Sentences with phrase «on authority and power»

The second temptation focuses on authority and power.

Not exact matches

They feel like you're trying to make yourself into the big person on the top of the hill, and they're threatened by the possibility they don't have any power or authority.

While currently blocked by the federal judiciary, the group says the Clean Power Plan should be redrawn to address concerns about regulatory overreach and the possibility of infringing on state authority.

Russian lawmakers drafted legislation in response to the U.S. sanctions that would give the authorities the power to ban or restrict imports of U.S. goods and services to Russia on April 13.

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Perhaps most important, unlike the Hollywood guilds, the organizations that are now taking shape are not full - fledged unions with the authority to collectively bargain and go on strike but, rather, looser structures without much actual power to hold employers accountable.

DE), the world's largest automaker by sales, has admitted it had rigged emissions tests in diesel - powered vehicles in the United States and U.S. authorities said on Monday they would widen their probe to other automakers.

Trump's White House cited Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, a provision that gives the secretary of commerce the authority to investigate and determine the impacts of any import on the national security of the United States — and the president the power to adjust tariffs accordingly.

Authorities this week called on local internet providers, electricians and storage space units to report any unusual requests for power.

Furthermore, a piece of fine print on the face of the report imparts to the reader that «LabCFTC has no independent authority or decision - making power, and can not independently provide, or create an expectation for, legal or regulatory relief.»

The organization... [will] make the argument that... the federal courts... are the final authority on issues important to progressives such as immigration, abortion, gay rights, social policy, the environment and corporate power, to name a few.

The First Vatican Council included language like (the Pope) «is the true vicar of Christ and head of the whole Church and faith, and teacher of all Christians; and that to him was handed down in blessed Peter, by our Lord Jesus Christ, full power to...» This transfer of power depends on the Roman Church's understanding of the Office of the Keys which I do not agree with, but their statements make it clear that the Pope's authority as the Roman Church understands it is derived from Christ's.

This power, in place until at least 2018 under Congressional authorization, allows the President to send trade deals through Congress without amendment while leaving the House of Representatives and Senate the authority to simply vote up or down on the finished result.

But the task of preserving even our moral floor is complicated by the determination of many that «we» should have free and full access to the remissive power of Christian forgiveness without any of the interdictory authority of biblical faith — even if this means that this power can only be «pried from God's clutches» by corrupting it, on at least some important occasions, into nihlistic nonjudgmentalism.

This is why I spend my time critiquing power and authority, especially religious: because it compromises the most historic element of our story... that moment in time when we crossed over from freely walking in the garden with God to working on hard ground with thorns and a curse.

However, the insult is in the explicit denial of the authenticity of Christian baptisms, on the basis of the Mormon belief that the power was lost upon the death of the original apostles, and was restored when they returned as angels and appeared to Joseph Smith, granting him authority which now resides only within the Mormon organization.

From then on he was intent on exposing the deadly intentions of the powers and authorities.

Man rises in the pulpit and place the focus on what they say or what they do, usurping the power, grace, authority, and majesty of God.

He had such power and authority that `... the terror of the Lord fell on the people, and they came out together as one» (1 Samuel 11:7).

«We call on the Government of Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and all regional and international powers to do everything possible to prevent a further slide into conflict and bloodshed, to provide humanitarian aid, and to revive the stalled reconstruction of Gaza.»

But to look at the matter from another angle: who will deny that a refusal on the part of the exploiters and the established powers and authorities to justify violence would be of unimaginable importance?

Fromm sees clearly that for many people Christianity is a thin veneer over the idolatrous worship of power, success, and the authority of the marketplace; or it is a cover masking their idolatrous fixation on their clan, religious or ethnic group, or nation - state.

(Tirmidhi commented that Allah's Messenger's recitation of the verse indicates that it would go down within Allah's knowledge, power and authority, for Allah's knowledge, power and authority are everywhere, while He is on the Throne, as He described Himself in His Book.)

I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.

If the Church is cautious in questions of doctrine and discipline, perhaps even more so than in the past, if she waits for more information, carrying on a dialogue, perhaps even leaves much to the conscience of the individual, all this does not mean that the authorities have grown cowardly, they have not, for this reason, given up their responsibility and their power.

One way to begin to free ourselves from the bondage of power that we put on others and put upon ourselves is to unravel the theology and Scripture texts which have been used to support our claim to power and authority.

The power to bind and loose, conferred on all the apostles jointly and to Peter in particular (Matthew 16:19) is seen in the Catechism of the Catholic Church as authority to absolve sins, to pronounce judgments on doctrine and to make decisions on Church discipline.

Adnama Satan uses external circumstances to direct our steps he knows that if we walk according to the flesh we come under his authority for the flesh is weak and he manipulates by keeping christians in bondage to sin through lust or whatever sin the christian is weak in.He can also fire into our minds evil thoughts to make us feel condemned or guilty these are fiery darts they are not ours and we need to stand on the word to rebuke them by faith.If we have given our lives to Christ then we belong to Christ so if we walk in accordance to the spirit the enemy has not power to effect us either internally or externally that is not to say that he can not manipulate situations and circumstances to his advantage that is why we need to be alert and pray against the work that he does we are in a spiritual battle but we have overcome in Christ so fear not brentnz

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.

Satan had an iron grip on this world, and he ruled it ruthlessly and with all dominion, power, and authority.

The Council mounted this challenge to the monistic cast of mind, a term that Weigel uses interchangeably with «totalitarian,» through a recovery and adaptation of the pluralistic principle articulated by Pope Gelasius I to Anastasius in 494 a.d.: «Two there are, august emperor, by which this world is ruled on title of original and sovereign right» the consecrated authority of the priesthood and the royal power.»

In this article I would like to explore what implications this issue has on the Church on the basis of two basic principles: the question of «the common good» and the use of «power and authority.»

Liberalism — a respect for human or natural rights; limits on the scope and power of public authority; state neutrality on fundamental questions of,....

«WE HAVE THE VICTORY» For those struggling with thoughts of unforgiveness and attacks on the mind especially deceiving thoughts and doubts these are from satan in the word they are called fiery darts we are to quench those darts by faith so we need to read the word and believe that Gods word is true.We also have the victory over these thoughts because when we accept Jesus the holy spirit dwells within us so satan does nt have authority over us he can not rule what belongs to God he can only deceive.We can not defeat the enemy in our strength we need the holy spirit when we try and overcome him in our strength we struggle especially with our thoughs and in the area of sin.If you are having evil thoughts or doubts commit your way unto the Lord and let him fight your battle.Tell the enemy he has no authority over you that you are under the covering of Jesus Christ and when you have doubts memorise verses on faith ie greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world.The holy spirit is just like Jesus talk to him be friends with him he helps us to live like Christ and gives us the power to do it.We are overcomers more than conquerers through Christ who strengthens us.brentnz

Jesus is the only authority, he declared it when he said «I have been given all power in heaven and on earth».

The Democrats, who now derive their power from this formal situation and rely on officials chosen in elections conducted two and four years ago, will emphasize the constitutional authority of the offices.

It is essentially private and individualistic; it always exceeds our powers of formulation; and although attempts to pour its contents into a philosophic mould will probably always go on, men being what they are, yet these attempts are always secondary processes which in no way add to the authority, or warrant the veracity, of the sentiments from which they derive their own stimulus and borrow whatever glow of conviction they may themselves possess.

This authority, which is no more nor less than Christianity, will lose, to the extent that it fails to embrace as it should everything that is human on earth, the keen edge of its vitality and its full power to attract.

Jesus may or may not be claiming that power — there's a tension between «your sins are forgiven» and «the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins» — but he is clearly asserting the man's forgiveness.

This view is not lacking in Scriptural support: «For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him» -LCB- Col. 1:16).

Both depended on their approximation to scientific models for their persuasive power and authority.

[17] His emphasis on the authority of the episcopate was linked in his mind with the power of excommunication which he saw as «more solemn, and its effect much greater than that of merely separating the guilty individual from the intercourse of his brethren.»

Instead of skirting the issue, much of the heat the catholic church is taken would probably be alleviated by simply just requiring those in power to report abuse to local authorities and levying swift and severe punishment on those who condone and cover up abuses.

Both provide a balance to the earlier heavy emphasis on papal power and authority.

Jesus had previously demonstrated this divine power when he healed the paralytic which is recorded in Mark 2:1 - 12 (NJB) in which Jesus says: «But to prove to you that the Son of man has authority to forgive sins on earth» — he said to the paralytic — «I order you: get up, pick up your stretcher, and go off home.»

What happens is that the power and authorities exercised their strength and exacted violence on the protestors.

For the ecclesiastical hierarchy of deacons, priests and bishops, this means that no member may claim to act on his own authority or power.

The present rulers of this age are not happy with the arrival of the Rightful King, and so they fight with tooth and claw to hold on to their power, dominion, and authority.

On the power and significance of story, see James Barr, «Story and History in Biblical Theology,» in The Scope and Authority of the Bible (London: SCM Press, 1980), 1 - 17, and Tracy, Analogical Imagination, 275 - 81.