Sentences with phrase «from centers of power»

MODERNA MUSEET Though a small country far from the centers of power and culture, Sweden is second to none when it comes to the history of modernization.

Says Gittins: «If I go to Africa and sit down in a local community, far away from the centers of power, I can actually get on with inculturation, and in fact that is the only way I can get on with inculturation.»

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Meanwhile, Portugal's Communist Party has support of as much as 10 percent of the electorate — and could help deny that country's Socialist Party a shot at taking back power from the governing center - right coalition in an Oct. 4 election.

The idea of renting computing power from another company was almost unheard of, but Jassy had a key backer in Dalzell, who recalls arguing that «we're going to invest in this anyway,» since Amazon would always need data - center resources for itself.

The center in Maiden, N.C., produces 167 million kilowatt hours, the power equivalent of 17,600 homes for one year, from a 100 - acre solar farm and fuel cell installations provided by Silicon Valley startup Bloom Energy.

Moving existing applications from internal data centers to a third - party public cloud can be expensive, and older applications don't take advantage of all the flexibility and power public cloud has to offer.

Fatigued by years of austerity and swayed by promises of debt relief, Icelandic voters dumped the Social Democrats from power on Saturday, returning a center - right government that ruled over its financial collapse five years ago.

All of Apple's US facilities, including offices, retail stores and data centers, are powered by 100 percent renewable energy sources like solar, wind and micro-hydro power, which Apple generates or purchases from local projects.

For instance, Kubiak has long been a devotee of quarterback bootlegs and power running plays, launched from formations where the quarterback begins directly behind the center.

There is even an instructional video cassette, «The Microcomputer: What It Can Do and the Power of VisiCalc,» by business microcomputer consultants Barbara and John McMullen (available for a $ 35 rental fee from Martha Stuart Communications Inc., Distribution Center, P.O. Box 246, Hillsdale, NY 12529).

Chicago, GenomeWeb — A new study by researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has demonstrated the predictive power of an AR - V7 protein expression test using Epic Sciences» non-EPCAM-based circulating tumor cell detection platform, which could help guide treatment decisions for men with metastatic castration - resistant prostate cancer.

The line is a key choke point for Puerto Rico's power grid, carrying electricity from generators in the south of the island to load centers in the north.

Perspective from Founder Charles R. Schwab and the Schwab Center for Financial Research on the power of indexing and variety of approaches it can take.

INEOS Bio (which is the biofuel arm of petrochemical giant INEOS) and developer New Planet Energy say they will use the loan guarantee to build the «INEOS BioEnergy Center,» near Vero Beach, Florida, that will produce 8 million gallons of advanced biofuels and 6 MW of biomass power from plant waste and trash per year.

Puerto Rico gets much of its electricity from large central power plants on the southern coast of the island and transmits power to load centers on its north side, as you can see on this map of the island's transmission system.

The contest is largely between the All Progressives Congress, an amalgam of four opposition parties that is bent on wresting power from the ruling center - right People's Democratic Party, which has been in power since 1999, when the country returned to civilian rule.

If Chinese authorities indeed intend to ban Bitcoin from the country entirely, Bitcoin mining operations — both mining pools and hash power data centers — will be easy targets to shut down.On the other hand, this is not the first time that fears of China «banning Bitcoin» have been raised.

The National Front's Marine Le Pen, flag - bearer for these views, has become the nation's most popular politician, kept from power only through the frenzied collaboration of the center - left, the center - right, and the mainstream media.

God is at work not among the rulers, Luke implies, but out there on the hills, in the grubby manger, far from the center of earthly power.

The Mughal power structure rested on a heterogeneous Muslim aristocracy composed of newcomers from Transoxiana (where Bukhara and Samarkand had long been centers of Arabic Islamic culture), of Iranian noblemen seeking careers in the newly conquered country, and of the Turkish and Afghan aristocracy who were already entrenched in India but now removed from supreme power.

In later years it served as a center of Muslim orthodoxy, but it also created religious leaders who did not hesitate to make common cause with the Hindus in an effort to wrest power from the British.

Purpose of post is to make hindu secular, ignorant self centered human to realize power of truth, nothing can over power truth, nor can deviate from truth in life, because truth absolute rules the world, their is none other but truth absolute LORD GOD of the world.

An event of a highly distinctive kind and of incalculable creative power occurred in first century Palestine; it was remembered as centered in and taking its character largely from a certain Jewish teacher and prophet.

The symbiotic centers of such power nexus have substantially shifted from the nation state structures to the global corporate entities.

Order, meaning, larger values do not emanate from the top down, from THE Center, in my view; rather, they gradually emerge from the bottom up, in waves of order, meaning, and value that build in power and fan out in wider and wider circles of influence with the passing of time.

Of course, there are alternatives to the worldview that power should move from the center to the edges.

In this way, the Center becomes an integral part of the community itself and not just another agency coming in from the outside, competing for power and clientele and in this way further fragmenting an already badly disorganized community.

But the time has come to face the fact that the shift of decision - making from political to economic centers of power is not acceptable.

The story of Phyllis Schlafly, as Critchlow, a professor of history at St. Louis University, tells it, is a story of conservatism operating far from centers of political and cultural power but crucial to the most important domestic political event of the second half of the twentieth century: the ascendancy and triumph of the once - moribund American right.

, the establishment of incipient Syrian power in Damascus under Rezon to the north (11:23 f.), and, from the very center, the early insurrection of the Ephraimite Jeroboam (11:26 - 28) who, upon Solomon's death, played a leading role in the North's secession from Israelite union.

I found that if ministry were to have power, it needed to be conducted from an uncompromising position, from the vantage point of a «center that holds.»

The symbiotic centers of the power nexus have shifted substantially from the nation state structures to the global corporate entities, deeply affecting the life of the people, and their communities.

Biblical faith, on the contrary, is centered in the existence and activity of a deity who is infinite in wisdom, power, and love, but who nevertheless cares personally for each of us, a God whom we can approach in prayer and from whom we can receive help and strength, a God who is always acting within the human scene and is known to us by his acts.

Of course, one of the early documents of democracy, the U.S. Declaration of Independence, proposed just the opposite — that government derives its power from the consent of the governed, in other words, that power should flow from the periphery to the centeOf course, one of the early documents of democracy, the U.S. Declaration of Independence, proposed just the opposite — that government derives its power from the consent of the governed, in other words, that power should flow from the periphery to the centeof the early documents of democracy, the U.S. Declaration of Independence, proposed just the opposite — that government derives its power from the consent of the governed, in other words, that power should flow from the periphery to the centeof democracy, the U.S. Declaration of Independence, proposed just the opposite — that government derives its power from the consent of the governed, in other words, that power should flow from the periphery to the centeof Independence, proposed just the opposite — that government derives its power from the consent of the governed, in other words, that power should flow from the periphery to the centeof the governed, in other words, that power should flow from the periphery to the center.

But more generally, Postman is worried about why young people «turn away from civilized speech,» and in his view, the right answer is that «the electronic information environment, with television at its center, is fundamentally hostile to conceptual, segmented, linear modes of expression, so that both writing and speech must lose some of their power» (TCA 74).

There is an assumption in the American Constitution that rises out of a biblical insight into the nature of human life: given the self - centered, sinful nature of all human beings that causes us to operate from the vantage point of self - interest, no one person or one branch of government should ever be allowed to achieve total power.

He emphasized the active, integrating self (rather than the frail, victimized ego); held to a «soft» (rather than a «hard») determinism; had a strong interest in future, goal - directed strivings (rather than origins); emphasized the organism as a whole centered in the self (rather than a conflict view of personality); regarded the striving for worth and power (rather than sexual striving) as the central dynamic in mental health and illness; emphasized the possibilities for continuing change in the later years (rather than regarding the early years as utterly decisive)(2) It is clear from these motifs in Adler's thought that his vision of human beings was positive and growth - centered.

The first would be a shifting of the power centers away from New York and Grand Rapids to some unspecified location where the growth of the church will be taking place.

In New York, far from the safety of Thompson Harbor, Ewing had to deal with almost unreasonable expectations, a bad team, an irascible, impatient coach named Hubie Brown — who put Ewing at the unfamiliar power forward position so that Bill Cartwright could stay at center — and frequent injuries.

As my friend Amber McCann, IBCLC (International Board Certified Lactation Consultant) from the Breastfeeding Center of Pittsburg put it «Power is being able, in whatever moment you are facing, to do whatever it is you'd like to do.

Getting back to birth, though, what I would like to see is more birth centers, more midwives like the one in the NPR story, and less of both the «classic» hospital birthing experience and also less of NCB madness like «power birthing» (shudder) that I just this morning learned about from a comment on this blog.

The protests started in his own city of Sidi Bouzid, far from the centers of Tunisian power, but they quickly provoked a violent response from the government's internal security forces.

The hope for Senate Republicans in part is that a unified Senate Democratic conference could help pull the chamber toward the New York City center of power, diluting upstate lawmakers» influence (it's worth noting that Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins, the Democratic leader, is from a suburban district, not New York City.

Politicians on two New York state ethics committees raked in nearly a quarter of a million dollars from companies controlled by Glenwood Management — the developer at the center of corruption trials that ended in convictions for two of Albany's top power brokers.

Long a center of African - American political power, the district is now majority Latino, but the black Mr. Rangel held off two furious challenges from a Latino lawmaker and could sway the race in 2016 if he endorses Mr. Wright.

From low - cost coal fields in Pennsylvania, coal was brought to Utica on the Chenango Canal and powered steam driven looms in greatly expanded mills that made Oneida County a textile center of the county until after World War II.

The event, created to support citizens in creating Scoping comments for the proposed Lincoln Park Grid Support Center project, a gas - fired peak power plant project in the Town of Ulster, will occur from 10 am — 5 pm at the Town of Ulster Senior Center (1 Town Hall Drive) in the Town of Ulster.

Join us for the Center for American Progress Action Fund's Internet Advocacy Roundtable, in collaboration with the PCDC, or Progressive Communicators of DC, from noon to 2:00 pm on Thursday, September 24, 2009 for a brown bag lunch (we'll provide the cookies, you bring your lunch) that will train you to take full advantage of the power of Twitter.

Politicians on two New York state ethics committees raked in more than a quarter of a million dollars from companies controlled by Glenwood Management — the developer at the center of corruption trials that ended in convictions for two of Albany's top power brokers.

The case, Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, centered around a 2000 ballot initiative passed in Arizona that removed the power of redistricting from the state Legislature and placed that role in the hands of an independent commission.