Sentences with phrase «powerful institutions like»

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.

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?

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.

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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

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

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.

A great Marxist once noted that «the boldest revolution,» like even the most powerful bourgeois institution, can not divide equally between men and women «the burden of pregnancy, birth, nursing, and the rearing of children.»

«What you are trying to do right now is create a powerful vision and model of what American higher education could be like and what the community running institutions can and should look like.»

PhD student Alex Hemingway, spokesperson for Divest UBC, felt that an institution like UBC would send a «powerful message,» about the urgency of tackling climate change and the importance of putting words into action.

Either way, if I've got this right, the message is: people who hold stations of power like the one he did can't or won't cut it on the climate problem, so maybe the humbler, less - powerful institutions of the world can do it instead.

«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.

«And I thought, here is a huge opportunity to pick a powerful brand like Sotheby's and build a great institution or sales centre for our outstanding clients.»