Sentences with phrase «of power by»

Such an unabashed exertion of power by principals can accelerate change by assuring that students with learning abilities will be supported from the government and by school leaders.

The abuse of power by some on the Hartford Board of Education was called into question after politicking and bullying behaviors ruled and dissenting voices were silenced at last week's regular public meeting.

It was an outrageous abuse of power by the nation's top law enforcement agency, drawing criticism from U.S. Senator Ron Johnson, WILL attorneys, and conservative columnist George Will.

As political scientist Thomas Dye puts it, «intergovernmental competition» was seen by the Founders as an «auxiliary precaution» against the «monopoly abuse of power by a single centralized government.»

Bullies often play to a group of bystanders; their goal is to create an imbalance of power by humiliating one child and gaining the «loyalty» of bystanders who want to avoid becoming the next victim.

The best tactic, therefore, is to sap teachers unions of their power by supporting a competitive charter school system.

Secondly, the deposed leader Joanna craves power, and Walter manipulates her by giving her little pieces of power by seemingly let her win arguments — these dialogue scenes from writer Paul Rudnick are nicely done.

Of course the ruler's misuse of power by deception here is wrong, but one can not help but wonder as the film progresses if V's concept is equally off.

If you've been keeping up with the news lately, you'll know it's not easy to make us laugh at the misuse of power by law enforcement.

Smack dab in the middle of a season dominated by superheroes and minions comes «The Stanford Prison Experiment,» a re-enactment of the shocking»70s psychology project so disturbing and infamous it remains a hot topic in textbooks and a cultural touchstone for conversations about the abuse of power by authority figures.

Asked to be the straight man to a running joke about the essential «fakeness» of its world - weary hipster heroes, Amber instead assumes the position of power by announcing that for all the things they — and we, by extension — have seen, she alone will emerge from this with no sense of irony or mordant humanism.

Based on the book Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power by Mary Mapes, it examines that moment in history when the eponymous truth... Read More»

The Taking Of Power By Louis XIV — From the same period and style as his Medici film, but unfortunately only 90 minutes long is this Roberto Rossellini film about, well, how Louis XIV took power (the secret: fashion!).

Taking the same basic premise — a despotic government that keeps its citizens in poverty and reminds them of its power by drafting the young into a modern gladiatorial ring to kill or be killed on TV — this one digs deeper into the idea of power and control and the way media is used as a tool of oppression.

The Taking of Power by Louis XIV dares to place a larger - than - life figure at the level of mere mortal.

The rest of the 1967 lineup included a few movies that endure via Criterion Collection: Volker Schlöndorff's adaptation of Robert Musil's Young Törless, Roberto Rossellini's The Taking of Power by Louis XIV, and Masaki Kobayashi's Samurai Rebellion.

The one fresh image, that of Alexander on horseback rearing at an enemy pasha on elephantback, has been diluted of its power by overexposure on television ads.

And you understand how Lincoln is at once remembering the expansion of that power by this singular man and also admiring what can achieve (it's hard not to read in the film allusions to the current US government stalemates).

Political corruption is the use of power by government officials for illegitimate private gain.

Unlike today's computers, which process information in the form of 0s and 1s, a quantum computer would achieve new levels of power by turning bits into fuzzy quantum things called qubits (pronounced cue - bits) that are 0 and 1 simultaneously.

If the license is issued, the first new design reactor in the U.S. in decades would start delivering 1,100 megawatts of power by 2016.

True languages get much of their power by breaking complex ideas into small pieces, such as words, which can then be rearranged to form innumerable new ideas.

(In July, Liu received a death sentence, with a 2 - year reprieve, after he was convicted of graft and abuse of power by a Beijing court.)

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) aims to produce 500 megawatts of power by burning a plasma of deuterium and tritium held in place by superconducting magnets in a doughnut - shaped vessel called a torus.

The characters in Cory Doctorow «s Makers harness some of that power by inventing imaginative gadgets forged from their own clever coding and 3D printers, creating a dynamic new economy as a result.

Now, two decades later, Zhang has developed tools to harness some of that power by controlling cells for specific purposes.

Energy Policy and Research firm, KITE says government will not be able to meet its planned target of producing 5000 mega watts of power by 2016.

Nana Akufo - Addo said President Mahama demonstrated that he was a true democrat who had the development of his nation at heart, when he committed to a smooth transition of power by conceding following his defeat.

Following the madhouse in yesterday's New York Senate and the apparent seizure of power by Senate Republicans, Empire State Pride Agenda executive director Alan van Capelle has issued a statement calling for a vote from the legislative body on ma... Read

Following the madhouse in yesterday's New York Senate and the apparent seizure of power by Senate Republicans, Empire State Pride Agenda executive director Alan van Capelle has issued a statement calling for a vote from the legislative body on marriage equality:

«I had hoped that our governor would join me in recognizing the need to guard against excessive accumulation of power by our administrative agencies,» Steck wrote.

«The cuffing of the national publicity secretary of the PDP exemplifies a terrible decay of power by the APC regime which sees itself bigger than the democratic state, Nigeria, which brought it to power.

John Berenger, the chairman of the Divide NYS Caucus, wrote in an email news release on Monday he wanted to see an end to the concentration of power by the state's top three elected officials — the governor, Assembly speaker and Senate majority leader — and hopes the convention is the best way to achieve that.

It's just another abuse of power by the goverment.

NYSEG was aiming to restore 90 percent of power by Saturday night.

The party said the charge of GH cents 50,000 fee for presidential nominees and GH cents 10,000 for parliamentary nominees was a capricious and arbitrary use of power by the electoral body.

Nevertheless, being stuck out of power by an unrepresentative electoral system and an indifferent media establishment means many Lib Dem members secretly view stolen policies as satisfying evidence of political change emanating from the third party.

How will the educated elite of scientists get hold of the power by which to change society?

Also at 10:30 a.m., Assemblymen Jim Tedisco, Steve McLaughlin and Pete Lopez call for passage of «Spirit of «76» legislation for a rank and file revolt against the accumulation of power by legislative leaders, Assembly Chamber, state Capitol, Albany.

We are appalled by the worsening security situation within the country since assumption of power by the Akufo - Addo - led government.

Earlier, Madaki, in his motion, had sought the intervention of the House to halt a potential breakdown of law and order in Kano State due to the alleged abuse of power by the police.

Prosecutors say Percoco sold his influence in the halls of power by taking more than $ 315,000 from 2012 through 2016 from a Syracuse real estate development company, COR Development, and Competitive Power Ventures, an energy company looking to build a power plant in the Hudson Valley.

Is this year's budget an expansion of Cuomo's agenda or a reassertion of power by the legislature?

Today at the New York State Capitol, Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin (R,C,I - Schaghticoke), Assemblyman Pete Lopez (R,C,I - Schoharie), and Senator Tony Avella (D - Queens) called for passage of their «Spirit of «76» legislation for a rank and file revolt against the accumulation of power by legislative leaders.

This «ede bii keke» joker President must be booted out of power by all sensible Ghanaians come 7th November 2016.

-- In his home district on the Lower East Side, there is abundant evidence that Silver kept his seat of power by blocking the creation of affordable housing in a 20 - block area known as the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area... Their goal was to preserve the influence of a shrinking Jewish community that made up Silver's political base.

In such a case, can the outgoing President delay or advance the transfer of power by a day or two to accommodate the President - elect?

Personal domination: linked to the placing of production into a hierarchy and the consequent subordination of workers to entrepreneurs, leaders, teachers, etc.; in short, work as subjection to the arbitrary exercise of power by other individuals.

The abuse of power by unaccountable big business, reckless and corrupt practice and a Parliament that for too long was enthralled by its allure rings as true for News International as it did for the banking crisis.

The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, which was stripped of its power by the Obama Education Department, is pursuing a comeback under a more for - profit - friendly administration.