Sentences with phrase «gain positions of power»

The head of the FBI claims that there's concern allowing a company like Huawei to «gain positions of power inside our telecommunications network» due to the U.S. and China not sharing the same values.

According to the head of the FBI, Christopher Wray, «We're deeply concerned about the risks of allowing any company or entity that is beholden to foreign governments that don't share our values to gain positions of power inside our telecommunications networks.»

«We're deeply concerned about the risks of allowing any company or entity that is beholden to foreign governments that don't share our values to gain positions of power inside our telecommunications networks,» FBI Director Chris Wray testified during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in mid-February.

«We're deeply concerned about the risks of allowing any company or entity that is beholden to foreign governments that don't share our values to gain positions of power inside our telecommunications networks,» testified FBI Director Chris Wray.

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

Not exact matches

Stiglitz told us that this decades - old debate about how to balance the creation of short - term and long - term value is recently gaining new life in the US because of the venomous class class tensions and ugly politics arising out of income inequality, and because people in positions of power are looking at the big picture and realizing that something has to change.

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.

Furnish gained a lot of power after becoming legendary musician Elton John's partner, and he used his influence and position at Rocket Entertainment Group to champion LGBT rights in a number of ways.

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.

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.

The Sadducees came out of the priestly cast in ancient Israel, and over time gained control over the rituals in the Jerusalem temple, a position which also made them power brokers in affairs of state.

In this view, when the primitive idea of God, which was based on the personification of powers of nature, vanishes gradually behind the infinitude of the causal sequence, the concept of God gains in coherence and consistency in proportion as it achieves a firm position in connection with the claims and needs of the human spirit, and becomes the «irreducible coefficient of the achievement of moral processes in self - consciousness.»

ive been wrestling since i was 9 years old and when i went into high school i had to wrestle a girl... growing up learning to wrestle i had ended up having violent style, i never was dirty or broke rules but i was taught to do anything in your power to win whehter it was to club down the head or grab the throat to gain position etc. unfortunately i was in the postion to wrestle a girl once and at the time i did nt care who you were boy / girl, white / black / purple it did nt matter im was going to go out there bounce your head of the mat and bury you, so i went out there and wreslted the same way i always wrestled, 110 % and always to put your oppenents back through the mat i dditn change my style at all bc she was a girl i wrestled the same against everyone but after i pinned her in the first minute i did nt even realize that i broke her ribs when i power doubled through her, now after that for the rest of the tournament i was heckled and berated for forcefully beating a girl ppl were telling my parents «hey, looks like you raised a wife beater» etc. etc.... ever since then i refused to wrestle girls and thank go i eventually grew out of the lower weights, moral of the story is that is great and all that girls are wrestling but they shouldnt wrestle boys even if they know what they are getting into because 1.

WEAKNESSES: Adequate height / length, but lean - framed with a slender, unimpressive build... marginal play strength and allows physical defensive backs to slow his route and disrupt the timing... struggles to gain body position downfield... lacks the body power to force his way through tackle attempts... tends to get alligator arms on in - breaking routes as footsteps hurt his concentration... underpowered blocker... body isn't constructed for routine punishment — hampered by a left ankle injury (Nov. 2017) down the stretch... production dropped in 2017 without John Ross drawing attention on the other side of the formation.

Governor Fayose, who said the Information Minister was fast assuming the position of the «Liar - General» of the federation, having lied to gain power and still lying to sustain it, pointed out that «more than 20 months after he claimed that 55 Nigerians stole over N1.34 trillion from the country's treasury from 2006 to 2013, Lai Mohammed is yet to tell Nigerians who the 55 people are.»

Prosecuting attorneys said Silver exploited his position of power to illegally gain the funds, and in the days leading up to the sentencing, revealed that the former legislative leader had two affairs, one with his former communications director, now a prominent lobbyist, and a former assemblywoman, who they say gained financially from the arrangement.

Just two years ago, we saw the two most powerful state legislative leaders — two of the three men in a room — convicted within mere months of each other for having used their positions of power for personal gain and profiteering.

«Using a position of power for personal or financial gain will not be tolerated here in Erie County.

There is the question of whether the applicant is seeking to actually serve the public, or to claim the associated power for personal gain, either while serving or to aid in ascending to the next or ultimate position of power and authority.

Prosecuting attorneys said Silver exploited his position of power to illegally gain the funds, and in the days leading up to the sentencing, revealed that the former legislative leader had two affairs — one with his former communications director, now a prominent lobbyist, and a former assemblywoman, who they say gained financially from the arrangement.

Serious manipulation of people for personal gain or abusing power for personal benefit, if you are in a position to do so, can be common traits of those with blockages of this Chakra.

The people who have been denying science and generating misinformation are now gaining positions of genuine power in the White House and politically in general.

Not only has this brought some relatively unknown, inexperienced and possibly dubious people into positions of influence, but these people become vested in protecting the IPCC, which has become central to their own career and legitimizes playing power politics with their expertise... These scientists have used to IPCC to gain a seat at the «big tables» where they can play power politics with the collective expertise of the IPCC, to obtain personal publicity, and to advance their careers»

Office Assistant June 2010 to June 2015 Weisz Trucking... Position helped gain more proficiency in the Microsoft Office Programs, such as Word, Excel, and Power... June 2013 University of Oregon Athletic Ticket Office Student Officer.