Sentences with phrase «greater authority over»

Insofar as one's family practices greater authority over one's love life, one may attribute less importance to such relationship factors as chemistry or passion.

As it did in 2012, Florida's house of representatives has proposed giving the governor greater authority over the membership of the state's judicial nominating commissions.

With added negative camber up front, the Boxster now also tracks with greater authority over uneven surfaces.

The disconnect comes at a time when governing boards appear to be asserting greater authority over the university administrations they oversee.

The city also has made many of its campuses «empowerment schools» in which principals, with input from the school community, are given greater authority over spending, educational programming and curriculum.

The $ 90.3 million that had previously been directed to the two grant programs was swallowed up by the LCFF, which in its first year gave local educational agencies a total of $ 4.5 billion in additional funding as well greater authority over how the dollars are spent.

Giving schools greater authority over teacher hiring and firing would provide them with additional incentives to evaluate teachers carefully.

The new framework, if approved by Congress and the president, would largely restore the system that existed prior to NCLB, in which states had greater authority over their testing and accountability systems.

General: ESSA allows states greater authority over their public school systems and expects states to bear more responsibility for their success.

In districts such as Minneapolis, teachers have begun assuming greater responsibility for how quality is assessed and how quality standards are enforced, and they have gained greater authority over their work lives.

States like California and districts like Boston, Denver and Houston, among others, have been transitioning to a finance model that gives principals greater authority over their schools» budgets in exchange for being held accountable for student outcomes.

If we believe in God, then we believe in a greater authority over our lives and as such, we must be willing to accept that we can not always get what we want.

This man had great authority over demons.

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We are united in our great grief,» German Foreign Minister Frank - Walter Steinmeier said in a statement after being flown over the crash scene and briefed by French authorities.

So the recent presidential term limit abolishment could be viewed as just another way to give the central authorities greater power and control over the economy, business and markets.

TransLink, as the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority is known, has control over all public transit and roads in Vancouver and its surrounding cities.

Beware of «faithful» religious believers like Romney who seek positions of great political power and authority over military forces.

But Jesus called them to him and said, «You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them.

«You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them» (Matt.

Jesus Christ told us what the order of this world is like: «You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them» (Matthew 20:25).

For here, the «presumption» tends to give higher priority to what were classically understood as important but secondary criteria, like «last resort» and «probable chance of success,» over the classic first - order criteria: competent authority, just cause, and right intention (about which, to repeat, we can have a greater degree of moral surety).

Men in posts of great authority were called gods because they held power of Life and death over people, and administered justice.

He spoke of how «the rulers of the gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them» (Matt.

As I have argued in these pages and elsewhere, the «presumption,» by detaching the just war way of thinking from its proper political context» the right use of sovereign public authority toward the end of tranquillitas ordinis, or peace» tends to invert the structure of classic just war analysis and turn it into a thin casuistry, giving priority consideration to necessarily contingent in bello judgments (proportionality of means, discrimination or noncombatant immunity) over what were always understood to be the prior ad bellum questions («prior» in that, inter alia, we can have a greater degree of moral clarity about them).

It was not that the older presidents lacked great, even autocratic, authority, but that the present task was so formidable: the institutions had to be made over entirely, and made answerable to new constituencies.

Mark 10: 42 - 45 — And Jesus called them to him and said to them, «You know that those who are supposed to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them.

Yes, as a catholic I believe the church at local level should have hand these so - called priest over the local authorities, also, there has been a great number of people coming forward and filing lawsuits looking for money, we all know that.

During some of its flourishing periods, the Sufis were counted by the millions all over the Muslim Empire and in some countries their influence was so great that the heads of their orders were the practical rulers, with supreme authority in every major problem concerning the religious or secular institutions.

«You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them.

But over and above the broad ethical teaching, intrinsically universal in its scope, there are sayings addressed directly to the disciples as a community in being, capable of being compared and contrasted with other existing communities: «You know that in the world the recognized rulers lord it over their subjects, and their great men make them feel the weight of authority.

But Jesus called them [to him], and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them.

Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery, and which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind.

«WE HAVE THE VICTORY» For those struggling with thoughts of unforgiveness and attacks on the mind especially deceiving thoughts and doubts these are from satan in the word they are called fiery darts we are to quench those darts by faith so we need to read the word and believe that Gods word is true.We also have the victory over these thoughts because when we accept Jesus the holy spirit dwells within us so satan does nt have authority over us he can not rule what belongs to God he can only deceive.We can not defeat the enemy in our strength we need the holy spirit when we try and overcome him in our strength we struggle especially with our thoughs and in the area of sin.If you are having evil thoughts or doubts commit your way unto the Lord and let him fight your battle.Tell the enemy he has no authority over you that you are under the covering of Jesus Christ and when you have doubts memorise verses on faith ie greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world.The holy spirit is just like Jesus talk to him be friends with him he helps us to live like Christ and gives us the power to do it.We are overcomers more than conquerers through Christ who strengthens us.brentnz

Today we see that he even has authority over one of the greatest traditions — a tradition that was rooted in the Old Testament law — the tradition, or the law of the Sabbath.

Id al - Adha, also called Id al - Qurban, the festival at the end of the pilgrimage, is the Great Festival at which Muslims from all over the world gather at the mosques to worship and then kill animals to memorialize the story of Abraham and Ishimael and their willingness to obey the authority of God.

«And Jesus called them to him and said to them, «You know that those who are supposed to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them.

So «if all Christians must surrender their bodies to God in Christ whenever they enter the fellowship of Christ's body,» he concludes, «'' then it should come as no great shock that God might actually make demands of those Christians and their bodies — demands proving that God, and God alone, has authority over us.»

Above all else, God is sovereign over all earth and all creation, and no human authority is great enough to thwart His plan and good will.

Jesus before Pilate tells him, «You would have no authority over me, unless it had been given you from above; for this reason he who delivered me to you has the greater sin.»

The previous week, authorities detained 16 pastors in the greater Wenzhou area over the removal of crosses.

Also, in the Protestant Evangelical world we put a great degree of authority on Scripture and, therefore, those who abuse often distort Scripture in order to gain access, control, and silence over victims and their families.

For example, the development of «Devo - Manc» over the past year or so has devolved responsibility for some or all provision of health, social care, employment and training, and transport to the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.

And when Housing Authority chair Shola Olatoye was facing calls to resign over a lead - paint scandal, de Blasio said, «I continue to have great faith in her.»

The de Blasio administration has reached a project labor agreement with the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, covering $ 3.5 billion of work and repairs at the New York City Housing Authority over the next three years.

The report's authors criticised local authorities over fining and called for greater consistency.

For now, at least until the air is cleared of the great cloud brought over Albany by Preet, the governor has all the moral authority of a suspected pickpocket to dictate ethical conduct to legislators, and they know it.

The new coalition points to a number of potential changes to the constitution that they would like to see, including the creation of a public financing system for campaigns, election reforms like same - day registration, court reforms to make it easier to navigate the judicial system and the ability for local municipalities to exercise greater control over issues they traditionally need state authority to manage.

The package includes laws that would protect the State's wetlands by giving the Department of Environmental Conservation authority over wetlands greater than one acre and requiring violators to repair damaged areas near wetlands.

«It's very disappointing that the reform bill was not signed into law,» agreed Assemblyman James Brennan, a Brooklyn Democrat and sponsor of an identical reform bill in Albany, in a separate statement, adding that «each measure was aimed at providing greater transparency and accountability to an authority that has come under growing public scrutiny over the years, as abuses and scandals accumulated.»

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