Sentences with phrase «ordinary powers of»

The LPA may in certain circumstances operate as an ordinary power of attorney.

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BlackBerry wants to push beyond communications into mobile computing, and eventually play a leading role in the «Internet of Things,» the term for a predicted revolution in which many ordinary objects will be given computing power.

It hasn't been worth mining bitcoin using standard consumer computer hardware for years because of the kind of processing power involved; the overwhelming majority of ordinary members of public pools will have bought hardware from companies like KnCMiner.

The rest of MAGAnomics is of the same vein: transfers of economic and political power from ordinary working families to the powerful interests that have backed Trump and his billionaire cabinet.

In another area of the lab, power is supplied by 100 ordinary car batteries.

Electricité de France, which operates 58 nuclear power plants, has been an exemplar in this area: It goes beyond regulatory requirements and religiously tracks each plant for anything even slightly out of the ordinary, immediately investigates whatever turns up, and informs all its other plants of any anomalies.

They're determined to make sure that ordinary people can save money through the power of couponing.

As a U.S. company, its pay vote is advisory, not binding; moreover the company's share class structure means that approval is effectively assured, with founders» Class B shares carrying ten times the voting power of ordinary Class A. Nonetheless, opposition has been bubbling up, with an amendment to the company's stock plan generating a 28 % against vote at the 2016 AGM.

«(It's) a new beginning, where we're one step closer to putting power back in the hands of the ordinary working people of Alberta.»

Her allegations get at a core concern about the Trump presidency: that he may have used (indeed, may still be using) his money and power to make sure the ordinary rules of human behavior don't apply to him.

We transcend ordinary life, as it were, in moments of imaginative, ecstatic insight, sometimes brought on by the power of nature, and sometimes by the power of love, or even by the power of what is ugly or evil.

«We the people» of the United States as a whole have power to set rules that constitute and limit our government, superseding ordinary legislation and executive action.

Far from being an act of rebellion or an open attempt outwardly to overthrow abused power, it was a quiet, constrained, symbolic act that ironically caught the person of highest power in the midst of a most ordinary human activity.

Does the New Testament, in asserting that Jesus is risen from the dead, mean that his death is not just an ordinary human death, but the judgment and salvation of the world, depriving death of its power?

I could write big long theological treatise about the saving powers of my trees out back and the sound of the creek and the Psalms and ordinary radicals and the Gospel in real life with the real Church.

Accordingly, much of American Christianity «continues to be powered by ordinary people and by the contagious spirit of their efforts to storm heaven by the back door.»

Attention must be paid to the telling reversal of ordinary concepts of power that Paul presents in his first letter to the church at Corinth.

One generally assumes that constitutional bills of rights are needed primarily to limit the power of governments and to protect the legal space for those ordinary communal activities often grouped under the label of «civil society.»

The ordinary pleasures of life — both those simply given to us in nature and those derived from culture — play a large role in Lewis's thinking and account for much of the power of his writing.

The underemphasis on the empirical way is particularly important because it has not only discouraged the aesthetic appreciation of the power of art and of the world of ordinary experience, it has also discouraged the moral action which such appreciation might engender.

Because the institutions of education are the prime agencies of persuasion in society, they should as far as possible be separate and independent of the ordinary channels of political power.

Thus, the region of outer space decorated with grey sense - data in presentational immediacy becomes through symbolic reference the wall to which we refer in ordinary discourse, with its solid presence and causal powers.

One could not possibly even write the number down in full, in our ordinary denary (power of ten) notation: it would be one followed by ten to the power of 123 successive zeros!»

And ordinary words in the mouths of politicians have become weapons against trust itself, betraying anyone who hasn't amassed enough wealth and power to insure against betrayal.

Modern historical, philosophical and scientific thought has come into conflict at so many points with traditional Christian teaching that the latter has been losing its power to convince ordinary people (to say nothing of the intelligentsia).

If God does actually love such men as we are, the meaning of that love lies far beyond the power of ordinary terms to convey, and the Christian story, which does succeed in conveying that meaning, is therefore in the truest possible sense true.

33:4, 6, 9) Man shared in this creation, taking physical and intellectual possession of the world by his giving names to all living creatures (Gen. 2:19) Throughout the Old Testament, in ordinary and sublime statements, in magic or prophecy, Israel took as her starting point the conviction that a word possesses creative power.

For in the very generality that determines executive office there is a power that disengages from the common table of parish existence, from the direct and pathetic book of the common life, and from the moments of sudden truth that stun and depress and exalt the minister on his ordinary round.

James Davison Hunter and Alan Wolfe disagreed fiercely over the reach and power of the culture wars, but they agreed on one thing: These wars are fought by politicians and pundits far more than by ordinary Americans.

Does metaphysics have powers of attaining genuine knowledge that is unattainable by ordinary physics?

Because our sense of God is usually overlaid with some aspect of those powers that we attempt to please in our ordinary heroics, we may acknowledge that there is a good deal of illusion in concrete theistic religion.

The identity of power with vulnerability is a great stumbling block to our ordinary sense of what is rational.

Now comes the gist of the matter: if he is able to admit this embellishment, he does not lose all of his infatuating power; when he reveals himself as a plain ordinary man, and bald at that, he does not thereby lose the loved one.

Our ordinary, pre-revelational images of God are often little more than expressions and legitimations of those powers before whom we act out our heroic performances in an effort to gain the significance for which we crave.

It is that crucial motif in Christianity that theologians have called the kenosis, the humiliation of God: The same God who has all power, who created this world and all possible worlds, has taken upon himself the form and the fate of an ordinary man, and indeed a man who suffered the most agonizing afflictions of betrayal, torture, despair, and death.

However this may be, the fact is plain that for contemporary men and women, not only of a sophisticated sort but also of quite ordinary attainments, the notion of God as absolute power, as unyielding moral dictator, and as metaphysical first cause never Himself affected, has gone dead.

59 When we speak of the power of God, «our ordinary conceptions may be very misleading.»

The book, «Silence of God» by Sir Robert Anderson sums it thusly: «If Christ was indeed divine, no person of ordinary intelligence will question that he had power to open the eyes of the blind, the ears of the deaf, the lips of the dumb.

Rev Wilson told Premier: «It's all about the power of social media to get right to grass roots and get ordinary people to vote and express what they think, that's been a real learning curve for us.

Locke proceeds to distinguish between the ordinary or vulgar notion of causality and power, on the one hand, and the true, philosophical notion on the other.

First, there is a dimension or realm of reality beyond (and beneath) the visible world of our ordinary experience, a dimension charged with power, whose ultimate quality is compassion.

In a stubborn, inconvenient way, the New Testament holds out against all ordinary definitions of power, success, and righteousness.

Before and since Moody the chief standard of success as an evangelist (and a minister) in American Protestantism has been evidence of such charisma, of power not possessed by ordinary folk — the ability to manifest in a convincing way that one represents more than himself, in short, that one is a man of God.

In cases of conversion, in providential leadings, sudden mental healings, etc., it seems to the subjects themselves of the experience as if a power from without, quite different from the ordinary action of the senses or of the sense - led mind, came into their life, as if the latter suddenly opened into that greater life in which it has its source.

Melville's vision was a fixed, haunting gaze into the heart of darkness, but he knew the power of masks, the ability of the ordinary to evoke the numinous.

In the great crises of life, such as the anguish and dangers of war, separation from loved ones by death, illness that sweeps away all one's normal powers, it is sometimes easier to trust in God than during the ordinary tensions and strains of living.

This is no ordinary scandal, Peggy Noonan writes on her Wall Street Journal weblog Declarations, calling the IRS's abuse of its power «the worst Washington scandal since Watergate.»

It would never be by any ordinary men but it would rather be by those on the tiptop of (Finance & Power) to pull such act either towards making immediate financial or political gains or for hiding their crimes by making another crime...

Nor can he take his place as just one patriarch among several (primus inter pares) because «He is endowed with the primacy of ordinary power over all the churches» (Christus Dominus, 2).

Institutions have been developed which have had some success in forcing those in power to respect the freedom of ordinary people.