Sentences with phrase «authority and power of»

Like many football coaches, Wade respected the structure, authority and power of the military, and he routinely hosted servicemen at Duke practices and games.

It was the children of the Great Awakening who first seriously questioned the authority and the power of the traditional ministers as well as the right and authority of the magistrates to lay down the conditions of religious expression through worship.

It is a system based on the presumed authority and power of the one and the dependent status of the other.

Once the Church had claimed to be the body of Christ, it had already set upon the imperialistic path of conquering the world, of bringing the life and movement of the world into submission to the inhuman authority and power of an infinitely distant Creator and Judge.

A faith that names Jesus either as the Son of God or as the prophet of God must be a backward movement to a disincarnate and primordial form of Spirit, a movement annulling the events of the Incarnation and the Crucifixion by resurrecting Jesus either in the form of the exalted Lord or as the proclaimer of an already distant and alien majesty of God: hence an orthodox and priestly Christianity is inevitably grounded in the sacred authority and power of the past.

The Decade has pointed this out repeatedly to the churches - first that the veneer of silence with which violence against women is dealt with is a moral failure of the Church and secondly that outrageous biblical and theological legitimizations of violence, calling into question the authority and power of the church, as a moral community.

It had to do with denying the authority and power of God.

Note the faith of the centurion in the authority and power of Jesus Christ and of his submission to the will of Jesus.

Of course, just because someone with great authority and powers of ratiocination says something is going in a certain direction or should go that way is no determinant it will.

Not exact matches

People judge our power and authority within seconds of seeing you and without you needing to say a thing.

He was the same person, in the same job, but with different sources of power and authority, a kind of Grover Cleveland of technology.

In theory, Europe has a spot at the top in which a real leader might sit and wield some gavel of authority, clarity, and resolute power — and that is the high office of President of the European Commission.

All individual authorities — the Labor Department, the IRS, the states — have their own particular mix of criteria, but each of them seeks to clarify two essential facts: whether the worker is under your control, and who has the most power in the relationship.

The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) has yet to recover fully from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria, which in late September knocked out power to the entire island and left all 3.4 million residents of the U.S. territory in the dark and killed dozens of pePower Authority (PREPA) has yet to recover fully from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria, which in late September knocked out power to the entire island and left all 3.4 million residents of the U.S. territory in the dark and killed dozens of pepower to the entire island and left all 3.4 million residents of the U.S. territory in the dark and killed dozens of people.

The British Competition and Markets Authority has provisionally nixed 21st Century Fox's $ 26 billion takeover of media company Sky, saying it may not be in the public interest as it would put too much power in Rupert Murdoch's hands.

decision that boricuas face, they must consider the insolvent government of Puerto Rico, the dysfunction of the authorities» response, the recurrent power outages, and an economic crisis that was dire to begin with.

Rep. Mike Coffman, R - Colo., introduced the Protecting Against Tyranny and Responsible Imports Act, or the PATRIA Act, that would target Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro after he stripped the country's democratically elected national assembly of its power and authority.

Listening magnifies your perceived value and validates your power of authority as a leader and an expert in your field.

The number of new gas and power connections in Western Australia fell in the year to June, an outcome of the slowing property development market, according to the Economic Regulation Authority.

They feel like you're trying to make yourself into the big person on the top of the hill, and they're threatened by the possibility they don't have any power or authority.

«One interpretation is that psychopathic individuals are attracted to these topics because they revolve around issues of power, authority, and conflict that they might find particularly attractive,» the study authors note.

The 43 - member Board of Governors is the seat of power at AMPAS, with ultimate authority over corporate management, control and general policies, including Oscar rules and the invitation of new members.

While currently blocked by the federal judiciary, the group says the Clean Power Plan should be redrawn to address concerns about regulatory overreach and the possibility of infringing on state authority.

Russian lawmakers drafted legislation in response to the U.S. sanctions that would give the authorities the power to ban or restrict imports of U.S. goods and services to Russia on April 13.

«We are eager for this situation to be resolved in the courts and will continue to do everything in our power to assist the authorities to get to the bottom of these issues as rapidly as possible,» it said in a statement Friday.

Trump's White House cited Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, a provision that gives the secretary of commerce the authority to investigate and determine the impacts of any import on the national security of the United States — and the president the power to adjust tariffs accordingly.

The Peninsula Clean Energy Authority, formed in March 2016, is a joint powers authority made up of the County of San Mateo and all 20 cities in thAuthority, formed in March 2016, is a joint powers authority made up of the County of San Mateo and all 20 cities in thauthority made up of the County of San Mateo and all 20 cities in the County.

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As Vox has reported, Puerto Rico's electric grid was vulnerable and dilapidated before the storm due to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority's long history of financial woes and minimal maintenance and investment.

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Ramo writes with ease and authority about the technology, history, and foreign policy of this power shift, giving us an essential guide for the future.

Most of the rest is owned by the institutions that derive their power, authority and capital from us as consumers.

About 3,500 lineworkers from Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, the New York Power Authority, Con Ed and Army Corps of Engineers contractors are working in Puerto Rico now.

Furthermore, a piece of fine print on the face of the report imparts to the reader that «LabCFTC has no independent authority or decision - making power, and can not independently provide, or create an expectation for, legal or regulatory relief.»

In fact, as I have noted previously, policymakers and observers have been remarkably quiet about the scope of the Fed's legal authority to conduct unconventional policy, and when they do describe it they often offer timid visions of the Fed's powers.

As Vox's Alexia Fernández Campbell explained, as tax breaks faded, businesses left the island, and so did workers and utility customers, eating into the revenue of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, the unregulated utility monopoly.

There are plenty of people who see cryptocurrencies, however flawed, as a step in the right direction because they at least take power away from governing authorities and give individuals more freedom.

And while people like to blame Trump or the federal government for the devastation and slow response, Varela explains that much of the problem stems from Puerto Rico's major infrastructure deficiency and the failings of the Puerto Rico Electric Power AuthoriAnd while people like to blame Trump or the federal government for the devastation and slow response, Varela explains that much of the problem stems from Puerto Rico's major infrastructure deficiency and the failings of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authoriand slow response, Varela explains that much of the problem stems from Puerto Rico's major infrastructure deficiency and the failings of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authoriand the failings of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority.

If Chinese authorities indeed intend to ban Bitcoin from the country entirely, Bitcoin mining operations — both mining pools and hash power data centers — will be easy targets to shut down.On the other hand, this is not the first time that fears of China «banning Bitcoin» have been raised.

The First Vatican Council included language like (the Pope) «is the true vicar of Christ and head of the whole Church and faith, and teacher of all Christians; and that to him was handed down in blessed Peter, by our Lord Jesus Christ, full power to...» This transfer of power depends on the Roman Church's understanding of the Office of the Keys which I do not agree with, but their statements make it clear that the Pope's authority as the Roman Church understands it is derived from Christ's.

This power, in place until at least 2018 under Congressional authorization, allows the President to send trade deals through Congress without amendment while leaving the House of Representatives and Senate the authority to simply vote up or down on the finished result.

we as believers have a commission: Then Jesus called together the Twelve [apostles] and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases, And He sent them out to announce and preach the kingdom of God and to bring healiand gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases, And He sent them out to announce and preach the kingdom of God and to bring healiand authority over all demons, and to cure diseases, And He sent them out to announce and preach the kingdom of God and to bring healiand to cure diseases, And He sent them out to announce and preach the kingdom of God and to bring healiAnd He sent them out to announce and preach the kingdom of God and to bring healiand preach the kingdom of God and to bring healiand to bring healing.

Most Christianity today is, in my opinion, not a religion that Jesus preached, but a religion made up about Jesus by various authorities, and as the cartoon points out, some still have a lot of issues with gender, sexism, sexuality, power and control.

The physiological compartmentalizing of America will continue until we have the overweight, underweight, left - handed, bald, and those with overbite demanding appropriate role models in positions of power and authority.

Notions of «power over» dynamics, hierarchical thinking, authoritarianism, success meaning «winning» over someone else who is a «loser», more money and more power and more authority is more successful... everything that causes so much trouble in a capitalist, patriarchal mindset.

«It disregarded the role of the spiritual authorities and of all those intermediate social forces which enframe, protect, and control the life of man» and which thereby check the growth of Power.

In his account, aristocrats emerge as the champions of liberty, and democratic popular sovereignty is analyzed as an instrument that dangerously advances Power's monopoly of social authority.

But the task of preserving even our moral floor is complicated by the determination of many that «we» should have free and full access to the remissive power of Christian forgiveness without any of the interdictory authority of biblical faith — even if this means that this power can only be «pried from God's clutches» by corrupting it, on at least some important occasions, into nihlistic nonjudgmentalism.

In a country in which the vast majority of citizens pray and believe in God, it surely matters, for purposes of legitimation of power and authority, whether or not God and the Bible, the highest authorities and sources of ideals known to those citizens, are invoked to legitimate political authority.

This is why I spend my time critiquing power and authority, especially religious: because it compromises the most historic element of our story... that moment in time when we crossed over from freely walking in the garden with God to working on hard ground with thorns and a curse.