Sentences with phrase «power than of a person»

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So whilst the closed door discussions will be about how to keep the status quo regardless of the rapidly increasing power costs and breakdown of service that is now being experienced around the country, the open conversations being had by the people are excited discussions about the future because we trust the likes of Elon Musk and Mike Cannon - Brookes to get the job done more than we trust big power and Government to come to any kind of meaningful and affordable long term solution.

One of the ironies about being a leader is that you sometimes wield a lot less power than people think.

The legislation is stricter and offers far less clarity than expected: it expands the definition of state - owned enterprises (SOEs) to include any company that is «influenced, directly or indirectly» by a foreign power or, for that matter, any person under government direction.

The real power of this is you can get the attention of people who hate you much easier than from people who like you.

With the rise of a small number of big tech companies — and governments using technology to watch their citizens — many people now believe technology only centralizes power rather than decentralizes it.

At the Federal Reserve's target rate of 2 percent, inflation could erode more than $ 73,000 of a retiree's purchasing power over 20 years if that person were receiving the monthly average Social Security retirement payment of $ 1,341.

With economies of scale the cost of solar power has plunged much faster than many people expected — and some are actually arguing that solar will become cheaper than fossil fuels within the next few years.

Rather than attempting to impose a solution through the use of power, this book starts from the viewpoint that the other person's emotions and perceptions must be respected and negotiated towards.

«They influence people older than them, process lots of information from lots of sources, and... today they account for 21 to 25 percent of consumer discretionary purchases — and that's going to increase as they get more earning power.»

TORONTO — Ontario will import enough electricity from Quebec to power a city of more than 200,000 people under a seven - year agreement signed Friday, but the provinces won't say how much Ontario is paying Hydro Quebec.

And in a country of more than 150 million people, even a proportionally small middle class like Bangladesh's can be quite large in terms of absolute numbers and buying power.

the acquisition by any person of direct or indirect ownership of securities representing more than 50 % of the voting power of our then outstanding stock;

Reality of the situation In the end the people with power who have money to hire lobbyists and sway influence with members of the CRTC will either get their way entirely or come to some sort of «compromise «that benefits them more than the average Canadian who wants consumer choice.

The total number of people without electricity in Puerto Rico is more than 120,000, and there remain municipalities where 45 percent of residents don't have power.

The demand of what we could be rendering is higher than what all of the centralized cloud computing parameters have... I've always assumed that the way to scale, and get people this unlimited rendering power, and drive this economy of rendering that I saw for the future, was to do it in a distributed way.

«It's normal for there to be family conflicts, but when you add the stress of more than five months without power, without food, living patterns change... it makes it harder for people to manage daily life,» Santana Mariño told the newspaper.

Shoving people into positions of power at Federal agencies that were created to protect the public interest based on little more than Trump's gut instinct that his picks will show him the requisite personal loyalty that he demands is undermining the Federal government's ability to do its job.

Under the 2017 Plan, a change in control is defined to include (1) the acquisition by any person or company of more than 50 % of the combined voting power of our then outstanding stock, (2) a merger, consolidation, or similar transaction in which our stockholders immediately before the transaction do not own, directly or indirectly, more than 50 % of the combined voting power of the surviving entity (or the parent of the surviving entity), (3) a sale, lease, exclusive license, or other disposition of all or substantially all of our assets other than to an entity more than 50 % of the combined voting power of which is owned by our stockholders, and (4) an unapproved change in the majority of the board of directors.

In any event, even if one explains the fact that the US dollar has crashed in purchasing power in recent times, over a very condensed period of time, by more than 75 %, because it has been one of the strongest currencies in a pool of rapidly devaluing currencies for the past two years, I've discovered that quite often, even presentation of indisputable facts can not sway people to believe something that they simply do not want to believe.

So the issue for the people around the world at this point especially the ones that are dealing with these currencies that are devalued faster than others is that the currency is a terrible store of value and the buying power for people of these countries just continues to disappear.

That's enough to power the lives of more than 1 million people.

By providing financial services that are more convenient and «democratized» than physical money, every person around the world can enjoy the power of banking — all in the palm of their hands.

Trump proposes to use his power to line the pockets of steel and aluminum companies and workers, who number less than 150,000, with money taken from hundreds of millions of other people.

Seems like a lot of trouble to go to for people that have no more power than sharing an opinion.

The real message Rush wants the people to know is that money makes you King in this world, and ultimate though temporary power on the planet is more important than getting into the gates of eternal heaven.

Osama believed perfectly clearly that he was fighting for goodness in battling an imperial world power that fought and killed thousands of his own people for no other reason than financial gain.

But, I am encouraged that a weapon far more powerful than guns is being awakened: The power of the people.

Rather than working toward a shared humanity in which all people are recognized as worthy of a full life by the very fact they they exist, this approach strives to use power to divide humanity into those worthy of a full life in the here and now, and those who are not.

What did the revolts brought to the people in those countries any thing other than continuos unending revolts and demonstrations scarcity of essential commodities and products adding to the sky high prices... While other essential needs such as electricity power supply, water, gas, diesel, petrol are being used as a pressure tool by the opposition or the ruling party to keep people mad on the streets rather than going home seeing to their daily living making and minding their own businesses... but what business will continue with such chaos and disorder...?

It appealed to people with power because, with the spread of emancipatory movements, it began to appear easier and more profitable to control populations than to control territory.

Some time fears and acts of fears leads people to what you fear most to happen... so it is how it will be played that will determine the future... so as BO said that to show good feelings and give a helping hand will make you less enemies than if go on the bases of power and superiority...

More than 1 billion people on our planet live on less than the buying power of $ 1.25...

Christendom: I think that Christianity as a religion, which purports to call people to follow Jesus, but uses money, power, and political prestige to force «Christianity» on others, is nothing other than the adoption of all the things which Satan promised Jesus in Luke 4, but which Jesus turned down.

Wonder and awe before the majesty of the Creator, answering a high call to service, being transformed by a Power greater than our own, being aware of a Presence in whose fellowship we find our strength, being reinforced by the divine help so that we triumph over trouble, opening our lives to inspired hours when the best seems the most real — all these are responses to revelations of reality above and beyond ourselves, but nowhere is such revelation so compelling as when it comes incarnate in a person.

There are few greater thrills for the Christian than to see people touched by the power of God and healed in their bodies and minds.

«Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations; but, on a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions, which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other cause, produced despotism.

Inspired by Obama and undeterred by parliamentary scandals, as yet uncommitted to any particular party, but increasingly aware that few arenas have the opportunity to create greater positive change for large numbers of people than the righteous use of political power, he wants to study politics, philosophy and economics.

The charismatic experience is a «sensation of surrender to an immersion in a larger reality: an experience perceived as self - fulfillment and enhancement of individuality rather than the loss of it» (Luther P. Gerlach and Virginia H. Hine, People, Power, Change: Movements of Social Transformation [Indianapolis: Bobbs - Merrill Co., 1970], 124).

Many pastors who try to control the thinking and behavior of others with the concept of «spiritual fatherhood» are more concerned with their own position of power and prominence than they are with the spiritual wellbeing of other people.

And the impact of Jesus Christ upon history, his continuing influence and power in the world, the very wonder of his person itself that we read about in the New Testament — all point to his being more than the best of men, making credible the conviction stated in a hymn, that in Jesus we have «God in man made manifest.»

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by [his] Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of [his] glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

As James Madison, the «Father of the Constitution» said, «There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by the gradual and silent encroachment of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpation.»

The gospel lays bare the motivations of our heart to reveal that many of our battles over the gospel are little more than struggles for control between power - hunger people.

This is a society in which money and power are more important than people, health is a negotiable commodity, old - age a curse, worker slavery a new form of more profitable production, the poor are disposable, and the earth's destruction an increasing reality.

Hebrews 1:1 KJV God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; 3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; 4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

They call them peddlers of religion, and they do not mean that in a positive way, but rather are referring to people they believe are trying to push their own agenda of a psuedo - religious toxic mix of some sort of religious something, politics, power, control, personal profit (think $ $ $) and efforts to feel good about ones self while at the same time looking down on neighbors (condescension) rather than loving neighbors.

I've heard these very things said by those who are on the other end of the people who use religion and politics to enrich themselves, give them power and authority over their fellow human beings and draw attention to themselves rather than to God.

There was an uncomfortable silence as she continued, «I wonder if more people aren't motivated by power rightly used and influence for the good than we've let on, only it's been socialized out of us?»

Nowhere was this clearer than in Youth for Christ, a movement that began as an effort to provide Christian young people with a blend of wholesome entertainment and high - powered, upbeat evangelism.

Burning talking bush's, walking on water, flying monkey's (wait that's the wizard of OZ) all to me are silly stories but if people want to believe than more power to them....