Sentences with phrase «of powerful institutions»

Some have been engines driving the creation of powerful institutions of legal learning.

In Rio de Janeiro, Wiley's inspirations did not rest in old master paintings hanging on the walls of powerful institutions, but allowed the work to be impacted by the iconic nationalistic sculptures found around the city, which he might argue are the cultural equivalent to the David or Velasquez paintings referenced in his earlier work.

With this series, the Boston Globe's «Spotlight» team returned with another amazing story of powerful institutions preying on the helpless while adults look the other way.

When Mr. Wetzel and his colleagues catty - corner from the State Capitol say «public education,» they primarily refer to government - subsidized and - dominated complex of powerful institutions and the adults who benefit from them.

But a fair and responsible Britain must be an accountable Britain — a nation not of powerful institutions but powerful people.

Should I take that response to mean that you feel there was a lack of oversight of powerful institutions like Wall Street banks in recent years?

The culture of death commands a formidable array of powerful institutions.

With Janet Yellen out the door, Jerome Powell, a current Fed governor and former investment banker, is set to take the helm of the powerful institution this month.

The Invisible War lays bare the reprehensible failings and hypocrisy of a powerful institution, as Dick did in previous nonfiction works such as Twist of Faith (2004), about sexual abuse in the Catholic Church; This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006), an occasionally gimmicky exposé of the MPAA's outsize influence and idiocy; and Outrage (2009), on closeted pols who vote anti-gay.

Not exact matches

Recently, the use of NDAs has been called into question as a tool that powerful men and institutions use to silence victims.

The fact of the matter is when you talk about central banks, you're talking about powerful institutions rooted in their own management styles and tradition (even if the latter has just now seen a very unusual break) and it's not likely that one person can radically change things, even if he or she wanted to.

But when they're providing insurance to a large group of employees at a corporation or institution, they also have powerful motivations to pay legitimate claims.

The once - powerful institution — in 2007 it was the fifth largest U.S. bank, with $ 400 billion in assets — was among the earliest warning signs of a broad economic meltdown that would ultimately result in the stock market losing nearly half its value.

In short, Canada's staggeringly powerful oil industry wants «oversight» (their word) of political, civil service, and regulatory institutions in both the Alberta and federal governments.

We offer a unique environment of collaboration where R&D, academic institutions and industry form a powerful innovation ecosystem.

Founded in 2006, Mint made waves in the personal finance software world thanks to its powerful interface and ability to add transactions from thousands of financial institutions.

The disintegration of the news business — and, especially, of newspapers, which continue to produce most of the journalism aimed at holding government and other powerful institutions to account — has been nothing short of breathtaking.

It features academics and journalists arguing that a powerful institution should err on the side of providing less information to the public, not more.»

That two of the most prominent Catholic institutions would lay prostrate before the nation's most powerful supporter of abortion and infanticide indicates just how far the Roman Catholic Church has declined, and answers the question why so many have left the church and moved on to the Orthodox, Fundamentalists, and related denominations.

Such ill - defined relations worked reasonably well for a considerable time, while the mechanism that kept Catholic institutions tied to the Church was a powerful cultural feeling for Catholicism (enforced by the tuition payments and donations that came from the members of that culture).

The all - powerful multilateral institutions are not concerned about the satisfaction of human and social needs.

The old certitudes seem less certain; the old privileges are under powerful challenge; the old dominations are increasingly ineffective and fragile; the established governmental, educational, judicial and medical institutions seem less and less able to deliver what we need and have come to expect; the old social fabrics are fraying under the assault of selfishness, fear, anger and greed.

«The event, the fourth of its kind, seeks to raise global awareness and create a forum for collaboration around the wide array of powerful and promising cell therapies, gene therapies, and immunotherapies emerging from medical institutions around the world, as well as the impact new technology will have on humanity and society,» a press release by the Cure Foundation explains (h / t Christian Post).

Since I have been out of the institution, I have found that one of the most powerful prayers we can pray is a sincere, heartfelt, «God, help!»

Demanding respect for these freedoms and blocking the possibility of abuses by the Catholic Church and other powerful institutions are the motivations behind recently increased political participation by Mexican evangelicals.

The historical context of Jesus, therefore, reflects a social and economic situation in which exploitative urbanism, powerful redistributive central institutions like the Roman state and Jewish Temple, concentration of land holdings in the hands of the few, rising debt, and disrupted horizontal relations in society were becoming the norm.69

The Inquisition became a powerful instrument to ensure unity of faith, now that Christianity was triumphant, and also unity between Aragon and Castile, for it was the only institution that operated in both kingdoms.

The party must not try to abolish religion by decree; instead, it should attempt to guide religious people and institutions so that they will «center all their will and strength on the common goal of building a modernized, powerful socialist state.»

That is, while institutions are more powerful than individuals, exerting greater social force, their looser and intersubjective structures lend themselves to manipulation of that social force by individuals.

If you consider the fact that the Bible is still the most widely read book in the world, touching the lives of millions of people every day, and that it has served humanity as a guide for living for the past 3,000 years, it becomes clear that religious institutions could take a powerful leadership role in environmental repair.

The leaders of other powerful institutions in society must evince these virtues as well.

As Nye sees it, taking on powerful people and institutions that oppose science is essential to the fate of humanity.

This wild confusion is present in the minds of a small but financially powerful minority, though a much larger part of the population has a tendency to hold rigid ideas about the kinds of economic institutions in other nations with which we should cooperate.

• — Created a powerful foreign - aid lobby in this country made up of corporations, financial institutions, colleges, and others who benefit by funds appropriated for overseas relief.

The Church is a cross-section of our culture and unfortunately, this institution is not immune to the powerful, dysfunctional personality disorder that allows a narcissist to thrive.

In a gutsy, powerful, plurality opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas cut through the «vast, perplexing desert» of fine lines and distinctions that have plagued this area of the law, and announced a simple and logical rule: the government must be neutral toward religion and religious institutions.

Moreover, the social shift I describe has isolated certain powerful institutions (corporate, military, governmental, media, entertainment) from the influence of the so - called normative institutions such as education, religion and the arts.

As we will see below, the all - powerful multilateral institutions are not concerned about the satisfaction of human and social needs.

Television's managers have exercised a powerful censoring effect on the expression of religious faith in America, giving them consequentially an exaggerated influence over the development of American religious culture and institutions and possibly over the nature of American and even global religious life.

Politically too, the crisis has eviscerated what had long been one of the America's most powerful institutions.

They used one of the most powerful institutions in our culture, and, inevitably, that power began to corrupt them.

I am worried about Guinean society, which is built on the oppression of the insignificant by the powerful, on contempt for the poor and the weak, on the cleverness of poor stewards of the public good, on the bribery and corruption of the administration and the institutions of our republic....

The various institutions we have formed and called churches over the years have at times been powerful advocates for such works of love.

Such cultural violence may take the form of cultural deprivation through the monopoly of cultural institutions by the power elite of a given civilization, or cultural repression through the arbitrary imposition of the values and norms of the powerful.

Traditionally, the people's communication processes are suppressed by those of the powerful rulers, who have controlled the message and media through the ruling elites and the established cultural and religious institutions.

Since in capitalist society the intellectual is not structurally part of the working class, and since nearly all opportunities for intellectual employment are within institutions directed by the ruling classes, the tendency to allow oneself to be molded by the dominant ideology and to become one of its — albeit unconscious — perpetuators is very powerful.

This is a rich cross-cultural adventure, a fascinating insight into her world of babies, birth, women, social justice and challenging powerful institutions, a lifetime of dedication to positive social change.

As this article has inferred, mutualism has been somewhat underplayed in relation to private sector institutions, not least because it challenges powerful interests and appears to contravene the establish norms of neo-liberalism, which despite the crisis remain deeply embedded in the global economic order.

We must come together in a new partnership with our faith - based institutions, civil society, businesses and government to create a powerful locomotive for transformation so that our President's coordinated program of economic and social development policies will create «an optimistic, self - confident and prosperous nation through the creative exploitation of our human and natural resources and operating within a democratic, open and fair society in which mutual trust and economic opportunities exist for all.»

The latter was, until a recent re-organisation of the House, a powerful and very independent figure dedicated to protecting the institution of the Commons and its members against all comers.