Sentences with phrase «centre of power»

Peter Mandelson, who can't bear to remain cut off from centres of power, has been sending some intriguing signals to the new regime in Whitehall.

f. Market domination in economy created centres of power by accelerating the growth of unemployment and regional disparity.

A unipolar system of international capitalism with many centres of power, mainly under US dominance, is now imposing itself as the only viable alternative available to economic and social life.

The second danger is that often under the influence of established powers they might become weighed down in bureaucracy and end up becoming centres of power themselves, which are forced little by little to subscribe to the dominant logic in order to reproduce socially.

The stage is set for two competing centres of power jostling against each other.

Iran's hardliners had pulled all the stops and mobilised all their resources to bring out as many people as possible to grab the last centre of power in Iran that was not under their control, namely the executive branch.

It's also worth noting that those medieval centres of power that Letwin & Blond get all misty eyed about included nobles with their own private armies.

Along the same street, the Flemish Parliament (124 members), having taken a political decision to locate itself near the Belgian centre of power, is a bold mixture of modern architecture blended within an older building.

«New Labour have always wanted that because they have always wanted to remove any alternative centre of power.

It's a fascinating twist to think that it could be happening purely near particular centres of power, with the general public only targeted to the extent that they feed into that via voting.

The mega - mediacompanies are centres of power that are at the same time linked into other circuits of power, such as the financial institutions, the military establishments, and the political elite.

Not only do they keep the masses away form the centres of power but also fail to solve the basic problems of mass poverty glaring inequalities, growing unemployment and rising prices.

If the gesture was not enough, Drogba requested the then president of Ivory Coast Laurent Gbagbo to shift the venue of the next African Cup of Nations qualifier against Madagascar from Abidjan to Bouaké, the centre of power of the rebels who had been fighting Gbagbo's regime.

In his view, the West Midlands agreement is «typical of the Labour party seeking to concentrate power over the people by moving the centre of power further away from people.»

He didn't make God the centre of his power - seeking venture.

Iranians have said a resounding Yes to President Rouhani who, in recent years and particularly during the last several weeks of campaigning, promised to expand individual and political freedoms and make all those centres of power, like the Revolutionary Guard, accountable.

As Adam Boulton put it in his Sunday Times column, this means that for «the first time in Labour's history «the left» will dominate all three of the party's centres of power: the trade unions, the shadow cabinet in parliament and the national executive».

In keeping with Ukip's roots in the east of England — where people often feel light years from the centre of power, and immigration and low wages are frequently a big issue — a large number of the targets are on that side of the country, in the form of Grimsby, Boston and Skegness, Sittingbourne and Sheppey, Thurrock, South Thanet (where Farage himself is standing), North Thanet, and Great Yarmouth.

There are others, of course, who are hugely influential - Lord Ashcroft, Andy Coulson, Andrew MacKay are stand outs - but the above six would be my candidates for being fully behind the «new Toryism» and who are at the centre of power.

At the Chinese border the journey continues aboard a Chinese sleeper train to Beijing and three days of exploration and discovery that includes the marvels of the Great Wall of China, the Forbidden City that was the centre of power from the Ming to the Qing Dynasties, the breathtaking Temple of Heaven and many more treasures and symbols of China's power and fascinating past.

A centre of power for over 1,000 years, Rome boasts stunning Roman wonders like the Colosseum, the Roman Forum and the Pantheon, combined with Catholic grandeur found in the form of the Vatican and over 900 churches.

The town grew initially as a staging post, being situated about halfway between Paris and Rouen - the centres of power for France and Normandy.

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood — Journey into Italy's greatest city, Rome, the centre of power, greed, and corruption, as Ezio takes leadership of the entire Brotherhood of Assassins.

The centre of power, greed, and corruption, as Ezio takes leadership of an entire Brotherhood of Assassins.

The film associates footage from the few amateur cameras available in Bucharest during the revolution, broadcasts from foreign televisions and primarily from the continuous transmission of the occupied Romanian Television, which had become one of the centres of power during the first live revolution in history.

The Guardian: Farmers growing a landmark genetically modified food crop in Bangladesh — Bt brinjal, or aubergine — have found themselves at the centre of a power struggle between the government and activists trying to prevent the technology getting a hold in the region.

The Court was in this case probably not really confronted with an «uncontrollable centre of power» considering the procedural and substantive checks and balances imposed in the regulation as well as the possibility of judicial review by the Court and therefore did not see the need to annul a regulation that itself tried to curb an uncontrollable centre of power: the financial markets.