Sentences with phrase «centers of power»

Gallerists, curators, and artists I spoke to raised concerns about the museum's centers of power.

MODERNA MUSEET Though a small country far from the centers of power and culture, Sweden is second to none when it comes to the history of modernization.

Iovino argues that «the dissolution of traditional centers of power announced at the advent of postmodernism has finally been realized, but this is just the beginning: despite their versatility and poetics, this work reflects an approach to mark making in which the present is a moment in transition — a precursor to powerful forms of expression yet to be.»

The film is admirably short of the world - building that tediously weighs down most future projections, but that also creates a situation in which no world seems to exist outside tracks, gyms and boardrooms, with no feeling of the society held in sway by these unlikely centers of power.

Will that person have direct access to the president, or report through one of several emerging centers of power in the West Wing?

Scholars assumed that only here, in southern Mesopotamia, were the earliest centers of power and the origins of civilization.

Regardless of the state, a school's bag men gravitate towards two centers of power: the university and the state's metro area, the latter because of population, the former because of power.

A good beginning would be to draw those Pentecostal scholars who work on the margins into the movement's centers of power and leadership.

Opus Dei is, they say, a secretive, cult - like organization that is running a vast international conspiracy with unlimited funding and tentacles reaching into the most unlikely centers of power.

It makes the powerless even more dependent on inaccessible centers of power.

Moreover, until the day when the kingdom of Christ is fully established, there is in the political world no universal mediator of God's rule, and we may therefore have both theological and political reason to prefer a pluralistic world with many centers of power and sovereignty.

Others have noted that globalization has underscored and strengthened global control by old and new centers of power, economically, politically or even culturally and religiously.

Secular ideologies which have brought a new sense of selfhood to all communities and the rights of that selfhood for full participation in the centers of power which determine the meaning - content and goals of life in society is also a basic factor in this pluralism with parity.

Seen in a wider perspective, the threat of destruction has always been present in a world containing a vast multiplicity of free centers of power potentially in conflict with one another.

And I believe that many independent centers of power (church, media, economy, schools, the state) rather than one center of state power controlling all the others leads more surely to peace, justice and freedom.

The symbiotic centers of the power nexus have shifted substantially from the nation state structures to the global corporate entities, deeply affecting the life of the people, and their communities.

But what of competing centers of power within a State?

Such love can only be directed toward entities which represent other centers of power.

But the time has come to face the fact that the shift of decision - making from political to economic centers of power is not acceptable.

The restlessness and criticism awakened by Jesus gave birth to the great nationalist and socialist revolutions of the twentieth century that have dramatically changed the map of the world and reduced Western Europe to one among half a dozen centers of power.

Says Gittins: «If I go to Africa and sit down in a local community, far away from the centers of power, I can actually get on with inculturation, and in fact that is the only way I can get on with inculturation.»

He disputes the claims of nullifiers that the federal union was a compact between sovereign states, argues that the founders sought coordination between the branches of government rather than a stalemate between competitive, coequal centers of power, and offers a strict construction of the Second Amendment as an authorization for state militias rather than a charter for the private ownership of assault rifles by potential revolutionaries.

The centers of power see their own weakness in the margins, and they don't want those margins exposed.

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.»

So far, this appears to be the championing of divine power as superior to, though not exclusive of, all other centers of power.

That a congregation is constituted by publicly enacting a more universally practiced worship that generates a distinctive social form implies study of that public form: What are the social, cultural, and political locations of congregations of Christians and how do those locations shape congregations» social form today (synchronic inquiry); what have been the characteristic social, cultural, and political locations of congregations historically and how have those locations shaped congregations» social forms (diachronic study); in what ways do congregations engage in the public arena as one type of institutionalized center of power among others?

The center of power has shifted, though: words - in - print still have to communicate, and, effective theological communication demands a praxiology.

85 But characteristically he went on to praise America for its democracy: «Democracy is an ultimate norm of political organization in the sense that no better way has been found to check the inordinacy of the powerful on the one hand and the confusion of the multitude on the other than by making every center of power responsible to the people whom it affects.»

Interpreting Luther, Nygren says, The Christian is not an independent center of power alongside of God....

It is the creative work of God which achieves in personality a unique organization of impersonal structures which becomes a new center of power and direction reacting upon the impersonal order.

And at the heart of this huge calyx, beneath the pressure of its in - folding, a center of power has been revealed where spiritual energy, gradually released by a vast totalitarian mechanism, then concentrated by heredity within a sort of super-brain, has little by little been transformed into a common vision growing ever more intense.

God is a single center of power.

The first crucifixes carved when Rome remained the center of power in the world, held a Jesus strong and firm, with proportionate muscles, a head held high, and a straightforward gaze.

The real center of power is in the reign of God and in the church as its representative.

The hope for Senate Republicans in part is that a unified Senate Democratic conference could help pull the chamber toward the New York City center of power, diluting upstate lawmakers» influence (it's worth noting that Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins, the Democratic leader, is from a suburban district, not New York City.

If Assemblyman Carl Heastie, a front - runner in the backroom contest to succeed Sheldon Silver, is crowned the next speaker of the Assembly, the oft - dismissed Bronx will become a new center of power in New York State.

1) As the weight gets a heavier, you'll need to lean your torso forward a bit to get the weight over the center of power of the exercise, which is your front leg.

This was a tradition that the Capitol — the nation's center of power and the home to the rich and powerful elites of the community — enjoyed every year.

To tilt the moonroof, press the center of the power moonroof switch (located next to the moonroof).

After the guided tour through Chichen Itza ruins, you will have free time to take pictures of buildings such as the Kukulcan Pyramid, the Great Ball Game, and the Observatory, or just take a walk to explore what was once the most important center of power in the Yucatan Peninsula.

Ezio must journey into Italy's greatest city, Rome, center of power, greed and corruption to strike at the heart of the enemy.

It was, writes African - American art specialist Halima Taha, the first major work of an African - American artist brought into the US's symbolic center of power and domestic values.

The article notes that the shift to gas, so far, is restricted to the city, and some of the pollution from coal combustion will simply be generated elsewhere as plants outside the city pollute to supply electricity to the center of power.

Analysts now say the center of power in the cryptocurrency market is shifting to Japan.

When you stop waiting for others to love you and start finding reasons to love them, you are back in your own center of power.

And there often are plenty of assets to tempt family members who are beyond the center of power.

Not exact matches

In fact, when Facebook engineers were designing a new form of server to train computers to learn, one of their biggest battles was with the folks providing power to the data center.

Data centers use a lot of power around the world.

Now a growing number of those customers are pushing the cloud giant to be more open about what's powering its data centers and are pushing it to use more green, renewable energy sources.

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.