Sentences with phrase «in power against»

And though a stroke of luck prevents him from becoming yet another casualty of the Great Terror, for decades to come he will be held fast under the thumb of despotism: made to represent Soviet values at a cultural conference in New York City, forced into joining the Party and compelled, constantly, to weigh appeasing those in power against the integrity of his music.

Senate session went on as planned Monday afternoon, with little of substance being discussed and many Republican Senators expressing solidarity with Skelos, the man who kept them in power against the odds.

The exact same tactics and language is often used today by those in power against the people who want to follow Jesus differently.

«Social enmity and witch - hunt promoted by the BJP government in power against Christian or any other group has the potential to destabilize a nation more than they realize.»

Not exact matches

«The potion is not a panacea — it does not have a magic power against all diseases,» said a researcher experienced in cockroach - related medicines at the Institute of Materia Medica at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) in Beijing.

«He (Trump) will have more power against Iran now and maybe to convince the European Union not to be the weak link in the coalition,» Katz said.

Others foresee an expanded role for U.S. air power potentially including drones against IS in a Trump presidency.

Expect the US to push for sanctions, diplomatic talks, investments in missile defenses — the types of measures taken against other nuclear powers — but don't expect a nuclear exchange.

She's competing against WattUp from Silicon Valley's Energous Corp., which beams a 5.8 GHz radio frequency that wireless devices convert into DC power, and may debut in early 2016 in devices developed by SK Telesys (a Korean rival of Samsung) and manufactured by Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn.

Imagine adding Google Glass to the picture, with a RelSci - powered facial recognition app matching the wearer's profile against people in the room, suggesting targets for sucking up to, along with the optimal pathways.

«Though we will continue to prosecute the campaign against terrorists that we're engaged in today, the great power competition, not terrorism, is now the primary focus of US national security,» Mattis said in his opening statements at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Over the years Alfa has come out on top in bitter power struggles even with people closely linked to Vladimir Putin: it defended its telecoms empire against Leonid Reiman, Putin's communications minister, who ultimately left the government after a string of disclosures about his links to an offshore company.

A Saudi - led coalition is fighting to counter the influence of Iran, an ally of the Houthi militia, who deny any help from Tehran and say they are fighting a revolution against corrupt politicians and Gulf powers in thrall to the West.

This quality of believing passionately in the change you are seeking — politically, socially, or in business — has power even when many are against you.

By selling the bonds to Monaco, investors were trying to get around the 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which says, «The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of another state, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign state.»

Distributed solar systems require additional upgrades to the power grid, including enabling the grid to operate in both directions, and most utilities are pushing back against covering those upgrade expenses.

That said, Trump did rally against mega-mergers like the AT&T - Time Warner buyout during his campaign, saying in October that it'd result in «too much concentration of power in the hands of too few.»

Passionate protests against Donald Trump's presidency have swelled the ranks of Democratic activists, but their new enthusiasm faces a hard reality: Republicans remain well - positioned to retain their grip on power in the 2018 elections.

He starts out with a clever definition of what bullying actually is: «Bullying is what happens when an individual with power exercises that power against people who don't fit in.

Some Republican state Senators were recalled in Wisconsin for voting to curb union power, but Republican Governor Scott Walker survived a recall effort against him.

• The legal saga could come to an end: Benchmark agreed to immediately suspend (and later drop) its lawsuit against ex-CEO Travis Kalanick, which it filed in August in an effort to limit his power and force him off the board.

Apple recently won an injunction against Samsung that could prevent the Korean company from selling its Galaxy tablet, powered by Google's Android, in the European Union.

So here we have a big, lumbering guy weighed down with armor, who can't see much more than a few feet in front of his face, up against a kid running at him with a devastating weapon and a rock traveling with the stopping power of a.45 caliber handgun.

Keala Lusk, a former Uber software engineer, wrote on Medium that during her time at Uber she saw «malicious fights for power, interns repeatedly putting in over 100 hours a week but only getting paid for 40, discrimination against women, and prejudice against the transgender community.»

«This has to be the first time that a major presidential candidate has actively encouraged a foreign power to conduct espionage against his political opponent,» Hillary for American senior policy advisor Jake Sullivan said in a statement.

The Galaxy 5 offers an «ultra power saving mode,» which allows it to run on 10 % battery power for 24 hours by shutting down non-essential functions and can be submerged in water for 30 minutes for protection against accidental spills (or toilet plunges).

As Nicholas Colas of ConvergEx wrote in a Friday note, «Against measures of long - term earnings power, the S&P 500 is clearly expensive at 25 (times) trailing 10 - year earnings.

Many of these technologies are used to power Alexa, Amazon's digital assistant housed within the Echo smart speaker, which was unveiled in 2014 to compete against Apple's Siri.

LONDON — The United States and Britain on Monday issued a first - of - its - kind joint warning about Russian cyberattacks against government and private organizations as well as individual homes and offices in both countries, a milestone in the escalating use of cyberweaponry between major powers.

That would include «all elements of U.S. power available to push back against these kinds of intrusions,» he added, including «our capabilities in the physical world.»

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But in his blog post he said the exchange was «introducing additional safeguards to protect investors against the potential misuse of power,» including more corporate governance requirements and certain limits on founding shareholders in these structures.

Thus, if you own shares in a country whose stock market is rising and whose currency is strengthening against the dollar, you're getting a double - powered boost to your portfolio.

In addition to the ongoing internal power battles and military operations against armed militias, the LNA is also still having to fight pockets of Daesh / IS groups.

For instance, the criminal case against former minister of economic development Aleksey Ulyukayev — initiated in 2016 by Igor Sechin, head of the state - owned oil company Rosneft — was evidently part of Sechin's struggle against Prime Minister Dmitriy Medvedev's government over power and resources.

Whitehall sources told The Daily Telegraph that Britain was «doing everything necessary» to be able to fire Tomahawk cruise missiles from nuclear - powered submarines against military targets in Syria.

But industrial capital as well as labor has come under attack in an internecine war of finance capital against industrial capital, and even against the power of governments to retain control over national economies.

His comments came days after U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in a speech that «China's offer always comes at a price» and cautioned Latin American countries against reliance on «new imperial powers that seek only to benefit their own people.»

This can certainly be frustrating if one wants faster change — or a relief if one fears those in power — but that is precisely why Zuckerberg's appearance was noteworthy: there is a current moving against Facebook, and while it is not realistic to expect that current to already be a wave, it was strong enough to sweep him to Washington D.C. for the week.1

Looking at the gold price chart since year 2000 gives us a clear picture as to how well gold actually works in protecting your buying power against inflation, which today's interest rates are not even close to being able to.

After recalling Tsipras coming to power as an unrepentant demagogue whose high - wire negotiations in 2015 cost Greece «100 billion euros» (in extra austerity measures), the opposition accuses him of «belatedly discovering investments» that he fought against.

As the USD is the largest component in the basket of global currencies against which other currencies» purchasing power are measured, and the ruble lost 58 % in valuation versus the USD just from June 2014 to January 2016, I would dare claim that a 58 % devaluation qualifies as a crash.

Includes an examination of a possible vote of non-confidence against the Conservative minority government; a request to the Governor General to allow a Liberal - New Democratic coalition to form a new government; and the immediate tasks facing a possible coalition government once in power.

Our storage systems can give businesses the tools to address all three - delivering immediate savings, protection against escalating demand charges and optional, grid - independent backup power in case of outages.»

The result has been that second and third world currencies are strengthening against G - 20 currencies, a result of unintended consequences in the elitists grab for profits and power.

There is no proof in the memo that the FBI is biased against Trump, no proof of abuse of surveillance powers by the FBI, and no proof that the investigation into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia is fundamentally flawed.

The Treasury Department has already issued a wide range of sanctions against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his associates after he moved to consolidate power in July.

The status quo is heavily slanted in favor of fiat currencies, against gold, and maintaining their power and wealth.

For centuries, he argues, courts in the United Kingdom, United States, and elsewhere recognized that wealthy people could use third - party lawsuits as a weapon against those they disliked — and had rules in place to prevent this power from being abused.

According to this theory, if, for example, the U.S. inflation rate is higher than the Canadian inflation rate, then the purchasing power of Americans will erode compared to that of Canadians, and the value of the U.S. dollar against the Canadian dollar will be adjusted in the markets to balance the purchasing power of the two currencies.