Sentences with phrase «maintaining old power»

When county organizations are reluctant to embrace technology or lack a web presence, it suggests that they are more focussed on maintaining old power structures that have existed for decades than engaging with the public, according to Kaehny.

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He is merely engaged in a shell game of his own, giving his non-existant supernatural being extraordinary powers so that it can maintain its centuries old disappearing act.

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.

86:8).48 Bruegggemann considers the divine incomparability to be a fundamental uniting of power and solidarity, and maintains not that it is expressed throughout the Old Testament but «only that it is Israel's most extreme witness about God,» assumed though not verbalized everywhere in Israel's testimony.49

The worldly church is usually a church which seeks to maintain the old order in society and with it the power of the monarchs and aristocrats, of the owners of property and of other vested rights.

Two endorsements made yesterday in state Senate races proved - yet again - that old adage about the game of politics and the strange bedfellows its players choose as they seek to achieve, maintain or consolidate power.

As a result, too many democratic candidates ran and split the reform vote, enabling old - style Communists to maintain or recover power with pluralities that fell far short of majorities.

He claims that the old order, with new blood, can maintain Harlem's distinctive power while delivering wider benefit.

There's no doubt that Chuck's power and vitality are maintained in part by his consumption of this age old elixir.

Arts educator, maintained that old spirit, very into children, music, fighting the power even as i've become the power — the 18 year - old me would like the 60 year - old me, yet my mother would still be proud.

Unable to sort out his resentment, guilt, and anger as he also strains to maintain his sense of «power,» he stops by his first ex-wife's home to pick up 17 - year - old daughter Zoe (Kristen Stewart), he notices Arriving to take her to school, he notices her eyes are red.

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Also, the utility and oil companies are and will interfere with progress that hurts their bottom line; economics has a place to be sure, but just old fashioned greed hinders progress... still, there are hard working people who support families and citizens who do can not afford any upgrades or changes, the building of the wind infrastructure is already past a billion dollars and has not brought the efficiency we need to even talk of transitions, and with the 7 - 10 billion dollars car makers are requesting in addition to 20 - 75 billion for the current production lines to be maintained (and to stop the big three from filing chapter 11) and the regular gas powered vehicles to continue in the mainstay, it is not likely the government will have the money (or credit?)

what does that mean for the 400 billion or trillion plus dollars we've already spent maintaining our «super, super, super, super power status» that operates on the old stuff?

The country has plans to construct a set of new reactors to maintain electricity supply and cut carbon dioxide emissions as a generation of older power plants is shut down.