Sentences with phrase «much power to people»

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When he began to consolidate his power in the early 2000s, Putin's deal with the Russian people was simple: They would receive economic stability — and, critically, much higher standards of living — in exchange for a loss of freedoms.

In the sales process, your landing page has much more power than your website to get people to buy from you.

This gets at part of the reason why I believe so much in the power of everyday people to bring their ideas to market.

TORONTO — Ontario will import enough electricity from Quebec to power a city of more than 200,000 people under a seven - year agreement signed Friday, but the provinces won't say how much Ontario is paying Hydro Quebec.

I happen to be one of those people who thinks Tesla's future is at least as much in the power generation storage domain as the car space.

It's especially hard to defend this line of thinking now that big tech companies have attracted so much soft power they can influence elections, inflame conflicts and divide people in general.

Yet, in such companies, the problem is not that one person holds both posts; the problem is that the independent members of the board of directors have delegated to much power to the Chairman.

I suspect that the people with power to make relevant decisions are already fully aware, and those that don't know about the environmental impact of the oil sands can't do much (anything) about it.

Take away their ability to tax and inflate and so much of their power to do evil things to good people is gone.

And while people like to blame Trump or the federal government for the devastation and slow response, Varela explains that much of the problem stems from Puerto Rico's major infrastructure deficiency and the failings of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk stood in front of a gathered crowd of several hundred people yesterday to unveil his latest, much - ballyhooed vision for the future: a world powered by his company's solar roofs, with a Powerwall 2 battery on the wall and a Tesla automobile in the driveway.

«It's a great picture of the church where you have these people that have so much power inside of them but all we want to do is keep them in these cages.»

But you should also note that much of the history you study is about major religions that rose to positions of power over the people.

... If [people] had the power to know so much that they could investigate the world, how did they fail to find sooner the Lord of these things?

Accordingly, much of American Christianity «continues to be powered by ordinary people and by the contagious spirit of their efforts to storm heaven by the back door.»

Secondly, can you imagine if on gods level he's actually not nearly as powerful as you think he is, it's just he's so much more powerful than you (or at least you perceive him to be) that you give him powers he doesn't posess, I mean you are just taking other people from 2,000 word for it that this is what god is like and sure you pray, but like you said, you just know, god hasn't come down and spoken with you, sent you a note, a vision or any other nonesense.

I am learning that I can not teach christian theology constructively unless I am aware that, historically, the church has done much to damage women, Jews, people of color and the whole inhabited earth; and unless, as a christian, I am learning how our doctrine, discipline and worship continue to reflect and contribute to this abuse of power.

8 With respect to those who refuse to accept Castilian sovereignty and the Christian faith the document includes this clause: «If you do not do it... with the help of God I will use all my power against you and will battle you everywhere and in every possible way, and you will be subject to the yoke and obedience of the Church and their Highnesses, and I will take your people and your women and children, and make them slaves, and as much I will send them, and I will inflict on you all the harm and damage possible.»

They were put back in power in 2010 to work for JOBS and yet what do they do, practically nothing but social legislation, anti-abortion, anti-gay, thankfully the American people pretty much stopped that last night!

It takes a much stronger person to do that than to submit to a higher power.

The Episcopal church had too much money and power early in the twentieth century and, like the House of Hapsburg manifested in the person of Prince Charles of England (or I could make a bitter allusion to the Bush clan but will refrain), became dull - witted and boring without an infusion of mongrel ideas.

Very frequently, the priests said special prayers or required people to say special words when undergoing these sacred rituals, so that over time, people began to think that there was actual power in these rituals, so that the way they were done did not matter as much as simply doing them.

People such as Hitler used that claim to come to power and justify building his military, claiming it a defense against the «decadent West» (which turned out to be much stronger than him).

At all times in Israel people spoke much about evil powers, but not about one which, for longer than the purpose of temptation, was allowed to rule in God's stead; never, not even in the most deadly act of requital by God, is the bond of immediacy broken.

For this end, wee must be knitt together in this worke as one man, wee must entertaine each other in brotherly Affeccion, wee must be willing to abridge our selves of our superfluities, for the supply of others necessities, wee must uphold a familiar Commerce together in all meeknes, gentlenes, patience and liberallity, wee must delight in each other, make others Condicions our owne, rejoyce together, mourne together, labour and suffer together, allwayes haveing before our eyes our Commission and Community in the worke, our Community as members of the same body, soe shall wee keepe the unitie of the spirit in the bond of peace, the Lord will be our God and delight to dwell among us as his owne people and will commaund a blessing upon us in all our wayes, soe that wee shall see much more of his wisdome, power, goodnes and truthe than formerly wee have beene acquainted with.

He could meet with Republicans and Senator Reid and work out a way to scale Obamacare way back to meet the desire for reform of the American people without accruing so much power to the federal government.

Much of traditional and contemporary Christian proclamation, apologetics and worship assumes an innate «suspicion» within people that for the world to be the way it is there must be a greater power behind it - note, for example, Paul's statement to the Romans: «There is no excuse at all for not honouring God, for God's invisible qualities are made visible in the things God has made».

Without something in common, all people are divided, no matter how much you try to unify them in your own power.

Thus people today are much concerned to assert, both in word and deed, that they can and do make decisions that count; that they do have a human dignity which is inalienable and which they must seek to awaken in their brothers and sisters; and that their responsibility is to do all that is in their power to make human existence a good and honest and true and harmonious one.

Sure he has an ego, but he also is humble enough to realize that how he serves the people of the U.S. is much more important than the power of the position.

This will not happen until the people and leaders, after centuries of deprivation, finally reaching Deng Xiaoping's admonition in the end of the 1970s that «to get rich is glorious,» but also come to realize (if ever) that it takes much more than wealth and power to provide a good life for all its people.

now hes in the kingdom on his throne how much more powerfull now and us being his servants and conduits we have all the power of heavenat our disposal by his will.and we are to walk in the darkest places but we have a brighter light and when we go to the dakests we leave that light the darkest place bescomes the brightest place becuause the power used there stays if accepted and kept.we leave a lighted path for others to receave and gets the all deserving glory praise and thankfullness and worship and love he wants.we are always should have the servent humblness.to learn to lead we serve when we lead we still serve and people will do the same when they see how well its system works.bless you and follow his path and make ways for him and others.

The point is not that we should rule the offensive illegal, which is why the courts are correct to strike down efforts to regulate speech that some people do not like, and even most speech that hurts; the advantages of yielding to the government so much power over what we say have never been shown to outweigh the dangers.

In the second rite, which is observed much more often than the rite of initiation by water, the cleric says words over some small items of food which are then considered to be instilled with special power from God to make a person more like Him.

Appealing to unbelievable suffering of the Jewish people in the Holocaust and to Christian guilt, Wiesel has done much to elicit American support for what Ellis calls «Constantinian Judaism,» a Judaism «in service to the State and power.»

If the government was to step out of the marriage business entirely and leave people to the same property and power of attorney rights that are already available to anybody now, as he suggests, people who previously held protections based on their status of being married would soon find out just how much more difficult it is to gain those rights outside of marriage.

The authoritarianism, moralism, and legalism of much traditional religion diminishes spiritual awareness by encouraging people to project their own spiritual powers onto deity (thus impoverishing their inner lives), introject self - punishing beliefs that diminish self - other esteem and distort relationships, and retroflex vital assertive and sexual energies, thus blunting their aliveness.

Much of Western civilization has been introduced to the Muslim world by haughty merchants who were assisted by the military forces of colonial powers, causing the people of the East to draw back into their own world.

I believe that people want to love and be loved by God just as much now as ever before, but the church does everything in it's power not to change.

I don't like one person having that much power, mostly because then the pres is an easy scapegoat to blame.

the power to give, the power to love, the paradoxical power of «weakness»... God's power is thus much greater than the compelling force of a tyrant who makes others submit against their will... his power is sufficient to transform a willful person from self - centeredness to love, without destroying or even violating the tender plant of freedom.61

Therefore much new evils are to be found among tribal peoples which were not there in the traditional society - evils created by lawless individualism, irresponsible exercise of power and money.

The R's govern to diminish the power of the people and give as much as possible to the already powerful.

And whereas, it is the duty of nations as as well as of men, to owe their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord: And, in so much as we know that, by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People?

We flock to them much the way we flock to celebrities and people in power.

Basic concepts analyzed by St. Thomas — concepts of the human person, conscience, liberty, the source of political power in the people, and the twin principles of the consent of the governed and the «mixed regime» — provided rich soil for the free institutions that were to arise much later in history.

When, in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, European peoples again expanded, colonizing fresh sections in the Americas, occupying all of Africa and the islands of the Pacific, and subjecting to their control much of Asia, Christian missions followed and in some instances anticipated the advancing frontiers of Occidental power, and modified profoundly the revolutionary results of the impact of Western upon non-Western peoples and cultures.

Much of our Christian proclamation and apologetics draws on this innate «suspicion» people have that for the world to be the way it is, there must be a greater power behind it.

The colonial power structure, then assumed to be a firm and lasting situation, functioned as a shield for the conscience, freeing a Swede or an American from feeling remorse for the suffering of the peoples living in that part of the world, about which there was not much publicity anyhow.

Amory Lovins has argued in detail that an environmentally desirable energy policy will also employ more persons in more desirable ways and produce as much usable power as we need.35 If we redefine the goal of efficiency as the enhancement of human experience, we are likely to find that most of the oppositions identified by Okun between equality and efficiency will disappear.