Sentences with phrase «person keeping them in power»

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And some of the players to watch out for are the same big guys from 10 or 20 years ago (Microsoft, Oracle, AT&T, etc.) who are the long - entrenched stakeholders and «powers - who - be» in your space — not because they're great innovators or disruptors, but because: (a) they're increasingly well - informed about who's doing what very well (damn those demo days); (b) they're fairly fast followers with great gobs of money; and (c) they have the people, resources, and patience to hang around and keep buying and trying until they eventually get things right in the long run.

«The whole strategy of [the Chinese Communist Party] to stay in power is to keep the urban people happy.

Sticking it out requires a strategy for dealing with difficult people, self - restraint and an ability to keep power in the relationship.

A culture is a living thing, powered by and kept up to date by the people who are encouraged to be, in a meaningful way, part of it.

The wireless earbuds come with a built - in microphone for making calls, fast - charging to keep them powered throughout the day, and a Google Translate feature that lets you easily communicate with people in other languages.

The research suggests video games could become a kind of hippocampus training gym: they might some day help older people restore lost memory power and «keep that [memory] system in top form,» as Stark says.

«Inclusion happens when people in power use that power to bring people in rather than keep people out.»

Yet, in the months following my unlikely conversion to Christianity in 2003, I kept meeting people whose circumstances dovetailed so perfectly with that of a Bible character or my experience of the transforming power of Jesus that offering them encouragement through any other lens seemed inadequate.

«It's a great picture of the church where you have these people that have so much power inside of them but all we want to do is keep them in these cages.»

What did the revolts brought to the people in those countries any thing other than continuos unending revolts and demonstrations scarcity of essential commodities and products adding to the sky high prices... While other essential needs such as electricity power supply, water, gas, diesel, petrol are being used as a pressure tool by the opposition or the ruling party to keep people mad on the streets rather than going home seeing to their daily living making and minding their own businesses... but what business will continue with such chaos and disorder...?

So far as possible, political power ought to be kept in the hands of private persons and local institutions.

The problem is that the religious powers in places like Saudi Arabia and the United States are well aware of the power of being the providors of welfare (charity) and fight tooth and nail to monopolize that right and to keep people dependent on their own services.

The Roman Catholics wanted to keep power to themselves so they prevented people not in their ranks from seeing the Word of God.

The power to restrict ideas and learning and the power to keep people living in the 14th century.

the manipulators did this, and the people in positions of power were controlled to do this, to keep people in fear and control, and to keep them from «waking up» and empowering themselves.

In fact, as you point out, «religion» can actually desensitize a person to Grace, which I understand to be Uncreated, an immanent Divine Presence, not a created «power» that enables us to keep the Law.

I believe that they were a collection of social conventions to keep the Israelite people bound together in common spiritual and social practices, particularly their sexual practices, that would increase their power and numbers relative to the neighboring peoples.

If to Peter was given in the power of the keys, a humble and utterly steadfast courage in keeping and expressing the doctrine of Christ, and to Paul was given the understanding to a supreme degree of the philosophical and theological evolution through time of the Mystery of the divine Economy in Christ, to John was given in an especial degree the intuition in recognition and love of the Divine Person in Himself.

Due to the fact that most people who follow them have been effectively brainwashed to the point that they can say anything and those who keep them in power and pay their salaries will not think for themselves for fear of imaginary consequences.

In this case they say a lot of nothing, because they know enough people will not see through their B.S. to keep them in poweIn this case they say a lot of nothing, because they know enough people will not see through their B.S. to keep them in powein power.

Religion, when possessed by the principalities and powers, has the ability to keep people in their place to serve and support itself.

It's not just keeping Him in the church, but more like the God in the Iron Mask; we don't even know what He is truly like, and thought the person we've put on the throne does has power, it is angry, vengeful, controlling, paranoid, the very best that man can do without Holy Spirit.

Having been exposed to religious methods of persuasion in school at a Benedictine cloister, Hitler recognized religion's power to keep the people compliant.

But concurrently in nuce and eventually massively, centrist, elitist, great - power competitors competitiors to people - power arose and flourished in various forms: robber - baron enterprises grew into modern corporations, a federal government that had discovered how to fight a civil war soon found new fields for the exercise of authority and control Concentrations of power in the political and economic spheres began to deprive the people of genuine political participation while keeping them in the illusion that they still possessed it.

In reply to steve88, Religion has been around for many years and was infact used as a control method to an extent to keep power over its people and as previously stated as a means to generate revenue.

More likely: A few men keeping everybody else down (as people in power, regardless of gender, often do).

I love the way GOD used you in your previous comment, God has all power and whatever or whomever he decides to keep, throw away, or change in order for his people to be saved he has the power to do so, he did say he would take the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, we need to stop trying to think for God and pray for his will to be done in all of our lives.

«But though by the end of the battle the men felt all the horror of their actions,» he writes, «though they would have been glad to stop, some incomprehensible, mysterious power still went on governing them, and the artillery men, covered with powder and blood, reduced to one in three, though stumbling and gasping from fatigue, kept bringing charges, loaded, aimed, applied the slow match; and the cannonballs, with the same speed and cruelty, flew from both sides and crushed human bodies flat, and the terrible thing continued to be accomplished, which was accomplished not by the will of men, but by the will of Him who governs people and worlds.»

It must be «a ministry of mercy, born of an act of Christ's own mercy» (in forgiving Peter's betrayal: 93) And it involves «the task, not of exercising power over the people — as the rulers of the gentiles and their great men do... [but of] «keeping watch» (episkopein)... so that through the efforts of the pastors the true voice of Christ the shepherd may be heard in all the particular churches» (94).

I believe the money was mostly used for the Army which help support the empire which kept commerce going, people fed, & of course leaders in power.

At times, I feel guilty for not believing in a g - d but there are also times when I feel the power that faith has, it keeps people sane, it them someone to look up to when all is going wrong.

Chuck wagon power keeps people in abusive relationships more than any other factor.

For myself, I do believe there are independent «things» which are'institution / s» which, if kept small and changed often, and devoid of power, are not necessarily a bad thing, but which, in the case of the church, has become far too large and been around in it's present form / s for far too long, with more power than is proper, and in many cases oppressing the people within its employ (not just those on the payroll but the volunteers as well).

The Lord revealed that the problem was with my heart it is so wicked and deceptive i still believed that i was a good person i did nt drink or take drugs smoke or swear i wasnt violent i had some hangups but kept them to myself but this wicked thought was the reason why i couldnt get free.That was enough for the enemy to bring guilt and condemnation upon me.So when i confessed that my heart was indeed wicked and that i needed a new heart.I was instantly delivered and set free from the past and have not looked back though i am sometimes reminded by others for what i did wrong.It no longer has power over me.I believe we all struggle with two areas as christians we must confess our sin and we must confess our pride for without him we can do nothing.May the Lord show you what it is that is blocking you from receiving his love and forgiveness the issue will be found in your heart ask the Lord to reveal it for what it is.We do nt like to see the truth its ugly and i am sorry if this offends you it wasnt my intention.May he set you free as he has done for me.regards brentnz

Since the beginning of time religion has allied itself with power and vice versa to keep people in bondage.

Helps to keep in mind how many changes in translation occurred throughout the ages, according to people in power, etc..

We will never know so hopefully people's «faith» in a higher power will keep people from rioting....

Why don't we always keep successful people in power?

Not being a parent myself, I am not exactly an expert of any kind, but I still feel like any relationship where one person clearly needs to exert some kind of control and power over the other in order to keep things going is NEVER GOING TO GO WELL.

Once in power, the leader can then use the people's backing to weaken the institutions, rules and mechanisms which keep the democracy alive.

«Shelly's vision doesn't extend beyond his conference and the people who give him the money to keep his conference in power.»

«What you have to do is stand for something, and you say to those people who voted Yes that that was last year's disagreement, and whether you keep Cameron in power in May is this year's decision,» said Murphy.

There are fewer independent, professional news reporters telling the American population about the world around them today than there were five years ago, fewer journalists trying to hold people in positions of power to account, fewer working to keep people informed about events of public importance.

That's because these people who ran as Democrats actually kept the Republicans who control the Senate in very Blue State New York in power.

«This change starts with doing everything in our power to keep guns out of the hands of people too dangerous to have them.

«This change starts with doing everything in our power to keep guns out of the hands of people too dangerous to have them,» said Cuomo, who led the passage of the 2013 SAFE Act a month after the shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

As always put everyone on the ballot and keep the «REAL» people in power not Bill Clinton and his telephone.

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President Trump, in the East Room of the White House, expressed his solidarity with the people of Santa Fe, and said his administration would do «everything in our power» to protect schools and keep guns away from those who should not have them.

«I think most people think he owns some buildings, has the ear of other hard right politicians, sits on the school board, and has some of Buffalo's power players in his pocket,» said the website's creator, who agreed to speak about it under the condition that his or her identity be kept a secret