Sentences with phrase «distributed wealth and power»

J. Christopher Giancarlo's recent speech at Vanderbilt University Law School underlined «the relevance of a principles - based approach to legal education» that is built into the architecture of decentralized networks of distributed wealth and power.

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Even though power and wealth have now become more broadly distributed towards human, financial and technological capital, land ownership remains a key index of one's standing in society.

As the Pope still has significant influence over the less educated masses in these parts of the World, he has exercised this power by: (a) Using some of the Vatican's incomprehensible wealth to educate these vulnerable people on health family planning and condom use; (b) Supporting government programs that distribute condoms to high risk groups; (c) Using its myriad of churches in these regions to distribute condoms; or (d) Scaring people into NOT using condoms, based upon his disdainful and aloof view that it is better that a person die than go against the Vatican's position on contraceptive use.

And, although the nationalists might have given the impression that they favoured a «fairer» Scotland, where progressive policies were the norm, there is to be no use of Holyrood's tax powers (much demanded, of course) to distribute wealth from top to bottom.

Crony capitalism is the means by which those who seize the power of the state use it to distribute the wealth of the state to a few oligarchs, mostly their friends, members of their families, or lovers — basically a narrow population — to control and dominate state wealth for the maintenance of the idea of private property.

Basically, the series is an exploration of one of the key questions about the modern world: why are wealth and power distributed so unequally?

What is so insidious about Marxism is that while parts of it are truly useful as a paradigm for understanding how societies distribute power and wealth, when it comes to the proscriptive political theory, rather than the merely analytic aspect, Marxism is insanely conspiratorial, full of envy and hate, wildly irrational, amoral and murderously totalitarian.

As long as science is willing and ready to serve power, everything is fine and smooth; but if science, as in relation to climate change, beigins to challenge fundamental aspects of how wealth and power and weilded and distributed, and the consequences of our socio / economic system; then science had better watch out, because, those who, for whatever reason, threaten the status quo are the enemy.

Wealth Migrate Chief Operating Officer, Jaco Maritz, says that while many financial services providers have been experimenting with the transformative power of blockchain and distributed databases, few have successfully integrated the technology in a way that benefits global investors looking for enhanced security and assurance when investing locally and across borders.