Sentences with phrase «as a motive power»

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In top - down power structures, employees are viewed as worker bees and considered to be objects or expenses rather than assets; there is little concern for their happiness or well - being, since the motive for hiring them was purely productivity and profit.

Although fully familiar with the enormous power of modern science, medicine and technology, he held high Christian love as the answer to human needs in the broadest sense: «If you have Christian love,» he declared to a stunned audience, «you have motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.»

When all of existence is discovered to be sacred and one's life is viewed as a trust to be invested in enhancing human values, motive - power for significant involvement is created.

Sooner or later a colonial power would have moved in, from moral motives as well as from hope of commercial and political gain.

Therefore on the one hand they call Him the Object of Love and Yearning as being Beautiful and Good, and on the other they call Him Yearning and Love as being a Motive - Power leading all things to Himself, Who is the only ultimate Beautiful and Good — yea, as being His own Self - Revelation and the Bounteous Emanation of His own Transcendent Unity, a Motion of Yearning simple, self - moved, self - acting, pre-existent in the Good, and overflowing from the Good into creation, and once again returning to the Good.6

As Alexis Carrel, the scientist, put it, «When we pray, we link ourselves with the inexhaustible motive power that spins the universe.»

Gregory thought the expectation of an easy income was the clearest evidence of the disqualification of the pastoral counselor.31 Also, the hidden desire to «hold sway over others» was regarded as a particularly disastrous motive for ministry.32 The overarching pastoral model is Jesus who refused coercive power when offered (John 6:15).

The Communists doubtless see this as a way to give Cuba an aura of «tolerance» it does not deserve, but it is equally true that even bad Communist motives can not diminish the objective power of God in the public square.

Many porn scenarios are strikingly similar to the motives and concerns of the assailants we know as «power rapists.»

Nonetheless, there is an expectation on the part of society that the law will speak from on high as well as in the people's midst, and that it will make straight what would otherwise remain twisted, crooked lines; it will establish order in the stead of anarchy and chaos; it will retain a semblance of purity amid vile motives and human deceits; it will speak with godlike authority and power in a godless age.

These «prosperity gospel» preachers have a few motives other than the milk of human kindness... prosperous followers have more money to give to the churches, and unfortunately, money is power, so the churches will wield more of it as a result.

The government's exact motives are unclear, but most scientists see it as one more power grab, following replacement of many judicial and military officials with political appointees in the past year.

It easily could have been familiar and routine stuff, save for the fact that it provides a genuinely provocative examination of power dynamics and the role of sex in that battle for power, as well as a protagonist whose motives and actions remain a puzzle until the final minutes of the story.

Regardless of its base motives, Basic Instinct gave us a powerful woman character who made its ostensible hero look like a whiny wimp, as Dargis implies, and in the long run that investment of power may have mattered as much as, or more than, the nonsense and nastiness.

While he nurses her back to health, their relationship gradually grows more intimate, but disintegrates into a cat - and - mouse power struggle as Leon's mixed motives for hiding Rosa emerge.

In addition to providing supplemental motive power, the IMA motor acts as a generator during deceleration and braking to recapture kinetic energy and recharge the IMA's battery pack during regenerative braking.

In this mode, the high - efficiency petrol engine provides most of the motive power, which is then assisted by the electric motors as required; such as when more powerful performance is needed to accelerate or climb a slope.

As for motive power, Genesis was hush - hush simply saying Essentia «features a lightweight carbon - fibre monocoque and a robust, multi-motor electric powertrain.»

In Parallel Hybrid Mode the gasoline engine provides most of the motive power, assisted by the electric motors as required.

As for the current model, the new Camry Hybrid drives through a continuously variable transmission to the front wheels, with two motor / generator units to supply motive power or recover energy.

Under most conditions, the vehicle operates in Hybrid Drive mode, in which the gasoline engine operates as a generator, supplying electric power to the hybrid batteries, with motive power supplied by the electric propulsion motor.

These changes aside, the Outlander PHEV continues much as it was: an electric motor for each axle and a 2.0 - litre petrol four - cylinder mounted across the nose, driving through a single reduction gear supplying motive power to the drive wheels in parallel mode, or recharging the battery pack in series mode.

The presence of the veteran references the relationship between power and guilt as well as the distance between the often cryptic political motives that lead to war and the experiences of those directly affected by its consequences.

Wind power, abadoned as soon as thermal energy was captured to create motive power?

I say that exactly states your own situation — a long held preconceived view, an ideological motive being a self - proclaimed social democrat (eg ALP) which like Blair's UK Labour is committed to state interference in everything including the climate god help us), and very likely financial motives (to be rewarded as «economics of climate adviser» should ALP win power).

Tom Natan, research director of the National Environmental Trust, a Washington - based advocacy group, said he believes that wind power's benefits outweigh the negatives and that the involvement of heavyweights such as BP and Shell — regardless of their motives — is necessary to accelerate development of wind power.

For bigger farms, such as those using center - pivot irrigation (which is responsible for those giant green crop circles seen when flying over ag land), solar power is an option, replacing diesel, propane, or grid power as the motive factor in these systems.

As regards Thatcher, her alleged motive was to promote high - cost nuclear power, which puts her in the same evil league as «Rudd and his gang», aiming (for no obvious reason) to impoverish us all, bringing about «economic collapse and poverty for millions»As regards Thatcher, her alleged motive was to promote high - cost nuclear power, which puts her in the same evil league as «Rudd and his gang», aiming (for no obvious reason) to impoverish us all, bringing about «economic collapse and poverty for millions»as «Rudd and his gang», aiming (for no obvious reason) to impoverish us all, bringing about «economic collapse and poverty for millions».

In this context, capabilities refer to the degree to which individuals are able to achieve various goals, such as improve relationships or seek power; in contrast, motives refer to the degree to which individuals would like to achieve these goals (Schönbrodt & Gerstenberg, 2012).