Sentences with phrase «less powerful people»

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.

Sometimes you get a situation where there's some kind of attraction between the two and they encourage each other, or there may be a persuasive relationship where someone has more disturbed sociopathic tendencies and a more powerful personality, and another, less powerful person doing the bidding.»

Not exact matches

Not so at RFRK, which has increased both its employee retention (in the high - turnover food - service industry, no less) and its rep as an employer of choice (the firm recently got 350 applications for an admin position) by making its people feel something very powerful: that their work matters.

The study, which was published in the September issue of Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, also indicated that one's perception of available time led powerful people to be, in general, less stressed.

While most people would never dream of doing the sorts of things that got Louis C.K. or Harvey Weinstein into trouble, we do all still have the same tendency to grow less empathetic as we become more powerful.

Many analysts have argued there is a dearth of compelling virtual reality content, which gives people less of a reason to buy an expensive VR headset that can cost up to $ 800 plus a powerful computer.

A mentor to the likes of Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, John Doerr, and Larry Page, he also was a mentor to countless of other less important and powerful people, including me.

But if people are less responsive to that because they are still highly leveraged, monetary policy is less powerful in the short term.

But the publics thus created are not communities of free persons; they are masses of more or less identical psycho - physical objects pushed this way and that by the powerful purveyors of propaganda.

We prefer to think of ourselves as givers — powerful, competent, self - sufficient, capable people whose goodness motivates us to employ some of our power, competence and gifts to benefit the less fortunate.

To highlight this usage is not deny some of uses of power are oppressive, but rather to suggest that exercise of power, especially state power, needs to be evaluated by some criterion other than whether the person who is on the receiving end of a powerful action has less power than the persons acting against them.

Furthermore, the Christian versions of the household codes are the only ones that speak directly to the less powerful members of the household — the slaves, wives, and children — probably because the church at the time consisted of just such powerless people.

A Different Kind of Weather is chronological, more or less and manages to combine the personal with the political — the former includes family, attractive girl friends and the patronage of powerful and influential people.

A less powerful official like Assemblyman Alicia Hyndman charged only $ 100 per person at her fundraiser in March.

Most of the so called powerful media houses are owned by people who are Npp bias this has resulted in most media houses getting increasingly less diverse and these media houses using their social media bubbles twist and fake stories to the advantage of the npp.

In less than a day, without review or debate, a handful of powerful provider groups voted to reduce or eliminate protections and supports for people with disabilities and the elderly.

«Maybe people could control robotic machines from Jupiter's outer moon Callisto, where the radiation is much less powerful, especially on its back side,» Martin suggests.

However, the current data obtained suggests the opposite: an earthquake with an epicenter at the gates of the city, which would allow the people only very little time to find protection, but which would trigger less powerful ground movements.

Another problem is that modeling studies, like this one, are inherently less powerful than other kinds of medical research: randomized clinical trials, the gold standard in medical research, in which patients are randomly assigned different treatments or no treatment; case - control studies, which compare patients who have a condition with those who do not; or cohort studies, which determine the risk of contracting a disease by studying a group of people with similar demographics.

Data from the sensors have also highlighted that even a single flight of stairs is a powerful psychological barrier: People who work on different floors of a building almost never talk to each other, even if doing so would mean a walk of less than a minute.

The judicial branch of governments may be less subject to pressures from special financial interests than the executive and legislative branches, and the courts are expected to protect the rights of all people, including the less powerful.

Even your sometimes - grumpy boss could use some recognition. One study showed that when powerful, insecure people received gratitude from subordinates, they were less likely to exhibit aggressive behavior.

Facebook can be a powerful crutch to connect with people you know in cities you're visiting, or even at home, which can make you less inspired to go out and meet new people.

This simple technique is extremely powerful to do, in less than 5 minutes, if you are around large groups of people or find yourself around negative people or environments.

Practicing all listed here health principles and using powerful and harmless remedies has helped many people to regain proper body weight, recover from diabetes, coronary heart disease, chronic fatigue, hypertension, arthritis, IBS, cancer, fibroids, depression, PMS, various skin diseases, ADHD, bulging disc, menopause symptoms, and numerous other less common health problems.

Its a powerful statement that takes all of your concerns into consideration plus all of the concerns of the majority of people who are interested in eating less, or no, animal products (dieters, sports people, health conscious people and the «reluctant vegetarians» who are interested because their doctor told them to lower their cholesterol etc).

Only once it is confirmed that the less - powerful person (me) is on the line, will the boss get on the line.

That was a powerful bit of symbolism — but also sad, to know that so many more people with less fame and access have suffered and been muted by pervasive abuse and mistreatment.

And while the Q5 and the Lexus RX are both cheaper, both vehicles are significantly less powerful in base form than the Volvo XC90 and neither has seating for seven people.

Ransome's understated, powerful collage illustrations bring together iconic images from newspapers with the faces of lesser - known people who bravely put themselves in harm's way to demand change.

A powerful, national online force driven by over one million members, Color Of Change moves decision - makers in corporations and government to create a more human and less hostile world for Black people in America.

I try to be an optimistic kind of guy, but I don't see how this situation can be changed without firing a lot of people, including most of the most powerful people at the Fed, lesser banking regulators, and US Treasury.

She is, however, a great listener who hangs on your every word and a powerful deterrent to people with less - than - honorable intentions.

I did a lot of reading and attended some classes when my son brought home his Pit Bull, this is where I learned about the their attitudes and tendencies... about their fear factor, they are tenacious and strong but they are actually less aggresive than some of the more common breeds that nobody seems to fear, Rotties have a very powerful bite and a record of people attacks, but no one is banning them... so I would suggest you get your puppy, take him / her to classes and get him / her socilized early on, let him / her play with other dogs so they know that there is nothing to be afraid of... you'll have a wonderful time and you will become so much more wise from the experience.

In most cases, kneeing or kicking such a dog is less powerful than the dog's desire to greet people by jumping on them.

The waves are generally smaller and less powerful making it ideal for people learning to surf and for longboarding.

Yes, they produce less powerful processors than Intel, but they do tend to provide better value for money - making them a good choice for people on a budget, plus the eight cores are handy for video work.

If people play down the difference and PS4 lose this gen, what do you think will happen next gen. Companies will be less likely to produce a more powerful console as there is no benefits to its sales.

A shame really because that's what made so many people buy the system, and now they have the option of buying a far less powerful machine with faulty hardware and a crappy 2009 lineup.

It has three powerful core processors which pump out 720p / 1080i output (translation: graphics look great), 16x9 cinematic aspect ratio (translation: it's sort of like the cinema), anti-aliasing for smooth textures (translation: characters look less like chimps and more like people), full surround sound and DVD playback right out of the box.

You can be edgy and funny without standing on the necks of people less powerful than you, right?

The features of the game could have been described better, but the gist of the thing is this: Evolution is trying to provide a space combat MMO that is accessible to more casual gamers, and people who found certain features of EVE off putting (and also scales to less powerful PCs).

People can whine about Switch being less powerful than PS4 but what it does in its form factor is quite impressive.

Strider had two solo shows at Pace in 1965 and 1966, then no more one - person New York gallery shows in New York until 1973 (at a much less powerful gallery).

And since the remedy, drastic cutbacks in fuel production, was so extreme, many of these people went way out on a limb with their concerns, precipitating a veritable firestorm of anxiety — since nothing less than a form of sheer hysteria could be powerful enough to produce the necessary changes.

The judicial branch of governments may be less subject to pressures from special financial interests than the executive and legislative branches, and the courts are expected to protect the rights of all people, including the less powerful.

In her view, governments are less powerful than the people they represent.

The election result doesn't really matter because the US president is much less powerful than people imagine.

Either way, if I've got this right, the message is: people who hold stations of power like the one he did can't or won't cut it on the climate problem, so maybe the humbler, less - powerful institutions of the world can do it instead.

Another important lesson about being ruled by gator brain (and this one particularly impacts those of us in marketing) is that statistics are less powerful than individual stories, even for people who consider themselves rational.