Sentences with phrase «held on to power for»

The country was still reeling from the Asian economic crisis that started in 1997 and the exit of a leader who had held on to power for three decades.

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In fact, Australia's stock exchange is already dead set on switching to a blockchain - powered system for their operations, which is designed by the blockchain startup Digital Asset Holdings.

These one - on - one sessions, Friedman says, are necessary for another reason: to figure out who holds power within the organization.

q Proxy Solicited by the Board of Directors for the Annual Meeting of Stockholders — April 26, 2016 Virginia M. Rometty, Martin J. Schroeter, Michelle M. Browdy and Christina M. Montgomery, or any of them with the power of substitution, are hereby appointed Proxies of the undersigned to vote all common stock of International Business Machines Corporation owned on the record date by the + undersigned at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held in the Savannah International Trade & Convention Center, One International Drive, Hutchinson Island, Savannah, Georgia 31402, at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, April 26, 2016, or any adjournment or postponement thereof.

The Senate is also considering boosting spending on mental health programs for schools and giving law - enforcement greater power to involuntarily hold someone considered a danger to themselves.

The incredible * scramble * to then paint every PC sin as hers and hers alone (helped along by a healthy dose of old - fashioned sexism) should be recognized for what it is: an attempt to hold on to power.

He'll disappear for a few months to a few years, then reappear on the scene and say all the things that make it look like he's a fantastic instance of a redemption narrative and ready to get back into the spotlight and hold the reins of power.

Forasmuch as each man is a part of the human race, and human nature is something social, and has for a great and natural good, the power also of friendship; on this account God willed to create all men out of one, in order that they might be held in their society not only by likeness of kind, but also by bond of kindred.

But gee, so Dorothy Day, the SCLS and Martin Luther King and all those religiously oriented people who restrain their baser impulses, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, take in children no one else wants, seek justice for those society devalues in the name of money, power, or maintaining the hold of the class in power — all based on their beliefs — are dangerous to society and mentally ill?

Webb lacks critical appreciation for the ways in which the powerful can appeal to providence in self - serving ways, convincing themselves that their hold on power is itself a sign of God's favor.

He stood for cooperation with the British power and would not countenance any attempt to undermine in the name of Islam the British hold on India.

Islam holds that if a man trespasses on a woman's rights by divorcing her without cause he is abusing his power and is therefore liable to be held responsible for committing a breach of duty.

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.

If you have stepped out somewhere where you shouldn't have done then the conviction as a child of God will surely come but I tell you this, if Satan did not hold back on trying to kill the baby Jesus, and many children were slaughtered in that process, if he even thought he knew the scriptures so well he could try to deceive Jesus, and he did try then you can be sure that for every believer there is an adversary who would do anything to stop you from finding the forgiveness and grace of God that has the power to wash you clean of anything.

For many people I know, a Higher Power can be a group of friends gathered to share support, it can be the parole officer who holds your freedom in his hands, it can be the doctor doing surgery on you... tons of things.

We hold that the test for actuality is the ability to act, to exert power and influence on the coming to be of individual quantum events and larger societies of occasions.

In both northern California's recent Gasquette - Orleans Road Supreme Court ruling of 1988 and South Dakota's 1983 court ruling on Bear Butte, indigenous peoples lost protection of and access to sacred sites which in their view have for centuries held life - giving power and meaning.

For Karl Barth man always appears to remain on the knife edge between the love of God and the abyss of damnation.24 Reinhold Niebuhr holds that we are redeemed from sin in principle, but whether we are redeemed in fact is not made clear.25 Christ, he says, is our hope, not our possession.26 And again he suggests that only in the moment of prayer can man really love God and his neighbor with the love which Christ has shown to us.27 Emil Brunner comes closer to positive affirmation of the new life of the man to whom the love of God has come with power.

I believe the spiritual, the internal, will always overpower the external but in order to experience that we have to have an upside down view of everything in that the physical is not ever as important as the spiritual — and this is something special a gift a freedom that is amazing and in our world of Ugg boots and cars with amazing technology, with the million catalogues that drop through the door or show their wares on our screens... to discover and experience the joy of the internal spirit life is nowhere near as easy as it sounds — and once experienced it is an effort to hold to it and feed it for it to grown and be the power it is meant to be.

Since the Christian's ultimate loyalty is to God and not the state in its demand for obedience to the law, the Christian always tempers his loyalty with insistences on justice with love that calls for an equality and liberty that holds the state's necessary powers of coercion under restraint and accountability to God.

After I sat down, being all in confusion, like a drowning man that was just giving up to sink, and almost in an agony, I turned very suddenly round in my chair, and seeing part of an old Bible lying in one of the chairs, I caught hold of it in great haste; and opening it without any premeditation, cast my eyes on the 38th Psalm, which was the first time I ever saw the word of God: it took hold of me with such power that it seemed to go through my whole soul, so that it seemed as if God was praying in, with, and for me.

In this particular instance it is not very difficult to imagine scenarios in the not - too - distant future in which there might occur resurgences of socialist policies and ideals: the failure of neo-capitalist regimes in developing societies and / or the formerly Communist countries in Europe to achieve economic take - off; the insight granted to sundry dictators and despots that, while socialism invariably immiserates the masses, it is a very good recipe for enriching those who claim to hold power as the vanguard of the masses; the «creeping socialism» (still an aptly descriptive term) brought on by massive government intervention in the economy in the name of some societal good, e.g., there could be an environmentalist road to socialism, or a feminist one, or one constructed (perhaps inadvertently) with some other building blocks of politically managed regulations and entitlements; or, last but not least, the actual restoration of socialism, by coup or by voting, in a number of countries, beginning with Russia.

'' I suspect not, because holding those in power to account for their biases does not seem to be on the agenda.

Test your powers of endurance by holding your finger down on a virtual button for as long as you can before losing the will to live.

I am referring to the fact that the fervent effort to please the powers we rely on for our sense of self - esteem may cause us to deny those aspects of our existence that seem to conflict with the conditions of worth held out to us by family, school, fraternity, sorority, church, government, place of employment, etc..

Hence, it is almost inconceivable to them that Solzhenitsyn could hold traditional beliefs about God, Orthodox Christianity, the mystical basis of the Russian nation, and the soul's eternal destiny while also being a spokesman for responsible political freedom (meaning constitutional limits on power, moderate nationalism, private property, and local self «government).

Chef's note: I installed a BBQ Guru Competitor power draft on the Grill Dome to regulate the fire although ceramic cookers, once stabilized, will hold temperature for quite some time without using a power draft unit.

After months of discussions, Woolworths is scheduled to hold its final meeting with the AFGC on Monday to once and for all try to reach an agreement on a code designed to improve relationships between supermarkets and suppliers by curbing the power of the supermarket giants.

The biggest problem has been wenger for long time now «project» run Arsenal football club as an academy and try to prove to everyone else he is the one who knows better and try to bring in kids who have potential but not ready for 1st team resisting spending money to improve squad depth and cling in on average players: Iwobi, welbeck, theo, chambers, holding and player other players on wrong position Monreal and not give opportunity to good footballer Perez and Campell also you have been holding too much power from transfer, players contracts, arsenal finances as a whole and now all that BS start to backfire

As competent on the ground as he is in the air, Isimat - Mirin is a good all round defender who possesses the pace and power to hold his own in the Premier League, and with a bit of guidance from an experienced defender such as Jamie Carragher he could become a top player both for his club and internationally in the future.

Becoming Mothers will do everything in our power to have a pump ready for you to pick up on the day you requested, however, please keep in mind this is a REQUEST to hold a pump, but not a guarantee.

Your baby may have enough neck muscle power to hold their head up for short periods when they're lying on their tummy or on your shoulder — but not for long.

The British Humanist Association has long campaigned for legal humanist marriages, and a hard - won amendment during the passage of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 compelled the Government to hold a consultation on the issue and awarded them Order - making powers to introduce it.

Watching from outside the GOP conference, Senate Democrats in WNY saw the move as a lifeline for Skelos to hold on to some kind of power.

This is the current model of American politics, which for all its premium on clarity and executive power is also extremely messy, with all sorts of minor players holding the big boys to ransom.

That credit means something in my eyes and so I am willing to trust that he and his staff truly believe that the resources and power that come from working on a federal task force will allow him to do even more to hold banksters accountable for breaking the law.

On a related front, Cuomo said he would use the state's regulatory powers to hold Con Ed more accountable for subway outages.

The state Assembly held a hearing Monday on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to spend $ 8 billion in subsidies to keep three upstate nuclear power plants operating for the next 12 years.

The by - election consolidated Nick Clegg's hold on power, sparked new rumours of leadership bids against David Cameron, saw a surge in support for Ukip and raised questions about Ed Miliband's ability to win votes in the south - east.

Iain Duncan Smith, Peter Bottomley and others have joined Edward Leigh to call for the Speaker to take on the powers currently held by the Leader of the Commons.

The question then became whether Cuomo would travel on Clinton's behalf, and whether he would put his oratorical power to work for Clinton at the Democratic convention, which was being held at Madison Square Garden.

This is on the basis that the EU powers will be held in Westminster for up to seven years before being devolved back to Wales.

Sheldon Silver, who held a seemingly intractable grip on power for decades as one of the most feared politicians in New York State, was found guilty on Monday of federal corruption charges, ending a trial that was the capstone of the government's efforts to expose the seamy culture of influence - peddling in Albany.

Next month, Schneiderman and Mayor Bill de Blasio will hold a «people's hearing» on the Trump administration's proposal to repeal Obama's climate change regulation for power plants.

LIPA on Monday released its 2013 Operating Budget and 2013 - 14 Capital Budget, noting that in the wake of Superstorm Sandy — which slammed Long Island with long - term power outages and became a public relations nightmare for the power company — «it is helpful to deliver a budget that holds the line on rates for customers.»

As for Flanagan, «It's clear that to an embarrassing degree Flanagan is Cuomo's flunky, his most loyal ally in the Legislature, a guy who will abandon the supposed fundamental positions of his own Republican Party in order to hold on to power,» said the lobbyist, a Democrat who has worked with both leaders.

Setting out his position on European reform for the first time, Miliband on Wednesday pledged to hold a poll if there is a transfer of powers to Brussels, and would enshrine this promise in law.

Dadey didn't put forward a specific plan for how he would assist Flanagan is holding on to power in a presidential election year expected to boost Democratic turnout in this Democrat - dominated state.

The Administrative Data Liaison Service will be holding a one day conference in London on Monday 11th July 2011 to highlight the power of administrative data and the strengths and limitations of such data for research purposes.

The Clean Power Plan, which was already on hold pending the results of a court challenge from Republican governors, was central to President Barack Obama's plan for meeting the emissions reductions the United States pledged as part of the Paris agreement, which updated the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.