Sentences with phrase «powerful institutions in»

«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.

Omalu's emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful institutions in the world.

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.

They used one of the most powerful institutions in our culture, and, inevitably, that power began to corrupt them.

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.

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The fact of the matter is when you talk about central banks, you're talking about powerful institutions rooted in their own management styles and tradition (even if the latter has just now seen a very unusual break) and it's not likely that one person can radically change things, even if he or she wanted to.

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.

In short, Canada's staggeringly powerful oil industry wants «oversight» (their word) of political, civil service, and regulatory institutions in both the Alberta and federal governmentIn short, Canada's staggeringly powerful oil industry wants «oversight» (their word) of political, civil service, and regulatory institutions in both the Alberta and federal governmentin both the Alberta and federal governments.

Founded in 2006, Mint made waves in the personal finance software world thanks to its powerful interface and ability to add transactions from thousands of financial institutions.

The historical context of Jesus, therefore, reflects a social and economic situation in which exploitative urbanism, powerful redistributive central institutions like the Roman state and Jewish Temple, concentration of land holdings in the hands of the few, rising debt, and disrupted horizontal relations in society were becoming the norm.69

The Inquisition became a powerful instrument to ensure unity of faith, now that Christianity was triumphant, and also unity between Aragon and Castile, for it was the only institution that operated in both kingdoms.

If you consider the fact that the Bible is still the most widely read book in the world, touching the lives of millions of people every day, and that it has served humanity as a guide for living for the past 3,000 years, it becomes clear that religious institutions could take a powerful leadership role in environmental repair.

This wild confusion is present in the minds of a small but financially powerful minority, though a much larger part of the population has a tendency to hold rigid ideas about the kinds of economic institutions in other nations with which we should cooperate.

• — Created a powerful foreign - aid lobby in this country made up of corporations, financial institutions, colleges, and others who benefit by funds appropriated for overseas relief.

In a gutsy, powerful, plurality opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas cut through the «vast, perplexing desert» of fine lines and distinctions that have plagued this area of the law, and announced a simple and logical rule: the government must be neutral toward religion and religious institutions.

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

Television's managers have exercised a powerful censoring effect on the expression of religious faith in America, giving them consequentially an exaggerated influence over the development of American religious culture and institutions and possibly over the nature of American and even global religious life.

Since in capitalist society the intellectual is not structurally part of the working class, and since nearly all opportunities for intellectual employment are within institutions directed by the ruling classes, the tendency to allow oneself to be molded by the dominant ideology and to become one of its — albeit unconscious — perpetuators is very powerful.

As this article has inferred, mutualism has been somewhat underplayed in relation to private sector institutions, not least because it challenges powerful interests and appears to contravene the establish norms of neo-liberalism, which despite the crisis remain deeply embedded in the global economic order.

We must come together in a new partnership with our faith - based institutions, civil society, businesses and government to create a powerful locomotive for transformation so that our President's coordinated program of economic and social development policies will create «an optimistic, self - confident and prosperous nation through the creative exploitation of our human and natural resources and operating within a democratic, open and fair society in which mutual trust and economic opportunities exist for all.»

And Cuomo is fighting for the endorsement — but the legendarily brass - knuckles governor's new move is going further, and attempting to do deep damage to a party that has become one of the most powerful progressive institutions in the country.

In a clear appeal to voters on the left of the party, Smith said: «New Labour tried so hard to make sure it didn't alienate the powerful that I'm afraid too many people in our country, too many people in our movement found it impossible to distinguish between the Labour party and the institutions we were created to challengIn a clear appeal to voters on the left of the party, Smith said: «New Labour tried so hard to make sure it didn't alienate the powerful that I'm afraid too many people in our country, too many people in our movement found it impossible to distinguish between the Labour party and the institutions we were created to challengin our country, too many people in our movement found it impossible to distinguish between the Labour party and the institutions we were created to challengin our movement found it impossible to distinguish between the Labour party and the institutions we were created to challenge.

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.

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?

Tory leader David Cameron endorsed the report's findings last night, saying it was a «powerful and convincing» argument and «underlines my belief that the family is the most important institution in Britain».

He said: «Here we sit in Parliament, the central institution of our sacred democracy, between us some of the most powerful people of the land, and we are scared.

The bill would also do away with a requirement that those abused in a public institution like a school must file a notice of intent to sue within 90 days of the incident occurring — something that in the past has been vehemently opposed by the public sector and powerful teachers union.

Even as explosive allegations in Hollywood and media have taken down powerful figures like producer Harvey Weinstein, actor Kevin Spacey, comedian Louis C.K. and political journalist Mark Halperin, on Capitol Hill, it's not clear that a similar a day of reckoning is soon coming to one of the country's most important institutions.

Born from the swirling anti-war and anti-machine sentiments of the late 1960s, CBID has grown into one of the most powerful political institutions in Park Slope and in Carroll's native Windsor Terrace.

I think we are going through a period of time where faith - based institutions are becoming more powerful in people's lives.

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

Even though the regulatory institutions were stronger than those fostering Europe's carbon cap - and - trade system, the European Monetary Union proved relatively ineffective at keeping its powerful members in line when commitments grew inconvenient.

According to David Hughes of SGI, which is providing the computer technology for the virtual reality theatre, «it will be an amazingly powerful tool for communicating complex science principals and findings to the public... as well as providing a powerful resource in Glasgow for business and research institutions for special events.»

The film traces how the leader was able to skillfully manipulate both the societal institutions of the day as well as the powerful men who surrounded her in order to gain control over all of Russia.

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.

Omalu's emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful — and beloved — institutions in the world.

It's the same style and involves uncovering a conspiracy that reaches pretty high levels in a powerful institution.

The plot centers on an obsessive Interpol agent who spearheads an investigation into one of the world's most high - profile and powerful banking institutions in an attempt to expose them for corruption and worldwide arms brokering; Watts will play a Manhattan assistant district attorney who partners with the agent to take down the bank.

But by focusing instead on the hard - nosed journalism that broke the story, McCarthy has crafted a bracingly powerful film about the institutions that hold sway in our society, the need for a free press to hold them accountable, and the pervasive sense of guilt that can get in the way.

Somewhere in the midst of all this, there is a powerful, pragmatic way forward, and in a few places, Klein draws a breath and points to it: to balancing tougher entry into the teaching profession with a more professional experience once inside it; to content - rich curricula that are truly worth teaching; to technology in the service of new forms of learning; and to sophisticated partnerships between those in the schools and the families, community leaders, philanthropic institutions, administrators, and taxpayers beyond the school walls.

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.

Rather than competing with existing institutions, our goal is to join hands in the spirit of mutual respect and equality in dignity to create something much more powerful than what we would accomplish if we worked independently.

Caro anatomizes the genius for political strategy and tactics by which, in an institution that had made the seniority system all - powerful for a century and more, Johnson became Majority Leader after only a single term — the youngest and greatest Senate Leader in our history; how he manipulated the Senate's hallowed rules and customs and the weaknesses and strengths of his colleagues to change the «unchangeable» Senate from a loose confederation of sovereign senators to a whirring legislative machine under his own iron - fisted control.

The task at hand is to decipher what is most powerful in your work and connect it to every person, institution or media outlet who will listen.

His plots reveal the egos and ruthlessness that motivate the players in the financial sector, as well as the inner workings of the most powerful of our financial institutions.

It also acquired the majority of the assets of Washington Mutual in 2008, thus making it one of the most powerful financial institutions in the country with total assets of over $ 2.3 trillion.

Founded in 2006, Mint made waves in the personal finance software world thanks to its powerful interface and ability to add transactions from thousands of financial institutions.

State - level control of animal shelters has resulted in institutions such as state federations becoming very powerful in sheltering.