Sentences with phrase «of widespread power»

Officials there said schools are closed Wednesday because of widespread power outages and downed wires through the city.

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A staggering amount of wholesale change is happening — from unprecedented and widespread aging to rampant urbanization and growth in a global middle class to an eastward shift in economic power and a growing number of disruptive technologies.»

In addition to the tech mogul's widespread revolutionizing of communication through social media, the couple is using their power to research and improve global health, education, and community through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

While parliament has no power to dismember a firm, the vote highlights the underlining, widespread concern among EU politicians about American dominance of the Internet industry.

Time's Up is a brand new alliance of over 300 women who work in the entertainment industry, who have joined forces to address sexual abuse and correct the widespread imbalance of power for women in entertainment and beyond.

The island suffered significant structural damage and widespread loss of power and communications.

Sandy left millions without power, caused widespread flooding that may shut New York City's subways for days, and killed potentially dozens of people up and down the U.S. east coast.

And given that widespread power outages have continued into November, the number of indirect deaths from the hurricane is probably higher still.

After sweltering for more than a week without power, a group of sweaty Miami - area residents sued FPL last year over the widespread outages after the storm.

A key part of the government, the island's sole utility company, PREPA, defaulted on interest payments to bondholders in July of this year, Vox reports, leading to widespread power outages.

In our time, or so the argument runs, liberal democracy has attained such extraordinary power and widespread acceptance that it has come to be thought of as the only legitimate form of government.

The worship of Sakti, divine female power, addressed also as Kali, Durga, Radha, Sarasvati, Laksmi, Ganga and Parvati, is still widespread, although often during periods of male domination, the goddess was made subject to a male god.

Maria arrived about two weeks after Irma skirted Puerto Rico and led to widespread power outages for at least 1 million of the island's 3.4 million residents.

Fairbairn's work is instructive to us only as an additional indicator of how widespread the centrality of love was becoming over a century ago for understanding the divine nature, even though he did not address in any helpful way how this challenges traditional understandings of divine power.

The third area of concern has to do with the widespread feeling that America is weak and being pushed around and that Soviet power and communism threaten its freedom or its very existence.

, sin and forgiveness, power and powerlessness, exploitation and misery, the universal search for identity, the widespread loss of Christian motivation, and the spiritual longings of those who have not heard Christ's name.

Aquinas echoed a widespread conviction when he declared that a ruler exercises his power as a divine trust and that a monarch who has betrayed that trust has lost his right to the obedience of his subjects.

Although in more modern times religious persecution has passed from the hands of religious to totalitarian political powers, the deeply irrational contempt for other religions is still widespread.

If that power has seemed to be on the wane in recent history, it is due in large part to the widespread assumption that reason and faith belong to different realms, or represent different, even conflicting, dimensions of human experience.

The impatient people, to whom the reality of Moses and of God has become only a memory, remember the widespread pagan representation of deity in the form of a calf (probably a young bull, denoting primarily the strength of reproductive power and fertility, natural and human).

Meanwhile, as the local churches were revolting against overall control, there was widespread revolt against the power of the ministers in the local churches until «after the Reforming Synod [of 1697], the clergy found themselves shorn of every weapon except moral persuasion, and their threat of [Divine] vengeance.»

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Butterworth rode out the experience on - site with her sous chef and her executive pastry chef, taking care of the guests that flocked to the hotel to ride it out and avoid the widespread power outages.

Once this is exposed (and it will be because it is so widespread, and the amount of money and power in running the Agencies and Authorites to their own benefit is astounding), Cuomo will be gone from public service and his family totally discredited.

And following a court case in the summer I ordered that the widespread use of this power should stop.

In the context of a widespread sense of American decline, what seemed to be at stake was nothing less than the status of the United States as a great power and the leader of the free world.

The widespread abuse of this new power to produce content is looming as a new, increasingly pressing problem.

Like many developing countries, Pakistan government is highly centralised, and there was a widespread recognition that the issue of power devolution is crucial to the survival of the Federation.

Ana Brnabic, 41, became one of the first openly gay government leaders in the world when she came to power in June, but activists say homophobia remains a widespread problem in Serbia.

«For the people of Burma, it will mean the return to power of a brutal regime that has pillaged the nation's resources and overseen widespread human rights abuses.»

Its leaders launch them in the name of the suffering poor, using the reality of widespread misery to justify seizures of power — which brings much more misery.

The disrespectful tone adopted by the Labour team was probably a symptom of a widespread view on the Labour benches that it was not possible for the party to keep the Tories out of power, given they were the largest party in the Commons.

NEW YORK — Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency in four New York counties on Sunday afternoon as those areas were dealing with widespread power outages in the aftermath of this week's massive storm.

What we know for sure is that the failed coup provided President Erdoğan with an excellent excuse to consolidate his power: despite widespread claims of voter fraud, he secured a narrow victory in an...

«The power of influence and media that is being projected through the «MeToo» campaign on Twitter is exposing how widespread this phenomenon is, and makes clear that it won't be swept under the rug anymore.»

This veto power was later restricted with the rise of widespread voting rights for all citizens.

The Regional Chairman was speaking in an interview with host of Abusua Nkommo, kwame Adinkra in response to widespread reports of harsh power outages in the Ashanti Region.

pupil behaviour remains a major concern for teachers, with nearly three - quarters of teachers saying they believe there is a widespread behaviour problem in schools; 84 % stated that they did not believe that the increased powers to search pupils, introduced by the Government, would help tackle pupil indiscipline; 55 % do not believe that same - day detentions, a power initiated by the Government, will assist them in maintaining discipline; 52 % did not feel that the power to confiscate items from pupils would be of assistance to them.

You can either assert that the basic tenets of the Left still enjoy widespread popularity, and that a party committed to them could still win power — or you can conclude most of the votes Labour needs to regain power are in the centre, so the party should move in that direction.

In the meantime, after half a decade, already, of widespread pay freezes and anxiety, and with Labour under Ed Miliband quietly accepting that they will next hold power in hard times too — «There is a new world out there,» the much - tipped young Labour backbencher Stella Creasy recently told this paper, «in the next [government] spending review absolutely everything should be on the table» — the toughening - up of Britain is arguably well underway.

The Chancellor played down widespread reports of a power struggle between the Bank Governor Mervyn King and the FSA chairman Lord Turner of Ecchinswell.

There was widespread media speculation that during her meeting today with Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would raise objections to the Conservative Party's pledge to repatriate key powers from the European Union to the United Kingdom.

Martin Howe QC warned the treaty had widespread implications for the future power of the EU and EC

Since the coalition government came to power, reforms of the health service have been met with widespread criticism and disappointment from those in the medical profession.

The PDP leader said, «The only way forward politically in Nigeria is for the only party with national widespread, the PDP, to go back to the basics and bring all its members back, create a level playing field and entrench internal party democracy so that the acronym of power to the people could become real.

News of the request from the Auditor General for the prosecutorial powers was met with widespread commendation from Civil Society and the general Ghanaian public.

Moreover, following the widespread power outages that occurred during Superstorm Sandy, greater detail is needed on how the system would function in the event of a disaster that causes power outages.

But after years of pushback from some elected officials and the power companies that owned the land, he said he now sees widespread support for the idea.

With Kenya's presidential election drawing near, campaigns here are for the first time making widespread use of opinion polls, text messaging, teleprompters, spin doctors, $ 15,000 - a-plate fundraisers and even high - powered foreign political consultants such as Dick Morris, a former adviser to Bill Clinton, who swooped in for a few days to counsel opposition candidate Raila Odinga.

Sandy's tidal surge and widespread power outages shut at least nine of 20 critical fuel terminals at the Port of New York's Linden, Bayonne and Newark shorelines.