Sentences with phrase «powerful family of»

A powerful family of independent professional firms around the globe.

This shared leadership was affective for almost 200 years but in the late 14th century, the powerful family of Xiu became resentful of the Cocom rulers and organized a revolt.

Some evidence suggests that large doses may lead to imbalances and deficiencies in the flavonoids (vitamin P), a powerful family of over 6,000 antioxidants that have a symbiotic working relationship with vitamin C — each increasing the other's effect.

Not exact matches

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.

The rest of MAGAnomics is of the same vein: transfers of economic and political power from ordinary working families to the powerful interests that have backed Trump and his billionaire cabinet.

It is a set of simple, powerful rules that govern the internal behavior of any team, organization, family and even nation.

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.

Today, insecurity is just as powerful a motivator as it was when I was young and members of my family all gathered around the dinner table recounting stories about our day.

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.

The family - like environment of a new business can be a powerful thing.

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.

Citing InSight Crime's coverage of the case, Olson pointed out that the Kingpin List designation had «struck a powerful blow» against the family's criminal network, but also that it had generated uncertainty among the clients and employees of the family's businesses.

«Hand of God,» the TV debut of filmmaker Marc Forster («Monster's Ball»), will star Ron Perlman («Sons of Anarchy») as a powerful judge who suffers a mental breakdown and goes on a vigilante quest to find the rapist who tore his family apart.

That «The Equalizer» was going to dominate the weekend was a given, since the only other wide opener was the animated family film «Boxtrolls,» but not many people anticipated this powerful of a debut.

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 could be a House of Cards political thriller: A high - ranking elected official and his family are wined and dined by a rich and powerful foreign agent who does business with the government.

Emergenetics is a powerful tool that we use with many of our Matter families, as well as with our employees, to analyze, identify and leverage the way we think and behave.

The powerful combination of these three elements sets the stage for a family that collaborates and enjoys the responsibility and legacy that wealth provides.

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.

Before the Hamptons and Palm Beach, Long Island's serene North Shore was the country seat of New York's most powerful families.

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 region.

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 Tree.

Featuring new stories from Ann's blog, powerful excerpts from the New York Times bestseller The Broken Way, and Ann's signature photography from her farm and family, this gorgeous book will be a profoundly meaningful and needed gift — not only to your own weary soul, but any loved one looking for the relief of a bit of beauty and abundant joy.

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 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 Arabia.

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.

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.»

Not only is it an inspiring look at an artist and his family, it's also a powerful reminder about the toll of internet cruelty.

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.

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?

Economics should be just one part of the good life; instead, powerful economic forces now create pressures on individuals and families to pursue material gain at the expense of other important human ends.

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.

Imagine what would happen if a priest abused the son of a powerful family, perhaps an organized crime family?

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».

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.»

He notes that PK is supported by «James Dobson's Focus on the Family, the powerful, radio - driven theocratic crusade that is to the right of the Christian Coalition and has twice its membership.»

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.

This provides great opportunities to gather with other likeminded families for times of worship and Scripture reading and it creates really powerful memories for our kids.

So this year as you start the process of getting gifts for your family, please also begin a tradition of giving shoe boxes to children around the world that are longing to feel that powerful, tangible touch from the God that loves them.