Sentences with phrase «most abused power»

Faith is good, and gives a lot of people a reason to live, but the word of God is the most abused power our species has ever seen, more wars have been started and more people have died for his name then for any other purpose.

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Far from being an act of rebellion or an open attempt outwardly to overthrow abused power, it was a quiet, constrained, symbolic act that ironically caught the person of highest power in the midst of a most ordinary human activity.

But what's most dangerous about this posture is that Piper seems to assume that because evangelicals aren't confronting sexual assault and abuse the way that Hollywood is, then those things must not be happening in their churches, that abuse only occurs in egalitarian communities where women have more power and influence.

And how can the predatory abuse of human power in prisons against the most vulnerable in their midst be turned so as to allow willed spiritual vulnerability to be empowered by grace?

The easy answer is to hate and judge, and most of the time I find myself seeking vengeance and venting against what I see as hypocrisy and abuse from those in power.

2) Create the straw man that this is about «divorce» when most of the comments are about the abuse of power.

Of course, most complementarians do not condone abuse, but statistics do support that power imbalances till ground for one partner to abuse the other.

He most assuredly abused his power and position frequently.

Lord Acton's famous aphorism about power corrupting turns out to be right: Given unchecked power, most human beings, even those in robes, will abuse that power.

By insisting on the moral value of increasing natural and social complexity, he overlooks a historical trend which has been identified by many, most notably Reinhold Niebuhr: the more organized and highly structured the group or state, the greater is its hypocrisy and abuse» of power.

Most parents would probably embrace change and do everything in their power to end the cycle of abuse.

But while the voting process itself has been described as fair by most international observers, the political campaign and the actual counting of the votes — no doubt the most important part of the democratic election process — has been characterized by the abuse of power, the excessive role of money, extraordinary events such as power cuts in the polling stations, fights between party representatives, accusations of fraud and scandals in denying observers access to polling stations.

Surely he's aware that other presidents, most notably Richard Nixon, have abused the power of the Internal Revenue Service to harass their political opponents.»

In most European constitutions governmental powers to dissolve Parliament — the central representative institution in a parliamentary democracy — are carefully circumscribed in order to prevent their abuse for partisan advantage.

The undifferentiated approach to sovereignty displayed by most Europeanists has consolidated this perspective: if sovereignty always comes with all the dimensions historically embodied by the nation state — a national identity that always contains the seeds of exclusive nationalism and potential power abuse — then it made sense to weaken it in all these dimensions.

The founding fathers of the EU and its most fervent current supporters have mainly aimed to tame the potential excesses of national sovereignty — nationalism and power abuse in particular.

The most egregious abuse of this power happened in February 2011 when a resolution condemning Israeli settlement expansion was supported by fourteen members and killed by America.

Now, the conference again has near - unilateral power to replace Schneiderman, whose alleged abuse of women was exposed in an explosive report published in The New Yorker in which four women alleged that the state's most powerful law enforcement official had slapped, choked and spit on them.

Just 68 days before he was to close the door on four tumultuous terms as Suffolk County district attorney, Thomas Spota was accused of one of the most dangerous crimes in our democracy, abusing the power of law enforcement.

Once the matter was at most a matter of fraud, it was handled by the wrong unit, it is beginning to smell like abuse of police power.

Though the film fails to answer these questions, it very squarely implicates Cruise as the public figure with the most potential power to hold the church accountable for its abuses.

The Stanford Prison Experiment is one of the most fascinating studies in history, right up there with Milgram's fake shock treatments, showing us how easily humans turn into sheep and how naturally those with power abuse it.

This would most obviously set Phantom Thread to be yet another cinematic study in female exploitation and abuse, with Alma consumed and spat out by this dark - hearted older man of power.

But the ceremony's most memorable moment came in an honorary award for Oprah Winfrey, who spoke out on the industry's issues with misogyny, sexual abuse, and the ongoing lack of diversity in Hollywood's corridors of power.

Ever since the film won the Palme d'Or at Cannes (and the breathless acclaim of most, if not all, who saw it there), harsh words have been flying among Kechiche, his crew (who released a statement accusing the director of exploitive labor practices and general abuse of power), and the film's leads, Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos.

This Bad Lieutenant abuses his power in the most unrelenting and disturbing ways, offering us only slivers of insight into his conscience.

It's a pyramid, and at the top is rape and sexual violence and at the bottom are the other abuses of power that, when they continue to happen over and over, build and build and build and create a culture that allows the most heinous examples of sexual violence and misogyny and discrimination to happen.

While some feel that he spent years abusing the powers he was given, it is his private life that many have found to be most interesting.

The Germans in Europe are the most against this spying because they know and have learned that governments with these kind of powers turn bad, it is a given that these powers will be abused.

Whilst many players would be right to question the lack of impact a gameplay decision such as this would normally result in, the developers were clever with when and where they allowed you to use this power, never letting you abuse the system when things matter most.

Thankfully, our fourth most - read post of 2015 did call attention to an abuse of power with real - world, detrimental effects on our peers.

A Jenny Holzer «Truism» — Abuse of power comes as no surprise — was perhaps the most cited artwork of 2017.

The decision to ban the most important spaces where the voices of climate - impacted people would have been heard is a dramatic expression of this profoundly unethical abuse of power: once again, a wealthy western country is putting security for elites ahead of the interests of those fighting for survival.

Human rights violations are always most likely to occur when no one is watching over the police, soldiers and guards who have the power and potential to commit abuses.

To continue to oppose it would be a shameful betrayal of the innocent victims of this most evil abuse of power.

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Divorce mediation may be disfavored or present special challenges with parties having vast differences in their power (financial sophistication, bargaining savvy, and most significantly, where there is a history of intimate partner violence or abuse).

A partner or spouse can have the most effective healing power over past traumas for the person who has experienced past relationship betrayals and abuse.

Therefore, Ms Aitken used the commissioner's new found power in a most abusive manner, in a manner mirroring «abuse of dominant position» if you will, due to her actions and application of the AMPs being unconstitutional.