Sentences with phrase «powerful institutions»

Some have been engines driving the creation of powerful institutions of legal learning.

I believe education is one of the most powerful institutions to level the field for so many people.

Since he takes a realist position in analyzing how powerful institutions compete, negotiate and cooperate, people with neither political nor economic access are not actors in his account.

The two powerful institutions in the medieval world were the church and the state.

The leaders of other powerful institutions in society must evince these virtues as well.

It is amusing until you remember that this is an immensely powerful institution with a highly privileged position in public life, control of almost a third of our state schools and seats in our parliament.

Should I take that response to mean that you feel there was a lack of oversight of powerful institutions like Wall Street banks in recent years?

Students explore the roles of such powerful institutions as the SEC, USPTO, Federal Reserve Bank, IMF, World Bank, World Trade Organization, G7, G20, and Eurozone.

While the Fabians have become an immensely powerful institution, wealthy, stable, competitive, king maker to Labour leaders and Prime Ministers, the foundation stone of one of our finest universities, the Bow Group has increasingly become an also - ran, first in wealth and stability, and then inevitably in thought and influence.

By now a surgical resident in Boston, Naveen feared that the DA would not prosecute so powerful an institution and its prominent faculty member.

From Uber to Equifax, this was the year the world's most powerful institutions got schooled by hackers.

Giving his reaction to the apparent u-turn, Christian and author on the relationship between society and religion, Symon Hill told Premier: «Of course, it's good when powerful institutions... listen to people's concerns, though I suspect they may just be avoiding controversy; it doesn't really cost them anything to do this.»

Moreover, the social shift I describe has isolated certain powerful institutions (corporate, military, governmental, media, entertainment) from the influence of the so - called normative institutions such as education, religion and the arts.

This is a rich cross-cultural adventure, a fascinating insight into her world of babies, birth, women, social justice and challenging powerful institutions, a lifetime of dedication to positive social change.

Traditionally powerful institutions, such as parties and the press, have been sidelined by direct engagement through social media by outsider candidates feeding on discontent and relying on faith - based, populist and emotive appeals.

I'm surprised I'm the first to bring this up — Oliver Stone doing a film on current social psyche, conspiracy, powerful institutions taking advantage of common people — how can it be remotely bad, or not worth a see.

Arizona allows the organizations to keep up to 10 % and Pennsylvania sets the limit at 20 %, which ensured that relatively powerful institutions sprang up quickly.

In fields from medicine to finance, within the private and public sector and increasingly in the world of science, calls for transparency have grown in response to perceptions of hidden interests and lack of accountability amongst powerful institutions and individuals.

In my opinion, human - beings are not naturally hateful, though powerful institutions often look to squash dissent by turning the tribe against groups with certain characteristics — particularly those likely to possess special knowledge.

Newspapers used to think their job was to help keep wealthy and powerful institutions honest.

Many of these bitcoin - loving idealists aren't just griping about powerful institutions while swapping tokens among themselves.

This will seem prudent, the course of action deemed more likely to protect the Church's interests and preserve its historical alliances with other powerful institutions.

I really learned to sit with my discomfort during such discussions, and to reflect on the ways that practicing teachers are empowered or disempowered by the narratives we create in powerful institutions like this one.

«There are many powerful institutions in our world run by people that simply don't or won't take part in forums like Bitcoin Talk, mailing lists and so on.

Luxembourg is a destination growing in popularity with both business and leisure travellers, with its picturesque towns and castles contrasting with cities that host the headquarters of some of the most powerful institutions in Europe such as the European Investment Bank and the European Court of Justice.

The only self that is formed by the humanities is one that can «withstand the mesmerizing, often dehumanizing force of powerful institutions.»

The once - powerful institution — in 2007 it was the fifth largest U.S. bank, with $ 400 billion in assets — was among the earliest warning signs of a broad economic meltdown that would ultimately result in the stock market losing nearly half its value.

With Janet Yellen out the door, Jerome Powell, a current Fed governor and former investment banker, is set to take the helm of the powerful institution this month.

It features academics and journalists arguing that a powerful institution should err on the side of providing less information to the public, not more.»

Demanding respect for these freedoms and blocking the possibility of abuses by the Catholic Church and other powerful institutions are the motivations behind recently increased political participation by Mexican evangelicals.

In NSA leaker Snowden, we saw the cracks form in a powerful institution.

In nine months, Pope Francis has done something unprecedented: completely changed the tone of one of the world's oldest and most powerful institutions.

Speaking up is scary and it's very difficult to go against such a powerful institution.

And if they tell you they are following the Holy Spirit, who are you to question an all - powerful institution.

Powerful institutions like the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization raise the TINA, argument to persuade the developing nations to qualify themselves to borrow money.

In a similar way, in every society, powerful institutions — churches, schools, courts, hospitals — serve to keep people in their designated slots.

Politically too, the crisis has eviscerated what had long been one of the America's most powerful institutions.

Others, like the former Attorney General and Gov. Eliot Spitzer, have criticized Andrew Cuomo for not being tough enough on those powerful institutions.

But a fair and responsible Britain must be an accountable Britain — a nation not of powerful institutions but powerful people.

Adding to the divisive forces were the interests of the prestigious and powerful institutions that had a stake in the spoils — which in addition to UC, Broad, and Harvard included the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and the University of Vienna.

The Invisible War lays bare the reprehensible failings and hypocrisy of a powerful institution, as Dick did in previous nonfiction works such as Twist of Faith (2004), about sexual abuse in the Catholic Church; This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006), an occasionally gimmicky exposé of the MPAA's outsize influence and idiocy; and Outrage (2009), on closeted pols who vote anti-gay.

Even with Leonardo DiCaprio starring, «The Revenant» was a risky movie to produce given its budget, and «Spotlight» was also a risk since the movie takes on one of the world's largest, most powerful institutions in the world — the Catholic Church.