Sentences with phrase «sway others»

While it's extremely difficult to change what others believe you can often avoid conflict, or turn around a fractious situation and sometimes even sway others if you are willing to «work within their belief system.»

A worker must have the strength to sway others to handle risks and fears that bring negative impact.

On occasion, even though judges may have reached a conclusion in advance, counsels» submissions may sway one member of the bench, who in turn could perhaps sway others.

They try to justify their desire to believe something which goes against the evidence, and are prepared to be deliberately dishonest to sway others.

Can she sway others?

Stop writing articles trying to sway others from doing it just because you don't like them.

We don't try to sway others of this truth because we know it is imposible.

We like to think it's our sound arguments and superior ideas that sway other people to our opinions, but science shows humans are way weirder than that.

Neither side swayed the other, and there's no guarantee that the result would be any different in a follow - up match.

School leaders sometimes manipulate students by coercing student leaders to sway other students with threats of poor letters of recommendation into college, or noncompliant students with threats of expulsion.

The only real factor here stopping me from swaying the other way is the size of the 8900.

Raul Mourão through steel, iron and plastic tubes defies the force of the movement giving shape to empty planes that only seem fragile and that sway each other.

Or, the argument that all sceptics are devils makes some proponents feel good but usually falls quite short of scientifically swaying others.

Eight were swayed the other.

Lawyers in Louisville, Ky., are asking a federal judge to set aside a jury verdict exonerating a police officer in a Taser - related death because they say the jury foreman researched the case on the Internet and used what he found to sway other jurors.

Not exact matches

While Mark Zuckerberg testified before the Senate Tuesday in the wake of his company's entanglement with Cambridge Analytica, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman announced that the forum - based site had discovered and banned nearly a thousand accounts run by the same Russian trolls that were accused of attempting to sway political opinions on Facebook through politically charged advertising, fake news, and other posts.

If the majority of people fall further and further behind — while others in society become unbelievably rich — the notion that the most important value in a country is its citizens having the ability to select their leaders will lose sway.

Some observers believe that the profusion of fake articles on Facebook helped sway the presidential election in favor of Trump, although others have argued that all this accomplished was to entrench the views that Trump voters already held about various issues.

«Employers have to be careful because the law recognizes an employer - employee relationship is a different one, and the very fact that an employer creates a livelihood for an individual can give the employer more sway than other sources of information.»

Two Fed governors, Daniel Tarullo and Lael Brainard, within days swayed markets the other way, saying the Fed could be patient about hiking rates.

But others were less sure, noting that the three companies — which, combined, employ more than one million people — might still hold little sway over the largest insurers and pharmacy benefit managers, who oversee the benefits of tens of millions of Americans.

Itâ $ ™ s remarkable that this event still holds such sway over the popular imagination despite other more recent instances of hyperinflation.

The company has been lambasted by public officials and others for spreading false stories, and for allowing Russian - linked groups to use its platform to potentially sway voters during the 2016 election.

Convertible noteholders are often at the mercy of others, with little power to sway the outcome of their investments (at least until the conversion event).

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By midday, Mr. Frazier was joined by a handful of other executives as a voice of dissent in the business community, which has particular sway of the president, himself a businessman.

I do not believe anything more than Jesus was a decent human and able to sway people to follow him, just like Jim Jones, David Koresh, and many other scam artists.

Into the risk - averse worlds of corporate lawyers and bankers in the 1970s came a new generation of raiders, a mogul horde the likes of which had not been seen since the days when Jay Gould and other grandees of greed held sway.

He is the Father who married the Mother and fathered Jesus the Son Individual human beings can aspire to become other Gods the Father holding sway over their own swaths of the universe.

Ultimately, neither side is willing to be swayed, making the argument meaningless, as long as each side doesn't make concerted efforts to harm the other.

But the music starts and I'm weeping through the songs about the wonderful cross while two tinies colour pictures at my feet on the gym floor and I sway with the newborn in one arm, the other raised to the gym lights.

They held each other in a dancer's embrace, closed their eyes, and swayed back and forth, cheek to cheek.

While it maybe be true that large pools of institutional money are better at buying political favors, influencing scientific research, and swaying foreign governments, it has always been known and is frequently demonstrated that individuals always do better at loving and caring for other individuals, tend to be wiser stewards of money, and view their giving and service toward others as a means of actually helping them, rather than a means to gain political power or popular prestige.

When we live in the rhythms of the sabbath, «we begin to sway to a beat that runs counter to some of the other rhythms of our busy lives.»

And that means you are someone who is easily swayed to believe something... way more than any other religious person who at least require a basis for their faith.

In other words, the fact that so many people can be swayed by religious myths and religious dogma helps us understand why the world is so messed up — people can be talked into just about anything, including things that are bad for them.

If we would let that realization sink in, we might realize that we're allowing others to hold sway over our lives.

I've become less swayed by the reaction of other people, less vulnerable to the ups and downs of public opinion.

Consistent with his metaphysic of dynamic singulars internally related to each other, Hartshorne conceives the cosmic ordering power as internally related to everything over which its power holds sway — that is to say everything in the universe.

Upbeat, rhythmic music filled the sanctuary as two 4,000 - member choirs, one clad in fire - engine red robes, the other in silver, swayed in chorus to words flashed on two of five 60 - foot Jumbo - o - Tron screens.

But at the same time, many others are quite thankful for it, in that it is liberating them from the bondage of a theological system that has held sway over them for so long.

Surely the household inevitably is in «danger» of falling under the sway of one to the exclusion of the other.

One has only to look at the areas of the world where terror has held sway to see that the violence there is typically prolonged by terrorism, sometimes indefinitely, as the opposing sides come to perceive each other as «criminal» and thus as beyond the pale of civilized negotiation.

Gregory thought the expectation of an easy income was the clearest evidence of the disqualification of the pastoral counselor.31 Also, the hidden desire to «hold sway over others» was regarded as a particularly disastrous motive for ministry.32 The overarching pastoral model is Jesus who refused coercive power when offered (John 6:15).

I'll dance - sway in the back aisle with the other mamas - with - babes - in - arms, we have toddlers to chase and that is part of our worship, and I'll think that this is what heaven sounds like, stomping feet, and laughing children, and people singing, hang on a second, let me kick my shoes off, this is holy ground.

Why should your opinion hold sway when the rights of others are affected by it?

That is not to say there shouldn't be Christian or other religious values present but it is to say that people shouldn't be conned and public opinion shouldn't be manipulated by claims of righteous values — as we have seen, it is just too easy to fake and sway people to support what may not be in their best interests based on having a cloak of religion.

The other was the necessity to keep the law of the covenant within such remnants of the state as might remain and under any political regime that might temporarily hold sway.

Despite this, today a majority of the Irish public supports Kenny's bill, swayed by the Savita case» not to mention other factors chipping away at the pro-life position for years, like the eroding influence of the Roman Catholic Church.

This idea of Yahweh's available presence as limited to his territory, so that only a few miles away one must worship other deities, constituted the background from which larger ideas of God emerged, and far down in Israel's history its sway was felt.