Sentences with phrase «possessed authority and power»

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«The church must possess the power to exercise this authority and enforce adherence to its provision.»

For what power and authority do the official leaders of the Protestant Churches possess in order to discuss, in the name of their communities, a desirable doctrinal unity in such a way that we may hope for its realization?

It is essentially private and individualistic; it always exceeds our powers of formulation; and although attempts to pour its contents into a philosophic mould will probably always go on, men being what they are, yet these attempts are always secondary processes which in no way add to the authority, or warrant the veracity, of the sentiments from which they derive their own stimulus and borrow whatever glow of conviction they may themselves possess.

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.

Matthew's impression of Jesus is that he is of royal lineage, possesses divine authority, and has the prerogatives and powers of God.

But the Pope remains «the subject of supreme and entire power over the whole Church,» as the Explanatory Note makes clear, and possesses the authority to define matters relating not simply to faith but also to morals.

Kasemann pointed out that time and again the Gospels narrate the healing of possessed persons, which then continues in the Acts of the Apostles; the New Testament letters, especially the «Revelation of John», celebrate the triumph of the Risen Christ as redemption from captivity to the powers and authorities, meaning by this, all who torment and seduce the world and individual human beings, and alienate them from their humanity, are thrown out of their power.

It met in the Vatican in 1869 - 1870, and its most notable decrees, later promulgated by the Pope, declared «that the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is, when in discharge of the office of pastor and doctor of all Christians, by virtue of his supreme apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine of faith and morals to be held by the universal Church, by the divine assistance promised to him in blessed Peter, is possessed of that infallibility with which the Divine Redeemer willed that His Church should be possessed for defining doctrine regarding faith or morals; and that therefore such definitions of the Roman Pontiff are irreformable of themselves, and not from the consent of the Church»; and that the Roman Pontiff has «full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the universal Church, not only in things which belong to faith and morals, but also in those which relate to the discipline and government of the Church spread throughout the world.»

He wrote in his tract On the power of a Christian congregation over its preachers: 5 «We conclude then, that a Christian congregation that has the gospel, possesses not only the right and power but also owes it to the salvation of souls according to the baptismal bond it has entered into, to shun, avoid, depose and withdraw from the authority which the present bishops... exercise; for it is publicly manifest that they live and govern in opposition to God and his Word.»

Provided always and it is hereby enacted That all and every Person and Persons who shall or may take or inherit the said Crown by vertue of the Limitation of this present Act and is are or shall be reconciled to or shall hold Communion with the See or Church of Rome... should be excluded and are by that Act made for ever incapable to inherit possess or enjoy the Crown and Government of this Realm and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging or any part of the same or to have use or exercise any regall Power Authority or Jurisdiction within the same.

The experience opens with a bombastic, but not - entirely - serious confrontation between a power - hungry Lego figure named Lord Business (Will Ferrell, back in evil - with - a-wink «Megamind» mode) and good wizard Vitruvius (Morgan Freeman, poking fun at every voice - of - authority figure he's ever played) for a force that gives whoever possesses it control of the entire Lego universe.

In the management and control of the property and affairs of the Club, the Board of Directors is hereby vested with all the powers possessed by the Club itself so far as this delegation of authority is not inconsistent with the laws of the State of Texas, with the charter of the Club, or with these by - laws and its agreements with the Great Dane Club of America.

«Unlike the Congress of the United States, the General Assembly of Virginia functions under no grant of power»... The General Assembly, in «represent [ing] the sovereign authority of the people» is restricted only by the Constitution of Virginia «in express terms or by strong implication»... [I] t is a restraining instrument, and... the General Assembly... possesses all legislative power not prohibited by the Constitution»... In short, «[u] nless forbidden by some State or Federal constitutional provision,» the General Assembly's «powers are plenary.

From the best information, however, which I have been able to collect on this subject, it appears that the legislature, or General Court of Connecticut, originally possessed and exercised all legislative, executive, and judicial authority, and that from time to time it distributed the two latter in such manner as it thought proper, but without parting with the general superintending power or the right of exercising the same whenever it should judge it expedient.

Subject to this and any other Act, the Family Court has the same power to punish contempts of its power and authority as is possessed by the High Court in respect of contempts of the High Court.

Act with authority: Romantic desire at the nexus of power possessed and power perceived.