Sentences with phrase «handed power with»

At present they can be handed power with just one vote in three».

To be sure, science has put into our hands powers with which we can commit suicide; it has mounted us on a bigger horse than we yet know how to ride; but only a fool would wish to return to prescientific days.

Not exact matches

According to Harvard professor Amy Cuddy, two minutes of power posing — standing tall, holding your arms out or towards the sky, or standing like Superman with your hands on your hips — will dramatically increase your level of confidence.

They don't earn any power due to their title, rather it's their ability to hand out good advice or come up with solutions based on their deep organizational knowledge that gives them considerable sway.

Technology has put the power in our hands, in the hands of entrepreneurs, by doing away with so many entry barriers that once existed.

Castro seized power in Cuba in 1959, survived a CIA - sponsored invasion, brought the world to the brink of nuclear war and ruled with a repressive hand for five decades until poor health forced him out in 2008.

He bursts into sight in a cloud of energy, dressed in silk pantaloons and tight white stockings, comes to a stop in the middle of the stage with his hands on his hips and his feet apart, and stands with his legs radiating power and purpose.

One example is a hand - crank powered flashlight with radio and USB charging port from ER Emergency Ready.

Two years after Amazon.com Inc introduced the Echo, a $ 179.99 hands free speaker with AI - powered virtual assistant Alexa, the virtual home assistant category is poised to beat out virtual reality and possibly a few other high tech competitors, according to the Consumer Technology Association.

Battery - powered or hand - crank radio and a NOAA Weather Radio with tone alert and extra batteries for both.

The first item to include is a radio, he said — ideally a hand - cranked type with a USB charging port that can power other devices.

(Also on tap: A breakout session on investing in medtech and medicine with some of the most high - powered and hot - handed investors around.)

Its hands full with restoring power, Puerto Rico's beleaguered electric utility will not need to defend a contractor's lawsuit seeking damages of more than $ 4.5 million, according to the judge in the island's financial restructuring case.

Just look at our current political situation: those worried about Trump have to contend with the fact that the power of the executive branch has been dramatically expanded over the decades; we place immense responsibility and capability in the hands of one person, forgetting that said responsibility and capability is not so easily withdrawn if we don't like the one wielding it.

«With a Little Sun in your hand, you become a power station - charging your lamp in the sun, you also empower yourself.

To power Tesla's electric car empire, the company has joined hands with Vestas, a top wind turbine manufacturer, to create a storage system that would make power generated from wind useful during quiet days in the jetstreams.

With decentralized applications growing exponentially, censorship is gradually being removed from the powers that be and is being placed in the hands of consumers.

With the explosion of social media and other interactive websites plus the vastness of the Internet itself and online users, much of the marketing power has shifted out of the marketer's hands and into the consumers.

Downpours go hand in hand with hurricanes, since the cyclones are powered by evaporating and condensing moisture.

The U.S. government has warned that it would take «swift economic actions» if the Venezuelan government proceeds with a July 30 move to rewrite the constitution to consolidate power in the hands of President Nicolas Maduro.

The rapid expansion of internet - connected devices will put even more power in the hands of a few companies with the biggest cloud services.

Mark Zuckerberg responded with his own comment on Koum's post saying he was «grateful for everything you've done to help connect the world, and for everything you've taught me, including about encryption and its ability to take power from centralized systems and put it back in people's hands.

The news of Gorka's departure was greeted with resignation by Trump loyalists, who believe the president has handed over too much power to military officers and former generals — including his new chief of staff, John Kelly, and national security adviser H.R. McMaster — and is losing any connection to the base that elected him.

Crude demand sure to fall with low industry growth, people getting poorer (as a result of concentration of wealth in few hands) and increasing CNG and electric powered cars.

5G and small cells go hand in hand since the technical standards of the next - generation networks will support many more connection points with fast backbone connections but lower - powered radio signals.

First Solar, on the other hand, has some significant growth opportunities as developing countries such as India aim to supplement their power grids with solar energy.

The power pose is fairly simple: with your feet evenly spread, place your hands on your hips and raise your head high, breathing deeply and evenly.

«The power is then in the customers» hands whether or not they choose to spend their money with that company,» she says.

At Google, she had her hands full with the European Union's battle with the search giant over limiting the power of its services.

Press Release — MIAMI, Florida — September 26, 2017 — Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd., a leading global cruise company which operates the Norwegian Cruise Line, Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises brands, today announced a partnership with All Hands Volunteers, the world's leading disaster relief organization powered by volunteers, and set a goal to raise $ 2.5 million for the Hope Starts Here hurricane relief program.

The First Vatican Council included language like (the Pope) «is the true vicar of Christ and head of the whole Church and faith, and teacher of all Christians; and that to him was handed down in blessed Peter, by our Lord Jesus Christ, full power to...» This transfer of power depends on the Roman Church's understanding of the Office of the Keys which I do not agree with, but their statements make it clear that the Pope's authority as the Roman Church understands it is derived from Christ's.

(Ecclesiastes 9:10) All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in She ′ ol, the place to which you are going.

The physiological compartmentalizing of America will continue until we have the overweight, underweight, left - handed, bald, and those with overbite demanding appropriate role models in positions of power and authority.

And shepherds we shall be, for thee my Lord for thee, Power hath descended forth from thy hand, that our feet may swiftly carry out thy command, we shall flow a river forth to thee, and teeming with souls shall it ever be.

There is no religion with clean hands, they all came to power through violence and a sypathetic ruler.

«Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities — Voltaire» — could be «There is no religion with clean hands, they all came to power through violence and a sypathetic ruler».

When people are looking for practical advice on how to cope with the situation at hand, asking them to rely on a higher power is not what they are looking for.

10 All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in She'ol, the place to which you are going.»

«All the time not having a clue that they were being whispered against, campaigned against by both Catholics & Anglicans who made it palpably clear that this initiative was detrimental to the «dialogue towards unity» and temporarily compromised their positions as oecumenical ambassadors - that this was a counter-productive «wacked - out» scheme by an ailing Pope who merely needed to be placated until he died - hence delaying tactics, obfuscations, procedurality, red tape and making everything as difficult and administratively untenable as possible; with patronising sympathy and hand - wringing at their lot while sneering, dismissing and chuckling to themselves that the whole thing will eventually come to naught... that the administration will crumble via crises and power politics andpersonality clashes and outright frustration at the situation... and ultimately the Ordinariate will be re-integrated into the Conference system and those not happy about it will crawl back to their friends in the C of E.

But very often this constant awareness of spiritual climates enables us to also recognising the Lord's heart for a particular / person / situation and partner with Him in what He chooses to do through us, perhaps through prayer, releasing of scripture, laying hands, etc., in order to release His purpose and power.

The second part of his reply to the high priest, as given by Mark (14:62), reads, «and you will see the Son of man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.»

Glorious Lord Christ: the divine influence secretly diffused and active in the depths of matter, and the dazzling centre where all the innumerable fibres of the manifold meet; power as implacable as the world and as warm as life; you whose forehead is of the whiteness of snow, whose eyes are of fire, and whose feet are brighter than molten gold; you whose hands imprison the stars; you who are the first and the last, the living and the dead and the risen again; you who gather into your exuberant unity every beauty, every affinity, every energy, every mode of existence; it is you to whom my being cried out with a desire as vast as the universe, «In truth you are my Lord and my God.»

With hope for the future, not in any illusory «progress of mankind onward and upward forever,» but in the confidence that the issues for time and eternity are in the hands of God, remarkable staying power is generated even in the midst of what appears to be social retrogression.

14:62 «You will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Power and coming with the clouds of heaven.»

The new life in Christ, the consequent transformation of all their hopes and expectations, the sense of fresh power to achieve the hitherto impossible, the vital awareness of the change which had been effected in their relations with God, the confidence of sin forgiven and of restoration to divine favor, the «joy in the holy Spirit,» and confident looking forward to great events still to come, and soon, as the result of Christ's exaltation at God's right hand and of his promised coming as Redeemer and Judge — all this lies behind the choice and the use of technical terms or concepts borrowed, first of all, from current Jewish messianism.

In the Easter experience the disciples were assured «that God himself had intervened with almighty hand in the wicked and rebellious activity of the world, and had snatched this Jesus of Nazareth from the power of sin and death which had risen up against him, and installed him as Lord of the world.»

By the time W finished his second term, I had graduated from college, come to terms with the fact that the criminalization of abortion is highly unlikely no matter the party in power, expanded my definition of «pro-life» to include Iraqi children and prisoners of war, and experienced first - hand some of the major problems with America's healthcare system, which along with poverty and education issues, contributes to the troubling abortion rate in the U.S. I remained pro-life idealistically, but for the first time, voted for a pro-choice president, hoping that the reforms I wanted to see in the healthcare, the economy, immigration, education, and for the socioeconomically disadvantaged would function pragmatically to reduce abortions.

«1 But despite Plato's insight that power is involved in both the ability to affect and the ability to be affected (with its implication that reality and value might involve both), there has been a persistent tendency to favor what Bernard Loomer has called unilateral power — the ability to affect while remaining unaffected.2 Although this tendency is evident in every field of human thought, it will be appropriate to examine it first in the philosophical tradition, where it goes hand in hand with the valuation of being over becoming.

It speaks to the heart of the Gospel in believing that Christ, died, defeated death and rose to his rightful position at the right hand of the Father, with all power.

To me this picture depicts the fact that most of our Christianity is made with human hands, perpetuated by human wisdom and sustained by lusts for money, power and influence, popularity, and a proper social standing in the community.