Sentences with phrase «of hierarchical power»

This is a classic example of hierarchical power versus influential power.

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In Created Equal, Joshua Berman, a lecturer at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem and Bar - Ilan University, uses this notable feature of Israelite political life to argue that the Bible is remarkably egalitarian and that Israel, unlike its neighbors, was notably suspicious of hierarchical regimes that located political power in the hands of a few elites.

Notions of «power over» dynamics, hierarchical thinking, authoritarianism, success meaning «winning» over someone else who is a «loser», more money and more power and more authority is more successful... everything that causes so much trouble in a capitalist, patriarchal mindset.

These three branches operate in parallel rather than in hierarchical fashion, according to the basic principle of the separation of powers.

Jesus» strategy,» claims Crossan, «implicitly for himself and explicitly for his followers, was the combination of free healing and common eating, a religious and economic egalitarianism that negated alike and at once the hierarchical and patronal normalcies of Jewish religion and Roman power.

While these formulations of divine persuasive power and relational power are not without problems for some feminists, they do represent alternatives to coercive, hierarchical power patterns and are suggestive of feminist reformulations of power in the context of mutuality.

Hierarchical attitudes about the importance and power associated with different kinds of church - work make it difficult for pastors to convey the idea that different gifts for ministry are suited to different offices.

The new creation is not a reconstruction of a hierarchical ordering of power.

For everyone starting out in the Christian ministry, it is disillusioning to function within the hierarchical and patriarchal patterns of church power.

It portrays Jesus as a «peasant Jewish Cynic,» whose conception of the kingdom of God involved «a religious and economic egalitarianism that negated alike and at once the hierarchical and patronal normalcies of Jewish religion and Roman power.»

Which means as long as we continue living as if the old order is not passing away, as if nothing is being made new, as if the resurrection of Jesus had no transforming power and the hierarchical structures of this world still reign, then we proclaim with our lives that the gospel is anything but good news.

-LSB-...] We can create a better, happier, more just existence for everyone by nurturing the common good and respecting our interdependence, instead of always focusing on moving up one rung in the existing hierarchical power -LSB-...]

The ties that link America to the rest of the world are not as hierarchical as they once were and the US now requires the co-operation of the other great powers on a wide range of issues.

Such, in effect, triple hierarchisation — where territory, institutional power structures and discourse of identity and belonging (communality) sit in parallel hierarchical arrangements — is now being challenged by a growing urban / metropolitan voice stepping out of the seemingly homogenous sonority of a national discursive «backcloth».

Research has shown that hierarchical power dynamics are at the root of sexual harassment.

The political argument for involving parents and other community members more substantially carries along with it an explicit challenge to the traditional, hierarchical leadership and power structures in schools.156 According to Leithwood and Prestine (2002), the policies and reforms that call for decentralized decision making rest on certain important assumptions about the role of the principal and other school leaders.

Much of the power of the Marzano Model lies in its use of a hierarchical structure.

In the 13th hierarchical city, Kagutsuchi, the Librarium regulates the amazing power of Armagus, a fusion of magic and technology.

Academies traditionally frame knowledge through a rigorous and hierarchical allocation of power.

«Many of these alternatives, such as nuclear power and geoengineering, are likely to convey cultural resonances that affirm rather than threaten hierarchical and individualist confidence in the power of human ingenuity to overcome environmental constraints on economic production.»

The Supreme Court of Illinois recognized that all parties agree that the Serbian Orthodox Church is a hierarchical church, and that the sole power to appoint and remove Bishops of the Church resides in its highest ranking organs, the Holy Assembly and the Holy Synod.

The hierarchical relationship between the judiciary and court users, and the power of a judicial officer in court, severely limit the acceptability of judicial humour.

«Empowerment Voice» is exhibited in an actor possessing, at various degrees of capacity, an ability to command the institutional form and language of the power structural arrangements in which the conflict arises, sufficient to effect long term distributive concessions, sometimes permanent, however, like Protest Voice, actors engaged in Empowerment Voice are unlikely to achieve reconstruction of the power structural arrangements, instead they are more likely to engage in an effort to preserve the existing power structural arrangement to maintain perceived socioeconomic advantage, or to be unable to identify how the power structural arrangements might be reconstructed in a way that does not perpetuate the underlying source of conflict, namely the imbalances of inclusion and equity resulting from the hyper - segregated hierarchical power regime.

This maturation in conflict voice enables the actors to mutually reach contrition and forgiveness, by which capacity the actors are enabled to pursue the consensus goal of transforming the existing hyper - segregated hierarchical power regime, which defines their respective institutionalized power positions outside the mediation process, to sustainable democratized power structural arrangements embodying institutionalized inclusion and equity.

The achievement of the deconstruction of the existing hyper - segregated hierarchical power regime, and therein the transformation of the existing power structural arrangements, results in the institutionalization of mediation processes within the new democratic power structural arrangements, which in turn ensures that future conflicts among the actors do not reach impasse or rise to a level that threatens the broader society in which the actors reside.

Nuclear weapons increase destructive power a million-fold and give a leader just minutes to decide whether a (possibly false) warning justifies firing weapons that would destroy civilisation, while relying on the same sort of hierarchical decision - making processes that failed in the much slower 1914 crisis.

This approach moves away from a hierarchical concept of accountability towards an approach that reflects a more equitable distribution of power between governments and indigenous peoples.

In our society, gender serves as the basis of a hierarchical system of male dominance and female subordination... Marital power differences are obscured by the dominant ideology of the companionate marriage.»

In discussing the process of a smart divorce and post-divorce family reorganization, several people have raised the issue of how to proceed if there are large, seemingly insurmountable imbalances of power, control and hierarchical privilege.

Paying Attention to Power Differentials in Systemic Therapy In discussing the process of a smart divorce and post-divorce family reorganization, several people have raised the issue of how to proceed if there are large, seemingly insurmountable imbalances of power, control and hierarchical priviPower Differentials in Systemic Therapy In discussing the process of a smart divorce and post-divorce family reorganization, several people have raised the issue of how to proceed if there are large, seemingly insurmountable imbalances of power, control and hierarchical privipower, control and hierarchical privilege.

The IC - S was designed to measure participants» cultural orientation and originally included four dimensions of vertical and horizontal individualism and collectivism but for the purposes of the present study only the two horizontal dimensions of individualism and collectivism were utilized which we conceptualized as more relevant to close interpersonal relationships than the vertical dimensions which is more concerned with hierarchical power structures.

Hierarchical multiple regression analyses were calculated to evaluate the predictive power of the WoC factors for marital satisfaction factors.