Sentences with phrase «power over the future»

The loan terms include 18 - month repayment, a 2.2 x liquidation preference and effectively gives Alibaba veto power over future equity investments into Quixey.

Secondly, they imply power over the future.

Elite tenure, for the top 10 — 25 %, would confer status to the deserving, open doors to paid instructional career opportunities, and give power over future decisions to top teachers who would be motivated to maintain a high standard.

From the sounds of it, Duncan has just handed teachers unions throughout the country virtual veto power over future Race to the Top grants.

«No matter what happened before, they have the power over their future.»

They almost persuaded him but when Bezos, a shrewd investor, demanded exclusivity and veto power over future investors, they went elsewhere (to Barnes and Noble and Bertelsmann).

This is good for me, because it gives me bargaining power over future authors I sign.

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Meanwhile, the turmoil at Politico may be giving some media watchers déjà vu, or at least flashbacks to another Allbritton - backed venture that went through substantial upheaval: In 2010, a number of senior journalists including former Washington Post digital chief Jim Brady started an ambitious hyperlocal effort called TBD, only to have the entire effort implode in less than two years after what appeared to be a power struggle with Allbritton over the future direction of the site.

Two of the world's best known billionaires, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett, have made major bets on the future of energy, and how generating power, and transportation will evolve over the coming years.

Dan Schawbel, who is a partner and research director at Future Workplace, says, «I always urge my generation to become passive job seekers so they can gain leverage and power over their prospects.

The recent clarification of the powers of the federal Commissioner of Competition to assert privilege over documents is an opportunity for more efficient and fair proceedings in the future, say lawyers who practise in the competition field.

«The topic at hand today, and over the next seven months, is how to build a better, more progressive, future for this province — that means broadly shared and greener prosperity within a renewed democracy powered by people, not corroded by big money.»

People all over the world, both in positions of power and not, seem to believe that there is room for debate on the issues of climate change, humanity's involvement and the need to transition to a low - carbon future.

In John 18:5 - 6 Jesus sais «I AM he» and The power of his declaration of BEING GOD brought them to their knees... This clearly coincides with Exodus 3 when God appeared to Moses and Declared that his NAME was «I AM who I AM» Do you REALLY think that that is not by design??? Is this not also a very clear foreshadowing of the future (Romans 14:11, and Philliapians 2:10 - 11) Please oh please see how the Bible is so intricately intertwined and full of the The masters handiwork... Everything, all of life's questions are all within this book, not other sources, if one but will accept them, pray over them, and get the Lord's guidance... This is why I brought up 1 Cor 2:14, Which you took EXTREMELY out of context in the way I meant it to be discerned, which the verse itself explains I might begrudgingly add... John 8:24 after he tells them I am not of this world.

While these claims are not entirely false, they do however lead us to think that we can have total control over our futures lives and that based on our knowledge, wisdom and power, we can succeed.

Systematically it is difficult to see how one can be confident of a future realization of the promise when there is no transcendent divine power that can insure victory over the enormous historical threats which we face.

From my perspective the Fathers of the church were basically correct, even though it is unlikely that the narrator had in mind the victory of the future Messiah of Israel over the demonic powers of darkness.

When one attempts to assess the present and future situations in religious television, the power of the commercial television industry over the perception of social reality must be of major consideration.

When you become a Christian by believing in Jesus for eternal life, one of the first things that happens to you is the Holy Spirit comes in and lives with in you, and in that moment, He washes you, He cleanses you, He purifies you of all sin, and provides us with the power to have victory over future sin.

And the fact is that two Catholic priests, Gregor Mendel, O.S.A., and Georges Lemaitre, were pivotal figures in creating two of the most important scientific enterprises of the twenty - first century: modern genetics, which is giving humanity previously unimaginable powers over the human future; and modern cosmology, which is giving us glimpses of the universe in the first moments of its existence.

Israel, however, was not beast but «son of man,» the people of the one true God; Israel alone had incarnated Yahweh's purpose and at a definite date in the future would sweep into world power over the ruins of the fallen heathen realms.

Love's «might is powerful in weakness and gains power over its enemies in grief, because it gives life even to its enemies and opens up the future to change.»

The Dun Commission of Christian scholars in 1950 in their report on The Christian Conscience and Weapons of Mass Destruction stated that «to accept general war as inevitable is to treat ourselves as helpless objects carried by a fated tide of events rather than as responsible men,» and went on to say, «One reason why fascism and Naziism gained their dread power over great nations was because otherwise decent people bowed before what they regarded as «inevitable» and allowed a «wave of the future» to inundate them.»

Will can restrict its scope in actualizing in order to allow other wills their option of choice, restricting foreknowledge and prediction but not necessarily the power of one who voluntarily limits what might otherwise be full control over the future.

The Resurrection is the real indication of Christ's power over death and sin, of course, but also of His power over matter: matter is raised to new potentialities, new relationships, as shown by His Risen Body being able to pass through walls, no longer materially confined by time and space as before, an indication of our own future bodily lives in the state called «heaven».

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

Sources at the club stress that keeping details confidential is paramount in adhering to employment law but the uncertainty surrounding Mahrez's future is casting a shadow over the King Power Stadium.

The Bank of England is about to acquire unprecedented powers over our lives and you might think that there is no better time therefore to examine how the bank has worked over the last 15 years and how it might work better in the future.

But then he needs to appreciate that some of the issues on which the 2010 — 15 Tory rebels defied the whip were rooted in 2010 manifesto pledges, a document that included the words, «We will ensure that by law no future government can hand over areas of power to the EU or join the Euro without a referendum of the British people.»

We'll look at the main areas being suggested for further devolution in Scotland by the Smith Commission — powers over the economy and the Welfare State — and examine how they apply to Wales; and then look at how devolution to England and the recommendations of UK Government's Cabinet committee under William Hague will impact on the workings of the UK, and what its future should be.

«I do believe,» she told the audience, «that the way in which technology is architected affects power in very real ways, and the structure of the technologies of the future actually are the structure of the democracies of the future and how much meaningful power people have over their own lives.»

It has been believed for weeks that the Assembly Democrats were deadlocked by a power struggle between Manhattan Democratic Chairman Keith Wright and his Bronx counterpart, Carl Heastie, over the future of Rep. Charlie Rangel's district.

Reducing the threshold from 15 % to 5 % is a completely transparent attempt to try to hang on to power over the heads of MPs, as well as to put a foot in the door of all future contests.

The Coalition government has stated that the proposed abolition of CMEC and transfer of its powers to the DWP will enable Ministers to have more direct control, responsibility, and accountability over the: delivery of child maintenance strategic and operational policy, and ongoing and future reform of child maintenance.

This will provide MPs with the opportunity to debate the current lack of protection for pubs, the fact that local communities have so little say over the future of their local, despite clear «moral ownership» of their local pubs - and will also suggest ways in which the planning system can be changed to ensure that local residents have the powers they need to protect their local pubs.

It will not be the NHS of the passive patient - the NHS of the future will be one of patient power, patients engaged and taking greater control over their own health and their healthcare too.

Backed up by new constitutional guarantees, Brown hinted, too, at giving the Scottish parliament greater power over the railways; party sources indicated that could allow a future Scottish government to bring rail services into some form of public ownership.

«We're not going to sit there and hand over powers to this government to override parliament, override democracy and just set down a series of diktats on what's going to happen in the future,» he said.

The remarks by Clegg, which are relatively recent, may undermine his claim that he has no preference over a future Lib Dem coalition partner if the party holds the balance of power after the next election.

However, there are doubts over the proposed breakneck pace of reform, given that the future of Scottish MPs at Westminster once power is devolved — the West Lothian question — has been posed but unanswered for decades.

If this is true, imagine how that power explodes exponentially when you are talking about the power of Warrior Moms all over the country who are concerned about the future of their children.

Mr. Cuomo used his power over the decennial redistricting process to win some victories in March: He was able to get lawmakers, who wanted him to sign the gerrymandered legislative maps they had drawn, to agree to curb pension benefits for future public workers, to create a more rigorous system for evaluating schoolteachers, and to take the first step toward legalizing a significant expansion of casino gambling.

Sources close to Jeremy Corbyn have made it clear he will oppose a push by his deputy Tom Watson to give MPs and unions more power over the choice of future Labour leaders.

And postdocs who would stand up for their own rights must do so despite the fact that these people hold great power over the young scientists» future prospects.

Meanwhile, the country is preparing to resume operation at as many as 48 nuclear reactors over the coming years, but that process is slow and expensive, and there are no guarantees that Japan will be able to meet its future energy demand with nuclear power alone.

«Without the new computing power made possible by Yellowstone, you can not depict the necessary detail of future changes in air chemistry over small areas, including the urban centers where most Americans live.»

Biodiesel may not become the airplane fuel of the future but it did prove effective enough to recently power a 1968 L - 29 Czechoslovakian jet — dubbed BioJet 1 — up to 17,000 feet (5,180 meters) over 37 minutes.

Over 140 Nobel laureates have contributed to the magazine, helping drive Scientific American's power to inspire, spark new ideas, shift paradigms and expand visions for the future.

BGU researchers, pioneers and leaders in renewable fuels for over three decades, are powering the future of energy.

«I imagine that the cars of the future will have a battery connected to many capacitors spread throughout the vehicle, which will take over energy supply during high - power demand phases during acceleration for example and ramming up of the air - conditioning system.