Sentences with phrase «exercise power over»

The secret is to control what you can, when you can — to make sure you exercise power over whatever you can, so that those things that are beyond your power will stand a better chance of falling into place.

This doesn't mean they're scary or uncompromising people who like to exercise their power over unfortunate job candidates.

A fiduciary relationship is a relationship, grounded in fact and law, between a vulnerable beneficiary and a fiduciary who holds and may exercise power over the beneficiary in situations recognized by law.

Pathological types lack this empathy.and simply seek to exercise power over others, think climate alarmism.

Power as a means to sit as a whited sepulcher in a self - satisfying thirst to exercise power over artists; and money as a means to collude with «organizations» that publish meaningless statistics in order to justify their existence and agenda.

Those who exercise power over the individual are held to account by others.

He's a politically exposed person, so we have to exercise enhanced due diligence before we can even consider whether or not you're allowed to exercise this power over your mother's accounts.

Speech acts and neuronal and other physiological activities are interesting metaphysically because the act seems to exercise power over the neuronal activity (PS 8: 103).

This is a human aspiration and humans will use whatever ideologies are at their disposal to exercise power over others to attain that goal.

«While all the versions of the kingdom of the world acquire and exercise power over others, the kingdom of God, incarnated and modeled in the person of Jesus Christ, advances only by exercising power under others.

As much as Christ mandates that they exercise power under, they are forced by circumstances to exercise power over, too.

My article made note of old claims about the divine right of kings, not because I imagine such claims were true even in their own time, but because they at least offered a theory about why the state is justified in exercising power over life and death.

If we suppose that this considerable range of acts not only is supported by neuronal activity but also exercises power over it, then it follows that what in the course of the action is understood, what is articulated, what, it may be, is postulated as a standard for the action, all contribute to the power exercised by the action over its supporting neuronal activity.

What I mean is that even if one concedes that an act of that sort is in some sense mine and that it exercises power over an infrastructure asymmetrically identical with it, there remains something ambiguous about that «mine.»

Niebuhr found in Western history a recurring pattern in which strong nations exercised power over weaker nations.

G. R. Driver comments, «As thus interpreted, the poem depicts the introduction of the youthful Baal as a god of fertility into the Ugaritic pantheon and the establishment of his supremacy, under El's suzerainty, over all the other gods, exercising power over earth as god of rain; for rain is the ultimate source of the life - giving water which is essential to the whole of nature, however it may be distributed.»

A king exercises power over his «subjects;» some people are «subject» to occasional seizures.

It must be «a ministry of mercy, born of an act of Christ's own mercy» (in forgiving Peter's betrayal: 93) And it involves «the task, not of exercising power over the people — as the rulers of the gentiles and their great men do... [but of] «keeping watch» (episkopein)... so that through the efforts of the pastors the true voice of Christ the shepherd may be heard in all the particular churches» (94).

Mostly he enjoyed exercising power over his employers, fancying himself the final court of appeal for players and fans.

When you're exercising power over others by enacting legislation, or ratifying treaties that have the same authority as Constitutional amendments, or the Justices who interpret the Constitution, we're not talking about your personal rights anymore.

Lawmakers from both parties in the Assembly and Senate have chafed in recent years over Gov. Andrew Cuomo exercising this power over policy in the spending plan, be it pushing through new criteria for teacher evaluations or an increase in the minimum wage the Legislature contends has little to do with the state's overall finances.

She was the most despicable kind of religious person, that kind that does not truly believe in what they preach but only uses it to exercise powers over others.

or in exercising its powers over them or for their benefit under the 1990 private legislation?

Not exact matches

Naming / defining is an exercise of power over others, so perhaps naming other persons made in the Divine image, with the potential to become godlike, by labeling them «believers» or «unbelievers» is a failure to see all people as God sees them, children of the one true God.

power is exercised over the weak and flat - out apologizing places people in a weak position as they make themselves vulnerable.

No - one exercises power and control over the content or direction of the discussion.

Since there was never a time when God was not almighty, and since God must have something over which to exercise power in order to be deemed omnipotent, then God already contained the universe somehow within Godself.

When the Law of Love becomes the measure of whether or not an act sinful, the issue is no longer about sexual orientation, hetero or homosexuality; but whether the act is one of expressing love or exercising power / control over another.

Asked in The Kingdom of God in America, this question was reframed in Christ and Culture as a relationship between a social tradition that seeks to conserve its customs and «the power and attraction Jesus Christ exercises over men.»

is power to the highest degree possible and over all that exists, it is «all» the power that could be exercised by any one individual over «all» that is; but it remains to be shown how much power could be exercised in this fashion.

For «providence» is a word which tells us of the conviction that God exercises a never - failing and personal control over, even as he unfailingly works within, the events and circumstances of life, molding them and molding us in such a way that his grace and power are manifested in human history and in personal experience.

Pius XII, in a further clarification of the standard argument, holds that when the State, acting by its ministerial power, uses the death penalty, it does not exercise dominion over human life but only recognizes that the criminal, by a kind of moral suicide, has deprived himself of the right to life.

(Using the lowercase «c» with reference to «christianity» is a spiritual discipline for me as a member of a religious tradition so arrogant and abusive in its exercise of power over women, lesbians and gays, indigenous people, Jews, Muslims and members of nonchristian religions and cultures.)

If they would take the Christian faith as seriously as they claim, they would forsake the quest for power over and instead commit themselves to exercising power under.

Immigrant Catholicism was, in fact, held together by the vigorous churchmen who retained their power over their flocks by exercising it regularly on an infinitely detailed category of behaviors, ranging from what the faithful could eat on Fridays to what they could think or do in the innermost chambers of their personal lives [«The End of the Immigrant Church,» Illinois Issues, August 1982, pp. 15 - 21].

It is the power I exercise over my brain, my whole nervous system, and indeed over my whole body, Of this power we may say, in a commonsense way and subject to later qualification, that I exercise it while acting; and that some neuron in my brain that fires in the course of the action, or some neural network through which a complex impulse passes, is subject to it.

Faith in Christ produces salvation which then enables the holy spirit to reside within which in turn exercises his will over mine and through his power perfects me producing good works.

Here is the same instrumental Word, exercising the power of seizure over the same prophet: «The Lord took me from following the flock, and the Lord said to me, «Go, prophesy to my people Israel.»»

In his Attack upon «Christendom» Soren Kierkegaard suggested that «the illusion of a Christian nation is due... to the power which number exercises over the imagination... It is said, that [an innkeeper] sold his beer by the bottle for a cent less than he paid for it; and when a certain man said to him, «How does that balance the account?

They can not respect parents and teachers who either exercise arbitrary power over them or are guided primarily by their wants and wishes.

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?

He also argues that parents exercise certain «sole and inviolable» lawmaking powers over their children in the areas of custody, care, upbringing, discipline, and education, which the Supreme Court has acknowledged in many cases under the due - process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

The symbol in of of itself holds no power to convert people or exercise control over them.

Political power is damned rather than the person who exercises it; more precisely, the person is also condemned because of his power over others, but not in himself.

C. S. Lewis once said that man's celebrated power over nature «turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.»

He gets what he wants, the tree exercises no control over his desires, the tree in fact writes him a kind of blank check within the limit of her powers.

As the Pope still has significant influence over the less educated masses in these parts of the World, he has exercised this power by:

Referring to C. S. Lewis's much - cited claim in The Abolition of Man, Kass writes that if «man's so - called power over nature is, in truth, always a power exercised by some over others with knowledge of nature as their instrument, can it really be liberating to exchange the rule of nature for the role of arbitrary human will?»

It is not directed against any other persons as such, but at a particular role typification which is never, thank God, wholly incarnated, but which, to the degree that it is internalized as the professional superego, exercises demonic compulsive power over the self.