Sentences with phrase «powerful elites»

This was a tradition that the Capitol — the nation's center of power and the home to the rich and powerful elites of the community — enjoyed every year.

For example, if I believe that human societies are inherently amoral, unjust, and governed by powerful elites who rig the economic, political, and educational game in their favor, then I might endorse the late Brazilian social activist Paulo Freire's «pedagogy of the oppressed,» wherein students are taught to view social relations in terms of power and domination.

(Hat tip: Notes on the Culture Wars and LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH) When it comes to secret societies of the wealthy and powerful elites bent on one - world government, I prefer The Pentavirate: So I Married An Axe Murderer (Colonel Sanders scene)....

I'm sure they wooed many wealthy people and powerful elites at their palaces, and I wonder how and to what extent an understanding of that lifestyle would have filtered down to someone like Jesus.

The domination of a rich and powerful elite over the masses, religious and caste groups organizing to usurp political power, a virtual collapse of the secular framework of the Constitution, continuing misery of the poor and their exclusion from all decision - making process, new ethnic identities and their struggle for justice — these are some of them.

We've heard these images alluded to many thousands of times during the course of our lifetimes by politicians, supported by the press and other powerful elites.

The cause of social cohesion and a peaceful society will not be advanced by the special pleading of already powerful elites whose beliefs have no popular support, but by the creation of a shared national life that treats everyone equally, regardless of religion or belief.

While this research has undeniably delivered important public benefits, it has also tended to drive «the whole thrust of the economy» in directions that favour powerful elites.

In Latin America particularly, there are powerful elites increasingly coming into conflict with disempowered groups in resource - rich areas where corruption runs rampant.

When it comes to secret societies of the wealthy and powerful elites bent on one - world government, I prefer The Pentavirate:

Seeing as how we don't actually know one another and personal letters don't generate any blog traffic, I've decided to publicly air my grievances against you in a format that positions you as the powerful elite and me as the scrappy underdog willing to take you on.

My view takes the Bible out of the hands of the powerful elite, and puts it back into the hands of the people, where it belongs.

It is the fundamental reality, from the people's perspective, that throughout history, religio - cultural institutions have often been dominated by the powerful; their norms, contents, styles, communication and transmutation, have been controlled by the powerful elite.

The languages, letters and characters, printing tools, artistic and literary media, and modern printed and electronic media are all dominated by the powerful elites of the society and the world.

A mighty and unjust Empire can not withstand a God who levels the hills of inequity, who regards the powerful elite as withering grass, who raises up the humble and puts the powerful in their place.

He was a liberal solicitor who took on many cases against the country's powerful elite.

Without fair and open access to the ballot, a few, powerful elites will control the means to get elected.

But despite endorsements from the city's powerful elites, come September, Quinn placed a distant third, losing every Democratic Party constituency.

The powerful elites and the masses.

Now almost six years later and with much - improved video skills, Amanda has joined the powerful elite of beautiful vloggers like Michelle Phan and Carli Bybel, who have the power to influence the next generation of beauty consumers.

It's on par with their best work, with Bends, OK Computer, Kid A. It's a sign, a symptom of our dark times (the powerful elites stoking wars to sell arms to stir the growth of economies, endless river of destitute refuges, terrorism, corruption,

The young people turn out to be clones that are specifically born and bred so that their organs can be «harvested» for transplants by the rich and powerful elite.

In short, it posits that the country was built on the exploitation of the masses by the powerful elite.

Technology is a major component of the Lexani 2015 Cadillac Escalade Concept One, so well - heeled executives and the powerful elite can stay connected to their business activities while in transit.

Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes (A War of All Against All, 2012) is the largest and depicts fifty - two distinct art world factions engaged in Hobbesian total war stoked by the agents of the «ruling asset class» such that they are unable to unite and revolt against the powerful elites who determine their fates.

They are frustrated with the decades of government policies that have enriched a powerful elite with logging dollars but have left Sarawak with just ten percent of its forest intact.

Again, it is not in our interests for any one section of the community, a powerful elite of newspapers, to sway / attempt to sway the judiciary.