Sentences with phrase «power over society»

What a magnificent destiny for the arts is that of exercising a positive power over society, a true priestly function, and of marching forcefully in the van of all the intellectual faculties...!

The inventor of the World Wide Web says its size and power over society have become so great that we no longer fully understand how it works — but he has a solution

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The financial sector wins at the point where you don't see that the prices that the banks are inflating are asset prices — real estate prices, bond and stock prices — and that the role of commercial banks is to increase the power of wealth over the rest of society, over labour, over industry, to create a new ruling - class of bankers that are even more heavy than the landlords that were criticised in the last part of the 19th century.

These changes also change the structures of power in our society, so that, for example, literate people who know how to access electronic information will have increased power over literate people who don't.

Recognizing that no order of society will put an end to the lust for power over others and the use of power to exploit, it contains checks and balances.

In this society, evil does not have power over us.

The very existence of power relations, the inequality of the strong and the weak, the mastery of the former over the latter, the differentiation between ruler and ruled was attributed by nineteenth century liberals to autocratic government and is attributed by contemporary Marxists to the class structure of society.

One who presides over the ritual, priests and others, therefore, have tremendous power at their disposal, although in a secularized society some of it is being eroded.

Resisting the power of the church and guarding the secret history of the grail over the years has been a secret society, the Priory of Sion, presided over by a committee of sénéchaux (grand masters).

The responsibility of the church for power does not mean bidding for sovereignty over the structures and institutions of society.

One hears echoes of Ruskin's nostalgia for the harmony of the medieval manor in contrast to the din of modern factories, or of James» preference for the Virgin over the dynamo as the central symbol of power in society, or of Schumacher's «small is beautiful» against the «great industrial city.»

(Obvously the world has progress for the good also I not slamming the progress in health care & with immunisations etc with knowledge but with knowledge becomes power and at what level do the people with power rule how we grow as a society, I know it's not all cloak and daggers, not conspiracy theory's but taking control of what we spend our money on in the market and take away to demand to buy chemicals) buy In the past 50 years us humans have introduced over 75,000 chemicals into our world!

An old team presided over by a figure who divides Italian society and whose own powers might be on the wane - Silvio Berlusconi.

Attitudes and power structures that permit male dominance over women's breasts, has reached such excess in North American society that breastfeeding can be considered «obscene», spawning US state legislation that expressly excludes breastfeeding women from obscenity laws.

Indeed, they go directly to the heart of the questions the Great Charter Convention series has raised: how can we contest and contain arbitrary power in society when certain individuals or group systematically have more influence over political decision - making?

Over its four - and - a-half years in power the government has taken a lot away from the poorest and most vulnerable in our society.

on the face of it the American left are socially liberal but the bottom line is the more control they take over the economy and the redistribution of wealth, the more power they will gain over society at large and the more power they will have to implement social engineering projects.

Or maybe Israel itself is behind IS to create chaos and to establish (which in fact other powers are doing now) a western based society over there, like has has happened in many parts of the world.

Speaking on the recent renouncement of cultism in the state by over 500 suspected cultists, the CP expressed happiness that the Bayelsa State government through the House of Assembly amended the anti - cultism law which gave the police certain powers in collaboration with the magistrate to make sure people who are involved in cultism, secret society and those who harbour them are brought to book.

Would anyone like to be living in a society under the jurisdiction of some malicious and cowardice officers (namely ZZZ / YYY / VVV, they must have power of jurisdiction over civilians of Santa Clara county) who hided their identities from us while colluding with those fascists to cover up their fascism crimes and at the same time retaliate on victims?

The move would significantly diminish local council's power over the town centre but it would chime with the coalition's «big society» agenda.

But even after the film has been copied (with diminishing returns) several times over, Se7en retains its power because it remains the only one to both clearly illuminate the line between personal responsibility and the fracture of society, and challenges you to determine on which side you stand.

Set in the late - 1960s, the series — which will be produced by 20th Century Fox Television and Marvel Television, with 20th Century Fox handling the physical production — follows a young special agent who learns that a power - hungry woman with extraordinary abilities is working with a clandestine society of millionaires — known as «The Hellfire Club» — to take over the world.

The rest of the special relies on this analogy that atomic energy is like a genie that the fisherman («society») finally has power over.

But in neoliberal societies, sovereignty is often in the hands of major corporations that now have power over not only the production of knowledge but also over the implementation of policies that bear down on matters of life and death, living and surviving.

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Thanks to an official order guide that was caught by the team over at Cadillac Society, we now know what will power the 2019 Cadillac XT4 and what will be on the options list.

A devout secret society, A faithless courier, And a ruthless cult Are about to face off Over the fate of mankind And the power of God himself.

We have lost a lot as a society as the Greatest Generation has handed power over to the Baby Boomers.

Featuring over 250 works, this exhibition highlights the power of photography to reveal hidden truths in our society.

For over 25 years world - renowned artist Tania Bruguera has created socially - engaged performances and installations that examine the nature of political power structures and their effect on the lives of society's most vulnerable individuals and groups.

Extending across the entirety of the museum, the exhibition allows for free association between artists and the themes they address: at once playful and dynamic, works from Ryan Gander, Institute for New Feeling, Liu Wa, and Yangzi invite audiences to explore a wealth of possibilities through combinations of meditation and wry humor; classical mediums of sculpture and painting are reinvented by Yngve Holen and Austin Lee; insidious implications of our hi - tech society are skewered by Lawrence Abu Hamdan and aaajiao; the powers of synthetic materials over human desire are brought to the fore by Sean Raspet and Pamela Rosenkranz; and products of Internet culture are given to refined study with Gillian Wearing and Amalia Ulman.

The new paintings consider how our global justice system abandons and disregards the lives of those incarcerated, and how power is yielded over a desperate and vulnerable margin of society.

The Council of the American Physical Society believes that the use of renewable energy sources, the adoption of new ways of producing and using fossil fuels, increased consideration of safe and cost effective uses of nuclear power, and the introduction of energy - efficient technologies can, over time, promote the United States» energy security and reduce stress on the world's environment.

Alessandra Giannini of the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University says that historical accounts of how centres of political power moved throughout the region over the millennia are consistent with periodic periods of drought.

The publication Naturbruksupproret which is about reclaiming power over the use of land and natural resources, illustrates how important it is to shift the power balance from corporations to local producers in the transition to a just and sustainable society.

The primary reason is that when conservative governments support fossil fuels and nuclear over renewables, power prices to society rise.

Although variable renewable energy sources were critical to European society for some 500 years before fossil fuels took over, there were no chemical batteries, no electric transmission lines, and no balancing capacity of fossil fuel power plants to deal with the variable energy output of wind and water power.

Our goal is to connect the diverse struggles happening all over Europe over the course of the spring, in order to make the strength and power of civil society visible.

TreeHugger: In your speech to the conference you said, «Business is the most powerful force in our society today Business has incredible power and influence over our society, all of which [it uses] in the narrow interest of business, which is to make money We would not tolerate that from any other major entity in society, but it's okay for business.»

They require an agency, such as a law society, that has overall regulatory power over a profession or industry to sponsor their creation.

Law societies only have so much control and power over these labour markets, which is why many of the larger structural and experiential issues in legal practice may be properly addressed simply by applying existing societal standards to the legal industry as well.

After some preliminary work, the Law Firm Regulation Task Force was created in late 2014, and it has been meeting over the past year to consider how to develop a framework to implement the powers given to the Law Society by the statute.

IJI has predominantly been applied so as to render provincial laws inapplicable to federal works, undertakings and other federally regulated persons and entities when they impair the core of the federal power over those entities (although the Supreme Court of Canada left the door open for IJI to apply to federal laws that impair provincial entities in Canada (Attorney General) v PHS Community Services Society, 2011 SCC 44 (CanLII)-RRB-.

I completely agree with you that the «amputation, if not the complete elimination, of law society powers, purpose, and prestige» would be a «brutal revolution», and one that would please no one other than the explosion of bureaucrats who would take over and others who do not care for democracy or who are cavalier about its advantages.

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

Canadian law societies that have the power to regulate law firms may be trying to exercise jurisdiction over an organization that, in its international form, is bigger than they are.

There's this question of what powers, if any, do law societies have over curriculum?»

An audience of over 250 at The Royal Society on 6 March was riveted by a presentation which asked what the vast increase in processing power would mean for society — and for lawyers and the way in which theSociety on 6 March was riveted by a presentation which asked what the vast increase in processing power would mean for society — and for lawyers and the way in which thesociety — and for lawyers and the way in which they work.

This remains the case even where, as here, the province has delegated governing powers over the legal profession to a provincial law society.