Sentences with phrase «power over actions»

Gift cards allow kids to buy stock without breaking the bank, and parents have approval power over any actions.

Under the proposed legislation, the State Board of Education would have veto power over the actions of the new charter school board with a 3/4 majority vote.

BP Diaz appointed Geneal Chacon as the borough's representative to the Panel for Educational Policy, which holds approval power over the actions of the City Department of Education.

Its commissioners are appointed by the governor and legislative leaders and effectively have veto power over actions taken against the legislators who appointed them.

BP Diaz appointed Geneal Chacon as the borough's representative to the Panel for Educational Policy, which holds approval power over the actions of the City Department of Education.

And I reject your statement that we have no power over our actions.

ABMC has no regulatory powers over the actions of individual breeders of Belgian Malinois and does not endorse individual breeders.

Not exact matches

McGahn's staff also reportedly misled Trump about his power over Comey to keep him from taking any drastic actions, The New York Times» Michael Schmidt told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow last month.

But the path is hard because (1) we need to know who our «authentic self» even is, (2) we need superhero powers to stay true to this inner being through our thoughts, emotions, and actions, and (3) we must adapt to and trust how this authentic self continues to evolve over time and life circumstances.

Words and actions create impressions that may take on more power over time.

Facebook has faced the prospect of legal action in Europe over its seemingly monolithic power.

High - definition camera manufacturer, GoPro has been blazing a trail with content marketing in the action sports industry in a similar fashion to the power house marketing giants over at Red Bull.

They chose earthly political power and wealth over the teachings of Christ and justifed their actions by creating a pseudo-gospel where having wealth and power is an indication that God approves of how you are living your life.

The notion of women's autonomy» including absolute control over our own bodies» leaves us with an unrealistic sense of human power and an exaggerated sense of independence from the consequences of our attitudes and actions.

Given a system in which there are no genuine causal relationships at all (except God's actions) it becomes especially curious to favor one kind of appearance of power over another.

It is the power I exercise over my brain, my whole nervous system, and indeed over my whole body, Of this power we may say, in a commonsense way and subject to later qualification, that I exercise it while acting; and that some neuron in my brain that fires in the course of the action, or some neural network through which a complex impulse passes, is subject to it.

That is to say that although the agent's power is dependent upon the nervous system in that it is performed in and with it, nonetheless that same power is exerted over the nervous system and indeed over any particular neuron that fires or is constrained from firing in the course of the action.

If we suppose that this considerable range of acts not only is supported by neuronal activity but also exercises power over it, then it follows that what in the course of the action is understood, what is articulated, what, it may be, is postulated as a standard for the action, all contribute to the power exercised by the action over its supporting neuronal activity.

Those in the Reformed tradition see in Michaelson's apoliticalness an underlying fatalism that both denies the power of the risen Lord over all creation and undercuts love's effectiveness in action.

However, others question the extent to which political action, which necessarily involves control and power over others to some extent, can be Christian at all.

Religion is the power of man over man where no legitimate basis for that power otherwise exists — how else do you explain so many killing and dying for the the «beliefs» of others who lead them to such actions?

Debate over this action has become entangled with the perennial argument over the power of the District to govern itself without Congressional supervision.

God's power «is the power that prevails over the chaos, that sets limits to the onslaught of the forces of destruction and ensures the conditions needed for human life and prosperity... God's power is his «justice» in action,» as exemplified particularly in the Magnificat.48

In Asia, we saw the PP XXI (People's Power for the 21st Century), which brought together social action groups and popular movements from all over Asia and went through a similar evolution.

Turning away from orthodox Christianity because of the emotional excesses of frontier evangelism, he found it easier as a young man to accept what was called the Doctrine of Necessity, which he defined as the belief â $ ˜that the human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.â $ ™ Later, he frequently quoted to his partner, William H. Herndon, the lines for Hamlet: â $ ˜Thereâ $ ™ s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough â $ «hew them how he will.â $ ™ â $ œFrom Lincolnâ $ ™ s fatalism derived some of his most lovable traits: his compassion, his tolerance, his willingness to overlook mistakes.

Although Christ was filled with the form of God and rich in all good things, so that he needed no work and suffering to make him righteous and saved (for he had all this eternally), yet he was not puffed up by them and did not exalt himself above us and assume power over us, although he could rightly have done so; but, on the contrary, he so lived, laboured, worked, suffered, and died that he might be like other men and in fashion and in actions be nothing else than a man, just as if he had need of all these things and had nothing of the form of God.

By mid eighteenth century in New Haven, William Livingston rephrased a «Puritan principle» to read «The civil Power hath no jurisdiction over the Sentiments or Opinions of the subject, till such Opinions break out into Actions prejudicial to the Community, and then it is not the Opinion but the Action that is the Object of our Punishment.

He is the Being who deals with contingency and is capable of decision in time so that order is established over chaos by the action of a will backed by the power necessary to sustain it.

In Reynolds the Court recognized that «religion» is not defined in the Constitution but agreed that even if the state had no power over opinion, it was free to regulate actions.

«This great jewel also seemed to be covered with innumerable eyes, which I understood represented the Wisdom and Knowledge of God... Our Blessed Lord showed me this Divine Wisdom as I was saying as the guiding power which regulated the motions and affections of theSacred Heart, showing me that it had the same effect and power over its least action, and raising it, as the sun draws up vapour from the ocean.

At the end of the day you only have control over self and your actions, never the actions of other and you only have the power to see change in your life with the aid of God's Spirit which will cause you to produce good fruits like love, mercy, goodness kindness....

Living in Christ frees us from the power of death over us, from the ways fear of death and avoidance of it control and limit our lives, our relationships and our actions.

Despite a rare power outage that shut down the action at the Superdome for a little over 30 minutes, the two teams eventually made it back out onto the field to keep everyone's gambling addiction at bay.

Skipper John Terry had claimed player power had not played a part in Thursday's decision to axe the Portugese but Fabregas and Costa's names were booed by large parts of the home support before the action started, while Chelsea fans were soon singing in support of a man who led them to three league titles over two spells.

They had beaten a second string Liverpool side 2 - 0 in midweek Cup action, but Leicester City were unable to produce an encore in their league fixture between the two sides over the weekend, slumping to a 3 - 2 loss at the King Power Stadium.

«As the major continental leagues resume following the winter break — Serie A and La Liga returned to action over the weekend, with Ligue 1 and the Bundesliga set to follow suit in the next fortnight — Pitchside Europe looks at 10 issues that will help determine the balance of power across the European mainland in the 12 months ahead.»

Help them to reflect on their actions, and refrain from punishments, which teach them to lord power over others.

Cuomo insisted his actions don't undercut his words, saying that unless politicians are «independently wealthy or their fathers are independently wealthy (ahem, Eliot Spitzer),» then fundraising from those over which one has / is seeking to have power over is a necessary evil.

After a conference in which the ministers were falling over themselves to praise Theresa May's action in promoting the Modern Day Slavery Act, it's shocking that the government is pressing forward with a scheme that gives rogue landlords more power over vulnerable migrants, and creates a two - tier housing market for British and non-British people.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson last month tightened his control over the State Department by taking back powers previously held by the top career foreign service officer, an action critics said would delay major decisions and marginalize career diplomats.

«WFP should learn from this rejection that power for working people comes from their independent political action, not acting as a faction of the Democratic coalition and handing over their votes to the corporate - dominated Democratic Party, which then takes their votes for granted and reduces their leverage and power to nothing.

And please don't misunderstand me, I'm not saying we shouldn't check corruption, but if we come to office and to power — I've been preaching for 40 years in this country and I've seen governments come and go, from CPP, my father's government, and NDC and NPP, they are here, I've seen them over the 40 years — and this thing where we come into office with vindictiveness and bitterness because of the way we've been mishandled and mistreated, and we target people to go after them, settle scores, I pray that during the reign of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, because of the fight and the betrayals and the suffering and the pain he went through to become president, he will not allow his presidency to be used by people who have problems with others and their opponents to settle scores, but that during his watch and his reign, that vicious cycle would be broken in the name of Jesus; that every Ghanaian, irrespective of your political party, if you're doing the right thing, you'll prosper», the founder of Action Chapel International (ACI) told his congregation on Sunday, 22 April.

The complainants (who at the moment will remain anonymous) even alleged that they was willing to go to News 12 and the Journal News to expose the actions of Mr. Lafayette concerning the process to challenge the signatures, fraudulently having people on Democratic voter rolls and abusing his absolute power over the voting process as Westchester democratic chairman, Mount Vernon City Committee Chairman and Westchester County Democratic Commissioner of Elections which they felt was illegal in nature and the DA's office was against the complainants going public with their complaints.

At the time, Cuomo did not include any contingency plans for action on the federal level, such as a repeal of the Affordable Care Act or cuts in spending that would impact the state, save for a desire to have expanded powers over the budget without the consent of the Legislature — a non-starter with lawmakers.

President Obama chose confrontation over conciliation as he asserted the powers of the Oval Office to reshape the nation's immigration system and all but dared members of next year's Republican - controlled Congress to reverse his actions on behalf of millions of immigrants.

On Friday, June 16th United Way of the Southern Tier rallied over 350 volunteers throughout the community for Day of Action, an annual event that mobilizes the caring power of volunteers to make a...

This week around half a million members of GMB, Unite, Unison and the Royal College of Midwives took strike action over an Osborne - imposed virtual pay freeze that has seen their purchasing power decline 12 % since the election.

The law requires unwieldy super-majorities for sanctions against violators — as many as 13 votes for action — and essentially gives veto power over sanctions to appointees of legislative leaders.

The state education department plans to install a monitor to oversee East Ramapo schools, but the monitor won't have veto power over the school board's actions, a person familiar with the matter said Tuesday.

took strike action over an Osborne - imposed virtual pay freeze that has seen their purchasing power decline 12 % since the election.