Sentences with phrase «of absolute power»

Like addicts of any drug, individuals in positions of absolute power will seek to maintain that power at all costs, in order to satisfy the desire for this addictive high.

But such is the truth - claim of the absolute powers.

Nine pounds of absolute power, that's what a baby is.

There is nothing more frightening and dangerous than somebody of absolute faith in a position of absolute power.

Augustine leaves no basis for conceiving any qualification of the absolute power of God over the creature.

- Mr. Ball pointed out the danger of absolute power for Canadians.

Scripture was used to support the idea of a God of absolute power, thereby obscuring the biblical conception of a God of infinite love whose power was manifest in his suffering and humiliation in Jesus Christ.

But under the golden halo of absolute power, they became an autocratic «bad emperor» without any formal constitutional means of ridding the system of its excesses.

Process theists believe that both DP1 and DP2 are simply projections of the absolute power once invested in, but no longer given to, patriarchs and kings.

At the same time, given what we know about the tendencies of absolute power to become exploitative and dominating, we are not sure that we want a single world government.

Now, at age 74, he is seen to be not really parochial at all, but a spokesman for a universal adventure: the effort of a single human being refusing to yield his identity in the face of an Absolute Power.

It includes an acute depiction of a man seduced by stereotypical masculinity, whose inhuman beloved gives him «the sensation of his absolute power to satisfy her.»

He's created a network of absolute power.

Competing levels of organization - family, village, community, province, supranational, class, or something else - can eventually take primacy in terms of absolute power.

Gradual withdrawal of absolute power is the only way to ensure that someone will be able to accept relinquishing it.

@SJuan76 - With the problem being that the Dictator never feels the time is right to let go of the absolute power.

One of the delights of Chris Evans's supersquare Steve Rogers is how outspoken and political the actor has made the character, and this stand - alone sequel showcases him grappling with the consequences of absolute power.

The filmmakers throw in some usual Hollywood pablum about the dangers of vigilante justice and the seductions of absolute power, but those flimsy messages fly in the face of the rest of the film.

Instead of absolute power (the familiar, 310 - hp, 5.4 - liter V - 8 is standard, although a new 6.2 - liter V - 8 will be available in a few months), the Raptor is all about confidence, whether for 50 - mph jumps off - road or 80 - mph highway blasts.

A few satellite shows, including «Another Part of the New World,» a group exhibition mostly of Spanish and Latin American artists at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, explicitly addressed the dangers of absolute power and the loss of cultural memory.