Sentences with phrase «power over what»

The school board has the real power over what gets to happen at the school.

Listen - Listen to what they have to say without voicing any judgement; it's important that they feel comfortable with you taking action and that they feel some degree of power over what's going on.

My child might say that he wants to see another Postman Pat but really he just needs to feel some degree of power over what is going to happen to him.

Play provides opportunities for children to have power over what they do and what and how they learn.

Indeed, given their power over what users see Facebook could, if it chose, be the most potent political force in the world.

Remember the primary parent account is tied to you, the administrator, and as such, you wield tremendous power over what other users can do on their computers.

As the person who is buying the insurance, you have all of the power over what kind of coverage you do or do not get on your Fenway policy.

Exxon has paid substantial sums to serve in a leadership capacity at ALEC, both on the group's corporate board and on energy - related issue task forces, where corporations introduce «model» legislation and hold de facto veto power over what bills are subsequently promoted by ALEC.

And that's because Big Oil has always had, essentially, a veto power over what the federal government does, both because of its economic might — I mean, we're talking about the richest business enterprise in human history — and all the political muscle that comes from that.

Not only do women account for over half of the nation's GDP, their power over what is spent in the household is vastly greater than their menfolk's.

Participating in this game before it is completed, gives players» power over what it is becoming.

This mobile marketplace was a new way for Apple to monetize its iPhones and allowed Apple to wield absolute power over what software was released for their phones.

But however benign a figure Mr Bezos cuts, his power over what gets written and read grows by the day.

Well, no one has power over what another thinks, and some of us don't care.

However, I do believe that food lobbies exert enormous, at times insidious, power over what we eat, that our water supplies are not being protected as much as they probably should be and that, in general, people are more interested in smart phones than museums.

There are a number of assumptions and hypotheses nested in these definitions, but I want to focus on two: 1) students will learn more if they have more power over what they learn («the path argument»), and 2) students will learn more if they have more power over when and how quickly they learn («the pace argument»).

In March 2017, the US legislature voted to repeal Obama - era rules that would have prevented ISPs from selling personal information to third parties and given users more power over what information they shared with ISPs.

As part of an agreement between the IDC and Republican caucus, each conference had veto power over what legislation was brought to a vote.

But the child sees it as the only way to have power over what's going on around him.

If a recipe calls for a syrup, it's relatively easy to make your own, holding power over what exactly goes into it.

Meier has not actually conducted the experiment, except in his head, where he exercises veto power over what he assures the reader is his perfectly orthodox Christian faith.

Jesus — so it is thought — completed the decisive modification in the concept of God from the personified power of nature, the power over what is, to the «representation of the ought - to - be as the power of love.»

Thus he can no longer think of God as the Power over what is (as Jesus conceived Him), but only as the Power over what ought to be, that is, only the personification of what the law of his own being demands of him.

The point is not that we should rule the offensive illegal, which is why the courts are correct to strike down efforts to regulate speech that some people do not like, and even most speech that hurts; the advantages of yielding to the government so much power over what we say have never been shown to outweigh the dangers.

Pai, a Republican named by President Donald Trump to head up the FCC, unveiled plans last week to scrap the 2015 landmark net neutrality rules, moving to give broadband service providers sweeping power over what content consumers can access.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, a Republican appointed by President Donald Trump, proposed in April to scrap the 2015 landmark net neutrality rules, moving to give broadband service providers sweeping power over what content consumers can access.

But the lack of competition in search means Google has enormous power over what we see and access on the internet, and critics have charged repeatedly that it has used that power to favor its services.

While serving time in a juvenile detention center, Scarface learned how to box, becoming a fan of the beauty of the art and its healing powers over what life hit him with.

Not exact matches

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.

What's not uncertain: the slow drip of unresponsive labour market regulations and mostly unenforced rules over the past quarter century has shifted bargaining power towards employers, against workers.

Watch People Shop This Google - powered map shows what people are discovering and shopping for, in real time, all over the globe.

That establishes a conundrum: one must maintain these quite different forms of global power without knowing if the cost is justified, until the moment arrives when others would pay ten times over to hold what you have in hand.

Instead of delivering 50 Hz - which is what mains - powered European clocks expect to get if they're to keep accurate time - the European grid has averaged 49.996 Hz, which is enough of a disruption, over a couple of months, to make all these clocks lose almost 6 minutes.

But what I learned later in life, too late, is that when you have power over another person, asking them to look at your dick isn't a question.

Saudi Arabia and Israel have also bonded over their shared goals in the Middle East, including defeating what they consider to be Iran's regional power grab.

Icahn on Tuesday referred to Fujifilm as a «supposed «partner» whose conduct over the last year is more unbelievable than what you see on fictional TV shows like House of Cards or Billions,» referring to popular television series about Machiavellian intrigue in the corridors of political power.

They also believe that acquiring power over others is the ultimate mark of achievement — like they have somehow «arrived» when they can finally tell others what to do.

One solar - powered Little Sun light lasts for two to three years before needing a battery replacement, and can save households up to 90 % over three years compared to what they would have spent on kerosene.

Dogwood's Strategy Director Will Horter reflects on this historic day It looks like British Columbians may finally get a government ready to fight for what's right in B.C. Today, Christy Clark announced her intention to bring back the B.C. legislature as soon as possible in June, face a confidence vote and hand over power to -LSB-...]

But he said moving to meet climate targets is becoming more affordable because while policy is still important the energy market is transforming so fast that «market forces have taken over», market forces around wind and solar power and batteries «are just accelerating regardless of what anyone else does» and decisions by companies like AGL Energy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds».

Northland Power (NPI: TSX)-- completes construction on over $ 900 million of projects and a majority equity stake in what will be the world's second - largest offshore wind farm.

the strange think is that many clergy and christians don't even believe in God they only do what they do for for the comfortable lifestyle and power over people.

What if the Moorish proverb that says, «He who fears something gives it power over him» is actually true?

The way it works is we can send real world items such as money or any kind of value or asset digitally from our phones and computers over a peer to peer network with no need for a financial infrastructure so no fees and no controlling powers saying what we can and can't be done with the currency we earn.

Really Daniel, I don't know what kind of marriage you have, but my wife and I do not need one of us to have veto power over the other in order for our family to function.

But the dollars at least are used to purchase goods, rather than to persuade those in power to hand over other people's money so that I can get what I want.

Look at how much trouble less than a century of nuclear power has already caused on this planet... what are the chances of something more catastrophic happening with that and / or more powerful technologies that develop over the next several hundred years?

For years and years the Church abused the power they had.They screwed over my Ancestors who were not Christians, forced people to convert, burned people at the stake, tortured people, stole lands, and who knows what else.

If one is thinking that Jesus is fulfilling Moses and following in the footsteps of Israel (as the opening chapters of the Gospel of Matthew indicate), we would expect that Jesus, once He enters into His prophetic power over the Roman Empire, does something similar as what was done in the tenth plague.

What many Christians in this country celebrate as «interdependence» is recognized there as the increasing one - sided dependence of whole nations on distant centers of economic power over which they have no control.