Sentences with phrase «old power structures»

Rather, proponents such as Imogen Heap looked to Blockchain as a method of disrupting age - old power structures and redistributing power to artists.

When county organizations are reluctant to embrace technology or lack a web presence, it suggests that they are more focussed on maintaining old power structures that have existed for decades than engaging with the public, according to Kaehny.

The Lib Dems love presenting themselves as the insurgents within the system, poised always to demolish Westminster's old power structures, etc., etc..

Because we are no longer bound by the Curse, but are compelled by the resurrection of Jesus Christ to build a kingdom in which the old power structures dividing Jew from Greek, male from female, and slave from free are dismantled and replaced by mutual love, submission, and grace.

Clearly they are part of the old power structure the Pope talks about.

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Wills says that unlike the popes of old, whose overriding sins were greed, venality, and lust for temporal power, the modern popes, beginning with Pius IX, recruit Catholics into «structures of deceit» about Church doctrine and discipline.

He calls attention to (1) the degeneration in syncretism of the old Yahweh faith prior to the appearance of the eighth - century prophets; (2) a kind of «emancipation» from Yahweh in increasing dependence upon the maturing structure of the political state; and (3) the dissolution of the old tribal social order with the shift of economic power to the cities, the increasing inability of the farmer, because of the burdens of heavy taxation, to maintain himself as a free man, and the growing concentration of land in the hands of a few wealthy urbanites (cf. Isa.

The power and reality of the old aeon are not simply or literally negated in Christ, they remain present in what Beardslee calls the structure of existence, and are negated and transcended only in what Beardslee calls vision and Paul calls Spirit or the new creation.

Moreover, new power structures and established institutions invariably come to replace the old ones, and any initial glow of inchoate democracy can easily be undermined by the rising centers of symbolic power.

Which means as long as we continue living as if the old order is not passing away, as if nothing is being made new, as if the resurrection of Jesus had no transforming power and the hierarchical structures of this world still reign, then we proclaim with our lives that the gospel is anything but good news.

Charter school advocates may gain power if a law giving the mayor control over the schools expires and the old Board of Education structure returns.

He rose from impoverished street fighter in Puerto Rico to Fordham University graduate and boldly manipulated Albany's old - boy political power structure in the Senate.

Under the old structure, power was so dispersed — among the mayor, the Board of Education, the chancellor and the community school boards — that it was hard to know whom to blame for the poor performance of many of the city's schools.

They stood at smiling attention, the phalanx of Albany's new political guard and a change from what Sheehan described as the «old school power structure» that had gotten too comfortable, and that has gripped City Hall in some form since Prohibition.

Only the entrenched power structure — the few who already voted in the elections and their uniformed representatives — talked about the destruction of a fine old tradition, and ballot - box stealing, and shifting the vote away from the established agenda.

The power structure and associated flunkies have simply learned new terms for old practices.

The utility set the date to draw a line between current net - metering customers, whom Rocky Mountain Power plans to grandfather into the old rate structure permanently, and new customers who would be charged according to the new rate schedule.