Sentences with phrase «possesses effective power»
It is perhaps best to speak of the symbol rather than the concept of the Kingdom in the New Testament (here I am following the late Norman Perrin's Jesus and the Language of the Kingdom [Fortress, 1976]-RRB-, primarily because a symbol possesses effective power on levels which a concept does not — i.e., those of action or praxis.
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A few cynics chided Lincoln for proclaiming free only the slaves in Confederate - controlled states, where he did not possess effective power to make any slave free, but not proclaiming slavery abolished in border states that were under Union control.
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The exceptional powers of sympathetic imagination and of literary expression possessed by this evangelist make his work the most effective of all as a human and, so to speak, secular approach to the «Jesus of History,» but it does not lie on the main classical line of development from the apostolic Preaching.
So Yahweh, while the god of the Holy Land, was conceived as possessing ever extended powers, and while this could be roughly harmonized with belief in many gods, it broke through the strictness of the earlier territorial ideas and opened the way to expectations of Yahweh's effective action, anywhere, at any time, as he might please.
[5.9] The effective operation of the CCA would be profoundly undermined by seeking to simplify the analysis of whether a firm possesses substantial market power to having regard only to its market share.»]
Denmark possesses a solid squad that is effective and efficient, even if it lacks star power.
«Mathematics possesses its own language, a concise and effective medium of thought, far outstripping verbal language in its power.»
Regardless of the approach adopted, there are compelling reasons to believe that an independent review body that is knowledgeable in cases of wrongful convictions, has special administrative powers, and possesses expertise in reviewing claims is a far more effective way of addressing claims of miscarriages of justice than the current model.