Sentences with phrase «positions of power by»

No one in China gets a vote except the local area committee party members, who are appointed to their positions of power by the central government.

He argues that states can increase and maintain their position of power by pursuing a geostrategy that focuses on control of resources and lines of communications.»

Asked to be the straight man to a running joke about the essential «fakeness» of its world - weary hipster heroes, Amber instead assumes the position of power by announcing that for all the things they — and we, by extension — have seen, she alone will emerge from this with no sense of irony or mordant humanism.

We have less to lose by virtue of being in a position of power by default, and that makes it exceedingly important to check yourself and your reactions.

Put yourself in a position of power by creating a social media presence that draws people you want to meet to you.

Not exact matches

Although inappropriate work behavior can be displayed by anyone, the recent wave of sexual misconduct allegations in media, politics, entertainment and tech has placed extra focus on men in positions of power.

By framing your position in terms of «us» and «we,» you invoke the power of a possible shared social identity with your team.

Premier Colin Barnett has softened his position on the proposed privatisation of Western Power, saying it could be used by Labor as a scare campaign in the state election next year.

«While [Ivy's] words appear anodyne and reflect the judicious position and celebration of America's history of peaceful transitions of power articulated by both President Obama and Hillary Clinton, they are an embarrassment to those of us who feel that the Trump presidency represents a clear and present danger to many values that are fundamental to both our nation and our profession,» reads Sorkin's message.

If you do that, you're in a position of power and can get banks to compete for your business by reducing application fees, draw fees and unused line fees, as well as the interest rate.

With the president's party controlling the Senate by just one seat and the Senate holding not only the power to pass or block legislation, but also to confirm nominees to federal positions, including the Supreme Court, the race in Arizona to replace the departing Sen. Jeff Flake is one of several to watch this fall.

One way Albright recommends that women help each other is by communicating and supporting one another using their positions of power.

By doing the work of answering all these questions, you put yourself in a position of proactive power.

His emphasis on hard power and intelligence - gathering as the primary means of pursuing Canada's interests is now echoed by the current administration in Washington, which has gutted the State Department, allocated record amounts of funding to the military and appointed military - minded men in key foreign policy positions.

But even they have been sold out by the corrupted two - party system that will not allow an uncompromised voice to become President or rise to a position of power in Congress.

Give yourself the best shot at becoming a consistently profitable forex trader by combining a great method like price action with the power of position sizing and risk to reward scenarios.

«While Wang has lost his power, his position and his freedom, the real losers here are investors who play by the rules, and our nation's financial system, which is diminished with every one of these schemes.»

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

The philosopher does not start from a faith in being's intelligible disclosure of itself — in fact, he starts by explicitly abjuring such faith — but rather vests his trust in the power of the self to posit reality from its own unshakeable position.

While I think it is a sad position for Chick - Fil - A to take, they will eventually suffer by the almighty buying power of the people.

Even if younger Catholics are far from unanimous in their support of Weigel's positions, they nonetheless are not consumed by the theological and ecclesial power - struggles that have afflicted the American church for the past 40 years.

Because the assemblies and committees of the World Council are peopled by denominational power elites, there is a minimum of the kind of influence from grass - roots evangelicals which tends to moderate the positions and actions of the denominations themselves.

«All the time not having a clue that they were being whispered against, campaigned against by both Catholics & Anglicans who made it palpably clear that this initiative was detrimental to the «dialogue towards unity» and temporarily compromised their positions as oecumenical ambassadors - that this was a counter-productive «wacked - out» scheme by an ailing Pope who merely needed to be placated until he died - hence delaying tactics, obfuscations, procedurality, red tape and making everything as difficult and administratively untenable as possible; with patronising sympathy and hand - wringing at their lot while sneering, dismissing and chuckling to themselves that the whole thing will eventually come to naught... that the administration will crumble via crises and power politics andpersonality clashes and outright frustration at the situation... and ultimately the Ordinariate will be re-integrated into the Conference system and those not happy about it will crawl back to their friends in the C of E.

It's clear that Julie has been subjected to abominable treatment by men in positions of power, and that her attempts to expose the truth have been thwarted by those very same people.

To me and to every victim of spiritual abuse by Pastors in a position of power and influence.

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.

By analogy, if a parishioner is given power, or charged with leading an organization, or stands in a position of relative in fluence, then the greater is the weight and dimension of moral accountability.

If by the power of God's grace we are in a position to accept ourselves as pilgrims, as mortal men seeking their way with difficulty through the darkness, as failing again and again and yet bound in duty to an earthly task; if the Church effects that acceptance by celebrating the death of the Lord, and makes us men of prayer who are really conscious of the future judgment of God, if the Church sends its children strengthened with God's grace out into their own maturity which burdens them but sets them free, then the Church by its official ministry has done what it alone can and must do.

The wealthy rule through their position of power, the poor are undesirable and castaways, especially the sick, who die for lack of health care... And we are bombarded with lies 24/7 by the media who ar no more then hired puppets of Big Mafia Corp's.

Sin is a lie created by the Niceans to protect their positions of power in order to disparrage the Nazerentian message.

Since under modern conditions the actions of all people in key positions of power and influence are thus likely to be known almost immediately by nearly everyone, these people can not make decisions without reference to the reaction of the public.

At least one of them, that suggested by Tillich, depends to a considerable degree upon the Tillichian «system» in which there is much talk about «existential» and «essential» manhood, not to mention the more general philosophical position which he adopts with its talk about «the ground of being», «the power of being», and «the new being in Christ» — the last of these constituting in fact what «restitution» is all about.

Yes, gender stereotyping damages men too, but it remains the case that the vast majority of positions of power in society are held by men; to claim that men are systematically oppressed is simply a lie.

My point, is that as «church», we invest a huge amount of trust and power in the hands of our (ex) leaders, who tend to justify their «annointed» position by invoking God with a cut and paste scriptural legal treatise underpinning their position!

Since government and those in political positions of power are those who make decisions about how the world is to be run, such decisions should be guided and governed by gospel values and goals.

The country kept things nice and segregated — no chance of drinking from a fountain contaminated by someone with a surplus of melanin or of finding an overly emotional estrogen slave in a position of influence or power.

/ Be aware of the feelings stirred up in each person by the dialogue, the power in each position, the energy consumed by the conflict, the increasing polarization that occurs.

The programs taught me about (1) admitting I was beat, (2) coming to believe in something greater than myself (eventually a higher power)(many evolutions and concepts of HP, all of these at one time or another: nature, the 12 steps, creator, Love, spiritual principles)(Step 3) applying my low self worth and gigantic Ego to these spiritual principles (4) write down my liabilities and assets (5) share them with another and my higher power (6 & 7) ask for the liabilites to be removed and be patient with the process (8) Make a list of all that were harmed by me (9) make amends to such folks except whn to do so would injure them or myself (10) take a daily inventory of my day, checking for snafus, mean temperment, arrogance etc (11) meditation and prayer to communicate to my higher power and quiet reflection to listen for the Truth (12) after having a spiritual awakening as a result of working these steps, help others if they wish for help because now I am in the position to assist.

Moral Realism inherent in this approach is to avoid two absolutist positions of utopianism - one, the approach of political religions which seek to bring perfect community on earth through political action, which ends in tyranny because it asks the impossible from power - politics; and the other, a withdrawal from politics because it can not bring perfect community on earth, which ends by tolerating the worst tyranny and oppression without resistance.

Although the Yuan dynasty was Mongolian, Muslims enhanced their standing by holding positions of military and civil power, and the propagation of the faith was greatly facilitated.

The peace, the joy, and the sheer delight of pastors who are faithful to their calling is not the product of a successful ministry as it is usually defined by denominational leaders anxious to perpetuate their own power and position.

This is what happens when you live in a society where se.xuality is so heavily frowned upon by the religious folks in high positions of power who attempted to suppress it for centuries.

Ford, by contrast, has focused on a genetic analysis, similar in impact to the introduction of German «higher criticism,» in which we are to recognize early or preliminary formulations, superseded by later revisions and insertions in the text; forcing choices among alternative and incompatible doctrines, and producing a theory of Whitehead's own historical development of his «final» ideas or positions (in which, for example, concrescence gradually supersedes transition, and the power of causal efficacy is reduced to the status of the past as material cause, with the future or «final» cause dominating the process of concrescence).

But, as those in the power position, most males have little motivation to work on their side of the relationship unless they are confronted by the «victims.»

13 For a counter example where Indian «natives» use «the powers of hybridity to resist baptism and to put the project of conversion in an impossible position» see the chapter «Signs Taken for Wonders: Questions of ambivalence and authority under a tree outside Delhi, May 1817,» (pp. 102 - 122) in the book by Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture (London: Routledge, 1994).

My point is that on the surface, at least, the analysis of «X is omnipotent» that goes with Griffin's third position concerning the deficiency of Premise X does not capture the idea of perfect power as understood by Griffin and as generally understood in discussions of this topic.

To many Christianity seemed a possible key to the power which was the envy of non-Europeans and a vehicle by which the desired techniques of the Occident might be acquired by those who hoped through them to attain the position and the wealth which the West possessed.

Following Bourdieu's use of the terms «cultural» and «social capital) «The position of a given agent within the social space can thus be defined by the positions he occupies in the different fields, that is in the distribution of the powers that are active within each of them.

Complicating the situation further is the fact that the Catholic bishops advocate many of the same positions taken by the Catholic Alliance / Christian Coalition, including strong opposition to abortion, and the selective return of power to state and local governments.

If the ideas you and I propose should be practiced by the «church», the paychecks, position, authority, power and control of many would presumably be seriously jeopardized.