Sentences with phrase «ruling powers»

To fight the fear and submission imposed by ruling powers by provoking a confrontation between history, culture and heritage.

But in that year, the Roman Procurator Caponius took away their last shred of ruling power.

The results suggest solid support in England for David Cameron's claim that new home rule powers for Scotland must be matched by similar measures in the other three home nations.

This could mean that instead of dramatically turning the lights off in Moscow for 24 - hours, hacked emails or documents that expose corruption within Moscow's ruling power structure could mysteriously emerge.

The Minjung experience the power of transnational corporations as well as the power of local and national economic powers; they live under the domination of the imperial powers, local and national ruling powers, and the combination of all of these.

Money, the almighty ruling power over our lives.

Scorpio rules power, control, and transformation — it's the mythic phoenix that rises from the ashes of destruction.

This unflinching allegory has thoughts on freedom, stifling ruling power, survival and revenge.

The Banished are led by the Brute warlord Atriox and seek to regain the former ruling power of the old covenant.

But one year, when the Jews were under Roman rule, the Roman Procurator Caponius took away this last shred of ruling power.

And towns with home rule powers — usually those towns with more than 25,000 residents — could choose to opt out of the restrictions, the Red Eye reports.

We can — and must — develop forms of community as people of faith that are free from co-option by ruling powers (including grants from foundations and government agencies).

It is to be the teaching authority, the ruling power, and the pastoral directive of the future church.

The Call of Christ is a summons to costly obedience, to challenge the ruling powers that have the power to imprison and kill.

This danger is manifest when Professor Macintosh describes the Christian experience in these terms: «Christ brings to us the salvation which consists in being indwelt and progressively delivered from the ruling power of sin....

This is not to say that he was only a man of his times who tangled with the ruling powers and lost his life as a consequence.

Until finally, all that was left of the ruling power in Israel is the authority of the Sanhedrin.

In Greece and the Balkan Peninsula, where in the preceding two periods the assimilation of pagan invaders had slowly been accomplished, Christianity was on the defensive against a resurgent Islam, and Islam was firmly planted as the faith of the ruling power.

What chance had this man of leaving anything behind him after he had tangled with the ruling powers for saying things which seemed to them treasonable or blasphemous, or both?

Some missionaries identified too closely with the ruling powers, although others were critical of empire.

Until finally, all that was left of the ruling power in Israel was the authority of the Sanhedrin — and specifically the right to carry out capital punishment — to put to death those whom the law determined must die.

Thus, the movement of the Spirit means freedom and liberation of the people from the oppressive languages and communication of the ruling powers.

A hundred years after his reign an Assyrian historian, an official recorder for the then world - ruling power, termed the whole territory of Palestine «the land of Omri.

Park Board attorney Bruno Tabis told the board that it might not have the authority to place a referendum question on a ballot because it doesn't have home - rule powers and that authority is denied by statewide park district code.

Since Illinois» indoor smoking ban went into effect Jan. 1, communities from Lake Bluff on the North Shore to southwest suburban Orland Park have used home - rule powers to adopt their own anti-smoking ordinances to include the outdoors.

In any case, in politics, friends from without are usually an invaluable volume of assets to ruling powers and so it makes perfect political sense for the ruling APC to, as the Igbo proverb says, live and let the APGA live in preparation for the coming general elections.

Hawkins wants the state minimum wage raised to at least $ 15 an hour, index it to inflation, and give local governments home rule power to raise it higher to reflect local living costs if they so choose.

There is also the question of his association, and of some of the colleagues who joined him in the US, with the ruling powers in Germany during the Third Reich.

The Knights Templar cartel, the group that through murder and extortion — and, some charge, aided by factions within the Mexican government — had become the region's ruling power.

They also talk about Henry Cavill and his ruling power in the Czech Republic.

So the ruling powers, led by the velvet - voiced fascist President Snow (Donald Sutherland), figure it's time to nip Katniss — and the rebellion — in the bud with the Quarter Quell, a special, once - every -25-years edition of the Games in which past winners compete against each other.

It comes just two days after Orland Park, a Cook County community that has home rule powers, started to consider allowing pet stores to sell dogs and cats as long as they come from USDA licensed millers with no violations in the past two years.

This new law repeals the provisions of both the Agriculture and Markets Law and General Business Law, which prevented local governments from exercising their home rule powers to regulate pet dealers, such as retail pet breeders and pet stores throughout the state.

«It's more of a larger concern than any time our home - rule power is challenged, we believe we need to stand up for the city's rights to appeal.»

Preempts home rule powers.

However, the Illinois General Assembly may enact legislation that preempts home rule power.

In doing so, the legislature must 1) provide an explanatory note for bills that seek to limit home rule powers, which estimates the impact of the bill on the powers and functions of home rule units; and 2) provide expressly that it intends to preempt home rule authority by enacting legislation specifically addressing the extent of the limitation.

«These sort of discretionary no - rule powers are disproportionately employed on marginalized groups, on racialized groups, on minorities and on the poor,» criminal lawyer Michael Spratt told CTV News.