Sentences with phrase «holding power from»

Strengthen school holding power from pre-kindergarten to completion, ensuring that every student is valued, graduates from high school with a diploma, and is prepared for college, work and civic engagement.

The farthest southern extension of Muslim rule came under the Tughluqs, who held power from 720 to 815 (A.D. 1320 - 412) and pressed their invasion almost to the southern tip of the continent.

Not exact matches

Ticking off every demand the New Democrats put on their long list — from giving motorists a break on their insurance to delaying and eliminating some corporate tax breaks — the Liberals have thrown down the gauntlet and put the party that holds the balance of power between a rock and a hard place.

The Australian probe will have power to demand information from businesses and hold hearings.

From our definition there flows an important corollary: The riskiness of an investment is not measured by beta (a Wall Street term encompassing volatility and often used in measuring risk) but rather by the probability — the reasoned probability — of that investment causing its owner a loss of purchasing power over his contemplated holding period.

News of her firing comes on the same day that Zimbabwe's 93 year - old Robert Mugabe, the last of the generation of African leaders to take over from colonial rule, has had his hold on power broken by army units loyal to his former bodyguard Emmerson Mnangagwa.

94 year - old John Goodenough, one of the co-inventors of the lithium - ion battery that now powers everything from phones to Teslas, has developed a new solid - state battery formula that promises to hold three times more energy than li - on.

In it, the authors discuss a shift from «old power,» which they define as being «held by few» and «closed, inaccessible and leader - driven,» to «new power,» which is «made by many» and «open, participatory and peer - driven.»

Although the Western countries have all said for seven years that Assad must leave power, they held back in the past from striking his government, lacking a wider strategy to defeat him.

Over a year which has seen large banks halt funding for fossil fuel projects, major institutions divest from oil, gas and coal holdings, and oil companies snap up power and renewables companies in a bid to diversify their asset base, research published today by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and the Climate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial circles.

Yieldcos are publicly traded units that hold renewable energy assets such as solar power plants and wind farms, including those bought from the sponsor or the parent company.

It has unlocked the power to help my prospect gain better visibility into issues that are holding them back from achieving their corporate goals.

Just as Facebook's changes to its News Feed algorithm can cause huge swings in a website's traffic graphs, Amazon holds a lot of power to dictate exactly how much money others can earn from standing on its shoulders.

Candidates are locked in an awkward dance of increasingly distancing themselves from Nancy Pelosi as the longtime leader holds on to power and raises millions of dollars.

Purchasing power risk is the risk that unexpected changes in consumer prices will penalize an investor's real return from holding an investment.

for a variety of reasons — from not being told about the changes to hating the new layout to believing they should hold the power to choose a design that works for them.

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I've found that businesses with real market power attract a lot of interest from competitors, control buyers, etc. who are willing to look beyond the stock as a piece of paper and commit to holding it for several years.

Wealthsimple is backed by $ 165 million in investment from the Power Financial Group, a leading financial holding company.

Although there are parts of the encyclical that are difficult to understand from our modern American perspective (and I say that with the greatest affection), I believe the encyclical speaks as a voice crying in the wilderness, holding out the truth to those who have the power to incarnate it in the world through their policies and actions.

Without limiting the foregoing, under no circumstances shall the Company be held liable for any delay or failure in performance resulting directly or indirectly from acts of nature, forces, or causes beyond its reasonable control, including, without limitation, Internet failures, computer equipment failures, telecommunication equipment failures, other equipment failures, electrical power failures, strikes, labour disputes, riots, insurrections, civil disturbances, shortages of labour or materials, fires, floods, storms, explosions, acts of God, war, governmental actions, orders of domestic or foreign courts or tribunals, non-performance of 3rd - parties, or loss of or fluctuations in heat, light, or air conditioning.

When the Magi offer him gold, which indicates a king, we are invited to lessen the tribute we offer to the power structures to which we belong and on which we depend; when they offer him frankincense, which indicates a priest, we are invited to tiptoe out from under the delusions of our sacred canopies, to be drawn into the jagged - edged sacrifice of presence that this Priest will carry out; and when they offer him myrrh, which indicates a prophet's death, the Magi invite our hearts to lighten as death loses its hold over our drives and desires.

An interesting statement from the same article: «'' Many times in a Church world, submission is held over the heads of women by men who are emotionally manipulative or abusive in order to get their way and maintain power and control.»

The Punjab was annexed to the Ghaznavid Empire and ruled from Ghazna, but Mahmud's successors, faced with the rising power of the Seljuq Turks, could not hold it.

People have rejected theism because they held untenable the idea of a mind not subject to change or to interaction with other beings, or a mind omnipotent in the sense that its power was all the power in existence, or a mind having precise knowledge of details of the future (or of all times from the standpoint of eternity), or a mind creating a first state of the cosmos at a finite time in the past, or knowing all suffering although it did not itself suffer, or an all - embracing mind which in no sense could be identified with the universe, or one which could in every sense be identified with it.

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.

From your post, it sounds like you think that those holding power shouldn't care about the Bible's teachings while «on the job», or waterboard and torture and gut social programs all week long and sing and pray on Sundays.

In Luke's version of Pentecost, Peter captures the moment perfectly: This is Jesus whom God raised up, «having freed him from death, because it was impossible for him to be held in its power» (Acts 2:24).

Certainly every Christian theology will hold that man can never realize his goals apart from the prevenient grace and power of God.

Immigrant Catholicism was, in fact, held together by the vigorous churchmen who retained their power over their flocks by exercising it regularly on an infinitely detailed category of behaviors, ranging from what the faithful could eat on Fridays to what they could think or do in the innermost chambers of their personal lives [«The End of the Immigrant Church,» Illinois Issues, August 1982, pp. 15 - 21].

Leibniz almost got the point in the very time of the first microscopic perceptions of micro-organisms, but he could not free himself from the mechanical model and so, though he held that every individual at least feels, he did not attribute even the least creativity, originative power, to any individual other than God, who thus had no proper place in the system.

What you have been saying is that we have no power as a Believer and that could not be further from the truth, and honestly rather dangerous to hold that as truth.

This system of belief and social interpretation generally does not reflect the diversity of social reality there is within the society, but is consistent more with the economic or ideological system which has given it birth and its corporate managers who hold power within the system and benefit from it.

Out of the ruins, once more, God would raise up those who should truly serve and obey him; and this divine Rule was to be inaugurated — so Mark and his fellow Christians believed — when the Son of Man, who was identical with Jesus crucified, raised from the dead, and exalted to heaven, should return on the clouds to hold the Last Judgment, when he should come «in power» with the angels of God to reign with his elect over a renewed earth.

Over the 50 - year period from 1955 to 2004, a dollar invested in stocks would have generated more than ten times more purchasing power than a dollar invested in Treasury bills held by the Trust Fund.

Sorry, but I won't take marching orders from some guy who is reading from a book that was held in the power of corrupt men tanslated numerous times by the method of hand written copies.

Nor, it seems, has anyone noticed the withdrawal of Moscow's power from 700,000 square miles of territory which it once held down with boots and tanks and secret policemen.

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.

The current constitution specifically prohibits Suu Kyi from holding the title of president (though she will likely still maintain significant authority), and ensures certain powers remain in the hands of military officials.

I found that if ministry were to have power, it needed to be conducted from an uncompromising position, from the vantage point of a «center that holds.»

The sovereign state, even the constitutional democracy that's supposed to recognize and strive to support the inalienable rights of its citizens, nonetheless holds the power to kill its citizens with direct intent and thereby to alienate from them an essential right, which is to continue living.

The corporation must also be held accountable to larger constituencies — the communities that have given it tax advantages and public facilities, suppliers and customers, a general public that expects from it ecological responsibility, ethical practice and fair dealing in return for its exceptional powers.

Turning away from orthodox Christianity because of the emotional excesses of frontier evangelism, he found it easier as a young man to accept what was called the Doctrine of Necessity, which he defined as the belief â $ ˜that the human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.â $ ™ Later, he frequently quoted to his partner, William H. Herndon, the lines for Hamlet: â $ ˜Thereâ $ ™ s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough â $ «hew them how he will.â $ ™ â $ œFrom Lincolnâ $ ™ s fatalism derived some of his most lovable traits: his compassion, his tolerance, his willingness to overlook mistakes.

You hold the firmest convictions about Our Lord; believing him to be truly «of David's line in his manhood», yet Son of God by the divine will and power; truly born of a virgin; baptised by John «for his fulfilling of all righteousness»; and in the days of Pontius Pilate and Herod the Tetrarch truly pierced by nails in his human flesh (a fruit imparting life to us from his most blessed passion), so that by his resurrection he might set up a beacon for all time to call together his saints and believers, whether Jews or Gentiles, in the one bodyof his Church» (Smyrna I, 1 - 6).

Furthermore, from this point on Jesus does not hold his saving power in reserve, but expands the circle of God's mercy to include those once considered outsiders.

He emphasized the active, integrating self (rather than the frail, victimized ego); held to a «soft» (rather than a «hard») determinism; had a strong interest in future, goal - directed strivings (rather than origins); emphasized the organism as a whole centered in the self (rather than a conflict view of personality); regarded the striving for worth and power (rather than sexual striving) as the central dynamic in mental health and illness; emphasized the possibilities for continuing change in the later years (rather than regarding the early years as utterly decisive)(2) It is clear from these motifs in Adler's thought that his vision of human beings was positive and growth - centered.

Though some people might like to dismiss these sorts of sentiments as wishful thinking, melodramatic affectation or worse, they actually emerge from deeply held beliefs about the power of suffering, the motivational memory of the beloved, and ultimately the hope of a potential reunion.

But Hertzberg holds that Israel should not be judged differently from other nations, and that in the exercise of nationalistic power Israel's record compares quite favorably with that of other modern states.

It met in the Vatican in 1869 - 1870, and its most notable decrees, later promulgated by the Pope, declared «that the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is, when in discharge of the office of pastor and doctor of all Christians, by virtue of his supreme apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine of faith and morals to be held by the universal Church, by the divine assistance promised to him in blessed Peter, is possessed of that infallibility with which the Divine Redeemer willed that His Church should be possessed for defining doctrine regarding faith or morals; and that therefore such definitions of the Roman Pontiff are irreformable of themselves, and not from the consent of the Church»; and that the Roman Pontiff has «full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the universal Church, not only in things which belong to faith and morals, but also in those which relate to the discipline and government of the Church spread throughout the world.»

Consistently with its rejection of this doctrine, process theism holds that God necessarily and hence always exists in relation to «others» with their own power, whereas traditional theism's acceptance of the doctrine of creatio ex nihilo means that God faced «no prior constraints apart from those of logical consistency.»