Sentences with phrase «powerful man seems»

«The world's most powerful man seems to have lost his market - moving mojo,» Ritholtz wrote.

Not exact matches

Good sibling relationships seem especially powerful: 93 percent of the men who were thriving at age 65 had been close to a brother or sister when younger.

The glass ceiling, the old boys club, brogrammer culture... it seems to me that these aren't signs of an all powerful patriarchy so much as an ongoing manifestation of men who are terrified to compete with women on a level playing field.

Considering all the guff women have bravely endured over the years, it seems to me that any man who feels threatened by a powerful woman, can't take criticism from a woman, or can't tolerate the merest suggestion of female superiority is just being wussy.

At that year's 18th Party Congress, fixed as usual for the autumn, the stage seemed set for Bo to join the ranks of China's most powerful men in the Politburo and to provide a permanent counterweight to Xi.

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.

The atheist motto is: «It seems kind of dumb to believe that there's a magic invisible man in the sky who is all powerful but had to kill his son (who is also him) to save us from his own wrath because he engineered us in a way that we would want to break his «laws» just to test us.

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.

Her forehand shots, which are so powerful they seem to come off a man's racket rather than that of a frail - looking Devonshire lass, went into the net about as often as into her opponent's court.

Ox offers something different with his powerful running, getting to the byline and beating his man, but seems to want to collect the ball deep and create off the dribble rather than establish himself as a consistent scoring threat.

The Liberty Stadium side paid a club record # 13m for Bony last summer, with the former Vitesse Arnhem man smashing in 25 goals in his debut campaign, and having seem Michu, Michel Vorm and Ben Davies leave over the summer one can see why boss Garry Monk would not be looking to lose the powerful marksman.

If pundits are right and from the little I have seen he is a more powerful and more dominating type DM than coquellin... I think that is what wanyama adds to shampton and yaya toure to man city and matic to chelski... He would also certainly add aerial strength... U r right there are no guarantees including that coq will maintain last seasons level... But sell flamini and get rid of Diaby for sure and we have a serious upgrade on existing options... And lower wage bill... Seems like common sense to me

His tidy, yet powerful performances earned him a the aaward of Man of the Match against Schalke in October 2012, but as the season wore on, Francis seemed to be phased out.

It is often known that women get older faster than men, this is a very powerful reason for a woman to prefer to date an older man, it is not that the young man is not able to be mature but in a world where it is often the perception and not the reality that wins out, particularly when considering the important first impression, then seems reasonable to assume that the older man has the edge over the younger counterpart.

Those doom - laden lyrics suggest that even powerful men can not transcend their situation, and Season 2 seems intent on putting the squeeze on Chuck Rhoades and Bobby Axelrod.»

At one point, Joe says that powerful men don't need to be cruel, and for Affleck, this seems to be the guiding mantra of the character.

Here, as in many of the other stories, the beloved man is a powerful being who can bring joy and misery in equal measure, although the misery seems to last longer than the joy.

He doesn't even seem to be aware that those arguments won't work anymore because the authors are talking to each other and all too many of them have seen the man behind the curtain and will never believe in Oz the Great and Powerful again.

The message from Berlin seemed more or less routine to Peis, and he at first treated it as such until early in the morning of the eighth when Gauleiter Karl - Heinz Schroeder — in a state somewhere between chagrin and panic — burst into Peis's sleeping quarters (Peis was not in fact asleep) and pointedly reminded him that not only had Speer taken the place of Dr. Fritz Todt as head of the Todt Organization — in charge of all industrial production, military and civilian — which made him one of the most powerful men in Germany, but that he was a personal friend, perhaps the closest personal friend — of the Führer himself.

Rich, powerful, handsome men seem to always go dropping into the protagonists» laps with implausible ease, so people assume that women who grow up reading shojo manga... Read more»

But, all is not what it seems when she discovers the handsome man employing her just happens to be the most powerful vampire in the area.

Big men or men who feel that they are tough, powerful, or in control seem to like big dogs, and little dainty women seem to like small dogs.

Every week, it seems, a new scandal is thrown out into the public space that involves powerful men and the... Read More

Joe needs to get Zoe the cure before it's too late, but that means punching his way past hordes of Molded and the powerful «Swamp Man,» who seems to have a vendetta against him.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

As powerful men set the world around us on fire, philosophical challenges to anthropocentrism can seem futile.

«It seems to me,» this usually laconic man wrote, «that this powerful duality, this combination of the abstract, in the emphasis upon form, and the sense of presence, in the rendering of light and substance, is something only photography can do.»

You do seem like a powerful man, Don Don.

One warm spring night in 2011, a young man named Travis Hughes stood on the back deck of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house at Marshall University, in West Virginia, and was struck by what seemed to him — under the influence of powerful inebriants, not least among them the clear ether of youth itself — to be an excellent idea: he would shove a bottle rocket up his ass and blast it into the sweet night air.