Sentences with phrase «people abusing their power»

That time was exactly 20 years ago when the person abusing his power was the Democratic President, Bill Clinton.

I find it more likely that it is a case of venal, morally corrupt people abusing their power and influence to shape events in their interests, with, quite likely, a great deal of bias in play as well.

Not exact matches

So I really try to remember these are people, and all people with power tend to abuse their power — sexually, financially, in any context.»

But, I just think when people have the money, position, power, they abuse.

The memo begins by making a grandiose claim: The FBI's use of surveillance power under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) during the 2016 campaign was «a troubling breakdown of legal processes established to protect the American people from abuses related to the FISA process.»

For centuries, he argues, courts in the United Kingdom, United States, and elsewhere recognized that wealthy people could use third - party lawsuits as a weapon against those they disliked — and had rules in place to prevent this power from being abused.

I firmly believe your focus on how an abused person should behave IS INDEED part of the problem of abuse, especially where a power imbalance exists.

Because these people (priests and pastors) are held to a higher standard by virtue of their position, yet they routinely abuse their power.

For years and years the Church abused the power they had.They screwed over my Ancestors who were not Christians, forced people to convert, burned people at the stake, tortured people, stole lands, and who knows what else.

Are you honestly going to turn a blind eye to how they have abused their position of power and influence to harm people?!

It's about people in power abusing their position.

The patriarchal, macho, controlling, manipulative, shaming, money - grubbing, name - it - and - claim - it, fear - mongering, other - despising, fiefdom - making, using and abusing, excuse for narcissistic and plain old selfish and power - addled appalling behavior that is commonly called «church» and «church leadership» has nothing whatsoever to do with anything the person or character or compilation or concept called «Jesus» ever reportedly or theoretically said, did, or conveyed.

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?

When it comes to people in power abusing that power, everybody has skin in the game.

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

«Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations; but, on a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions, which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other cause, produced despotism.

Persons who are relatively powerful, who are in charge of processes, organizations, or structures of influence may need pastoral counsel that will guide them away from the egocentric abuse of power and toward a more morally accountable use of power.

During the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), one person who gave evidence was asked how the church can deal with the abuse of power and replied: «It needs to stop squelching discussion, it has a way of crushing people when they try to speak and it needs to treat people as adults not children.&rAbuse (IICSA), one person who gave evidence was asked how the church can deal with the abuse of power and replied: «It needs to stop squelching discussion, it has a way of crushing people when they try to speak and it needs to treat people as adults not children.&rabuse of power and replied: «It needs to stop squelching discussion, it has a way of crushing people when they try to speak and it needs to treat people as adults not children.»

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.

Here the pastoral care of the black pastor (or the pastor of black persons) becomes the instrument for releasing the power to endure suffering, alienation, rejection and abuse within a context of understanding that goes beyond resignation but stops short of irrational rage.

I am learning that I can not teach christian theology constructively unless I am aware that, historically, the church has done much to damage women, Jews, people of color and the whole inhabited earth; and unless, as a christian, I am learning how our doctrine, discipline and worship continue to reflect and contribute to this abuse of power.

Republicans hate people, are racists, want to take everything away from the average person and give it to the rich, stomp on those in need so corporations can have more power and abuse their workers more and LIE ever day as easily as they breathe.

The misuse and abuse of religion to consolidate and maintain power is not new to history, but this new threat, in new guises and involving such huge numbers of people, is sufficiently ominous to merit major reexamination and modifications of what we mean by the terms «God» and «Christianity.»

People involved in this destructive activity are dominated and abused by teachers and preachers who care only for money and personal power.

It's the people in positions of power that use, corrupt and abuse religious doctrine to control the people.

This authority structure is typically described as a series of «coverings» or «protections» but unfortunately, the effect is often the opposite, as abused women and children find they have no recourse or power, as every decision in their lives must be made by a series of men, many of whom are more invested in protecting the reputation of the ministry than the people in it.

Faith prayer has been abused by the very material minded power persons whose past lives have made the Family of God feared and killed millions in the name of God and Poor God had nothing to do with it - only evil men.

The last time I witnessed and experienced severe abuse at the hands of the Christian religion and its ministers in 2002, I vowed that if ever I would go back into ministry again, I would work to resist this power, teach others to do the same, and work to free people from the dehumanizing oppression of religion and the Church.

On page 29 and 30, Dr. Playfair musters compelling Scripture to establish that those addicted to alcohol are called drunkards; that the alcoholic or drug addict is a person controlled by his or her habit; that the Christian is to be «controlled» by the Holy Spirit; that we have a choice in such matters; that substance abuse or misabuse has brought these people «under the power,» and that such «uncontrolled lifestyle» is called unrighteousness (sin).

Bright does a solid job of exploring how people with social and financial power can and do abuse those who have none, but at no point does the experience become preachy.

If you give these people power that will look like child's play in the great hall of torture and abuse history.

Just to show the power of the Catholic church, look at all the decades and probably countless thousands of people that were abused and they never were held accountable to any degree worth mentioning.

This shift is evident in a variety of recent publications, among them James Poling's The Abuse of Power, Pamela Couture's Blessed Are the Poor and Larry Graham's Care of Persons, Care of World.

Unfortunately even in an organization such as the Church, people still abuse their power.

He accuses the author of being «ignorant of abuse» for critiquing SCCL, supporting power structures that this person has been known to rail against, and the David ends with which word?

Such people may be substance abusers, but usually in the case of church leaders the problem is an addiction to work, sex, romance, self - abuse, power or money.

At the same time the abuses of papal power give the people of God in every age the right, and the duty, to ask whether the Petrine office is being exercised according to the will of Christ, whether it helps or hinders the proclamation of the gospel, whether it promotes the good of the church and humankind.

This is beginning to happen, but, paradoxically, the interfaith movement which draws together people of all faiths in the search for justice and peace at the same time often makes its members very critical of the compromises that many faith communities have made with the abuse of power and social injustice.

They incline to abuse their powers to dehumanize people.

Admitedly the Catholic church no longer sends the inquisiton after people who disagree with it, but the history of abuse of power still stains the church.

Any use of power that suppresses the loving exercise of gifts is an abuse that ultimately leads to the dehumanizing of persons.

When Christians measure church success by the standards of American culture — money, power, prestige, numbers — we set ourselves up for scandal, discouragement, and abuse of authority / funds / people.

There are tons of people who are sadly oppressed and living under the control, power, manipulation and abuse of others.

The United Nations defines modern slavery, or human trafficking, thus: «the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.

There are so many people who are sadly oppressed and living under the control, power, manipulation, and even abuse of others.

Faith is good, and gives a lot of people a reason to live, but the word of God is the most abused power our species has ever seen, more wars have been started and more people have died for his name then for any other purpose.

«We are saddened by the accounts of deplorable behaviour from a group of individuals who have abused their power, exploited their position, and sought to subvert systems designed to protect vulnerable people in Haiti,» the charity stated.

Mamic is accused, along with three other people, of abuse of power and graft that cost Dinamo, the former Croatian champions, more than 15 million euros ($ 18.4 million), and the state 1.5 million euros.

My own past of sexual abuse was from a female in a position of power and for those wondering if anyone has ever reported Ina May there is every reason to believe that the first person they told was someone who told them to not discuss it, not worry about it, not think about that part.

How often do we find that when people get into a position of power, that they then start to abuse it, both in politics and business.