Sentences with phrase «gaining wealth and power»

If you don't believe me, go play ProgressQuest, an «automated» RPG where you do absolutely nothing while your character adventures, gaining wealth and power.

Not exact matches

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.

After the conversion of Constantine, the church leaders saw that using the power of the Roman Empire and the threat of the sword would help them gain glory, riches, honor, prestige, land, and wealth.

For millennia political power has enabled its possessors to gain wealth and share it with those favored by them, and wealth has given its possessors political power.

Vast stores of hidden wealth, gained by committing every crime in the book, and millions of fear - driven, deluded «slaves» who have been trained to give their very souls if need be... all under the thumbs of mere humans who use their power for every vice imaginable.

Man created stories about gods because he did not understand the world around him, even the christians believed that the world was the center of the universe 400 years ago, but as man gained knowledge religions had to rethink their dogma to jive with the facts, in order to hold onto the wealth and power they covet more than anything else, period.

I am certainly not going to suggest that the multi billionaire Roman Abramovic could have used his wealth and power to gain an unfair advantage because we know that this sort of thing would never be allowed by those in charge of the beautiful game (cough, cough, sorry got a bit of Qatar in my throat).

on the face of it the American left are socially liberal but the bottom line is the more control they take over the economy and the redistribution of wealth, the more power they will gain over society at large and the more power they will have to implement social engineering projects.

A splinter faction of the CIA in Singapore are doing some underhanded dealings in order to get a program that can destroy the world's leading financial and government institutions and gain them all the wealth and power they could ever dream of.

Tap into the power of the Victoria Stilwell brand and you instantly gain impact, credibility, reach, and a wealth of ready - to - use marketing materials and tools.

Players start the game with a small starship and a few credits and are tasked with doing whatever it takes to get the skill, knowledge, wealth and power to gain Elite status in areas of combat, trading or exploration.

The scientists are merely useful tools to them, used to get control of the public so they and their friends can enrich themselves via carbon taxes and carbon trading schemes and redistribute your wealth to the poorer countries under the guise of saving the planet (where I'd venture a guess the vast majority will disappear into a numbered bank accounts someplace), all while enriching themselves and attempting what I feel could be a part of an attempt to gain dictatorial power over an entire planet.

It is also important to note that this was at a time when the Trans - Atlantic Slave Trade was a major source of economic gain for North American and European powers, who used un-free labour of Africans to amass the wealth that allowed these regions to enjoy otherwise unimaginable luxury and leisure and which would later drive the West's Industrial Revolution (also built on the backs of Blacks, through the use of exploited Africans who, in Africa, extracted the natural resources used to build Western cities, factories and products of the Industrial Revolution).