Sentences with phrase «exercise authority over»

Superior Courts (sometimes referred to as District or County Circuit Courts in several states) generally exercise authority over litigation embroiled in larger sums of money, domestic relations, probate of estates of deceased persons, guardianships, conservatorships, and trials of felonies.

This, for example, allows the B.C. government to exercise its authority over oil tanker traffic in the coastal waters dear to Aboriginal Peoples.

This basically means that parents have the right to exercise authority over their children (until age 18).

Provided that this is not contradictory to the interests of the children, the District Court may remove a parent from the right to exercise authority over one or more of his children on the ground that this parent is unfit or unable to comply with his duty to care for and raise his children.

«Police respond with anger when mayors try to exercise authority over how they relate to the civilian population.»

• Rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them.

You can not see any records in the Bible wherein, woman exercise authority over a man, nor preach or has any part in the priesthood.

Everyone uses 1 Timothy 2:12 (But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet.)

«Do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.

Matthew 20: 25But Jesus called them aside and said, «You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their superiors exercise authority over them.

In speaking to them about authority he said, «You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them.

The principal dispute is about who should exercise authority over the Muslim community: the Sunni believe that a leader or caliph should be selected by the community, while the Shia hold that caliphs can only come from the descendents of the Mohammed's chosen successor, his cousin Ali.

«And Jesus called them to him and said to them, «You know that those who are supposed to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them.

Do they forget Jesus» words (Luke 22:25 - 26): ««The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and those who exercise authority over them call themselves Benefactors.

«You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them.

Mark 10: 42 - 45 — And Jesus called them to him and said to them, «You know that those who are supposed to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them.

He spoke of how «the rulers of the gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them» (Matt.

In that custodial role a handful of Greek bishops continue to exercise authority over a community almost entirely Arab Orthodox in membership (today numbering about 40,000 in Israel, 120,000 in Jordan), whose constant complaint is of episcopal intolerance and the spiritual and organizational impoverishment of the «indigenous church.»

Jesus Christ told us what the order of this world is like: «You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them» (Matthew 20:25).

«You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them» (Matt.

''...» or to exercise authority over a man;»» ------------- No, I read that, but Paul is talking about Elders — leaders of the church.

But Jesus called them to him and said, «You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them.

So when Paul (inspired to say) said «I do not permit a woman to teach, or exercise authority over a man» I accept that.

It is important because it is critical in determining whether Parliament can adequately exercise its authority over government spending.

Preaching at an antiwar service at LSTC, he compared at length Vietnam - era America with the beast in the Book of Revelation: «The beast is a world imperialist; it exercises authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation.»

I felt only a twinge of guilt when I exercised authority over the male members of my leadership team.

Exercising authority over the Department's financial management activities as well as legislative, budgetary, and program proposals.

If another person was charged with exercising authority over the child, then the emancipation of the underage mother has the result that she as of then shall exercise this authority exclusively.

Other bodies have exercised authority over the legal profession.

While the CFPB is generally excluded from exercising authority over real estate brokerage activities, the CFPB does have authority under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 (RESPA) over agents and brokers engaging in offering or providing financial products or services.

Not exact matches

Unlike the full regulatory authority the CFTC exercises over the derivative markets, the court explained that the CFTC's authority over the spot markets extended only to «manipulation or fraud.»

Moreover, the chairman has the authority to call meetings and exercise control over the issues placed on the agenda.

* St. Luke 22:25 And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors.

You don't have to be the most educated person in Laodicea to know that the Greek philosophers were rather insistent upon the importance of maintaining a household in which the man exercises unilateral authority over his wives, children, and slaves.

It matters not whether we speak of the body of Christ or the body politic, for authority to be authority and not a form of domination or manipulation those who have it can not in its exercise rely on force and deception in a way that bypasses the liberty of those over whom it is exercised.

In both church and state, the extent of the authority one enjoys as an officeholder is not delimited by beliefs shared with the people over whom authority is exercised.

What our churches are arguing over, therefore, is not the authority of Scripture or confessions but over those things to which reference must be made when authority is exercised, over their correct interpretation, and over their relative weight in settling disputes.

It suggests, I believe, that within the common tradition, authority is understood as a way of making power responsible to a standard that is shared both by one who has authority and by those over whom it is exercised.

How can it be true both that those with authority have the right to expect compliance and the power to invoke sanctions, and that those over whom they exercise authority continue to enjoy liberty even though they are under authority?

But Jesus called them [to him], and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them.

Patriarchy — a cultural system in which men exercise unilateral authority over their households and (generally) over society — is, according to Burk, God's ideal for this world.

The basis of this government («government» means exercise of authority over organizations) are the rudimentary institutions and institutions - coming - into - being - through - need - and - capacity which are all around us.

Since mainstream religions don't control language, their religious authorities simply can't exercise the degree of power over membership that cult leaders can when they make an active effort to reduce the critical capacities of their adherents.

The totalitarian governments were exercising, over the wills of the people, an absolute authority that denied any prior responsibility to God.

It shouldn't be surprising that apologists will defend biblical chattel slavery given they are equally willing to defend the slaughter of children and infants; completely disregarding any notion of judgment based on an exercise of free will, completely disregarding any notion of empathy for their suffering, and with complete rejection of any personal moral culpability in offering their various incarnations of a Nuremberg defense by placing their self - serving deference to perceived authority over any and all other moral considerations.

As both prophet and judge, Deborah exercised complete religious, political, judicial, and militaristic authority over the people of Israel.

Central to the prevailing philosophy of the day was the idea that a free man ruled over his household as a sovereign, exercising unilateral authority over his subordinate wives, children, and slaves.

The question really is: how can I as a member of the Wheaton community and conservative evangelicalism make a break with the fathers of neoevangelicalism (i.e., Carl F. H. Henry) and advocate a method contrary to the authority they exercise over the evangelical subculture of which I am a part?

His mind was still agonising over the matter of the exercise of authority, and in particular the matter of the «Ban» on the sacraments so often exercised by Church authorities when they wanted an overdue debt paying — bans «flying about like bats», as he had said in March — and in general the whole business of excommunication.

But then the Nestorian church (as most of the early Asian Christian communities came to be called) exercised ecclesiastical authority over more of the earth than either Rome or Constantinople.