Sentences with phrase «power of adherence»

On the other hand, the liberal project that has been preoccupied for decades with defining «American Catholic» — with «American» regularly trumping «Catholic» — has almost no power of adherence at all.

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Fundamentalism uses the culture, rituals, sacraments, texts, language, and metaphors and allusions and symbols (verbal, visual, musical, etc.) of religion in blind adherence to a dogma as defined and interpreted by a person or group who is self - aggregating and self - justifying raw personal power for the sole purpose of controlling the lives of others.

Most still acknowledge a power greater than themselves and they may have a deepened spirituality, but Vaillant concludes that «the presence or absence of» either spirituality or religious adherence had little association with successful aging.

The result is that America is a nation deeply divided between people who are concerned about real - life issues — war and peace, social justice, the health and welfare of people — on one hand, and other people who are concerned, instead, about «values,» by which they mean adherence to ancient taboos, dependence on a magical God, enforcing acceptance of ancient creeds, requiring everyone to believe as they do, and finding safety in raw (though often hidden) social and economic power.

No religion, by demanding adherence to the status quo, by refusing to allow the slightest legal reform, should use the power of the law to force its belief on others....

As in all other revolutions, you must profess your adherence to the revolution and to the opportunities it will bring to be able to gain access to the inner circle of power.

«As if the palpable odium of intiating a vacuous criminal charge against a whistle - blower, no less a person than a distinguished senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was not bad enough, the prosecuting authority, obviously urged on by the Inspector General of Police, threw pretension to adherence to democratic tenets of the rule of law when it sought from the court, albeit most illegally, to obtain summons against Senator Misau, while deliberately witholding service of the copy of the charge on the Senator, an obvious stratagem conceived to frame up all manner of false allegations tailored to suit the obvious purpose of yet another gestapo strategy to use state powers to swoop on the Distinguished Senator and keep him out of circulation»

Hitler — the «bitter flower of German irrationalism,» as Hans - Jürgen Syberberg once put it — may still lurk beyond the horizon, but the seeds of fascism have already been sown in society's unquestioning adherence to power strictures.

A close examination of events at this California high school reveals a fundamental obstacle to school reform: an adherence to the belief that power can only flow from the top to the bottom.

Our job is to stay on top of technology and harness its power to formulate laws that strengthen our country, serve and protect the populace and preserve respect for and adherence to the constitution.

It requires, as well, measures to ensure adherence to the principles of supremacy of law, equality before the law, accountability to the law, fairness in the application of the law, separation of powers, participation in decision - making, legal certainty, avoidance of arbitrariness and procedural and legal transparency.»