Sentences with phrase «consolidating power»

Whereas repealing net neutrality will result in these Internet giants potentially consolidating their power, which would mean that even more Internet users would be dependent on their almost exclusive services and content, given the convenience of ISP prioritization allowed by the repeal.

Gail, «Politicians come and go but the petty little tyrants in our bureaucracies hang on busily consolidating their power» The tyranny was established long ago.

Curator Alex Gartenfeld offered, «Whether through corporate technologies or creative labor, images play a defining role in consolidating power in society and culture.

Josef and Anni Albers, who immigrated from Germany prior to the outbreak of WWII and as the Nazi party was consolidating power, arrived at the college in 1933 and had a lasting impact on the school's pedagogy.

What worries me is consolidating the power in the form of a retailer that seems to have a stronghold on the market.

It all starts with a problem common to every age: Meerson's machine attracts the attention of the politicos, who see it as a way of consolidating power, leaving the scientist no choice but to climb into the contraption herself and decamp for another time, hoping «to prevent the entire universe from being reshaped in the image of a bunch of thugs and reduced to ruin.»

But do you think this would go well with the oligarchic bourgeoisie, who are currently profiting from the fusion of banking and monopoly capital and who are consolidating their power through an intersection of economic and political forms of domination?

Michael struggles to recover from a brutal beating while consolidating his power; Tommy maneuvers to win reelection as he distances himself from his brother's criminal activities; Rose sows unrest between her sons.

The new Pope wastes no time consolidating power and balancing opposition to him in the College of Cardinals by elevating his children to high office, installing Juan as head of the papal armies and Cesare as a cardinal and his successor, while seeking a politically fortuitous marriage for daughter Lucrezia.

I spent a lot of time with my athletes in learning and consolidating the Power Snatch technique before we load the exercise up.

For early states, whose rulers were consolidating power, ritual sacrifice seems to have been one way to discourage outside attacks and internal revolt by sowing fear.

In keeping with Cuomo's habit of consolidating power in his own branch of government, the state inspector general is not a truly independent overseer, unlike the state comptroller's office.

Sometimes these actions have less to do with doctrine, and more to do with consolidating power, authority, and popularity.

Remember, Jesus lived in an era when two Caesars in a row had effectively «wiped their arses» with the Roman constitution by removing all power from the Roman Senate and consolidating that power in themselves.

After consolidating power at China's recent Party Congress, a key question is whether President Xi Jinping, facing large debts, will follow Deng Xiaoping's path and open up China's economy more.

It will also tell us how successful Beijing's new leadership will be in consolidating power and forcing the kinds of economic and financial reforms on which most economists now agree, but which are likely to be politically difficult.

The president has long talked up his friendship with Xi, whom he has praised for consolidating power in China despite its limits on democratic reforms.

And while Xi is riding high after consolidating power at a twice - a-decade Communist Party Congress last month, Trump comes to China saddled with low public approval ratings and dogged by investigations into Russian links to his election campaign.

By consolidating power, the crown prince has put the burden of his grand plans all on himself.

The CEO shows signs of slowly consolidating power, and the organization is restraining its spending for the first time.

«But he showed that he was able to consolidate power.»

The National Congress «goes a long way in deciding the top leadership around President Xi Jinping and how far he could consolidate his power, and potentially creates conditions for him to extend his rule in China beyond 2022 (his scheduled retirement date),» Chan wrote.

When he began to consolidate his power in the early 2000s, Putin's deal with the Russian people was simple: They would receive economic stability — and, critically, much higher standards of living — in exchange for a loss of freedoms.

However, it is far from clear if Xi, who has just consolidated his power at a Communist Party congress, will agree to do more.

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, nicknamed MBS, has rapidly consolidated power within the kingdom.

The Zetas started to consolidate power and control over drug trafficking operations in Nuevo Laredo under the leadership of Heriberto Lazcano, alias «El Lazca» or «Z3.»

The arrests were widely seen as a move by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to consolidate power.

And still others just consolidated their power.

In a move worthy of Michael Corleone of The Godfather movie fame, the 32 - year old crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Bin Salman, consolidated his power, over the weekend, by trotting a tried - and - true method of vanquishing political rivals in a monarchy: charge them with corruption.

In recent years, Godane had consolidated power, dissolving Shabaab's Shura council and turning the group's secret police into its primary organizing mechanism.

But as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pushes to consolidate power, 2017 could be a lot worse.

Except that Morsi's moves to consolidate power and install Sharia Law began almost as soon as he took office.

Clearly there are many risks to Xi's political campaign, and unfortunately I have no special insight into how these are likely to play out, but if Xi is able to consolidate power enough to impose the reforms proposed during the Third Plenum, Chinese growth rates will continue to decline sharply but in an orderly way.

I would argue that this is exactly what President Xi seems to be doing, and why even before he was formally in power he sought to consolidate power, undermine and frighten potential opposition, strengthen his relationship with the military, and unify the country's policymakers behind the need for reforms.

Should southern Syria become a new battlefront in the struggle between Israel and Iran, it is likely to inadvertently allow for an affiliate of the Islamic State group to expand its territorial reach and consolidate power, writes journalist Abdulrahman al - Masri.

The twice - a-decade leadership reshuffle saw Xi further consolidate his power, with his name inserted into the party's constitution, an honor no Chinese leader has enjoyed while still in power since Mao Zedong.

The U.S. government has warned that it would take «swift economic actions» if the Venezuelan government proceeds with a July 30 move to rewrite the constitution to consolidate power in the hands of President Nicolas Maduro.

But Walmart shares have performed extremely well recently, because the market has decided: Walmart is the last / biggest scale player left, Walmart now has a digital strategy, so Walmart will consolidate its power and accrue value,» the analyst wrote.

Those families constantly need to consolidate power among the leaders and alienate potential rivals.

The roundup was described as a sweeping corruption investigation but widely seen as an effort to consolidate power by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a son and the top adviser of King Salman, who succeeded his half brother and became king of Saudi Arabia in January 2015.

If there are large demonstrations or other forms of major public outcry when a leader takes undemocratic actions, then the would - be authoritarian can't get away with their attempts to consolidate power.

The Treasury Department has already issued a wide range of sanctions against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his associates after he moved to consolidate power in July.

This is an issue of doctrine, a generally internal Church affair that is being blown out of proportion by the LCWR to try to consolidate the power and prestige of the leaders of the LCWR.

While Gregory consolidated the power of the Church over a more limited geographic area, John Paul took the Gospel and the Sacraments to the ends of the earth.

So many lives in places like Africa have actually been made WORSE by giving money and food that ends up in the hands of war lords and tin - pot dictators, who just use it increase their personal wealth and consolidate their power.

He wanted to consolidate power and eliminate any opposition.

John Cornwall indicts Pope Pius XII for aiding and abetting the Nazis in order to consolidate his power over the Catholic Church.

Hitler had by that time so consolidated his power that the only witness against him still possible in Germany was that of martyrdom.

Besides, the three pillars of the international economy: the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO consolidate their powers.

Furthermore what you've already quoted above over and over again is that Lenin and later Stalin were two such communists who enforced atheism to consolidate power, the specific targeting of religious folks was so they can bring the proletariat to them rather than let the masses have a separate authority figure.