Sentences with phrase «gain power over»

The boy's aggression was a way of attempting to gain power over others.

and are always better than your Equals we are all human we all make mistakes we all do what we can to gain power over others some more subtly but with you.you seem to like to outstate you indignity about us we have opinion and the freedom of speech allows us to do that but we have to accept the aftermath of what we say.

After the sorcerers attempted to gain power over the Sacred Realm, the goddess Nayru came in to command the Light Spirits, in which she granted them the power to intervene and seal away the magic the interlopers controlled.

The film brings together nearly every Marvel Cinematic Universe hero to battle Thanos, the villain played by Josh Brolin who schemes to control the mystical infinity stones and gain power over life and death.

Injections and poisonous gas are used to gain power over enemies.

Rituals gain power over time, so stay with it, even if you just do a little somethin' with each new moon.

It then states that when you learn to control your senses you gain power over how the world influences you.

However enigmatic the human mind may prove, simply by appreciating its complexity we can gain power over the millions of thoughts we have each day.

A faction fighting for control of the Women's Equality Party allied with Gov. Andrew Cuomo scored a victory in court this week as a five - judge panel struck down efforts by two competing groups to gain power over the ballot line.

They are using their growing physical, thinking, and language skills to gain some power over themselves, their bodies, and their surroundings.

If you find that your four - year - old is trying to weasel her way out of trouble by negotiating with you, telling lies, or even winning you over with flattery, she probably is just trying to avoid the consequences or is attempting to gain some power over you.

Here either party may wish to win out and gain power over the other.

But the ones HE detested most of all were the politicians and money lovers who seeked to gain power over the masses to enrich themselves while stepping over dead bodies and claiming the dead poor had just encountered a streak of «bad luck».

The idea that the conquest of nature is inevitably used as a means to gain power over others is at best an unhelpful half - truth.

So this demon possessed man, by naming Jesus, is trying to gain power over Jesus.

Magicians in the ancient world — especially around Ephesus — believed that if they learned the name of a spiritual being, they could gain power over that being by naming its name.

Whereas Netflix laddered - up to its vertical model and used its power as an aggregator of demand to gain power over supply, Disney is seeking to leverage — and augment — its supply to gain demand.

The case reflects worries about gatekeepers gaining power over programming.

Around the same time, St. Martin of Tours declared that the anti-Christ had already been born and was on His way to gaining power over the world.

Along the way I will describe some events that are virtually unknown about the televangelists gained power over the Federal Communication Commission — a power that has provided a unique opportunity for fundamentalist religion to effect cultural change during the past forty years.

Jesus may be charged with having given unrealistic commandments, but no one can deny that they are oriented to peace and generosity, not to self - aggrandizement and gaining power over others.

It has its legitimate place in the sphere of reality and usefulness, as a means of gaining power over objects.

Love's «might is powerful in weakness and gains power over its enemies in grief, because it gives life even to its enemies and opens up the future to change.»

Islam gained power over the Middle East in the seventh century, but it was several centuries before Muslims became an overwhelming majority.

What we are doing is preventing you from gaining power over us.

November 2008 Scotland gains powers over for all planning and nature conservation matters at sea up to 200 miles from the coast.

Digital devices have gained a power over our attention hitherto reserved for other sentient beings.

Evolutionary psychologists say that no matter how often masters of our universe like Bill Gates beat their chests, the real secret to gaining power over others is — get this — being nice

The ISIS group that has taken over several Iraq cities has also gained power over both its major rivers, allowing it to use water as a weapon of war

The film outlines how, since the 1970s, corporations and politicians have increasingly gained power over the «real world» by creating a «fake world» that they can easily stabilize and control.

Unlike the Surrealists, who used found objects as a means of self - interrogation to shock the imagination or discredit the habitual, Kienholz uses them to demonstrate an earnest indignation at the gritty facts of life, as a means of gaining power over our terrors and desires, and to overcome our sordid memories.

Being a true aggregator, though, means gaining power over supply; Spotify doesn't have that — the company doesn't even have control over its marginal costs — and it's hard to see where the profits come from.

From overdivorce.com Dr. Lisa Condon joins the show and delivers great tips on gaining power over your emotions by using compassion to better cope with your divorce.

Not exact matches

Over the next three days — as Harvey gained power and made landfall early on Saturday — the world's largest home improvement retailer set up a temporary hurricane command center at its Atlanta headquarters.

One of the things the FCC gained with its newfound power was, in effect, authority over ISPs» privacy policies.

In his 2014 letter to shareholders, he said people should «invest with a multi-decade horizon... Their focus should remain fixed on attaining significant gains in purchasing power over their investing lifetime.»

Despite handing the organization over to his two sons, many have argued that Trump could nevertheless use his presidential power for commercial gain.

Dan Schawbel, who is a partner and research director at Future Workplace, says, «I always urge my generation to become passive job seekers so they can gain leverage and power over their prospects.

«I always urge my generation to become passive job seekers so they can gain leverage and power over their career prospects.

Between 2013 — 14 and 2016 — 17, other non-tax revenues are projected to decrease by $ 0.3 billion, largely reflecting the one - time gain in 2013 — 14 on the sale of the Province's interest in 10 million shares of General Motors Company, and lower electricity sector - related revenues, over the forecast period, including fiscally neutral power supply contract recoveries.

That extra $ 6,800 shrinks next to the S&P's gain over the prior decade when U.S. companies began leveraging the power of the still nascent Internet.

Outstanding analysis of how to make content more productive (generate more sales) by aligning it with the needs of the buyer in this digital information age when buyers are gaining more power over sellers (the rise of the buying cycle and the decline of the selling cycle).

To be sure, over the past year China has powered through a slowdown in home price gains, weaker credit growth and an environmental crackdown to deliver better - than - expected growth.

This chart takes inflation into account, so we can see the dampening effect of inflation on the gains / losses in purchasing power over the decades.

And mythological stories may be based on actual individuals whose life stories are greatly embellished over time so that they gain miraculous powers and even may become deities in time through apotheosis.

It is instead of just another human institution with all the same tendencies as every other institution that is built by to give an elite few power over others for monetary gain.

With their record these days, I don't want them gaining more power over me.

(I Kings 18:37 - 40) Primitive ideas of prayer were thus thoroughly impregnated with the hope of gaining control over superhuman powers.

«Jesus Christ, our Lord and God, when he was about to offer himself once on the altar of the Cross to God the Father, making intercession by means of his death, so that he might gain there an eternal redemption, since his priesthood was not to be extinguished by death, at the last Supper, «on the night that he was handed over», left to his beloved Spouse the Church a visible sacrifice, such as the nature of man requires, by which the bloody sacrifice achieved once upon the Cross might be represented and its memory endure until the end of the age, and its saving power be applied to the remission of those sins which are daily committed by us.»

If all you hear is a sermon a week, you will not gain victory over that sin in your life, you will not see power and effectiveness in your prayers, you will not gain that insight and wisdom into the difficult decision you are facing, you will never be able to handle with love that troublesome person at work, you will rarely hear from God.