Sentences with phrase «benevolent power»

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Americans thought the world stage had been cleared for our benevolent power to lift others to the broad, sunlit uplands of liberal democracy and free - market prosperity.

An assumption of the point of view of benevolent power, rather than that of unjust powerlessness, seems almost the necessary outcome for even the most well - intentioned concentration on love.

Is it better to accept an imaginative picture of God as the distant ruler controlling his realm through external and benevolent power or one of God so intimately related to the world that the world can be imagined as God's body?

The few characters who might be described as heroic — Galahad, Bors, Percivale, and, by the end, Lancelot — do not save the world from the machinations of a sorcerer - villain or secure some magical artifact for the safekeeping of the benevolent powers; they become saints.

Not exact matches

Certainly these are allegories for an internal, undeniable, unsought for, unmeasurable experience which leaves a previously non-theistic person in a state of certainty that there is, in fact, a benevolent, guiding force upon them individually and upon us all as creatures of a loving power?

Jesus wants them to look at the results of his actions, which had to indicate a good, benevolent source, rather than an evil source of power.

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.»

Well, a creatively effective need wouldn't be a complicated reality like a Being who (i) was benevolent, (ii) had infinite power, and (iii) knew absolutely everything, including what it would be good to create.

The allegedly benevolent tyrants who rule this British dystopia have gained power not by force but by vote, promising «freedom from fear, freedom from want, freedom from boredom.»

A second misconception is that benevolent intentions justify paternalistic domination by those who have superior status or power.

It was sponsored and financed by the former colonial powers, and the new regimes, with one or two exceptions, accepted either some semblance of democracy or a benevolent....

The establishment of the innocent and genuine character of this benevolent moralist (Jesus), and the rescuing it from the imputation of imposture, which has resulted from artificial systems [E.g., The immaculate conception of Jesus, his deification, the creation of the world by him, his miraculous powers, his resurrection and visible ascension, his corporeal presence in the Eucharist, the Trinity, original sin, atonement, regeneration, election, orders of Hierarchy, etc.] invented by ultra-Christian sects, unauthorized by a single word ever uttered by GOD!

The benevolent green jackets at Augusta, however, went outside the defined parameters for making the field and used the rare «special exemption» powers.

(Give me benevolent dictator powers, and I might go for an AV / AMS 50 - 50 hybrid rather than AV + or AMS, though I would see straight AV, with PR second chamber and STV in local government as a very good advance in the real world; and think there is a coherent case).

Following twin attacks that have killed eight police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, La., this month, the Buffalo Police Benevolent Association today renewed its effort to arm patrol officers with high - powered rifles.

His union might not have grabbed as many headlines as the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, or turned out as many voters to the polls as 1199 SEIU — but for more than two decades as the head of the Correction Officers» Benevolent Association, Norman Seabrook cultivated deep ties with politicians from both parties, solidifying the power of his union.

Among the items on the agenda was the Police Benevolent Association's request for higher - powered firearms, such as AR - 15 rifles.

The Fairy Godmother (played brillaintly by Jennifer Saunders) is not a benevolent aid to our heroes, but a scheming, manipulative, power - hungry despot wanting to rule the kingdom through her son (not unlike Livia in I, Claudius).

Love And Peace applies Sono's madcap sensibilities to a story about a loser who achieves his dreams of rock stardom after flushing his beloved pet turtle Pikadon, who gains magic powers after encountering benevolent drunk Pa and his Island Of Misfit Toys in the Tokyo sewer system.

The benevolent rulers and inhabitants live peacefully and in luxury, thanks to the endless supply of something called «vibranium,» which has potent powers.

The movie opens on the far off world of Eternia, where the nexus of power over the whole universe (AKA where I keep my stuff) is housed within Castle Greyskull, watched over by the benevolent Sorceress and protected by He - man, a muscled, shirtless collection of glandular secretions to boggle the mind.

There's a strong story involving the relationship between two families who reach across the species divide, led by Caesar (Andy Serkis in a brilliant and rich motion capture performance), who is both husband and father to his family and benevolent leader of the simian tribe, and Jason Clarke as an engineer trying to repair an electrical damn to power the human reclamation of San Francisco.

Other decent bonuses on the DVD include a behind - the - scenes Still Gallery, Advertising Gallery, 4 postcard still / lobby card reproductions, and a short featurettes that briefly chronicles Tyrone Power's appearances in various swashbuckling actioners, with clips from a number of films extant on DVD, and a few likely on the horizon (like the CinemaScope epic King of the Kyber Rifles), plus comments from the son of director John Cromwell — actor James Cromwell (the benevolent father figure in Babe, and Jack Bauer's monster dad in Season 6 of Fox» TV series 24).

From redlining to benevolent societies: The emancipatory power of spatial thinking.

But that power was always benevolent and nurturing.

Many other characters play a part including Thalia, whose face was mauled by her stepfather's vicious dog, and who must now learn to live with her scars; and Adel, who adores his father, believing he is a benevolent leader until he discovers his beloved father is a war criminal, a thug who uses his intimidating power to steal from the poor.

Since God is omnipotent and benevolent how can the power of evil in the world can be explained.

Esper — Psy - Blade Benevolent Illusions Terrifying Nightmares: Masters of psionic illusion, Espers use the power of their minds to conjure deadly apparitions and extrasensory weaponry.

Ranging from seemingly benevolent partnerships to those that appear to exploit their subjects, many of the works in the exhibition animate the tensions between exhibitionism and voyeurism, and raise challenging ethical questions around issues of authorship, power, and control.

You enjoy this venue under the pleasure of a benevolent dictatorship — all power rests with them.

Rather, (with a few exceptions) they're saying that you're lying like crazy because you have some dreamy idea, like some 1930s «red» intellectual of a «power grab» that would save the world by putting everything under one imaginary benevolent government.

In a 2006 CEI document, Smith speaks of a «New Environmental Gospel» that «preaches that property rights are evil and that the power of the state is benevolent.»

Indulge them with petty rebates and benevolent advice on how to turn off the power at the wall.

And North Korea flowered following a surprisingly benevolent relinquishment of dictatorial power.

The Canadian Justice Review Board is a coalition of citizens who are concerned that the rules and laws by which they are governed are at risk when courts claim powers for themselves to operate as benevolent autocrats and to rule as they please.

They coined the phrase «benevolent sexism» to describe a more subtle type of interactions that reinforce the stereotype that men have power.