Sentences with phrase «same powerful position»

Several members said they think it's «great» that Silver is still pushing ahead with the task force, even if he doesn't hold the same powerful position he once did.

Not exact matches

This is, in the purest of senses, privilege: the ability to avoid the consequences that most anyone else in the same situation would have to endure — and, along with that, the ability to walk all over less powerful people in order to avoid those consequences — due to one's own power and social position.

I know many people in powerful positions (lawyers / judges / district attorneys) that due the same.

Wiener, who is gay, said having a member of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in one of the state's most powerful positions will ensure that issues they face don't take a backseat now that same - sex marriage is legal.

Since this doesn't imply that Nintendo makes any other changes policies regarding third parties, online play etc., it would be in roughly the same position except with a more powerful, more expensive console and no GamePad and still no third party support.

All the same, she hasn't achieved quite the renown of her mostly male contemporaries in abstraction, partly because the subtleties of her paintings are almost impossible to reproduce in print, though a substantial retrospective opening at Tate Modern in June makes a powerful case for her position in the first rank.

The School still believes in the same powerful elements of its historical position, and is strengthened by a robust administrative structure.

We spend 4 billion dollars on retaining the most powerful military position in the world and somehow with all that appropriated money for outdoing every other country some 20 times over, the Navy can not conduct those same exercises outside the whale safety zone?