Sentences with phrase «give up their powers of»

The governor says if upstate cities really believe they are «on the brink,» then they should give up their powers of governing to a state - appointed financial control board.

This is because, despite all the party leaders claiming to espouse Lords reform, none want to give up their powers of patronage.

We must be willing to give up the power of the seating chart and truly hand over the responsibility of seating choices to our students.

Not exact matches

I think one of the things that we do is to give away our power by not talking about things, by not bringing them up.

He says the 360 Eye sucks between seven to eight litres of air through it per second — twice that of the Roomba — which gives it the power to pick up particles as small as 0.5 microns, or smaller than a human hair.

FIRE gives you more power to take charge of your life, and what you do with it is entirely up to you.

Susan Cain, TED speaker and author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, cites research conducted by Adam Grant at the Wharton School who found that introverted leaders often get better results, compared with extroverts, because the latter can unwittingly squelch creativity by not giving up the reins and letting people run with their own ideas.

As someone that works in online marketing and sees the power of successful strategies first - hand every day, take this advice: don't give up on the Internet.

The «You Earned It» tool, which ordinarily lets team members reward coworkers with points that can be redeemed for goods or prizes, is now offering their employees the power to give up their gains in favor of company donations to relief efforts in both Dallas and Houston.

This is another way of speeding up your decision making, by giving others power to decide.

We entrust these institutions with the job of gaining expertise and information that we can not acquire, and we give them the power to sanction organizations and individuals who do not live up to this trust.

Author of the books Power - Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life and Final Fantasy V from Boss Fight Books.

Morgan Stanley could still not afford to swallow all of Smith Barney in one bite, and Citigroup didn't want to immediately give up all the much - needed earnings power the unit possessed.

It was a way to appease the gods of outrage without really giving up power or influence.

European Union and Asian governments are frustrated that the U.S. Congress has held up a reform of voting rights in the International Monetary Fund that would give China and other emerging powers more say in global economic governance.

I know what you're getting at (you might have given up spending power from the tax savings of a traditional IRA / 401k during your life), but this is still irrelevant to me.

We have seen the power of women entrepreneurs to elevate their families, their communities and their national economies when they are given a hand - up to achieve their potential.

All direct competitors of golem network are centralized and given the nature and functionality of golem, its rivals can not measure up to Golem's price or power.

So from this point forward, we should go — if we had $ 135 as our assumption for recycling, take that down to $ 115 for 2Q through the remainder of the year, which is about $ 0.08 of incremental headwind and you feel that given the power of the first quarter, and it was a great quarter in garbage, that you can make that up?

The revelation underscores the power of social media networks and the unexpected ways in which technology companies can use data that users voluntarily give up.

Building up a recognizable brand can give you a lot of power in the market and make it easier to win clients and charge premium prices.

I find it hard to believe that a man of wealth, power and education would give up everything (money, power, influence, etc) could be converted to believing someone lived and died and was resurrected when he couldn't even be sure the person lived at all.

If God gave our first parents a cultural mandate in the first chapter of Genesis, we are painfully aware that by the third chapter that they have messed up, claiming the power to become gods.

20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse: 21 because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four - footed beasts, and creeping things.24 Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves: 25 for that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.

But only if one does not give up after failure can he open himself to this insight, within which is found a creative power working through life, bringing it out of nothingness toward Being.

Husbands were told to love their wives the way Christ loved the church when He gave Himself up for her — gave up His power and position to come down to the level of a servant — so that He could raise the church up to His holiness.

Giving up on doing such things because it is deemed to be too difficult, ineffective, cumbersome, shaming, paralyzing, pointless, or whatever could be better interpreted as a loss of faith in the Savior Jesus Christ and his power to change us, and an absence of the Holy Spirit which seals us unto holiness and eternal salvation.

Jeremiah, pouring out before God everything he felt, poured out his vindictiveness: «Bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction»; (Jeremiah 17:18) «Deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, and their young men smitten of the sword in battle....

Those who use contraception diminish their power to unite and they give up the opportunity to co-operate with God in the creation of life.

If the Church is cautious in questions of doctrine and discipline, perhaps even more so than in the past, if she waits for more information, carrying on a dialogue, perhaps even leaves much to the conscience of the individual, all this does not mean that the authorities have grown cowardly, they have not, for this reason, given up their responsibility and their power.

So many lives in places like Africa have actually been made WORSE by giving money and food that ends up in the hands of war lords and tin - pot dictators, who just use it increase their personal wealth and consolidate their power.

We would like to think that we can because we don't want to give up the power and prestige and prerogatives of being wealthy.

Two verses — «They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly things, it shall not hurt them» (Mark 16:18) and «Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you» (Luke 10:19)-- are used by the snake - cult Christians in Appalachia as support for snake - handling and the drinking of poison as tests of Christian faith.

Upon careful analysis, at least ten such points become apparent: (1) Blake alone among Christian artists has created a whole mythology; (2) he was the first to discover the final loss of paradise, the first to acknowledge that innocence has been wholly swallowed up by experience; (3) no other Christian artist or seer has so fully directed his vision to history and experience; (4) to this day his is the only Christian vision that has openly or consistently accepted a totally fallen time and space as the paradoxical presence of eternity; (5) he stands alone among Christian artists in identifying the actual passion of sex as the most immediate epiphany of either a demonic or a redemptive «Energy,» just as he is the only Christian visionary who has envisioned the universal role of the female as both a redemptive and a destructive power; (6) his is the only Christian vision of the total kenotic movement of God or the Godhead; (7) he was the first Christian «atheist,» the first to unveil God as Satan; (8) he is the most Christocentric of Christian seers and artists; (9) only Blake has created a Christian vision of the full identity of Jesus with the individual human being (the «minute particular»); and (10) as the sole creator of a post-biblical Christian apocalypse, he has given Christendom its only vision of a total cosmic reversal of history.

Giving up this kind of power isn't easy.

Though as God incarnate, He had every right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of His own personal happiness, though He had the ultimate freedom to make His own religion, to say whatever He wanted to whomever, to call crowds of disciples to follow after Him, and to take up all the power and force of the universe in His defense, Jesus instead chose to give it all away.

There's very little to no outrage from the scientific community about who is or isn't the master of the universe, as many grew up watching Saturday morning cartoons and they all know that refers to He - Man and his God's that give him «The Power!!»

When the full light of YAHWEH came upon Gerhard Tersteegen, he wrote; «I promise with your help and power, to rather give up the last drop of my blood, than knowingly and willingly in my heart or life be untrue and disobedient to YOU.»

The enemy (satan) wil usel any means possible to mess things up for for believers and non believers, Followers of Christ need to remember the enemy has no power over us, unless we give it to him.

It is within the context of Jesus» giving himself up to death that we see God's power to transform in resurrection.

But I would just mention them, namely the science - based technology which gives power to humans to control and engineer with material, social and even psychic forces to achieve purposes and goals for the future chosen by humans; the revolutionary social changes produced by the revolts of the poor and the oppressed in all societies; and the break - up of the traditional religious integration of societies and their reintegration by the State.

In our generation there is danger and hope — danger that these noncognitive accouterments will lose their aesthetic harmony and hypnotic power when integrated with the basic prehensions of science, and be reverted into impotent and empty symbols, jarring, ugly, and without force in final satisfactions: hope that the power of Jesus as lure will reassert itself in an aesthetic context devoid of supernaturalism, a context such that (the language now picks up echoes of van Buren) the vision of Jesus, the free man, free from authority, free from fear, «free to give himself to others, whoever they were «1 — such that this vision in its earthly, human purity will lure our aims to a harmonious concrescence, integrating scientific insight and moral vision and producing a modern, intensely fulfilling human satisfaction.

The fundamental step of repentance and conversion for professions and organizations is to give up monopoly power and the incomes derived from legalized extortion, and to come under the law of service, content with a fair income for honest work.

Moses musters up a series of plagues under the power given by God but somehow the Egyptian magicians also deal out some equally impressive feats without such help.

They are enthusiasts; they have given up everything for the cause; that in itself implies a more than average power of concentration on an object.

But they must then give up the claim that coercion is morally «incompatible with divine perfection» and the claim that persuasion is always the «greatest of all powers and «the only power capable of worthwhile results.»

Why their refusal to label that power by the name, practices, and definitions of one of the existing religions — or their giving up that power entirely — bothers this author so much is beyond baffling.

So before we let loose our thoughts about the intentions of God which are good, lets us ask ourselves what we have done to demonstrate the awesome power of God and his love for us and especially those young «somali muslims» mathew 25:35 it is God himself behind these faces, that means we'll have to give up our usual sitting position for a more unfamiliar one if we are men and women of faith... stay blessed.

While it would be foolish to give up the meteorological explanation for the theological one, it should be said that there may be important aspects of the storm, such as its relation to the powers of nature on which life is dependent and the sense of awe inspired by it, which are present in the latter interpretation but wholly lacking in the former.

I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness, death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours after I had gone to my bed.