Sentences with phrase «naked power»

It is in their power to do so, and it avoids the appearance of naked power.

This should not be a struggle involving the use of naked power.

That kind of naked power grab invites a voter rebellion, which Paul was wise enough to capitalize on, particularly since it matched his own message perfectly.

These texts illuminate the ways in which art, the Internet, and globalization have shed their utopian guises yet persist as naked power in the face of apocalyptic ecological disaster and against the claims of the social commons.

Thus the name of this God is not naked Power.

God could, if naked power were his nature, atone for nothing.

Also, we need to remember the wide range of the forms of power, from pure persuasion at one end of the scale to what Russell calls naked power at the other.

The politics even of princes was first and chiefly about naked power, and princes were thrown back upon shifting alliances based upon self - interest.

But we must» slowly, prayerfully, and with great deliberation and serious debate» prepare ourselves for what the future seems likely to bring under a regime in which the courts have usurped the democratic process by reckless exercise of naked power.

Critics dismiss the Russian Church's commitment to unity as a naked power move — or an effort to toady up to Putin and the ruling elite in today's Russia.

The naked power must hide itself with the veil of self - justification and rationalization, which is the ground of self - legitimation.

If the Lib Dems went straight into coalition with Labour, it would be a naked power - grab with no justification, hence the need to give the Tories the first shot.

He must stop this naked power grab by the Republicans and IDC, and move forward without his fingerprints on this act of betrayal to Democrats in NYS.

If judges can come under this raw show of naked power, what would be the fate of the everyday citizens?

Sir Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit secretary, described the Bill, which adopts EU law into UK statute, as «an affront to parliamentary democracy and a naked power grab by government ministers».

It was using the specter of lawless pirates and starving artists to make a naked power grab in the sphere of intellectual property.