Sentences with phrase «exercising power over others»

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.

«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.

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

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.

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

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.

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).

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.»

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?»

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.»

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.

While formally possessing the same powers as the other provinces as set out in section 92 of Canada's Constitution Act, 1867, Québec in practice exercises certain powers, for example, over language, that the other provinces are content to leave to Ottawa.

More than 40 years ago C. S. Lewis noted that «what we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.»

Alexander Hamilton, only after the Constitution had been ratified, argued for a broad interpretation which viewed spending as an enumerated power Congress could exercise independently to benefit the general welfare, such as to assist national needs in agriculture or education, provided that the spending is general in nature and does not favor any specific section of the country over any other.

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

Like some of the other comments mentioned, this challenge has also really helped me to define a proper wish list and really reign in my terrible spending habits (have exercised total will - power over the last week by recognising my style and shopping triggers — so thank you!).

Whether this means exercising control over their emotions or trying to exert power over other people, we're now waking up to the damage this flawed life - lesson inflicts upon young men.

With their new power, they are waking up to how much sway they can exercise over takeovers, the fates of chief executives and other crucial decisions.

That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.

When frailties, or mortality, strike, people's affairs are turned over to others, individuals or institutions, with powers set out by law or by contract that must be exercised in good faith in the interests of the people or those they have designated.

Dominance refers to the rainmakers» ability to exercise power and influence over others.

Both of these Fisheries Act provisions trenched on Provincial powers over property and civil rights in the Province, but one was found to have the primary purpose of protecting fisheries with only an incidental effect on Provincial jurisdiction, while the other was found to be insufficiently connected to the Federal fisheries power to be a valid exercise of the Federal power.

Joint custody * increases *, not decreases, covert resentment and conflict, because it permits the parent who is not spending the day - to - day time raising the children and operating the household to exercise veto power over decisions made by the other, and if so inclined, to meddle and interfere, creating stalemate between the two parents, followed by power plays attempting to break it.

Coercive controlling violence and abuse is part of dynamic in which there is a pattern of power and control exercised by one parent over the other.