Sentences with phrase «exercising power over the people»

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).

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.

(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.)

«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.

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.»»

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.

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.

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

They exercised a great deal of influence and power over their people: performed religious rituals, sacrifices and black magic for the Pulayas and also at times for the high castes.

Of course I was not comparing a kidney to a fetus; I was referencing the power of the government to exercise control over a person's bodily autonomy, in particular, whether a government should be empowered to require a specific and direct application of one's organs for the purpose of sustaining another «person's» life.

As the Pope still has significant influence over the less educated masses in these parts of the World, he has exercised this power by: (a) Using some of the Vatican's incomprehensible wealth to educate these vulnerable people on health family planning and condom use; (b) Supporting government programs that distribute condoms to high risk groups; (c) Using its myriad of churches in these regions to distribute condoms; or (d) Scaring people into NOT using condoms, based upon his disdainful and aloof view that it is better that a person die than go against the Vatican's position on contraceptive use.

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.

... «Superior Court» is to be construed historically, and that... it connotes a court having an inherent jurisdiction, in England, to administer justice according to the law, as and being a part of, or descended from, and as exercising part of the power of, the Aula Regia, established by William the First, which had universal jurisdiction in all matters of right and wrong throughout the kingdom, and over which, in its early days, the King presided in person.

And so, Labour believes that powers over devolved policy areas currently exercised by the EU should go directly to the relevant devolved body after Brexit, so that power is closer to the people.

He noted that the essence of power is not the privileges it carries but what it can be used to achieve for the people over whom it is exercised, saying, It is imperative then that justice, fairness, kindness and pursuit of righteousness should be the purpose and pursuit of the throne.

«The essence of power is not the privileges it carries but what it can be used to achieve for the people over whom it is exercised.

A kettlebell can also be secured to one end of the Battle Rings and thrown over a pull up bar for use in drills that are usually reserved for cable / pulley systems; these exercises include tricep extensions, woodchoppers, and new functional drills that can help people develop throwing power.

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.

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.

In modern democracies, those who want power do not want the people over whom they will exercise that power to know their intent.

It blunders around in the dark making fantastic claims and wanting to exercise enormous power over people's lives based on a lot of wishful thinking and circular reasoning.

Questions have arisen whether the power of fiduciaries over people's digital assets is clear and whether its exercise needs an express legal framework.

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.

It will be a declaration, in my deliberate judgment, that the sovereign power of the people of the United States and Union must hereafter remain incapable of action over territory to which their rights in full dominion have been asserted with the most rigorous authority, and bow to a jurisdiction hitherto unknown, unacknowledged by any department of the government, denied by all through all time, unclaimed till now, and now declared to have been called into exercise not by any change in our Constitution, the laws of the Union or the States, but preexistent and paramount over the supreme law of the land.

Judges exercise considerable power, not only over the litigants in the cases before them but also in shaping the law for the future, and power is a highly valued form of compensation for many people.

He or she must be able to exercise some discretion or power over another person.

Parliament had to be taken to have understood and endorsed the manner in which the power had been understood and exercised over the years; and it permitted the extension of the jurisdiction of the English courts over persons abroad to cover new causes of action and situations.

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