Sentences with phrase «political power against»

U.S. Rep Charles Rangel held a narrow lead Tuesday night in his bid for a 23rd term in a closely watched Democratic primary race that tested New York City's base of black political power against a rising Latino electorate.

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To guard against potential threats to his power, he maintains a large force of secret police who watch his political opponents, tap many telephones, and even investigate all students applying for admission to a university.

«This has to be the first time that a major presidential candidate has actively encouraged a foreign power to conduct espionage against his political opponent,» said Jake Sullivan, chief foreign policy adviser to Clinton.

«This has to be the first time that a major presidential candidate has actively encouraged a foreign power to conduct espionage against his political opponent,» Hillary for American senior policy advisor Jake Sullivan said in a statement.

Richard Nixon deployed the powers of the state against real and perceived political enemies.

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In the early 1520s, Luther's preaching against the power of the Roman Catholic Church served as a rallying cry, helping give these peasant revolts a higher sense of purpose, and providing them with a language of spiritual and political critique.

The new combat against «the evil empire» - the most complete human slavery from Von Hayek's point of view - strengthens inevitably the power of attraction of Neo-liberalism as political current.

First of all, the death that Jesus endured was the consequence of the struggle he waged against those who wielded religious and political power.

He was struggling against the powers, the idols, the false gods, not contending for political justice or some human good.

Either social conservatives will devise effective new political strategies now, in 2018, or the Republican party will turn against them, and Democrats will exercise their power more aggressively, unhampered by fears of opposition.

In George Marshall's State Department Policy Planning Council, Niebuhr argued that humanity's sinfulness made necessary political strategies that balanced power against power.

Stalin's murders, on the other hand, were undertaken against all groups he saw as political challenges to his power, and were therefore carried out for a political objective.

This is a new meaning of covenant network of the people of God in the political economy of God over against the political economy of the imperial powers.

In 1934 he published Reflections on the End of an Era, in which he continued to argue for a realistic political theory that would set power against power and bring about a more just social system.

She also warns against the embrace of a toxic political environment and explains why morals shouldn't be compromised for power.

The Messiah's only appeal against the needs of the body, the desire to avoid suffering, and the allure of political power was to the word of God.

A court empowered to judge a statute's constitutionality by that court's own inference of the animus of the statute's sponsors is a court set free from any limitations on its power» its power, on the one hand, to strike down any law enacted with the political aid of believers, and its power, on the other hand, to move directly against churches and denominations that display a perceived animus in their teaching toward certain behavior.

The violence employed against the Minjung by the oppressive powers is not only physical but also economic, social, political and cultural; it is psychological and communal, corporate and spiritual, as the exercise of power becomes ever more sophisticated.

They can then put this knowledge to work for them in diverse ways, including political and other nasfy ways, to strengthen the position of the Church against the righteous anger of others and to consolidate their power base.

Herb, I did not mean to imply that all political power is equal or that political activism was ineffective; but it needs to be FOR something and not simply AGAINST something as it has become in our DYSFUNCTIONAL political process.

Also political imperialism and cynical power - seeking help to explain it; but there is something even more sinister, the turning of man against himself.

Once more they asserted the judgment and redemptive powers of God's Word against all forms of modern idolatry in the political, economic, and social realms.

The necessities of war and of defense make political democracy difficult, since the great power that must be mobilized and directed by centralized authority against enemies abroad is easily turned to the suppression of inconvenient freedoms at home.

Reuters: Islamists push own agenda in Iraq's Sunni protests against Shi'ite power Street protests in Iraq's Sunni Muslim heartland pose a new challenge to Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al - Maliki as shock waves from the Sunni - led insurgency in nearby Syria strain his country's fragile political balance.

What you can not do is use political power and official govt position to bully and discriminate against those whose views do not agree with yours.

Having the greater guilt by far, Christians have surely the greater need for reconciliation, but when the Jewish authorities had political power they understandably used it in their own interest, including against the nascent Christians.

Virtually the entire Bill of Rights has now been applied against the states, achieving three revolutionary results at once: 1) The original understanding of federalism has been obliterated, so that the states exercise their power now largely at the sufferance of the Supreme Court; 2) The Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of Section 1 have become a kind of witches» cauldron from which an exotic brew of postmodern nostrums has been fed into the bloodstream of the political culture; 3) The Supreme Court has successfully arrogated to itself more or less exclusive powers of constitutional interpretation.

It proceeded against the political power of the Roman Empire.

If we strike out at the oppressor we are buying into the lie Satan told Jesus when he offered the power of all the kingdoms of the world.Jesus never ONCE railed against the brutal Roman regime or criticized their political system.

Liberation Against Power: President Molina reinvigorated the political repression especially directed against the rural and urban Against Power: President Molina reinvigorated the political repression especially directed against the rural and urban against the rural and urban masses.

It's like, yes, that's a nice homage to the Salish tribe on the Seahawks pants stripe, but does that do anything but commoditize a culture that had genocide committed against it by the ancestors of the current US political power structure?

«The key question,» he continues, «is why, like today's portrayal of zombies, are we unwilling to take a stand against the powers - that - be and are overwhelmed by a lack of political interest.

«In his prior political offices, Eliot Spitzer brought junk lawsuits which seldom held up in court against New York's leading industries for his own political gain, to the detriment of the citizens of New York; he misused the powers of his offices to «steamroll» legitimate political opposition, and acted with calculated hypocrisy, signing tougher penalties into law for the very crimes he was committing.

It stretches from the more aristocratic strands, which maintain that liberal republics with representative government, the rule of law and the separation of powers, are a sufficient guard against domination; to the more democratic ones, which want genuine popular control over political institutions.

The empirical record suggests, he argues, that the role of social media in supporting and maintaining political opposition should not be underestimated, concluding that regimes have learned the hard way about how power social media networks can be used against the state apparatus.

«Jonathan Tasini has already shown a willingness to stand against powerful interests who have chosen already to undermine the American dream, lessen the character of our young people by denying them a complete ability to comprehend their own political power.

«When our government criminalizes the very free speech that the First Amendment was written to protect, sends people to prison for simply exercising their constitutional rights, and wields its power like a weapon against political enemies, we are all in trouble.»

Violence was accepted as a political tool against foreign as well as domestic enemies of their cause, which was to be achieved by a national revolution led by a dictatorship that would drive out the occupying powers and set up a government representing all regions and social groups.

Biviano, who says he is campaigning «against developers, lobbyists and political bosses» to return power to the voters, has accused his opponents of being part of a political machine coordinated through political PR firm Berlin Rosen, and of being influenced by Brooklyn «boss» Frank Seddio.

This is a patent and cheap unconstitutional exercise of executive power in the name of a White Paper against a political opponent under the letter and spirit of the 1992 Constitution.

It covers Margaret Thatcher's premiership from 1983 - 1987, when she was at the height of her powers and against many odds saw off most of her political foes, both within and outside the Conservative Party.

I insist that it is unconstitutional for this Government to use any covert agent for operations against citizens to hide its Gargantuan political corruption like Nerquaye - Tetteh's golden handshake of GH 400,000 when it knows that the Constitution and the laws of Ghana proscribes it from using the executive powers of policing, intelligence and security entrusted to it by the Constitution except in compliance with the existing law.

Plaintiff states again that 2nd Defendant has not said a word against this marauding show of power without any legal justification by the 1st Defendant's request of a deposit of filing fees for the 2016 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections thereby embolden 1st Defendant in perpetuating these obvious illegalities against the political parties and individual candidates in this 2016 general elections.

The NDC is a political party and can not use its subordinate constitution to gag citizens from the exercise of their constitutional rights to speak against unconstitutional conduct and actions of a Government even if it supported it to come to power.

The third description called her a «law professor and progressive,» who would «work to reverse the growing inequality of wealth and political power in New York» and «advocate against the power that big corporations have over our economy and politics and fight to give family businesses and working New Yorkers a fair shot.»

The head of a NYC Council watchdog committee has accused City Hall's top lawyer of carrying out a political vendetta against the city's investigations commissioner on behalf of de Blasio, marking a sharp escalation in a three - sided power struggle among different arms of city government.

The petition copied to Mr Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption reads in part: «SERAP considers these amendments to be in bad faith, patently an abuse of legislative powers, politically biased, and demonstrably unjustified in a democratic and representative society governed by the rule of law, and incompatible with the country's international human rights obligations and commitments particularly the UN Convention against Corruption, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights, which Nigeria has ratified.»

Former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg will run millions of dollars in political television ads against four state attorneys general who are suing the Obama administration over new regulations on carbon emissions from power plants.

We must put Ghana First by equalizing the disadvantages of the political parties in opposition to ensure that they have a fair and even chance against any abuse of incumbency by this Government which is definitely very desperate to remain in power after eight years.