Sentences with phrase «not in any position of power»

You are not in a position of power.

They are not, however, on the highest rungs of the occupational ladder, and that creates some tension for them, because they feel they have made it, but are still not in positions of power.

Is MAAL just caving under a situation where they realize they are not in the position of power in the state legislature and just preserving what they can?

Not exact matches

Conflict is inevitable, and when you are in a position of power, you are automatically tasked not only with managing it, but ultimately, resolving it.

And as a man in a position of power and trust, he not only should not have done so, but he should have known better than to do so.

Gino, in an email exchange, told me that some in the audience interpreted her research to say that, «women are not ambitious or that women should not be offered positions of power.»

We don't have hard numbers on this, but we suspect the grown - men - in - positions - of - power demographic is the most likely to act like petulant children.

Whatever the means, the end goal ought to be equal gender representation in positions of power, and not just for optics: women make more than 80 % of consumer purchases and are responsible for more than 50 % of business procurement decisions.

«People who are in positions of power and influence must make sure their private fundraising does not rely on the metaphorical «muscle» of perceived or actual influence in obtaining donations,» she writes.

Though the President - elect will be coming into power with Republican majorities in both the House and the Senate, many of his most popular positions, like his hardline stances on trade and immigration, are not exactly popular with Congressional leadership.

While it's impossible not to feel your emotions, it's completely under your power to manage them effectively and to keep yourself in a position of control.

With the president's party controlling the Senate by just one seat and the Senate holding not only the power to pass or block legislation, but also to confirm nominees to federal positions, including the Supreme Court, the race in Arizona to replace the departing Sen. Jeff Flake is one of several to watch this fall.

But Jews do not occupy a position of power corresponding to their abilities or their numbers in the profession.

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.

They have not moved up to positions of prominence and power in America at anywhere near the rate that should have followed.

What's more, in this type of authoritarian capitalism, government intervention in business is utilized, in a way not possible in a free - market democracy, to strengthen the power of the ruling regime and China's position internationally.

But even they have been sold out by the corrupted two - party system that will not allow an uncompromised voice to become President or rise to a position of power in Congress.

As we watch the videos of families crying in Florida we can not comprehend how those voted into power — who hold positions where they are able to create change — continually choose unrestricted gun rights over children's lives.

I am not here to argue religion... just extremism in any form is dangerous... and those people oughtn't be in positions of power.

The philosopher does not start from a faith in being's intelligible disclosure of itself — in fact, he starts by explicitly abjuring such faith — but rather vests his trust in the power of the self to posit reality from its own unshakeable position.

Many of the extreme ones are in positions of power, because there's usually a correlation between lack of morals, and religious zealotry, and the less extreme but not in power just follow along like sheep because that's what they are taught to do.

Persecution requires that the persecuted not be in a position of power.

I don't want anybody who thinks they are always right about everything in a position of power over others.

He is a Christian, and while I'm conservative and do nt particularly agree with the President he is still in a position of power and deserves respect.

The point is not trying to force people to believe the same as the atheist; the point is to respect all people, allow them to live as they believe best, and do not allow people in positions of power or government to force their religious beliefs upon others.

(This view is abbreviated DP3) J. L. Mackie has described a crucial aspect of this position: «If men's wills are really free, this must mean that even God can not control them... «5 If one takes seriously that idea of a universe composed of actual things in real relations with other actualities, then the idea that all power is concentrated in one actuality is nonsensical.

Even if younger Catholics are far from unanimous in their support of Weigel's positions, they nonetheless are not consumed by the theological and ecclesial power - struggles that have afflicted the American church for the past 40 years.

«All the time not having a clue that they were being whispered against, campaigned against by both Catholics & Anglicans who made it palpably clear that this initiative was detrimental to the «dialogue towards unity» and temporarily compromised their positions as oecumenical ambassadors - that this was a counter-productive «wacked - out» scheme by an ailing Pope who merely needed to be placated until he died - hence delaying tactics, obfuscations, procedurality, red tape and making everything as difficult and administratively untenable as possible; with patronising sympathy and hand - wringing at their lot while sneering, dismissing and chuckling to themselves that the whole thing will eventually come to naught... that the administration will crumble via crises and power politics andpersonality clashes and outright frustration at the situation... and ultimately the Ordinariate will be re-integrated into the Conference system and those not happy about it will crawl back to their friends in the C of E.

* A «forgive only» approach when those in leadership sin usually leaves in positions of power those who may not be at all repentant and will continue to harm others.

When I claim that label, I'm connecting not only with a number of active feminists who are working today to help women, but with an ongoing history of feminists who got women the vote, who made birth control happen, who got women into positions of power in the government, who worked to rectify racial inequality and fight against things like mandatory sterilization of welfare recipients.

People all over the world, both in positions of power and not, seem to believe that there is room for debate on the issues of climate change, humanity's involvement and the need to transition to a low - carbon future.

If this was a priest in a position of power that failed to act, I don't think the reaction would be the same.

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I explained why it had not been the case and why it had been the female member of my family in the position of power that had been wounding for me.

Since under modern conditions the actions of all people in key positions of power and influence are thus likely to be known almost immediately by nearly everyone, these people can not make decisions without reference to the reaction of the public.

Religious extremism in the hands of those in positions of power to motivate and control the uneducated and naive to do murderous acts is NOT the crime of an entire people.

At least one of them, that suggested by Tillich, depends to a considerable degree upon the Tillichian «system» in which there is much talk about «existential» and «essential» manhood, not to mention the more general philosophical position which he adopts with its talk about «the ground of being», «the power of being», and «the new being in Christ» — the last of these constituting in fact what «restitution» is all about.

There have always been lots of people who knew that the institutional Christianity was not the only way of following Jesus, but those who were in positions of power never gave these people a platform or a pulpit from which to speak.

God wasn't waiting for me in Thailand or in an orphanage or a book deal or on a stage or in a position of power and influence: God was always under the kitchen table cleaning up Rice Krispies.

Bonhoeffer came to accept the full implications of the resistance movement, justifying his position as follows: «It is not only my task to look after the victims of madmen who drive a motor - car in a crowded street, but to do all in my power to stop their driving at all.

And if the academy acknowledged that religious intolerance is systemic and involves abuse of power, then its leaders would also have to acknowledge their tenuous position in relationship to the First Amendment, which says that the government will not use its power to «establish religion.»

Seriously, we don't need people in powerful positions making decisions on the fate of millions based on fairy tales — Because Atheists who have held power positions are so compassionate like chairman Mao and Stalin and Pol Pot.

If you are in a position of power or authority, do not attempt to influence or control other people's lives based on your beliefs / convictions.

They would not allow any woman to be seen in a position of power — any type of power.

The fact that we lived in ignorance for millenia and allowed religion to get a position of power in society should not mean that we persist with that which was born of ignorance.

This will not be the power of money and position, but will be the power that was present in Jesus — the power of truth, and light, and love.

As transhumanism becomes more prevalent, as the sexual revolution identifies more perversions as «rights,» as technocracy overtakes ethical reasoning and truth is more frequently confused with power, believers will find themselves ever more frequently in the position of explaining that some realities are not contingent on the prevailing ethos of culture, or on our judgments, or on the fleeting whims of self - definition.

Krasinski was asked if he had advice for his male colleagues in positions of power: «If you're a male CEO and you don't harass people, don't pat yourself on the back.

if men are not superior to women in the christian world, why do they occupy 90 % of the positions of power and wealth?

Moral Realism inherent in this approach is to avoid two absolutist positions of utopianism - one, the approach of political religions which seek to bring perfect community on earth through political action, which ends in tyranny because it asks the impossible from power - politics; and the other, a withdrawal from politics because it can not bring perfect community on earth, which ends by tolerating the worst tyranny and oppression without resistance.