Sentences with phrase «making authority and power»

[19] In Australia today, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples do not have genuine decision - making authority and power over their lives and futures.

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They feel like you're trying to make yourself into the big person on the top of the hill, and they're threatened by the possibility they don't have any power or authority.

Push the power to make decisions down to the lowest possible level and give front - line employees the authority and responsibility for making decisions.

We have watched people with the power and authority to make changes fail to do so.

The Peninsula Clean Energy Authority, formed in March 2016, is a joint powers authority made up of the County of San Mateo and all 20 cities in thAuthority, formed in March 2016, is a joint powers authority made up of the County of San Mateo and all 20 cities in thauthority made up of the County of San Mateo and all 20 cities in the County.

Furthermore, a piece of fine print on the face of the report imparts to the reader that «LabCFTC has no independent authority or decision - making power, and can not independently provide, or create an expectation for, legal or regulatory relief.»

The organization... [will] make the argument that... the federal courts... are the final authority on issues important to progressives such as immigration, abortion, gay rights, social policy, the environment and corporate power, to name a few.

The First Vatican Council included language like (the Pope) «is the true vicar of Christ and head of the whole Church and faith, and teacher of all Christians; and that to him was handed down in blessed Peter, by our Lord Jesus Christ, full power to...» This transfer of power depends on the Roman Church's understanding of the Office of the Keys which I do not agree with, but their statements make it clear that the Pope's authority as the Roman Church understands it is derived from Christ's.

Most Christianity today is, in my opinion, not a religion that Jesus preached, but a religion made up about Jesus by various authorities, and as the cartoon points out, some still have a lot of issues with gender, sexism, sexuality, power and control.

In Ephesians 1 we read that God «raised him [Jesus] from the dead and made him sit at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named...; he has put all things under his feet» (Eph.

(John 20:17) The apostle Peter wrote in about 62 C.E that «he is at God's right hand, for he went his way to heaven; and angels and authorities and powers were made subject to him.»

Though there were dozens of royal rulers and religious leaders within a few miles of Bethlehem, God chose to make the angelic proclamation to people without power, riches, and authority — to poor shepherds in the cold, dark, night.

And he makes a short journey from the land where his authority is recognized and his priestly power to heal and forgive is formidable, to the city where the people will reject him and his disciples will betray hAnd he makes a short journey from the land where his authority is recognized and his priestly power to heal and forgive is formidable, to the city where the people will reject him and his disciples will betray hand his priestly power to heal and forgive is formidable, to the city where the people will reject him and his disciples will betray hand forgive is formidable, to the city where the people will reject him and his disciples will betray hand his disciples will betray him.

«Church» has become some strange and perverted mix of money, power, authority, and celebrity with a little Bible and Jesus sprinkled around here and there to make it appear legitimate to some.

While there is a certain amount of authority inherent within the pastoral position, it is, like any other form of power, easy to abuse, and while pastors are spiritual leaders, this does not make us immune to the lust for power, but to the contrary, often seems to amplify it.

Although I agree that the maximum distribution of power and decision - making is desirable and growth - producing, it is clear that some structured authority is also essential in all social systems.

-- that we need not fear the government because Jesus has «disarmed the powers and authorities» and «made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.»

The power to bind and loose, conferred on all the apostles jointly and to Peter in particular (Matthew 16:19) is seen in the Catechism of the Catholic Church as authority to absolve sins, to pronounce judgments on doctrine and to make decisions on Church discipline.

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

So, too, Paul reminds the Christians at Ephesus that it is «through the Church» that God's wisdom is «made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places,» and that it is with these rulers and authorities that the Church wrestles primarily, not with powers of «flesh and blood.»

What they care about is the excuse religion gives them to control other people, assume un-earned power and authority and make money.

People with power but not authority are known to us all, and they make us all very nervous.

Or if, to take another example, you try to redistribute power within capitalism by balancing managerial authority by trade union privileges, you either choke the entrepreneurial spirit or you eliminate profits — the system's lifeblood — or, as a rule, you do both, and so again you end by making everyone poorer.

It suggests, I believe, that within the common tradition, authority is understood as a way of making power responsible to a standard that is shared both by one who has authority and by those over whom it is exercised.

Because we believe in divine presence, power, and authority, we know that we should plan our way, making wise, informed decisions about every aspect of life, including voting, but we must also conduct ourselves like those who believe that their God is faithful and true to his promises for his people and his plans to renew the world.

This authority structure is typically described as a series of «coverings» or «protections» but unfortunately, the effect is often the opposite, as abused women and children find they have no recourse or power, as every decision in their lives must be made by a series of men, many of whom are more invested in protecting the reputation of the ministry than the people in it.

Because he opened out an everlasting communion with the Father that made the Romans, the conventional powers and authorities, all the destructive and craven impulses of the world, even death itself, seem paltry and pitiful.

The man who is made in the image of the gods is given power and authority over all living things.

Divine authority and power are made known through a life of service voluntarily chosen and lived in uttermost love.

An attempt was made to broaden the governing authority of the Church by giving the bishops more than their present consultative Magisterial influence; but, as the latest scandals reveal, that change was never implemented and the power remains solely in the hand of the Pope in union with the Roman Curia rather than with the Pope in union with the Bishops which would be closer to the governing structure of the Othodox Churches of the East.

The modern theory, which swept away every authority except that of the State, and has made the sovereign power irresistible by multiplying those who share it... condemns as a State within the State every inner group and community, class or corporation, administering its own affairs; and, by proclaiming the abolition of privileges, it emancipates the subjects of every such authority in order to transfer them exclusively to its own....

The political subsystem allocates authority, legitimacy and power in their bearing on collective decision - making and public order.

Nonetheless, there is an expectation on the part of society that the law will speak from on high as well as in the people's midst, and that it will make straight what would otherwise remain twisted, crooked lines; it will establish order in the stead of anarchy and chaos; it will retain a semblance of purity amid vile motives and human deceits; it will speak with godlike authority and power in a godless age.

The necessities of war and of defense make political democracy difficult, since the great power that must be mobilized and directed by centralized authority against enemies abroad is easily turned to the suppression of inconvenient freedoms at home.

He preened himself as an authority in the humanities as well as in the clinic, a scientist whose understanding of sex, and of our tendencies to deny and repress its power, gave him the key to understanding human nature and made him a bearer of the cold light of fact to an ignorant and myth «ridden civilization.

But the Pope remains «the subject of supreme and entire power over the whole Church,» as the Explanatory Note makes clear, and possesses the authority to define matters relating not simply to faith but also to morals.

Regarding the Curia, the Second Vatican Council taught as follows: «In exercising supreme, full, and immediate power in the universal Church, the Roman pontiff makes use of the departments of the Roman Curia which, therefore, perform their duties in his name and with his authority for the good of the churches and in the service of the sacred pastors» (Christus Dominus, 9).

God has made Him the one Lord and the Messiah.12 He will abolish every kind of domination, authority and power and He is destined to reign until God has put all enemies under His feet.13 He is enthroned at God's right hand in the heavenly realms, «far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come».14 Kasemann went on:

Ingest regularly Ephesians 1: 18 - 2:10 which speaks of «His incomparably great power for us who believe» and how His grace makes us «alive in Christ even when we were dead in transgressions, seating us in heavenly places with Christ, far above all other rule and authority, power and dominion...» Receive God's resurrection power to give you the strength to fight this creeping addiction.

The editors and their collaborators know better; but only in selected instances have some of them managed to transcend such limited conceptions in behalf of the central purpose of the volume as a whole: to demonstrate how the literary dimensions of these texts do, indeed, make credible the power and authority they have exhibited for more than two millennia in shaping decisively the lives and minds of thoughtful people the world over.

In 1959 it was suggested that «there remain three principles of democratic procedure to which free church polity must give serious thought» — that is, free discussion, no exclusion from national office except on the basis of creed or ability, and legislation and policy - making executed in accord with methods of representative government (Authority and Power in the Free Church Tradition, by P. M. Harrison [Southern Illinois University Press, 1971], p. 162).

So what made him give up his position of power and authority to become the very victim of what he was dishing out previously?

I actually have it on good authority that these guys are a good bet to make a run in the Volleyball Tourney and if that's the case, even more teams will be looking up at them in the Power Rankings next week!

Furthermore, states can't give their police the authority to arrest immigrants without warrant for being removable, because that's giving them more power than federal immigration officers (who normally need a warrant), and undermines the fact that Congress normally requires a warrant before making those arrests (increasing federal discretion).

The web is a natural haven for the out - of - power — part of its brilliance is that it can make mighty the small and small the mighty — and just as Democrats and progressives began working online in earnest after they lost Congress and the White House, Republicans will naturally use new media to create channels for organizing and message - distribution now that they've been pushed out of institutional authority.

While Saudi's system of absolute monarchy means the King is legally the highest authority in the Kingdom, bin Salman has been granted unprecedented control of the state's domestic and foreign policies by his ailing, octogenarian father, ostensibly making him the real power behind the throne.

A directly - elected metro mayor will have powers and responsibilities to make strategic decisions across whole city regions, in contrast to existing city mayors (which are also directly elected) or local council leaders that only make decisions for, and on behalf of, their local authority.

And while the candidates are busy making the case for why the Attorney General's office should be granted new authority to open investigations into political corruption, most New Yorkers — 51 percent — said the office has enough power as it is.

When Schneiderman and Cuomo formed the commission in July, stacking it with district attorneys and other legal experts, they agreed to make each member a deputy attorney general, giving the panel broad investigative authority in addition to its subpoena powers.

Technical aspects and proximity to the Long Island Power Authority's substation on Cove Hollow Road in East Hampton make Beach Lane in Wainscott an excellent potential landing site for the transmission cable that would run from the proposed offshore South Fork Wind Farm, officials of Deepwater Wind told members of the Wainscott Citizens Advisory Committee's environmental subcommittee on Monday morning at Town Hall.