Sentences with phrase «occupy powerful positions»

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Today, you don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to see that Catholics now occupy some of the most powerful positions in the land.

It is currently finding powerful new expression in the Third World liberation theologies, in which Old Testament salvation history themes occupy a central position.

Since the 1960's the May «68 generation, the powerful population control lobby and its multi-billion dollar industry, «eco-feminist» and other secular Western NGOs and postmodern academics had occupied key positions at the United Nations and its specialised agencies.

The title of High Priest was still very rare but, with the place of the King seriously diminished by the weak political position of an effectively occupied country and, on occasion, «puppet» kingship, the head of the priesthood became ever more powerful.

and you feel that David Milliband whose interest in the job stems directly from his lack of prospects here occupying the most powerful unelected position outside Communist China, is the right person to decide which is which do you.

And through much of Carol that is the character of Therese who occupies a much less powerful position in the world in Carol... is younger, is more open, is sort of experiencing this woman with a freshness that is different from Carol's life and experience.

While I do not want to minimize the important and timely federal investment in public education, I worry that those cynics of public education — many of whom occupy powerful political positions — are just waiting in the wings to declare this investment a failure.

The Supreme Court of Canada has repeatedly taken pains to frame courts as cooperative regulators with the law societies, positioning each as occupying a distinct, separate and equally powerful role.

An alternative view, which we call the subordination - reactivity hypothesis, suggests that women experience greater physiological and psychological reactivity to marital discord because they typically occupy subordinate (lower status and less powerful) positions relative to their husbands.