Sentences with phrase «in a few hands»

In particular making sure that power isn't concentrated in a few hands, but we allow the smallest firms to flourish.

The prophets picked up on this ideal, protesting the concentration of wealth and power in a few hands.

When the problems of increasing food production is addressed, industrial methods are applied, as in the «green revolution», further supporting the concentration of land ownership in a few hands.

They succeed through focus, muscle, and concentrated efforts in a few hand - picked areas.

But others will note that costs typically increase in any industry that becomes overly concentrated in a few hands.

For example, there is a high correlation between the concentration of land ownership in a few hands and the degradation of the soil.

The same developments that impoverish the poor and concentrate wealth in a few hands also degrade the earth.

Under Ferdinand Piëch and his successors, the company was run like an empire, with overwhelming control vested in a few hands, marked by a high - octane mix of ambition and arrogance — and micromanagement — all set against a volatile backdrop of epic family power plays, liaisons, and blood feuds.

«I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country; corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in High Places will follow, and the Money Power of the Country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the People, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed.»

I hope there are many economists in China who are prepared to bring their technical expertise to bear on the problem of giving freedom to the market, including, of course, to capitalists, while checking the concentration of capital in a few hands and redirecting the flow of capital into socially useful investments.

The capitalist system concentrates decision - making in a few hands.

Knowledge should not remain in a few hands, it should be democratized.

This data reveals that a country's economic growth is not sign of progress towards equality of population since the monetary development continues to accumulate in a few hands and thus keeping the situations of inequality and poverty within the borders of the countries.

He also refers to Carolyn E. Lipscomb's report about the mergers and acquisition in the publishing industry that left the decision - making power to set a book's price in fewer hands.

E-commerce may consolidate — As the internet matures, more market share is held in fewer hands.

Moglen is bothered by the increasing centralization of the internet, the concentration of the ways and means in a few hands, hands and devices vulnerable to governmental intervention — as we have seen in Egypt and the U.S. response to the Wikileaks brouhaha.

«And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control.

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.

A choice between an «irresponsible capitalism» which sees huge gaps between the richest and the poorest, power concentrated in a few hands, and people are just in it for the fast buck whatever the consequences.

«The way this wealth is being distributed we are really worried, it's being concentrated in fewer hands.»

But when wealth is concentrated in a few hands, it gives these hands the power to shape markets to their own advantage.

The global capitalist system has concentrated greater and greater wealth and power in a few hands.

NGOs became «convinced that large - scale, top - down development concentrates wealth in fewer hands, transfers power to TNC's -LCB- transnational corporations], destroys traditional communities rather than developing them, disempowers the poor, and degrades the environment.»

«The power is concentrated in a few hands.»

They concentrate wealth in a few hands, and stomp everyone else into the ground.]-RRB-.

Because miner rewards are used to incentivize participation in the network, the concentration of mining power in a few hands is considered a dangerous step towards centralization.

Right now, that is in a few hands.