Sentences with phrase «held considerable power»

Romero, who served last year as chair of the Senate Education Committee, held considerable power over school policy issues while in office.

Technically the monarch still holds considerable power, but practically speaking there would be a constitutional crisis if she was to use it.

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The Jewish scholar Joseph Klausner, for example, holds that the Pharisees and Sadducees were justified in their attacks on Jesus because he imperiled Jewish culture at its foundations, and that by ignoring everything that belongs to wholesome social life he undercut the work of centuries.2 Others within the Christian tradition have felt considerable uneasiness lest the words of Jesus about nonresistance imperil the civil power of the State, or his words about having no anxiety for food or drink or other material possessions curtail an economic motivation essential to society.

It's a very sobering thought to wake up one day and discover that you've spent a considerable amount of time misrepresenting the very One who held all power and authority — yet choose to rule by loving rather than «lording».

Political parties, of course, hold considerable agenda setting power in how they control campaign events.

Marketers understand the power that kids hold; the «nag factor» has considerable influence over what their parents buy.

But the sentiment is frequently underplayed to one degree or another, and part of the film's considerable emotional power comes from a sense of how much sentiment the characters, and Bartlett in particular, are holding back.

At the same time, he said, the law approved by the Legislature last week gives considerable powers to the State Board of Education to establish procedures for how to hold school districts accountable for the money they will receive.

Samuel is skeptical that the Commissioner's Network will ever produce meaningful reforms, and notes that Connecticut's teacher unions hold a considerable amount of power over the decisions made by the Commissioner's Network.

For Hirst the butterfly holds considerable iconographic power and meaning, and in the butterfly paintings, as is the case with Hirst's finest work, the underlying concept is often complex.

Real estate executives have long said that they contribute heavily to state and city legislators» election campaigns in the hopes of gaining access to those who make policy in a state where tenants hold considerable voting power.