Sentences with phrase «such powerful people»

Hume was persuaded to move to St Andrew Square by Adam with the hopes that the recruitment of such a powerful person would induce others to cross from the Old Town to the New Town and St Andrew Square.

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It's enough to make you wonder what would happen if every powerful person in the Valley took such a pledge.

Critics say a focus on engagement as the paramount metric and on connecting people as an end in itself are what made Facebook such a powerful medium for disinformation.

Such connections are powerful stuff; they're the reason the adage «people leave managers, not companies» has persisted.

Many people pointed out that Roku has a powerful multi-service search function (the company claims to include more than 100 providers) while others highlighted useful third - party search options such as reelworld.com and canistream.it

The company is home to growing media platforms and extensions, including digital video, OTT, television, licensing, international markets, paid products and services and celebrated live events, such as the TIME 100, FORTUNE Most Powerful Women, PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED's Sportsperson of the Year, the ESSENCE Festival and the FOOD & WINE Classic in Aspen.

Besides showing what a private person Powell Jobs is, the story illustrates what makes her such a powerful advocate for education and immigration reforms.

It describes the popular belief that some powerful group of people such as the Treasury Department in 1873 or a banking consortium in 1929 can direct financial markets and the economy at will.

«The by - product is financial distortion which has powerful implications for certain groups of people such as people trying to live off of fixed incomes.

With such a powerful corporation behind this, led by a person who wants to see cryptocurrency adoption, I don't think it will be too long before we see more positive movements come from the Comcast camp.

AE, there are only a few people actually opposed to having a relationship with an all - powerful, all - knowing, and perfectly benevolent immortal being responsible for the creation of our reality — if such a thing is possible, should such a being exist.

I think it is the act of desecrating such a powerful symbol is what ticks people off which is understandable but to kill someone because of it goes against the same book they are defending!

Reflect on this a little: Many of the inspirations of the threefold system of political economy derive from evangelical inspirations such as personal creativity, personal responsibility, freedom, the love for community through association and mutual cooperation, the aim of bettering the condition of every person on earth, the cultivation of the rule of law, respect for the natural rights of others, the preference for persuasion by reason rather than by coercion, and a powerful sense of sin.

All people, and not the powerful alone, must be availed of such goods; all people, not the powerful alone, must do so in a way that preserves rather than despoils the earth and other forms of life.

The powerful hold that such rites have on people is evidenced by their continuance even when their sacred purpose is explicitly denied or subverted.

You are making it needlessly hard, or are perhaps just plain too stupid to understand such a simple fact as: there's no point debunking myths that virtually no one and no one at all with any real clout believes in anyway, but MUCH point in debunking myths that large numbers of people, including powerful politicians, believe should be the guiding principles for the country's entire political culture and laws.

Because he is a religious authority figure, people spontaneously project on him a rich variety of associations from their early life, including powerful feelings about such matters as God, heaven, hell, sex, parents, Sunday school, death, sin, and guilt.

Powerful lobbies such as the Pro Israel lobby, American Atheists and many others pay top dollar to have shills come to these forums, spread their agenda and copy whatever info they can get about the people who disagree with their point of view.

You are supposed to be in a relationship with the all powerful, all - knowing, all - loving creator of the universe... that «fact» should be enough to inspire such profound humility... the kind of humility that people genuinely respect and are influence by.

It would seem strange that a person could pen such powerful words of love and faithfulness to God in the wake of such a tragedy, but when a person accepts Christ's gift of salvation they are given a joy and peace that can not be described!

If god is all powerful and all knowing and perfectly good, he would not bring people into the world knowing that they would go to hell and be tortured forever - a perfectly good being would never do such a thing.

Despite the best efforts of people such as Ralph Reed, Jewish fears of «the religious right» remain powerful.

A decade after 9 / 11 - even the most intellectually challenged American should have understood that in the part of the world where there is instability and power vacuum - the slightest excuse can be used to rally people for a cause - and the Prophet is a powerful «cause» - that can be misused by political forces... So, any American who irresponsibly puts the lives of his fellow citizens in danger by using such provocation is a traitor to his country.

i am sorry J.W but i don't believe there is a god of any kind... if there was a god, why would such a so called all powerful being allow for the treatment of its creation by its creation... the argument of free will is an old and tired one... if the existence was true and the laws put in place to honor such a creature were equally upheld by god then i would have been punished a long long time ago and so would have the majority of people... believer or not!

When God works in such powerful ways in people's lives, the fear of God is one of the results.

The fact that such large and powerful churches are led by people who are are more concerned with being seen to be strong and right than with reading the Bible humbly and seriously is scary, and so far from the example of Jesus and the witness of the Bible itself.

When such persons find their voices, what powerful witnesses!

Furthermore, the Christian versions of the household codes are the only ones that speak directly to the less powerful members of the household — the slaves, wives, and children — probably because the church at the time consisted of just such powerless people.

But people who can not control themselves, such as the rich, famous, powerful, have a hard time when someone gets their «due».

Tracts such as the ones Omar and Greg encountered have been powerful tools in helping people understand the beauty of the message of Christ.

Furthermore, religion makes people content with terrible lives, which is why it is such a powerful tool to control people.

This is an every day story for millions of ordinary people, who suffer mostly in silence, being helpless, knowing they are against a cruel system which has such deep roots in this country, having become so powerful, that it's to no avail for ordinary person to fight it!

And in the absence of any such compelling reason, the moral principle that it is wrong to kill people constitutes a powerful argument against capital punishment.

Absolutely, it does make sense to at least 6 billion people on earth including but not limited to professionals and the elite such as Doctors, Scientists, Juries, Judges, Magistrates, Politicians, even by the person who holds the highest position of the most powerful country of the world.

A powerful storyteller, Evans captures transformative moments, such as leaving a church full «of kind, generous people»; investing wholeheartedly in a new church that «collapsed slowly, one week at a time»; and witnessing healing at the Gay Christian Network's conference, feeling «simultaneously furious at Christianity's enormous capacity to wound and awed by its miraculous capacity to heal.»

Sometimes such actions are powerful witness to churches solidarity with people, breaking its isolation.

It seems ridiculous and it makes me sad to see such a powerful, beautiful religion being condemned by people that are misinformed and led to believe it's the majority of the religion and not the very very minute minority.

It's such a powerful tool to use to be able to reach out to people, help them and inspire them!

For people, such as Americans, who are circumcised at birth and have no religious or cultural reason to circumcise, the foreskin can trigger powerful curiosity and envy.

However, when it came to globally contested serious issues such as the meaning of power, she was equally forthcoming: «I think that we must change the ideology of being powerful... A country with more literate and educated people, a country with more skillful people, a country which has given equal rights to its citizens should be considered the superpower.

«I am grateful for the support of such a strong, diverse, and powerful group of working people,» said Democrat Carlina Rivera.

Though he has worked for Michael Bloomberg, Christine Quinn, Bruce Ratner, Scott Stringer, Joe Lieberman, Charlie Crist, Caroline Kennedy, the New York Stock Exchange and Benjamin Netanyahu — or maybe because he already moves in such powerful circles, and no longer feels the need to market himself — Isay has become a private person, loath to appear on television or at political events, reluctant to take interviews and, usually, entirely uninterested in discussing himself.

This is not the tune that Nigerians were used to hearing from their all - powerful Coordinating Minister of the Economy, the first person ever to hold such a grandiose title side by side with the powerful Finance portfolio.

More powerful determinants, such as smoking, drinking and diet, Bhaskaran points out, are factors that people can modify in their daily lives to decrease their odds.

In particular, saline injections can dampen pain if a person has recently received shots of morphine, a powerful analgesic, and has thereby associated such injections with pain relief.

Looking across evolutionary time and the genomic landscapes of humans and mice, an international group of researchers has found powerful clues to why certain processes and systems in the mouse — such as the immune system, metabolism and stress response — are so different from those in people.

Some years ago I was at the first petaflops conference where they were discussing what uses people might have for such powerful devices when we finally get them.

Few people believe GSM needs such powerful encryption, but the makers of GSM complain that the DTI has woken to the problem five years too late.

While such a cluster of personalized cells is not a perfect replica of the organ that exists in that person's body, it can be experimented on and used to gauge the effectiveness of potential therapies, providing a powerful new tool to help researchers understand how diseases develop and how to treat them.

Such an endeavor aims at improving the quality of life of millions of people worldwide and creating a new paradigm for global scientific collaborations between academia and industry, one in which science becomes a powerful agent for social and educational transformation.