Sentences with phrase «more power to change»

If women have more economic power, they will also have more power to change the state of sexual politics in our country.

The little things in life have more power to change the value of my life than all the fancy gadgets or trendy clothes that money can buy: the passing smile of a stranger; a cold mineral water on a hot day; an «I love you» note waiting for me in an unexpected place; and other seemingly insignificant experiences.

We fans have FAR more power to change things for the better than many ever realise.

That strategy relieves the burden on individual decisions and gives you more power to change course once you get new information.

Not exact matches

By harnessing the power of the multiple, Smith, in turn, hopes to do more than merely change his business mix and fatten the firm's margins.

A short video from one female executive won't change that, but hopefully a lot more women in positions of power and a growing awareness that burning the midnight oil takes a serious toll on families, relationships and even individuals (not to mention a more equitable sharing of housework and childcare between the sexes) will slowly make it safe for more of us to say to our bosses — or admit to ourselves — what Sandberg has just said publicly.

Then, the powers - that - be can weigh the cost of changing to a more efficient, yet still practical process - one that more effectively uses the aisle - against the benefit of recovering only a portion of that potential savings.

Changes happen faster, information moves rapidly with more transparency than ever before, and technology gives any customer or employee the power to be heard worldwide in an instant.

A breakthrough in genetic technology has given humans more power than ever to change nature.

As I started thinking about how to change that, I became very focused on the laboratory space and the context of the power of laboratory data — which drives, some say, 80 % of clinical decisions — and the ability to help make access to that information more available to people, and to try to create actionable information that would be accessible to people at the time that it really matters.

I know my earlier book Principled Profit: Marketing That Puts People First has changed lives, and this book not only expands and amplifies those powerful concepts under a specifically eco-friendly lens, its also going to reach a lot more people because it has the support and power not only of my personal network, but also the resources of both a big NYC publisher (John Wiley & Sons) and my superstar co-author, Mr. Guerrilla Marketing himself, Jay Conrad Levinson — the man who brought us not only all the Guerrilla Marketing books but also Uniteds Friendly Skies, Allstates Good Hands, and even the Marlboro Man.

«It's normal for there to be family conflicts, but when you add the stress of more than five months without power, without food, living patterns change... it makes it harder for people to manage daily life,» Santana Mariño told the newspaper.

«Events with severe consequences are becoming more frequent and intense, due to climate change, and have been the principal contributors to an observed increase in the frequency and duration of power outages in the United States,» according to the draft.

Under the 2017 Plan, a change in control is defined to include (1) the acquisition by any person or company of more than 50 % of the combined voting power of our then outstanding stock, (2) a merger, consolidation, or similar transaction in which our stockholders immediately before the transaction do not own, directly or indirectly, more than 50 % of the combined voting power of the surviving entity (or the parent of the surviving entity), (3) a sale, lease, exclusive license, or other disposition of all or substantially all of our assets other than to an entity more than 50 % of the combined voting power of which is owned by our stockholders, and (4) an unapproved change in the majority of the board of directors.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

The change is more than a feature upgrade: It is a symbolic gesture, making it easier to communicate, power users love it.

May 2, 2018 • A breakthrough in genetic technology has given humans more power than ever to change nature.

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.

Through having more women use their investment power to invest in the types of fund managers, leadership teams, financial returns companies they want to see more of in the world, we believe, it will drive the initial impetus to change the gender - gap in venture capital.

In response, several PPA holders terminated their agreements with coal - fired power generators, citing a provision in the terms of the original PPA legislation that allows buyers to end their contracts if a change of law makes the agreement «unprofitable or more unprofitable.»

If you want to change the argument, more power to you.

Speaking in abstract terms about blank, amorphous «innocent lives» keeps us from confronting the reality that if most of these children are born at or near the poverty line, then the lives we are saving are more likely to be troubled ones, and if nothing changes, those lives will get caught in vicious cycles powered by poverty and systemic racism.

I see the church more like the ocean — beautiful, inviting, refreshing, teaming with life, unpredictable, full of power and surprises, always changing and never able to be fully harnessed nor controlled.

Retrospectively we associate these changes with the extension of democracy, but it in evaluating Wesley's politics, it is important to recognize that it was primarily a matter of giving more power to those who were gaining wealth in the process of industrialization.

It's attempting to impact legislation for greater change in terms of creating new laws that hold more people in power accountable.

More often changes in the social pattern of intellectual emphasis arise from a shift of power from one class or group of classes, to another class or group of classes...

The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have used their legal powers to change the published General Synod... More

He rang the changes on sin more eloquently than anyone of our time, but that dissection, set forth with particularly telling power in the first volume of his Gifford Lectures, was followed by a second volume in which his acknowledgment of the power of the gospel as grace made it possible for him to speak of «the agape of the Kingdom of God [as] a resource for the infinite development towards a more perfect brotherhood in history» (The Nature and Destiny of Man, II [Scribner's, 1943], p. 85)

Its appeal is complex, drawing on belief in anthropogenic global warming and trust in the «scientific consensus» behind it; the Great Recession and a protective reaction to rapid social change; a basic need for the concrete, local, and personal; the waning of religious observance; peer pressure, star power, money, and more.

I just posted this on another topic... change a few words, youll get the point: In an ideal situation, «World Religions» would be part of a «World History» class, unfortunately, in the USA, there are far too many conservative Christians with power to rewrite history, make whole groups of people second class citizens by making laws against them, and travel the world trying to convert non-Christians through our Military, Politicians, humanitarian efforts and more.

This past summer, the religious powers - to - be changed some of the wording in the bible to make it more applicable to today's society.

This use of power may appear more bloody, but it is less coercive and less destructive than the power to prevent change.

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.

I am no Scholar but, I believe God has the power to change prophecy the way that he did with Hezekiah, his intentions for a perfect people in the beginning changed due to disobedience so who's to say our men or intended leadership has overall been disobedient, and many women have been forced to lead and in that leading women have been more obedient.We all need each other if my husband was a pastor and I'm his help mate if he for some reason can't teach or preach who else other than myself would be the closest to him.I don't believe GOD changes he's always the same but, he does have the power to make changes and he does not need our permission to do so, instead of debating back and forth over our version of the Bible we should be sure we have the Holy Spirit and real relationship with GOD because he will reveal to us his truths but, please know he's not the author of confusion

I could be wrong I do believe in a higher power and in love as the universal language (for lack of a better phrase of words, although it might be more universal today to say sex is the universal language) and in this post just now realized I have to change my 100 % enabler label to 99 % based on the higher power belief.

Some advocates of black power, liberation theology and more radical approaches to social change would also use any means necessary.

I also was powerless in regard to my old nature it had power over me.i came to the point that i needed to do something because i felt like spiritually i was dying and again it was by faith in Jesus Christ that changed me and that i admitted that i could nt live the christian life in my strength.Since then i have continued to walk by faith daily and i know what it means to be saved in this life we have power over our old nature through Christ that strengths us Personally i think this is a major reason why many christians are not growing and maturing as they should.Many people are struggling in there faith that is not how it is meant to be the word says we are overcomers more than conquerers through Christ that strengthens us.If you are struggling are you walking by faith or just doing good christians works that have no power to change your life Just admit that you cant do it in your strength let him empower you by his holy spirit to do what you cant.It has been a hard road to get here but i am never going back to living by works when you find the truth there is no comparison brentnz

But since, according to Locke, all our ideas when carefully considered contain some sort of relation (to action or change), and sensible qualities such as colors and smells have some relation to our perception, the idea of power is no more complex than our ideas of figure, motion, and sensible qualities.

More importantly, theological study must attend to those disciplines by which to assess the truth of old and new claims about how persons» identities and societies» power arrangements are shaped and changed.

I like organizations and institutions, their power to unite people and create positive change by making it possible for people to do more together than they could apart.

It is an oddly un-conservative way of thinking but one found a lot among the more ideologically engaged conservatives, who believe in the power of politics to change the world.

Religion News Service: Middle East riots fueled by competition between radicals, moderates as new democracies emerge Anti-American riots that have spread to more than a dozen countries across the Middle East are a sign of fissures between radical and more moderate Islamists that are vying for power as their societies undergo change, Middle East experts say.

If the civil religion — its symbols, rituals, and tenets — are captured by those in power and invoked on behalf of present arrangements, it becomes all the more difficult to advocate change in the name of civil religion.

It is a technique used by power - brokers for effecting political change without going through appropriate political channels - thus avoiding the accountability which is normally associated with such channels and which might therefore make those actions more difficult to accomplish that way.

So, for the deeply religious, all it takes for them to change their tune on something is money and a whiff of more power?

The gift of prayer and changing my diet have been a huge blessing, but I've honestly felt a bit limited and have longed for a high - powered blender to help take back my health even more fully.

«On the flank, today you need more pace, more change of direction, more agility and he has the stamina, the power and the quality to be a central midfielder or a central defender.

Another solution, more politic but dangerously ephemeral, would have been simply to fire Brennan and hire a high - powered coach, without changing the athletic scholarships, recruiting policy or academic standards.

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has admitted player power forced him to change his attacking football philosophy for a more tactical game in last week's impressive victory at Manchester City --(Daily Mirror)

I personally believe that Wenger didn't push to have the contracts of Sanchez, Ozil, Ramsey and Ox renewed earlier because he was going to use it as leverage when renegotiating his own deal... so far that tactic has backfired as we know little more about this squad moving forward than we did in May and Wenger clearly misjudged just how important his staying would be to both Sanchez and Ox... I like Lacazette, but I liked him a lot more 2 years ago at 20 million less... Sead might come good but once again he wasn't a necessity buy, except that he was a free transfer and was signed early... another «wag the dog» tactic employed by the powers that be... as for the rest of the roster, very little has changed, except that it's way too big and lacks the cutting edge to take this club to new heights.