Sentences with phrase «such vast power»

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Other online movements such as #BlackGirlMagic, which Julee Wilson from the Huffington Post described as a way to «celebrate the beauty, power and resilience of black women,» have spurred brands to expand shade offerings addressing the vast spectrum of skin tones and take an all - encompassing approach to marketing mixes further fueling success.

They have accepted the fact that vast numbers of members of the human race have spoken or written about some such awareness, however it may have been conceived, of a presence which is believed to be more than human, and they have told us that they have experienced a power that seems to come from beyond, above, and below the level of human enabling.

In my work for the Institute for Global Engagement, I come across many official documents — such as a State Department action plan on women and security or a United Nations treaty on ending racial discrimination — that barely mention religion, despite the fact that a vast majority of the world's population (84 percent, according to Pew Research) believes in a higher power.

To allow the salts to get hotter, some companies, such as SolarReserve in Santa Monica, Calif., are developing so - called power towers — vast fields of mirrors that concentrate sunlight onto a central tower.

The tents and outbuildings of a remote field camp on the shores of Lake Bonney in the Dry Valleys, in the shadow of Taylor Glacier, provide a sense of scale often difficult to convey in photos of Antarctica, where distances are vast and typical human landmarks such as power lines are absent.

Olsen said of her character's powers, «The reason she's so special is because she has such a vast amount of knowledge that she's unable to learn how to control it.

What reasonable person would have ever conceived of the vast amount of such power potentially to be held by one person at the time the U.S. Department of Education was born / reborn in 1980?

To complement these items there is a vast range of comfort and convenience technologies to choose from, such as the sensational 825W Meridian surround sound system, the innovative Dual - View touchscreen display, TV, rear seat entertainment, an advanced Park Assist automated parking system and powered tailgate.

Destiny 2's replayability stems from a wide range of areas such as the vast amount of single player, co-operative and Player vs. Player competitive modes in addition to perfect implementation of core gameplay elements that work in harmony including collecting loot and Glimmer, XP and levelling up, power levels and total character customisation which will collectively have players returning to Destiny 2 for just as long as its prequel.

Since he has such a vast array of powers, Isaac could really fit into any role: A close up brawler, a ranged sniper, or a unique character that relies on weird yet hard to predict moves.

It chugs along at a slow pace when there are vast amounts of enemies on screen, and it also slows down drastically with particular weapons, one such weapon was a rocket launcher with the destructive power of a nuke.

In her first solo show at this pocket - sized space, local painter Karen Marston focuses on such potentially destructive events, attempting to capture something of the vast scale and frightening power of tornados and forest fires.

While all such forecasts are implicitly uncertain, this one helps clarify where to focus efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions; reinforces the importance of resolving questions about how to safely expand, while not stopping, extraction of vast domestic reserves of natural gas; and powerfully challenges proponents of accelerated deployment of today's menu of renewable energy technologies or nuclear power plants to lay out a credible strategy for supplanting coal.

It really seems odd that such a powerful conspiracy would use its vast powers for so trivial an objective.

Forget the vast lobbying power of dedicated green multinationals such as Greenpeace and WWF, do corporate interests — Enron — never lobby for environmental policies?

allows for such vast concentrations of economic power.

But over the past three years, as they have devoted tremendous resources to the fight against TransCanada Corp.'s proposed oil pipeline, they potentially have diverted vast resources from other goals many environmentalists consider more important, such as limiting power plant pollution and taxing carbon emissions.

In these circumstances an urgent application needs to be made to the High Court in England requesting the Court to exercise its vast powers under what is called the Inherent Jurisdiction, such as making the children a Ward of the Court and ordering the abducting parent to return the children.

A more accurate model is: politics is a system that 1) selects against skills needed for rigorous thinking and for qualities such as groupthink and confirmation bias, 2) incentivises a badly selected set of people to consider their career not the public interest, 3) drops them into dysfunctional institutions with no relevant training and poor tools, 4) centralises vast amounts of power in the hands of these people and institutions in ways we know are bound to cause huge errors, and 5) provides very weak (and often damaging) feedback so facing reality is rare, learning is practically impossible, and system reform is seen as a hostile act by political parties and civil services worldwide.

You'd think such a vast database of willing applicants, powered by a tracking system to easily sift through and pluck out good - fit candidates as needed, would be a boon to both job seekers and employers.

The power of social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn has grown to be vast and has been very life - changing for millions of people