Sentences with phrase «cede power to the people»
Not exact matches
Staples sees it very differently: «Carter's contention that the state should cede more power to religion will strike many people as a recipe for warfare in the streets.»
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In Albania, Catholics — the only religious group that refused to cede power to that Communist state (though they were later forced to sign an agreement in which they submitted to state control)-- were tortured, their bishops «forced to clean the streets and public bathrooms wearing clown outfits with paper signs across their chests saying, «I have sinned against the people.
Whereas a codependent person cedes identity and power to his or her partner and can hardly function independently, an interdependent person retains individual identity while also forging a partnership based on shared power.
«We want conference committees on this revenue bill and we want to get it done for the people of New York State because they're sick and tired of ceding this power to three men who go in a darkened room and come out and do nothing.»
ALBANY — Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is set to cede power to five of the chamber's senior members, two people briefed on his plans told Capital.
«Nobody should be afraid, some people are inquiring from me, the fact that NDC may rig the election or may not cede power should they lose, let me assure you, that is not going to happen,» he said.
«People should take some reassurance from our prime minister, who I think is standing pretty much foursquare in the middle of public opinion: we don't what to see any more powers ceded over there, but we want to see some powers back,» the work and pensions secretary added.
McGuinty ceded that his proposals to implement renewables were poorly planned and managed; renewable projects were taken over by deep pocketed oil companies that would foist them on people in notably contentious locations giving wind a bad name, high FITs that did not adjust to market forces over the long term, no comprehensive agreement with neighbours for better power sharing agreements, no power storage strategy, no coordinated conservation or efficiency plan that included distributed generation, CHP, microCHP, automated demand response management, and worst of all there was no options analysis of subsidies to various producers.