Sentences with phrase «powerful forces who»

Luther narrowly escapes but becomes the subject of an intense manhunt launched by powerful forces who value his silence more than his life.

The pair form an uneasy alliance and flee across Europe, hunted by powerful forces who will stop at nothing to kill them both.

Being conscious of fucking up assassinates creativity,» declares Jamian Juliano - Villani, a powerful force who charges into unknown territory.

Not exact matches

Unlike the public trashing that other women have gotten when accusing powerful men in the past — think Anita Hill, called «nutty» and «slutty» in 1991 or the long line of Bill Cosby accusers who, until very recently, were dismissed as gold diggers — Carlson's claims that Ailes ogled her and forced her out when she rebuffed him were taken seriously, listened to, and investigated.

He has been forced to operate like a prime minister in a coalition government, pleading for consensus from powerful ministers — such as combustible news head Matt Winkler and terminal boss Tom Secunda — who control resources and decide whether they'll allow anything to get done.

Dan: Simplicity is a powerful force, and it can be hard for people like entrepreneurs, who always have a lot to say, to master it.

And we have what promises to be a truly enlightening interview with someone who has discovered some powerful insights about our inner strengths... and the forces that so often distract us: the life and business strategist Tony Robbins.

Second - term Wildrose MLA Rob Anderson, who will also serve as Official Opposition Finance Critic, could be a powerful force in this important role.

There are many passionate people who use religion as a powerful force for good in the world where everyone benefits.

Or Shane Hipps, who said: «Within the forms of media and technology, regardless of their content, are extremely powerful forces that cause changes in our faith, theology, culture and ultimately the Church.»

Thomas Peters, a Catholic activist who blogs at AmericanPapist, said there are powerful forces at work when cardinals gather to elect a pontiff.

As was explained in Chapter Two, the Wahhabi movement was inspired by the teachings of Ibn Taymiyya, the great reformer who sought to save the Muslim world from doctrinal divisive forces so it could be more powerful in withstanding foreign aggression.

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.»

So powerful is the force of social influence that unjust racial appraisals infect the consciousness both of those who are discriminated against and of those who discriminate.

Many other forces were at work, including the powerful commercial broadcasters who wanted to be free from regulation at least as much as the religious broadcasters.

During the reign of Wu - Tsung (841 - 846), Uigurs who were a powerful force in Central Asia and had great influence in China came to the end of the period of their power.

There are others who understand the human situation more in terms akin to those prevailing in certain areas in New Testament days, when it seemed to many men that they were in the control of forces indifferent to their fate and that God, however potentially powerful, was very far off.

A decade after 9 / 11 - even the most intellectually challenged American should have understood that in the part of the world where there is instability and power vacuum - the slightest excuse can be used to rally people for a cause - and the Prophet is a powerful «cause» - that can be misused by political forces... So, any American who irresponsibly puts the lives of his fellow citizens in danger by using such provocation is a traitor to his country.

I have a wonderful husband who forgave me and we love each other and our marriage has gone from strength to strength, at the time i committed adultery i felt strongly that devil was controlling my behaviour it was such a powerful force and yet at the moment i was ending the affair the Holy Spirit was overpowering and brought me back to my husband and we celebrated our 25 th wedding anniversary last year, i have always loved my husband and didn't ever consider adultery and yet my ex came back into my life and i was weak, but now i am strong and so in love with my husband and know i am forgiven.

If truth is held captive by a powerful force of attraction, can the human beings who live under that force ever find a way to liberty?

For people who have been forced to become foreigners in their own land, who have been driven from their properties and who have been pushed around by the powerful like the mighty wind blows the dust around, ashes, as a moment of the continuum of the pilgrimage of life become most powerful.

Who am I in the face of such powerful forces?

This is particularly important for congregations composed mostly of those who are relatively powerful in a society — more specifically, in our society, of white affluent North Americans — and who therefore in their daily dealings are not forced to listen to or to learn from those who are less fortunate.

The prize will be an achievement award held annually that will celebrate a chef of any nationality who demonstrates how gastronomy can be a powerful force for change: those men or women whose impact can be felt «beyond the kitchen.»

Harrington, a journalism professor at Illinois, has written a passionate argument that hunting can be a powerful, uplifting force in men's lives, even for him, an unapologetically sensitive 21st - century guy who has emotional rap sessions with his son that end in hugs and I - love - yous.

A one - woman show by Celeste Billhartz of powerful images, narratives and music about the «unwed mothers» of past generations who were forced to surrender their babies to adoption..

There was just a hint of discord last night, however, as Republicans were forced to choose between remaining here in Rye Brook to attend state GOP Chairman Ed Cox's convention dinner, featuring Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, (who, by the way, is facing an uphill battle for re-election himself this fall), and driving to Long Island to pay their respects to the powerful Nassau County GOP chairman, Joe Mondello.

It seems to me that these claims, reducible to «the internet (or this internet tool) is a singular and powerful causal force that will affect change, and that change will be for the better,» are often driven by the posturing of publicity - seeking pundits and people looking for grants or business opportunities (see the first part of this story on the U.S. State Department)-- and the professional pessimists who live to challenge them.

The Rich and powerful who drive the Anti Gov. Forces seek to own the economic engine of America.

The state's governor, arguably among the most powerful in the country, has repeatedly been forced to the sidelines while others decide who will fill one of the top posts in the executive branch.

He is aware that some powerful forces, who are against the anti-graft war, are behind the delay.»

Defransisco, who is chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, is among a list of potential successors to the leadership post, if Skelos is forced out.

Mr. Bharara subpoenaed the files from the Moreland Commission — which Mr. Cuomo abruptly scuttled as part of a budget deal with the legislature — and used Mr. Silver's non-cooperation with the panel to help build his case against the former speaker, who was forced to resign his powerful perch in February.

«No New Yorker should be subjected to live in a hazardous home, yet bad landlords in our city are forcing too many tenants to live in dangerous and indecent conditions,» said James, who called the list a «powerful tool for putting unscrupulous landlords on notice.»

He said the UK would be a «powerful, liberal, humane and extraordinary force for good in the world» and he hoped that Brexit would «take the wind out of the sails of the extremists and those who would play politics with immigration».

A fictional account of the true story of Anonymous and LulzSec, the collective swarm who took on the most powerful capitalist forces from their bedrooms.

Assemblyman Marcos Crespo, a protege of Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., chairs the local party, having succeeded Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie — who ranks alongside Gov. Andrew Cuomo as the most powerful Democrat in New York State, and remains a major force in local politics.

Powerful labor forces who backed Mr. Rangel last time around may also be more inclined to stay neutral this year after seeing lefty allies like Ms. Mark - Viverito defect from the incumbent.

Espaillat's win came after two unsuccessful attempts to knock off Rep. Charlie Rangel (D - N.Y.), a onetime giant in Congress who was forced from his role as the powerful chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee in 2010 after a lengthy ethics investigation.

Nominating Ravitch, a vociferous critic of Common Core - based testing and charter schools, «would bring to W.F.P. the people in education who are disgusted with what Cuomo is doing, and marry one powerful force with another one,» said Dorothy Siegel, the party's treasurer.

Former Lib Dem leader Lord Ashdown defends the Liberal Democrats, who did so badly in yesterday's general election - and says that the party has received applications for membership from 1,000 people «because they see what is at risk now if we are not a powerful liberal force holding the central ground».

Anyone who's done so will tell you that there's nothing more constant and powerful than the force of LOVE.

'» This festival session will include a panel featuring Johnson as well as Carrington Jackson, the Yoga in Action coordinator for Off the Mat Into the World, a nonprofit that bridges yoga and activism through trainings and opportunities for activism; Kerri Kelly, founder of CTZNWELL, a movement to mobilize the wellness community into a powerful force for change; and Chelsea Jackson Roberts, who founded a community program for teen girls called Yoga, Literature, and Art Camp at Spelman College in Atlanta.

For folks who are meeting people everyday — really younger people in their early twenties — online dating is relevant, but it really becomes a powerful force for people in thin dating markets.

However, Joe Don Baker gives a riveting and powerful performance as Pusser who was determined and hell bent to force of crime and corruption out of his town at great personal expense, not to mention taking on the syndicate (The Dixie Mafia).

Becoming king also bestows upon the king the powers of the Black Panther, though his threats aren't physical so much as political, having to deal with not only external forces who want to use Wakanda's stash of the worlds hardest and most powerful metal, vibranium, to their advantage, but also within Wakanda, among those who feel that they have a responsibility to share their advancement with the world to help those who desperately need its harnessed powers to heal, or, more extreme, to use their secretive wealth in resources and weapons technology to right centuries of wrongs for people of African descent around the world through a revolution.

There are plenty of talented components to this cast, and most every one of them has his or her time to shine, even such much too briefly present forces as episodes 1's Martin Sheen - who nails both Irish - American accent and depth of the good - hearted slaver who comes to find flaws in the traditions he has had to follow - and episode 3's Richard Jenkin, who effectively despicable in his audacious portrayal of a despicable radical racist who is as willing to die as he is to kill to preserve his questionable sense of order - and plenty of other people in between, from the compelling Dennis Haysbert to the charming Danny Glover, so you know that it's saying something to proclaim that leading lady Halle Berry is this series» strongest performance, delivering on powerful layers and emotional range in her engrossing portrayal of a mulatto who is trapped in society by her mixed race, and will face many unbearable hardships that will test her innocence and humanity.

But his first attempt to stop her fails: He's deprived of his all - powerful hammer, and winds up imprisoned on Sakaar, a distant planet where he's forced into gladiatorial combat against his old friend the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), who doesn't seem to recognize him.

In the beginning — as is so often the case in these classic Disney tales — there is a death: that of her beautiful and beloved mother (Hayley Atwell), who left a powerful impression on the young girl and remained a guiding force on the young woman she'd become.