Sentences with phrase «motivated by power»

If your potential client is motivated by power or achievement they value personal accomplishment.

Since abuse is motivated by power and control, and patriarchy is a system based on power and control, it is not surprising that abuse is prevalent in these circles.

When the participants completed the exercise, we discovered that we had 23 affiliators, 15 achievers and only two people motivated by power influence.

There was an uncomfortable silence as she continued, «I wonder if more people aren't motivated by power rightly used and influence for the good than we've let on, only it's been socialized out of us?»

There were some noble reasons to try and organize ancient peoples, but in our current stage in history, religion has become an outdated, hypocritical source of leadership motivated by power and greed like all big business.

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Report author Solveig Singleton says she was partly motivated by a 2013 position paper from then - federal Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart calling for stronger enforcement powers.

The cryptocurrency space has always been driven by a core group of passionate advocates, motivated by a radical libertarian ideology focused around decentralision and the power of cryptography.

Recent cyber attacks that disrupted business operations and hospital services in many countries across the world have, however, increased fears that assailants motivated by money or ideology could cripple even more strategic targets such as power and water networks.

Passion, Sack says, is what allows entrepreneurs to continually power through the long hours and stay motivated when they get rejected by potential customers, investors, or employees.

Motivated by the confidence they have to work independently managing businesses and finances, Millennials believe they have the power to create the career and environment they want.

Con artists are motivated both by a desire to be the center of attention and the power that comes with that ability to manipulate others, psychologist Maria Konnikova, author of «The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It... Every Time,» explained to me earlier this year.

We are not talking about platitudes here — a sincere recognition and reward has incredible staying power and can motivate other workers to reach the goals set out by your star performers.

The altrocentric leader who is intrinsically motivated by socialized power, and who draws strength and satisfaction from teaching, teambuilding, and empowering others, will be able to handle the increased pressure of tomorrow's business environment.

She said that exclusive claims to religious truth should become «obsolete» because 9/11 demonstrated the destructive power of that type of thinking (the 9/11 hijackers were motivated in part by an extremist form of Islam).

Stalin's purges were not motivated by atheism, but by a lust for power.

Theresa keep what you were doing when you reached out to the homeless lady that was the right thing to do that was motivated by the holy spirit do nt follow what the church does do what the Lord wants you to do and it will bear fruit.Let them do there thing you just keep following the Lord and listen to him in your heart and let him lead you.People do things for different reasons to please others for power to be seen to do the right thing all those are the wrong reasons they are just dead works without the Lord we can do nothing.Dont let others turn you away from what the Lord wants you to do its him we need to please always.Be encouraged that the Lord used you to touch a life that is awesome.And do nt take the rejection personally because its not you they are pushing away it is the Lord the yare not listening to him but doing wha tthey want to do it will bear no fruit.May the Lord bless you and your family in your ministry step out in faith and trust him he will not disappoint you because he is with you.

That said, unfortunately we can't turn back the hands of time, and once those that are motivated by profit and power gain control, it is almost insurmountable to get it back.

The King James version was a politically motivated act by King James for reasons that had nothing to do with religion and everything to do with power.

Humility is the strongest weapon we have as it motivates us to prayer and allows us to be directed by the greatest power we have available - the indwelling Holy Spirit.

I'm not disagreeing with your general thesis (in fact I'm agreeing), I'm just adding that some survivors might act differently than you expect... in ways that may seem to uphold power systems but are actually in no way motivated by that.

Whatever the drive for power on the part of the institution and its academic leadership, the desire to be free of the church was usually motivated by the belief that the Christian context and spiritual nourishment they regarded as a blessing could and would continue after the removal of any authoritative link with the church.

I would not for a minute wish to deny that we are too often motivated by an obsessive desire for power and control, and dominated by a narrow and calculating rationality which can not even acknowledge the deeper values of human life and experience, and that such attitudes may contribute to the coming of one form or another of global catastrophe.

As Montesquieu said a despotic society will have despotic customs — the arbitrary use of power, dependence of inferiors on superiors, slavery — that will produce a person primarily motivated by fear, just the right kind of subject for a despotic polity.

But a republic will have republican customs — public participation in the exercise of power, the political equality of the citizens, a wide distribution of small and medium property with few very rich or very poor — customs that will lead to a public spiritedness, a willingness of the citizen to sacrifice his own interests for the common good, that is, to a citizen motivated by republican virtue.

For Lewis the enemy is not true science, fueled by a love of truth, but that applied science whose practitioners are motivated by a love of power.

These «Christians» are motivated by the same hatred and willful ignorance that brought Islamic governments to power in the Middle East.

... He senses that God's power is motivated by Anger.»

This year I believe we have a team with greater moral fibre, led by a captain with far greater powers to motivate and inspire than his sulky predecessor.

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Because authoritative parents are warm, responsive and autonomy - supportive as well as power - assertive, their children are motivated to restore family harmony by complying or else by constructively dissenting in an effort to change their parent's mid rather than to defiantly or evasively disobey.

They may well be strongly motivated by ideological commitment to libertarianism (the political philosophy which prioritises individuals excitingly pursuing their self - interest) and faith in the powers of new transformative technologies as well as in the few genius individual entrepreneurs who will lead us into a new kind of post-bureaucratic and post-state society.

The Volodin reforms are top - down, bureaucratic - administrative reforms, which appear to be motivated more by efforts to consolidate the speaker's power vertikal, rather than to foster parliamentarians as champions of constituents» concerns and influential political actors in their own right.

Witness the power plays, sex and greed that motivate some of America's most powerful decision - makers in House of Cards: The Complete First Season by entering our competition this week.

John Sturzaker (University of Liverpool) looks at the difficulty of establishing whether NIMBYism is motivated by self - interest or legitimate concerns — and the imbalance of power between people who need housing, and those -LSB-...]

«Whereas, the movement further resolved to be inspired and motivated by the ideals of social democracy, with great emphasis on: the triumph of social justice; the nobility of human dignity; the harmony of fairness and equality; the power of working together in solidarity; the excellence of good governance, driven by good leadership; the wisdom of reforms and transformation far beyond mere growth; the horror of poverty, demanding eradication; the dignity of prosperity; the imperative of democracy and the security of peace with justice

Lovelock explained that his decision to endorse nuclear power was motivated by his fear of the consequences of global warming and by reports of increasing fossil - fuel emissions that drive the warming.

«Stapling a green card» to all or most STEM graduate degrees would effectively give the power to grant permanent residence and work status to universities motivated by their own financial needs rather than by the needs of America's economy, its STEM labor market, and its homegrown STEM workers.

These athletes defy the tests of time and excuses of age to power through hardships by staying motivated and ambitious.

Read this article by YFS Magazine for 9 Productivity Hacks that are sure to motivate you to power through low spells.

So often, villains in these stories are motivated by «power» or a flimsy nothing, but not so here.

The power games played by the characters in the new movie are motivated by sexual politics.

But as the many of us who have now read it can attest, the story in the book is also peculiarly cinematic, as an ordinary German man and his wife (played by Brendan Gleeson and Emma Thompson, respectively) are motivated to acts of quiet but resolute and extremely dangerous resistance to Nazi power during WWII.

«We are both motivated by the ideals of global citizenship,» they say, «and the transformational power of quality education.»

Given that they have the same powers and organizational interests, the only difference I can see between PM and School District boards is that the PM is imagined to be a good guy, who will properly be motivated by quality and avoid interfering unproductively in school operations, while School District board members (even if appointed) are imagined to be bad guys who are more concerned with satisfying special interests and following procedures than with school quality.

«These school - to - work programs motivated kids by allowing them to relate and apply what they're learning and by helping them to make intelligent choices about what they want to be,» John Casbarro, regional coordinator in Florida of the KAPOW (Kids and the Power of Work) program, told Education World.

By harnessing the power of making, maker education allows us to create engaging and motivating learning experiences.

By creating conditions that satisfy students basic human needs for survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun, teachers can motivate students to learn and behave in respectful, responsible ways.

Technical details are sparse, but we expect the same powertrain as the U.S. variant of the normal fixed - roof Range Rover Evoque, which is motivated by a 2.0 - liter turbocharged four - cylinder, sending power to all - four wheels through a nine - speed automatic transmission.

The AMG C43 (previously known in sedan form as the C450 AMG Sport) is motivated by the 3.0 - liter twin - turbo V - 6 with 362 hp and 384 lb - ft delivering the power to all four wheels through the same gearbox.

Today's engineers are just as motivated by efficiency as by raw power, too, which favours turbocharging even more.