Sentences with phrase «powers over individual»

Again, to have perfect power over all individuals is not to have all power in such fashion as to leave the other individuals none.

Scaring people into believing something has great power over individuals freewill therefore being able to control mass groups of people.

Indeed, for all its faults, the moral establishment recognized a central tenet of the Western tradition: The state does not have total power over the individual.

Don FosterLiberal Democrat MP for Bath and Shadow Culture SecretaryWith its terrifyingly believable vision of what could happen if the state holds too much power over the individual, 1984 shaped my fundamental belief in liberalism.

The states have more power over individual policy but are restricted by the broad regulations.

Those who exercise power over the individual are held to account by others.

Whatever the Tories claims of being suspicious of the state, they have worked to significantly bolster its power over the individual.

To the relief of New York City officials, the budget did not include Mr. Cuomo's proposal to give a state agency veto power over individual affordable housing projects paid for with federal tax - exempt bonds the state gives to municipalities.

Benedict Cumberbatch (Star Trek Into Darkness, The Hobbit) stars as enigmatic WikiLeaks founder and director Julian Assange, who would go from computer hacker to the figurehead for one of the most subversive movements on the internet — a man who was feared by governments, hated by corporations, and praised by those who think these entities have far too much power over individuals.

Because the earth (mother earth, or Gaia, to all you tree hugger freaks) knows what we want, and what is best for us, and what is best is our nice Goldilocks climate that supports the inviolate and constitutionally protected right to cheap, atmosphere changing fossil fuels even though said usage essentially reverses 10s of millions of years of earth lower atmosphere affecting energy balances within a mere speck of time) and not you eco fools who want to harm the poor (something climate change would never do, bill gates and the world's leading scientists and thinkers and economists are fools to even think it — climate change will affect the wealthy) just to give the even more power over our individual lives.

Governments benefit enormously from any type of alarmism (climactic, financial, security, health, whatever) that strikes the public fancy, as alarmism gives the impetus to further expand state power over the individual.

Further, liability in tort is an element of state power over the individual.

I speculate that governments could be tempted to increase their powers over individuals, considering their lack of control over the result of their citizen's actions once unleashed in a decentralized web.

Not exact matches

According to a Google spokesperson, the company strongly discourages employees from involving themselves in relationships with colleagues that they manage or report to, or if there is any question whether one individual has power over the other.

Quote: «The forbearing use of power does not only form a touchstone, but the manner in which an individual enjoys certain advantages over others is a test of a true gentleman.»

I am a believer in the power of disruptive innovation, and that individual investors can significantly outperform the market over long periods of time.

Where Bitcoin's transaction speeds average 7 transactions per second, new blockchain - based currencies are already approaching thousands of transactions per second; Bitshares claims they can process 100,000 per second.In fact, a newspaper in Winnipeg, Canada, has already begun to use a micropayment system to charge per article for its news content and projects earning over $ 100,000 in digital revenue.Blockchain could tilt the balance of power towards individuals, not publishing powerhouses.As mentioned previously, YouTube and Medium have dramatically increased content creators» access to audiences and established a more democratic, popularity - based promotional scheme.

And mythological stories may be based on actual individuals whose life stories are greatly embellished over time so that they gain miraculous powers and even may become deities in time through apotheosis.

The notion that God would punish an individual for eternity for an a condition they did not choose and which they have no power over is one I reject outright.

is power to the highest degree possible and over all that exists, it is «all» the power that could be exercised by any one individual over «all» that is; but it remains to be shown how much power could be exercised in this fashion.

This contrasts the unique personal value of an individual's power of self - determination or auto - finality, whereby he has dominion over himself, with the slave who is merely a means for obtaining goals set by others.

Greider portrays the economy as a system in which individual people have very little voice or decision - making power over their own lives.

To neglect the world and institutional life is to deny the sovereignty of God over the whole of life, and to practice an idolatry which confines God to our individual existence and limits the Christian life to individual behavior, thereby leaving the world to the principalities and powers.

The Communications Act of 1934 gave the FCC the power of licensing individual stations to broadcast in a particular area over a particular frequency.

Grounded in the assurance of God's eternal and universal sovereignty, it included his rule over an individual's life, the fellowship of those dedicated to the will of God, the relief of mankind's afflictions by the power of God's Spirit, and the final consummation of the ages in a new world.

Incidents such as this can occur whenever individuals have extreme power over others.

Nevertheless it does not seem to be the belief in a supernatural power or the experience of miracles that most helps an individual to gain a feeling of control over his own life.

The Individual Medley will feature the iF3 standard six tests over two days, one in each of the following categories: aerobic capacity, strength, bodyweight endurance, bodyweight skill, mixed modal, and power.

Please don't let anger about the issue override your compassion for the individuals involved — no title or degree proclaims anyone superior over another, nor does instill in anyone the power to publicly shame another individual — especially someone with whom you share no relation (none whatsoever).

Indeed, they go directly to the heart of the questions the Great Charter Convention series has raised: how can we contest and contain arbitrary power in society when certain individuals or group systematically have more influence over political decision - making?

What is clear is that to address political inequality — which is a precondition to achieving the broader goals raised by the Great Charter Convention — we must restore substantive democratic power over how our political and economic institutions are organised, thereby better enabling individuals to come together to make collective decisions that shape their lives, communities and workplaces.

It's a series of predictions and musings more than a single argument, since he starts with the idea that digital tools tend, over time, to shift power away from large institutions and toward small groups and individual actors and goes on to think about how it will affect institutions across the board.

To establish the rights of individual citizens, our claims on the institutions of power and the authority that institutions can exercise over us as citizens.

Nicco's book is a series of predictions and musings more than a single argument, since he starts with the idea that digital tools tend, over time, to shift power away from large institutions and toward small groups and individual actors and goes on to think about how it will affect institutions across the board.

Not just New Labour's overwhelming desire to amass all sorts of information about the individual and New Labour's managerial model of how to govern but also, in particular, a steady shift away from «justice» and towards «control»: towards the arbitrary, unconstrained use of power through the regular invocation of states of exception (terror legislation and Iceland is in this category); the creation of catch - all legislation whose operational interpretation is at the whim of the police (photography, questioning individual police officers); government attempts to constrain the judiciary through tick - the - box sentencing guidelines, and at an individual level examples such as David Milliband's quite disgraceful prevarication over torture allegations.

Together with Citizens United, this decision guts our campaign finance system and opens the door to corruption by handing a small minority of wealthy individuals the power to exercise undue influence over our government.»

Others said Heastie and Flanagan had not only failed to deliver on their promises to open the Legislature's notoriously secretive processes to greater public scrutiny but also abandoned their pledges to reduce the near - dictatorial powers that leaders have over individual legislators.

«How does any entity, private of not, have the unchecked access to and negotiating power over, any taxable property without any type of oversight by any governing body of individuals chosen by the electorate?»

In terms of infrastructure, such big solar fits as comfortably as a coal - fired power plant in the traditional electricity business model, which involves large plants transmitting electricity over a grid of conducting lines through transformers and into individual homes and businesses.

«Our model shows a way to understand why these three types of cosmic messenger particles have a surprisingly similar amount of power input into the universe, despite the fact that they are observed by space - based and ground - based detectors over ten orders of magnitude in individual particle energy,» said Kohta Murase, assistant professor of physics and astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State.

The authors examined a concept known as power distance belief (PDB)-- individual acceptance and expectation of social hierarchy — and its relationship with charitable giving and power, defined as the control one has over valued resources.

The patient is harnessed within the robotic exoskeleton over the treadmill and, once the machine is powered, leg supports move the individual's legs in a walking motion.

With NO change in motor unit number or individual power output, the force peak is now well over 100.

Origin is a terrible idea, and after just being forced to update it again today I have noticed that the EULA stipulates a legal clause that contractually denies both EA and individuals the right to a class - action suit and trial by a jury (basically removing the power multiple individual's have over it).

«In Captain America: Civil War, billionaire Tony Stark is pitted against Captain America aka Steve Rogers in an ethical face - off over the U.S. government's Superhuman Registration Act, which requires all superpowered individuals register their powers and report to S.H.I.E.L.D.»

Gamers will have full control over the individual characters with each fighter having unique attributes and super powers that are true to their background adding more depth and fighting strategy to the game.

Put together, it gives individuals, groups, whole school communities, and school systems the power to get involved in and sustain learning over time.

In so doing, I favour a collective rather than individual interpretation of leadership, where it is the work which matters rather than a person holding power, status and superiority over others.

To give individual states the power over student / teacher PII.

Over the course of his or her lifetime, an individual who drops out of high school is more likely to have reduced earning power, greater social service dependency, increased rates of criminal involvement, and shorter life expectancy.