement came less than 24 hours after the B.C. election results were finalized, with the two parties holding a majority of the seats committing to do anything in their power to stop the proposal.

When the G - 7 deputies came to Moscow in late November 1991, just a few days after Gaidar had come to power as head of Yeltsin's economic team, the main focus of the G - 7 message was the urgency that the Soviet Union should continue to service the external debts at any cost.

His comments came days after U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in a speech that «China's offer always comes at a price» and cautioned Latin American countries against reliance on «new imperial powers that seek only to benefit their own people.»

After recalling Tsipras coming to power as an unrepentant demagogue whose high - wire negotiations in 2015 cost Greece «100 billion euros» (in extra austerity measures), the opposition accuses him of «belatedly discovering investments» that he fought against.

Well, in 2010 right after the PASOK party came to power in Greece, they revealed the fact that their figures had been fudged all along, and that the debt was so large that Greece couldn't pay.

That came shortly after Trump warned Pyongyang it would face «power, the likes of which this world has never seen before» if the renegade state continued to threaten the U.S.

And shifting away from big, centralized power plants and large power grids toward smaller distributed systems does confer some advantages when it comes to standing up to storms and rebuilding after.

Much of this, Cornell said, came out of a Cincinnatus view toward guns and defense — a reference to the legendary Roman general who, according to the story (and possibly myth), went back to farming instead of attempting to seize more power after he led the Romans to victories.

Tuesday's blackout reportedly came after «government - run petroleum company CPC Corporation ran into difficulties while replacing the power supply for a control system responsible for sending natural gas to a power plant.»

Former prime minister Stephen Harper's government has been blamed for allowing Canada's «strategic partnership» with China to wither after first coming into power in 2006.

As early as 1934, just one year after Hitler came to power, Prince Hubertus zu Loewenstein, representing a small but growing group of conscientious Catholics, made a dramatic interfaith appeal against Nazism: «Jews and Catholics must stand together, for we are faced with the same troubles.

«The time has come for a broad - based assault against the powers that be that want to change our culture to one of men marrying men and women marrying women,» said Owens, in an interview Tuesday after the launch event at the National Press Club.

After all, Jesus had said to them that they would receive power when the Spirit comes upon them so that they will be His witnesses (Acts 1:8).

I have met several people who don't believe in a higher power who have come to accept the belief that there is no life after death.

One may say that until the coming of Man it was natural selection that set the course of morphogenesis and cerebration, but that after Man it is the power of invention that begins to grasp the evolutionary reins.

Mary was not only still alive at the crucifixion, it's clear in Acts that she herself was a follower and adherent — which says A LOT, considering women had no leadership powers (so no special treatment) and normally family members are the first to expose charlatans (note: even his brothers came to believe in Acts 1, after being skeptics earlier).

His family was of Jewish background and had to flee after the Nazis came to power.

This may have been due in part to the support given Bruckner's music by the Nazi regime (which came to power more than thirty years after Bruckner's death).

Even as we've begun to improve efficiency in factories and power plants, our cars and trucks have grown bigger and more wasteful: average fuel efficiency actually declined in the 1990s, even as engineers came up with one technology after another that could have saved gas.

The term «innate» comes to mind as an apt expression (after due qualification) of the fact that reason, sharing the general structure of action, exercises a supervening ontic power that can not be resolved into the conditioning ontic powers that mediate its relation with the world.

The Easter faith of the Sayings Gospel then has primarily to do with the authority of Jesus» sayings, which even after his death are not devalued but only then come into full power.

Marx thought that religion would just die away as part of the old social order, but when it didn't after Lenin came to power they actually did try to eliminate it.

Now we find it difficult to accept the mythology of Edwards, though we may need to accept again something like it, when we come to the full acceptance of the realization that as we did not and can not elect ourselves into existence, so neither can we elect ourselves out of it, if the inscrutable power that cast us into being wills to keep us in being after our biological death.

This will not happen until the people and leaders, after centuries of deprivation, finally reaching Deng Xiaoping's admonition in the end of the 1970s that «to get rich is glorious,» but also come to realize (if ever) that it takes much more than wealth and power to provide a good life for all its people.

Bonhoeffer came to accept the full implications of the resistance movement, justifying his position as follows: «It is not only my task to look after the victims of madmen who drive a motor - car in a crowded street, but to do all in my power to stop their driving at all.

Even if we believe the Christian doctrine of the resurrection of the body, it is beyond our power to alter or manipulate the glorified body that will come after our time on earth.

A relatively simple legal system sufficed to govern such a culture, but after the death of Mohammed, the spread of Moslem power was very rapid and soon came to include peoples very different in background and custom from the Arabians.

In fact, a preaching that gives rise to the expectation that the Messiah will come tomorrow or the day after portends danger for those who are now in power — and so it is no wonder that the Baptist was finally executed in a fortress in the territory east of the Jordan.

And in 1 Corinthians 15:24 - 26 we read, «Then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, after he has destroyed every mler and every authority and power.

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.

If God is conceived differently than tradition has presented and elevated, if the transcendent God is simultaneously the immanent God who is perennially with us and not over against us, if God's being is first love, after which power comes to be defined within the implicates of love, then such a God would be one whose death truly would be mourned.

This can not be dismissed as a passing reference, for all three of the Synoptic Gospels give an extended account of these woes and warnings after which the Son of man will come with power and great glory to gather his elect from the four winds, and the kingdom will come.

The programs taught me about (1) admitting I was beat, (2) coming to believe in something greater than myself (eventually a higher power)(many evolutions and concepts of HP, all of these at one time or another: nature, the 12 steps, creator, Love, spiritual principles)(Step 3) applying my low self worth and gigantic Ego to these spiritual principles (4) write down my liabilities and assets (5) share them with another and my higher power (6 & 7) ask for the liabilites to be removed and be patient with the process (8) Make a list of all that were harmed by me (9) make amends to such folks except whn to do so would injure them or myself (10) take a daily inventory of my day, checking for snafus, mean temperment, arrogance etc (11) meditation and prayer to communicate to my higher power and quiet reflection to listen for the Truth (12) after having a spiritual awakening as a result of working these steps, help others if they wish for help because now I am in the position to assist.

After all, he is promising a specific person that that person would be around to see «you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.»

The statement came after the speaker read to the legislators the spiritual leader's proposals to accord greater powers to their elected representatives.

He came to power in June 2014, after the revolution of Egypt's people against former Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, calling on the military for the termination of the devastating tenure of the Muslim Brotherhood regime.

After the Pharisees explained away the miracles of Jesus as the «work of the Devil», Jesus said to them «Now look, you can blaspheme against God the Father and that'll be forgiven, you can blaspheme God the Son and that'll be forgiven, but when you attribute the power that wrought these miracles to the power of Satan, you are now blaspheming against the Holy Spirit and that will never be forgiven in this age and in the age to come.»

When that red millennium comes to pass, time class struggle will cease, the Communist state will surrender the dictatorial powers it has had to assume during the struggle, and everyone will live happily ever after.

The whiskey tax was repealed after Thomas Jefferson's Republican Party, which opposed Hamilton's Federalist Party, came to power in 1800.

Whereas after A.D. 1815 a Tsar of Russia had proposed to his fellow monarchs of Europe that they govern their states and their relations with one another on the basis of Christian principles, after A.D. 1914 a regime came into power which seeks to extirpate Christianity and to which some of the leading Christian virtues are anathema.

It's my go - to when I can't come up with anything to pack for lunch, or lately after an evening hot yoga class at Core Power yoga, when I'm too hot to turn on even the stove.