Sentences with phrase «power in the political sense»

One must hope that knowledge translates to power in the political sense and that the knowledge to the people conveyed here will help lead to the political outcomes needed to bring the book's optimistic vision into being.

Not exact matches

More recently, it has been an intellectually lazy substitute for engaging seriously with the question that all small and medium - sized states face in a globalized political world: which powers does it make sense to share with other countries and under what conditions?

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.

But because its governing interest is «religious,» theological schooling on the model of paideia has characteristically been disengaged from the public realm in the sense of the realm of political, social, and economic power, its arrangement and its management.

It is a moment of sensing both the possibility of political power, whether in an actual Revolution or a McGovernite electoral victory, and the possibility of the whole movement falling apart.

The prophetic sense of the entity and power of the Word explains in great part the concentrated emotional character of the prophets and their sometimes deep anguish in proclaiming the negative message, the pronouncement of doom upon the life of the political state.

85 But characteristically he went on to praise America for its democracy: «Democracy is an ultimate norm of political organization in the sense that no better way has been found to check the inordinacy of the powerful on the one hand and the confusion of the multitude on the other than by making every center of power responsible to the people whom it affects.»

In one sense Christianity emerged out of man's disillusionment with the doctrine that the road to life and joy and justice lies through the exercise of political force and the growth of national power.

Worship in the full sense — worship as discipleship - involves shaping persons as agents and thus involves action in the public realm which consists in arrangements and rearrangements of social, political, and economic power.

This, in turn, convinced the county Legislature, and the local representatives in Albany and Washington, that a Jamesport nuclear power plant made political sense, simply because it was a popular idea.

In any case, in politics, friends from without are usually an invaluable volume of assets to ruling powers and so it makes perfect political sense for the ruling APC to, as the Igbo proverb says, live and let the APGA live in preparation for the coming general electionIn any case, in politics, friends from without are usually an invaluable volume of assets to ruling powers and so it makes perfect political sense for the ruling APC to, as the Igbo proverb says, live and let the APGA live in preparation for the coming general electionin politics, friends from without are usually an invaluable volume of assets to ruling powers and so it makes perfect political sense for the ruling APC to, as the Igbo proverb says, live and let the APGA live in preparation for the coming general electionin preparation for the coming general elections.

A Political Science Lecturer at the University of Ghana, Dr. Aggrey Darko, has argued against calls for an extension of Ghana's presidential term limits According to him, a longer tenure in office might give persons in power a sense of entitlement which could translate into the inappropriate use of presidential authority.

All the same, as in Salvatore Giuliano and Il caso Mattei, Rosi's interest is not so much in exploring the charismatic individual per se but more in attempting to uncover the social, political, legal and illegal networks within which these individuals both exercise their power and within which they are, in a sense, imprisoned and by which they are, ultimately, crushed.

The highlight of Coates's writing in Black Panther isn't the way he skillfully laces the comic with broader political themes about power (though he's very good at that); instead, it's his ability to give the book's intimate character relationships a sense of humanity and dignity.

Twelve Monkeys, written by Blade Runner and Unforgiven screenwriter David Peoples in collaboration with his wife Janet and directed by Terry Gilliam, updates and expands Marker's iconic La jetée with taste, intelligence, and, most surprisingly of all, a sense of the broader political relevance that gave the original its power.

Regulators, investment banks, and political leaders are now beginning to see what has been obvious for some time to climate scientists such as James Hansen: that it makes no sense to build coal - fired power plants only to have to bulldoze them in a few years.

However I will stipulate that my comment was meant to imply that Brandon's competence, was in the direction of forcing long answers to simple statements he makes, like calling anyone that implies that billions of political dollars and the politics of government power have a corrupting influence on the science, a «paranoid conspiracy nut» So, in a sense, I was politely calling him a competent troll.

This undemocratic move takes power — literally, and in the political sense — away from the public, only to go on to lecture the poor about their opulent lifestyles... «Let them eat cake».