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One of the most powerful families in the country is that of the Rawlingses.

From mocking Bush as low - energy to refusing to apologize to his wife for bringing her into the debate on immigration, Trump consistently embarrassed a scion of one of the most powerful families in the Republican party.

Cherie Blair's autobiography brushes quickly past the early years and gets to the good stuff - this is the first opportunity to get a look into the lives of Britain's most powerful family in the last ten years.

At the heart of the adventures series is «the story of the Cahills, billed as the most powerful family in history.

The Tower Heist director reunites with screenwriter Jeff Nathanson for this adaptation of the young adult book series about the most powerful family in the world.

WWE have just announced that the most powerful family in sports entertainment will now be playable in WWE 2K17 Earlier today, Stephanie McMahon revealed that she, along with father Mr. McMahon and bro...

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He is the author of Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America (Bloomsbury Press, 2009); it was released in paperback as Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government and the Secret History of the Last Fifty Years.

Not all powerful business families implode: When Paul Desmarais died last year, his sons, Paul Jr. and André, succeeded in dividing responsibilities over the vast financial services firm with little evidence of acrimony.

The four conglomerates originated in different sectors, but their underlying business model is the same: cultivate powerful allies in the Communist Party; use those relationships to win regulatory and property concessions; gather investment from friends, family and other proxies of party elites into a murky, unregulated private holding company; borrow heavily from state - owed banks and other sources to finance prodigious growth plans; invest as aggressively as possible in stock and property overseas as a hedge against slower growth in China and the risk of a weaker Chinese currency.

It might seem odd to have a family dynasty at the helm of one of the world's most powerful media organizations, but such an arrangement — in which the Sulzbergers control the majority of the voting shares — used to be the rule in media rather than the exception.

It's more than a little ironic that Facebook (fb), which has become a powerful media entity, is controlled in much the same way through multiple - voting shares owned by Mark Zuckerberg and his family.

It's an easy way to stay up - to - date on what's happening with the world's most powerful women, as well as developments in the areas of equal pay, sexual harassment, and paid family leave.

It's unclear how the family was able to secure such a simple handle, but Jenner has already proven herself to be the most powerful «momager» in the world, so it stands to reason that her powers as a «grandmomager» are equally impressive.

Green Hills Farms, a small family grocery in upstate New York, has big companies around the country clamoring to know the secrets behind its powerful customer - loyalty program.

Olson supported his conclusions by raising the case of the powerful Rosenthal family and their money laundering network in Honduras, which the Treasury Department sanctioned in 2015.

At Fortune Magazine's «Most Powerful Women» dinner in Palo Alto, Calif., businesswoman Marissa Mayer, who was criticized for juggling a short maternity leave and her new role as Yahoo's CEO, says she has found balance by «ruthlessly prioritizing» God, family and then Yahoo, citing legendary Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi.

After years of squabbling with the powerful boyars (Russian noble families), Ivan stormed out of Moscow in 1564.

Early Marker: Joined board of Santander in 1989, putting her in line eventually to become the fourth generation of her family to lead the Spanish banking giant and arguably the third - most - powerful woman in global banking.

It has proven very difficult to bring the savings rate down because this can only happen by diverting resources away from wealthy and powerful groups and families in favor of ordinary households.

«These powerful families have their benefactors in the [ruling royal family] itself,» he said.

In addition, the ongoing war with Yemen, the abrupt resignation of Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri from Saudi soil, and the internal power struggle within the Saudi monarchy leading to the detention of a large number of powerful members from the royal family sum up the major ongoing conflicts in the regioIn addition, the ongoing war with Yemen, the abrupt resignation of Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri from Saudi soil, and the internal power struggle within the Saudi monarchy leading to the detention of a large number of powerful members from the royal family sum up the major ongoing conflicts in the regioin the region.

This can be a powerful asset preventing you, your spouse, and your family from needing to start over building a new advisor relationship later in life.

You can completely be greatful for your family without a belief in an all powerful being.

Under pressure from powerful special interests who manipulate the language of «rights» and «freedom» in ways that contradict «the laws of Nature's God,» our atheocratic government now deems itself competent to rewrite the God - given definitions of marriage and the family.

In addition to the 25 free printable ornaments that coordinate with the daily readings in The Greatest Gift (adult edition) and Unwrapping the Greatest Gift (Family Read Aloud Edition), DaySpring has beautifully created Jesse Tree Ornament Sets, in either embossed, pearlized card stock or as a sculpted heirloom set, as a powerful & memorable way to celebrate the lineage & majesty of God's greatest gift to us — His Son, Jesus Christ — through the timeless Advent tradition of the Jesse TreIn addition to the 25 free printable ornaments that coordinate with the daily readings in The Greatest Gift (adult edition) and Unwrapping the Greatest Gift (Family Read Aloud Edition), DaySpring has beautifully created Jesse Tree Ornament Sets, in either embossed, pearlized card stock or as a sculpted heirloom set, as a powerful & memorable way to celebrate the lineage & majesty of God's greatest gift to us — His Son, Jesus Christ — through the timeless Advent tradition of the Jesse Trein The Greatest Gift (adult edition) and Unwrapping the Greatest Gift (Family Read Aloud Edition), DaySpring has beautifully created Jesse Tree Ornament Sets, in either embossed, pearlized card stock or as a sculpted heirloom set, as a powerful & memorable way to celebrate the lineage & majesty of God's greatest gift to us — His Son, Jesus Christ — through the timeless Advent tradition of the Jesse Trein either embossed, pearlized card stock or as a sculpted heirloom set, as a powerful & memorable way to celebrate the lineage & majesty of God's greatest gift to us — His Son, Jesus Christ — through the timeless Advent tradition of the Jesse Tree.

In her powerful book, The Drama of the Gifted Child (1979), Dr. Alice Miller discusses all the major and minor misattunements that happen in our families of origiIn her powerful book, The Drama of the Gifted Child (1979), Dr. Alice Miller discusses all the major and minor misattunements that happen in our families of origiin our families of origin.

There is, moreover, a powerful inclination to pick and choose among human rights, which results in favoring some (e.g., the right to privacy) at the expense of others (e.g., the rights of the family).

Social and family pressures are very powerful in forcing acceptance of some type of belief system.

In spite of various setbacks to the movement the majority of Muslims in Saudi Arabia are Wahhabis to this day, and it enjoys the powerful support of the Saudi family which rules ArabiIn spite of various setbacks to the movement the majority of Muslims in Saudi Arabia are Wahhabis to this day, and it enjoys the powerful support of the Saudi family which rules Arabiin Saudi Arabia are Wahhabis to this day, and it enjoys the powerful support of the Saudi family which rules Arabia.

«But after it is over, they will come over to talk to me and whisper in my ear, «I agree with everything you said,»» says Sprigg, a spokesman for The Family Research Council, a powerful, conservative Christian lobbying group.

This is done, in this remarkable human family of which we are all a part, with demonic craft by the powerful, in an absolutely dazzling array of forms (if necessity is the mother of invention, covetousness and lust are the parents of ingenuity), upon well - established but shamelessly fraudulent justification, usually in the broad sense religious and sometimes even specifically theological.

Mary and Joseph were being hunted by the most powerful monarch in the region, and he knew their family identity.

In a pointed statement he said ``... proving that nothing is sacred - not even fatherhood - the President couldn't resist a shout - out to his homosexual base, marring what should have been a powerful acknowledgment of the family's importance in American life.&raquIn a pointed statement he said ``... proving that nothing is sacred - not even fatherhood - the President couldn't resist a shout - out to his homosexual base, marring what should have been a powerful acknowledgment of the family's importance in American life.&raquin American life.»

Grace is a powerful thing but to live a life of non-repentance only to use the «get out of jail free card» in one's dying breath is a twisted concept that has been theologically exploited by Evangelicals in order to «get the numbers up» and provide family members of those who have died with a warm feeling that their loved one made the right choice at the end.

Nonetheless, many fundamentalist groups are more popular among women than among men, and women support these groups because they encourage men to take a more responsible role in heading families than is often the case in fragmented or changing social circumstances, and women often play powerful roles behind the scenes.

The reflections of the French Catholic writer François Mauriac, who succeeded in leading a conventional family life despite what he experienced as the powerful lure of alcohol, drugs, and homosexuality, demonstrate the gap between the austere piety of the religious individual and the tactful lifestyle that Tóibín detects in James:

Powerful interest groups in many places, especially large cities, are often antagonistic to the traditional religious values of family, sexual self - control, objective morality, and individual responsibility.

So, your all loving, all powerful, forgiving and understanding god is sitting by watching the likes of Ghandi, Anne Frank, Einstein, and untold billions of little children who had the unforunate bad luck to be born in a non-Christian family and be taken before their time get tormented for all eternity?

Little Georgie Dubya was from skull & bones, an organization that hand picks people from wealthy families to be placed in powerful positions to make policy from banks, oil industries, world trade, education, wall street, and yes... politics.

The difficulty was, that to say so, even for a scientist with the factsat his fingertips, was to go against a powerful and intolerant conventional wisdom: «We liberals», he wrote, «who work in the fields of global HIV / AIDS and family planning take terrible professional risks if we side with the pope on a divisive topic such as this.

He acknowledges that these values are rooted in his Christian faith, which serves not only as a personal anchor for him and his family but a powerful force for the greater good.

We may end our article where we began it, by quoting from the Novena of Cardinal Newman: Philip, my holy Patron, who wast so careful for the souls of thy brethren, and especially of thy own people, when on earth, slack not thy care of them now, when thou art in heaven... Be to us a good father; make our priests blameless and beyond reproach or scandal; make our children obedient, our youth prudent and chaste, our heads of families wise and gentle, our old people cheerful and fervent, and build us up, by thy powerful intercession, in faith, hope, charity and all virtues».

As predictable and pat as the Esquire piece may be, there's little doubt that the new consensus on family — «straight people blew up marriage a long time ago» — has powerful adherents quite a bit further up in the clouds than the average Esquire reader, or writer.

There are a variety of ways in which this is so, but, at the same time, it's clear that certain aspects of pagan familial virtue are not exactly incompatible with the Biblical sacred order that can check or overcome their excesses and pathologies — just as the Biblical order imposes powerful interdicts, not to be confused with taboos, against the kind of violent desires that, to the morbid fascination of the ancient Greeks, deconstructed and destroyed the identities of family - bound individuals.

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.

The Family Research Council, a powerful conservative Christian group in Washington, has promoted the Day of Truth in the past.

The data indicates the general controlling power of family loyalty, possibly the most powerful remaining loyalty in the vision of «a Christian America.»

More immediately, morality was mediated through the extended family (with all its connections to caste), which remains very powerful in India; sometimes in those temples where pundits gave discourses about the perennial struggles of good and evil; and most frequently by the practical decisions of the panchiat, the intercaste village council of the five leading elders.

If we interpreted letters we received over the years from family and friends the way that powerful church organizations interpret scripture to protect their own interests we would see the error in how we minimize God's creation.

Emphasizing, first, that all are saved diminishes the reality of oppression, sometimes leading to powerful people treating their friends and family horribly while justifying their behavior because they're preaching salvation in Jesus.