Sentences with phrase «for positions of power»

The state is operated in public, under the control of public figures who depend on popularity and lavish funding from various interest groups (now free, by Supreme Court decision, to operate in the dark) for their positions of power.

Certainly it is a fact that the relation between classes is one of violent competition for positions of power in the nation, for «a bigger slice of the cake» — that is, of the national revenue.

I had one point: unilingual people are unfit for positions of power in the federal public service.

«This leads me to wonder is your desire for a position of power so blinding that you are willing to purposefully mislead the public.»

I see someone who was never on the inside, whose beliefs are far closer to those of Anthony Watts and Willis Eschenbach than she ever lets on, and who is jockeying for a position of power and influence with the new Congressional majority.

I am submitting my resume for the position of Power Engineer.

No one from the grass roots can directly challenge for a position of power (Chairman) within the central government, as can one in the U.S. or Canada.

Not exact matches

Despite your position of power, forgetting that can undermine respect for you as an authority figure.

Instead of leveraging his positional power for personal gain, self - promotion, or demands for special privileges, Bruce put his people in positions of leadership to stretch their growth and develop new strengths and roles for them.

Like Erin Griffith said in a previous Term Sheet, the degree of the misconduct matters: «The specific act that occurred matters for questions like: Should this person be allowed to get a new job in a position of power?

«Organizations wait until a crisis to bring women into positions of power because they realize the current strategy isn't working and a new approach is needed,» says Sylvia Ann Hewlett, founder and CEO of the Center for Talent Innovation.

Elevating more women and underrepresented minorities to positions of power is becoming a business imperative for the firm, with clients demanding diversity in their legal teams, Erickson says.

If you do that, you're in a position of power and can get banks to compete for your business by reducing application fees, draw fees and unused line fees, as well as the interest rate.

Recently launched in San Francisco, The League is positioning itself as the option for high - achieving folks who are looking for the other half of a potential power couple — the tag line is «Date intelligently.»

Whatever the means, the end goal ought to be equal gender representation in positions of power, and not just for optics: women make more than 80 % of consumer purchases and are responsible for more than 50 % of business procurement decisions.

It is the worst version of power play when people are seeking someone's mentorship for things that are critical to their livelihood, and then they're put in that position.

A short video from one female executive won't change that, but hopefully a lot more women in positions of power and a growing awareness that burning the midnight oil takes a serious toll on families, relationships and even individuals (not to mention a more equitable sharing of housework and childcare between the sexes) will slowly make it safe for more of us to say to our bosses — or admit to ourselves — what Sandberg has just said publicly.

Mr Ward, dubbed «Chocfinger» due to his influence over the cocoa price, blamed the rising power of algorithmic and systems - based trading for making position - taking based on «fundamental» supply and demand factors more difficult.

The credit (or blame) for all of this change will rest on the shoulders of Michael Ferro, the tech investor with a longstanding side interest in newspapers who shocked the Chicago media elite when he bought a 16.6 % stake in the company and, as I reported, quickly began to exercise the power his attendant position (despite the title of non-executive chairman) gave him.

HashChain taps low - cost North American power, cool climate and high - speed Internet: the trifecta most critical to mining success, to create a competitive position for maximizing the number of mining «wins.»

One of the ways to find a company with a strong economic moat is to look for companies that have an almost monopolistic market position and can maintain pricing power while also raising their prices over time.

Combined with today's low FHA mortgage rates, literally millions of U.S. homeowners are now in position to FHA refinance; and purchasing power is up 12 % when FHA loans are used for a home purchase.

For most business leaders, the notion of success typically surpasses a paycheck or a position of power.

HashChain taps low - cost Canadian power, cool climate and high - speed Internet: the trifecta most critical to mining success, to create a competitive position for maximizing the number of mining «wins.»

During the congress, several up - and - coming politicians were also named to committee positions, setting the stage for a new balance of power.

While I think it is a sad position for Chick - Fil - A to take, they will eventually suffer by the almighty buying power of the people.

From the beginning it was an opportunity for men to gain positions of power and fortune at the expense of their «flock».

Even if younger Catholics are far from unanimous in their support of Weigel's positions, they nonetheless are not consumed by the theological and ecclesial power - struggles that have afflicted the American church for the past 40 years.

Where there is a position of power, there seems to be potential for abuse... Is it possible to put an end to this type of abuse?

Husbands were told to love their wives the way Christ loved the church when He gave Himself up for her — gave up His power and position to come down to the level of a servant — so that He could raise the church up to His holiness.

For some in positions of power in the NFL and elsewhere, these questions are seldom even asked.

What if we didn't just look for a balanced photo op to keep Twitter off our back but instead really and truly welcomed and promoted and amplified the voices and experiences of women, minorities, immigrants, refugees, or those less formally educated right into valuable positions of power and influence at our conferences?

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

As a rule, if someone in a position of power is responsible for the suffering of an upright and innocent person this would seem to provide a reasonable ground for accusing that someone of injustice.

While there is a certain amount of authority inherent within the pastoral position, it is, like any other form of power, easy to abuse, and while pastors are spiritual leaders, this does not make us immune to the lust for power, but to the contrary, often seems to amplify it.

If that central relationship is distorted, if we look to something less than God for our fulfillment, seeking affirmation on the level of status, wealth, social position, achievement, education, power, or whatever, then our human light will inevitably burn at a lower wattage; our being will be distorted.

People all over the world, both in positions of power and not, seem to believe that there is room for debate on the issues of climate change, humanity's involvement and the need to transition to a low - carbon future.

In the stricter communities it's immodest for them to show pictures of women on the internet, in papers, etc. and especially amongst men — NOT because she's in a position of power.

And that's pretty low for any person in a position of political power to do.

In my opinion, the only reason the male bastion of the clergy holds the scriptural position that it does is to protect the power base, a very human trait for a very human group, and quite unChirstian — but I'm just sayin»

It is largely taken for granted that success, power, wealth, and position are the goals of living and that education should be organized to serve these purposes.

The wealthy rule through their position of power, the poor are undesirable and castaways, especially the sick, who die for lack of health care... And we are bombarded with lies 24/7 by the media who ar no more then hired puppets of Big Mafia Corp's.

I explained why it had not been the case and why it had been the female member of my family in the position of power that had been wounding for me.

To only allow qualified people to hold positions, to restrict the ability of a greedy person, greedy for wealth or power or both, to hijack the workings of government for personal gain in wealth / power.

Jesus gave the Pharisees major rebuke for that, because they could see who He really was but chosen to reject Him in favor of hanging on to their power and position.

As distasteful as I find his position, I am actually grateful for Burk's post, and the Gospel Coalition's subsequent endorsement of it, because with it, we've finally cut through the crap to identify what this debate is really about: power.

For some reason, we tend to think that the people in positions of power, the people with titles, and the people who get their voice heard are the ones that God has blessed in this world.

God wasn't waiting for me in Thailand or in an orphanage or a book deal or on a stage or in a position of power and influence: God was always under the kitchen table cleaning up Rice Krispies.

If you are working with known abusers and you are attempting to discern if an abuser is authentically repentant, look for signs that they feel entitled to sympathy instead of accountability and restrictions, or to forgiveness and reconciliation from their victims and / or loved ones, or to being restored to a position of power.

But the question for me is, how to deal with the judgemental, holy than thou personalities, that are in these positions of power.