Sentences with phrase «of power over others»

From the traffic cop and the business manager to the doorman, but also from the criminal and dictator to the rapist, all use some form of power over others.

He's brutally aware of his power over others, perhaps because he recognizes that he has so little control over his own impulses.

he informs Goeth — the Nazi commandant is unable to responsibly adapt to the level of power over others his position has afforded him, as witnessed by his swiftly aborted attempt at becoming more judicious in his treatment of the camp inmates in the wake of his conversation with Schindler.

What do you think — Might Christian baptism, in a similar fashion to the baptism of John, be a call to be generous with our money, honest in our business dealings and gracious in our use of power over others?

«the baptism of John was a call to Jews to return to true and proper Judaism, where people were generous with their money, honest in their business dealings, and gracious in their use of power over others (Luke 3:10 - 14).»

Political power is damned rather than the person who exercises it; more precisely, the person is also condemned because of his power over others, but not in himself.

Naming / defining is an exercise of power over others, so perhaps naming other persons made in the Divine image, with the potential to become godlike, by labeling them «believers» or «unbelievers» is a failure to see all people as God sees them, children of the one true God.

I don't want anybody who thinks they are always right about everything in a position of power over others.

Not exact matches

That establishes a conundrum: one must maintain these quite different forms of global power without knowing if the cost is justified, until the moment arrives when others would pay ten times over to hold what you have in hand.

In his book, The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg describes keystone habits as, «small changes or habits that people introduce into their routines that unintentionally carry over into other aspects of their lives.»

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Quote: «The forbearing use of power does not only form a touchstone, but the manner in which an individual enjoys certain advantages over others is a test of a true gentleman.»

They - particularly following the lead of Robert Conquest in his 1967 book The Great Terror - presented Stalin as a bloodthirsty, paranoid, political opportunist determined to secure total power over all other considerations.

After you update a will, power of attorney or other key documents, destroy the old versions so that there's no confusion over which version reflects your current wishes, Lehmann said.

The series of studies tested the effects of power hierarchies on team productivity by creating teams with either a mixed propensity towards leadership — in one case some participants were primed to feel powerful by thinking of a time they wielded power over others while others subjects were asked to envision a time they were bossed around before joining the group — or teams made up entirely of hard charging leadership types or participants primed for a meeker, go along, get along approach.

They also believe that acquiring power over others is the ultimate mark of achievement — like they have somehow «arrived» when they can finally tell others what to do.

Between 2013 — 14 and 2016 — 17, other non-tax revenues are projected to decrease by $ 0.3 billion, largely reflecting the one - time gain in 2013 — 14 on the sale of the Province's interest in 10 million shares of General Motors Company, and lower electricity sector - related revenues, over the forecast period, including fiscally neutral power supply contract recoveries.

«Facebook has taken a conciliatory tone in terms of coming to terms with its power over advertising and how people interact and engage with each other,» said Debra Williamson, an analyst with research firm eMarketer.

More scale also gives more bargaining power over other parts of the healthcare chain.

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It was conceived of by programmers advocating the use of a decentralized and distributed network as a tool for ensuring that no company or state organization could abuse its power over others.

Instead, we had the Secretary of the Treasury wringing his hands over the power of their contracts, while others within the Administration were cavalierly dismissing the importance of the existing labor contracts in the auto industry.

And where others see little regard for Main Street, Obama sees a focus on how the government can do more to bolster the economic prospects of poor - and middle - class Americans, and someone who would carry those concerns to the Fed, which has vast powers over interest rates and the financial system.

Ethereum on the other hand has no maximum supply, and is capped at an annual rate of 18 million ether — meaning that the purchasing power of a deflationary currency (bitcoin) is expected to rise over time, whereas the value of an inflationary currency (ether) will drop.

As such, it's not at all clear that the Province has the right to enact the powers it is attempting to here over refined products, although it clearly does have the broad power to restrict exports in the case of crude oil, synthetic crude oil, and bitumen and other resources.

From these and other experiences, Ameet developed a deep appreciation for the power of disciplined savings and investment over time.

Dual - class shares refer to the ownership structure of a company, where one class of shares holds some sort of voting power over the other.

Really Daniel, I don't know what kind of marriage you have, but my wife and I do not need one of us to have veto power over the other in order for our family to function.

This challenge led to a finger - wagging review by Hitchens in The Atlantic and a series of punch - counterpunch exchanges in various transatlantic venues, all of which obscured both the thoughtfulness of Amis» meditations on grief and his discovery of the depths of human depravity: «Hitler - Stalin tells us this, among other things: given total power over another, the human being will find his thoughts turn to torture.»

But your right I'm sure this has been going on since the first man put on a robe and claimed spiritual power over other people 1000's of years ago.

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

Until then, I just assume that all these religious ideas are the creation of men who want power over others in the natural world - and every day I am more convinced this is the case.

The way this works out for me is that when I don't believe Jesus is enough, I try to fill the void with the approval of others, or by comfort in material things, or by power over others, or by controlling others.

as in it should have been «Over time, I learned first - hand that power deafens me and corrupts the value of other people.»

I assume, from my limited understanding, Empire is not the nation state, but it is the essence of triumphalism and systems of oppression that create power structures for the said empire over an OTHER / S.

It is instead of just another human institution with all the same tendencies as every other institution that is built by to give an elite few power over others for monetary gain.

It's taken hundreds of years for whites to Put into place their mechanisms for obtaining and maintaining power over others... So I'd suspect that it would take just as ling for this evil to be reversed.

I often wonder if churches attract bullies or if people who get into a position of power in churches find it's easy to use their position to lord it over others and even bully them.

In population control, euthanasia, abortion, and eugenics, the human person is treated as an object or product to be used or eliminated according to the purposes of those who have power over others.

Obviously that millions of innocent people died because simple - minded men are in power and yield control over groups of other simple - minded men who do their bidding... see Hitler and the Nazis, Stalin and the Soviet police, etc...

Divine and demonic powers struggle for control; at times the battle seems to tilt in favor of the one side over the other.

Omnipotence means not the highest power over other expressions of power but sole power.54

This contrasts the unique personal value of an individual's power of self - determination or auto - finality, whereby he has dominion over himself, with the slave who is merely a means for obtaining goals set by others.

The novel is a brilliant demonstration of the power of language to define groups, to warp character, and to empower some people over others.

Purpose of post is to make hindu secular, ignorant self centered human to realize power of truth, nothing can over power truth, nor can deviate from truth in life, because truth absolute rules the world, their is none other but truth absolute LORD GOD of the world.

«While all the versions of the kingdom of the world acquire and exercise power over others, the kingdom of God, incarnated and modeled in the person of Jesus Christ, advances only by exercising power under others.

This is because, as Greg Boyd points out in his book, The Myth of a Christian Nation, Christianity was never intended to have «power over» others, but is based upon «power under» others.

I mean you are doing exactly what I see in my line of work... the children always blame the other «He MADE me do it» thus saying the other peer had control over the client and he had noway to control himself... he gave his power away to the peer..

I've heard these very things said by those who are on the other end of the people who use religion and politics to enrich themselves, give them power and authority over their fellow human beings and draw attention to themselves rather than to God.

The genius of AA is not so much in its ability to help its members connect to some sense of a higher power that will help them succeed and overcome their problems, as it is in its ability to thoroughly convince each member of his or her own insignificance, thus rendering them vulnerable, helpless, and willing to «turn their lives over» to something... anything... other than their own power.