Sentences with phrase «dominant power»

While coal is still the nation's dominant power source, reports suggest its consumption of coal hasn't grown since 2013, and may even have declined in 2015.

In At the Gates, you lead a barbarian kingdom during the final days of the Roman Empire as you seek to become the new dominant power in Europe.

During the talk about her early work, a black coloured wax mask of her own face, the conversation turned to the fact that many artist voices get silenced because of dominant power structures.

In this work, Thurman made the compelling case that, despite Christianity's historical use by dominant powers to affirm their dominance, «the basic fact is that Christianity as it was born in the mind of this Jewish teacher and thinker appears as a technique of survival for the oppressed.»

Last spring, investors snapped up the Chase / First Union Capital Markets» joint venture $ 1.1 billion offering, prompting some industry analysts to say that the deal's strength - priced at some of the tightest spreads seen in the market in 1999 - was instrumental in establishing commercial banks as the new dominant power in the reconstituted CMBS market.

But, if I read him rightly, Loury wants us to support his efforts and those of others who are speaking truth to the still dominant powers among black intellectuals and politicians.

In response to a question from Sen. Marco Rubio about whether China was planning to overtake the US as the world's most dominant power, Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, echoed Wray.

Whether China is a more evil dominant power than the US depends on who you talk to.

It's a reflection of how dominant powers maintain structures by insisting the oppressed behave to a certain set of standards under the guise of decorum, making change incredibly difficult or outright impossible.

When black teachers in the 1920s and 1930s made the decision to teach black history, they were challenging dominant power structures that deemed African Americans as unworthy of study or acclaim.

Hank Willis Thomas mines popular culture to expose dominant power structures and reveal the subjective nature of how we see and understand the world around us.

By focusing on interpersonal complexity and political narratives, her films often aim to generate reflexiveness to dismantle dominant power structures.

A «strange bedfellows» alliance between environmentalists and the state Tea Party — promptly dubbed the «Green Tea» coalition — successfully lobbied the Public Service Commission to force Georgia Southern, the state's dominant power company, to buy 525 megawatts of solar power.

A critical reading of moral anger in clinical law contexts should, after acknowledging the feeling, examine the ways that feelings of anger may perpetuate dominant power structures in lawyer - client relationships.

By examining the ways in which dominant media focuses on eliciting emotional reactions from privileged, Western readers — including the emotion of moral outrage — on behalf of victims of poverty, famine, or violence in far - flung parts of the world, Ahmed points out the ways in which emotions can reproduce dominant power relations.

Women are encouraged toward leadership on campuses, but they must navigate leadership in ways that preserve men's dominant power in intimate relationships.

In the meantime, what other states are doing — especially with regard to a possible war with Iraq — is to use international institutions to limit and restrain (or «balance») the power of the U.S. Helping international institutions to develop the strength and authority to manage local crises is a responsible use of dominant power.

Long after humankind perished in the flames of the oil wars, the great panda empire is expanding throughout the galaxy as the new dominant power.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R - SC) first brought up the monopoly issue; later, Sen. Dan Sullivan (R - AK) noted that regulation «can cement the dominant power,» implying that in this case, Facebook is that dominant power.

«Facebook was compromised by the Russians and they never really talk about it,» says a top ad agency executive, who spoke on condition of anonymity to criticize one of the dominant powers in digital advertising.

\ Also, he believes that in many cases consumers are being harmed by the dominant power of some of the platforms, particularly Amazon and Uber.

But in terms of economy, sociology, anthropology of knowledge, of science and of technology, we do not have a different discourse from the dominant powers.

Of course, our story should be in the plural, not in the singular like that of the dominant power.

All the forces of the left have left the discourse on science and technology to the dominant powers.

All analysis dealing with politics, science and technology today, is from the same mould, that of the dominant powers.

Aren't we playing the game of the dominant power if we accept that political, economic and social representation should be difficult to implement at the world level?

The dominant powers at play in the world — or the One who shared the message of the Beatitudes?

Thus the form of Gnostic self - expression can be understood as a consequence of the direct impact of Socratic existence on highly civilized peoples prepared for the axial revolution, but not yet freed from the dominant power of the mythical.

Here's where I think the problem comes in: For generations, religion was a dominant power in society and politics.

Our challenge as Christians who are also citizens of an empire is to find hope and guidance in biblical calls to repentance and conversion that inevitably confront people whose historical ties are linked to dominant powers that come under the judgment of God.

His endorsement of the social status quo and the dominant power structure endeared him to the nation «s political and economic elites.

Furthermore, as the victims of the dominant power, it is the Minjung who are the prime perceiver of the reality of that power.

Another emphasis is the notion that divine providence supports the dominant powers in society and sanctions the alliance of the church with those powers.

It accentuates and fuels cultural, social and political conflicts in many nations, when they serve the interests of the dominant powers.

Global communication has become technetronics - intensive, and increasingly encircles the life of the people.The most serious consequence of this communication and information revolution is the subjugation of the spirit, perception and will of the people to the dictates of the dominant powers.

They knew Jesus was dangerous, although he never used a sword; he used language and symbols that challenged and threatened the validity of the world sustained by the dominant powers.

No team among the Final Four has proved to be a dominant power, but one of them will find greatness in an NCAA tournament that has reflected the college game's new era

Firstly we must be worried about a new manager making Arsenal a dominant power again.

As a complement to Samuel Russell's really good answer: by cheating on the election count, instead of just making the numbers up, the dominant power tries to get away from elections as pure «demonstrations of support on previously agreed lines» thus creating the feel of legitimate choice for at least some participants.