Sentences with phrase «in unaccountable»

His answer was to create a more equitable and voluntary relationship with the colonies in the developing world, not to patronise them by foisting backwards technologies on them, to sustain their dependence on Western agencies and their basic lifestyles, to undermine their political movements, and sending in unaccountable, undemocratic, self - appointed NGOs.

AV hands some power to minorities but not in a direct accountable and democratic way; in an unaccountable and undemocratic way because these parties do not get more representatives elected (which are therefore in a position to be held to account) they just wield power as ginger groups whose second preferences are needed.

Knee - deep in unaccountable love, we'll meet the One who gives us all our ragged victories and presides over our life.

Not exact matches

Whereas print and broadcast journalism organizations could control the range of content that was packaged together in their products, and thereby provide their audience with a diversity of views and content - types (sports, entertainment, news, and accountability journalism), in the Facebook algorithm all information — including journalism — is atomized and distributed based on a set of hidden, unaccountable, rapidly iterating and individualized rules.

It's a license for unaccountable, un-elected officials to make law,» Hensarling said in the interview.

«I have a great concern about the rise of an unaccountable administrative state,» Hensarling said in an interview.

The people you need to watch out for are the unaccountable senior officials authorizing these unconstitutional programs, and unreliable mechanisms like the secret FISA court, a rubber - stamp authority that approves 99.97 % of government requests (which denied only 11 requests out of 33,900 in 33 years http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/06/fisa-court-nsa-spying-opinion-reject-request.

We will have to wait until Gray's Bill 32 is tabled before we know what action the NDP government plans to take, but even if their bill is removed from the order papers, Swann and Khan deserve the credit for making unregulated and unaccountable Political Action Committees an issue in Alberta politics.

In practice, that can turn the priest into an unaccountable, one - man private marriage court.

Personal Attack on John Musick # 2: «However, regardless of how you personally feel about Tony, the blood lust and voyeuristic glee that is being demonstrated here in response to Julie's unaccountable torrent is deeply troubling.»

However, regardless of how you personally feel about Tony, the blood lust and voyeuristic glee that is being demonstrated here in response to Julie's unaccountable torrent is deeply troubling.

Unfortunately, most of what we see in the blogoshpere and internet space is people who are unaccountable to any authority scripture or otherwise.

«Incalculable and unaccountable», I say, for the narratives constantly betray a baffled wonderment; but not magical or irrational, because they are congruous with the account which Jesus gave of the character of God: the «Father in heaven», who is «good» with a goodness beyond justice, (Mark 10:18; Matthew 5: 45; Luke 6: 35; Matthew 20: 1 - 15) supported by sufficient power; (Mark 10: 27, 14:36) and who persistently takes the initiative in giving good gifts to His creatures.

The report is an explicit rebuttal to the fatalistic opinions, so easy in wartime, that «war is hell» (so no excess is prohibited) or that war is God's punishment (so we are helpless, unaccountable) Rather, God is ceaselessly active for peace.

It is not a problem to be left in the hands of some virtually self - appointed, unaccountable publishing committee in New York or teams of writers who may not have seen or helped a «wet drunk» in years.

Worse, it established the anti democratic and bureaucratically unaccountable quasi Star Chamber known as the Independent Payment Advisory Board, authorized to order Congress to legislate cost cuts (resisted only by a supermajority)-- with (as I wrote in the Weekly Standard) the constitutionally questionable power to even surmount a presidential veto.

The Democratic nominee has pursued unaccountable power through secrecy — most evidently in the form of an email server designed to shield her communications while in public service, but also in lavishly compensated speeches, whose transcripts she refuses to release, to some of the most powerful representatives of the world system.

For the first time in four billion years, a living creature had contemplated himself and heard with a sudden unaccountable loneliness, the whisper in the night reeds.

Origin in immediate intuition; origin in pontifical authority; origin in supernatural revelation, as by vision, hearing, or unaccountable impression; origin in direct possession by a higher spirit, expressing itself in prophecy and warning; origin in automatic utterance generally — these origins have been stock warrants for the truth of one opinion after another which we find represented in religious history.

Actually David, I have experienced the opposite — where a select few members in the church have total and unaccountable power — to the point where they can fire the pastor without cause.

How many people are in churches were the pastor is unaccountable?

But, in the midst of a gentle rain, while these thoughts prevailed, I was suddenly sensible of such sweet and beneficent society in Nature, in the very pattering of the drops, and in every sight and sound around my house, an infinite and unaccountable friendliness all at once, like an atmosphere, sustaining me, as made the fancied advantages of human neighborhood insignificant, and I have never thought of them since.

In fact, the film projects an antithesis to Murray's conclusion by clearly depicting the tragic consequences that issue from unaccountable and adulterous behavior.

We need to take care of our planet and each other the chances of a random meteor or giant solar flare exists still they have nothing to do with a mythology created for those who choose to be unaccountable for their part in our future.

I am thrilled to have found them and excited to know there are wonderful products, customer service, and great small companies that are still alive in our great country regardless of the roadblocks from other unaccountable entities that seem to interfere today.

Wenger is remote enough, despite living in London overspill (Totteridge, Nr Barnet) since he is unaccountable, looks down on any and all of us «lowly» fans who «have never managed a team, not even for 24 hours».

Then add in the fact none of the candidates are free of murky accusations, protests have been violently shut down, protesters arrested, and dissenting voices have been killed (by allegedly invisible and unaccountable forces), and you can see why Putin would win, even without the no doubt significant level of REAL support among the population.

For some unaccountable reason managers of other Premier League teams have adopted the same tactic possibly in the hope that it deposits some big - time manager stardust onto their shoulders as well.

here in New York, women who can absolutely afford ob / gyn and state of the art hostpitals choose homebirth and free standing birth centers because they've been lied to about the safety of homebirth due to confusing Canada's model of care to the unregulated / uninsured unaccountable lay midwives model of care.

Yet there is increasing realization of the inadequacy of this form of management in the private sector — it stifles creativity, punishes innovation, and promotes bad and unaccountable decision - making.

The contrast with unaccountable, unelected and invisible police authority chairmen in other parts of the country could not have been clearer.

The rest of us are in chains, condemned to the whims of an out - of - control, unaccountable and excessively remunerated financial sector.

Turning unaccountable citizens into immigration officers can only lead to racial profiling, discrimination and alienation, raising tensions in already divided communities.

Well that's pretty much what all the main political parties are doing in the run - up to the general election — thanks to the rise of unelectable and unaccountable think - tanks.

Proposed reforms would have restored the Comptroller's independent oversight powers to review contracts before they are finalized, corralled unaccountable, state controlled not - for - profits, and created a «Database of Deals» for billions in state subsidies to businesses.

He outlined why he thinks voters worried about excessive powers will continue to turn their backs on the «unaccountable bunch of bureaucrats in Brussels».

Our taxpayer - subsidised food system which has taken over our ability to look after ourselves; how corporate bureaucracy stifles real entrepreneurial ambitions and is also unaccountable and out of touch; how we need to nurture families to address poverty and inequality; the way in which the needs of children are undervalued and finally how we relate to the world around us.

After less than a month in office, the new Government are already improving our constitution to make it more local, more responsive to the people and less in hock to unelected, unaccountable quangos.

And this in turn will ensure that Albany is just as unaccountable to voters as it ever was in the pre-Cuomo era.

Committee backers have received over $ 1 billion in economic development subsidies from an out - of - control and unaccountable system which the Cuomo administration has declined to reform.

She wrote: «The Mid Staffs scandal, and the problems throughout the NHS that it has exposed, have one thing in common: Lives lost in our hospitals because of an unaccountable central management and political organisation, more concerned with fixing the statistics for dispatch - box convenience than looking after patients, which has systematically stifled of the voices of those on the front line: both patients» groups concerned for loved ones, and doctors and nurses concerned for their patients.

Last time I saw this guy, he was in my neighborhood criticizing the «unaccountable MTA» for closing the second of two token booths at PPW, perhaps in exchange for support from the TWU, without having anything intelligent about what the heck the MTA is supposed to do given the situation it has been put in.

Too often necessary change in the NHS is held back by the sense that local people fear losing out to the decisions of an unaccountable system.

That rhetoric simply isn't backed up in planning law, which regards even long established pubs as fair game for unaccountable owners to make money from by bulldozing or selling them, with no regard for local people who use them.

Even though we are outside the euro we are still subject to an unelected EU commission which is generating new laws every day and an unaccountable European Court in Luxembourg which is extending its reach every week, increasingly using the Charter of Fundamental Rights which in many ways gives the EU more power and reach than ever before.

«The ability to choose who governs us, and the freedom to change laws we do not like, were secured for us in the past by radicals and liberals who took power from unaccountable elites and placed it in the hands of the people.

It was unaccountable, irresponsible, bullying and failing in some of the central tenants of its mission statement, such as holding the powerful to account.

I particularly enjoyed Jowell's comment that «Labour has cited Aneurin Bevan's injunction that «the purpose of getting power is to give it away» rather more frequently than we have practiced it,» as though New Labour had not after all been in many respects (devolution excepted) about the redistribution of power to unaccountable bodies and about the substitution of real individual power within the grasp of the citizen by its tawdry imitation.

In any case, George Osborne is the Shadow Chancellor and therefore responsible for shaping Conservative economic policy, not the unelected, unaccountable Lord Forsyth.

They are also highly undemocratic in that personnnel are unelected and unaccountable, despite having an immnese and direct influence on the community.