Sentences with phrase «holds on to his power with»

The high - stakes fight over his seat could affect control over the Senate, where Republicans hold on to power with a coalition of Independent Democrats.

There's no posing, preening bravado here: Hoskins» stocky build and blunt mug are all you need to communicate the story a man who's bubbled up from the bottom and holds on to his power with the jaws of a pitbull.

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If the microaggressor is someone in a position of power, then you may want to think about the impact they can have on your career before you hold a one - on - one conversation with them.

She ultimately lost her parliamentary majority but held on to power thanks to an agreement with a small Northern Irish party.

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.

In his role with ACU, Flynn flew to Egypt to convince officials there to hold off on a Russian offer (this one unrelated to ACU) to build nuclear power plants.

Perhaps most important, unlike the Hollywood guilds, the organizations that are now taking shape are not full - fledged unions with the authority to collectively bargain and go on strike but, rather, looser structures without much actual power to hold employers accountable.

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.

That is, while Griffin acknowledges that Plantinga affirms limitations on God's power in relation to possible worlds containing free human beings, he believes Plantinga to hold «that an actual world devoid of beings with some power of self - determination would be possible» and thus that God could have created a world containing no evil simply by creating a world containing no self - determined beings (GPE 271).

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.

It is a poignant story of people trying to hold on to their faith and community, but finally coming to terms with changes to which royal power gave the appearance of inevitability.

And now, after the chain of continuity going back to the apostles has been broken, how on earth can anyone identify those following the true Way approved by Jesus Christ, with so many aggressive false teachers claiming to be approved by Christ and holding and gaining such incredible fame and power?

Following Moses Hess, he holds that the spirit of the old Jewish institutions which is presented by these obsenances will have the power to create new laws in accordance with the needs of the time and the people once it is able to develop freely again on the soil of Palestine.

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.

They want to get rid of the trappings of religion but hold on to the belief in a benign deity with some degree of loving power over human affairs.

Bishops hold the rank of sovereign princes, and the temporal and spiritual power of the first bishop of Christendom renders him somehow the arbiter of kings («arbiter of kings» means that the pope was higher than the Emperor, and thus the actual temporal ruler of the whole world) and the fourth person of the Divinity («person of Divinity» means that the pope really presumes to be on a level with God).

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.

see what you have to understand about living in a real world — a world where god is just a story and not real — its a world based on scientific and physical laws that are proven to exist and their effects are measurable... us as humans, mere animals, hold no real power or control aside thru ingenuity which allows us to change our environment to suit us... stay with me here... at this point in human history we ceased to change to suit our environment and started changing it to suit us — thats destruction of the earth to suit one species — that should go over well...

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.

The present rulers of this age are not happy with the arrival of the Rightful King, and so they fight with tooth and claw to hold on to their power, dominion, and authority.

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.

Social commentary on the broadcasters at the time of the elections reached close to a fever pitch, with fears being expressed that the broad - casters held such power as to hold the key to the election outcome.

We hold these truths to be self - evident; that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundations on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

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..

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.

How many Arsenal fans still hold to that I wonder, because although van Persie did well and won the title in his first season at Man United, his powers have been on the wane ever since while Giroud continues to improve and make himself a real star with Arsenal.

2) If Ronda gets her hands on anyone in the division she can finish the fight 3) She has incredible power, TKO's an Olympic medalist in the clinch with a knee and knocking out Betch with one punch 4) With her judo skill set she doesn't need to become a master boxer but learn how to stay behind a jab to move her opponents around the ring until she can get a hold of them 5) With her skill set being in high body control her boxing doesn't need to be as good as someone who needs to set up a double with a knee and knocking out Betch with one punch 4) With her judo skill set she doesn't need to become a master boxer but learn how to stay behind a jab to move her opponents around the ring until she can get a hold of them 5) With her skill set being in high body control her boxing doesn't need to be as good as someone who needs to set up a double with one punch 4) With her judo skill set she doesn't need to become a master boxer but learn how to stay behind a jab to move her opponents around the ring until she can get a hold of them 5) With her skill set being in high body control her boxing doesn't need to be as good as someone who needs to set up a double With her judo skill set she doesn't need to become a master boxer but learn how to stay behind a jab to move her opponents around the ring until she can get a hold of them 5) With her skill set being in high body control her boxing doesn't need to be as good as someone who needs to set up a double With her skill set being in high body control her boxing doesn't need to be as good as someone who needs to set up a double leg.

According to the Manchester Evening News though, Man Utd's commercial power has been on full display as nine of their players came in the top 30 most popular replica shirts sold since May 1 with Sports Direct, with Pogba and Lukaku holding number one and two.

They claim that Sam Allardyce sees Benteke as a crucial member of his squad, but Palace would have a fight on their hands to keep hold of their prize asset if PSG came calling with their immense spending power.

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.

With newspaper sales in decline it's easy to believe that that they no longer hold the power and influence they once did but you only need to see how desperate politicians are to keep editors on side to realise that this is not the case.

The eight - member IDC is being pressured by liberals to rejoin or form an alliance with the mainline Democratic conference in the state Senate, where Republicans have a narrow hold on power.

Five banks, with branches on most high streets, hold 85 per cent of the UK's money and they have less than 80 board members - individuals whose decisions have the power to shape the economy.

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.

So firm was Lopez's hold on his Democrat - dominated borough that elected officials and would - be elected officials alike would routinely make the pilgrimage to the taxpayer - funded Ridgewood - Bushwick Senior Center picnic he threw every year, and those with the power to do so approved hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of NYC and state member items that the assemblyman used to build his senior services empire.

Just over one month later, the breakaway IDC announced its historic power - sharing deal with the GOP (plus Felder), which enabled the Republicans to retain a slim hold on the majority.

Israel's prime minister has made a last - ditch attempt to rally his supporters as the country went to the polls, with an incendiary warning that a high turnout of Israeli Arab voters could threaten his party's hold on power.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Thursday rejected remarks from Sen. Bob CorkerRobert (Bob) Phillips CorkerTrump to hold Nashville rally amid efforts to boost GOP Senate hopeful Kim Jong Un surprises with savvy power plays Tax reform postmortem reveals lethal dose of crony capitalism MORE (R - Tenn.)

County Leaders will be prevented from unilaterally controlling the party via proxy voting and will not be able to stack the Executive Committee with human proxies to preserve their hold on power.

On Wednesday, March 22, 2017, Assemblymember Kavanagh, Chair of the Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee, held a press conference with Energy Chair Amy Paulin, Corporations Chair Jeffrey Dinowitz, Environmental Conservation Chair Steve Englebright, and other Assemblymembers to question the lack of transparency by the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) regarding massive subsidies to a large corporation to operate upstate nuclear power plants that are set to take effect on April On Wednesday, March 22, 2017, Assemblymember Kavanagh, Chair of the Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee, held a press conference with Energy Chair Amy Paulin, Corporations Chair Jeffrey Dinowitz, Environmental Conservation Chair Steve Englebright, and other Assemblymembers to question the lack of transparency by the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) regarding massive subsidies to a large corporation to operate upstate nuclear power plants that are set to take effect on April on April 1.

Both sides appear to be committed to resolving their differences rather than going ahead with a constitutional clash in the courts over the Scottish government's power to hold a referendum on its own terms.

Labour lost the General Election and the Conservatives appear intent on striking a deal with the DUP in order to hold onto power.

Middletown NY: On Saturday, January 17th at 3:00 PM At the intersection of route 17M and route 6, residents along with the Ramapough Lenape Tribe, and community & environmental advocates will hold a vigil to oppose the development of a 650 MW Gas Power Plant proposed by Competitive Power Ventures.

The Court, in a judgment on a suit with reference number FHC / L / CS / 1098/07 filed by fishermen operating in Eti - Osa Local Government Area of the State, held that the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) lacked the Constitutional power to regulate inland waterways within the State.

In a boiling decade when the civil rights movement was in full swing and police were clashing with African - Americans across the nation, Lindsay believed the NYPD needed a Civilian Complaint Review Board to serve as a check on their power and show the public, particularly minorities, that a white police force could be held accountable by unbiased people outside the department.

Today's Conservatives may one day need to strike a deal with Northern Irish unionists to maintain their hold on power, just as Major did.

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.