Sentences with phrase «in authority try»

I hate when closed minded people in authority try to make others feel small because they have a differing opinion.

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You must present yourself as a respectable authority in the workplace, and not someone just trying to pass off work, and you must also let your coworkers know that you respect and appreciate their willingness to help.

«To this day, before doing something I don't want to do, I try to transform it into something I'm eager to do,» he writes, citing no less than Mary Poppins as an authority in support of this plan.

But after four Japanese citizens were detained in China on suspicion of spying, the boat captain was released by Japanese authorities to try to cool things down.

For example, numerous retailers rely on a partnership with third - party delivery service ShopRunner for two - day delivery — and a shot at competing with Amazon Prime; Starbucks sticks cafes in Barnes & Noble; convention bureaus in places like Vegas and Orlando try to conduct a symphony of airlines, airport authorities, hotels, restaurants, and local transport providers.

A number of other embarrassing debacles followed — including reports that Uber had used a software tool to try to deceive authorities by «hiding» rides — and ultimately resulted in a more than 20 % decrease to the once high - flying company's valuation, from around $ 70 billion to an estimated $ 54 billion.»

The lender noted that the Australian legal action came after the Monetary Authority of Singapore investigated 20 banks in relation to the same matter in 2013 and found 133 traders had tried to rig key borrowing and currency rates.

He essentially thumbed his nose at authorities, who were trying to hunt down a man whose last photo was a confident - looking young man, in a jacket and tie, hair brushed back from a broad forehead, taken decades earlier.

Amid economic turmoil, growing consciousness about environmental waste and widening acceptance of «takeout culture,» authorities in France are now trying to combat long - held stereotypes surrounding doggie bags.

EPA first tried to ban the use of asbestos in 1989, but its decision was struck down two years later by a federal appeals court that ruled the agency had exceeded its authority.

Facebook said it tries to have specialist employees available at any hour to call authorities in local languages.

In his letter to Congress, Obama said the bill he was scrapping had improperly tried to usurp presidential authority.

The Donetsk International Airport has been closed down after rebels tried to take it and were met by a lethal counterattack by Ukrainian authorities in late May.

This month, Uber ended its use of a tool to thwart authorities in various cities who were trying to stop the ride - hailing service, after complaints that the behavior was unethical.

U.S. authorities are also trying to determine whether Goldman failed to comply with the U.S. Bank Secrecy Act in its dealings with 1MDB, according to a person familiar with the situation.

I just wished the old SEO companies who have tried to reinvent themselves as content marketers would spend more time helping their customers «invest» in building audiences and authority through their content, rather than promising them short term returns on their efforts.

When certain websites present an authority in a certain field like travel, medicine, real estate, and so on, Google will try and boost the authority of those pages allowing them to top on the search result pages.

They bloomed in several states after the Isla Vista shooting in 2014, in which a disturbed man killed six University of California, Santa Barbara students after his family had tried unsuccessfully to alert the authorities about his troubling behavior.

The state and the New York Power Authority have sent a small team to try to prevent significant blackouts in Puerto Rico.

Authorities in Thailand were trying Tuesday to deal with a new group of 67 members of an ethnic Muslim minority that arrived in a boat claiming that they were the victims of persecution.

@flash Millions of people over thousands of years give witness to the Truth!I'll go with the numbers, thank you, sufficient evidence or proof for all but you, and a few additional self deluded.You have no position and no authority, in short the facts remain you have lied to yourself and are trying to drag civilization down with you.You are exposed as a fraud and a liar and will stand before God as such unless you change.God bless

We thumb our nose at the World Court when it tries to exert some authority in relation to us.

ttm, Belittling the question or the questioner and trying to shut them up is a form of spiritual abuse when it's done in a religious context or for supposedly religious reasons by someone in a position of authority.

Polanyi places this idea in historical context: «when the supernatural authority of laws, churches and sacred texts had waned or collapsed, man tried to avoid the emptiness of mere self - assertion by establishing over himself the authority of experience and reason.»

If a health trust or local authority tries to use your tax money (money that could be spent elsewhere) on one of these policies, then demand to see the evidence that it will result in lower unwanted pregnancy rates.

The variety of approaches to authority is illustrated in the way different traditions try to put an exclamation point on their teaching.

So when Christians insist on husband - authority in marriage, they are actually going in the opposite direction from where Paul, inspired by the Holy Spirit, was trying to take the church.

They want to «stack the deck» in such a way that if you accept what they say about the accuracy, authority, and credibility of Scripture, then you will most likely also accept their interpretation and understanding of Scripture (what the witness says), if you do this, then you will also buy into the rest of their theological system that they were trying to prove in the first place.

Instead, if we understand the culture in which John wrote, the issues that the early church was facing under the Roman Empire, and all of the hundreds of allusions to Old Testament themes and prophetic expectations, the Book of Revelation can have a significant message for followers of Jesus today, who also deal with similar cultural issues as we try to live like Jesus in a world dominated by powers and authority that live in rebellion to the Kingdom of God.

People try to solve my problem by insisting that I simply shut off my brain or my heart or my conscience and submit to whatever they think should be the authority in the hierarchy.

it's a bigger slap in the face when the church tries to hide criminals amoung it's ranks; less so then just handing them over to authorities to face a fair trial.

The late Max Stackhouse, a preeminent authority on faith in the age of globalization, pointed out that «one can not imagine trying to understand the politics of China or India without reference to Confucianism or Hinduism, or the systems of government in Southeast Asia or the Middle East without understanding Buddhism or Islam, or what is going on in the EU without reference to the legacy of traditional Christendom.

But he too tried to blame the victim, saying he (the 15 year old boy) made the first move... it is sickening to hear someone in even more authority would say such a thing... car accident or not, he needs to be removed from his position of HELPING other priests...

People who set dates are usually trying to manipulate you into following their ministry, supporting them financially, or accepting them as some sort of authority in your life.

I have tried to carry the habits developed at the Cresset to the quite difference circumstances of First Things, where I have far more in the way of resources» if, alas, less godlike authority.

«He has always tried to steer us in the right direction but never using his authority over our own free will.

To Paul, Peter was doing the same as the false brothers tried to do in Jerusalem (the word for compel is used in both 2.14 and 2.3).34 Therefore, if the Galatians choose circumcision, they will no longer be servants of Christ; they will be servants of a human authority, namely those who require circumcision.

For justice is done in the particular case, and until tried in the courts, abstract principles have no more authority than the people who declare them.

I've found that in the past, when I've «submitted» (or tried to) to my pastor's leading, it undermined my own authority as a believer, and even made me 2nd guess.

«But we're actually interacting with people at a local authority level and trying to encourage people in the church to talk about not just the message they're hearing... but also the work that the church is doing and why we're doing it.»

So, in faith, and in your God given authority, bind up every demonic stronghold that tries to come against you in the powerful Name of Yahshua the Messiah!

Jews believe in a Messiah, but don't believe it was Jesus (though the passover ceremony is all about Christ); Muslims go back to Abraham but since the prophet Mohammad don't have any recent connection to God; Catholics came from a combination of the Roman and Christian church after the death of Christ's apostles; Protestant's see misunderstandings in the Catholic church and have tried in various forms over the years to correct them without any true religious authority; Mormons believe God restored the truths of the original Christian church back on earth through modern prophets and revelation.

«One of the hardest things about trying to follow Karl Barth is his apparent lack of interest in the liberal question of how theology can meet the challenges of modernity: historical criticism, the collapse of the «house of authority,» the apparent disjunction between scientific and theological thinking, etc.,» Green reflects.

We must also leave aside, and in this case try to forget, several sorts of incidental authority that have accrued to ministers at various times because of the interactions of Church and world.

We will be like a band of sojourners and prophets who live in the desert threatening the authorities that tried to control us.

In a comment after the post, he tries to justify his position by pointing to Song of Songs, in which the suitor says of his beloved, «Her neck is like the tower of David, and her necklaces like a thousand bucklers,» and «a garden locked is my sister, my bride,» implying that the love poem is characterized by male authority and female submissioIn a comment after the post, he tries to justify his position by pointing to Song of Songs, in which the suitor says of his beloved, «Her neck is like the tower of David, and her necklaces like a thousand bucklers,» and «a garden locked is my sister, my bride,» implying that the love poem is characterized by male authority and female submissioin which the suitor says of his beloved, «Her neck is like the tower of David, and her necklaces like a thousand bucklers,» and «a garden locked is my sister, my bride,» implying that the love poem is characterized by male authority and female submission.

«WE HAVE THE VICTORY» For those struggling with thoughts of unforgiveness and attacks on the mind especially deceiving thoughts and doubts these are from satan in the word they are called fiery darts we are to quench those darts by faith so we need to read the word and believe that Gods word is true.We also have the victory over these thoughts because when we accept Jesus the holy spirit dwells within us so satan does nt have authority over us he can not rule what belongs to God he can only deceive.We can not defeat the enemy in our strength we need the holy spirit when we try and overcome him in our strength we struggle especially with our thoughs and in the area of sin.If you are having evil thoughts or doubts commit your way unto the Lord and let him fight your battle.Tell the enemy he has no authority over you that you are under the covering of Jesus Christ and when you have doubts memorise verses on faith ie greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world.The holy spirit is just like Jesus talk to him be friends with him he helps us to live like Christ and gives us the power to do it.We are overcomers more than conquerers through Christ who strengthens us.brentnz

Doctrine and Covenants 134:10 10 We believe that all religious societies have a right to deal with their members for disorderly conduct, according to the rules and regulations of such societies; provided that such dealings be for fellowship and good standing; but we do not believe that any religious society has authority to try men on the right of property or life, to take from them this world's goods, or to put them in jeopardy of either life or limb, or to inflict any physical punishment upon them.

While two officers served short sentences in El Salvador, Montano and other high - level officials were never tried by Salvadoran authorities in the priests» killings.

An official doctrine of the Church does not lose its binding authority only because some theologian expresses — whether in a book, an essay, a lecture, on the radio or in television — an opinion of which another Catholic can not understand how it is compatible with the doctrine of the Church; and mostly the theologian in question will not have tried very hard to show how it can agree with it.