Sentences with phrase «than a political power»

Fletcher understood that cultural influence was vastly more important than political power.

Spitzer proposed a formula to distribute aid by need rather than political power; Bruno wanted a separate distribution for Long Island, which has eight Republican senators.

A whopping 84 % of registered voters report that, from what they have heard, the situation is nothing more than a political power play.

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Icahn on Tuesday referred to Fujifilm as a «supposed «partner» whose conduct over the last year is more unbelievable than what you see on fictional TV shows like House of Cards or Billions,» referring to popular television series about Machiavellian intrigue in the corridors of political power.

His power and ability to influence is greater than any President subject to political reality and check - and - balances, and besides, as Zuckerberg made clear last week, his concern is not a mere country but rather the entire world.

Well before the end of Chinese president Xi Jinping's first term, political experts had already begun speculating that he was planning to stay in power for longer than the 10 - year limit accepted by previous leaders.

More than three years before he served as Trump's chief political strategist, Bannon helped launch Cambridge Analytica with the financial backing of the wealthy Mercer family as part of a broader effort to create a populist power base.

ignoring China for political reasons when Mr. Harper first took power in 2005, the rest of Asia fell off the radar more by benign neglect than design.

With increasing political uncertainty all over the western world, changing global power structures, continued sluggish growth, and record low interest rates, precious metals are today more relevant than ever.

«I think the real depressing result here is the increased perception that both the law enforcement and intelligence agencies and their overseers are nothing more than partisan political playthings for the party in power,» Steve Vladeck, an expert on national security law at the University of Texas Austin, tells me.

De-stabilised Middle East, rise of new power in Saudi Arabia, aggressive China, Russia - US tensions, Turkey - Russia escalation, rise of autocratic but nationalists leaders such as Modi in India, Trump in United States, bin - Salman in Middle East, the Geo - Political unease hasn't been this tense in decades, so as a market participant you can never care less than ever.

And when creditors turned their economic gains from this process into political power to shift the tax burden onto wage earners and industry, this raised the cost of living and doing business — by more than technology was able to lower prices.

But how exactly does the Christian community live in this election season as a signpost of the kingdom rather than a pawn in a political power play?

They only needed to care about things — land, cash crops, political power — more than non-white people.

We call these phenomena racism, bigotry, nationalism, religious intolerance, political partisanship and so on, but at their core they are all nothing more than attempts to maintain a position of power over those who are not like us to maximize the survival of those who are like us.

Christendom: I think that Christianity as a religion, which purports to call people to follow Jesus, but uses money, power, and political prestige to force «Christianity» on others, is nothing other than the adoption of all the things which Satan promised Jesus in Luke 4, but which Jesus turned down.

America is doing more than any other nation to spread the kind of political structures that can best prepare the globe for God's ultimate work of establishing the final kingdom, Webb contends, and he proceeds to quote from a variety of sources to support a role for providence in contemporary theological thinking while interpreting America's rise to world power as a divine blessing that comes with special responsibilities.

That this fear of being subsumed by Christianity lingers among Jews today is not surprising given that until recently «dialogue» with Christians, the wielders of cultural and political power, usually involved more polemic and proselytizing than understanding and cooperation.

Such was the moral, legal and political power Calvin gave to himself, though he never held a post higher than that of pastor.

Inspired by Obama and undeterred by parliamentary scandals, as yet uncommitted to any particular party, but increasingly aware that few arenas have the opportunity to create greater positive change for large numbers of people than the righteous use of political power, he wants to study politics, philosophy and economics.

In contrast, in Western Europe, where the political structure of the Empire suffered more than in the East and in several regions disappeared, the Church survived and took to itself some of the powers and functions of the Empire.

On Sunday, may we acknowledge the fact that the teachings of Christ could never fit into a political party or platform, that our faith is bigger than our decisions in the ballot box, and that aligning ourselves with power threatens the true message of the Gospel.

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.

Such skepticism has less to do with the personality of Jimmy Carter than with the vagaries of political power.

Although colonial rule may have cost the European powers more than they gained economically (as has recently been maintained concerning the British experience), colonialism undoubtably had profound sociological and political effects on the industrialized nations.

In our reach for cultural respectability and power, we oldline Protestants have acquiesced in the golden - calf vision of Christendom, becoming warp and woof of the reigning political and social fabric rather than becoming weavers of a new kingdom community.

In the face of capitalistic globalization, disciples of Jesus may find a better inspiration in Jesus himself and in the early Church rather than in subsequent period of Church history, when the Church was compromised with political and socioeconomic power.

85 But characteristically he went on to praise America for its democracy: «Democracy is an ultimate norm of political organization in the sense that no better way has been found to check the inordinacy of the powerful on the one hand and the confusion of the multitude on the other than by making every center of power responsible to the people whom it affects.»

As non-Arab peoples converted to Islam, they demanded a share of the power initially wielded by an Arab elite, and the Islamic empire of the caliphs broke down into a commonwealth - a commonwealth whose common denominator was broadly cultural and religious rather than political.

Political power is damned rather than the person who exercises it; more precisely, the person is also condemned because of his power over others, but not in himself.

The «upward redistribution of wealth» which Phillips charts has more often than not been aided by political power.

Neville there were times when dominionism worked for Israel which were the exceptions rather than the rule but generally it did nt sadly because of the wickedness of peoples hearts.Power tends to corrupt people ie in the case of nebbucanezzar especially when they succeed.Like you i think Gods people have more impact by just letting Christ work through them could be me but i find politics tends to involve power money and compromise.Regardless of what political state we find ourselves Gods sovereign and his will be done on earth as it is in heaven.My focus is real simple just follow Jesus with all my heart mind soul and strength and love others as myself and that is just following Jesus daily and trusting him in everything.regards brentnz

And as soon as identity is understood as sexual rather than social, oppression becomes a psychological category, truth can be supplanted by taste, and political power becomes to a large extent the ability to manipulate aesthetics.

I've become convinced that we should see protecting religious freedom as grounds for limiting political power, which means striking down laws that threaten that freedom rather than granting exemptions to laws that otherwise stand intact.

Donald T. Critchlow's impressively researched Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism, a narrative of Schlafly's political career, explains that it was this unyielding quality of hers — her resolute refusal to cultivate the intellectual and cultural elites of either coast, even the conservative intellectual and cultural elites who were her natural ideological allies — that provided the astonishing power that she managed to wield in American politics for more than three decades.

It will seek political mechanisms which express and accomplish its universal vision rather than simply consolidate power to promote some parochial idol.

The Minjung experience of economic power is more than poverty, hunger and exploitation; it is the distortion of their political economy, which is their basis of life.

Of course, the practical difference can not be ignored: Hindus are an overwhelming majority closely associated with political, economic and social power while Christians are less than 3 percent of the population without any realistic chance of economic and political influence at a national level.

Grace has the power to transform the world, but most Western Christians seem to have more faith in their ideology and failed political process than they do in Grace:

The democratic principle of limitation of powers is therefore even more essential in world government than in the political organization of the individual nations.

John Piper says that «praying women exert far more power in this world than all political leaders put together» so maybe you should stay home and pray for the election.

(I add the qualifier «largely» because there is the Supreme Court to consider, after all, where Justice Kennedy has far more political power than Pope Francis could dream of having.)

As far as politics are concerned, Piper notes that «praying women exert far more power in this world than all political leaders put together.»

In the political arena, «what will really matter is whether those in power expect more from people's folly than from their wisdom and independence of mind.

Indeed, you could argue that Jesus» entire life — from being born in a barn in the midst of a genocide, to hanging out with prostitutes and drunks, to healing on the Sabbath and touching the untouchables, to riding into Jerusalem on donkey rather than a war horse, to healing the ear of a Roman soldier after it had been cut off by Jesus» allies — was a stinging indictment of religious and political power.

Resistance is real, as is the fecklessness of many who are entrusted with political power and who are threatened by any authority other than their own.

Since the war socialists have been harassed rather than persecuted, but only in the last few years has a large socialist group, the left - wing Italian Socialist party attained a share of political power, and that certainly not the lion's share.

And, even worse, because of this power given to them by the church, they executed people who had done nothing wrong other than be political enemies, CLAIMING heresy.

It is only in terms of this broader context that a political theory's substance can hope to attain insights of greater breadth and validity than those of the myopia of academic «departments» or of the arbitrariness of de facto power.

These powers are often now understood as economic, social and political in nature rather than demonic.