Sentences with phrase «positions of power like»

Why do persons in positions of power like Rick Pery insist on having people believe in the same imaginary friends they believe in?

Not exact matches

General Fusion also established an advisory board of experts in various aspects of commercializing fusion power and added impressive figures to its board like Jacques Besnainou, the former president and CEO of Areva Group North America, and Frederick Buckman, who held executive positions with various utilities as well as the Shaw Power Group, an engineering and construction oupower and added impressive figures to its board like Jacques Besnainou, the former president and CEO of Areva Group North America, and Frederick Buckman, who held executive positions with various utilities as well as the Shaw Power Group, an engineering and construction ouPower Group, an engineering and construction outfit.

Like Erin Griffith said in a previous Term Sheet, the degree of the misconduct matters: «The specific act that occurred matters for questions like: Should this person be allowed to get a new job in a position of poLike Erin Griffith said in a previous Term Sheet, the degree of the misconduct matters: «The specific act that occurred matters for questions like: Should this person be allowed to get a new job in a position of polike: Should this person be allowed to get a new job in a position of power?

Just like a crowbar or a moving dolly, leverage allows you to harness the power of good positioning and the strategic application of energy to move mountains.

Humble people like Swift display what Robert Greenleaf calls servant leadership; they use their positions of power to advance the interests of all.

We don't have hard numbers on this, but we suspect the grown - men - in - positions - of - power demographic is the most likely to act like petulant children.

If a girl lacks exposure to people like herself in positions of power, she'll feel less confident and less ambitious.

Though the President - elect will be coming into power with Republican majorities in both the House and the Senate, many of his most popular positions, like his hardline stances on trade and immigration, are not exactly popular with Congressional leadership.

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.

There are lots of reasons Buffett likes Apple, such as its dominant market position, pricing power, large and steady cash flow, and its 12 - figure stockpile of cash.

Once we start letting people like this into positions of power, they will know no limits when it comes to taking away personal freedoms.

Many of the extreme ones are in positions of power, because there's usually a correlation between lack of morals, and religious zealotry, and the less extreme but not in power just follow along like sheep because that's what they are taught to do.

Beware of «faithful» religious believers like Romney who seek positions of great political power and authority over military forces.

We call these phenomena racism, bigotry, nationalism, religious intolerance, political partisanship and so on, but at their core they are all nothing more than attempts to maintain a position of power over those who are not like us to maximize the survival of those who are like us.

When I claim that label, I'm connecting not only with a number of active feminists who are working today to help women, but with an ongoing history of feminists who got women the vote, who made birth control happen, who got women into positions of power in the government, who worked to rectify racial inequality and fight against things like mandatory sterilization of welfare recipients.

While there is a certain amount of authority inherent within the pastoral position, it is, like any other form of power, easy to abuse, and while pastors are spiritual leaders, this does not make us immune to the lust for power, but to the contrary, often seems to amplify it.

Seriously, we don't need people in powerful positions making decisions on the fate of millions based on fairy tales — Because Atheists who have held power positions are so compassionate like chairman Mao and Stalin and Pol Pot.

They lash out using any resource available to them, be it asserting themselves through position, using power to dig potholes and set up road blocks, employing fear to demonize you in the eyes of others, or emotional weapons like name - calling and ostracizing.

I mean he likes guys, repressed it, then once he got a position of power he cut loose.

Like it or not, men hold the positions of power in Christian publishing and leadership, and you can't rub shoulders with power when power is in the other room.

ive been wrestling since i was 9 years old and when i went into high school i had to wrestle a girl... growing up learning to wrestle i had ended up having violent style, i never was dirty or broke rules but i was taught to do anything in your power to win whehter it was to club down the head or grab the throat to gain position etc. unfortunately i was in the postion to wrestle a girl once and at the time i did nt care who you were boy / girl, white / black / purple it did nt matter im was going to go out there bounce your head of the mat and bury you, so i went out there and wreslted the same way i always wrestled, 110 % and always to put your oppenents back through the mat i dditn change my style at all bc she was a girl i wrestled the same against everyone but after i pinned her in the first minute i did nt even realize that i broke her ribs when i power doubled through her, now after that for the rest of the tournament i was heckled and berated for forcefully beating a girl ppl were telling my parents «hey, looks like you raised a wife beater» etc. etc.... ever since then i refused to wrestle girls and thank go i eventually grew out of the lower weights, moral of the story is that is great and all that girls are wrestling but they shouldnt wrestle boys even if they know what they are getting into because 1.

«We would have liked to see someone in a position of power take a progressive and more empathetic attitude towards those most vulnerable in his community,» she said.

For those in positions of power, letting go of labels is like an act of charity — giving up an advantage and treating others with equal dignity.

Though I and most of us have already written this many times, I stress once again that the only hope we have is to force, by our own concerted fan campaign, a clearout of all who claim, laughably, to be in a position of power at the club; Wenger, Gazidis and the whole rotten board and the scummy Kroenke (Texas ranch and all) must be cleared out and thrown away like the pile of dog poo they are.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

Alonso ran as high as fifth during the race and found himself battling for position with the likes of Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton, but the lack of power meant that he quickly slipped back to finish a distant ninth.

I mean, it's not like young women are attracted to older men in positions of power or anything, right?

The power of the 27 - year - old will provide exactly what Pochettino is looking for in the attacking positions, offering something a little different to what he already has at his disposal with the likes of Christian Eriksen and Erik Lamela.

From a position of power Hoeness could virtually say what he liked — about opposing players, about FIFA and Sepp Blatter, about then German football boss Theo Zwanziger and the DFB, about referees, about officials, about rival coaches — even about his own coaches.

I also am able to safely back carry in my electric power - chair (without the risk of tipping backwards like with my manual wheelchair) and, again, found the Soul Onbuhimo ideally suited to this back carry position.

It allows people like him to be elected to positions of power, only to abuse them by writing such scandalous articles for public consumption.

The presumption is anyone who invests the time and money to rise to this position of power is not going to throw it all away on something like this.

It's a struggle between the established interests of those in positions of power and influence, like the City and the press, and those prepared to challenge them.

Like the victims and survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, ignored for years by people in positions of power, now on the long road to the truth.

Actress Meryl Streep said she thinks that if more women were in positions of power in Hollywood then the industry would not have tolerated or enabled the behavior of influential alleged predators like Harvey Weinstein.

Other minority legislators are in power positions like Buffalo Democrat Crystal Peoples - Stokes who is chair of the Assembly Governmental Operations Committee and chair of the caucus weekend.

Weather aside, what's kept New York from being like California, for better or worse, is the state Senate, which Democrats have been thisclose to flipping for years now without ever quite getting there, what with upstate's fear of the city running the whole show, and Democratic senators taking lulus (Albany - speak for bribes) and other enticements to switch teams and caucus with the GOP, and Cuomo content with that power - sharing arrangement that positions him at the top of the three - men - in - a-room triangle.

Some of Gibson's positions, like his call for less reliance on U.S. military power overseas and more stringent civil liberties protections at home, have shown cross party appeal.

For instance, even a jackass like you should know that the Deputy Commisioners (and variations on that title) jobs are unnecessary positions filled by overpaid, non-contributing cronies of whatever governor may currently be in power.

Researchers currently have to hook the devices up to an external power source that drives the hydrogels» charged particles back to their starting positions, kind of like plugging a battery into a charging dock.

Their concerns have been sparked by two simultaneous developments: increasing public criticism by key Republicans of research funded by agencies like the National Science Foundation (NSF) and a congressional power shift that has placed many vocal so - called climate change sceptics and opponents of environmental regulations in positions of power.

There's only one thing worse I think and that is someone like Kevin Trenberth using it at AMS, in his position of power and influence there.

The possibility of using more weight, like a barbell or machine, without having to get those weights up to shoulder position on your own power, like with dumbells, is a tremendous advantage as well.

«As women in senior leadership positions in advertising, we've agreed that we have the power to change this business we love until it looks more like the industry we want to lead,» reads a «Letter of Solidarity» on the group's new website launched this week.

Cassie strongly believes in the curative power of good relationships because she has seen it work in her own life — she also cites reputable scientific studies, like this Harvard survey, to support her position.

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Like Obama, he came into power with the aura of a reformer and a relative outsider, even though both men previously attained high positions within their respective orders.

«I want, tonight, to express gratitude to all the women who have endured years of abuse and assault because, like my mother, they had bills to pay and dreams to pursue,» Winfrey said, telling the story of Recy Taylor, and declaring that «time is up» for those who use their positions of power to abuse others.

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Positions long held by MORE, like strenuous opposition to high stakes testing and the use of VAM growth scores to evaluate teachers, were until very recently considered by the power structure to be extreme.