Sentences with phrase «land of power»

No longer the firm's sole provider of equity, no longer the automatic ambition of young practitioners, no longer the promised land of power and profits — what will partnership represent?

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The is article is adapted from Alex Rose's upcoming book, The New Power Brokers: Negotiating the High - Stakes Future of Aboriginal Lands and Resources.

That's because Falcon Heavy essentially takes the Falcon 9 system, which SpaceX has now launched and landed quite a few times, and adds two identical first - stage boosters (which provide most of the rocket's thrust) to the sides of the central booster, cranking up the power.

If you've ever been curious about the power of landing pages and how they can help you grow your business, this course is the perfect one for you.

Curious about the power of landing pages in marketing campaigns?

If you have a prospective client you'd really love to land, it may be worth employing a strategy straight out of the political playbook: power mapping.

Back in the»90s, Spin Master scored a hit with its Air Hogs brand — a line of air - pressured powered planes that had the amazing ability to always land in trees or the neighbour's backyard.

Failing this sort of bold action, Hofmeister sees North America entering an «energy abyss» by the end of the next decade, the result of land (mis) management, an irrational aversion to nuclear power, and 50 years of ignoring serious questions about our resource base and the infrastructure that powers society.

My rule of thumb is that conversion-wise, landing pages are by far the most precious asset in a company's websiteand many businesses have realized the power of integrating rich media onto their landing page.

The amount of electricity that could be gathered by a whole state (or country) worth of sensors would be staggering, and unlike solar or wind power, there would be no visible change to the land — no whopping propellors, and no fields of solar panels.

Facebook has has plans for solar - powered drones capable of flying for three months at a time without landing, although so far the company only has only unveiled one full - sized aircraft.

And in the political sphere, finance has become the great defender of deregulating monopolies and «freeing» land rent and asset - price gains from taxation, translating its economic power and campaign contributions into the political power to capture control of public financial regulation.

The drive to break the power of landed aristocracies in Britain, France and other countries became the major political fight from the century spanning 1815 and World War I.

Southern Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company, is the majority owner of the facility, which is sited on approximately 2,000 acres of land.

They believe that after so long in power, not only was there a wave of change, they became tone deaf to issues of affordability and early childhood education, issues that resonated in the suburbs around Vancouver and lower main land, where they lost.

VANCOUVER / COAST SALISH TERRITORY — With the province's new climate plan expected to land any day now, a coalition of British Columbia power producers, industry associations and environmental organizations is calling on the government to tackle B.C.'s growing carbon pollution problem.

Soglin said he is recommending the Oscar Mayer site even though it is not on undeveloped land, as Foxconn has requested, because it has easy access to the airport, Interstate, rail and bus lines and plenty of power and water.

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

Sure the proposed federal action plan employs strong language to suggest that in the absence of effective habitat protection by Alberta, the federal government may exercise its SARA powers to apply the federal legislation onto provincial lands.

Okay — so you're going to have to create a bunch more offers to leverage the lead - gen power of an increase in landing pages.

The U.S. Department of Energy puts the drop at 64 per cent for utility - scale solar power and 41 per cent for land - based wind since 2008.

Two F / A -18 E Super Hornets from the Tophatters of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 14 overfly with extended landing gear and hook (hence, in landing configuration) the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) during an air power demonstration taking place over the flattop as the it returns from an eight - month deployment to the U.S. 5th and 7th Fleet areas of responsibility.

Even though power and wealth have now become more broadly distributed towards human, financial and technological capital, land ownership remains a key index of one's standing in society.

Once societies became agrarian, land ownership became the main source of power and wealth.

Paulson mobilized the credit - creating power of the government's financial and housing agencies to support the price of mortgage securities — and the land valuations that back them.

However, JD Power's latest survey of customer satisfaction with 27 major mortgage servicers showed that Capital One received a much better rating than any of the big three banks, landing it in the top four mortgage companies in this area.

This act has now become the law of the land and requires that patients on admission to a hospital or other institutions in receipt of federal health care funds be questioned about Advance Directives» which are a Living Will, Health Care Agent, Durable Power of Attorney» so that if unable to express an opinion, the patient's wishes concerning life - sustaining technologies will have been made known.

But almost every other foreign policy responsibility, McDougall shows, lies in a no - man's - land between the various branches of government: No mention is made of a power to recognize or de-recognize foreign regimes, terminate treaties as opposed to make them, make peace as opposed to war, declare neutrality in the wars of others, annex or cede territory, bestow or deny foreign aid, impose sanctions, regulate immigration and the status of aliens...

What did the bible say about sailing to a new land and waging a war on innocent people as they moved westward, I've always believed their is something above us / of a greater power.

They were upset about land, and by creating this community, it gave them power... I can easily see historically how through the nature of man this religion formed... but, if one holds the Bible to be the account of the one true God and He speciifically states the word is God... and then goes on to say there will be false prophets... there you have it.

all land plants would be damaged or destroyed, temperatures [would] plummet for several months,... All biological life on planet earth would be gravely threatened» (p. 7) We hold the powers of life and death within our hands, declare the bishops.

We believe that Mary conceived the child by the Holy Spirit, as is made clear in the Book of Mormon: «And behold, he shall be born of Mary, at Jerusalem which is the land of our forefathers, she being a virgin, a precious and chosen vessel, who shall be overshadowed and conceive by the power of the Holy Ghost, and bring forth a son, yea, even the Son of God» (Alma 7:10).

Now in this country of traditional Christian values, a land which may well lead the world in matters of justice and liberty, it is very easy to underestimate the powers of evil.

If the world is not really the land of perfection, then by his double - mindedness he has surrendered himself to the power of mediocrity or pledged himself to the evil.

We would respond, most of us, that we do in fact bleed, that we know both outrage and anguish for what, for example, our treachery (on two fronts) and our arrogant power inflicted and continue to inflict on the lands and people of Cambodia and Vietnam; or, still a lot of us, for what we see as our unconscionable role in the overthrow of Allende.

We now return to the geographical feature of the Holy Land that had the greatest influence on its destiny: the strategic location of Palestine between the great contending powers, Assyria and Babylon to the east and Egypt to the southwest.

Strange but my heart tells me that now super & rich powers will each adopt groups of those fighters or mercenaries and fight over the land to finally divide the cake among them selves if not victor takes it all...!?!

After the conversion of Constantine, the church leaders saw that using the power of the Roman Empire and the threat of the sword would help them gain glory, riches, honor, prestige, land, and wealth.

Although many Muslim lands now have indigenous leaders, there are not many examples where those who govern are in power by virtue of popular choice.

The USA is to me a country which HAS NOT done what any country in history with its power has done - and that is gooble up territory of conquered lands.

I raise this question particularly with Pure Land Buddhists because the affirmation of other power, or what Christians call grace, seems to place a greater emphasis on the metaphysical character of the world and human experience than is present in other Buddhist traditions.

The private ownership of land gives enormous power to a few.

My argument was that Pure Land Buddhism identified its founder with a mythical figure, Dharmakara, that there are advantages in connecting one's tradition to historical reality, that the emphasis on other power or grace is clearer in the Christian tradition than in most Buddhism, and that Jesus could function as an historical embodiment and teacher of grace.

He calls attention to (1) the degeneration in syncretism of the old Yahweh faith prior to the appearance of the eighth - century prophets; (2) a kind of «emancipation» from Yahweh in increasing dependence upon the maturing structure of the political state; and (3) the dissolution of the old tribal social order with the shift of economic power to the cities, the increasing inability of the farmer, because of the burdens of heavy taxation, to maintain himself as a free man, and the growing concentration of land in the hands of a few wealthy urbanites (cf. Isa.

Even as recent a president as Cárdinas (1934 - 1940) is remembered heroically, in part because he accomplished some of the land reform the revolution promised but also because he brought about the nationalization of the oil industry, thereby flexing Mexico's muscle in front of United States and English power.

In the 1990s, with the rise of Robertson's Christian Coalition, many evangelicals landed positions of power within the Iowa Republican Party.

Christianity «had partaken of the fruits of slavery in the Roman Empire for centuries, and later did nothing to prevent the slave trade of Christians».32 It required of the small farmer to transfer the title to his land and his independence to its growing power.

As we have noted, the current distributional pattern characterized by gross concentration of land in the hands of the few is the basis for the concentration of both wealth and political power.

In short, the classical contexts of Christian theologies and theoria historically witnessed the recurrent betrayals of the Cross by the sword, Christianity by Christendom, as colonizations brought new peoples and lands into the orbit of the dehumanizing power games of Europe's so - called Christian cultures and nations.

He brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power, driving out before you nations greater and mightier than yourselves, to bring you in, giving you their land for a possession, as it is still today.