Sentences with phrase «less power over»

In choosing to give away our money, we've found that it has less power over us.

As Zach said on Monday, «In choosing to give away our money, we've found that it has less power over us.»

With a system in which the governor and the state education chief have less power over school issues than their counterparts in almost any other state, initiative has been left to local school districts, and little has happened.

Once you realize that you have the power to express your feelings, you will see that your feelings begin to hold much less power over you.

Well, human mating is a bit more complicated than it is for mice, and our perfumes have far less power over our brains (whatever the beliefs of pushy department - store perfumers).

They also introduced a stand - alone FMAP contingency bill that would give the governor less power over the cash — should it come from Congress — and any cuts that might have to be made if it doesn't, than he had initially proposed.

I do feel that is unfortunate that RD's in schools may seem to have less power over influencing how school lunch programs are run, often because they have less oversight and are often guided or trying to follow the school nutrition standards.

For starters, one share now only equals one vote, meaning Travis Kalanick will have less power over the board.

Not exact matches

Solar power has grown at a whopping 68 % average rate over the past 10 years, but still accounts for less than 2 % of total U.S. electricity generation.

Meanwhile, the turmoil at Politico may be giving some media watchers déjà vu, or at least flashbacks to another Allbritton - backed venture that went through substantial upheaval: In 2010, a number of senior journalists including former Washington Post digital chief Jim Brady started an ambitious hyperlocal effort called TBD, only to have the entire effort implode in less than two years after what appeared to be a power struggle with Allbritton over the future direction of the site.

The U.S. generates over 1.7 million megawatt hours from coal - fired power, compared to less than 100,000 megawatt hours in Canada, and U.S. coal generation is expected to remain roughly constant through 2040 absent any new regulations.

New research from North Carolina State University and the University of Colorado Boulder finds that steep declines in the use of coal for power generation over the past decade were caused largely by less expensive natural...

The more power they have over your emotions, the less likely you'll trust your own reality and the truth about the abuse you're enduring.

This is, in the purest of senses, privilege: the ability to avoid the consequences that most anyone else in the same situation would have to endure — and, along with that, the ability to walk all over less powerful people in order to avoid those consequences — due to one's own power and social position.

Due to potentially - large oscillations in the desire to hold cash and to the fact that changes in the money supply can take years to impact the cost of living, this theoretical rate of purchasing - power change will tend to be inaccurate over periods of two years or less but should approximate the actual rate of purchasing - power change over periods of five years or more.

President Trump even acknowledged that his powers over the stock market are less than omnipotent.

The more positive news you put over via news and PR releases, the less power any negative press will have.

(For instance I'm fairly confident that promiscuity is sinful, especially when it comes from a place of lust, but I'm less convinced that my committed same - sex friends are sinning by expressing their love physically any more than I am sinning when my wife and I express our love physically — even though I think we can be if we are acting out of lust or as a means of asserting power over one another, but that is another story).

Look at how much trouble less than a century of nuclear power has already caused on this planet... what are the chances of something more catastrophic happening with that and / or more powerful technologies that develop over the next several hundred years?

Turning it over to God / Higher Power or the Flying Spaghetti Monster won't get rid of it... I would like more science & psychology & less Faith / Religion in my 12 - steps.

in a true sense the arms and the heart which you open to me are nothing less than all the united powers of the world which, permeated through and through by your will, your inclinations, your temperament, bend over my being to form it and feed it and draw it into the blazing centre of your infinite fire.

What power is it that is prepared to trust that a human will choose the latter, infinitely less plausible interpretation, and then graciously cover over the vulnerability of his bride - to - be and allow the sign to flourish?

In his Attack upon «Christendom» Soren Kierkegaard suggested that «the illusion of a Christian nation is due... to the power which number exercises over the imagination... It is said, that [an innkeeper] sold his beer by the bottle for a cent less than he paid for it; and when a certain man said to him, «How does that balance the account?

But is it less bizarre for these lawyers to suppose that «the people» in 1787 «transferred all of their governing power» over their own children to these artificial authorities?

As the Pope still has significant influence over the less educated masses in these parts of the World, he has exercised this power by:

Option two: Using the ring, you fly under its power across the ocean in less than sixty minutes (it takes that long because you haven't figured out how to fold space yet), subdue and restrain the bad guys, and turn them over to those equipped to deal with them.

Still less was it a social contract — a voluntary surrender of power order to delegate authority to a sovereign — as envisaged by Hobbes Rousseau.5 The covenant was more of a command than a bargain, stemming from the inherent, undelegated authority of Yahweh over the total structure of existence.

It may be that Brown can be so sanguine about overcoming the fragmenting effects of disciplinary diversity because the national scholarly organizations that institutionalize the various academic guilds today exercised less political power in the 1930s over scholars» standing with peers, mobility from school to school, and promotion to tenure.

It is, in part, that the culturally glorified image of how a woman should look and act makes women like themselves less, in part about men being afraid of a loss of control and power over women (very generalized — don't take it personally (unless the shoe fits), and the limitations that our culture puts on women — or more to the point that culture encourages women to put limits on themselves.

As the Pope still has significant influence over the less educated masses in these parts of the World, he has exercised this power by: (a) Using some of the Vatican's incomprehensible wealth to educate these vulnerable people on health family planning and condom use; (b) Supporting government programs that distribute condoms to high risk groups; (c) Using its myriad of churches in these regions to distribute condoms; or (d) Scaring people into NOT using condoms, based upon his disdainful and aloof view that it is better that a person die than go against the Vatican's position on contraceptive use.

Nevertheless, in Rome and perhaps in other very large sees, the deacons, who were held to the apostolic number of seven but with quite unapostolic prerequisites and powers, tried intermittently to take precedence over the more numerous and less highly remunerated presbyters.

It enables the light - weight belt to reduce power demands, operate quietly, lubricant - free and with less maintenance over long periods.

of blue cheese is to over powering and I like blue cheese, next time I will add less blue cheese or a milder one and then dip in ranch.??

Howard is still viewed as a source of cheap power, but oddsmakers have set the over / under for the 35 - year old lefty at only 75.5 RBI — far less than the 89 RBI which ESPN's fantasy pundits are predicting.

Summary: BYU is one of the steadiest entities in college football, typically combining a top - 30 defense with a top - 60 offense, splitting with power conference teams early in a given season, and romping over lesser teams late.

Espanyol were level less than five minutes later though when Hernán Pérez powered home after a run that left La Real's defenders flying all over the place.

But once you stop playing this particular game with her, you can go back and give Satter's book a more thorough read, and introduce other strategies (proper meal and snacktime spacing, optimizing her nutrition via the few foods she eats, chilling the eff out overall, etc.) that will make mealtimes more pleasant and less of a power struggle over... well, whatever thing your toddler has decided to turn into a power struggle this week.

The statement reads in part: «Today, power generation is less than 1,400, Foreign Reserve has reduced to $ 26.5 billion, dollar is now over N350, petrol has increased to N145 per litre and one bag of rice is now over N15, 000!»

White Nationalism in Western Culture is the people in power saying they want to stay in power over those with less power.

The governor who said Nigerians should remove party, ethnic and religious sentiments and ask themselves what they have benefitted in the last one year, reminded Nigerians that, «Foreign Reserve was $ 28.6 billion, Excess Crude Account (ECA) was $ 2.07 billion, dollars was less than N200, petrol was N87 per litre and most importantly, one bag of rice was N8, 500 and power generation was over 5,000 MW when Buhari assumed office.

I'd also point out that local councils have less power in a real sense given the decline in central - government funding over the course of this decade.

Less than two months after sheepishly handing over power to the Akufo - Addo led New Patriotic Party, the opposition National Democratic Congress is facing its worse internal insurrections with the potential of disintegrating the party unless; immediate measures are taken to assuage pent - up feeling among various feuding factions.

«The focus now should be creating a stable investment climate for renewables, making longer - term commitments to support less mature technologies, and putting in place incentives to deliver significantly increased investment in renewable power and heat generation required over the next decade.»

The National Farming Union's conference provides another stark reminder of the importance of stopping Westminster from seizing control of powers over agriculture after Brexit and ensuring Welsh farmers receive not one penny less once we've left.

After all, reducing the power of Tory backbenchers would mean the John Redwoods and the Bill Cashs of the world have less influence over the prime minister.

Currently the maximum power that could be produced by each device is four or five MW, but it will be possible, over time, to expand capacity so that the wave hub could feed no less than 50 MW into the national grid.

Less than three weeks after the election, a passage appeared in a New York Times editorial urging Cuomo to «hand over the power to investigate public corruption in Albany to the new attorney general, Eric Schneiderman.»

The NPP have expressed concerns about President Mahama's approval of fresh contracts and appointments despite having less than a month to vacate office and hand over power to president - elect, Nana Akufo - Addo in January 2017.

He subsequently blamed much of the scandal on poor controls over the procurement process used by the nonprofits, and has proposed stepped - up oversight such as the creation of a «chief procurement officer» within the Executive Chamber — though that concept has been criticized by some as duplicative of the powers of the state Comptroller's office, only less independent.

In less than two weeks, it will be five years since the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami killed over 15,000 people and crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.