Sentences with phrase «as centers of power»

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Meanwhile, Portugal's Communist Party has support of as much as 10 percent of the electorate — and could help deny that country's Socialist Party a shot at taking back power from the governing center - right coalition in an Oct. 4 election.

In the data center, there are fewer customers as more computing power is held in the hands of the large cloud computing providers and giants in the industry.

The city's mayor, George Heartwell, has set the goal of switching to 100 percent renewable power by 2020, and the city has been recognized as a center of expertise in sustainability by the United Nations and the most sustainable midsize city by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Siemens.

Power and being at the center of attention would fit as a con artist's goal.

As he notes, China will, in the coming years, become the center of East Asian trade and economic integration, giving it even more power.

As an employer, Marian Regional Medical Center seeks «caring hearts» who share its belief in the healing power of kindness to join its team.

During the leadership conclave, Xi also declared a «new era» for his country, which entails the idea that China is moving closer to the center of the global stage as an influential power.

The briefing focused on a vision of STEM learning opportunities as a network of charging stations in which children power up their learning by plugging into activities at school, after school, at science centers and libraries, as well as online.

As an expert motivational sales speaker, Marc teaches the power of an objectives list, where every item is centered around the goals that make you money and is organized by priority and deadlines.

This technology is a huge step towards the future and eventually when it'll be combined with advances of new age technologies such as IPFS / Filecoin, Whisper, Swarm, DEVp2p and Ethereum it'll substitute the existing data centers that are currently powering the internet.

Puerto Rico gets much of its electricity from large central power plants on the southern coast of the island and transmits power to load centers on its north side, as you can see on this map of the island's transmission system.

Do you think Silicon Valley will lose its place as the power center of tech?

Even so committed an anti-Communist (and non-Marxist) as Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. took class conflict as self - evident, and in The Vital Center (1949) and elsewhere he depicted the central theme of American politics as the struggle for power between the business community and all other social groups.

In Lucia v. SEC, the argument centered on the question of whether administrative judges are wielding the power to settle cases decisively and issue orders, even though they are not appointed and confirmed as judges according to the form prescribed under Article III of the Constitution.

We think we are the center of our universe and claim to have the God - given power and right to do as we see fit with the earth's resources.

What many Christians in this country celebrate as «interdependence» is recognized there as the increasing one - sided dependence of whole nations on distant centers of economic power over which they have no control.

So far, this appears to be the championing of divine power as superior to, though not exclusive of, all other centers of power.

In later years it served as a center of Muslim orthodoxy, but it also created religious leaders who did not hesitate to make common cause with the Hindus in an effort to wrest power from the British.

A thousand things would never have crossed their minds as they drove through Colorado Springs toward New Life Church's enormous concrete worship center - including the prospect of being assaulted in their minivan by a young man with a high - powered rifle.

Moreover, the school as an institutionalized set of practices is itself a center of (usually very minor) economic, social, and political power in a larger host society.

Nearly half a century on, in his wittily entitled Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes (1984), Hartshorne reviewed two meanings of «all - powerful»: the traditional, of course — the (benevolent) tyrant ideal of absolute, all determining, irresistible power18 — and what he previously had identified as the greatest possible power in a universe of multiple centers of power: «The only livable doctrine of divine power is that it influences all that happens but determines nothing in its concrete particularity.»

That a congregation is constituted by publicly enacting a more universally practiced worship that generates a distinctive social form implies study of that public form: What are the social, cultural, and political locations of congregations of Christians and how do those locations shape congregations» social form today (synchronic inquiry); what have been the characteristic social, cultural, and political locations of congregations historically and how have those locations shaped congregations» social forms (diachronic study); in what ways do congregations engage in the public arena as one type of institutionalized center of power among others?

He disputes the claims of nullifiers that the federal union was a compact between sovereign states, argues that the founders sought coordination between the branches of government rather than a stalemate between competitive, coequal centers of power, and offers a strict construction of the Second Amendment as an authorization for state militias rather than a charter for the private ownership of assault rifles by potential revolutionaries.

«Prayer,» as The Westminster Shorter Catechism puts it in matchless simplicity, «is an offering up of our desires unto God, for things agreeable to his will...» (Question 98) It is the attempt to become consciously aware of God's presence, to discover his will for our lives, to surrender our vagrant thoughts and self - centered desires to his controlling purpose, and to find in him power for living.

An event of a highly distinctive kind and of incalculable creative power occurred in first century Palestine; it was remembered as centered in and taking its character largely from a certain Jewish teacher and prophet.

He said that it is probable «that the world will live, if it does not destroy itself, for a long time in a state of semi-anarchy in which certain centers of authority, power, and prestige will mitigate the anarchy much as anarchy was mitigated in nineteenth century Europe by the balance of power.»

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Religion is the belief and acceptance of a supernatural power as a moral center, and atheism is PRECISELY NOT THAT.

The story of Phyllis Schlafly, as Critchlow, a professor of history at St. Louis University, tells it, is a story of conservatism operating far from centers of political and cultural power but crucial to the most important domestic political event of the second half of the twentieth century: the ascendancy and triumph of the once - moribund American right.

Since, however, his interpretation set God's power, and will in the very center of history, and since he saw secular empires as stumbling inexorably through sin, rather than as representing progressive steps toward modernity, he was regarded until the mid-20th century as too archaic to be of help.

As the sisters debate and pray on how to respond, they realize they are in the center of a broader global power struggle.

For human meaning centers in faith; and we now see the dialectic of faith, that is, of Christian faith, in its radicality, namely, that the transcendence of God passes totally into the immanence of Christ, so that transcendence when perceived as such has only a shell left — the power of repression.

As in similar Native American traditions, «all these symbolic images and gestures are associated with the wind and with the breathing of the universe — the visible motion of the power that invests everything in existence» (Jamake Highwater in Ritual of the Wind) To exist in family is to experience an insistent Chinook wind, blowing warm in winter and cool in summer, lending a direction and center to all that one does.

This understanding of the gospel as earthly power resulted in struggles for authority and territory between medieval European rulers and the Western church centered in Rome.

In 1981 he founded the New Criterion, a journal that reflects both his passion for art and aesthetic standards and his skills as a chronicler of the ideological follies so abundant in the academy and other centers of cultural power today.

«It is a fair question,» Kelly dryly observed, «whether the seminaries, as a group of schools, are centers of intellectual and ethical power.

He emphasized the active, integrating self (rather than the frail, victimized ego); held to a «soft» (rather than a «hard») determinism; had a strong interest in future, goal - directed strivings (rather than origins); emphasized the organism as a whole centered in the self (rather than a conflict view of personality); regarded the striving for worth and power (rather than sexual striving) as the central dynamic in mental health and illness; emphasized the possibilities for continuing change in the later years (rather than regarding the early years as utterly decisive)(2) It is clear from these motifs in Adler's thought that his vision of human beings was positive and growth - centered.

Explores the spiritual self seen as the power and the integrative center of the three ego states.

Man created stories about gods because he did not understand the world around him, even the christians believed that the world was the center of the universe 400 years ago, but as man gained knowledge religions had to rethink their dogma to jive with the facts, in order to hold onto the wealth and power they covet more than anything else, period.

The real center of power is in the reign of God and in the church as its representative.

2 People will be self - centered and lovers of money, proud, haughty, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, irreligious, 3 callous, implacable, slanderous, licentious, brutal, hating what is good, 4 traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 as they make a pretense of religion but deny its power.

Education, however, says Belth, «deals with the relationship between concepts and powers nurtured in learners, and with the methods of creating concepts as the inventions of intelligence, in whatever fields these methods come to be employed Education becomes a way of raising and answering a question not otherwise asked, a question centering on the problems of improving the ability to think....

Lakers: Julius Randle, thought to be somewhat undersized as a 6 - foot - 9 power forward, started his fourth consecutive game at center despite the return of Brook Lopez (ankle).

Standing at midcourt at Power Balance Pavilion, Greene was at the center of the Sacramento basketball scene as a freshman taking a celebratory picture in 2013.

Practiced visualizations and relaxation during pregnancy Used birth ball, moved around lots, used relaxations, birth center, felt as if in dream, sang, bath, concentrated on cand le flame, shower, visualizations of warmth filled womb, felt fullness and power baby as baby to arms.

As my friend Amber McCann, IBCLC (International Board Certified Lactation Consultant) from the Breastfeeding Center of Pittsburg put it «Power is being able, in whatever moment you are facing, to do whatever it is you'd like to do.

Ostensibly, it is the story of a team of nine - year old hockey players in a Boston suburb, their coach, a former high school baseball coach and local sports hero, the all - male board of directors of the town's hockey club, a hockey mom concerned about her kids emotional well - being, and, at center ice, a set of adorable, identical, competitive, but sensitive twin boys who became, as is all too often the case in the adult - centered world of youth sports, the unintended but innocent victims of a real life power play.

U.S. Advocates Human & Property Rights Solely for Those Nations Who Have the Power to Demand Them Dean Baker, of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, took note this morning of the Obama Administration's perverse rationale regarding the compensation of the poorer nations bearing the earliest and worst effects of climate change, as spelled...

Tough, whose new book is «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity and the Hidden Power of Character,» will offer a free public lecture today as part of an education conference put on by the Oregon Social Learning Center.

The New York Times also drew attention to Policy Network's Social Democracy Observatory, quoting director Olaf Cramme: «There's little sign that the center - left is regaining the confidence of the electorate, let alone presenting itself as a competent contender for power.