Sentences with phrase «powerful agencies of»

(Exodus 24:4 - 8) And always in the hinterland of animal sacrifice lurked age - old ideas of the magical potency of blood as a powerful agency of deliverance if rightly used (E.g., Exodus 12:12 - 13) and a supernatural peril if wrongly handled.

When the gaze covets a gold - painted, four - finger ring mounted by the word GIBBERISH, the artist exposes the powerful agency of language in the persistence of racial imaginaries.

Serge Attukwei Clottey's work examines the powerful agency of everyday objects.

Not exact matches

Forde and Thamel obtained documents from former powerful NBA agent Andy Miller, his former associate Christian Dawkins, and Miller's agency, ASM Sports, that appear to detail expense reports and cash advancements to college basketball prospects, some of whom are in the NBA today.

«Millennials are arguably one of the most powerful assets that our agency has — they're deeply engaged and their word of mouth is infectious.

If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Azar would oversee one of the most sprawling and powerful federal agencies in America.

It's used mainly by public relations, communications and marketing departments at agencies, and it's inexpensive, yet powerful enough to save a lot of work going into Twitter, YouTube, blogs, newsfeeds and search engines.

And that ignores the fact that its mandate is limited, and it exists in the real world with all of these other agencies, and all of these powerful opponents.

«It could be the most powerful detonation of an H - bomb in the Pacific,» Yong Ho told reporters at the United Nations in New York on Thursday, according to a story by South Korea's Yonhap News Agency.

The Smync platform is an easy - to - use, powerful toolkit to build social word - of - mouth and brand advocacy for brands and agencies of all sizes and industries.

He views the agency as the epitome of government intrusion into the marketplace and has crusaded to reduce its authority and oust its powerful Democratic director.

Plenty of people are concerned that Trump may use the one of world's most powerful intelligence agencies for his own gain.

Sin - talk proves to be enabling rather than debilitating discourse; it invokes a «powerful sense of hope» that animates women's agency in the world.

As already pointed out, culture is a powerful agency in the formation of human personality.

Thus the weak economic agencies in every nation are exposed to the market plays of globally powerful economic agencies.

With the fall of the Roman empire, due to its internal moral laxity and external attacks by «Barbarians» from the North and East, the Church became the single most powerful agency for the formation and social stability of the European peoples.

They are also dictated to by the IMF and other powerful international agencies which impose them structural adjustment programme (SAP) at the sacrifice of people.

By this I mean that although love will not use coercive measures, driving people to do what they will not do otherwise, making them (as the phrase has it) act in contradiction to their own freely chosen decision, love is the most powerful of all agencies in the world.

If God heals alcoholism and AA's are clear in that belief, they can have an enormous impact on the attitudes of government, medicine, religion, and other agencies in determining just how much such entities will welcome the powerful «God - business» solution.

Powerful well - funded agencies, often promoted by the State (I avoid the word «Government» as I do not want to speak in party - political terms), are mounting a relentless onslaught upon the family and especially the moral sense of our young people.

National economic security nets of self - reliance and protection, wherever they exit, are rapidly eroded in the name of the open market, as the weak economic agencies in every nation are exposed to the market plays of the globally powerful economic agencies.

Halting the expansion of the dangerous pilot program and bringing it to an immediate end is the only conscientious and compassionate choice for the USDA, a federal agency that has the opportunity, and the responsibility, to put animals, consumers, and workers above powerful pork industry interests.

USADA also became the drug - testing agency of choice for fighters advised by Al Haymon, who is now the most powerful person in boxing.

It was not built with a powerful combination of free agency and the draft.

ArthurLegacy, the official management agency of the powerful young midfielder, tweeted a confirmation of the move today.

Dawkins is a former associate of once - powerful NBA agent Andy Miller at his agency, ASM Sports.

by Jack Newman, MD, FRCPC One of the most powerful arguments many health professionals, government agencies and formula company manufacturers make for not promoting and supporting breastfeeding is that we should «not make the mother feel guilty for not breastfeeding».

The dairy industry is big business in the United States, with powerful influence within the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the government agency charged with providing sound leadership regarding our food system.

ALBANY, N.Y., March 28 (Reuters)- The merger of New York state's banking and insurance departments might not create the powerful agency first advertised, according to Governor Andrew Cuomo's recent budget deal with legislative leaders.

The agency is protecting the most powerful of Ghanaian citizen and his cronies and the BNI will have to battle for decades the ramifications of this public perception.

6) For Charles Gargano, the head of the Empire State Development Corporation (one of New York's most powerful quasi-public agencies) the deed to Brooklyn.

The Nassau County - based Skelos, who works for Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, a major Long Island law firm that represents dozens of powerful businesses before state agencies, voluntarily revealed last year that he was paid as much as $ 250,000 in private legal fees in 2009, when he was Senate minority leader.

Freedom from Torture believes Gina Haspel should be facing trial not triumph at the helm of the most powerful intelligence agency in the world.

«It will be a powerful tool to enable supply teachers to influence the market, shining a spotlight not only on the poor practices of bad agencies but also highlighting those agencies that treat their teachers well.

Prosecutors, though, say evidence will show that Percoco was still a powerful force within the governor's office during that period and that he exerted that influence to help those paying him by getting the Empire State Development agency to reverse a decision regarding use of union labor that greatly benefited the Syracuse developer.

ALBANY — Two powerful state investigative agencies announced new inquiries Wednesday into the inner workings of the Research Foundation of the State University of New York amid accusations that the foundation's president violated state ethics laws.

Schneiderman countered that he's been on tough on public corruption — pointing to recent convictions of Queens state Sen. Shirley Huntley and ex-Metropolitan Council of Jewish Poverty honcho William Rapfogel, a close friend of powerful Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, for looting $ 1 million from the social service agency.

The former aide, Howard Glaser, stepped down in late June as the director of state operations, a powerful post that oversees many state agencies and acts as an executive branch liaison to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates Kennedy and La Guardia Airports.

This is because we are simply fed up with the sheer barbarity and cruelty of powerful and well - armed ethnic militias like the Fulani herdsmen, terrorist organizations like Boko Haram, aggressive, violent, intemperate and intolerant land - grabbing settlers like the Hausa Fulani communities dotted all over the Middle Belt and the south and the excesses and genocidal tendencies of our northern - led security agencies and Armed Forces.

According to the authors, potentially powerful methods of detecting genetic manipulation among athletes have emerged, and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will consider implementing some of them in the near - future.

«In recent years, [NSF] has struggled with the logistics of evaluating a rising number of grant proposals that has propelled funding rates to historic lows,» but «one piece of the agency has found a potentially powerful new tool to flatten [submission] spikes and cut the number of proposals: It can simply eliminate deadlines,» Eric Hand reported last Friday.

Minutes after a powerful earthquake struck off the coast of Japan at 2:46 p.m. local time on 11 March, the Japan Meteorological Agency issued tsunami warnings that were broadcast on TV and radio.

Córdova launched that priority - setting exercise knowing NSF has spent the last 4 years fighting off attempts by another powerful legislator — Representative Lamar Smith (R — TX), the chairman of the House science committee — to reshuffle the agency's portfolio.

It is also set to be merged with the Science and Technology Agency as a part of a governmentwide effort to rein in the country's powerful bureaucracy.

The agency concluded that the farm will have minimal impact on the population of migratory birds, the activity of local sea life and the ocean views of the politically powerful.

(Reuters)- A powerful magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck near the Solomon Islands on Sunday morning, triggering a tsunami warning that was later cancelled, according to U.S. government agencies, and there were no immediate reports of damage.

Now, one piece of the agency has found a potentially powerful new tool to flatten the spikes and cut the number of proposals: It can simply eliminate deadlines.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the second most powerful court in the country behind the Supreme Court, heard two cases challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's first rules to crack down on mercury from the country's fleet of electric generating units.

In a November 24 interview with the Russian news agency Interfax, Rodionov said «powerful American radars» in Alaska «could have influenced the control systems of our interplanetary rover.»

Batishchev's engine could someday provide an inexpensive way to prod satellites, but it is far too powerful for the purposes of Davide Nicolini of the European Space Agency (ESA).