Sentences with phrase «by powerful people»

and human factors (i.e., money, motivators, buy - in, resistance, etc.) Either way, within a firm, LPM success more often is led than pushed, both by powerful business opportunities (or threats) or by powerful people.

As they begin to dig deeper into the events, the more they begin to suspect something far more sinister at play, as they uncover a large - scale covert drug smuggling operation, run by powerful people that will do anything to keep their money rolling in, including taking out a couple of nosy cops.

The world is misinformed, and it's perpetuated by the powerful people out there who make too much money from low - fat foods.

«The NPP grossly deplores and condemns these crude tactics by powerful people of the State to create a constant state of diversion from the mountain of problems facing the country.

Not exact matches

Not so at RFRK, which has increased both its employee retention (in the high - turnover food - service industry, no less) and its rep as an employer of choice (the firm recently got 350 applications for an admin position) by making its people feel something very powerful: that their work matters.

But when there's a pattern of behavior profiled across many women and researched by a trusted journalist who has examined evidence, we must speak up and make sure this kind of behavior won't be tolerated no matter how powerful somebody is and no matter how many people they threaten and try to silence.

• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working in women's rights today, thanks to her six years as an assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»

«By removing the simplest, crudest and least effective motivational tool of money, we're forcing our managers to find more powerful, subtle and productive techniques to motivate our sales people.

The old adage «it's not what you know, it's who you know» is more powerful than ever today, and you can get to know the «right» people by leveraging social proof.

Actions speak louder than words and acts of kindness are incredibly powerful, especially when done by exceptionally busy people.

During our two - day exploration, sponsored once again by our founding partner IBM Watson Health — we'll see, hear, and feel how profoundly powerful this new data science can be, particularly in the hands of people like Theresa Beech.

He'll do so surrounded by some of the most powerful people in American business, as he is joined by the likes of Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and CEO Kevin McAllister, and Donald Chen, Asia - Pacific president of Archer Daniels Midland.

Jesus condemned the oppression and marginalization of his impoverished people by the Romans and other ruling elites who sought through their unjust system of taxation to extract as much wealth as possible from the majority of people to benefit the rich, powerful, ruling elites.

On Monday, two powerful conservative leaders in the House declared the blueprint unacceptable because it relies on giving people refundable tax credits to purchase insurance — a policy mechanism that, in a very rough sense, resembles Obamacare's subsidies to buy mandated health coverage (and is therefore being slammed by conservatives as just another entitlement program).

Described by observers as the most powerful Chinese official in decades, Xi last year was recognized as only the fourth person to earn the designation of «core» leader.

Not only that, but by designing their offices, Kuwabara is quite literally changing how some of world's most powerful people work.

Snapchat, by contrast, collected powerful imagery and reactions from people who were on the scene, or close to it (although it also included official sources).

Read on to see the powerful life lessons shared by highly influential people, including J.K. Rowling, Conan O'Brien, and Steve Jobs.

(1) To address the coding skills gap and help prepare more people for jobs in software development, Apple created a powerful yet easy - to - learn coding language called Swift (TM), the free Swift Playgrounds (TM) app and a free curriculum, App Development with Swift, which are available to anyone and are already being used by millions of students at K - 12 schools, summer camps and leading community colleges across the country.

«I thought about how powerful it is when you multiply that by millions of people every day.

«Speed networking» at cattle call gatherings can never compete with the deep and powerful connections you can make by breaking bread with like - minded people.

The New York Observer, owned by Trump's son - in - law, ranked him as the 14th most powerful person in New York real estate in 2011.

Among the people who've left or announced departures, either under pressure or for other reasons, are seven executives who had reported to Mr. Kalanick: SVP of Business Emil Michael, who is one of Mr. Kalanick's best friends and was the second-most powerful person at the company; ridesharing president Jeff Jones (ostensibly the No. 2 executive for Uber's core business); head of growth Ed Baker; engineering vice president Amit Singhal; communications and public policy chief Rachel Whetstone; head of finance Gautam Gupta; and Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's autonomous vehicles program, who was fired amid theft allegations made against him by his former employer.

People want responsible choice, not the one - size - fits - all television offerings imposed by powerful media interests.»

China's New Consumer Class By 2022, China's middle - class population is projected to exceed 550 million people, whose needs and preferences will have a powerful global influence.

A price on carbon works because it creates a powerful incentive to cut pollution, encouraging people and businesses to save money by making cleaner choices like better insulating their homes or upgrading to more efficient equipment.»

She was named one of the «Coolest People in New York Tech» and an Extraordinary Woman in New York Tech by Business Insider in 2013, Marie Claire named her one of the «NewGuard», and Entrepreneur Magazine named her One of the Most 7 Powerful Women to Watch.

Influence as the ability for a person to inspire action amongst a community is a very powerful thing and therefore, increasingly appreciated by digital marketing and PR pros alike.

«The by - product is financial distortion which has powerful implications for certain groups of people such as people trying to live off of fixed incomes.

To me, it is unbelievable that people have attempted to predict the action of the most powerful bank in the world by deciphering the meaning of one word when the fundamentals are so very clear?

Nodes are run by individuals or groups of people who contribute money towards buying powerful computer systems, known as mining rigs.

«Some people following the Thiel story appear to be surprised that these weapons can be used by rich and powerful people in order to get their way,» Olson tells me.

With such a powerful corporation behind this, led by a person who wants to see cryptocurrency adoption, I don't think it will be too long before we see more positive movements come from the Comcast camp.

I've joined Sleep Out America to raise funds and awareness to help Covenant House help more kids — and by coming together, we'll send a powerful message of solidarity to young people that they are not alone.

Those put into question your belief in the characteristics of the god, perhaps even the existence of the god itself, but it is still more comforting to assume something more powerful than yourself has your best interests in mind vs. the idea that we are left to our own devices — especially when you are surrounded by people that agree with and reinforce that idea and shun you when you do not agree with it.

I do not understand why people wish to diminish the wonder of nature and the immense statistical improbability of our existence by giving credit to a powerful imaginary friend.

Reflect on this a little: Many of the inspirations of the threefold system of political economy derive from evangelical inspirations such as personal creativity, personal responsibility, freedom, the love for community through association and mutual cooperation, the aim of bettering the condition of every person on earth, the cultivation of the rule of law, respect for the natural rights of others, the preference for persuasion by reason rather than by coercion, and a powerful sense of sin.

But even propaganda's fictions are never so powerful as those by which people choose to live.

In his powerful book The Non-Violent Cross James Douglass makes a great deal of the resurrection, but for him the resurrection is only a symbol of oppressed people's awakening to the power of nonviolence: «Man becomes God when Love and Truth enter into man, not by man's power but by raising him to Power, so that revolution in love is revealed finally as the Power of resurrection» (pp. 23 - 24).

The powerful hold that such rites have on people is evidenced by their continuance even when their sacred purpose is explicitly denied or subverted.

Do a personal or group study around Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith by Soong - Chan Rah, Mae Elise Cannon, Lisa Sharon Harper, and Troy Jackson This powerful book provides historical information, reflection, and prayers around Christian complicity in sins against God's creation, indigenous people, African Americans and people of color, women, the LGBTQ community, immigrants, Jews and Muslims.

Similarly, in the early modern period, most people, including most scientists, saw the cosmos as a very complex machine that was obviously made by a powerful mind of enormous intelligence.

Sufi orders have been banned by the government of Turkey, but Sufism continues there as a powerful factor in the Islamic life of the country; both intellectuals and common people study the writings of their famous Sufis and continue their personal Sufi disciplines.

If the economic reform measures in India have therefore been sponsored by a tiny, though exceptionally powerful and influential, minority which is pursuing them to safeguard and promote its own narrow interests, they are unlikely to be of benefit to the bulk of the people, in spite of claims that they are not only necessary and inevitable, but also in the national interest.

First, when a group is defended by world opinion, by a powerful organization, by the world's strongest nations (the U.S.S.R, China), can it then be said even if they still suffer terribly — that these people are truly abandoned and forgotten?

These things are the result of a broken world, filled with broken people, harassed by a broken yet powerful Enemy.

It is legitimate, of course, to accept the experience of others as a valuable source of suggestions for ideas, but the ideas must be accepted as true only by the test of repeatable experience, and not on the ground that some powerful or eloquent or venerated person has stated them.

An all powerful creator would not make an excuse by putting it back on the people... wouldn't he search for a way to help them understand instead of accusing them of not having faith... trust must be earned by anyone asking for «faith»... an all knowing god would understand this... if no trust... no faith can be had... reading a book does not fulfill even the barest minimum of building a trust which is necessary if you are to ask for «faith».

First, as the title of a key chapter puts it, the American example shows that religion can «Make Use of Democratic Instincts» in a manner mutually beneficial to itself and democracy; second, sustainable democracy needs religion, which means we can expect democratic peoples to remain attached to its continuance or at least potentially receptive to its revival (cf. II, 2.17, # s 17 - 20); third, democratic times, because they are enlightened times, tend to be ones of increasing doubts about religion; fourth, the relevant religion for America and Europe, Christianity, will be tugged against and perhaps eroded by powerful and ongoing democratic currents toward liberationist and materialist mores; and fifth, religion's authority in democratic society will always rest upon common opinion.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»