Sentences with phrase «into positions of power»

How often do we find that when people get into a position of power, that they then start to abuse it, both in politics and business.

What's it going to take to launch more women into positions of power?

So there you have it; governments are put into positions of power by upwards of only 38 % of the voters, who actually voted (in Canada's «first - past - the - post» plurality voting system), who voted in favour of one party or another, said party winner usually forming a majority government, propelled by wishful thinking, quasi «Munchousen's - by - proxy» ignorant voters.

The Ruzi Empire came into this position of power thanks to Ragnite, a mineral mined and used for energy sources, but it also has magical powers.

I often wonder if churches attract bullies or if people who get into a position of power in churches find it's easy to use their position to lord it over others and even bully them.

Thus, it is essential to have the capacity to scan the environment — learn about outside concerns and new developments — and seed the environment — put advocates into positions of power and influence.

«Organizations wait until a crisis to bring women into positions of power because they realize the current strategy isn't working and a new approach is needed,» says Sylvia Ann Hewlett, founder and CEO of the Center for Talent Innovation.

What is needed in order to increase the numbers of underrepresented minorities in science, engineering, and technological fields is a push for a new and concrete plan of action, with mandatory implementation guidelines, adopted at the national level which focuses on transitioning women and underrepresented minorities into positions of power.

We rebel against not only tyranny but the Platonic idea of «philosopher - kings» — persons groomed from youth, told they are crafted from precious metals, and guided into positions of power and lives of advantage.

Comparisons have been made between the influx of Christofascism into positions of power since the last US election, and some of the very societies described in these novels.

In this new world of convicts and charlatans, Thornhill tries to pull his family into a position of power and comfort.

> By politicizing science, by appointing global warming zealots into positions of power and influence, and so forth, Obama created a scientific environment akin to Lysenkoism.

Men, due to cultural conditioning and workplaces primarily organized by men, have an advantage in innately understanding how to advance their careers into positions of power.

This guarantees the worst get into positions of power, where they toil to advance the needs of the church before the needs of the people.

If we as voters allow a candidate's theatricality to cloud our judgment, and do not have expectations of integrity towards those we are going to put into positions of power, then we're going to look stupid too.

When I claim that label, I'm connecting not only with a number of active feminists who are working today to help women, but with an ongoing history of feminists who got women the vote, who made birth control happen, who got women into positions of power in the government, who worked to rectify racial inequality and fight against things like mandatory sterilization of welfare recipients.

These connections also give schools the capacity to both scan the environment — to learn about issues, concerns, and new developments outside the school — and seed the environment — to put insiders and advocates into positions of power and influence on the outside.

Once we start letting people like this into positions of power, they will know no limits when it comes to taking away personal freedoms.

Child molesters are manipulative, and getting into a position of power and trust is a way to find victims.

Blacks are the only race on this earth when they get into position of power they forget.

I am not sure which is more shameful, the existence of Rick Perry or a populace that allows him into a position of power.

But the leave vote has catapulted them into positions of power and influence.

Those who overcome discrimination, bias and economic challenge to get into positions of power are subject to a higher standard.

When a new person would come into some position of power that we had never dealt with before, we would ask others who knew him better, «Is he economically rational?»

The viewer, put into a position of power — as choreographer / curator — must realize their control of the object:[...]

The viewer, put into a position of power — as choreographer / curator — must realize their control of the object: the body of this dancer.

It is not all right when -LSB-...] precious fairies get into positions of power and judge, buy, and exhibit American pictures on a base of nervous whim and under the sway of those overdelicate refinements of taste characteristic of their kind.