Sentences with phrase «powerful hold on»

Even in its division Windows remains the best thing Microsoft has going — it had such a powerful hold on Microsoft's culture precisely because it was so successful.

Sanatoriums exerted a powerful hold on the imagination of modern architects and designers as building types and institutional models.

The fact that this was the site of the greatest explosion in modern recorded history was truly awe - inspiring — that I was just a few miles away from the center of so vast a cataclysm was a simple fact that exerted a powerful hold on me, and has ever since.

Long extinct animals have a powerful hold on the popular imagination.

The visual cortex of our brain has a very powerful hold on how we interact with the world around us.

This is why the Olympic Games retain such a powerful hold on our moral imagination: We get to see what human nature is capable of in its nobler moments.

In Becoming Attached, psychologist Robert Karen explains, «[Early in life], one forms images of the self and others and of how they fit together, which have a powerful hold on the personality and serve as a blueprint for future relationships.»

Even in its division Windows remains the best thing Microsoft has going — it had such a powerful hold on Microsoft's culture precisely because it was so successful.

By my count, that puts four companies in the book business who have extraordinarily powerful holds on their space.

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The German Chancellor has held the top spot on the Forbes Most Powerful Women List for seven consecutive years, and 12 years in total.

More people are willing and able to speak out on social media to hold powerful men and institutions accountable.

The timing of this price drop is no coincidence — Microsoft's Xbox group is holding a big press conference in Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon, where the company is expected to detail the next, significantly more powerful version of the Xbox One (codenamed «Project Scorpio»).

Fortune held the inaugural Fortune Brainstorm HEALTH conference on November 1 - 2 in San Diego, convening and building a powerful new community of leaders at the forefront of the revolution that is underway in 21 st century healthcare.

The main purpose of this burglary was to get hold of the powerful computers which would be useful for mining bitcoins and other virtual currencies on a large scale.

They are found to be a very Rich & Powerful Groups and Mother of Groups that control lives of Millions... Now Finding Peace means that we should think on how to get those Master Keys or Super Master Keys of Super Powerful Groups that are to be gathered all in one Ring lock that works to getting them to work towards One Purpose only and that is on how to make Human Life better Globally and that by investing in them human populations worldwide not minding their Race or Faith or Political interests such will work towards Building Bridges between all Nations holding and calling one Message of Love and Sharing in some form of Brotherhood that works towards a Greener Planet Earth!?

Webb lacks critical appreciation for the ways in which the powerful can appeal to providence in self - serving ways, convincing themselves that their hold on power is itself a sign of God's favor.

The powerful hold that such rites have on people is evidenced by their continuance even when their sacred purpose is explicitly denied or subverted.

Even if this does not happen, even if the United States continues on as the greatest and richest and most powerful nation in the world for many generations to come, are you making preparations now to hold the fort for future Christian generations?

It's a greater fantasy NOT to believe that there is an all powerful invisible god somewhere in the universe who knows everything, can do anything, hears everyone's thoughts, etc, or that someone died and rose from the dead three days later (this same person was born of a virgin), or that someone spoke to god via a burning bush, or that one old man, who lived to be 900 years old, built a boat that held two of every animal on the earth to survive a worldwide flood?

So great is the hold of race prejudice on men's minds that it must be counteracted by something powerful and revolutionary.

However I hold, along wi th the church for most of its history, that his humanity is very important and that he lived on earth as a vulnerable human being and not as some all powerful and all knowing godlike figure.

On the principle of control and direction, nature demands that, when a creature emerges with a brain too powerful for the environment to hold in meaningful stimulation and coordinated response, something new must be done.

Seriously, we don't need people in powerful positions making decisions on the fate of millions based on fairy tales — Because Atheists who have held power positions are so compassionate like chairman Mao and Stalin and Pol Pot.

Nothing made me feel more powerful, more like their mother than holding them, skin - on - skin, and nourishing their bodies and souls.

I'm truly on the fence here (i.e., Agnostic), but strongly hold the belief that a God who is both loving AND all - powerful must not exist.

The unspoken judgment trembled palpably on the airwaves as four powerful women» a television reporter, a Congressional representative, and two physicians» held at bay the lone male guest, himself a doctor.

It is great because human societies, in the form of nations and of civilizations, have become very powerful and seem to hold in their hands both the blessings and the curses that are to be visited on men.

Absolutely, it does make sense to at least 6 billion people on earth including but not limited to professionals and the elite such as Doctors, Scientists, Juries, Judges, Magistrates, Politicians, even by the person who holds the highest position of the most powerful country of the world.

Of course, Leclerc is well aware that not all of these seventeenth - century divergencies from Aristotelian physics would be accepted by every seventeenth - century thinker, but he takes them as typical of the time, and further holds that all of them have been very powerful influences on scientific thought since that century.

When, years later, Boulud moved Restaurant Daniel into the old Le Cirque space, it was a punctuation mark on the shift in power from the front of the house, where master hosts like Maccioni had once ruled, to the kitchen, where a new breed of all - powerful chefs now held sway.

I'm not sure chia seeds would be powerful enough to hold this loaf together on their own.

Despite doubts that his 6» 10», 230 - pound frame would hold up against the league's powerful centers, he acquitted himself well against Patrick Ewing in an 86 - 78 Sacramento victory on Nov. 9.

Paul Scharner scored a powerful header in the 90th minute for the Baggies to make it a tight finish to the match but the hosts were able to hold on.

I have held space for the huge powerful transformation of birth — that involves challenging situations of extreme intensity and vulnerability, pain of all degrees, facing enormous fears head on, surrendering to a process far greater than all of us... as well as great joy, love, and miracles.

Especially when I hear other birth stories and there are many obvious signs of distress, long and drawn out in a rough labor, and the baby comes out kicking and screaming... Now that we can look back on her birth day, while holding a healthy, resilient little one, I'm still trying to figure out a way to disconnect the wonderful, powerful, redeeming qualities of my experience, from the terrifying experience at the very end.

I still feel like every single incidental glance that we exchanged during Monica's labors, and every single time we held hands or laughed out loud or rubbed feet (OK, I never got my feet rubbed) or just lay there beside each other on the same bed, breathing quietly, knowing that we were in for something so magical and powerful that it was impossible to even get our heads around the child we were about to meet, I still feel like those were some of the greatest moments in my life, hands down.

On 27 April 2016, the day after the Hillsborough inquest verdict that found the 96 Hillsborough deaths had occurred as a result of unlawful killing, Burnham made a powerful speech to the House of Commons calling for those responsible to be held to account.

The resignation of Gov. Eliot Spitzer had left Silver as «the most powerful man in Albany,» and he pulled the plug on congestion pricing by refusing to even hold a vote.

«Although this decision puts on hold the justice that New Yorkers got upon Silver's conviction, we look forward to presenting to another jury the evidence of decades - long corruption by one of the most powerful politicians in New York State history.

Kim's statement goes on to say, «Although this decision puts on hold the justice that New Yorkers got upon Silver's conviction, we look forward to presenting to another jury the evidence of decades - long corruption by one of the most powerful politicians in New York State history.

A strong Liberal Democrat leader whom he admired was a powerful source of pressure on the Prime Minister to live up to Labour's pre-election commitment - in the Cook Mclennan agreement - to hold a referendum on electoral reform within the lifetime of this Parliament.

«Although this decision puts on hold the justice that New Yorkers got upon Silver's conviction, we look forward to presenting to another jury the evidence of decades - long corruption by one of the most powerful politicians in New York State history,» he said.

Elections will be held on 4 May for English county councils, Welsh and Scottish councils, and the newly - created powerful regional mayoralties.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a Manhattan Democrat, won the top Democratic spot on the powerful House Judiciary Committee, beating back a challenge from Rep. Zoe Lofgren, of California, to fill the seat held by former Rep. John Conyers, of Michigan, for almost a quarter century.

The Manhattan Democrat was forced to resign the powerful post he's held for more than two decades after his members told him this past Monday they've lost faith in his ability to lead following his arrest on five federal corruption charges.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo commemorated the completion of that stage with a press conference held on the new Hudson River crossing, called the New NY Bridge, during which he said the project «sends a powerful message to the world that nothing is too big or too difficult for the Empire State.»

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, in a powerful signal to Gov. - elect Andrew Cuomo, says he is ready to hold the line on state spending next year — as well as rule out any new taxes or fees.

Earlier Monday, Clinton held a panel discussion on reducing gun violence, telling a somber audience in Port Washington that as president she would stand up to the powerful gun lobby.

In another private room, at The Capital Grille on 42nd Street, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, Rep. Joe Crowley, state party leaders and about 10 of New York's most powerful union heads spoke for more than an hour about taking back congressional seats held in New York by Republicans as well as taking over the State Senate to sweep its hold of state government.

Her loss would be a blow for the party's left, wing, which currently holds the balance of power on the powerful body.