Sentences with phrase «of less authority»

Not exact matches

That roadmap included using regulatory authority under the less - restrictive Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act, he says.

«To this day, before doing something I don't want to do, I try to transform it into something I'm eager to do,» he writes, citing no less than Mary Poppins as an authority in support of this plan.

Smaller companies, which are only sold in three regions or less, will maintain their relationships with each of those regional buyers, who will still have the authority to make decisions on bringing in new products.

Joseph Lhota, the former chairman of New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA)-- he resigned just a few days ago in preparation for a mayoral bid — jumped into action after the storm and got the subways running again within less than three days.

When accountants get a reputation for inept audits or less - than - pristine standards, state and federal tax authorities may focus their attention on all of the firm's clients.

While the effect of defining a «qualified purchaser» in this manner is to preempt the states from requiring registration of these smaller and less regulated offerings, states retain the authority to require the filing of offering materials, a consent to service of process, and fees that would otherwise be required in the absence of preemption.

The proposed rule would also apply to governmental jurisdictions or transit authorities that provide commuter rail service — none of which is small for purposes of the SBA (i.e., no entity serves a locality with a population less Start Printed Page 38437than 50,000).

Less information is now provided to the public in budgets than under previous Liberal and Conservative governments; the authority of Parliament over government spending has been weakened; the understanding of Canadians as to what the government is actually planning to do in the budget has been eroded.

Notwithstanding the authority of the committee under the Plan, except in connection with any corporate transaction involving Walmart, the terms of outstanding plan awards may not be amended to reduce the exercise price of outstanding stock options or stock appreciation rights or cancel outstanding stock options or stock appreciation rights in exchange for cash, other plan awards or stock options or stock appreciation rights with an exercise price that is less than the exercise price of the original stock options or stock appreciation rights without the prior approval of Walmart stockholders.

I used this process for my new gaming site project (link) and scored some high authority followers in less than a week of deployment and with less than an hour of work.

If the authorities are willing to engage in loss - making activities to achieve the GDP growth target, there are two relevant characteristics of an economy like China's that change the nature of the GDP measure: first, economic activity is much less affected by hard - budget constraints than it is in most other economies; and second, bad debt is much less likely to be written down.

This component of spending traditionally lapses funds (total Parliamentary authority less what was actually spent).

In fact, Credit Karma said that out of the quarter million individuals that have already filed their taxes through the company, less than 100 individuals reported a single cryptocurrency transaction to United States tax authorities.

Officials of the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority (PRPA) expect that these improvements will result in no less than a doubling of the cargo - handling capacity at the terminal, already the busiest and most multi-use terminal at the port of Philadelphia.

In order to be included on the List of Approved Cultivars, the variation must be recognized by a responsible authority as being distinct, uniform, stable, and contain less than 0.3 % THC.

Throughout the book, «laity involvement» means a desire for less episcopal authority, a diminution of the sacramental priesthood, and a conviction that the special place accorded to Latin in the liturgy and in the universal Church is a threat to «the Spirit of Vatican II.»

Less cynically, it seems likely that even strict separationist government officials seek the legitimation and acknowledgment of their authority by organized religion.

Maybe when Christians stop toting themselves as the moral authority on EVERYTHING and keep their noses out of peoples personal lives AND stop trying to keep taxpaying American citizens from having rights (ie gays)... maybe then they will come into less ridicule.

6) The main issue is less about the morality of artificial contraception than it is the authority of the Pope.

Here, brahmanic ritualism played much less of a role and brahmin authority was almost unknown.

The CLC released a statement last Friday, before the Solicitors Regulation Authority was made aware of the critcism but after some initial concern regarding their involvement: «The Christian Legal Centre... has only been assisting Mr Evans and Ms James for less than a month.

«I'm able to feel and like my own strength as a human being... I'm doing a lot less of this god - making of authority people.»

It was customary among the Reformers themselves to speak of a «valid» ministry as one in which «the pure Word of God is preached and the sacraments be duly administered according to Christ's ordinance» (to quote the Anglican Thirty - nine Articles, which are paralleled in other and similar «confessions»); and the history of the ministry in the Christian Church as a whole makes it abundantly clear that «authority to preach the Word of God,» or the right to «dispense the Word of God,» or the giving to the candidate of the Church's recognition and authority to be «preacher of the Gospel» — all these are more or less synonymous phrases — has been an integral part of ordination.

Because Religion be exempt from the authority of the Society at large, still less can it be subject to that of the Legislative Body.

Government needs a more practical, less academic social policy aimed at the deficiencies of public authority» law enforcement, school standards, and work requirements» that the research itself suggests are central to poverty today.

This would not end disagreements about homosexuality and the nature of Biblical authority, but it might provide a context in which these disagreements could be less threatening and Methodists might be more willing to make room for differences.

159:4.7 «The authority of truth is the very spirit that indwells its living manifestations, and not the dead words of the less illuminated and supposedly inspired men of another generation.

But such an objection would only prove that Christians have frequently been wrongly educated, that they have unintentionally been imbued with the idea that they are allowed to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the authorities of the Church and that one has less confidence in the power of the gospel and its grace than in detailed external moral prescriptions.

I have tried to carry the habits developed at the Cresset to the quite difference circumstances of First Things, where I have far more in the way of resources» if, alas, less godlike authority.

As Dan has told me on many occasions, for him, it is far less insulting to be under the authority of a woman than it is to be subjected to the suggestion that his fragile ego can not handle it.

Butler shows how in the early national period, as the line of distinction between religion and the civil authorities («separation of church and state») developed and the citizenry relied ever less on the government for things spiritual or ecclesiastical, church life prospered.

An intelligent and fair «minded overview of how Catholic laity» from Dorothy Day and Mario Cuomo to the lesser known» understand the living out of their faith, concluding with the recognition of tensions between affirming lay vocations and church authority.

Despite the rhetoric of democracy there is a lack of transparency m discussions of officials with the IMF / WB authorities and their decisions regarding conditionalities often imposed on the debtor countries without clear exposure even to Parliament and its select committees, much less to the general public affected by them.

With less than three weeks until the Pope's arrival, Chilean authorities said they were working with the Roman Catholic Church to prepare for an onslaught of tourists at the peak of the austral summer, a traditional time for vacationing in both countries.

But while Lindsell obviously intends to meet these concerns, his book is actually a repristination (and often less subtle than earlier expressions) of a particular timebound formulation of biblical authority that is being seen by increasing numbers of evangelicals not only to have outlived its usefulness but to have become a positive hindrance to the understanding of the fuller and deeper significance of the Scriptures.

There were many others less lucky, such as the great Sufi mystic al - Hallaj, who was executed for blasphemy after running through the streets of Basra shouting «ana» l - haqq»» literally, «I am the truth»» the statement having been interpreted by the authorities, probably correctly, as meaning «I am God.»

No less a mathematical authority than Alonzo Church, in his review of the second edition of volumes II and III, claims that in the whole of volume I (over 700 pages of closely argued mathematical logic introductory to the theory of cardinal numbers) and together with volumes II and III (themselves enormous tomes) one gets «cardinal numbers, relations and relation - numbers, series, well ordered series and ordinal numbers, and finally the continuum of real numbers» (BAMS34: 237).

To a far lesser degree does it concern the nature of authority itself and its relation to power and liberty.

Protestants are less apt to agree, however, that authority itself serves the positive function of promoting the plenitude of gifts and blessings ecclesial and political life are supposed to encompass.

He will continue to be ordained by the institution and will, if he is faithful to it, have as much authority as the institution he represents has; spiritual authority is as necessary to him as to ministers of every other type; he is not less under the authority of Scriptures or less representative of it than the preacher; but his relation to all these authorities is different.

But is it less bizarre for these lawyers to suppose that «the people» in 1787 «transferred all of their governing power» over their own children to these artificial authorities?

The deep compassion that breathes through it is unmistakable, but no less strongly marked is the note of authority.

Citing figures by the Financial Conduct Authority which show 40 per cent of UK adults have less than # 100 in savings, Just Finance says problems with managing finance are becoming «a mainstream issue».

It belongs to our childhood, too, in the less charming sense of demanding a tyrannical authority: a protective parent who demands compulsory love even as he extracts a tithe of fear.

Half - a-dozen or so years ago I came to the conclusion that the older I get the more I am convinced of the authority of the Word of God (i.e. Bible); however the older I get the less confident I am in my understanding of the Bible.

I might be ecelectic, but what makes me consistent is my belief is something that combines the belief of Scripture with that of Englightenment philosophy: nurturing life is goodness, simply, and helping others to see a model that thinking for ourselves can help heal the world of all past injustices - so that we all learn to WANT to be good... within reason and by our own choice...: you have a society like that, you'll have less injustices, less violence, less money - grubbing by people who hold themselves as representatives of «authority» -(which side are you on, by the way, if you see the world as so divided in such a bipolar reality...?)

By what authority does CNN have to write anything on the topic of religion, much less Christianity?

There is some difference of opinion among scholars as to whether stories found in rabbinic writings before the time of Jesus constitute parables, but no less an authority than Joachim Jeremias makes this positive statement, «Jesus» parables are something entirely new.

This authority, which is no more nor less than Christianity, will lose, to the extent that it fails to embrace as it should everything that is human on earth, the keen edge of its vitality and its full power to attract.

The Book of Revelation, on the other hand, produced by a community suffering persecution, took a less sanguine view of civil authority.