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Educators and educational institutions are two powerful forces on Pinterest.

Powerful forces on the other side — sophisticated parents, universities, and voices from the world of industry — will have the wherewithal to respond.

THE human mind is among the most powerful forces on earth: the intelligence emerging from it allows us to cultivate vast cornfields or rice paddies and build sprawling cities; to launch spacecraft, paint pictures, compose music — or use reason to write this article.

«Unfortunately, we are facing one of the most powerful forces on this planet,» he says.

When a bishop accepts a female candidate for ministry, the aspirant has powerful forces on her side.

R1 P21: G Will Hernandez (UTEP)- A powerful force on the right side of the line that'll make life a lot easier for Joe Mixon in the run game.

Proponents of such measures suggest that as parents are «the most powerful force on earth» [v], they must be incorporated into our accountability system if education in the U.S. is going to thrive.

The longer you play the more of these combinations you unlock, making your current character a more and more powerful force on the battlefield.

With texts by Georg Bakunin and photographs by Ninja K. and Martha Cooper, it offers an overview of the work of this powerful force on the graffiti scene in Berlin and way beyond, showing the hectic, yet united way they take on the city.

Love, not hate, is still the most powerful force on earth.

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They've begun shipping a new generation of more powerful dual - core processors, forcing bone - deep price cuts on «old» dual - cores and Pentium - class chips.

He's less hopeful about the Bangladeshi government's initiatives, but says, «I think that part of the key points of this agreement is that you've got some of the major buyers in Bangladesh working with some of the major trade unions and labour rights groups together to push on Bangladesh and I think that combination is going to be a powerful force.»

Trump typically was short on details of precisely what he has in mind, particularly how much more in federal treasure he is prepared to spend to destroy terrorists overseas and at home and to transform what many already consider the most powerful military machine on earth to an even stronger, more Trumpian - like defense force.

«The deal represents a sudden and stunning turn of events for The Post, Washington's leading newspaper for decades and a powerful force in shaping the nation's politics and policy,» Washington Post reporter Paul Farhi wrote on WashingtonPost.com today.

Thanks to a powerful rain storm on Friday night that forced some bands to postpone their sets, mud became the main act at the Governors Ball 2013.

The Syrian government denied its forces had launched a chemical assault, while Russia, Assad's most powerful ally, called the reports fake and warned against military action on the basis of «invented and fabricated excuses.»

So we set out not to find surprises, but to zero in on those long - term forces that are so powerful, so broad, and so inexorable that they'll drive markets for years and years.

That's why we haven't heard from anyone: Life regularly evolves to where we're at here on Earth, then some powerful, inevitable force snuffs it out.

The last thing I'll say is third, what I'm going to call «volatility navel - gazing,» because it can cause us to lose focus on what's most powerful for investors, and that's the persistent and unrelenting force of technological change in the future.

There are a multitude of reasons as to why this occurs but it's a powerful enough force that many investors have done quite well for themselves over an investing lifetime by focusing on dividend stocks, specifically one of two strategies - dividend growth, which focuses on acquiring a diversified portfolio of companies that have raised their dividends at rates considerably above average and high dividend yield, which focuses on stocks that offer significantly above - average dividend yields as measured by the dividend rate compared to the stock market price.

In my experience, working with sales and marketing to identify and agree on the questions that constitute each stage (or sub-stage) of the buying process can be a powerful aligning force, getting everyone to realize that buying is a buyer - driven process, and to agree that there are things that need to happen before you can expect to close the sale, today, regardless of where the buyer is in the process.

Your support is invaluable to helping us fuel the progressive change that Canada needs, and to take on the powerful forces advancing policies that threaten democracy, equality, and sustainability in Canada.

«Hispanic business owners are a dynamic, powerful force in our growing economy, and the actions of our government have a tremendous impact on whether they are able to continue to thrive and create jobs.

Irma made landfall Sept. 6 on the island of Barbuda as a Category 5 storm packing winds of up to 185 mph, one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes on record and ultimately forcing the evacuation of the entire population of the island.

But on the big issues they care about, Putin stands up to powerful forces they see as threats.

Because the odds of «dangerous» ideas espoused by a carpenter walking around, preaching in an occupied land peacefully overtaking the Roman Empire (the most powerful man - made force on the planet at the time) and shaping civilization, Western and beyond, are almost as remote as the odds of you forgoing your delusional confidence in your ability for rational thought or facts, giving him credit for being exactly who he said he was.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

That kind of love not only overrides fear, anger, misunderstandings and cultural differences; it points to a truth that is more powerful than any force on heaven and on earth: The love of Christ.

Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

It is this fact which, as in the early church so now, has been a powerful force in moving people toward the acceptance of the second part of the argument, namely, that there must be an authoritative church which will adjudicate finally, absolutely, and even infallibly on which interpretations should be seen as resulting from the Spirit's illumination and which should not.

The 2nd Amendment guaranteed individual citizens the rights to own arms JUST AS GOOD as those of the regular soldiers they might have to oppose in an armed rebellion — the very sort of armed rebellion that the writers of the 2nd Amendment had recently successfully engaged in, defeating the most powerful military force on the planet using their own guns, which were JUST AS GOOD as what the British regulars and their Hessian mercenaries had.

Not sure i am convinced because how do you explain the verse an eye for an eye in the old testament there have always been consequences for wrong doing and stiill are for sin.If we believe the word then that word is from God not satan.As far as satan is concerned he uses violence as his tools of trade he works on our fears and is limited to robbing stealing and destroying he does nt have anything else.Violence confirms to us that there is a spiritual battle going on both on the earthly plane and in the heavenlys and the battle is over souls.The verse the kingdon of heaven is expanding and violent people take it by force is referring to that spiritual battle and as satan uses violence to expand his dominion so does God use violence to counter him.So what does he mean by that term for me i think it is saying that the the force of evil that satan uses or violence is overcome by a greater violence or force a more powerful one that being the Love of Christ.Through the cross we see that clearly portrayed and in our lives that very same battle is still happening right now for dominion be clear if we walk in the flkesh satan will have dominion over us but if we walk according to the spirit and abide in Christ we have freedom from our old nature.and satan.He can oppose us but he wont be able to influence us if we are in Christ.

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.

In reflecting on the Truman - Churchill decision to use the atomic bomb, Niebuhr said, «The question is whether they were not driven by historic forces more powerful than any human decision.»

Jesus» life is so powerful that it hasn't ended but carries on in a mysterious spiritual force to us all.

At the same time, however, I am equally aware of the powerful deep - lying historical forces which put limits on the ways in which men and nations can become open to a better future.

Alves seems conflicted on just what sense it makes to speak of God's love as a powerful force moving the present toward its intended future.

He does not delve into the nagging question of how fragile and vulnerable love is powerful over against the forces of domination, but he sets us firmly on the right track.

When we Americans talk about war and its justice, we're not Swedes or Malaysians, we're Americans; we're the most powerful nation on earth, with the largest military, the single nation in the world today most likely to threaten and use military force.

Woman is the most powerful living force on the globe.

Ex-president Nkrumah of Ghana had inscribed on his monument in the capital city: «Seek ye first the political Kingdom and all else shall follow.18 Every historical order elicits and organizes group loyalties which are among the most powerful forces in human life.

It is a matter of 1) coming into a proper relationship to our technologies, and 2) understanding how our media have a powerful shaping force on our communities, our cultures, our societies, and our selves.

Bush's alliance with Ariel Sharon was based on using massive force and preemptive strikes against terrorism and preferring unilateral acts with which the powerful side can impose its will without the need to negotiate compromises and concessions.

He concludes by describing the personally comforting, otherworldly salvific «promise from Jesus to soothe our sorrows, heal our hearts, and drive away our fears,» for whosoever believeth «will be part of something far more powerful, enduring, and good than all the forces here on earth.

Lively, engaging, and super-relevant, Reviving Old Scratch revisits the theology of the devil and demons to forge a fresh way forward that avoids the conservative tendency to over-spiritualize the devil and demons on the one hand and the progressive tendency to reduce these powerful forces to social issues on the other.

Whilst we wait for official confirmation of the expected duration of injury, I'm sure all Gunners will be thankful for him putting his body on the line, in front of Kante's powerful force.

YODA Goal Mask: Yoda, one of the most renowned and powerful Jedi Masters in Galactic history, is featured on this goal mask poised to duel, armed with his lightsaber while channeling the Force.

Andros Townsend blasted a powerful effort just over the top soon afterwards, but Chelsea were soon back on the attack and Willian forced Hennessey into a low save when he tried his luck from distance.

By understanding the powerful and often conflicting forces at work as you take on fatherhood and a family, you'll increase your prospects for pulling through and coming out the other side a stronger man, with a stronger marriage, and a family that makes all your efforts and sacrifices incredibly worthwhile.

When tools like Twitter fire up on a poorly - thought ad, it's easy to see just how powerful a force mass connection can be.