Sentences with phrase «only people in a position»

Can I suggest something about power in it being about how power is used and as has been discussed before that it would be naiive to think that it is only people in positions of power tha abuse?

Only a person in a position of responsibility for the good of the entire community may rightly authorize the use of the sword.

Pastors may be the only people in a position to open communications networks — by corresponding with other clergy all over the world to discuss how an international antiviolence movement can be created at the grass roots.

However, it is not only people in positions of influence who are a problem.

Not exact matches

The key here is not to be seen as the only person capable of performing the necessary duties in the position that you want to move on from.

«As Chairman Gowdy noted, former Secretary Clinton has left herself in the unique position of being the only one to determine what records the American people are entitled to,» Ware said.

Cohen agrees: «You often force the other person to talk, if only out of discomfort» — and that person is likely to revise his or her position and reveal useful information in the process.

It explains why the president has named only one person who wasn't in the administration in 2009 to a top economic position — Burwell, who served with (and impressed) every other member of Obama's economic team in the Clinton administration.

Aligning the offers you use in your lead nurturing campaigns and in the CTAs on your website with a prospect's likely position in the sales cycle will not only help to better qualify a lead, but it may also shorten the sales cycle, as a prospect will be much closer to a purchasing decision with a ton of knowledge about your business before he / she even talks to a sales person.

The Churches actual position is to put a mechanism in place that creates the freedom for all people to be able to work hard and support themselves not that all people need to be taken care of only that those that can't take care of themselves.

Personally, I think that the context includes not only where in Scripture the passages are from (including rhetorical function, narrative position, etc.) and the historical - cultural background, but also the context of the person using the quote.

Only one theological position has ever resulted in the Romans 6:1 question, and it is the position which says that eternal life is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone, and that once a person has received eternal life in this way, it can never be lost.And when we realize the truth of this, it is incredibly liberating.

Actually Saraswati, you abandoned your original position that America is a «two party system which only legislation is likely to change» and supported everything I said, which is that legislation is not required, and the number of parties is not designed into the system, and it's not likely to happen because people here prefer to abandon their true beliefs in favor of a lesser evil that might win.

A third position was taken by the Nestorians, who not only held that there were two natures in Christ, but that there were also two distinct persons, the one divine and the other human.

The position taken in this book is that such a democracy is inherently self - defeating, in part because the unrestrained pursuit of satisfaction tends to breed conflict rather than harmony, but more importantly because human nature is such that persons and cultures do not grow in beauty, strength, and virtue when people strive only to get what they want.

I might privately believe that my position was the «only» truly Christian one, and I might publicly do all I could to persuade people of its truth, but I would be unjustified in seeking to unchurch or to deny the name of Christian to those who disagree with me.

To only allow qualified people to hold positions, to restrict the ability of a greedy person, greedy for wealth or power or both, to hijack the workings of government for personal gain in wealth / power.

BTW People keep saying the quotes are out of context because sadly enough it is the fall back position of most Christians when confronted not only by the ugliness in the Bible, but also the hypocrisy of those who claim to follow it.

Azariah who later became Bishop of Dornakal argued that the church in accepting the position of a communal political minority with special protection would become a static community and it would negate its self - understanding as standing for mission and service to the whole national community, that in any case the Indian church is not a single social or cultural community since it consists of people of diverse background, each of whom would have its own political struggle to wage in cooperation with the people of similar background in other religions; and therefore theologically and politically Christians should ask only for religious freedom for its mission and service to all people, not as a minority right, but as a human right (ref.

There have always been lots of people who knew that the institutional Christianity was not the only way of following Jesus, but those who were in positions of power never gave these people a platform or a pulpit from which to speak.

This is not to charge the exponents of this position with lack of love for other persons, for they often demonstrate a sense of urgency not only to win others to Christ but to be very helpful in immediate personal situations.

People tend to transform Christianity into a religion because the Christian faith obviously places people in an extremely uncomfortable position that of freedom guided only by love and all in the context of God's radical demand that we bePeople tend to transform Christianity into a religion because the Christian faith obviously places people in an extremely uncomfortable position that of freedom guided only by love and all in the context of God's radical demand that we bepeople in an extremely uncomfortable position that of freedom guided only by love and all in the context of God's radical demand that we be holy.

In the last of his three «part series,» Proposing Democracy Anew,» Richard John Neuhaus confusedly presents his position on the separation of church and state, pluralism, religious indifferentism, and the proper content of the public square such that one is unsure whether he is proposing a societal ideal, for which Catholics and all people should perpetually strive, or a merely provisional goal, for which we may now work temporarily, but only in lieu of pursuing directly a greater ideaIn the last of his three «part series,» Proposing Democracy Anew,» Richard John Neuhaus confusedly presents his position on the separation of church and state, pluralism, religious indifferentism, and the proper content of the public square such that one is unsure whether he is proposing a societal ideal, for which Catholics and all people should perpetually strive, or a merely provisional goal, for which we may now work temporarily, but only in lieu of pursuing directly a greater ideain lieu of pursuing directly a greater ideal.

Third World peoples may be in a position today to teach us not only the rugged lessons of prophecy, but also the genteel and humane insights of wisdom.

Atheism is only a default position that every person finds themselves in before they're indoctrinated to believe in religious nonsense.

«Humanists who do not believe in God or a future life have been in a stronger position to insist on the urgency of making things better at once, in this [life]... If this is the only life that anybody has, then the fact that many people must spend it in such misery becomes more obviously and inexcusably scandalous.

Some believe that celibacy is the only option for certain people, or for people in certain positions.

But not only does my reading of scripture lead me to a different conclusion, where there is uncertainty about such a situation, the safer position is to consider the possibility that renouncing Christ will result in you losing your life and forfeiting your promise of salvation, and determine before hand that you will never renounce Christ even should people threaten you or your families life with death or torture.

When prophecy (self - styled) is institutionalized in modern organizations, the end result is that the only people who are eagerly awaiting the next solemnly launched position of a particular church organization are the bureaucrats in the other organization down the block.

Honestly, I hope you think long and hard about your position on that because the only one in danger of losing eternal salvation is people who utter condemning, anti-Christian, anti-Jesus, anti-love messages like yours.

God could not eliminate slavery — only human beings could — but the idea that it was monstrous to own persons arose, if Whitehead is correct in his general metaphysical position, as a possibility presented by God.

And he should learn to do this not only to defend the Christian position, but to understand and stand with his people as they take their place in the world, even though standing with them will sometimes have to be out of his weakness and lack of answers for the profound questions they are raising.

Natural law thinkers, too, take this position at times: the special structures of the body not only indicate their appropriate use but dispose people to act in particular ways.

The major benefit of this position is that one can calmly contemplate the horrors, Armageddon, nuclear war and the rest, because the person propagating these views believes he (I have not found a single woman preacher or writer in this group) will not need to endure any of it — only others will.

Such persons should be serving as police, security... personnel, defending and prosecuting attorneys — not only as counselors and workers in halfway houses, the more usual positions for the reform minded.

The churches in the temperance tradition have tended, on the one hand, to regard their position as the only «Christian» one, to misunderstand the nature of alcoholism, to divide all persons into two groups - drinkers and nondrinkers.

But only a participation in the «inner life» of a community puts us in a position to experience and confess these events as moments of divine fidelity to the covenantal promises that comprise God's relation to our life as a people founded upon these events.

He added: «There was a system of administration in that school over a long number of years which allowed a paedophile to flourish, gave him authority, not only over all of the pupils, but gave him authority over the staff as well and put him in a position where he could abuse people and that needs to be explored, it needs to be investigated, it needs to be enquired into.

I would love to take Giroud out of the equation last season, remove his goals last season to show ignorant people what league position we would have finished in, a league position which makes all those fantasy players a pipe dream because they only move to teams in the Champions League.

Some people have jumped on the situation that Wenger is using Coquelin in the CB position at training, now he only has 3 CBs there and a whole bunch of midfielders, he has 2 teams a guess practicing against each other a midfielder would more than likely be used since Bellerin, Debuchy, Gibbs, Monreal, Chambers, Holding and Bielik would already be occupied.

Indianapolis Colts: Minkah Fitzpatrick, defensive back, Alabama My only complaint with this top five is that it underplays the hysteria around the quarterback position, but as one GM looking for a quarterback at the combine told me, there have been and will still be serious flaws in all of these players that people outside the NFL world don't seem to take into account.

Anyway position is not what people are moaning about, you say we can't compete with City financially but we're not trying, we we're the only team in the top five leagues in Europe last year to make a profit in the transfer window, he's tactical decision can not be understood by anyone, some of the teams and systems he picks are laughable, square pegs in round holes no success in 12 years apart from FA cups, a competition that carries no weight anymore.

The downside of a little depth is people's favourites not playing — there is only one slot / position for Theo in a 1st X1 and we have 3 possibly 4 who can play in that position.

Besides several teams who have questions surrounding one or possibly two players, there is no squad that has so many issues heading into the final week of the transfer window... even Monaco, who have lost numerous players from their starting 11 have less controversy swirling in and around their club and they have champion's league play to contend with this season... just think of how ridiculous this situation is especially considering that we have had the same manager for over 20 years... no team should be better organized than ours... if nothing else, that should be the one advantage this team holds over all others, yet the exact opposite has occurred... this fact is even more disturbing considering the main argument against removing Wenger from his managerial position was that there was no suitable replacement and that people feared some sort of perceived drop - off if a new manager was brought into the mix... based on what we've witnessed since the time of his contract renewal a monkey with a magic eight ball could have done an adequate job... I hate to make jokes, in light of our current dilemma, but this team is so screwed up if I don't laugh about it, the only plausible response is to either cry or do something incredibly destructive... just look around this squad and try to see what our delusional manager sees that allow him to make such positive statements about our current team

I think next game Ramsey needs to play in Cazorlas position, Cazorla was poor in few games, he should be rested, Walcott should start instead of him, maybe even Ozil switch for Wilshere, Wilshere played very well, many people critisize him, but only OX and him has that ability to go through players and drive our team forward.

I am one of those people that are of the opinion that third place and the FA Cup will be a significant improvement on the last campaign, not only in terms of our position in the table but also in our defensive record and the appearance of a Plan B in Arsene Wenger's playbook.

In the same way that people like to say Bell can't be on the field in two positions at once, if you replace him with two or three cheaper, less talented backs, you can only put one of them on the field at a timIn the same way that people like to say Bell can't be on the field in two positions at once, if you replace him with two or three cheaper, less talented backs, you can only put one of them on the field at a timin two positions at once, if you replace him with two or three cheaper, less talented backs, you can only put one of them on the field at a time.

strange how people like mediocrity, if you knew I have more reason than many to like and support Wenger but I put Arsenal love before everything and only a fool or a blind can think that Wenger is doing good with Arsenal, I would not be upset if the team was in this position if all the required signing had been done and the team was managed and rotated correctly as no one has sure right to success.It only hurts when the requirements are not dealt correctly and are dealt only with silly excuses.Fools for the fools, some claim to love Arsenal...

People rate Cazorla above Ramsey in the CM position only because its been quite a long time since Ramsey played there and in football world memory is very shot lived.

sadly its a little late but we appreciate his effort to leave on a high note.we all know he is gonna confuse himself with all the options he will have in midfield and end up playing people out of position but thank heavens it will be for only a season.