Sentences with phrase «authority and power over»

[19] In Australia today, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples do not have genuine decision - making authority and power over their lives and futures.

Folks in places like BRIC countries [Brazil, Russia, India, China] are well aware that these are potent technologies in terms of cultural authority and power over time, and those who eschew cognitive enhancement at any level are likely to fall behind.

here and here), has also «added value,» at least in terms of the extent to which teachers in Pittsburgh are (rightfully) exercising some more authority and power over the ways in which they are to be (rightfully) evaluated.

Jesus has authority and power over unclean spirits.

Not exact matches

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.

So the recent presidential term limit abolishment could be viewed as just another way to give the central authorities greater power and control over the economy, business and markets.

Negotiations between creditors and government officials over the $ 9 billion owed by the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, known as Prepa, have been taking place for more than a year.

Or, in Traversian: «The trend line from Pierre Trudeau to Stephen Harper has been steady: Influence over the amorphous, frustratingly horizontal federal machinery concentrates power in the Prime Minister's Office where issues that matter are managed with command - and - control authority.»

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.

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.

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.

Beware of «faithful» religious believers like Romney who seek positions of great political power and authority over military forces.

In I Corinthians 15, it is clear that it was the fact of Jesus» resurrection that enabled Paul to declare confidently that the risen Lord will, at his coming, complete the victory over every rule and authority and power (I Cor.15: 24).

Religion is about control, authority, and power over others.

It came from early church leaders who wanted to exert their power, authority, and control over other people.

After all, who wants to grant civil authorities who can not bring themselves to recognize their responsibility for unborn babies power over life and death?

Not because they are «evil»... but because they want and need to have some more authority, power, and safety over their lives, their careers, and their family.

Fromm sees clearly that for many people Christianity is a thin veneer over the idolatrous worship of power, success, and the authority of the marketplace; or it is a cover masking their idolatrous fixation on their clan, religious or ethnic group, or nation - state.

-- that we need not fear the government because Jesus has «disarmed the powers and authorities» and «made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.»

A man of noble birth, representing the power of Rome, endowed with authority over life and death, confronted by a barbarous colonial of no name or estate, a slave of the empire, beaten, robed in purple, crowned with thorns, insanely invoking an otherworldly kingdom and some esoteric truth, unaware of either his absurdity or his judge's eminence.

Authority over matters of life and death belongs to God, who has shared this authority with the governing powers (cf. RoAuthority over matters of life and death belongs to God, who has shared this authority with the governing powers (cf. Roauthority with the governing powers (cf. Romans 13).

The more power and authority a human has over another person (or an animal) the more compassion they are required to show.

The power that raised Christ from the dead, that seated Christ at the right hand of God, that gave Christ supremacy over all rulers and authorities, over all powers and dominions, over ever title that can be given throughout all eternity, that placed all things under Christ and that appointed Christ as the head over everything,... this power, is for the church.

Men in posts of great authority were called gods because they held power of Life and death over people, and administered justice.

I've heard these very things said by those who are on the other end of the people who use religion and politics to enrich themselves, give them power and authority over their fellow human beings and draw attention to themselves rather than to God.

He is the head over every power and authority.

Statism is the worship of the power and authority of government over the lives of men.

You have authority in the spiritual realm over all the powers of darkness, in Jesus» Name, including fear, worry, anxiety, and dread!

(J.W.C. Ward, A History of the early Church, p. 99) In this period the Church not only grew numerically, but also strengthened itself in its organization and power by creating a monarchical bishop who had the sole authority over the Church and who really became the emperor of the Church.

It suggests, I believe, that within the common tradition, authority is understood as a way of making power responsible to a standard that is shared both by one who has authority and by those over whom it is exercised.

How can it be true both that those with authority have the right to expect compliance and the power to invoke sanctions, and that those over whom they exercise authority continue to enjoy liberty even though they are under authority?

Furthermore what you've already quoted above over and over again is that Lenin and later Stalin were two such communists who enforced atheism to consolidate power, the specific targeting of religious folks was so they can bring the proletariat to them rather than let the masses have a separate authority figure.

Against new knowledge, as men gain new wisdoms from science and new power in the universe, there is no Lordship of Christ over all the ages, unless His voice can speak with as much authority affirming and defining now, and a thousand years from now, as it did in the market towns of Galilee, in the Temple at Jerusalem, and along the shore of the Sea of Tiberias.

«WE HAVE THE VICTORY» For those struggling with thoughts of unforgiveness and attacks on the mind especially deceiving thoughts and doubts these are from satan in the word they are called fiery darts we are to quench those darts by faith so we need to read the word and believe that Gods word is true.We also have the victory over these thoughts because when we accept Jesus the holy spirit dwells within us so satan does nt have authority over us he can not rule what belongs to God he can only deceive.We can not defeat the enemy in our strength we need the holy spirit when we try and overcome him in our strength we struggle especially with our thoughs and in the area of sin.If you are having evil thoughts or doubts commit your way unto the Lord and let him fight your battle.Tell the enemy he has no authority over you that you are under the covering of Jesus Christ and when you have doubts memorise verses on faith ie greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world.The holy spirit is just like Jesus talk to him be friends with him he helps us to live like Christ and gives us the power to do it.We are overcomers more than conquerers through Christ who strengthens us.brentnz

The God of Israel is a being who has powers and responsibilities and authority over all the lands of Israel's neighbors.

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 powAnd 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 powand every authority and powand power.

Unfortunantly I think they do know what they are doing — they «being mainly men» want power, authority, money, land and people to lord it over.

Then he [Jesus] called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases (Luke 9:1).

And Jesus set out to show that he had power and authority over all sorts of things that hold people back and trip people And Jesus set out to show that he had power and authority over all sorts of things that hold people back and trip people and authority over all sorts of things that hold people back and trip people and trip people up.

The man who is made in the image of the gods is given power and authority over all living things.

God is: the supreme or ultimate reality, perfect in power wisdom and goodness — Merriam Webster the creator and ruler of the universe, the source of all moral authority, superhuman being or spirit worshiped as having power over nature — Oxford Dictionary the one Supreme Being the creator and ruler of the universe — Dictionary.com

It's nothing but men self proclaimed special authority by God himself to claim power over others and it is just as bad as the Pope declaring he was appointed by God or followers of Mohamed for that matter.

Jesus» anointing by the holy Spirit, and his consequent power over the demons, over diseases, and even over death; his ministry of compassion and help; his death at Jerusalem, through the «envy» and hatred of the «rulers,» that is, the Jewish authorities who denounced him before Pilate and so procured his death by crucifixion as an insurrectionist and disturber; his resurrection on the third day, when he became Messiah or Son of God and entered into his glory; (Cf. Rom.

But the Pope remains «the subject of supreme and entire power over the whole Church,» as the Explanatory Note makes clear, and possesses the authority to define matters relating not simply to faith but also to morals.

It met in the Vatican in 1869 - 1870, and its most notable decrees, later promulgated by the Pope, declared «that the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is, when in discharge of the office of pastor and doctor of all Christians, by virtue of his supreme apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine of faith and morals to be held by the universal Church, by the divine assistance promised to him in blessed Peter, is possessed of that infallibility with which the Divine Redeemer willed that His Church should be possessed for defining doctrine regarding faith or morals; and that therefore such definitions of the Roman Pontiff are irreformable of themselves, and not from the consent of the Church»; and that the Roman Pontiff has «full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the universal Church, not only in things which belong to faith and morals, but also in those which relate to the discipline and government of the Church spread throughout the world.»

The editors and their collaborators know better; but only in selected instances have some of them managed to transcend such limited conceptions in behalf of the central purpose of the volume as a whole: to demonstrate how the literary dimensions of these texts do, indeed, make credible the power and authority they have exhibited for more than two millennia in shaping decisively the lives and minds of thoughtful people the world over.

A slave mentality There will always be a struggle between priestly authority and prophetic challenge in institutionalized religion because institutions are intrinsically conservative and will always choose social stability over justice which works to the advantage of the socioeconomic / political power - elites whose interests are served by sustaining the status quo.

He wrote in his tract On the power of a Christian congregation over its preachers: 5 «We conclude then, that a Christian congregation that has the gospel, possesses not only the right and power but also owes it to the salvation of souls according to the baptismal bond it has entered into, to shun, avoid, depose and withdraw from the authority which the present bishops... exercise; for it is publicly manifest that they live and govern in opposition to God and his Word.»

My son is very intelligent and loves to be in control and have power, which could be a wonderful trait if guided properly, but I am positive that if I don't control him now I will lose total control over him and have no authority.

Panel members proposed review power over petitions — the same authority bestowed on a zoning board or plan commission — after the Crystal Lake Park District decided to put in a sand and gravel filter at Lippold Park.