Sentences with phrase «kept itself in power by»

They have suffered immensely from a regime that kept itself in power by brute force.

Fayyad is kept in power by the Israeli Army and by a few thousand Palestinian security forces deployed by the U.S. under General Keith Dayton.

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Putin is reportedly trying to keep a lid on a troubling news story that hundreds of Russian nationals were handily defeated by US air power in Syria.

A culture is a living thing, powered by and kept up to date by the people who are encouraged to be, in a meaningful way, part of it.

These sorts of clocks keep time by counting the number of oscillations in the alternating current they receive, which also powers them; in other words, the number of times the flow of electricity changes directions every second.

In case you haven't been keeping track, digital tokens are a new asset class, powered by cryptocurrency networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Benefits — Each family / real estate investor keeps average $ 600 / mo for 2 yrs, real estate in all major metropolitans will have a traded price, increase buying power of low income high credit citizens, stimulate real estate investment by making it easier for investors to cash flow a rental property, reduce home inventory, the increase home values and liquidity provides incentive to put the $ X trillion in capital currently on the sidelines back to work and mortgage prepayments will increase capital availability.

(3) regulatory policy to keep the prices charged by natural monopolies such a railroads, power and gas companies in line with actual production costs plus normal profit.

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

I guess the lesson of Travis Kalanick's resignation as chief executive officer of Uber Technologies Inc. is that you can be the visionary founder of a massive company, stay private to avoid the pressures of the public market, keep control of a majority of the voting power of the shares, and still be forced out in a boardroom coup led by activist shareholders:

Additionally, there are concerns about the governance of the tokens, as detailed in the ICO white paper, and the voting power of the TON Foundation set up to manage the reserve tokens kept by Telegram.MIT professor Christian Catalini previously told CoinDesk that the company should clarify details of its plans, adding that: «Investors should evaluate the capacity of any team to execute on their plan and vision, as well as the protections they have if things go wrong.»

Additionally, there are concerns about the governance of the tokens, as detailed in the ICO white paper, and the voting power of the TON Foundation set up to manage the reserve tokens kept by Telegram.

By contrast, the Eurozone and Japan are still in the midst of extended programmes of quantitative easing (QE) intended mainly to keep interest rates low along the length of the yield curve (rather than directly to boost the rates of growth of money and purchasing power), and hence to stimulate the two economies.

The Web search results will continue to be powered by Microsoft, in keeping with the 10 - year partnership that Yahoo and Microsoft began in 2010.

Keep in mind that, like most yieldcos, NextEra Energy Partners owns projects backed by power purchase agreements that ensure 20 or more years of cash flow, so this is a dividend stock for the long haul.

What did the revolts brought to the people in those countries any thing other than continuos unending revolts and demonstrations scarcity of essential commodities and products adding to the sky high prices... While other essential needs such as electricity power supply, water, gas, diesel, petrol are being used as a pressure tool by the opposition or the ruling party to keep people mad on the streets rather than going home seeing to their daily living making and minding their own businesses... but what business will continue with such chaos and disorder...?

Theresa keep what you were doing when you reached out to the homeless lady that was the right thing to do that was motivated by the holy spirit do nt follow what the church does do what the Lord wants you to do and it will bear fruit.Let them do there thing you just keep following the Lord and listen to him in your heart and let him lead you.People do things for different reasons to please others for power to be seen to do the right thing all those are the wrong reasons they are just dead works without the Lord we can do nothing.Dont let others turn you away from what the Lord wants you to do its him we need to please always.Be encouraged that the Lord used you to touch a life that is awesome.And do nt take the rejection personally because its not you they are pushing away it is the Lord the yare not listening to him but doing wha tthey want to do it will bear no fruit.May the Lord bless you and your family in your ministry step out in faith and trust him he will not disappoint you because he is with you.

Speaking in abstract terms about blank, amorphous «innocent lives» keeps us from confronting the reality that if most of these children are born at or near the poverty line, then the lives we are saving are more likely to be troubled ones, and if nothing changes, those lives will get caught in vicious cycles powered by poverty and systemic racism.

Finally, by making it necessary that elections be conducted as contests of like against like (female against female, minority against minority, etc.) the system extended vast powers to the nominating process and enabled those in power to recruit just those board members most likely to agree with their purposes and keep them in power.

But, as Tillich points out, Luther did not appreciate sufficiently that love's strange work can be used by those in power as a means for keeping themselves in power.

It means that up to now in his history, man was somehow kept in the bondage of childhood by the powers that be, the state, etc., and by the idea of a «father - God,» so that he did not dare to affirm himself fully.

When he warns, «Everyone who accepts circumcision is obliged to keep the whole Law» (5:3), he is speaking both literally to the Galatians and also typologically to us: If we insist on following the old customs required by those laws which have not yet been superseded by faith in Jesus Christ (that faith «which makes its power felt through love»), we will continue to be slaves, to be kept in our place, to be oppressed by those who have power through those laws to dominate us.

Adnama Satan uses external circumstances to direct our steps he knows that if we walk according to the flesh we come under his authority for the flesh is weak and he manipulates by keeping christians in bondage to sin through lust or whatever sin the christian is weak in.He can also fire into our minds evil thoughts to make us feel condemned or guilty these are fiery darts they are not ours and we need to stand on the word to rebuke them by faith.If we have given our lives to Christ then we belong to Christ so if we walk in accordance to the spirit the enemy has not power to effect us either internally or externally that is not to say that he can not manipulate situations and circumstances to his advantage that is why we need to be alert and pray against the work that he does we are in a spiritual battle but we have overcome in Christ so fear not brentnz

If you don't believe in God or a higher power and you go to AA: until you want to believe - do us all a favor and keep your mouth shut during the Serenity prayer and the Lord's prayer - Don't mock God by saying prayers in which you don't believe in.

Any society in history will need structures which balance enhancement of freedom and self - determination with checks on it by long - established legal and moral traditions of keeping power in the service of order and mutual responsibility, as well as creation of new structures of public morality.

He believed that the world was soon to come to an end and one need not worry if they were kept in involuntary servitude or occupied by a super power.

Religion, when possessed by the principalities and powers, has the ability to keep people in their place to serve and support itself.

Undoubtedly the Churches are still making stupid mistakes in order to defend their own way of life and their own freedom by means that seem to deny their respect for the freedom of others, or which give the impression that we advocate freedom only where we do not have the power to keep it for ourselves.

I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness, death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours after I had gone to my bed.

The country kept things nice and segregated — no chance of drinking from a fountain contaminated by someone with a surplus of melanin or of finding an overly emotional estrogen slave in a position of influence or power.

Thus the ideology of secularism was born, replacing traditional legitimations of power by appearing in the mantle of science and by deriving its justification from the critique of tradition, thereby keeping actual power relations inaccessible to analysis and to public consciousness.26

In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade — kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last timIn his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade — kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last timin heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last timin the last time.

suasion,» whose «power is the worship he inspires» (Whitehead), that is, flows from the intrinsic appeal of his infinitely sensitive and tolerant relativity, by which all things are kept moving in orderly togetherness, we may find help in facing our task of today, the task of contributing to the democratic self - ordering of a world whose members not even the supreme orderer reduces to mere subjects with the sole function of obedience.59

Once you receive faith in Christ, God will keep you by the Power of the seal of His Holy Spirit.

They are kept in faith by the power of almighty God, and thus persevere to the end (The Five Points of Calvinism, pp 5 - 8).

Third, the cosmos is kept in order more by lure and persuasion than by the exercise of sheer coercive power.

«But though by the end of the battle the men felt all the horror of their actions,» he writes, «though they would have been glad to stop, some incomprehensible, mysterious power still went on governing them, and the artillery men, covered with powder and blood, reduced to one in three, though stumbling and gasping from fatigue, kept bringing charges, loaded, aimed, applied the slow match; and the cannonballs, with the same speed and cruelty, flew from both sides and crushed human bodies flat, and the terrible thing continued to be accomplished, which was accomplished not by the will of men, but by the will of Him who governs people and worlds.»

The Lord revealed that the problem was with my heart it is so wicked and deceptive i still believed that i was a good person i did nt drink or take drugs smoke or swear i wasnt violent i had some hangups but kept them to myself but this wicked thought was the reason why i couldnt get free.That was enough for the enemy to bring guilt and condemnation upon me.So when i confessed that my heart was indeed wicked and that i needed a new heart.I was instantly delivered and set free from the past and have not looked back though i am sometimes reminded by others for what i did wrong.It no longer has power over me.I believe we all struggle with two areas as christians we must confess our sin and we must confess our pride for without him we can do nothing.May the Lord show you what it is that is blocking you from receiving his love and forgiveness the issue will be found in your heart ask the Lord to reveal it for what it is.We do nt like to see the truth its ugly and i am sorry if this offends you it wasnt my intention.May he set you free as he has done for me.regards brentnz

The question of power has been kept off the table in recent times by a religiousness that emphasizes a personal, psychological quest for happiness, comfort or meaning.

However, he didn't tell them that they should keep the law by their natural power, but he told them that they would need a deliverer or redeemer, who would come and dwell in them (the Holy Spirit), in oder to be their spiritual power, which would help them to overcome sin and live a life of Christian love.

I do not think that it's the inability to bridge the gap between science and religion — it's that more of us are educated, and see the Bible for what it truly is — a collection of stories, used throughout history, to ensure that populations were «kept in check» by a threat from a so - called higher power.

He believed in a hierarchy of saints who held dominion over the divisions of the world of Islam, saints who had their jealousies, conflicts, and divided loyalties and were kept in check by a balance of power.

i guess we are lucky are parents were not gay or we would not all be here reading this the book allso says free will and ten comanments to live by its not up to us humans to judge when we all die we will know what we did right and what was wrong until then do what you do best to help keep the devil from taking over remember the devil and god have the same powers but only god can give you peace and love bottom line what or who you sleep with is your choice but don't keep rubbing my nose in it do your job and keep the rest to yourself

As for the distinction between the sovereignty and powers of the (earthly) Messiah and those of the (pre-existent, heavenly) Son of man, it should be noted that although IV Ezra 13.26 has the Man from the sea being kept «many ages» by the Most High, the description of the redemptive activity of this figure in vv.

«The time will come when in the busy office or on the noisy street you can enter into the silence by simply drawing the mantle of your own thoughts about you and realizing that there and everywhere the Spirit of Infinite Life, Love, Wisdom, Peace, Power, and Plenty is guiding, keeping, protecting, leading you.

I tried to keep a well - stocked fridge in the past, needless to say that I was bummed when we got hit by hurricane Irene and I had to throw it all out after days and days of no power.

In keeping with the Sydney Games» pledge to be environmentally responsible, some 400 buggies powered by solar - generated electricity will ferry athletes, officials and VIPs among the 32 venues.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

And Wenger also points out that players with the vision, technical ability and work rate of the German are almost impossible to come by, which is why O am sure that the Prof will do everything in his power to keep his key man happy and willing to stay with the club.