Sentences with phrase «great wealth and power»

Banks, on the other hand, have gradually decoupled currency from such fixed commodities to create a system where money can be printed at will — which not only creates great wealth and power, but also creates great debt.

In between meals, she treats herself to all of the finest things in life, which draws the attention of some of the other well - to - do guests staying in the hotel, who mistake her for a woman of great wealth and power.

Those with great wealth and power keep the cards stacked in their favor.

That beliefs can affect actions even on the part of persons of great wealth and power has recently been suggested by the change of climate in the annual meetings of world economic leaders that have been held in Davos, Switzerland, until this year, when the group met in New York

Where great wealth and power are at stake markets go out the window and are replaced with the competition of wealth and power against wealth and power between the elites for those things they consider of greater inportence to themselves

Zuckerberg and Sandberg have been happy to amass great wealth and power relying upon other people's money and the public's trust, but they do not want to be accountable to those who supply the needed resources.

Not exact matches

The New York Times said it «may be the greatest concentration of American wealth and power in one investment fund.»

All told, it may be the greatest concentration of American wealth and power in one investment fund.

A simple withdrawal sequence might involve withdrawing from taxable accounts first and tax advantaged accounts last, but, according to Daniel Hunt, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Senior Asset Allocation Strategist, even - more complex withdrawal sequencing strategies can have a significantly greater impact on lifetime spending power.

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.

What made St. Francis so influential was his extraordinary originality: the son of a rich businessman who renounced his wealth and slept in pigstys while retaining the courtliness and gentility that were noble attributes of his era; the anti-establishment figure who founded a great religious institution; the man of radical poverty whose followers were not permitted (even if they had wanted) to imitate his utter rejection of worldly goods; the man of the Bible who never owned a complete one; the author of the first great literary work in Italian dialect, the «Canticle of the Sun,» who was steeped in the jongleur tradition of French poetry and song; the naïf who moved the heart and enriched the religious imagination of that great realist and exponent of papal power, Innocent III; the child of the age of Crusades who sought not the conquest of the Muslims but their conversion.

Power and wealth become the defining characteristics of those the churches hold up as great.

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

The National Rifle Association could use its tremendous wealth and power to promote realistic laws that all citizens, including sportsmen and those genuinely needing protection, could live with in much greater safety.

Economic globalization has created class societies with differences in wealth and power as great as those against which Marx protested.

This gives great power and wealth to the private banks and burdens the government and the population as a whole with large interest payment.

One sees there their immense ambition to augment their temporal power, their sordid avarice in transfering great wealth unjustly and dishonestly to their families in order to enrich their nephews, mistresses, or ba - stards.

Great Post, Unfortunately he exists for many people as a tool, to be used to attain power and wealth.

Three times it is said that the kings of the earth commit fornication with the great harlot, the city of greed and lust (17:2; 18:3, 9), But in the end the kings of the earth bring their glory, their wealth and power, into the holy city.

The United States has great material wealth and power.

Because the ships of Tarshish carried such great riches, they became symbols of wealth, power, and pride.»

In seeking to make their office a means of elevating the character of the entire Church, the great reforming Popes had stimulated the growth of a bureaucracy at headquarters which under less able successors, some of them far from single - minded, attracted men who desired prestige, wealth, and power.

Where common values and common religious beliefs have been banished and the natural harmony of interests has proven illusory, only naked interest is left and a society where there are great disparities of wealth and power.

Each believes that common rules are fine for common people, but that singularly great people must be free — to experiment without limits in search of knowledge, and to seize power and wealth.

«I think there is a sense that the acquisition of great wealth is a value in and of itself and rules are for chumps,» said Brodsky, who spent much of his 20 years rooting out corruption as a crusading committee chairman with subpoena power.

The knowledge in the heart of everyone - everyone - that they are not captive to the circumstances of their birth, they are not flotsam and jetsam in the great currents of wealth and power, they are not small people but big citizens.

She used that power, her wealth, and her gifts to be a great humanitarian.

Electric has an infographic comparing The Great Gatsby to the wealth of the stars of the movie Pajiba on Netflix's current strengths and weaknesses as it attempts to become both a distribution platform and a content creator Observations on Film Art Kristin wonders whether or not studios understand the power of fanbases and direct access to filmmakers they can get via Twitter and set visits and the like In Contention Ben Affleck's follow up to Argo doesn't betray any steroided auteurly confidence.

You could even say that it is a parable about people with great wealth using their money and power to manipulate desperate people; a statement on social class.

Scott's early montages explaining Getty's accumulation of wealth and power (thanks to Saudi oil, among other things), intercut with the present - day (1973) kidnapping and family drama, give the first half of the film an energy that promises great rewards, a promise thereafter unfulfilled.

His compatriot Nakia (Lupita Nyong» o) admonishes T'Challa that he and Wakanda can do more, that its endless wealth of renewable resources carries with it the responsibility to use that naturally gifted power for the greater good.

Anniversaries, TV shows, movies, documentaries and even little old publishers with good intentions and limited funds can draw people's attention to the wealth of truly classic literature available in individual slices for less than a cup of coffee, but it takes a co-ordinated and sustained effort, based on nothing more or less than a belief in the inherent worth, to individuals, to society and, especially, to children and young people, of great books and of the power of reading.

This means that there would be the need to overcome the root causes of violence, within each nation, with the elimination of disparities in wealth between the «top» and «bottom» in the social scale and at international level with the elimination of disparities in economic and social development between rich and poor nations, for one hand, and the dispute between the great powers for world power, on the other hand.

There is great power... for better health... more happiness and greater wealth... when you turn your passion into profit.

Another book of possible interest is Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East by Clyde Prestowitz (published in June 2006).

These are the Social Darwinists (sometimes called Social Positivists) whose thinking stood behind the great economic expansion, was challenged by a global recession, and ultimately fell out of favor in the United States when the princely accumulation of wealth and power by a generation of Robber Barons was recognized as jarringly undemocratic.

The last novel Dickens completed, and perhaps his most angry, it sounds all the great themes of his later work: the innocence and venality of the aspiring poor, the hollow pretensions of the nouveau riche, the unfailing power of wealth to corrupt everyone it touches.

This outspoken embrace of Newkirk not only condones and amplifies PETA's views that dogs and cats should be killed, it lionizes an animal killer to a whole new generation of animal rights activists, increasing PETA's power, wealth, and influence which are used to the great detriment of companion animals in shelters, in homes, and in our communities.

There are peddle - powered samlors to get around in and a wealth of great Thai food — be sure to sample the sickly sweet desert khanom mo kaeng.

King Allanti XII, in seeking power and wealth for his kingdom, accidentally awoke «The Old One» from his slumber and a great fog has spread across the land of Boletaria.

The first immersion pack for the best - selling historical strategy game introduces a wealth of region - specific content, and takes a deeper look at one of the greatest powers of the early modern era — Russia.

And if history has taught us one thing, it is that with great power and wealth, comes great aAnd if history has taught us one thing, it is that with great power and wealth, comes great aand wealth, comes great art.

But given the nature of the place in question — a place of great natural beauty, certainly, but a place, too, where, at certain times of the year, wealth, power and celebrity become notoriously concentrated — it is hard not to think about property: who has it, how they got it, what it's worth.

At the same time, the connection between these artefacts and a specific culture and age unearths their political and social implications: A humble household job, mostly carried out by women and serving private needs, is the other side to an art that was fit to celebrate the wealth and power of the great European courts.

Hopefully our great friend, Wang Suya (# 12), who is not blinded by wealth accumulation, power, social status, endless possessions, and the freedom to live idolatrously without accepting personal responsibility, can help us see what is before our eyes: God's Creation and the requirements imposed upon Earth's stewards for its preservation.

The Donor Class and Streams of Dark Money The historian Plutarch warned us long ago of what happens when there is no brake on the power of great wealth to subvert the electorate.

After all, who can resist offerings of great wealth, power and privileges that accrue to those who go along with what is political convenient, economically expedient, religiously tolerated and socially agreeable.

Essentially, China and India, the emerging giants in the global greenhouse, are saying that any extra costs for them to divert from established trajectories for carbon dioxide emissions as they pursue prosperity must be covered by the established industrial powers, which still have many times greater emissions on a per - capita basis and spent a century freely adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere in building their wealth.

The USA is blessed with great power and great resources (although you forget that most of your wealth comes from exploiting other countries resources), no one can deny that.

The Union (Industry) Super Funds — controlled by the likes of former Climate Change Minister, Greg Combet and his best mate Garry Weaven of Pac Hydro fame — into which hundreds of $ billions of union members» money is siphoned — have thrown $ billions at wind power outfits (see our post here) in an effort to cash in the greatest wealth transfer in the history of the Commonwealth (see our post here).