Sentences with phrase «gain power over those people»

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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.»

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.

And, oh, this misery, that so many live on and are defrauded of this most blessed of all thoughts; this misery, that people employ themselves about everything else, or, as for the masses of men, that people employ them about everything else, utilize them to generate the power for the theater of life, but never remind them of their blessedness; that they heap them in a mass and defraud them, instead of splitting them apart so that they might gain the highest thing, the only thing worth living for, and enough to live in for an eternity — it seems to me that I could weep for an eternity over the fact that such misery exists!

Imagine if Jesus was in our world right now and he headed right over to someone who cooperated with and benefitted from oppression, someone who had traded integrity for political power, someone we distrust, someone who we feel is dangerous, someone who stole from people in a socially acceptable and governmentally blessed way, someone who took the very religious or national identity that we cherished and basically stomped all over it for his own gain.

The Dun Commission of Christian scholars in 1950 in their report on The Christian Conscience and Weapons of Mass Destruction stated that «to accept general war as inevitable is to treat ourselves as helpless objects carried by a fated tide of events rather than as responsible men,» and went on to say, «One reason why fascism and Naziism gained their dread power over great nations was because otherwise decent people bowed before what they regarded as «inevitable» and allowed a «wave of the future» to inundate them.»

Having worked as a chef for over 10 years and gained a degree from RMIT, Ben has come to realise the power that food has to bring people together and catalyse social change.

Is a pretty huge distance away from «This person actively sexually exploited people they had power over for personal monetary gain»

It's easy to dismiss such a position as naive, or to argue that proponents are prioritising moral purity over gaining the political power that would allow them to actually make a difference to people's lives.

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.»

«I have been an elected official in various capacities for over 30 - years, it disgusts me to continue to see people in power abuse their influence for personal and political gain.

There was a study in the Journal of Strength Conditioning Research that found 20 - 25 % increases over the course of 12 weeks of training, and we're talking about strength, power, gain of lean muscle, when people supplemented with 2 different components at the same time.

Creating transparency helps people gain more power over their finances and be better prepared for their future.»

Sneak around, find objects that will gain you access to the next area, save people along the way, and rise in power over time.

Global Warming might decrease but people would die all over the planet unable to gain the benefits provided by the use of fossil fuels (Mainly cheap power and low cost transportation of goods) and the results such a change would have on the world's economy.

Family violence — also called domestic violence, intimate partner violence, relationship violence or inter-personal violence — is a pattern of intentionally violent or controlling behavior used by a person against a family member (usually the intimate partner) to gain and maintain power and control over that person, during and / or after the relationship.

Board established in 1883, which gained legal powers in 1909, when the Aborigines Protection Act was passed, giving the Board wide - ranging control over the lives of Aboriginal people, including the power to remove children from families.

Christian counseling for depression utilizes both the healing power of God and evidence - based counseling methods to help people like you gain control over their depression.

This type of abuse is usually a pattern of behaviors rooted in power and control that one person uses to gain and maintain power and control over their partner.