Sentences with phrase «many powerful institutions»

The fact of the matter is when you talk about central banks, you're talking about powerful institutions rooted in their own management styles and tradition (even if the latter has just now seen a very unusual break) and it's not likely that one person can radically change things, even if he or she wanted to.

From Uber to Equifax, this was the year the world's most powerful institutions got schooled by hackers.

The once - powerful institution — in 2007 it was the fifth largest U.S. bank, with $ 400 billion in assets — was among the earliest warning signs of a broad economic meltdown that would ultimately result in the stock market losing nearly half its value.

The disintegration of the news business — and, especially, of newspapers, which continue to produce most of the journalism aimed at holding government and other powerful institutions to account — has been nothing short of breathtaking.

With Janet Yellen out the door, Jerome Powell, a current Fed governor and former investment banker, is set to take the helm of the powerful institution this month.

It features academics and journalists arguing that a powerful institution should err on the side of providing less information to the public, not more.»

Demanding respect for these freedoms and blocking the possibility of abuses by the Catholic Church and other powerful institutions are the motivations behind recently increased political participation by Mexican evangelicals.

Speaking up is scary and it's very difficult to go against such a powerful institution.

And if they tell you they are following the Holy Spirit, who are you to question an all - powerful institution.

The culture of death commands a formidable array of powerful institutions.

The leaders of other powerful institutions in society must evince these virtues as well.

The two powerful institutions in the medieval world were the church and the state.

Moreover, the social shift I describe has isolated certain powerful institutions (corporate, military, governmental, media, entertainment) from the influence of the so - called normative institutions such as education, religion and the arts.

Powerful institutions like the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization raise the TINA, argument to persuade the developing nations to qualify themselves to borrow money.

In a similar way, in every society, powerful institutions — churches, schools, courts, hospitals — serve to keep people in their designated slots.

Politically too, the crisis has eviscerated what had long been one of the America's most powerful institutions.

They used one of the most powerful institutions in our culture, and, inevitably, that power began to corrupt them.

This is a rich cross-cultural adventure, a fascinating insight into her world of babies, birth, women, social justice and challenging powerful institutions, a lifetime of dedication to positive social change.

Traditionally powerful institutions, such as parties and the press, have been sidelined by direct engagement through social media by outsider candidates feeding on discontent and relying on faith - based, populist and emotive appeals.

While the Fabians have become an immensely powerful institution, wealthy, stable, competitive, king maker to Labour leaders and Prime Ministers, the foundation stone of one of our finest universities, the Bow Group has increasingly become an also - ran, first in wealth and stability, and then inevitably in thought and influence.

Should I take that response to mean that you feel there was a lack of oversight of powerful institutions like Wall Street banks in recent years?

Others, like the former Attorney General and Gov. Eliot Spitzer, have criticized Andrew Cuomo for not being tough enough on those powerful institutions.

But a fair and responsible Britain must be an accountable Britain — a nation not of powerful institutions but powerful people.

By now a surgical resident in Boston, Naveen feared that the DA would not prosecute so powerful an institution and its prominent faculty member.

The Invisible War lays bare the reprehensible failings and hypocrisy of a powerful institution, as Dick did in previous nonfiction works such as Twist of Faith (2004), about sexual abuse in the Catholic Church; This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006), an occasionally gimmicky exposé of the MPAA's outsize influence and idiocy; and Outrage (2009), on closeted pols who vote anti-gay.

Even with Leonardo DiCaprio starring, «The Revenant» was a risky movie to produce given its budget, and «Spotlight» was also a risk since the movie takes on one of the world's largest, most powerful institutions in the world — the Catholic Church.

It's the same style and involves uncovering a conspiracy that reaches pretty high levels in a powerful institution.

Omalu's emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful institutions in the world.

But Zimbardo and his team know that the experiment has an unsettling thesis, which is to observe how stripping away people's individuality and installing a powerful institution can change an individual's behavior.

I believe education is one of the most powerful institutions to level the field for so many people.

I really learned to sit with my discomfort during such discussions, and to reflect on the ways that practicing teachers are empowered or disempowered by the narratives we create in powerful institutions like this one.

Students explore the roles of such powerful institutions as the SEC, USPTO, Federal Reserve Bank, IMF, World Bank, World Trade Organization, G7, G20, and Eurozone.

Arizona allows the organizations to keep up to 10 % and Pennsylvania sets the limit at 20 %, which ensured that relatively powerful institutions sprang up quickly.

When Mr. Wetzel and his colleagues catty - corner from the State Capitol say «public education,» they primarily refer to government - subsidized and - dominated complex of powerful institutions and the adults who benefit from them.

With this series, the Boston Globe's «Spotlight» team returned with another amazing story of powerful institutions preying on the helpless while adults look the other way.

They are the people who pay every day with blood and tears for the failures of high officials and powerful institutions.

Luxembourg is a destination growing in popularity with both business and leisure travellers, with its picturesque towns and castles contrasting with cities that host the headquarters of some of the most powerful institutions in Europe such as the European Investment Bank and the European Court of Justice.

Have they seen through art's powerful institutions or dissolved them entirely?

In Rio de Janeiro, Wiley's inspirations did not rest in old master paintings hanging on the walls of powerful institutions, but allowed the work to be impacted by the iconic nationalistic sculptures found around the city, which he might argue are the cultural equivalent to the David or Velasquez paintings referenced in his earlier work.

Its begs critical questions, too, about the art world — from the spread of galleries beyond Chelsea to decentralization as one more mirror in art of «the free market,» from the rootlessness of oversized art fairs struggling to top the Armory Show or Pulse and Volta to the cold hard fact of the Brooklyn Museum as itself another powerful institution.

In fields from medicine to finance, within the private and public sector and increasingly in the world of science, calls for transparency have grown in response to perceptions of hidden interests and lack of accountability amongst powerful institutions and individuals.

In my opinion, human - beings are not naturally hateful, though powerful institutions often look to squash dissent by turning the tribe against groups with certain characteristics — particularly those likely to possess special knowledge.

Yet, on topics of energy and climate, the Pope's latest Encyclical arguably serves to incite many of the world's citizens and powerful institutions to violate 3, if not 4, of these Holy Commandments.

The entire science needs to be corrected (as is true of so many powerful institutions today).

While relatively obscure but powerful institutions, ECAs provide government - backed loans, guarantees, insurance, and credits to projects overseas — including many energy projects — in the hopes of boosting their home countries» exports and creating and maintaining jobs.

Newspapers used to think their job was to help keep wealthy and powerful institutions honest.

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.

Some have been engines driving the creation of powerful institutions of legal learning.

Broadly speaking, how effective could a «one - man show» be against a powerful institution with wide network of support in an area?

«There are many powerful institutions in our world run by people that simply don't or won't take part in forums like Bitcoin Talk, mailing lists and so on.