Sentences with phrase «into symbols of power»

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In his powerful book The Non-Violent Cross James Douglass makes a great deal of the resurrection, but for him the resurrection is only a symbol of oppressed people's awakening to the power of nonviolence: «Man becomes God when Love and Truth enter into man, not by man's power but by raising him to Power, so that revolution in love is revealed finally as the Power of resurrection» (pp. 23 -power of nonviolence: «Man becomes God when Love and Truth enter into man, not by man's power but by raising him to Power, so that revolution in love is revealed finally as the Power of resurrection» (pp. 23 -power but by raising him to Power, so that revolution in love is revealed finally as the Power of resurrection» (pp. 23 -Power, so that revolution in love is revealed finally as the Power of resurrection» (pp. 23 -Power of resurrection» (pp. 23 - 24).

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

In our generation there is danger and hope — danger that these noncognitive accouterments will lose their aesthetic harmony and hypnotic power when integrated with the basic prehensions of science, and be reverted into impotent and empty symbols, jarring, ugly, and without force in final satisfactions: hope that the power of Jesus as lure will reassert itself in an aesthetic context devoid of supernaturalism, a context such that (the language now picks up echoes of van Buren) the vision of Jesus, the free man, free from authority, free from fear, «free to give himself to others, whoever they were «1 — such that this vision in its earthly, human purity will lure our aims to a harmonious concrescence, integrating scientific insight and moral vision and producing a modern, intensely fulfilling human satisfaction.

«Now shall you deal with me, O prince, and all the powers of hell,» she proclaims, as she rises in a mushroom cloud (the great symbol of unleashed evil in that Cold War era) to transform herself into an enormous horned and bat - winged dragon with Fantasia's Satan's gleaming, slitlike eyes.

As this proud symbol of British Maritime power is consigned to history I worry that we might have botched the Strategic Defence and Security Review, which could have consequences long into the future.

Worn for centuries, the signet ring has been a symbol of power and influence, usually with a family crest or initials on it that could be pressed into wax to used as a seal.

A characteristic surge of images is the sequence that begins with the departure of Bill (Richard Gere) with the circus performers and ends with the time - lapse image of sprouting seed; there is no dialogue, save for the offscreen narration, no narrative content, and no continuity, but only the overwhelming power of the images which have not degenerated into «signs» or «symbols».

The installation re-presents and reinvents the soldadera's role in the Revolution and in the present day, re-inserting her into history and into our contemporary consciousness as a symbol of strength and power.

I think that speaks to the power of popular culture and it's ability to translate symbols that can be politically charged into something that seems or feels benign.

These influences provide an insight into Power's artistic interests, which are mainly (but not exclusively) the expression of emotion through the use of symbols as well as colour and figures.

The works presented in Repossession exemplify Attia's aptitude in creating hybrid cultural objects and collages that transform Western artifacts from icons of power and domination into symbols of freedom and resistance.

Is it not also a bitter irony that this power should be struck to the heart of its security and self - confidence by an action that was utterly improbable according to every logic of risk, when suicide terrorists succeeded in turning commercial passenger aircraft into rockets, which destroyed symbols of American world power?

The rest of the top face was rounded out by a thin rubber pad to secure our tablet, control keys for volume, power, «Direct Dialog Surround» (which we'll get into below), and a small symbol at the left side which marks the spot for Near Field Communication (NFC) pairing.

She explores how softening the conscious position and entering into the play space makes the client and therapist more receptive to the powers of the symbol to move the psyche.