Sentences with phrase «even military power»

Too often we've used the technological, economic, and even military power of Christendom to push Christian ideas on people.

Not exact matches

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.

The former, which consists only of the five Arctic states with direct borders on the Arctic Ocean — Canada, Denmark (Greenland), Norway, Russia, and the United States — primarily deals with oceanic issues.74 Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu even complained in 2015 about non-Arctic states using their military and economic power to «strive for greater roles in the Arctic,» 75 which likely was an implicit reference to China.

To address power and prestige, while it may be true that Britain's loss of reserve - currency status in the 20th century coincided roughly with its loss of political and military preeminence, I think it is incorrect to imply that Britain lost power and prestige after the Great War mainly or even partly because sterling lost its status as the dominant reserve currency (which in fact really occurred some time in the 1930s and 1940s).

Even though, as a Christian, I can only support military action with fear and trembling, I am not arguing that all use of military power is wrong.

No nation will be allowed to surpass or even equal American military power, and indeed other nations are advised to limit or destroy any «weapons of mass destruction» they may have, and that includes Russia, China and India.

Of course, if you're taught over and over by the rock mythology, or even by PBS or the NYT, that the Righteous Artist ought to say the equivalent of «F# $ @ You» to the likes of the «military - industrial establishment,» the «system,» or the «Power,» you might assume that you ought to say the words themselves to something a bit more obviously impacting your life, such as your ex-girlfriend.

All of us in our varied ministries tend to be awed by the structures and potency of the establishment of Baal, even though we know, somewhere down there in the timid, secret resources of faith, that all the stuff of Baal doesn't make God — power, technological sophistication, machismo, sex, political, military, and economic domination, energy independence (ha!).

It is turning into a combination of ideological tics and irritable gestures even as the worst actors gain power.Ross Douthat argues that the Obama administration is shifting the U.S.'s foreign policy strategy from a Pax Americana model (where the U.S. uses military force to impose order) to one of offshore balancing (where the U.S. strategically sides with one local power or another while keeping U.S. commitments to a minimum).

Even now, the Democratic majority remains reluctant to use its power of the purse to cut off funding for the war, thereby ending the American occupation of Iraq and starting to curtail the ever - growing power of the military - industrial complex.

That such preparations may upset the international balance of power, or even provoke war, is no reason to reject a military budget, since the final war is coming according to the will of God.

It is easier to imagine him sitting on the edge of Moscow, and on the edge of Washington, and on the edge of Beijing and Johannesburg and Tel Aviv and Baghdad, and all other seats of military power, and weeping: «If you, even you, had only recognized on this day the things that make for peace!»

But the history of the voting privilege in the twentieth century shows that it takes the combined power of mass movements, economic pressures, and the Federal Government with its military force to give even a relative assurance that this requirement of justice will be realized.3 It seems, therefore, that when we move from the perspective of love to concrete issues of social strategy and political power, justice is accomplished by a confluence of historical forces and humane considerations which indeed may be enforced by love, but which must have other sources.

It enabled us Jews to survive for over three millennia, even though we usually lacked political and military power, koach.

The dictator Hitler a propagandist who even gave people intoxicants to please them so that he could be able to control them, when he realized he has lost the military power to conquer the region, he said Germany does not deserve him and hanged himself.In case of Wenger he is demagogue people can fight because of him but they can't fight him and if arsenal keeps failing and he cant accept defeat and retire then he can do like Hitler and say arsenal doesn't deserve him

The war is already underway and likely to escalate into an even greater coalition of military power than already exists.

Robert Jervis has worked on intelligence estimates and offense - defense perception, where there is an element of interpretation even with military power.

Remember that even UN resolutions don't have any practical power outside UN member states sending military forces to enforce them, or implement economic sanctions effectively.

Irrespective of how the UK is perceived overseas, governments of all parties have long believed that Britain needs to have a military befitting a great power — even if the dwindling military budget is closer to what might be expected for a medium size power.

«As we have seen in the U.S., no country is immune to the global financial problems and even the world's biggest military power is now grappling with how to make defence cuts and reform for the future.»

Senior military officers could find themselves handed greater powers to run the services even as their overall numbers are cut.

Many of the large sects that the OP is referring to is backed by military powers such as Saudi Arabia and Iran, and most western nations are willing to project enormous power to protect their Muslim communities when they present a strong or even forceful opposition to extremists.

White remains cautious, though, and would like to see more work looking at whether some of those 10 watts might be coming from the piezoelectric properties of the tantalum oxide, rather than from its interaction with the droplets.Ten watts would be enough to power a mobile phone, a military radio, a GPS device, even a small laptop, Krupenkin says.

My power tower is a single, sturdy, free standing piece of equipment that allows me to perform a variety of pull ups, chin - ups, dips, knee raises and pushups, my power tower will even hold my feet when I do my old school military sit - ups!

But it's also part and parcel of Marvel's recent slate of movies, which has been interested, more than ever, in the idea that American hegemony and military power maybe isn't everything it's cracked up to be — even as every movie seems to conclude with a big shrug.

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Waterborne offers events and building options that focus more on the coastal areas of the island, as well as providing off - shore alternatives for energy with tidal power plants, military submarines for defense, even floating luxury apartments for housing.

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The ability of Ethan Ring's images to induce tears or ecstasy, to heal, and even kill people attracts the interests of legal, military, governmental, and commercial forces, who all see the opportunities of harnessing this power for their own ends.

all the while technology makes cars get higher mpg, solar helps entire nations power themselves — hell, even the white house is putting up solar panels, and the branches of the US military are prepping to draw 25 % of all energy from renewables in a few years, and electric cars whiz around, and LEDs use 75 % less energy.

Instead it was claimed that oil and gas or even nuclear were cheaper than coal which was only true if one ignored the military cost of middle east oil and the cost of cleaning up dead nuclear power plants.

A new survey of the solar power potential of all the military bases in California, conducted by the Department of Defense, shows that even though just 4 % of their available land is suitable for development, they could still install 7,000 MW of solar power.

He later expanded on the definition, explaining that «lawfare» was «the exploitation of real, perceived, or even orchestrated incidents of law - of - war violations being employed as an unconventional means of confronting» a superior military power.