Sentences with phrase «back our power as»

In fact, she thinks it's the number one thing we can do to take back our power as citizens and solve our environmental problems.

But to give ourselves that opportunity, we have to take back our power as citizens.

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Clearly he concluded most of those five MLCs backed the Barnett - led Liberals who, in good old - fashioned socialist style, opposed Western Power being split, most especially its generating and sales divisions, as Carnegie recommended.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Part of the plan included building a massive battery to store renewable energy and provide «back - up power» as and when necessary.

This protects against corruption or abuse, and restores power back to the individual as information asymmetry is no longer a cost.

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.

The Los Angeles - based company has developed technology that transmits ultrasonic waves (at a register well beyond what's audible) that are translated by devices as a microscopic quiver; this vibration is converted back into an electrical charge to power anything with a battery, no wires or wall plugs required.

CytoSport's innovative pipeline in recent years has been powered by Hormel Foods (hrl), which paid $ 450 million to acquire the sports - nutrition maker back in 2014 in a deal intended to help the company reach younger consumers as well as those interested in adding more protein to their diets.

One thing I'm still not sold on is the power button being on the back of the phone, as it was with the G2.

But even as computers make it ever easier to use fewer actions — and words — to accomplish our everyday business, a couple of high - powered business leaders are pushing back, insisting employees and job candidates flex their atrophying writing muscles.

As the US military's attention shifts back to great - power competition, particular focus is being paid to the potential for conflict in the extreme conditions found at northern latitudes and higher elevations.

It is easy to design a search box as almost every site these days is powered by a database on the back - end, which is what holds the products (if a store) or the articles (if a blog), and so forth.

Will governments, investors and green - minded consumers, who put their faith in the sun's power to help wean us off our fossil - fuel addiction, back away from another technology that promised too much — in jobs and profits as much as in renewable energy — and failed to deliver?

Indeed, Feinstein says, when European countries introduced their feed - in - tariffs, they were meant to be scaled back as the cost of generating power from the sun went down.

«Our view is that General Electric's key challenge is in North America and it relates to the lack of robust demand for new gas - fired power capacity coupled with an installed fleet that is coming off Long Term Service Agreements that were put in place as far back as 2000,» Obin explained.

As an unusual bit of history, Adolf Hitler sent his body back to Istanbul in 1943, hoping to persuade Turkey to join the Axis powers in World War II.

Our healthcare is sadly broken, and while we should all be concerned, hi - tech businesses see this as an opportunity to return power back to the patient.

Each component, comprised of 16,000 lithium - ion battery cells, is meant to suck up power from the grid by day and then feed it back in as demand surges, according to the New York Times.

TransAlta officially opened its new 150 - megawatt combined cycle natural gas power station in South Hedland today, with Horizon Power as its sole foundation customer after Fortescue Metals Group backed out of an offtake agreepower station in South Hedland today, with Horizon Power as its sole foundation customer after Fortescue Metals Group backed out of an offtake agreePower as its sole foundation customer after Fortescue Metals Group backed out of an offtake agreement.

As Nooyi, dressed in a fuchsia jacket, powers through the aisles, she's also plucking competitors» products to bring back to headquarters.

A month later, he was walking — and exploring a new fascination with the power of thought that prompted him to go back to school to study positive psychology and to launch a happiness - boosting social media platform called Smile Epidemic (think of it as Facebook for the Up With People crowd).

The transition to what appears to be open - ended stability operations in Syria could leave those U.S. - backed forces vulnerable to shifting alliances, power struggles and miscommunications as Assad's allies and enemies vie for greater control of post-war Syria.

You can input parameters such as equipment cost, hash rate, power consumption, and the current bitcoin price to see how long it will take to pay back your investment.

Its performance in this category is backed up by JD Power's survey score, which rates Quicken as one of the best companies for mortgage service satisfaction.

As someone that sends money to his family back home, he understands better than anyone the power of moving money quickly and cheaply.

As Vox's Yochi Dreazen reported from Puerto Rico, the power losses are «significantly slowing the entire US relief effort, and preventing other vital parts of the island's battered infrastructure from coming back online.»

«If we can obfuscate it even a little bit, that at least puts the power back into your hands as an end user.»

Dogwood's Strategy Director Will Horter reflects on this historic day It looks like British Columbians may finally get a government ready to fight for what's right in B.C. Today, Christy Clark announced her intention to bring back the B.C. legislature as soon as possible in June, face a confidence vote and hand over power to -LSB-...]

More than three years before he served as Trump's chief political strategist, Bannon helped launch Cambridge Analytica with the financial backing of the wealthy Mercer family as part of a broader effort to create a populist power base.

What separates decentralized applications from standard applications is the infrastructure of their back - end servers, omitting the use of programming languages such as Rails or Django in favor of blockchain technology — removing centralized hosting services and putting power and voice back in the hands of its users.

That religious and ethnic factions have turned on the occupation forces, and on each other as the power vacuum was not fully filled by the coalition - backed new democratic government.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Filmed Entertainment has been producing operating losses as far back as 2015 and acted as a drag on Viacom's earnings power; this is the first quarter of profitability in quite some time.

As a result of these back - to - back meetings, India and the U.S. are moving ahead on a whole range of issues, including regional security, defence, nuclear power, smart cities, and even climate change.

We selected it as the first choice for a VA loan because that affordability is backed up by USAA's industry - leading scores in prompt and reliable customer service, as determined by JD Power.

Getting hospitals up and running will certainly save lives, as will delivering food to the neediest communities and getting communications and power infrastructure back up and running.

As Louis Coppey wrote in a Medium article, blockchain tech can send the power back to the network members.

So what the blockchain has allowed and where these businesses are popping up are in a couple of areas, but blockchain has allowed: 1 the power to come back to the hands of the people as we've talked about.

With the upcoming elections for some of the major European Union powers, any major shocks could cause a flight back to the safe haven of U.S. Treasuries,» says Robinson, noting that as yields on Treasury bonds, bills and notes increase, so do interest rates.

ShapeShifts simple - to - use exchange plays an important role in the cryptocurrency ecosystem, and its extensive API is used by many third parties as the back - end to power services helping to provide liquidity to cryptocurrencies.

«Cryptocurrency and blockchain will surely tackle problems such as poverty and environmental degradation, strengthen true democracy and give power back to the common man.»

As former class president of the high school Latin club the obsession with Rome and power goes way back.

If what I think is going to happen economically does happen, he will forever be known as the 21st century Herbert Hoover and the GOP will be out of power for the next 40 years, as they deserve to because they created this current economic mess back with Reagan's cut taxes but not cut spending starting in 1980.

As a result, al - Qaeda in Iraq, the predecessor of ISIS, gained primacy in many Iraqi Sunni areas while Iran - backed militias gained power in many Shia areas.

«On atheists being afraid of the power of the church, so a hundred years ago or so, they started calling themselves scientists, and spreading around lies they claimed as facts, backed up with statistics to complicated for the average man to verify for himself.

«All the time not having a clue that they were being whispered against, campaigned against by both Catholics & Anglicans who made it palpably clear that this initiative was detrimental to the «dialogue towards unity» and temporarily compromised their positions as oecumenical ambassadors - that this was a counter-productive «wacked - out» scheme by an ailing Pope who merely needed to be placated until he died - hence delaying tactics, obfuscations, procedurality, red tape and making everything as difficult and administratively untenable as possible; with patronising sympathy and hand - wringing at their lot while sneering, dismissing and chuckling to themselves that the whole thing will eventually come to naught... that the administration will crumble via crises and power politics andpersonality clashes and outright frustration at the situation... and ultimately the Ordinariate will be re-integrated into the Conference system and those not happy about it will crawl back to their friends in the C of E.

Personally i think those specific prayers are a distraction most of the times we pray these prayers because its what we think we need and often thats not the case.The better way is to just trust the holy spirit let him lead i think we miss the awesomeness of doing it Gods way its easy not difficult.The struggle is difficult when we are walking by the flesh and trying to do it our way.When i got to the point where i said to the God i am not going to do it my way anymore and i submit to you because know whats best for me.Change me and when i feel the wrong desires or temptation to walk by the flesh i just say Lord you know i am weak and i can not live a christian life without you help me.As soon as i do that it is effortless theres no struggle thats how we should grow.I am excited with what God is doing in my life he has opened his word i am seeing the fruit of his life impacting mine and i am changing day by day.I am walking by faith and not slipping back into my old desires i know what it means to be an overcomer sin does not have dominion over me anymore.In myself i can not boast because it is the power of God at work in my life and i give all the praise back to God.brentnz

If you have stepped out somewhere where you shouldn't have done then the conviction as a child of God will surely come but I tell you this, if Satan did not hold back on trying to kill the baby Jesus, and many children were slaughtered in that process, if he even thought he knew the scriptures so well he could try to deceive Jesus, and he did try then you can be sure that for every believer there is an adversary who would do anything to stop you from finding the forgiveness and grace of God that has the power to wash you clean of anything.

We must find back to the complete gospel of Jesus Christ: Repentance, accepting the gospel as true, and getting sacramentally baptized in order to experience the releasing power of the gospel.